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Page 4 TERRACE BAY/SCHREIBER NEWS == Editorial Page The Terrace Bay-Schreiber News is published every Wednesday by Laurentian Publishing Limited, Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ont., POT-2W0 Tel.: 807-825-3747. Second class mailing permit 0867. Member of the Ontario Community Newspaper As&n. and the Canadian Community Newspaper Assn. General Manager.......Paul Marcon ECHR, is ccsciindocesesess.: David Chmara Admin. Asst...........Gayle Fournier Production Asst....Carmen Dinner Single copies 40 cents. Subscription rates: $15 per year / $25 two years (local) and $21 per year (out of town). oS S NN \ ' NYS Here comes winter The warm summer weather is giving way to the coolness of fall, and soon, the deep chill of winter. Fading away are the bright colors of the leaves on the trees and the dull, drab tones of winter will soon take over. Gone are the weekends of cutting the lawn, tending to the garden and performing the seemingly endless list of PSs < << . \'M COUNTING MY 2 = r BLEssiNes / \N ANAGE +e "ke 7 WHEN EVERYTHING GOES JX ® 7 ae F Bin >: INN « WN UP ...s0%e7HGs DO J NX other tasks that take-up valuable time. Instead, the snow will soon be here to claim the landscape as its own and the single outdoor task we'll have to look forward to is shovelling snow and more snow. Although people tend to take part in many summer activities, they don't realize how out of shape they are until the day after the first snow fall. While shovelling may not be enjoyable, it's a task that has to be done if you don't want to become snowed in. But it's the day after you realize all the muscles you exercised over the summer are not the ones you use when shovelling. ; That's when many decide it's time to buy a snowblower, or, if the snowfall has been particularly heavy, to have a COME DOWN £ front-end loader come in to do the job. Last winter we saw a record amount of snowfall for this area and I'm sure many are hoping we won't see as much again this year - just enough to be able to enjoy snowmobiling, cross-country skiing and other outdoor activities. And soon we'll have to get used to winter driving once again. The slower speeds, especially on the highway, and those tense moments of getting in your car and hoping it will be faithful and start. Anyway, here's hoping for a bearable winter. Here's hoping we won't get the mounds of snow we did last year and that the temperature doesn't reach Arctic like degrees. Following VIA cuts, citizen calls for resignation of Mulroney & gov't Your seeming support for VIA prior to your first election has been proven to be just another in your long line of scams to dupe the average Canadian citizen in favor of upper class individuals, big business, and your American puppet masters. -- Continued on page 5 The following is an open let- ter sent to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Transport Minister Benoit. Bouchard and Joe Commuzzi, MP. Dear Brian: VIA Rail is only the latest vic- tim in your history of onslaughts against Canadians. The News welcomes your Letters to the Editor. Feel free to express comments, opinions or anything of public interest. There is no charge for this service. Write to: Editor Terrace Bay/Schreiber News Box 579 Terrace Bay, Ont. POT 2W0 So we may verify authorship, please sign your letters. Arthur says: Physician, nick thyself It is much easier to feel compassion for animals. They are never wicked. - Haile Selassie It's true you know -- animals seem to lack the evil gene. Oh, they might scoff a chicken from the barnyard or leave an unsolicited calling card behind the chesterfield, but you'll never catch animals setting up a concentration camp or pumping themselves full of steroids or bilking thousands of gullible dupes out of their life savings in the name of God. Only we higher creatures are capable of stuff like that. Animals are pretty good to us. They allow us to ride them, leash them, hitch them to ploughs, cage them in sideshows and train them to do silly tricks. And how do we show our gratitude for this generosity? We treat 'em even worse. Consider the scientific community. Right now there is a Soviet satellite winging around our planet containing © rats. These rats have two ~~ distinguishing char first they are Canadian (this is a joint Soviet-Canadian project); secondly, each rodent has one or more broken legs. These legs were deliberately and specifically fractured by white coated boffins before the satellite was lobbed heavenwards. A Ff Canadian Space Agency spokesman explains that they hope to determine how serious bone injuries heal in space. Scientifically justifiable I suppose, and it's hard to work up a huge head of sympathy for rats. But it doesn't make me feel any better about man's |g earthly stewardship. Still, that's practically humane compared military experiment going on right now at Louisiana State University. Researchers there are working on a $1.8 million dollar contract from the U.S. Army to... Shoot cats. In the head. Hundreds of them. It's a five year study. The animals are anesthetized, Shot in the head, then left to. . ~~ Tecover on. their 'own. ° "The. reseatch'is supposed: to-help to a wy research is concerned with developing a better understanding of what happens when there is a ballistic injury to the brain" a- University spokesman explains loftily. Translation: let's plug some cats and see Arthur Black what happens. By way of consolation, the spokesman adds that the bullets being used are "very tiny" -- only weighing about .03 grams. But a slug in the head is a siug . in the head. And since the the army learn how to return brain-injured soldiers to active duty as quickly as possible, you have to wonder why they don't leave the cats in peace and drill a few -human "subjects" in the temple. Starting perhaps with the lamebrain who thought up such a project. Five years. $1.8 million dollars. Want to hear what their main conclusion is so far? That cats tend to stop breathing when shot. Mind you, we humans don't have to be cruel to be bizarre. Sometimes our attempts to be © kind to animals look equally outlandish. Take the Denver beavers for instance. There are about 100 beavers chugging around the riverfront park system in downtown Denver, Colorado, doing what comes naturally to beavers -- which is to say chopping down trees and making little beavers. The Denver rodents are good at _ both pastimes. -- especially. the "tree chomping part.'. So.much so that city officials estimate they are felling about $200,000 worth of city timber every year. What to do -- shoot 'em? Nope. Beavers are cute and cuddly. The public would be Outraged -- even in trigger- happy Denver. Live trap them? Too pricey. It would cost about $500 per animal to net and release them elsewhere. Instead, they've decided on surgery. Vasectomies for the guys, tubal ligations for the ladies. A team of Denver veterinarians is all lined up and ready to perform the mini- knife work. Better than killing them, I guess -- although when you think about it, Denver's problem isn't an oversupply of beavers. It's an oversupply of people. Just like the rest of the world. Vasectomies and tubal ligations aren't a bad solution. . They've just picked the wrong _ Species to do them on... .. Physician, nick. thyself.