PAGE 4, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 14,1976, WHITBY FREE PRESS whitb y Voice of the County Town > SERVING OVER,28,000 READERS ~pjisuc vr ensa Sby M.B.M. Publishing and Photography Inc. The Fre0 Press Building MîkeBurgssPUblshe-Mangin Edior.121 Brock Street North, Mîk BrgsspuljherMalaifl Eitr. Whitby, Ontario. 7%isistatt[ditor -BIlake-Purdy Cominunity k'ditor --Bian Winter Contributing Editor - Jim Quail Productia nager - Marie Bu rgess Display Advertising Manager - Robin Lyon Classif ied Ad Manager - Marlene Byrom Circulation Manager - Sharon Lyon Box 206, Whitby. mailing Permit No. 2941 Phonoe 668-6111: Toronto Lino 282-1084 Students ,,may do without A prediction by Marion O'Donnell, past chairman of the Durham Board of Education, on page 10 of this week's Free Press that senior public sehools may be phased out is sad news. It could mean that grade seven and eight students would not have access to many of the amenities which students of their age presently have. Take King Street School which only goes up to grade six for example. Among other things, the sehool does not have a gymnasium. If grades seven and eight stude.,its were housed therein, it would mean' that they would miss out on indoor physical education, an important phase of the growing up process of youngsters. rtng a Dear Sir; related tc There can be littie alcohol." doubt that lowering the While ý drinking age to 18 has dents hai n ot only created num- doubled1 erous. social problerns; tween 16 increased auto insurance the low( rates but has added to drinking Ontario's alrcady sky- problemn rocketing health costs, is the moi of $3 ,000,000,000 (bil- alcohol-rel lion). Nutrition Canada's $2.5 million health While survey revealed that ONE ogistsý, ps, THIRD of oiur medical politicians costs go to cover malnu- governmen trition, a large percentage lowering d Taxes making a Dear Sir; To live* under a cloud of uncertainty - and anxiety is not good to anyone but reading about the taxes in Durham Region in the Toronto Star and in the Whitby Free Press, is justfright- ening. Before Christmas the Chairman: of the Board of Education of Durham Region announc- ed in both papers that a 50%7 raise in education taxes is likely to be up- coming. While. many citizens of our region might have dismissed this figure as a misprint, they were shocked again to read in the Toronto Star of January 6, .1976, that "Durhamn Taxpayers face a. rude shock when they -1 ---0 rtn D the effe, highway ve more for drivei 5and 19 ering of age, the yet to be nurnental LETTERS TO THE EDITOR- king age is cts of real anid unseen damage is beinsz donce to the acci- brains anid bodies of tha n teenage drinkers. The rs be- tragic death of a 14 sinice year-old Toronito school- 7 the boy due to drinking -reai I13 oz. of whiskey is only faced a visible sigu (of the one of darnage beiing donc. lated disease. parents, sociol- sychiatrists and sp,;>nder the rit's decision in irinking age the farce( get their education bilis this year". The warning came from Yvonne Christie, the new chair- man of^the Durham Board of Education for 1976. On the same page in the Staýr *s an article of how Cobourg (ôur neighbour with a different Board of Education) is manag- ing its school affairs under the *eading "Cobourg rejects school tax in- crease"P apparently with- out .interfering toùrmuch. w*ith t:he lifestyle of their- people in education. As a retired teacher. I certainly support the educational -programns of our region, but there must be a- way to make this, less painful for taxpaying senioir citizens and others. Alcohol is a po(isoni to the body and whcni taken 1in excess turns otherwise normal people into imaniacs and even killers. Statistics over and over )f the restraii Let , us exhaust every possibility of voluntary work which, I ain sure, many of us have given in the past zand are still giving with joy. Other expensive programs would just have to wait rather than antagonize so many well meaning people, if provincial grants to school boards are curtailed. Or, as outlined in the article "Coiborne Street School holds many memories" in the Free Press of Jan. 7, 1976, that reads "In the 1880's students at the Collegiate Institute had to pay fées to attend school because the costs of the school could not be met by taxation... sncb fees today should' be only for extraordinary costing more thaii again have linked crimes to alcohiol. Violence and malicious damnage of others' property even b young girls brings forth the question by Insp. Fernl Watson of the Metro Police Bureau "I don't know whiere it cornes il11 (rebillious anti-- 7a belhavior)? A re- tGallup PolI in the found the nîajority people believcd stu- ts have "Too Many" ts. Prime Minister dIeaLI lias been assailed froli socic cei U.S. of dent' righ1 TruÉ nit program services (for instance one- to-one ratio tutoring) which parents demand beyond skilled volunteer services. It is absoîuitely incon- ceivable that the Province in accordance with the restraint programns of the Federal 'Government allows only very small raises in wages, prices, rents, etc. but the muni- cipalities throw the way wide open to inflation by .demanding ,horrendous ,taxes, putting', the tax-, payer flot only in such an agony but also making .a farce of the restraint- .program. (Mrs.) lIse Eschenlohr Box 86,. Whitby, Ont. for his permissive society. Parents have beeni blanied for the actions of their children becauise of too little guidance and love with affection in the homne. Too littie atteni- tion hias been focuised on the plîysical damnage to mmnd anid body by alcollil. Mhen one hears that 40 per cenlt of A hospital beds ini France are filled with alcohiolics and that in state-con- trolled Soviet Union, alcohol is becorning a major pro blem, we must take a dloser look at what alcohol does to the body. Alcohol acts as a diuretic, increasing urinary losses of 35 out of 40 nut1-îents needed daily for, bodily funrctions and good health, as A but 5 of the vital nutrients (Vitamins A, D, E, K, and linoleic acid) are water soluble and readily lost in the urine. The exeretion of magnesium used by the body's nervous systemn and yital --to muscle action -and the brain is in'creased', FIVEFOLD by alcohol -- inducing a deficiency in calcium - that can cause nervousness, tension, stress, hostility, anger that result in violent behavior. ' Alcohol des- troys, many, of the vital t-money B conîlex vitamnins. with the restit that dainage to thec nervouis systeni caniibri noon violent anti-social bchiav- ior. Faultv nutrition can tuj)set the -normaiu enital îJrocess. The more deficienit our diets becorne the greater the craving for alcohiol and sigar. The largest organ in the body -- the liver can suffer perman- ent 4amnage, with death the final resuit. The first step ini removing the craving for. alcohol is a well-balanced diet high in protein. Sugarholics often turn into alcoholics. The relationship between the craving for sugar and alcohol is closety related, often triggered by poor' eating habits of highly- refined "junk foods" that supply only carbohy- drates. With $1 billion' a year in Ontario going to repair the damages of malnu- trition isn't it time we look at the destruction it causes, to the minds of our young people, with itS resultant rebellious anti-social behavior? It's costing more than money! Dean J. Kelly,, Author "Overfed- and Under- nourished" - ~SI Lowe- ým-