PAGE 4, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1976, WH1TBY FREE PRESS y SEM ~~whtbY Voice of the Cou nty Town MiI<eE The only Whitby newspaper independently owned andi operatedL ýRVING OVER 28,0 00 READERS'j Pu bl isled cvcry Wedncsday Sby M.B.M. Publishing and Photography Imc. The Free Press Building Burgess, Pubtisher-Managing Editor 121 Brock Street North, by.. Whitbmresidnts tr lfiObntesrde Assistant Editor Blake Purdy I Community Editor - Brian Winter I Contributing Editor - Jim Quil i Production Manager -- Marje Burgess ' Display Advcrtising Manager - I Robin Lyon Classificd Ad Manager - Marlene Byroin Circulation Manager- Sharon Lyon Box 206, Wlitby. Mailing Permit No. 460 Phonec6 68-6 111. Apath y won 't hold baclk rejuvenatioli of downtown The Whitby Downltownl Business and Professional Association looks like it may be on the right track for getting the niuch-needed rejuvenation of the downto'vn area. At a meeting on Monday, Association Presidenlt Linda Russell outlined, to several people who would be affected, a proposai for revitalizing the downtown area. Mrs. Russell described the Business Improvemrent District Plan, one of a number of government assisted programs recommended by the province as a result of a 1975 study. After an area is designated as a Business Iniprovernent District, a boar d of manage- ment is set up to decide what type of rejuvenation should be undertaken with money collected through a benefitting assessmlent funding systemi wvhere the peo ple who will be affected pay, on a percentage levy basis, a special self- imposed surtax 0o1 their regLlar business tax. The big selling point of this plan, as far as we are concened, is that the apathetie business people wvi1l not longer be able to inipede revitalization by their nonchalance. That lias been the case ini the past when the few hard core ind hard working proponetits of rejuvenationi have received littie or no support from the rnajority of business peop)le who would benefit. Apathy will neither lielp) nor hinder this plan. It will take action - positive or negative -te affect this proposai favourably or adversely. Reader îis shocked by experts' lack of knowledge Dear Sir: 1 was both shockcd and alarmed recently when former Minister cf Health and Vélfare Judy LaMarsh hosted a TV programi with twc prominent plastic surgeons as guests. The former Secretary cf State LaMarsh asked for. people te phone in aud the docters would answer their questions. Time after tirne they totd viewers if they were net happy with their doctors to chiange them the same as they woutd their plumber or electrician if they were not satisfied with their opinion. Replying to a question by a lady catier who asked if sm-ok- ing could cause wrinkles and if Vitamin C would help, Dr. Harold Silver replied negative and closed with the remarks "Smoke with impunity" 1 couldn't believe my ears. ,I iirnrediately grabbcd imY dictionary te sec if the mnean- ing cf the word "îi-upunity" had changed over the years. No-it read "exemption fromn injury as conseqLleuce cf an act". Just a few days carlier, two prcmninen' Toronto doctors warned cf the danger cf self-inflicted cancer. Dr. Robt. Taylor, Execuitive Director cf the Cancer Insti- tute, warued that 90 per cent of lung cancer results from cigarette smoking. Dr. Anthony Milter, Directer of the Epidemniclogy Unit cf the National Cancer Institute of Canada stated that "The key te cancer centrol lies alr-nest certainly with prevention rather than therapy". Dr. Stuart Housteln, profes- ser of diagnostic radiology at the University of Saskatche- wan, dlaims smoking is the f'astest way to premature aging. Smoking ages the tuungs, blood vessels, heart and brain, besides wrinking theskin, and, causing impotence in mren due te 44old blood vessels". Heavy sinokers seldomi exer- Cisc se that mnakes thern age even faster . .. Almest every day as a radiologist 1 sec dramlatic changes in bones and munLscles frein disuise", Dr. Houisten totd the ann!ial meeting cf the Canadian Association cf Radiologists. "&Cigarette smoking is the single largest cause of disease and dr-ath whiclh couild be prevenited" - Arthur Hotleb M.D. iu an editoriat in CA-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (May/June t1976) It has long been recognized that cigarette smnoking serious ly depletes the body of vitamin clinical scuirvey. Many researchers cdaim that each cigarette inhaled depletes the body of abouit 25 mgs. of Vitamnin C - the average amouint in ene orange. Based on thiese figures one large pack a day would need 625 rngs. just to cover the toxic effects and proteet the liver. Vitamin C caninot be storedf in the body and miust be ingested daily. Voluimes have been written abouit its beneficial effects on the body-yet Dr. Silver ignore d this vatuable research. In reply te another calter, one cf the decters replied that bruising was bleeding tissue, tliat some and that nothing could be done to alleviate bruising. Any nutritionist wprthly of -the bru ;'sing and bleeding gums are indicators of a deficiency cf Vitamnin C. In her ciosing remnarks, Judy LaMarsh asked the doctors te "do something about my cold". The reply came from Dr. Hoyle Campbell - "a few antibiotics". Antibioties, as the namne implies-, work on bacteria, not cold virus. (Virus are the smallest known living organisins) They may be good plastic surgeons but fait in the most basic principles of healing and nutrition. Al cf this on channel 19, our educatiefl network cf the Ontario Government. Port Perry, Ont.. Got a beef? Let us know. Send letters to. 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