ot weinnenain ae Me J OHN F, MAGOR | President - io Le og , 10 — PRINCE. RUPERT. eos har ‘An. independent riewspap Ty cae ‘of Prince Rupert and Northern and Central British’ Columbia: OA member of the Canadian Press — Audit Bureau of Circulation : va Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association . - Published by ‘The Prince Rupert Daily ‘News Limited | voted’ to the upbullding wv. R. “AYRES - Dos | Managing: ‘Editor’ > authorized as Second Class Mra ‘by re Post office Department, Otiaws.: ve a we us : ne . . et . . Sate “FRIDAY, DECEMBER’ 8; 1961 | arc so Bat eh hoping that he will enjoy. awell- ea red: rest from the onerous | s task of : Stan watulate losing. candidates. Hand- Teles Scholten aad Vernon Parker aed a two. at, which’ . Our hats : are - Off to the Dawson. Creek } Re- tail Merchants Association: for their. foresighted- ness in conducting a sales training course for store clerks. . . It’s this type of forward ‘thinking that not only brings money into -tills, which in turn means more money in: circulation ‘in this city, but such training means. that ‘the ‘consumer Too many times, and’ this is particularly true - : hose cities which class themselves as “me- . tropolitan” 0 sales clerks have a “couldn't ttibude”. In larger cities there isa { r iiarity between buyer and seller — a. conscious “Knowledge of wants and: require- ment. This creates. ‘an antagonism, so that.re-- tail selling, which" ‘should be an honest and. ex- pert. presentation. ‘of. goods. and services offered fo rsale, develops into a contest, Fortunately , this situation appears to: be at - a minimum in aDwson Creek, but: as we in- crease in size the danger Jurks.. . There is nothing a. customer ‘appreciates: more than to be called by name, dnd. in turn know the name of the clerk who happens to he a Couriesy ‘behind t | 4H get better, and more courteous attention. a Posie campaign pays “off .mendous showing for a first attempt and the latter for not: doing | too badly. ea on his fist try. Both. men are to. be. oe ; commended on offering their: services. . to the public. - - The: property owners. left: no doubt: rege a gees The - time for: ir band 6 concerts a year. good news : ‘the interest of the band members in age four free. band con-. their art, but should help improve. ‘their skill and provide the opportunity od “for a more varied and wider reper-" -toire, A pleasing» program has been “arranged for this Sunday’s concert and those who. wish an -afternoon of D. relaxing musie can enjoy it by turning . 3. up at the: Civic” Centre.’ The concert staris at § pam.” ee nu . fest matt éounter.- woe -, As the city progresses in size, ‘this ‘friendly’ . rapport..must diminsh, of necessity. More. people will be shopping‘in more stores, and.as _ a natural. result, sales: people and customers: become: less. familiar with each other... ::Compensation for this must be made: “Ana this. is’ best. accomplished by staff training, .. particularly ventures such as the one recently --coneluded by city merchants. .. aSles training courses are. ‘wonderful in. themselves, but it’s the follow-through that counts. Continued care on. behalf of owners and managers is needed to see that the lessons so recently learned with such enthusiasm, are mot soon forgotten, With the successful tourist season we en- : joyed last year, staffs of our retail stores, would do well to put their newly learned skills to use this winter season, to the benefit of local cus~ - tomers, and as a training exercise for a hope fully successful tourist year in 1962, me The Dawson, Creek News The right to strike - an Senjor Maelstrate Thomas Elmore’s decision that the Royal York. Hotel had the. right to fire employees who refused to return to work. . on its terms should be appealed with all possible speed. The right of workers to withold thelr labor in disputes with management over thely con- . tracts 1s entrenched in. the Canadian common law. The right to strike fg not unlimited, But Magistrate Elmore dismissed charges againse. the Royal York, entered by the Hotel and Club Employes’ Union, on legal principles. that call in question whether. an effective right to strike exists in Ontario after. fu collective agreement cxpltaa. Magistrate Elmore based his judgement. on the fact that under: the Ontario. Labor Rela- tions Act there Js no specific clnuse making it . legal:to strike, In accordance. with: the pring: ciples:of the: common.law, he therefore judged — the case on the basis of “Master and. ervant Jaw.” He ruled that workers muat terminate - their employment before withdrawing their Inbor,. The employer in: question, ha ruled, had ° in effect censed to. be employes. or “in any . ovent"” had objected themselves “to being dis niiaged in the manner in which they were.” . - aL or Ministor Daley who anid ho. would ee . Cannda’s minister of. justin, Bdmuna: Davi’ Malton, Is justified in-his rosontmont of Becree — tary of Intorlor Udall's enger-heavor approach » to Columbia treaty ratification, ‘The: accretary, . and President Kennedy,. as woll,: in meeting: Promier.W, A. O, Bennett of British Columbia at Senttle recontly, appear. to be putting. thelr . wolght behind Bennott in his dispute with the government at Ottawa ‘on powor, policy. : Ronnett-wants to sell the Canadian share of | Columbia Rivor.“treaty “power in’ tho ‘United, States and .to- Toquire . consumers Jt British |: Columbla to. eu, for tho higher-priced. power. from the 8 t, The Canndian government takos tho Jonge range view that the. Columbia, should Be ones first, that Canhda's. half-ahare'o downstroam’ boriofita should be used! in Onney that any sales m, the. United. Btates nat. be intent of Ontarlo labor Jaw, 06 .' . oe Th] ‘Toronto Telegram ue Ig: Canada’ s fight oxpropriated Ponce River. pro- have brought in a different verdict, has raised: the possibility, of altering the law if Magistrate Elmore's ruling is upheld, The danger of speci- fically sétting out the right to with-hold labor in the law ts that this might unduly limit the right.. The Jaw. does provide legal procedures that must be complied with before going on strike, Without prejudging the final disposition of this particular case, hTe Telegram's view is’ that it is imporative that the principles on be clarified in a higher court. . Tho growing body of modern Inbor-manage- vs ment law falls into a gray aren between an. absolute right of workers to withdraw thoir. ‘Jabor regardless of the consequences to“em- : ployers, fellow workers or the public_and an... ‘absolute right of management, to } hire: or tira’ workers on Sts own terms, If Mnglatrate’ Mmore is right, the law: “ot Ontario will: have to be changed, for. ifimeans °— “that to.go on strike ja tantamount: to handing “Jno resignation, This would. be out: of. keoping “with: public opinion and: with: ‘Meri epl re ! 2 RY! on Q short-term, rocoverable basta. Tho Columbia treaty with Canada, was no- the Wisenhower and .. -potinted in’ good faith by Diefenbakor administrations with full cO-opore Minister Diefonbaker and ratified: b Benato, bub has been delayed... in and 7 serving. him. It. establishes confidence: in edch other, and ‘sales are pleasantly transacted | to. the benefit of both. : -which Maglatrate Elmore based his judgment : ation of tho Brtilsh Columbia, government, It ;- was signed by Prosidont. Kennady and Prime’ | the :U.8, . arllamont . because of Bonnett's schomes.: Tho treaty calls for f 80-80 division of the downstream power - Increment and U.S, payment to Onnnda, for. flood control’ benefits, . ‘Tho only rosult of such pressure from this sido’ | of the border must be additional delay in ratle \ * flontion, It js Canada's business, not ours, what” ~ te ahould ‘he ‘made of Its resources, ~~ .The Portland: Oregonian * Now U.8, government | officials scam to be saying that. Bennett ts... right and, the Onnadlan: government ja wrong, . : “my: ‘two sons ‘believed in Santa, : plicit faith in Old: ‘Whiskers. up, -to‘last year, and’ even John;“8:: ‘was. able- to/look. at the. jovial - himself. - cafeteria, : _as-to their desire to maintain the stan- - dards of School District 52's: building: BS » program and by more than’ a.3-to-1. - vote authorized the school board to gO oy - ahead with its’ expansion plans, or “With the conclusion of ‘another. - _ civic election, we hope that the city _ . will continue to prosper under its usual he . sound administration. . Se o reeriminations’ is | . over, The time to. express one’s views — was yesterday, but only -1,661. voters, ‘less than 50 per cent of the. 3, 780 per-. “Sons ‘eligible to cast ballots, took. the... .. trouble: to vote, Any: disappointments — or. different” results that may have. “been expected, ‘can be blamed: ‘strictly. | pon. the Apathy of the electorate. “STOR” TREATING ‘US LIKE PRIMITIVE TRIBESMEN! me All Aboard.. bay with GE » Christmas is. fun — all eight weeks of -it.. But. I got more . pleasure: from Christmas when . masquerader and- -hypnotize in t O° Be Christmas trance: . But they have: ‘changed. At . ; youths and girls with stocking ! gaps, : trombones and horns — was : winding . tables, ; bright children and glum. par- », both into crooked the ‘mention of: Santa, children break: worldly grins. Breakfast with ‘Santa. at the ‘Hudson’s Bay ‘store this - -year -was not the same wild adven- -ture’ that it. had: been. in. 1960, * 1959, etc. Mor lim er One grand old tradition, at any. rate, survived ‘unchanged —the tradition. that we must 3S - arrive late,. with both. parents ina bad temper, - 4 i children on the :verge of tears ' because. OF frustrations and. re- . bukes. |. The black mood didn’t’ last » “el » long. AS we entered, an elfin : turn up at his of- band” — made up of several blowing’. tunefully. on its way among. the “where a throng. of ents awaited the arrival of Santa. ‘Santa gets stuck ‘In the line- -up for breakfast in the cafeteria, Michael chin- -ned himself. on. the wooden fence and clung there desper- ‘ately, to. see what was ‘hap- pening, John was .tall enotigh that the upper part of his face pro- jected ahove the barrier, lke one of those. “Kilroy” faces that used to he > ‘chalked on walla. 0 . A> trim and lively matron war running the show from a stage at the far end of the big -Presently: Santa ‘came tumbling down a papler- - “mache chimney, got wedged in - there somehow, and the lady on the stage had to help drag Nim out, My two boys stared at Santa Rush for It was cheerful going all the way, in spite of the loss of - John's balloon and some: dif- feronee of opinion about whe- thor or not Michnel was to eat “SAUSAGES, - Banta loft the-roof, to relgn ‘over the toy department up- atalra, and the trim matron at -tho microphone -kept exclte- ment high with hula-hoop con- tests, cocon-drinking contests “and balloon = blowing towna- monte. “Wo wore atill sonted ab our .. table. when Santa came back + for:anothor visit, and I mar Yollod at the rapt look on the faco of a ‘tiny boy who rushed forward piping "Santa, Santa,” ‘It. was tho same look I waed to ‘800 OW My Own hoya! frcon, Banta bent down, anid: “Ha. ~Jooo thar" through his whine korg, and handad a toy to the - Mthle fellow, whore oyes wore fixed unblinkingly upon hia “enp and board, . After Santa's second. oxlt, the charmer on tha. atage’ nn- nounoad that the alfland hand No harm It ‘seomod to mo that in aplte of Dr, Brook Olisholm thoy had suffored no rool payohic harm from thelr Ife. ~ tong oxposure to the Santo Olaua myth, tt acomad to mo -— not with the fixed, en- chanted gaze of other years, but with a cooler and more ap- praising look, spiced with ex- citement and the avarice of -Christmas gifts to come. . I think they still believed a little bit in old Santa, too, So did I, Virginia, ‘We settled down at a table | - with song-sheets, crayons and pletures for the children to color (presented to us by one of Santa's helpers, in a red stocking cap). Then we began to demolish our plates of pancakes and sausages, while Santa and his gang moved around distribute . _ Ing. candy canes and toys and, balloons. the toys was going to lend the way up to the toy department, Away we go, kiddies, to sce . those: toys,. she urged, © And away they went-In-a rush, just ‘as she had: adviaed them—the bandsmon too -thely way past: garden supplics and up the escalator, with tumbling along after them like tho moppots of Hamelin fol. ; lowing the Pled Piper. My: own children joined: In the stampade, leaving mo with ‘the conte and “hats. I found the boys Inter in toyland,.gog- qin at modo) jotiinors,. alec tronic football games, missile- Iaunchora, pratty .tin tralns, airports complete with planed nnd conro) towors, and plas- tle replicas of the Jaunching pads at Cano Canaveral, I spont-much ,time and ene orgy batting down the chil- dron'’a hands. from. the . toys “which they would inslat upon grabbing-——but tn aplte of nll this: they ‘wore an happy ast. had ever acon fern, suffered that overy child should bo vanes, inated with somo bollef and aso with some disbelief, dipe Wualon and treachery, Just na children ara - vacoinated with mallnox, | THE TPES AMA we * ‘friend - of. .mine. and-~ both’ “AS it was handie Qe senior. “Copyright: Canada Wide _ ‘Seven, or eight years ago, a and I. were members , of. the - together, luncheons, | for me to call fo) him, I .used t fice. in the ° pros: perous big . plant of which he. was -execu- tive. It was a hap- py, bright, «bus; - establishment, ana I.came to know many of the staff, the secretaries, assistants, clerks. Prosperity fairly sparkled around the place, and all were chums. When the. campaign . ended, campaign. committee of a social service’ organization, and for months - on end, we attended . meetings - The. Daily News. I was. thunderstruck at the change in atmosphere. Most of _ the.same. people were there. ~ But there were no longer the affable, easy personalities I a hadiknown. When I went out _ with my friend to lunch, ex- | oe pressed my sense of shock ‘al . the change. “ah,” he-sald, “you re recol- lecting | the: days. when pros- ‘perity first hit us.: Prosperity ‘always. leads: to ‘relaxing dis- _cipline, for:a little while. “But ‘to hold onto ‘prosperity, you can't fool with that. liberty, equality, fraternity, stuff.” EDITOR'S NOTE—Signed ar- ticles and editorials credited to other newsnapers do not nec- - essarily reflect .be views of . of .December _ Sinclair ‘basis. os and: not - ‘once until ‘this week ‘have: I: set foot in. it in the seven. ‘intervening years. 7? Letterbox TO CORRECT IMPRESSION The Editor, = oo The Daily News: ~. “T should like to ‘correct what. rect impression in’ your paper 4, 1961, In the headline article it. states .in the second paragraph that the: Report was strongly, _ Po oe een : ames “might have created ‘an incor- > supported by the fishing. com-. panies and the United Fisher-= * The UFAWU- did support the" recommendation year moratorium on licences is: , men and Allied Workers Uns" jon. et t | ‘ginelair ‘Report, as far as the for a five-"" concerned but we are opposcd °~’ to’ many of the other: provi- “sions of. the report. Like ‘the “Co-op the UFAWU 1s: opposed. to the so-called “landlord” pro-. vision whereby licences might. be bought and sold by the in- dividual .holder. The: UFAWU also favors provision for a ‘Board of Review for issuing: of. new licences: once a morator-. lum, had: been declared, a8 well ag some. guarantec. that the ratio of Native fishermen em- ployed - in‘ the” industry would be maintained. ‘’. In corder: to be. brief I have. quoted’ but.a few. of the items of -difference. with the Sinclair acted on. to protect. those at: wee + _ Report although, regardless of- : these - ‘differences, ° ‘feels that action such as” the: ,- proposed moratorium must-be the -uniom: | -c\present’ making. their living. * from. the industry. and ‘main.* * tain ‘the industry: on ‘a sound i -R:L. Gardiner; - Northern Representative, ‘UPFAWU. . _ Murderers: stn at large - The Editor, . : “The Daily News: moe I noted Mrs. D.. L. ‘Skeith’s * Jetter in. your newspaper about... the commutation of the death sentence for LeForte, the man who beat the child’ so much. she died. This man had... no. mercy on the’ two-year-old child so. why should the fed- eral cabinet have mercy..on . him, - - There are still) many mur- derers at large including the one who killed the .Conway girl in North Vancouver ‘on Christmas Eve of 1944 and the killer of the Paull family. in Vancouver a couple or three years ago. These murderers are still at large and: more are walking the. streets, / Charles. Patsey,:: os _ Hazelton. woe Short sermons . “Time ‘might bea great healer: but it’s a lousy beautician, $ ' 4 4 £ j 5 ‘ many ; bb & * A bachelor is a fellow who is. crazy to get married — and ‘ knows it. eb of If your wife wants to learn to drive, don’t stand vin way. . “ Brings Results ehildren’ I no longer visited | the plant, | 4 . é f Hid ty i vn O14 Aas. ae because they. like their no Pleasant, tropical flavour — | heyy) SITET IH GOmD ° : oma asee bedangy Oe yet “y , : vot ‘ : Tres conpany unit! Eee often imitated, never equalled a ee always insist.on 1 the. rums_ » you anor and can trust od hy the Liquor Contra) Honrd or r hy tna Colnmbin ' her: Advertising in The Daily News: oe a | nee 10. THE. 28 RO VAL CA N ADIAN NAVY. oa see Pals Auivortinentont wn not Published or cae Government, of Wr inh