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Published by ‘The Prince Rupert Dally News Limited

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toria are contradictory. Transport
Minister Westwood is quoted as say-

ing that the government might take’
over if the PNR fiiterésts don’t start
work by November i, Premier Ben-
nett says it is néws to him that any

such:.move is coitemplated.
Whether or not the government

is trying to bludgeon the railway back-.

ers'into speedier’ action by threats of

public ownership, we hope the confu-
sion is cleared up. There should be'a —

prompt, clear statement that the gov-

ernment is going. to keep the taxpay-_

ers out of any more adventures of this
kind. - |
Surely British Columbians are inv

enough businesses already. They now ©

the PGE, for many years a

operate th
finan¢ial millstone around their necks,

lisiness and, more recently,

r, gas and public transporta- ~

usiness on the lower mainland. |

Work

West German. has absorbed ‘more than -12,-
000,000 people from that area, once German,
which is now in Poland, from Communist East
Germany, Czechoslovakia and other stich Euro-
pean districts where there were Germans in

“prewar days. Despite this, which makes West
-.° Germany- one of the most heavily populated

areas of the Westérn world, there is work for
everybody. ...- ye ‘

Russia near U.S. on

hy ABD Authorized as Second Class Mal} by the Post Office Department, Ottawa.

~~ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1961

oe Surely they
- s the Pacific Northern Railway proj-

éet' the next item on the provincial |
government's take-over list?
_. At the moment reports from Vic- .

-Yet in Canada,

J. R. AYRES
Managing Editor

don’t mean it

‘For a province which takes in an-

nual revenues of slightly more than

$300 million, these are colossal com-

mitments. When it is realized that we

taxpayers are on the point of. under- ,
writing hydro - electric projects that:
could exceed $1 billion, the folly of at-

tempting any more promotion schemes.

becomes glaringly apparent.

it imust be evident by ndw that any
further sallies by the government into ~

the field once ediisideved the sole pré-
rogative of private investors and speéc-
ulators could be extremely hazardous
to B.C. for two reasons: oe

@ B.C.’s financial position is now,

open to question as yesult of the gov- .

‘ernment’s present and planned bor-
: . be . ad .
rowings in many fields, irrespective

of whether or not these borrowings are |

listed as “contingent liabilities.” |

 @ Another “take-over” in this
province hard on the héels of the BCE
expropriation would finally and ¢om-

nS UNC | _ pletely confirm the impression of out-
in the ferry business, the toll” BoA aa:

 

side investors that this has:‘bé¢ome a
province in which it has bet
cidedly risky to sink any large sums
of money.—The Vancouver ‘Province.

for all a

_. So true is this that the West German Cabi-
net recently suspended unemployment insur-
ance contributions for six months. The fund
had grown too large for any predictable needs.
with only 18,000,000 people
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| Fulton fights delinquency .

SEES E Gy .
come*de-

unemployment and our insurance fund is near -

depletion, This raises the question of the ef-
ficiency of our economy. ‘— THe Witidsof Btar

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~ By. HAROLD MORRISON

Associated Press Staff Writer .

_ Russia is edging close to the United States:
in ability to produce a lightweight atomic
bomb packing powerful explosive force, quali-
fied informants said today in appraising some
vf the evidence of the new Soviet atmospheric.
ests.

‘ These informants, with access to results of
American detection devices, said analysis shows
Russia has been successful in shriviking the size
of her warheads so that she could. deliver them
over longer. distances in smaller missile ‘carriers.
_ The US. long has held the lead in produc-
ing high-efficiency warheads in small pack-
ages, and informants said that even with Rus+
sia's evident new successes the U.S. is still
ahead. But they added, with some concérn, It
appeared Russia is steadily closing the gap,

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Originally, Russian warheads were huge and
clumsy, requiring huge rocket carriers. De-
velopment of these carriers gave Russia lead-
ership Jn space rocketry through tinmatched
fting power, But producing these big rockets
was a slow and expensive process. Shrinking
the size of the Warheads without reducing the
size of the atomic punch js a big new achieve-
ment for the Communists,

Russia broke a three-year moratorium arid
resumed atmospherle tests September 1, Since
then the United States has publicly reported
detection of 20 Russian shots, Some are esti-
mated to be equivalent to about 20,000 tons of

INTERPRETING THE NEWS

all A-bomb package

TNT, about the size of the American bomb
dropped over Hiroshima in the Second World
War. , a
+ a .
Others are reported to range up to 7,000,000
tons of TNT, though the American Atomic
Energy Commission has publicly described them
only in general terms of several megatons or
several million tons of TNT. .
Besides the 20 detections which have been
publicly announced, the Americans ,also have

ce

detected a number of small Russian shots, per
NT.

haps in the range of 5,000 to 10,000 tons of

Informants declined to disciiss analysis of
the small Russian shots, saying. they didn’t
want the Russians to know how effective’ the
American detection system is.

There also is the possibility that if the
Americans announced they had detécted the
small shots, the Russians could raise the qués-
tion of whether the Americans had disclosed
all they knew when they maintained, duting

atomic test ban treaty negotiations that shots -
6f less than 20,000 tons could be effectively

muffled, oo,

While the Russian explosions indicate their
warheads could pack tremendous power, there
is no évidence that any Russian explosioh 80
far has matched the unprecedented American
H-bomb test of 1954 in the South Pacific. That
unleashed an. explosive force equivalent to
nhout 17,000,000 tons of TNT.

Signs of progress evident in Laos talks |

By JAMES NELSON

Canadian Press Staff Writer —

Nearly six months of patient and sometimes
exhausting negotiation between Bast and Wert
on the future of the tiny Asian kingdom of
Laos 18 finally showing slgns of progress, dip+
lomatic sources in. Ottawa say.

Negotiations are still a long way from being
complete, but they indicate the kind of parley
the world might expect If Bast and Weat ever
nares to meat at the bargdining table of Ure
Boerllit crlsis, oe

Possibly the roal lesson of Laos ja the
necessity of perseverance,

Months weit by diltitig Which nothitig seem
ad to be addomplished afd a breakdown op-
peared Imminent in the; J4-ndtioh Genova
conference, a

ae C7 oS

But the conference whs, held togathar by
patience, a nevor-any-die approach Wy. tie dip-
Jomata, and one other Important thats Pranior
Khrushehev and President Kenhédy agratd in
thely Vienna meeting to try to dattls Lada’ fu-
iure by negotiation, It waa one of the fow. firm.
agroamonta arrived at by the two lenders nt

enna, aa
"Now, any the diplomite in Ottdwo, If Maat
Weat nogotintions on Berlin chat ba Held tealnat
the same kind, of background’ —.n flv Heddli-
tian by Maat nnd Went to nogotinte = the thls
lave. ht leat ti avapicloild start,
_. Bilt they tire bound to be oxiaustingly long
nnd oMhaperaliigly detailed, - ’
ithe barging in LiGs ital? and in the
Conevn conféravice, which really got underway
in May tila year, has resulted In only a few,
put base, agreemants, |

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One Is that Prince Souvanna Phowiia should
form a 16-nian. cabinet, four of its membels
Cotnmuniat. The United Btnates Is fearful the
administration will be too leftist for ita Wking,
but conceded that the prince is-the only candi«
date remotely acceptable td all aldés,

. Another. point of ‘agreement tenchedl after
long bargaining is that the threespower dohtrol:
comission. coniposed of Canada, India find
Poland, should he able to draw.equipment from
outside Laos if it ia not avaliable. within the
Uny kingdom, Rissia ob firat ataunchly op»
nosed this, .

As ‘one of the co-chairmen of, the Geneva.
conference which first erented the three inde. |

pendent countries of Laos, Cambodia and Viet
Nam to end the war In Indochina, ’
Inslated at first that it ahould have a veto over
any decisions of the thrae-power control coms

ABION, oo : . eh NG

Russia now has dropped this demand for It
self but atill claims the colnmission shou a. pet
only by unaviinious voto, thus glvite Poland
right of velo on behalf of. the Bnat.

Science at work

Kikaiti ia aihiple ehomlstry, the’ sclentiaty
have discovered, oo

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mon, The ¢dvo man fod Ne. qoull
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then dldedvored Jt Was Moro fur If Ue frond
war of the opposite sox, Thon everybody forgot
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From the Toronto Telegram
“A national program ‘to com-=
bat juvenile delinquency will
be unveiled shortly by the Min-
ister of Justite, Davie Fulton.
This hews has been warmly

‘greeted by those who work to

prevent juvenile delinquency
and to rehabilitate . young
people who do get into trouble.
According to DBS _ figures,
6565 out.of every 100,000 youths
between the ages of 16 and 19
were in trouble in 1951.. In
1959, this figure had risen to
946 out of every 100,000. The
Commissioner of Penitentiar-
ié8 report for 1960 shows that

13.7 pe¥ cent of thé inmates
were under 21 years; old. ©

~The “government’s / program
shoulda. be “mainly ‘preventive,

Idlenéss is still one’ ofithe most’
important causes. of* juvenile
. delinquency. To meet the chal-

The ugly
From The Santa Monica
Evening Outlook
A few years ago Harrison
Salisbury, a Pulitzer Prizewin-
ning foreign correspondent for

the New York Times, turned
his attention to juvenile de-

-linquency in_a book entitled,

“The Shook Generation.” His
in-depth study of a growing
national problem offered con-

_ elusive evidence that no adult

vice is beyond the reach of the

young, Liquor, narcotics and

social license are taken by ju-

-veniles as their due in increas-~

ing quantities.

“Mr. Salisbury centered on .

the youth gangs of New York

City; but his story finds echoes

in every major American com-.
munity, Malcolm EE. Harris,
California liquor director, in
an appearance before an As-
sembly subcommittee, testified
this week: that drinking by
minors is his biggest problem.
He further stated that Call-
fornia's experlerice is like that
of New York, where a survey
showed (96 per cent of high
déhoo) stutlents belween 15
and 18 had drunk liquor, 75
per eent with parental con-

sent, .

TAWA We see the tragic com-
plicity of irresponsible adults
in the wild conduct of youth,
The parent who gives liquor
to a minor or permits him to
get it on his own {8 contribut-
Ing to the dissolution of the
youngster’s character, Liquor
nerves to destroy all inhibi-

. Miniature

Messages

Iby Utny Puintite
Had a cent,
Little Billy lost ib;

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thd vob loo far awny,
Yoatevdhy js tha présont,
If we think about totny,
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od must have the lool,
And kivowlodie without wiadomn
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The lighter side

 

 

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axtrdincly low out dors nuked |
har doctor what to do for a
bad told, :

“The firat thing,” arid the .

doctor, “la to go’ home, got
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lenge of leisure time the

séhools, municipal recreation |

associations and __ religious

youth groups: will all have to

adopt a more aggressive atti-
. tude.

The schools can discover and’

encourage the different inter-
ests of their pupils. They can
also instill a sense of responsl-
bility and individual self-dis-
cipline. Municipal recreation

associations face a massive job.

of providing facilities for
sports and dances. And the
religious youth groups can
give spriitual meaning to the

lives of those who see no pur--

pose or goal in life.

if Mr. Fulton’s record of

prison reform. is. any guide,

then, Canada can expect a far-.

“reaching national program ‘in

linquency.

problem

tions. Its indulgence by min-
ors too often is reflected in Il-
legitimate births, traffic acci-
dents and crimes of violence.

At the beginning of the cur-
rent school year the parents
of freshmen students at a

Catholic boys’ school in San .

Fernando Valley were told by
the principal:

Drinking has become a ma-
jor problem in the Valley high
schools. Wild parties where li-
quor is served are the starting
points for violence against the
public. If we give our young-
sters cars and access to the
liquor cabinets, we are in for
“trouble. It’s somebody — else's

boy or girl now, without close

supervision and good example,

{tj can be your child.”

New York City has become
a jungle for young criminals,
the post-graduates of juvenile
delinquency, Unless we are on
guard in our ‘responsibilitics
as parents, the jungle can ex-
tend to California.

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nill by what wants me to stand
still and see the glory moving
by swiftly through the alr and
sky;

gems of thought

Courage is that virtue which

champions the ciiuse of right. .

—Cicero.
he oh
Often the test of courage is
not to die but to live.
i -
Courage may: be taught as ‘a
child is taught to speak.
ok ot
. Every man.of courage is a
man of his. word. nae

. Pierre Corneille.

Vitlorio Alfieri.”

—Euripides. ,

 

   

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delegation to the United Na-
tions, is said to he acceptable
to both the United States and
Russia as temporary secretary-
general of the world body.
Still to be worked out are how
the interim official Is to be
elected and what his powers
will be, The secretary-gencr-
al's post became vacant with
the death of Sweden's Dag
Hammarskjold In an African
plane crash, -— CP Photo

 

 

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On the Hill. _

I have been caught upon this.

Shadows and the. light of sun
niternating.as they run

along the slopes, their golden /

are

~ followed. by their wing of dark;

Air sparkling as though silver-
_ finned, .

Birds that turn upon the wind,

clouds that sail forever

through —

the steddy-ocean of the blue.

I stand—and I begin to be

one with the wonder that I

.  . Sce—

a torch’ to which the flame is
laid, .

a harp whereon the song is
played. .

Then motionless, a8 in a

groove, of some

- vast. will, I start to move...
_.L rise .

.. 1 drift, and: Lam
. whirled, weightless, |,

“going. with the’ world! 2.

—Helen Harrington.

 

Letterbox
TORY-DOMINATED?

The Editor,
The Daily News:

There are two organizations
representing the workers and
fishermen. from the salmon
industry: the United Fisher-
men and Allied Workers’ Un-
ion and the Native Brother-
hood of British Columbia.

The UFAWU has a member-
ship of 7,000, out of which
there are only two known
Communists, yet it is called a
Communist-dominated organ-
ization.

During the last provincial
election, two top officials of
the Native Brotherhood of B.C.
ran as Conservative Party can-
didates, Yel no one called it a
Conservative - dominated or-
ganization. a

Now, as © member of the
UPAWU, I don't know whether
to brag or complain,

Ivan Adams,
Prince Rupert.

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Now is the time of year to
lean back and reflect. upon the
subject of delivery men. Milk-
men, beker’s men, postmen.
the delivery ‘men. for the bis
department stores, the fads
who drive the panel trucks for
the neighborhood shops, the
newsboys, the whole rank and
file of. whom there must be
thousands and thousands in
the big cities and. hundreds In
the’ towns,

  
 
  

Is there>a more
good-natured and,
betters. mannered
classification * .ot;
men in our whole}
business. struc-
ture? Did you
ever encounter a
surly delivery ag

man?

On the street, in the bus, in
the. groups and crowds that
gather for shows, games, you
most certainly encounter a
reasonable percentage of pratt
chy, tli-natured men, Where do
they work? At what chores in
our social and economic setup
are these crabs employed?

None of them ever gel a job
delivering. And it’s a pity, too.

Because now that autumn is
shoving roughly by, and the
cold weather just over. the
horizon, and rains and snow,
and ronds’ treacherous: and
side-entranees unshovelled, it
is that most admirable body
of men, the delivery men, who
have to bear with It, while we
sit snug by our telephones.

eocretetene

 

EDITOR'S NOTE—Signed ar-
ticles and editorials credited to

_ other newspapers do not nec-

essarily feflect .he views of

The Daily News.

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