4. aw vemctomamgnnamine mar pete JOHN Kr, MAGOR _ President cs “an ‘indapendent: newspaper devoted ‘to the upbuilding : - of. Prince Rupert and Northern and Central British Columbia. JA member of the Canadian Press — Audit Bureau of Circulation | an on Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association Published by The Prince Rupert Daily News Limited 7 R. AYRES: a Managing Editor. dition, ~The lower ‘mainland magistrates realize, as.do* a. great many more law- enforcement groups, that the only. way. rb" impaired driving 3 is to make Five ey, dollars: js-a Dig’ price to - eae a ‘couple of drinks too: many. 1 it in himself to be grateful be- cguse he was stopped, Py the: e police, ar- 2 te t tha: $5,000, but? , nd a crippling financial: setback. TFhe- ‘magistrates say they. are going tf a grins SO they aré jovi ve: | the sozzled driver. Already one magis-" trate has nicked one oe Ae drive: their oN while in’ thats same'con- Price of a: couple. of drinks to inflict. heavy fines this Christmas _ 7 also increase ‘the ‘amount drivers are without, their, - safer Christmas ‘around, Vanco streets. swiping cars and endangéring the, lives: of others ‘without a care, and if, by chance they | don’t get away. with, it, - the most they can expect is a $50 or. Up in Prince Rupert of course, | y. drink-befuddted motorists will be able: tO’. drive: through our streets, side-. $75 penalty. Undoubtedly this is one — of the wren of northern living. season on. drivers convicted of being’ 2, unfit to drive. The imposition of a fine’ . may not be the most equitable method, of making a point, for $500 to one man : “4s $5 to another, just as spending a week in jail for one man is equivalent. to another spending a year in jail. There can be no equity in punish-. ment, just as no men are born equal. . But meanwhile magistrates are do- - ing their best to press home the lesson: * that drivers should be: old. enough to D. _ know when to take a. cab, -whenito as- would - ‘cost. not, $500, ot: d- lifetime: of remorse *: sess their own fitness to. drive, and’ when | to decide not t EO: “of death or injury upon others. 8 —The’ Vancouver Province. HOW MANY SANTAS. ARE THERE ANYWAY? _. Gilt for boy friend keeps him interested | ‘By HAL BOYLE Associated Press Staff Writer us NEW YORK — Sounds that always: precede Ghristmas: u just get finished paying for one, Christ- ‘and then the next one comes along. ” - who: invented Santa Claus anyway?” ‘Mickie: I've already taken you to see the Santa Claus ‘at Macy’s.. Why do you have to see the Santa Claus at} Gimbels too? When you ve seen’ one Santa Claus, you've seen them a ” “I love this time ‘of year. Everybody is: so sentimental and gay.” - “IT hate this season. makes me feel blue.” “AN right, all right — so you didn’t Ike the Christmas tree I picked out last year! So this year you pick one out — and Jug it home an by yourself.” oy ‘Somehow, : it always ole % it comes only once a year — thank heavens! ” “Yeah I read her letter to Santa Claus, It doesn't make sense to me. She's got 10 dolls already. What does she want four more for?” -“T'd like to exchange this sweater I bought for my husband last Christmas, He's finally decided he doesn't really like it.” “Look, Maude, for the Jast time I tell you — “Well, J dont want nothing for Christmas except . some peace and quiet. Now can I plense finish. reading my newspaper?’ % ee INTERPRETING THE NEWS “Every. time my wife hears the sound of Jingle Belis she seems to go crazy. She tries to buy out every store in town.” . “George has already bought me a mink stole for Christmas but he doesn’t know it. I haven’t . told him. yet.’ “Bobby you come out of that closet this very minute. No, Mommy isn’t trying to hide those packages. She's just... keeping them for a’ ‘friend. They’re no concern of yours,” + woe “T always say it’s not the value of the gift — it's the spirit behind it that counts.” “T'm the cynical kind, I always say just the “opposite.” “Mommy, won't Santa Claus come to see me — if I've only beén just a, teény- weeny bit bad?” ‘You mean your boss only .gives you & box of chocolates? My boss gives me a $25 gift certificate, a bottle of scotch — and a kiss, if there’s nobody else in the office,” “Miss, could you help me select an. appro-. priate gift for a boy friend? Something about $2 will do. I just want to let him know’I realize he's alive — hut not too interested Jn him as of yet.” “Could I please have a one-way ticket to. Timbuktu or Ball — or anyplace else where they dont’ play Christmas tunes on the radio?” | Nehru gambles away name as man of peace By WAROLD MORRISON Canaifan Press Staff Writer | ed about repre essed people, why had. ho. not act-".. .ed more vigorously when Communist china n=. ’ For the anke ‘of | a fow acres and, national - pride, Prime Minister Nehru may have am lee. éatern, away hia powerful position In the | world a8 2 man of peace'and disciple of Gand- hi's philosophy of bloodless, passive resistance Nehru has suddenly emerged in the ‘dyds’ ot many Western diplomats as a man of war, a bull who uses his overwhelming military Bowdr to crush a wenk opponent, The argumente Nohru and hisigovernient offer that invasion of tiny Gon was necessary to free représdéd people are questioned and discounted in Weat- ern, clreles, _ In tho U8. state de- | partment, * + UA siviking element. “a the invasion of the three Portuguese torritories on’, India’s woat const waa that Nehru sought and obtained the. hofore: the | Invasion was. support of Russia , Inunched, At the’ sanietinto Nehru roldctéd a U.S, appeal for a peaceful ing ‘Amorican: suspicion of } in the EastsWost cold war, The invasion Was. dtagdd at, f. many Indinh nationalists: wore | Nohrusitook no: action, agalnat: ‘Ohlnesé who: hind. ocouped sidors to be part of hor territo onastorn frontier, And if Nehru was so concerns ohru’d true position tiring wn eure ‘ ‘ ottlomént, in fends . ta ibtotty find doniniunlam: The Ww ah Tnditl: dors. on the north sotshenreetgayhoohr tea strciptaba Hr maranatha ft vaded That? ei nflict the threat In the viow. of somo Amorlean: ‘diplomats. Nehru figured he could casly get away with: conquost of Gon and the other Portuguese pos~ Rédsions, But he would have oa tiger by the tall if he had sought to tangle with Ohina, 8a he followad tho enslest course in, attempting. ta aatisfy nationalist frustration, + + + - . More ominous tn. the opinion of Amorican | officials is the suggestion that Nehru approvod. ihe invasion ta enhance the poliviag) stature - of is left-wing defence miniator, V, K onoén, India WI] hold natlonal clootions nox. Tob- “hinry and Khrishna Menon .!s réported to be | Stleing stiff opposition tn hla homesriding in. ‘Bombdy —= whidh tes on the’ west cont between Portuguesa possessions, . The United Stntos has poured hillfons of dollars in nid Into India to win NCIenE A rio ds and help. support India's fli int eis tte t{aly= ‘na Sonone Influénda'in shaping Tr may raise now questiona in Congress ovar the soundness of that polloy, Krishna: dae Nitura ’ ‘.. I have. been: “mixing! “with politicians. of’. all varieties and : ‘+ VICTORIA: a ‘ Christmas” is “now around” ‘the, corner, and here in the ; ‘Legislative . ~ Buildings, the heart and home. Of British. “Columbia | politiés, all is, quiet; ‘brotherly: love -is abroad’ in thé corridots, and Bo _ thus ‘i€ will rémain - untif ntid- January,” when® the politiéian MLAs’ you all ‘elected gather; — for the’. session | “opening: Janu- ary: 25. ae “But: let. us: ‘not look’ ‘that. far ‘ahead: now; each other, well; and Jet. us. be © thankful. for. our ‘many ‘bless- ings, not. the least of which is the. ability: to forgive, and ‘tors get. -hues fér ‘a “good many” years, and I have seen most of. them. forgive and forget,. when’ the heat of: battle is over, and a -good thing they .do, for -if “they did not, they would. make ‘of their own lives a misery.-. ' The towering California - Yedwood at the main gateway | to Government house is’ ‘ablaze with Christmas lights, a mag- ‘ nificent sight;.as you drive up Rockland Avenue hill; you can ; See it from: many parts. of the city, and far; cout on the. § salt . ‘de Fuca. Inside the. big | mansion;.: there'll be a family . party. of. Lieut.-Gov. ve; who lives on a Saanich farm — with an ‘unmarried daughter, His Honor’ s son John, and his: - young . four generations—His Honor, George Pearkes,. his 95-year-old. “mother,: sons, Anthony Timothy. It’s the Pearkes’ sec- ond Christmas at Government House. The Premier and Mrs..Ben- nett, as usual, are in. Kelowna for the Christmas- New ‘Year season. The Premier loves his squire, “local - boy - makes - good,” and proud and beam- ing papa and grandpa. ‘role he can play to his heart's content while he's. playing it, he’s not ‘dearly | role of country This in Kelowna, And, forgetting politics, elther, and of that you may he sure. our capital city looks very, beautiful at Christmastime, A tall redwood in the grounds: p All Aboard with G. FE. MORTIMORE Basic English and Esperan- to were notable advances In the use of language. Now coves another great step for- ward: Printerproof Prose. This is a language that pro- tects a writer against printérs, Sometimes the printers will Jeave out a word trom the - copy, changing its meaning oF: | making nonsense of It. Printerproof Prose guards: against such nceldénts, If Is. quite almipld, you Your. Ti fulat '. “it te théy write write drich: dhe word flee twite. Thon then hey Gaivé lddve of, ono ott: dut Jt it doesn't matter miatton. Printerd peintéra dro ard-ine! | : tolligént {ntaligent peopld: people, but. bit sometimes somotimes they thoy fall fall ‘naloo} ft. aleop. + why not “THirdérhird, rae Nd tet ures wou 6 a noble sight, clamped cf the atodl prow. at nh. Kior whole, . conatal a Palegnnctter ni ttuah © * ° * AW ed FEE sere D Perrwruee j{iguteg botong téats ind en ‘aaa to firth 6A} conta, oi non-lff Bod. tate it a nhout Aqdh thing: THOHeté¥e tha dluvvatidnda « would Have: chosen, A miniature of. dah’ fiduvdiiand -d6uld. be Mounted on dock, with a brass plate to® oxplain Sts moaning, Be a eat ‘hard-by Qucén Victoria ‘ press ‘let us: all. wish > “politics - brotherly love, and there I go, _. round and round. You see how ‘politics: gets in the blood, and how we love it so, those of us | _who are infected.” - and’ | ~ ‘Victoria Report by J. K. Nesbitt Building Ss, on her granite pedestal, and the James Douglas memorial, gleams with colored light, and so do thé hollies in the Em- Hotel gardens across the way, and the yachts irr the harbor are atwinkle. of the Legislative Next Christmas. the Historie» e ~, and romantic’ towers and tur-: Craigdarorch Castle ° be ‘rets of will. flood with light, to: furned:-on- in mid-March to mark Victoria’s' centenary. Craigdarroch was built in the 1880's by coal baron Rob- -eré Dunsmuir, which reminds - me I was: talking ‘the other -day with his great-grandson, Robin Dunsmuir, who’s form- . ing a new party, the Political : Reform Association, . hoping ‘thus to oust Premier Bennett and his Social Credit. Says Dunsmuir, fire in his eye: “The time has come when Bri- tish Columbians will have to take positive action to chal- lenge the fearful menace of. . totalitarian” state “that is “now - emerging in this province. Guided’ by false anid.’ distorted * versions of ‘the - truth, the people are. allowing the best r interests. of: British Columbia’, to be sacrificed to Political exe ““pediency:” : But—enough cobs ‘that—here I pledged. I wouldn’t ‘mention at this ‘season . of I wish to you all, in so many - parts of this province, a happy. Christmas, and good days in 1962; I thank you for your in- terest’ in my work,. even though some times you do not agree ‘with me. I like your. Ict- ters, and your opinions. Often they come to me like a fresh *reeze from the country and -the mountains and the lakes and the rivers, to guide me in trying to sort out the always. fascinating maze of politics. dooan't!: he L Nave carved Ine { dian flRutohoads for forries?. | oF dthor symbole fige.| alll] ate eon wha: “ate |, \ to he carafitiyt: Heh pipe ne eds Sa mit ORE NGM gh hth manors sane, oH an ime ts tet Saye me Lett abides adage cesar A b - snowfall: ‘ONE BOAT . “MOVES OUT INTO the harbor while others lie blanketed with snow down at Cow Bay after weekdnd’s: record: Fishing vessels made attractive picture with ice, and snow- encrusted rigging | giving them Arctic appearance, + ~~ &o — Staff photo by Dick Ayres | Wong’s.town.... : ister. Fulton and British Co- — ' war him, too.. ’ Government. . ~ Prophecies f for 1962 Ye Profesies of ye ‘Ancient & Venerable Phangus McPhurtal of | sound off: ye _ Farevue. Being Ye Annual Proginostications & ¥e Wilde Guesses _ of a Reclusive Nutte. | (ED'S: Note: It has not been- our “eustom in the past to carry “ Phangus’ forecasts, but : this’ year, : having, : nothing to fill this . space we’ decided. to give, the: pestiferous old blighter | room ‘to ‘s Ye Dominyonne CPR moves to take over the ' Socred governments will prove “unfounded ¢ : Socred moves -moves_ to “take. over the CPR ‘will not. Honest John will ‘not go NDP, but the electors | “may choose him a NBG .. ‘Pearson ” will “be chosen as Great Britain’s representative in Suez. . 40,000 Canadians will try to ‘migrate to Suzie Justice Min- lumbia’s Premier Bennett will hold an Old Home Week and promise not to interfere with. : the “Mississippi. +. , Canada will go. neutrally,, belligerent, but not.belligerently neutral . The Americans will deplore . Canadians will. deplore the . test ranglehold: ‘Dominion* purse strings © - The British will deplore it all . 'The-guv’mint will sud- -denly discover that a nuclear is just’ a bed of roses’ “and that fallout is really a’ . Honest John will. gasser. .. be as surprised as the man in the street when the date of the next election is announced. . The results may. surprise . The NDP will of- fer ‘Honesty in, Politics’ as a platform, if they haven't al- ready. . ..The Communist Party wil! offer.‘No Politics in , Neither will ect. in with any power... . No one will trust the Liberals for. another five years (while the tots and grassroots are becom- ing” teens and. blades) : vr cue fhe wheady” ‘ "heii 4 igen ft eek f aan son ont { ‘ take over. “volt ; Canadian anti:- Americanism... on” the ¢ _she decided. so ao United Nations. commission will - Quebec: will -re- _ After a year’s intense , close-in. fighting ~ four people will have’ died, three. of - them killed by taxis in Montreal and one by a fiacre in Quebec City ‘(If they haven't fiacres in Quebec City,- they had better get some, rather than Jouse up: this ‘Profesie’) ...A Canadian artist of some sort will make good overseas proving that Ca- nadians as a‘ whole still have ‘some taste left. With the classics oh Give mea look, give me a face, » That makes simplicity.a grace, “Robes ‘loosely flowing, ‘hair as. free: . Such sweet neglect more J. taketh: me- Than all. th’ adulteries of. art;” They. strike mine, eyes,’ but not my heart. —Ben Jonson. » e The lighter side An attractive woman psy-- chiatrist attended a lecture, A man sitting next to her began to pinch her, Annoyed, she was about to give him an angry retort. Then she changed her mind. “why should I-.get angr ry?" “After all, it’s his problem.” else, the kids ‘From ~ outshadowing all 7 adult “moose, as soon as the infants are old enough, turn on their “young and kick them out on ittally like, rock the dirtiest | perpetrated on. a Copyright: Canada Wide Pop music,” according to a : thoughtful friend -of mine, owes its popularity to-its- un- popularity with parents. | ATE parents, pretended to like "rock ’n' roll,” he says,!‘and all the other goofy MUSIC fu of beat; and littles would drop it like } ai hot. potato. f “time | im- inemorial, the war between par- ents: and childfen Hag béen the chief human. conflict, other ‘flicts. It is a. biological. neces- sity. Throughout the animal . kingdom, thé parent birds, the con- beaver, the .. mamma their ‘own... “tn the human species, we are a little too sophisticated for that, We. rarely boot our’ young ouf, But we make: life, sO unpleasant for them, {in «a+ nice way, of course, that they” arc glad to leave home hy the time they are grown, Thus, :it,” isn’t that the teen-agers * ace 'n roll. It is Mother Nature al. work - in -them, inspiring them to be at-. tiacted to something that in-. furiates their parents. This re-.. sults im a‘ good healthy con- flict; so that by the time the. young are grown, they are glad to leave home, and the parents, are relieved, to see them go ‘ : Quote and -unquote The Nation. (New York): “The shelter campaign is. deception ever nation of sheep.” Pk fe Lord Nuffield, British mobile = manuafacturer philanthropist: “Once you money away, auto, and. start giving Hfe becomes a misery. Everyone starts writ-, ing in.’ . bob t Vancouver's Mayor _ Alsbury: "I get a little bit hot under, the ‘collar , when we’ eget. so. Thomas - moral, and. honorable in Lhis,.. city ‘council. Let's be business-.. like." Frederick’ G. hb bh a Gardiner, retir- ing chairman of Metropolitan. Toronto, in the Toronto Daily Star: “Remember that you do not leave your footprints on the- sands of time by sitting on your cabana on the beach.” eo. Right man needed Personnel manager to job applicant: “What we're after is a man of vision; a man with | drive, determination, fire; a man who can Inspire others, a man who can pull our bow!- ing team out of last place!” Financial Post. mabe sn yy Anon On reat, cananian wee a PL URMELESOY TS tC ce i. Sruen, Py FO an nares ro anneer Mattes, ‘oH ue Wr NOT Orie OF fe WE QAI A NE re oasie CESHILEDE . 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