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with G. E. MORTIMORE

A patient on home leave
from the provinctal mental

hospital at Colquitz is charged
with molesting a four-year-old

1910

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| DRINCE RUPERT DAILY NEWS — 1962 aa

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Published by The Prince Rupert Daily News Limited

 

JOHN F. MAGOR
President

 

J.R. AYRES
Managing Editor

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MONDAY, JUNE 25, 196 \

Election afterthoughts

the June 18 federal election has come

“and gone and those Canadians who
looked to its result as a signal for ac-
tioit on many problems find them-
selves having: made “no yards.”

‘Since almost the beginning of the
Jast-session of the vAth parliament, the
House of Commons in Ottawa has re-
sembled an election arena more than
anything else. lt has certainly been
far removed from the ideal of a cool,
reasonable and inspiring parliament
of the elected representatives of an
important nation.

« Most thoughtful people are dis-
nfiyed at the prospect of government
if ‘such an atmosphere continuing
through «unother dreary period of
jockeying for position.

* In Kitimat we are far away from
the whirlpool of events that affect
(fmada_ and her 18,000,000 people.
What we know out here, 3,000 miles
from Ottawa, is mainly what affects
ws. However, most of us sense that
sich things as an uneven economy, a
W&tional power policy and Canada’s
defence are all problems to be solved
wisely and in the interest of the whole
country.

About 38 per cent of Canadians who
voted apparently believe that the gov-
eynment of Prime Minister Diefen-
baker has made an honest attempt to
tuckle these questions. They have ac-
cepted mistakes in the “Follow John”
years as stemming largely from a

witen in leadership following a long
period of Liberal rule. They would

ovo lem plensed to see the govern-
hoot returned with a working major-
ev se that it would have a reasonable
} chimes ta prove its policies.

As it. turned out Mr. Diefenbaker
coes back to Ottawa to form a govern-
rent from his own party without an
eval] majority.

An election is fun. Everyone gets
inte the thiek of battle and has a fine
bie for the few weeks during which

Victoria Report

Hoppiest maniat the outcome
Cor afeiee tion as Gur very own Premier

Pekin

ee |

Mero lt (Phere’s just mo helding him
hla Lubbhie ah aver as he sees Social
Ce ene toed ap and down, east and
meatt, ahd catty all over this vast coun
Aroodnde boot tree riber of eounrse, the Pre-

roto pdatac cgpaliriea at
Poo daob tthe hedk these datys Gre would
Gtodv deet  bdbnoelf been eleeted too the
nooo} tonne. bamipiap himselh with

ator € pect

lender Roabert Phoampson

Safco outs beder Peak Cuaette, Our Premier
ba bout shad (we are podap too do on the
Lethe oy ede

Poet tha Poeniier of he would now Hike to
by ee eotab Cooal Credit leader aud) be siid) no,

eda dite Gd topo beat him a Boek Credit: ever
bolt woe tient an Oltawa, weuld he lke
bea rab @ pect ocnater drome British Ca
pot dd) ab tee Wotheres one thing. he
oe on te he tea senator of any ieind,
ble btened oda td ooay oso, but bP pathered he
i Hoot te eoome au Chaawdian senator 1s
foot "Pata, aboi te peeerydiape thie kiss of denth

rr ‘

potiticab career
laa

ffoour Premier
lave our senaters eleeted, as

issues, big and not so big, are debated -

from one end of the country to the
other.

This time however, the issues are.

terribly important for Canada, Nei-
ther the Social Credit party nor the
New Democratic Party las demon-
strated at the polls that the people ac-
cept their solutions for Canada’s pre-
dicament.

In fact, it is important to note that
both these splinter groups were re-
pudiated by the electorate in the only
provinces in which they governed—
Saskatchewan rejected the New Dem-
oeratic Party—-and with the exception
of two seats in this province, Alberta
and British Columbia rejected the So-
cial Credit party.

It is to be hoped that the Progres-
sive Conservatives will come through
with the strong, skilful leadership
necessary to achieve united action on
matters of urgent national importance.

In the months ahead the true
statesmen will be recognized as those
men, regardless of party, who place
the national interest first. The politi-
cians, on the other hand, will be recog-
nized us those men who obstruct the
national interest for party or regional
gain.

Already there is an example of the
latter in our own provincial premier’s
demand for more and more and more

for British Columbia. This is hardly
-a basis for strong united action for the

benefit of Canada as a whole.

All parties are more likely to in-
crease their stature in the eyes of the
average Canadian if they go to Ottawa
with the purpose of making the coming
session a continuation of the election
campaign.

One final, perhaps naive hope, is
that the same average Canadian eyes
will be watching the performance
closely and carefully.

—-Kilimat Sentinel.

e

by J. K. Nesbitt

situation dsavl eanfused at all it's as simple as
this: the people of Canada are fed up with the
Conservative poveriimnent in Oltawa, and are
wetting rid oof it. f think, mind you it would
have been better dit the people thrown the
povernment oul an one fell swoop, but they did
not; they're goin about the job piecemeal, Just
ws they went about electing the Diclenbaker
povernment. Jt took tien twa tries. It will
take then two tries to pet rid of it. 7 think,
next time, the Liberats will gadn, and the oppo-
sition coulade well he Socku Credit,

I's eumous, bub for nearly 60 years the
people have been far more loyal to Liberals than
Lo) Conservatives, ‘Phere are exeeptions, of
course, but, by and dare, the people tolerate
Conservative povernment only for about tive
years, ud: Phen aut they po,

Mr. Beanett wants the minority Diefenbaker
government toostay in offices for lwo years. I
the menntime he hopes to build up Boekal Credit
strenpth aeross the counteys there i be proving
Cal elections in Alberta and Saskatchewan the
next two oyerrs, and our Prenider hopes Boelal
Credit, WH ltankel Those (wo provinces, He's
positive the NOP-CCE is throuh ta Saskatehe-
WHEE,

Well, Is a period of speetaeular, unpredie-
table polities we're qotog, Ghrouph. P still think
we'll somehow cone aut rlebteside up. | do not
view with alarm, only wilh faselnation, Situ.
flons dike these keep us all on our Loen

The terrible price of neglect

the Dated tated): fio would) -.

Potton eat oi fhe vie wd = with alan
md red obo dm the wake of what's heen

befor cody oreb dec tion rest. ‘Poome the

Toecct orelerly Creag ef ebretmistamees Ghat
eafote the dager of three younp ROMP cons
Favit on. Banidoops as the sertoof thine Ghat
titadicle tlie pura

Die dteaented eecentrie who shet them down
tao Wreatad patient, whe was released w-
cuied the d been comfined ta dassondale fora
feos dtretelly. dre Pao?

Sas the dental hospital deputy superinten-
core dhe awa stile when relensed, but thera

may Tyee feeoobeb oot babe

having threatened uny-

He went home ta move about in a settled

Dont ooapryine a high-powered ritle most
efothe lane ohequadinyge onbyvo a eertain khid of
Haotuitheda aheddedt ta oanadee him an

tnanne
Poyoatd

Hoe atten aineb taadequate the exphana.
fie di

A ito pevebotie with aiorifle. Offedals
mete Cobre tied opedly that

he renew hla Heence,
What land of Tatoon ds there between the
Hoentel hospital and local heatth offlehds, or tha

two doctors and niapistrte who certified him
We ow mene patients

How could he be released after: only short
and apparently dnsulfeient treatment?

This fallure of social organization, of ordins
wry preenution, bas exneted a terrible price,
That priee was paid by three ood young men,

Now what ds belng done to prevent a rept:
tion? ~~ The Vancouver Aun

Al dbl Mought for Today

The Idnogdom of God

Is within
Wet,

you. Dale

The most revalutionary diseovery of the ages
Ju just thst

If we leam how to use thia infinite power
we eense to be brothers of the bensts and we
become sony of God, brethren of Chirikt who
was the first born of many brethren,

a Tr a ans

 

THE LABOR. FRONT

Beck has money on mind

‘By FRANK. DREA:
Toronto. Teiégtam News Service
Dave Beck, the ex-Teamsters

‘leader who ironically came’ as

close as anyone to making
labor respectable in the Uni-
ted States, went to jail the
other day. And somehow, one
can't help but speculate that
Beck will emerge owning. at
east: one-third of the prison.
-\. For’ if-anyone ever deserved

- the name “Midas” it was Dave

Beck, a pudgy, talkative en-
trepreneur who seemed far
more at home discussing the
state of the: bond-market than
minimum wages.

As a matter of fact, money
dominated every discussion
with Dave Beck, for it manag-
ed to slip-in even in the most
critical times.

For. instance, this writer re-
calls sitting with Beck in the
lobby of a Miami Hotel and
being fascinated by a lecture
on how the average man could
become a man of means if he
used his head and whatever
resources he had in the real
estate market.

- eb

Beck spent an hour telling
three reporters just how 10
wheel and deal in the real es-
tate market and how to par-
lay a little stake jnto a real
big pot.

The most incongruous part |

of the entire hour was the
qrreat concern showed by Beck
for the merchants. of Milam
Beach, Fla, beeause the US.
government was threatentngs
‘to stop his Teamsters Union
for holding its 1957 conven-
tion,

Here was Beck, a man of ob-
vious affluence, on the verge
of going to jail and only a cai-
ple of days away from belne
stripped of his base of power
in the Teamsters. And here
was Beck deeply coneerned
ghout how much money the
merchants and hotel keepers
would Jose if the Teamstern
had to pull out. of Miami.

Beek js now & resident of
MeNei) Istand Federal Prison
In Puget Sound, where he will
spend the next 20 months in
confinement with 1,460 other
prisoners. Although bis natitte
lenal advisors kept delaying
the inevitable, the UA. Ciov-
ernment finally put him in
jal) for falaifylng, tux returns
for an ageney of the Team-
sters (union bullding naaoel-
ution).

» +

Tle war sentenced — 10 five
yenra bit the minimum Ja 20
months and Beck has n-
nounead he will he nr model
prisoner so he can return as
goon aa poralble to his inter
entp ~- oxtonsive rontl estate
holdings, motels, buildings
nnd parking lots.

Aeven years ago, Book wns
woll on the way toward being
one of the mort. powerful: mon
in Amorlen. He had frionda in
the UB. White House, and in
the words of most braless
publications was thea respons.
jhle type or Inbor leader thit
North Ameren needed 40
much,

Heek was the new atyle labor
leader In the era who wad sup
posed to bring, the CUUAKTONA HOW

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Copyright: Canada Wide

Where have all the beat-
niks gone? I haven’t seen one
in months. That, surely, was
one of the briefest of whims
-on the part of the younger
generation.

It did not take Pa.
them long to ge
over it. It was,

ciety: and-the people's capital-
ism: but. that’ was before un-
employment became a way of
life for at least six per cent.
of the working population.
Here was a labor leader dis-
regarding all the old tradi-

 
 
 

tions; he was a Republican; suppose, a sort o

a country club man; an in- thing like the hu-;
vestor; an authority the la hoop. when’
trucking industry could depend you see a youn 3

on in: time of crisis. There
wasn't any class struggle nun-
sense to Dave Beck.
te eof
Unfortunately for the busi-
nessmen, the Beck myth went
up in flames just slightly fas~-

man with a beard;
now, he looks at

little old - fash-@@ een fam
ioned and out of date. He cuts
a lonely figure, even though he
has given up the slim-jim
pants and the black T-shirt.

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- {hey have happened elsewheré, ©!

 

The Packsack of Gregory Clark

And the shabby girls with
their great towsled hair-do
and their eyes mascaraed, but
no lipstick? Where are they ?

It seems to me I have noted
an unusual number of chast-
ened - looking young ladies
pushing perambulators recent-
ly. There is something vague-
ly familiar about them, but I
can't think what it is.

Their hair is modestly dress-
ed. They have no mascara
around their eyes. They do
have a touch of lipstick. It is
true some of them wear slim-
jims ...

“Could it be .. ?

T bet you that’s it!
where the beatniks have gone.

 

ter than that of people’s capi- |
talism. It took just six weeks
of hearings in the U.S. Senate |
to puncture the balloon and |
down came Dave Beck. |

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His financial acumen that
made the Teamsters wealthy
(the interest in investments
operates the union every year)
was forgotten as the second-

 
 

ill.

That's .

girl,

Two years ago another pay™
tient at the same mental hosy, , ,,
pital on Wilkinson Road shot ..
and killed a Saanich police?”
constable, Robert N. B. Kirby:
The patient had been alee
lowed considerable liberty, “""

Such incidents as this—and~

Loo, stir public anger. i

“Why aren't these people
kept locked up where they
can't do any harm?” critick'  *
want to know. .

But psychiatrists are not Us
willing to “lock people up” as.
they used. to be. There has,
been a revolution in the treats
ment of mental illness.

Locks are coming off many,
duors, Prison - like asylums
are being changed into hospl.:,,,
tals. Numbers of emotionally
disturbed people are being,
treuted in general hospitals. ...

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2atients are being sent home
mueh earlier than they sed
to be. Some patients are re-
leased for weekend leaves, or
for somewhat longer periods,

The modern idea in mental
eare is to keep the patient in
toueh with his home and the
community.

“We want to treat mental
jliness m3 Reurly as possible
like physical iHIness,” a provin-
cial government mental health
officer told me.

T asked him about the pa-
tient who is charged with mo-
lesting the little girl. ”

“He had no history of this»
sort of behavior,” the official |”
snid. “He had been a patient
for four or five years. At first”
he was in Essondale, He had
improved to the point where’
he was removed to Colquitz,

“We wasn't a criminal. Very’
few of the patients at Colquitz
now are those who could be’
called the criminally mentalty’

“He had reached the stagé,
when he was working off the
grounds. For the past three
years he had been going home
to hig mother. We felt reason=''
ably satisfied about him. He,.:
has never broken faith in any
way before. moet
“y ‘don’t think there hasy '
been any gross indiscretion in. ,
allowing a patient like this to-
go home. bea
“We are now gradually try-
ing to return these patients to...
Essondale. We hope eventually.)
to clese the institution at Col- .
quitz.”

 

‘
abe

 

 

 

ary leaders and the bulk of
the rank and file leaped
ahoard the bandwagon of more
traditional brand of labor lea-
der-—Jimmy Hoffa.

Hoffa has so dominated

 

the Teamsters affairs since
then that Beck is almost for-
gotten, except by the OU. S.
Government.

Beck began his labor career

 

 

Seattle and pushed his) way
into the higher echelons of the
Teamsters. He formed the
Western Conference of Team-
sters as the springboard for
his successful attenipt to top-
ple the venerable Jeader of
the union, the late Dan ‘To-
bin.

When Tobin received a house
as a gift of a grateful men
bership, Dave Beck demanded
and gob a house too, We pro-
ceeded to put his finanelal
acumen to work far the union |
and it paid dividends In the
form of the Investment. yields,

No one knows just how Beck
will do Wt, but it is Inevilable
that he will emerge fram the
prison awning a good plece of
i1---whether or not the U.S.
Government or the warden
approve.

 

Now fndos the glimmering
Lindasane on the Mehl,

And all the Air a solemn
Atdllnaas holds;

Save where the Beotle wheels
his droning Might,

And drowsy Tinklings hl the
dlatant Folds.

Anve that from yonder Tvy-
mantlod Taow'r

The mopoing Owl does to tho
Moon complain

Of'such as, wand'ring near her
seerat How'r,

Moloat hor anelont solitary
Nelan.

Beneath thovo rugged Tams,

{hat Yew-Trea's Ahado,

Whore Nnoaves the Turf in
many a mould'ring Heap,

Bach In his narrow Cell for
over ldid, '

The ride Porefathers of tho
Tamilet sleop.

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