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1910 — PRINCE RUPERT DAILY NEWS ~ 1962

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An independent newspaper devoted to the upbuilding
of Prince Rupert and Northern and Central British Columbia.

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JOHN F. MAGOR
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A member of the Canadian Press --- Audit Bureau of Circulation
Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association
Published by The Prince Rupert Daily News Limited

J. R. AYRES
Managing Editor

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THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1962

 

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| "+ t's bonspiel time again

gt seems more_than a decade since
‘Prince Rupert first came under the

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spell of the “raging game.” The rea-

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son for that i$ Wecause it is, Today

sees the start ,of; the Prince Rupert
Curling Club’s Eleventh Annual Ma-
vine Bonspiel, with curling around the
clock for 65 rinks, a good percentage
of whom are out of town quartets.
This year’s bonspiel will be a far
cry from the first annual bonspiel,
held in the original rink on three
sheets of ice. Those were the days
when it was the newcomers from cold-
cr parts of Canada who taught the
local lads. Work parties were the or-
der of the day for years after the rink
was finished and fellows who consi-
dered themselves in their youthful

mid-30s are now more than half way.

through the-Foolish 40s and approach-
ing the Frivolous 50s. Many of the stal-

warts who helped build the first rink
are still. pillarsof the curling club.
Many haye::gone but not before en-
joying memorable games and taking
part in wonderful bonspiels.

Now curling is the largest parti-
cipation sport in Prince Rupert and
also draws huge crowds at bonspiel
time. The spectators no longer have

to crowd behind a single bench along
the viewing glass parallel to the ice.
There are seats for several hundred
second guessers saying “Wrong ice...
didn’t sweep hard enough . . . missed
the broom .. . shoyldn’t have tried
that shot in the first place... he was
light... he was heavy.”

So the stage is set for the Eleventh
Annual Marine Bonspiel with a han-
quet Saturday night of such propor:
tions to stagger the visitor and fill the
home town curler with pride at the
magnificance of the hospitality his
own club can provide.

Behind every hardy, carefree curl-
er of course, there’s a women ready to
do her stint at the canteen, wake up
the sleeping hero for his 5:30 a.m.
draw and to cheer him on if he looks
like making the finals. She knows that
in another week, the big lunkhead will
have to be doing the same for her while
she casts aside her household garb for
the tam, the curling sweater and
stretchy slacks.

So to one and all, home town curler
and visiting rinks, we welcome you to
the Eleventh Annual Marine Bonspiel
and wish you well. Good curling hoys!

Fraudulent lady

Onc of the items at which the Canadian
suditor-general held up his hands in pious
horror in his annual report was a civil servant
who cheated the government by subtracting
{hirteen years from her age and working five
years past her legal yetirement age of sixty-five.

She then got caught at it; and thet govern-
ment was going to do all’sorts of dire things to
her — such as make her return her salary for
the past five years — when it suddenly dis-
covered it needed her, and hired her back for
two more years.

The auditor-general primly referred to the
lady's activities as a “fraud”.

Doubtless there will be other civil servants,

CAN KEEP RELIGION

More intense ‘Commun

not to mention certain employees of free en-
terprise, who will be encouraged by her success
to perpetrate similar frauds,

Our: labor market on this continent is de-
signed in the belief that a man -—.or a woman
— becomes automatically useless at sixty-five.
This is a lot of nonsense, as some of the bright-
est heads around the world have been proving
for centuries. ,

’ There has to be a cut-off year for such pur-
poses as pension plans; put a cut-off which is
rigidly enforced merely deprives the country
of the sort of bright accummulation of wisdom
and experience which. is sometimes its only
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ist spirit’ urged by Castro

By GEORGE ARFELD
Associated Press Staff Writer

TAVANA — Premier Fide! Castro urged
ycung Cubans today to develop a more Intense
“Communist spirit and declared that they will
some day live under comninpisin.

The bearded leader promised Cuba's younger
generations a new saeiety devold of egotism
wnd individualism,

Castro set no date for Cuba to hecome a
Communist state. In‘a speech last December, in
which he publicly identified himself as a Marx-
ist-Leninist, Castro said “there will he no com-
munism in Cuba before 30 years.”

“We're not Inviting anyone to study Marre
ism", he said, asserting that Cubans have em-
braced Marxism-Leninism “because the revolu-
tion has taught them so, not because anygne
imposed tt on them.”

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He sud Cuba does not want a young genera-
tion that “listens and. repeats but a youth that
thinks and js not revolutionary by imitation.”

Castro addressed a large crowd at a Univer-
sity of Havana rally commemorating an abhor-
tive student attack against dictator Fulgencio
Batista's presidential palace tive years ago. He
angrily assailed the deletion of a reference to

INTERPRETING THE NEWS

God in a doenment read before he took the
stand.

The dceeument was the political will of Jose
Antonio BEehevarria, a revolutionary who died
in the uprising five years ago. The reading
omitted the part in whith Echevarria, a devout
Roman Citholic, said he and his companions
were confident the “purity of our Intentions
carries the favor of God.”

“Tf this phrase wis a religious expression, iL
doesn't deprive Echevarria of his glory because
it was an expression of rebel sentiment,” Castro
said,

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“A revolutionary may have faith, All should
be united in the fight for national liberation and
the sincere Catholic should be on this front.”

Castro said those responsible for the dele-
tlon were “short-sighted, sectarlous and stupid”
and guilty of “moral wretchedness.” He shouted:

“Gowld that be called soclalism? Nol Nal”

Castro has assailed priests In Cuba as “fas-
cists’ ‘and expelled many of them, byt he magin-
tains that Catholics can support hig revolution
without giving up thelr falth. The Vatican has
snd Castro, baptized a Catholic, Incurred anto-
nalic excommunication from the ehurch by his
treatment of the ehureh's bishops and priests.

Physicians’ report cuts smoking in Britain

_ By DQUG MARRUALL
Canadlan Press Stale Weiter

Cipnrettes are belng stubbed out al) over
Britain as wv result of Jast week's repoyt hy the
Royal College of Physicians which Indicates a
curect Hak between elmurette smoking and lung
Cheer, ua

Health Minister Pawell sald in’ Parliament
the government recepta the report ns demap-
atrating “authoritatively and crushingly the
causal connection” between smoking, and the
lung disease,

Tobueco shares shunped sharply on the Lon-
don stock exchange follawlng the report, which
is hyrning jusve throughopt Britnin.

Debate centres on whether tha sudden
awiteh away irom clgnrettos will continnea apd
whit action the government should take to
ensure that it doos, ,

Already tye education and henlth minigtres
have opened eam pallens to prevent and roduse
the smoking habit among achool ehiidren. Tha
rate In high schools has Increased alarmlugly
hy recent years, -

One headmaster wrote that a survey in his
"U0-pupl high gehaol showed that ie hoys jad
girly ymolked yeguiarly ad wbout ai atarled dos
Ing wo In npnry re) '

The renorhis supporters recommend that
clunrotte advertising on tolevisidn bp restrictad
and liws prohibiting the sale of tobireco to per-
sons under 16 he rigidly enforced,

Other suggestions direpted ot adully trytne
to give up the bakit Include public clinies and
it naher perhups pinitive, tax on elgarebtes,

is last netion migh} prave the mast at-
tractive to a goveynmont caught between the
domon of ling eancer and the lucrative blue
clouds of elgareita smoke, ,

Tobacco taxes, the biggest shee souree of
revenyo for the government, arg In about
£800,000,000 a year. Higher taxes could dissaur-
age smoking and keep ravanue ab Lhe Kame level,

Taxes on cluarg ang, pipe tobgeca pay be
loweyed and elgarelte smokers thuy encouraged
to switeh to whal the report says isa jose dan-
gerous form " smoking.

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Monnwhile cigarette nanylacturers are
haskily mounting a gounter-atlack. Thoy any
the report's concluions are based on quoatlon-
Able ntatlaticnl evidence and are canprynlne
for more research Into aly pollution qs a cause
af jung cancey,

They also claim thare are payehological and
phe bonafits dy among.

Tow far the manufacturers will be able to
inhibit gavernmgnt vet{on remains to be seen,

They demonstrated powerful proasuye VW
Wostininater recently whon the yoverjunent rer
joctod a monopolies commission recommend.
ton that one tobneco firm sell its substantial
holdings Ina rival company.

 

    
  

 

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Squadron. chat about latest training flight in the supersonic
CF-101B interceptor with which the Comox-based squadron is
(F/O) G. M. “Mel”
G. L, Fer-

being equipped. Left to right: Flying Officer
Ferraby, 22, radio-navigator and son of Mr. and Mrs.

 

  
  

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20TH CENTURY CHAL

Cost of sickness major cause

for sharing of medical expenses

By G. E. MORTIMORE

Canada’s Royal Commission
on Health Services ‘has the
power to hasten the march
toward a broader and more
enlightened policy of public
well-being.

On ‘the other hand, it may
lose its way in a jungle of
words.

The problems of today’s
policymakers are not as urgent
as the problems that = con-
fronted the ruwiers of Britain
in the squalid days of the in-
dustrial revolution, when cities
were swainps of disease and
small children worked = 12
hours 2 day in mines and fic-
tories.

Then the task was to save
the millions who were dying
of typhoid, tuberculosis, lead
poisoning, silicosis and other
infectious and industrial is
—and to lighten the cramped:

lives of the masses.

Thanks to social reformers,
doctors, sanitary engineers
and laboratory scientists--and
in spite of fierce opposition
by those who aseribed all so-
cial evils to the will of God—
the dark towns and factories
were cleaned up, the air and
light let in, the waste of hu-
man flesh and spirit checked,
and many is conquered hy
immunization, new drugs and
new kinds of surgery.

Life expectancy in North
American was raised from 30
years in 1800 to 47 in 1900;
and from there to 70 years in
1955. ‘

There are still hig pockets
of squalor and infection — to
remove, but in Western coun-
tries the main campaign
against widespread starvation
and against the perm diseases
has been won.

Subtle challenge

The 20th century challenge
is more subtle and complex
than the challenge of the in-
dustrin] revolution was, The
enemies now are mental ill-
ness, enneer, heart cHsease
and degenerative disease of
middle and old age. There arc
several forces that drive Can-
adians toward a greater degree
of teamwork, or united action,
In eambatting these perils:

The death-rate has gone
down—but the slekness rate
has gone up. There are more
‘ald peoplo—and old people
are sick more often, and for
a longer time, than the young,
@ The cost of sickness has
sen beyond the ability of

low-income or even middle-
income people to pay from
their own resources. The fed-
eral government has acknow-
ledged this fact by joining the
provinces to pay most hospital
costs with tax money. Many
people share the risks of sick~-
ness with Insurance plans.
Should the isk he shared
among the majority—or even
among the whole population?
Every Canadian political purty
supports some kind of prepaid,
government ~ aided madical
care system.

Canada's doctors are amone
the most highly skilled in the
world. Yel some Canadians do
not benefit, from thelr services,

 

  

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A oirechiaing agent of my
aequaintiupea wha works far a
large corporation has sn t
collection of small palntings
and framed phetographs in
the watthye voom outside his
office, On his way to the ottlee
the atber day hare te yy
nicked me np Ba  &
could collact, home ho ae
traub files he Wd ay
got for me an ay veal ”
reeent — thp le es ga
Seatland. When?
we entered ha,
office, ha pausod tat
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with great defloration
caro, ho went fram yi
pleturye and ahalfied each of
them slightly olf Nat
tno mach,

“You've got thom croaked,”

and
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through tho waiting roan) and,

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oy, Clank

J protested,
straighten them,

“neave them,” he sald. "I set
them eranked every Inmarning,
My secretary, who sits in the
Yitle cubicle there, enn Bea
who straightens them, tke
to deal with a man who can't
hour to see pletures hanging
cynoked,  Te'n usually a
atrlght shooter, When omy
seerelary brings In sueh mman
to mo, she announces — bis
name, Mr’ Jones, PB. That
means he's a pieture straight.
engr. I've ot y couple of New
salesmen comlyn in today,
and they'll) have to sit for five
iIninutes before they are
brought in”

My friend, by the way, ts
very unpopular with all the
womenfolle in eur afrela, We lk
i notorious pleture stralqht-
ener wherever he visita,

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TWO OF THE RCAF's Air Defence Command supersonic specials,
the CF-101B interceptors, are shown flying over RCAF Station
Comox on Vanccuver Island. The swept-wing, two-seat CF-101B

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prof. A. W. Currie, depart-

ment of political economy,
University of Toronto, com-
menting on the MacPherson

Commission's report on trans-

 

is capable of altitudes over 50,000 feet and 1.200 miles per hour,

portation:
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of free competition in

transport, we wil! be more than
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Unemployment
questions and
answers

In this column we pobltsh ques.
tons obout unemployment insu.
an und employment, — Cogethor
with answers whjen .
Interest. to your | Ush may be’ of

Fojlowlug are some questions |
with answers received from the tine
euployment Fusurance Comuntssion ,
Wo yau are uneertein about any
polnl do nat hesitate to send ua.
your question, We wih obtain an
answer and publish it tn this
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Q. Last year, I had 22 con
tihutions and I drew seasonat
benefit, This yenur, I have .13_
contributions. At TI entitled
to henefit?

A. 'Fo qualify for seasonal :
benefit you must have acquir-
ed ab leash 15 contribution.
weeks afier 25 March 1961. In
arder to qualify for regulay ¢
benefit this year, at least 24 of
the 30 contributions which you,
need Lo qualify must be within
52 weeks of your new claim
or since the commencement’
of your last seasonal benefit
claim, whichever is the longer,
The information you have
siven ts Loo limited to say if,
you would mect this require-..
ment. ¥ou should discuss this

more. fully wilh your local.
office. ;
Q. 1s it wrong for me to,

claim as my dependent a per-
son who is regarded as my
wife, but to whom I am not
married?

A. A man must prove that
the person claimed for is his
wife by reason of a legal mare |
riage. It is wrong to give false ,
information concerning a de-"
pendent and penalties are pro-
vided for doing so. ,

Q. Will I be in trouble with
the Unemployment Insurance
Commission if I claim as my
dependent an iNegitimple
child whom I fully supporter.

A. Certainly not. Informg
tion which you are required
to give to the Commission “i
held in strictest confidence.
However, severe penalties, in-
cluding prosecution or deduc-

- tions from future benefits, are

provided for making f alse
statements or misrepresenia~
tions. a adie

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The lighter side”

Salesman, on the phone;
“ve been trying a week to see
you.’ : ig 5 tee
Customer: “Have you made
a date with my. secretiury ?’*"

mat Sy iftey Saleh MAN. AXeRe BYE, I ‘eh,

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want to see you.” ite
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