i910 — ‘JOHN F. MAGOR President YT Oa Authorized as Recond Class Math by the Past Office Department, Ottawa PRINCE RUPERT DAILY NEWS — An independent newspaper devoted to the npbullding of Prince Rupert and Northern and Central British Columbia, A member of the Canadian Press — Audit Burean of Circulation Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association ‘Published by The Prince Rupert. Daily News Limited J. R. AYRES Managing Editor TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1962 | Gutless wonders | Be legislature's egmmittee on trading stamps wins’ first: prize as the gut- legs wonder of thikbession. “Tor days the committee sat listen- she ~~, abn ing to earnest ahdiforceful arguments for outlawing ‘trading stamps. And then they listened to-equally vehement :Buments that the stamps.-are merely smpther promotidnal device, the same aswany other ktnd’ of premium, and that to make their illegal would not ony he ineonsi&tent ‘but also a blow ugainst the freedom-of merchandisers sul consumers. 2And what did the committeemen daw They decided to straddle the fence. A pparently lacking any particular con- vietion or principle they clung to that trfed-and true political axiom: try not, tofoffend anybody. So the committee is bringing in a bi Which doesn’t outlaw stamps but provides that no’ stamp can be issued w¥ess it is worth. 10 cents — or 100 times as muchas the stamps now in Mp * In: other. words the committee is CUBANS “TRYING FOR SOCIALISM on trading stamps trying to do indirectly what it was frightened to do directly. If hopes that trading stamp stores will find this kind of promotion too costly or diffi- cult and will therefore discontinue it. We hold no brief either for or against trading stamps, believing that people who like them, or don’t Tike them, will govern themselves aecord- ingly without the help of legislators. Tut we are shocked at the nause- ating: spectacle of lawmakers cnaw- fishing so disgracefully. If the committee decided that stamps were wrong and against ‘the public interest they should have -had the eourage to recommend that they be outlawed. If they felt that they were a matter of individual choice and not of government meddling they should have said so just as loudly and clearly. Instead of currying favor in both camps this committee has surely dis- eusted all sides. —The Vancouver Province. ~ . : But Bible sales greater than ever before a MTAMYI, Fla, 4 — A Canndian reporter has returii/ed from a Cuban sojourn with word that plénty of Cubans are trying to make Castro so¢ialism work. *But he said a Cuban clergyman told him Bible sales in Cuba last year were greater than ever before. *Don North, 23, of Ladner, B.C., said he made photos and talked with Cubans for the CBC, amd found:a variety of reactions to life under the, revolution. “There were harsh critics but Litheemask dd. not to be. quoted..g . a eee. _ North said he-was allowed to travel and do his interviews virtuaby without hindrance. , One exception, he said, came when he tried to interview Cuban invasion prisoners at Cas- tine Principe. The director told him ‘the cap- IN SASKATCHEWAN lives are caling better than Havana residents. ds fs % “I did not get to see any of the prisoners”, North said. “And when I made a photo of the prison front, I was called back in-and the film was politely taken from me. I was told I could have it back after getting official permission to make a picture of the prison, one building which cne is not allowed to photograph. North said he chopped sugar cane with. Hav- ana volunteers in Pinar del Rio province and -Wonk,to,paliticalL-rallies and night clubs. North said he and a woman planning to visit an ailing relative were the only passengers on the plane that took him to Cuba, but the plane that brought him back was jammed with re- furees, CCF, doctors making some headway in talks ‘REGINA & — Snskatchewan’'s CCF govern- ment.and the provinee’s 900-member College of Physicians and Surgeons, deadlocked over the issue Of a medical-care plan since the spring vf 1960, appear to be making some headway in reconeiling their differences. The two parlles emerged Friday night fram their sceond all-day meeting: to say they will meet separately to diseuss opposing views. They will follow this up with another joint meeting, but no date has been set, ‘The doctors had, until Wednesday, refused to mvect either the government or the commission that will administer the compulsary, prepaid medical-care scheme, The povernment, spurned by the college in etrder davitations to meet, drew the doetors ta the aneetings with an offer ofun “open agenda”, ob parties brought out points for the otlagr oto consider," Premier Woodrow Lloyd saideats be and college president Dr, TD, Dal- wifish jointly announeed the future meetings. b te + + YPuriny ae six-hour meeting Wednesday, the fiyst since the Saskatchewan Medical-Care In- mimnnece Act was passad at a special session of tite legislature last Yallgand the 71-hour meet- ings Sunday, the two Mfdes went over their poli- vis and principles, WMr. Lyold and Dr. Dalgleish sald the discus- we ranged “fir sund wide", but that mueh was op the plan itself. Whe open agenda pave the college the loaphate ittneeded Lo discuss, care of the chronically and mpentally JH, the aged and. those not ecavered In egisting: medieal jist uh Plans -- areas the INTERPRETING THE NEWS La ae ‘ ‘ oateypee “A brutal murder scene screened by the BBC ot, Sunday ten-time three weeks ago has lanuch- cdo ow government-barked Inquiry Into violence of Iritish television, y The seene was from Charles Dickens “Oliver Th 4 Millions of Britons watched the enraged Bul Stkes pull out a lead-handled pistol and blud- pagan ta death a plonding Naney, Blood ran neross a table and dripped onto the carpet, the seene, the Vth episode of a ehildon's saydul dramatizing the novel, was later praised by. come erties for its vivid realism, Others LAY bnt It too violent. ets week da the Commons Postmaster- Cionern Bevins declared the scene was “brutal nichauite Inexcusable’, Whee . + ‘ “Now Home secretary Butler has announced thatdibe Indopendent Television Authority, the rowgrnny body of the commercial stations, has mndarbiuiken to finance an inquiry, Mie csaid government. offjelals have nlrandy Tid weethl talks with TPA and BBC direstors bout what form the inquiry should tale. The problem {a how fur the Inqulry ean im- prove on the severu) previous reports already By SCOTT SCHILL college said should have priority over a com- pulsory medical-care scheme. Since the June, 1960, general clection cam- palgning started, the college has opposed the compulsery uspects of the government plan, Ironically, the plan originally was intended to fo into operation Sunday. The government postponed the date to July 1, largely because of the doctors’ refusal to co-operate in the plan or even diseuss it. SY + + The eollese has been in favor of government assistance Lo privately-operated plans, such as the voluntary Group Medieal Services Incor- porated. It has estimated subsidization costs at about $6,000,000. The estimated first-year plan is to be finaneed by personal premiums ta be cal- lected December 1, an inereased Jncome, corpor- wtion and sales taxes that went Into effect January 1. The doctors have never said they would re- fuse treatment toa patient. The doctors have presumed that patients would submit, to the rovernment receipts of payment to the doctor and could be reimbursed by the government, Dr. Diulelesh said before the meetings the “open ngenda” would alow the government to point out the best way of dmplementing the extension of medieal-cnre services, Health Minister W. G. Davies snid the gov- ernment would not repeal the entire medical- eare vet but would consider changing it if the doctors could prove the changes “are requirad to protect the profession's legitimate interests,” BBC in trouble over realism in “Oliver Twist” By NOUG MARSHALL Canadian Press Stas! Writer condneted tn Britain and the United States, After a 1960 report the BBC Introduced a code of praetice that avelds certain types of TV Vielence before the assumed children's ‘bed- time af 18 pon, Home experts argue that violence on the serecn is meaningless to children, Tis al part of a remote and unreal world, governed by can- ventions, (hat has no relevance tn their ordin- ary lives, wfe fe } Others nre worried about how Jar, in a vio- Jent world, vielence can be kept from the seroens. Qn the same Sunday that Sikes killed Nuney, viewers watehed av particularly homo- cldal seetion of Bhakespeare's “Wenry VI" and fh opaws fl of savage riots in Alyeria, Whatever the results of the Inquiry, the BBC and comonerelial stations are already beginning to ringe the blood out of thelr program sehad- wes. The BBC has cancelled a Mini of last week's boxing muteh In Naw York when Cuban walter- welpht Benny Paret was punehed to near death, They are also reconsideriiy this Sunday's epl- sode of “Oliver Twist’. Tt shows Alkes hanysedag dDanwell. _ Bhoulder. 1 eR aaa wee ‘ ° a Cee Mr rm Begeagras ge et sence re” 1 v fs @ \ . leit Pay: yy, ts eZ i | | iM f t | lr fi ee eee! elas uy eee dark fe rr lea |i a Toa VICTORIA ~- 1's the morn- ing after as I write this. ‘The .1962 session of your Legisls- ture was ‘prorogued Jast night. .Imm wondering today what will have happened on the ‘Bennett front by the time you ‘read this, Will our ‘Premier have called his election? Something's wp, and up to this moment the Premicr’s not talking. After threatening an election for weeks he suddenly fell to si- lence on the subject. The op- position kept daring him to call an election, but he wauld not bite. After saying he'd call an election if there was any ‘Honor the Licut. - ‘The lighter side An iron ~ worker was non- chalantly walking the beams high above the street on a new skyscraper, while the pneu- matic hammers made a nerve- jangling racket, and the com- pressor bclow shook the whole steel structure. When he came ‘down, 2 man .who had been ‘watching him, tapped his “T was did you happen to go to work on a job like this?” “Well,” said the other, “I used to drive a school bus, but my nerves pave out.” : * ok +f Father to- son asking for money: “Junior, have you ever considered being a professional fund raiser?” Short sermons A girl can break a date by roing out with him, fe he Reducing pills are bought by people who drive to the drug store, If they walk to the drug store, they may not need the prs. Je of The only thing wrong with the ‘younger peneration is that so many of us don't belonr to it. EDITOR'S NOTH $Signed arttctee and editorials credited fa ather newspapers do nat neeeasarily ree fleet. the views of ‘The tially News, amazed at. your calmness up there, How, - obstruction, he pretended not to hear the obstruction the op- position deliberately set up. The night of the closing, His governor, with his aides and seeretarics, marched out of the legislative chamber. Then I heard the cabinet ‘bell. An hour later I left the Buildings, and, to my surprise, the Government House cavaleade was still drawn up outside the main en- trance — two motorcycle po- licemen, a shining chauffeur- driven limousine, and a small- er car. The driveway had been cleared of the public’s cars, ‘which I thought undemocratic. Where was His Honor? At the cabinet mecting? All this most inusual and most mysterious. Fifteen minutes later an aide dismissed the motorcycle po- lice, and the four RCMP con- stables, in their scarlet and gold, who were standing at at- tention outside the Hal! of the Premiers. The Premier, who had spent the day in Vancouver with Federal finance minister Don- ald Fleming, was buttonholed by reporters. He was all smiles, appeared fresh as ae daisy. Where he gets his energy I know not. His pace would kill most men. The premier was coy, told reporters they'd bet- ter slay around a few days to see what's up. Next morning he went back to Vancouver, Today in History. By The Canadian Press April 3, 1962... The Pony Express, in which riders on horseback traveled in relays between St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento, Calif., was Jaunched 102 years avo today — in 1860. The mail transportation system ent to todays a trip that formerly tok 30 to 40 by stagecoach. $943 — An RCAF raid Krupp armament works — at essen, Germany almost com- pletely idle. 136 —- Bruno was cleetrocuted at Trenton, Nw, for the Dindhergh — kid- napping. Hauptmann nate a ren seen apr en eRN Doe + ” sae All Aboard with G. E. Mortimore Do judges and magistrates wake up in the middle of the night, and wonder If they did the proper thing? I think they must, The mng- Istrate sees a frightened and confused man standing in the dock, charged with stealing n watch or throwing a stone through a window, Those actions were inevit- able. The man threw the rock or stole the watch beenuse of the kind of person he was, We could no more help doing It than water ¢an help running downhill. There were many reasons why he hecame that kind of person -—— parents were too hard or too solt, a hereditary “bad seed" of emotional in- stability, bad companions, a mixture of all those things, The man truly was not re- sponathle for his actions. And you the muat be treated ns though he were responalble. Wilful nastiness That is the only way that society can koep order — to pretend that wrongdoaars act from sowilf) nastiness, and must bo punished for It, The magistrate wndoubtedly knows that for almost every human being there ts a practd end balance of punishment and reward that wlll make him work his best, He knows that, for some of the poopte who stand before him,.al] punishmonts and rem- edes came too Inte ta do any food; these peaple will always be In trouble, We must feel n sense of woerlnaas and frustration as he applies the inevitable pen- niby. And then there are others who are still within bench, Tholr ives may be ehanygread by the might mixture of under- stinnding and dixelpiing. Incredible task How to find owt that mixe ture and apply it-—this is the ehnableonpe that the magistrate fnees--a challange af inered- ible complexity. Kor this reason J think that maplatrntos—nt least same of Lham — mint wake up some. times and wonder about they deolatons, Tn aplte of all diffleuttias, thelr dealsions often are whee, Thoy often gulde auntiusad people to law-abiding Hyves, Unfortunately, the eriminnl Jnbel stlelts, People romembers and the record js still thore, even though a oman has ehang- ed and hecome, in effect, a dlf- ferent person, Je there somo ‘way that oa man ‘could apply to have hia enjme alate wiped camplotely eloan after three or four yonrs of goad Mying? At Jenst, wouldn't it be pos- alble for a man to have the miadeads of his adoleacenca and oarly 20's wiped aff and forgotton, IW he can prave that he his grown up? left ‘Vs sFOR MICTORY Wictoria Report by J. K. Nesbitt and, as I write this we're all waiting with baited ‘breath to see what he’s up to there. Whatever it is, you may be sure he’s promoting himself and Social Credit. The Premier dearly loves to keep everyone guessing, and that’s his right. He doesn’t have to tell all he knows until it suits him. What irritates me is that premiers can play around with election dates. However, we shouldn't be criti- cal of them for this, because our Constitution permits such playing ~ around. I’m of the considered opinion that our Constitution should set out when an election shall be -— every four years, to the very day, as in the Onited States, -where there’s far greater po- litical stability than in Can- ada. Until this '« done we'll live in constant political uproar, like puppets on strings, never free from an election, every- thing a government does or does not do, predicated on an election. . And so it is that we live in a day-after-day, whirlpool of political boat - rocking, be- Copyright: Canada Wide Who really wants peace on earth? My wife, after reading the morning paper and watch- ing the news analysts of the United States on the morning TV, asked the question. Do these news analysts want peace? What would they talk about if peace came? Do all the ambassadors shown on the TV coming and going, want peace?) How cheerfully would they cesign thee flights in de luxe. ¢ jets all over the g. ‘ earth, the accom-* modation. in slutely palaces, al- tended every mo- ment by flunkices,3:« secretaries, assist- + ants and flying ge £3 squads of police? These cruwded UN halls, full of politicians from every quar- ter of the globe—how would these gentlemen like to return to the style of living to which they: have: formerly becn-.ac- “customed? See these mobs of cause we permit 2 premie:.ed-—Hewsmen, cameramen, swarm- any moment he sees fit, to call an election. ing about the notables. Would they go back to the police beat, nL) ane | it (EAT ne . EAE FPF CASE yh Tagen or covering town council meet- ings? Who really wants peace? Are we Jeaving the question in the hands of the right people? gems of thought Givine does not impoverish us in the service of our Maker, neither does withholding en- rich us.--Mary Baker Edcly. oh + + Money is like an arm or a leg — use it or lose it.—-Henry Ford. + + of Give what you have, To some one it may be better than you dare to think, Longtieclow. +t + Avarice and hippiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquaint- ed?—Benjamin Franklin. + & “f When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.--George -He- bert. of Cy of One must be poor to know the luxury of piving.—George — Eliot. , 2 | afaod -_ . Whew ptd Lint Cb (3 fe 0 ba Off the. Cha ofa Sliploopd VWtotiondg Canada Ca wimocelh. Tenet, Acorn tibwntat. art. the bred, atiou pol LANE, poe va aiid h ay f eter ame ’ ene ACTON ‘if #", Of Ablad- if Gbps J Caxnciaet, a qo Olek Ot) Gru AEGtY flavour Wile A ——— Attf, ating yricay. ate roy . roa, ate ae ey LBs, . of : ‘yi "i i Mapa a 1 iy at AY ( iad : io WeCian