1910 — PRINCE RUPERT DAILY NEWS — 1963 cae An tndependent newspaper devoted to the upbuilding of Prince Rupert and Northern and Central British Columbia, A member of the Canadian Press — Audit Bureau of Circulation Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association Published by The Prince Rupert Daily News Limited E> JOHN F, MAGOR President and for payment of Authorized as Second Class Mall by the Post Office Department, Ottawa postage In eash WEDNESDAY, MAY, 22, 1963 ’ ¥ A program to cherish-thanks to Mr. Laporte hen love for a sport takes hold of a person to the extent that he can publish a 68-page program which is almost comparable in size to that of a major league baseball review, some credit is certainly due. And John Laporte, league organ- izer, publicity chairman, scorekeeper, and statistician Prince Rupert Senior Women’s Soft- bal] League, is that person in line for announcer a pat on the back. Mr. Laporte is to be cited for hav- ing put together probably the most comprehensive program in the city’s sport history. Making its first ap- pearance at the women’s softball park last night, this program is complete to the last detail and would indeed be the envy of many promoters who have embarked on similar schemes for sporting events much larger than that of women’s softball played in a city of 18,000 people. It can only be Mr. Laporte’s sin- sport that prompted him to literally sweat blood for the past several weeks, compiling numerous statistics, facts and pictures in order to come up with this inter- cere devotion to this esting publication. We would say in all sincerity that the program is surely tworth much more than mere 50 cents that is being charged for it. Though it cannot be compared with a Grey Cup or Na- tional. Hockey League program as far us journalistic lustre is concerned it is something that will undoubtedly be read from front to back and be cher- ished for a good many years to come of the by the many ardent players, officials and faithful fans of this increasingly popular sport. There is no doubt that women’s softball is high on the list of local sports and seems to be flourishing even not be. more with each Daily News wishes to extend its con- gratulations and best wishes to the gals for their wholehearted support in making the game the success it is. Mr. Laporte is to be singled out for his work. effort but for his season round ac- tivity in putting women’s softball be- fore the people and making it look like a sport of pros, season. The Not only on this latest though it may Mr. Laporte concludes his “letter from the publisher” the program by saying: it is my hope to publish an even big- ger and better program.” To this we can only say, in the front of “Next year ‘Just how much bigger and better can we get?” Other senior sports in the city would do well to have a good look at the program and think along similar lines for their individual leagues. Lots of smoke—but not a sign of fire By LUBOR J. ZINK OTTAWA (TNS) — Let’s ex- amine Mr. Real Caouette’s startling revelation that after the April 8 election there were behind - the - scenes negotia- tions and tempting offers de- signed to keep Mr, Diefenbak- er in power. For their support, according to Mr. Caouette, the Socreds were offered two Cabinet posts and the New Bemocr#ts the Speakership. “To add drama to the fas- cinating story, the alleged dea] is said to have been foil- ed a mere 20 minutes before its intended announcement. The spoilsports were the six Quebec Socreds who perpet- rated a hoax on the Governor- General and the public with their subsequently - retracted pledge of support for Mr. Pear- son, (This stratagem, Mr. Ca- ouette implies, left Mr, Dief- enbaker with no choice but to resign.) Assuming that where there is smoke there's usually fire, I tried hard to uncover the slightest trace of ashes under Mr. Caouctte'’s belated asser- tions of political conspiracy. AN FE can report is complete fnilure. No fire; no ashes; just the Creditiste smoke, The prime minister and Mr, Diefenbaker, knowing the sourees of the story, quite properly refused to honor it with comment, The leaders of the two splinter parties dis- missed it as pure fabrication. Tommy Douglas sug gested with his characteristic wit that Real Caovette come up with some more plausible ex- planation of his mushrooming inter - party difficulties — “preferably the truth.” Having drawn nothing but jokers from the political pack of cards, I went over the post- election events. What I found was that at the time of the alleged negotiations between the Diefenbaker Conservatives, the Socreds and tne NDP, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Thompson made several statements ex- pressing their conviction that Mr. Diefenbaker should resign. After the turmoil which ac- companied the downfall! of the Conservative government, such suspicions may seem justified, But since no power on earth could have kept those machinations secret for more than a few hours, how come the Caouectte story did not pop up with a bang long be- fore he chose to reveal it? Surely, if Mr. Caouette knew .about the alleged nego- tiations, quite a few people on all three sides would have been aware of them as well. Why wouldn’t these people speak up now when the “se- cret” is out? Could anything of that sort happen without the press getting wind of it? The obvious answer is that Q. Why is it that a claimant who finished a benefit period with some entitlement still re- maining may find himself ina position where he cannot col- lect the balance of his entitle- ment? A. A benefit perlod runs for 52 weeks from the date ol its ernest nee cna nim ee eee Mp. ST . NAG ae gee a _by y Nod Riddle My Wty “i ‘ol OI at HGCONP, e ice! Mie "It acts peculiar, Every time | furn on tho motor, [AEN WORKING it starts qoing ‘ow, ow, ow's” there were no such negotia-~ tions. The obvious answer is that Tommy Douglas and Bob Thompson, who were both sick and tired of the Diefenbaker government and helped to de- feat it, are telling the truth. The obvious answer is that in spite of shattered political morality tion plotting. Hesitation on Mr. Diefen- baker’s part to resign — yes. Speculation by his friends what could be done to main- tain him in office—-perhaps. But not plotting, no bribing offers, no underhand deals. This, and the light the epi- sode throws on Mr. Caouette and on Caouettism, is encour- aging. The way I see it, the parting of the ways between Rohert {Thompson and Real Caouette is now merely a mat- ter of time. I wouldn't be at all sur- prised to see Mr. Thompson changing political horses within a month or so, and the Socred group disintegrating by the time the party's na- tional executive meets at the end of June, UIC Questions, Answers | commencement uniess — the benefit) rights with — respect thereto are exhausted at an earlier date. No benefit can be paid under that claim for any week subsequent to the 62nd week, and to be eHgible for fur- ther benefit a claimant must again ffl the qualifying con- ditions for establishing: a new benef period, Q. My weekly earnings from part-time work are less than the allowable for any claim, Must 1 declare these carnings even though my benefits will not be affected? A. Yes, By failing to declare your earnings you make a false statement on your weekly re- port, This means you are guilty of an offence and may be Hable to penalties under the Unem- ployment Insurance Act. Q. While on claim I worked soveral days for an employer who did not put a stamp in my Insurance book. He explained that the work was not insur- able, A friend told me that J need not deelare earnings when T do nat get a stamp, Is ny friend correct? A. Your friend bas given you incorrect Information, All your earnings must be declared on your weekly report, otherwise you have made a false or mls- leading statement and are Hinble to penalties under the Unemployment Insuranee Act, “SOMEBODY TELL HIM THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN IS OVER. ALBERTA‘S “MR.” MANNING in pre-election Ot- | tawa, there was no post-elec-..®. A hard run to nowhere By EDDIE KEEN ~ An Edmonton reporter sees little hope for the opposition parties in the June 17 Alberta election: EDMONTON (TNS) — Still smarting from the near trip to Oblivion they received at the hands of voters four years ago, Alberta’s opposition parties now have the formidable task of trying to dent a Social Cre- dit government stronger now than when it took power 28 years ago. They plan to turn the humil- iation of that defeat into zeal as they prepare one of the strongest assaults ever waged on the Manning government for the June 17th provincial election. But despite their ambitions Premier Manning makes poi- itical hay with the achieve- ments that oj] and his gov- ernment have wrought for this boom province, which has the third largest budget in Canada. As far as Premier Manning is concerned, the unly issue in this election, which comes dur- ing his 20th year as premier, is whether or not the people of Alberta want to continue the broad program of devélop- ment recently announced as an extension of his $500,000,- 00O five-year program which. began in 1959. e & te In 1959 the Socreds came within a whisker of taking all 65 seats in the provincial leg- islature — 1,200 more votes Would have done it. If most governments become lethargic after too many years in office, this hasn’t been the case here. It was the opposition parties who were lethargic in °59; but today they are working harder than ever, believing Manning’s stranglehold in the legislature and the government's age make it more vulnerable than {t has been before. The PACKSACK By GREGORY CLARK JT have a friend whose invari- able greeting is: “Well, what's new and dis- turbing?” He has got a point. It is a disturbing age in which we live, In both the publle and the private domain, disturbance seems to be normal, I have been trying to re- collect what the disturbances . dn life were sixty years ago when I was a boy. The biggest one T can ) remember was August 8 That was the day the annual mortenge payment were due on my father’s house, Around May, we all had to start pulling in our horns. When TI asked my father for a nickel on Snrtaurdays, he would remind me of August 8. All expenditures were curtailed for three months, while the bank balanee was watched narrowly by us au, old and young. That was disturbing. My mother's ehlef disturb. ree was about whose turn th wis to have her mother, my Grandma, stay with us for two months. Grandma Wai divided up among her tow daughters and four daughters- In-Inw, and there waa great scheming, and finagling among the Indies ns to wha would have Grandma at pickling time, Grandma was the great- est cook and preserver in the world. That's about all the disturh- anee, In those daya. There were ho wars, or mimora of wr, What foreign nations did war no matter of passing eurtosity. Lord, what oa gentle world 1. wast “many old guard Liberals, The New Democratic Party has come alive through the workings of the new leader, Neil Reimer, a political novice but experienced labor organ- izer. The NDP has the best organization at the moment, apart from the Social Credit machine, which has a mini- mum of 10 organizers in every poll, Reimer is a moderate So- cialist who says there should never be nationalization for nationalization’s sake. In this spnere he sometimes appears to the right of new Liberal leader Dave Hunter, a former provincial chamber of commerce president, who is campaigning on a policy of public power. Well acquainted with the oil and gas industry, Reimer is attacking on two flanks — an alleged sellout of the province’s natural resources to American interests and the need for a stronger opposition. Hunter also has his organiz- ation shaping well, but he has run into internal trouble over the power issue. The issue is distasteful to who have threatened to run their own non-public power can- didates as independent Liberal opponents against all of Hun- ter’s men. This group has not come out into the open but has been meeting secretly, attempting to form a provin- cial organization. They hope to force Hunter to drop the power issue, but he’s committed to it and that isn't likely. A self-educated ex-lumber- jack, Roger Lehbeuf of Calgary, formed the Alberta Unity Movement. His aim was to ga- ther around him the organiz- ers of all opposition parties in each constituency and have them agree to a single candid- ate, run him under any banner suitable, and make it a straight two- way fight with Socia) Cre- ar ni a oo dit. He met with little success and now is defeating his in- tentions by indicating he will run as many as 10 Unity can- didates, consno a further split in the votes. Lebeuf’s p litical action be- gan with his Citizens Mineral Rights Justice League which he promoted in oil field terri- tory, arousing farmers with charges they were being vic- timized by the government an\ oil companies. Lebeuf hopes the aroused farmers will sup- port his Unity Movement. The Conservative Party is running far behind. Its only member of the legislature, Er- nest Watkins of Calgary, is disgruntled with their choice of an inexperienced Calgary lawyer, Milton Harradence, as leader. He's an admirer of Premier Manning and has an- nounced he’ll not seek re-elec- tion. Harradence is fiery in speech, flits about the country at 400 mph in a World War II Mus- tang aircraft, but so far has failed to arouse any support, even‘ within his party. -° bk & & And so the opposition parties don’t present a very strong or glamorous picture. Premier Manning nonchal- antly dismisses opposition claims for larger representa- tion in the House with the as- sertion that Alberta has not suffered, but progressed, with strong Socred government. Some of his closest col- leagues say this will be his last term, and that he’ll retire to his ministry. Others speculate that he’ll enter the federal field, pos- sibly as head of a new political alignment of right-wingers. He often speaks of this new align- ment which he thinks must come to head off socialism, But right now he's head- ing into the provincial election ring with supreme confidence, AWARDED CARLING PILSENER Prix d'oxcollance MEDAL 1963 CARLING PILSENER Ono of British Columbia's favourlta beora for almost half a century, Carling Jlaener enjoys popularity from the Peace Arch to the Poace River, Say Carling Pilaener.. you'll enjoy it too. 700 MID-MONTH FIGURES E1962: | Biss APRIL 462,000 y A g 2g f p A a. SS Tees i zg H U NEMPLOYMENT oe _ Rising summer job opportun- ities in industry and on the farm resulted in a drop in Canada’s unemployment total to 462,000 in mid-April. This was 87,000 lower than the March figure and 23,000 below the April total in 1962. Graph shows monthly totals, includ- ing those without jobs and seeking work and those on temporary layoff, for 1962 and to date this year. gems of though! Jealousy is the fear or ap- prehension of superiority; envy our uneasiness under it. — William Shenstone + + + Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the fire. — Margaret of Navarre + + + Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. — George Eliot + + + Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hard- est service, and pays the bit- terest wages, — Charles Caleb Colton + +} + One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in | one, Aristotle. two B.C. brews win WORLD AWARDS - Distinguished international recognition was awarded . to two B.C. brews at the MONDE SELECTION Olympiades Mondiales De La Bidre, held’in Cologne Germany. The 1963 competition compared brews from all over the world. Judged for taste, | ‘ technical excellence, and presentation, Carling Pilsener and Old Country Ale received medal awards... the only winners from British Columbia and the highest award winners of any Canadian entrant. AWARDED OLD COUNTRY ALE Modailio d'Or MEDAL 1963 A look back at Rupert (50 Years Ago) May 22, 1913—General Agent McMaster, of the GTP, this morning received a message from Captain O’Brien of the steamer Prince Albert, which went aground at Port Simpson yesterday morning, that the vessel was successfully floated at high tide this morning with the assistance of the tug Lorne. (40 Years Ago) May 22, 1923 — Ald. Perry gave notice of motion at last night’s City Council meeting calling for the appointment of a committee consisting of Ald, Stephens, Ald. Smith and the mayor ex-officio to meet Sir Henry Thornton, president of the Canadian National Rajil- ways, when he visits here this summer, : (30 Years Ago) ‘ May 22, 1933—William Gold- bloom is making a very larke shipment of furs today to New York. He claims it is the larg- est shipment ever sent out of Prince Rupert and is made up chiefly of martin, beaver, and fox. (20 Years Ago) May 22, 1943—Mr. and Mrs. Norton Youngs arrived in the city this morning from Vic- toria to resume residence after an absence of a year. Mr. Youngs is taking charge of the provincial department of mines office here following the dé~’. parture of Dr. J. T. Mandy. He will also be in charge of the) new assay plant and the ore. sampler. (10 Years Ago) May 22, 1963—The Womei|’s Auxiliary of the Prince Ra- pert General Hospital is going to purchase a new modern ether machine for use in the operating room of the hds- pital here. Decision to pur- chase the machine was madé last night at the regular mon- thly meeting of the auxiliary. te an tea oh gg Short sermons \ If your wife is quick on the draw, be wary of a joint bank account. + bF & Most people have some sort of religion: at least they know what church they are = stay- ing away from. + $b & : An economist is someone who plans what to do with someone else's money. - + A woman gives the best years of her life talking about do- ing so. + + + The number of times the average man says “No” to temptation is once weakly. + Ff Be careful of your English; it may be someone’s mother tongue. - fF Nobody knows the age of the human race, but it’s enough to know better, that’s for sure. bod fe Imagination is what) makes some politicians think they're statesmen. - ff A woman doesn’t need to add: if she can distract. 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