1910 PRINCE RUPERT DAILY NEWS — 1963 Bee An independent 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 JOHN F. MAGOR President E> Authorized as Second Class Mall by the Post Office Department, Ottawa and for payment of postage in cash WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1963 We must pay for what we get The news Tuesday that the city’s mill rate has increased by 2.32 mills will have no doubt met head on with many uskance views by residents. This is usually the case when the city makes an announcement to the effect that residents will have to open their purse strings wider. On the surface,'the increase does come as a somewhat jolt, considering it now gives us the highest mill rate in history. However, the fact that money is being well-spent on schools und a long overdue street construction and paving program, should be indeed vratifying to many of us. As one alderman in the interior put it when his city made a similar move: “If the people want proper fa- cilities the only way they’ll get them ix to pay for them.” Mind you, the alderman was speaking to a council in a city that has a lower mill rate but the fact re- mains we in Prince ‘Rupert do require the developments outlined in the new budget, and really, how else can we ever hope to get them if we don’t pay for them? No one should dispute the fact we do. certainly require such improve- ments and additions. With the city forging ahead in industry, business and tourism we must go after the hest we can. Unfortunately there seems no oth- er Way to raise the money needed for these projects, and so Mr. Resident must pay. We cannot just overlook our schools as we all know that edu- cation of our children must be put at the top of the list. Prince Rupert now has some of the finest schools in the province and is getting more. This in itself should be appreciated, particularly by parents of school children who will have to MEMO TO PEARSON pay for it. To those who don’t have children in school, it should go with- out saying that they too should help with education. We have a great percentage of our population attending school, and so they should be equipped with the latest facilities possible. Others in the prov- ince have. Rupert is no different. Perhaps not as important as our schools but something that we can surely use and that is included in the new budget is the extensive public ‘works program, the largest in the city’s history at a cost of $434,479.27 less federal and provincial govern- ment contributions bringing the total city cost to $361,746.27. We all know that this has been a long time coming and that we, out- side the city hall, have been the first to complain of our road and sidewalk conditions. This move in itself should make us all feel better and less re- luctant to contribute to same by way of taxes. Road reconstruction, paving, cul- vert and drain improvements and side- walk work is going to make our city a considerably better place in which to live and one we can be proud to talk of and show off to tourists. Some of the roads and sidewalks in the city are in a deplorable state, and such a new program couldn’t come, soon enough. A drive or a walk through some of these rough sections will bear us out. Though we too will experience a niche in our treasury, we feel council is to be cited for finally having taken this stand, even under pressure of pub- lic criticism, to bring us the necessary requirements and at the same time give us an all round better commu- nity. Don’t do a Dief By DAVID GRENIER Toronto Telegram News Service Memo to Mr. Pearson: When Enlightened opinion in Bri- tain (asin Canada) rejects the ings he’s made at the National Institute of Economic and Sacial Research. you meet Prime Minister Mac- millan later this month (as you hope and expect to do), don’t do what Dief did in 1957, It's a good idea to mend Anglo - Canndian — relations. They’re in a bad state of dis- repair, what with Canada’s initiative in ousting a founder member from the Common- wenlth, the whining over Bri- tain’s ill-fated bid to join the Common Market and the re- cently Hfted import surchar- HOS, WON'T WORK But don't make any pledges to switch 15 per cent of Can- wdis trade from the U.S. to the UR. Ahove all, don't revive the idea of a free trade area between Cannda and Britain. Bacause neither will work. One other point—don’t let your British hosts impress you with the Buy British line they're trying out at the mo- ment. And don't fall for the ald areument that it's time Canadas trade with Britain was brought Into better bal- anee: an argument that the Theh Commissioner to Cannda, Lord Amory, Js reviving, idea that trade between two partners must always be in bi- lateral balance. It's true that Lord Amory is saying that “Unless you buy more from us, it is unlikely we should be able to continue in- definitely buying as much as we do from you.” And it’s also true that some of the more evangelical-minded brethren say the same thing about Can- ada's trade with the U.S. WRONG WAY ROUND But it always seems to me that they’ve got the question the wrong way round, They ask, “Why aren't you buying more from us? They should be asking, “How js it we can't sell more tq you?" Yf you're pressed on this point, you enn always take your British hosts nside and give them the often quoted reasons why the U-K fan't ox- porting more to Cannda (long delivery dates, poor after-sales service, lack of awareness of North American tnstes), You would he doing your hosts an even grenter service, though, if vou referred them to n recent Times article by Pro- fessor Barna, based on find- CANADA'S GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT | T ers meee tee cre 35 Billion Dollars 30 25-—~ | ‘5! | = i™ ia oO 53 ‘55 | 57_| "st | 2 EUQONOMIC ADVANCE — The value of Canada’s national output roke alght par cont during 1062 In the largest economic advance since 1966. The bureau of statistics puts groas national product = Villne of all goods and sorvicos produced — at $40,401,000,000 compured with the revised 1961 figure of $37,421,000,000, REASON WITY What Professor Barna did was analyze Britnin's exports to try and find out why they were not expanding faster. He came to the conclusion— reached also by people who have studied Anglo-Canadian trade—that Britain has been concentrating on items where demand is either static or prowling relatively slowly, while falling to get its share of the market in the faster-frowing sectors of trade. For instance, his study shows that Britain has done badly in exports of Stems like office machinery, selentifie instru- ments, plasties and the like. It’s not doing ns well In elec- trie typewriters as jt's doing in non-electric typewriters, It's doing better In Hnes such as hicyeles and electric batteries than It js in growth arens like machine tools. After all, too, there is a limit to the number of china serv- lees and biscuit tins, as well as items of woolen clothing, that the average Canndian hovwse- hold can use, consume or wenr, today in history By The Canadian Press April 24, 1968... Gon. Sir Frederick Dobson Middleton was held up in his advance on Louis Rie) during the Second Rial Rebellion when he met a foreo of Matts ot Fish Crock, Bask., 78 yonrs ago today—in 1886, The en- tagremont on the South Sns- katechewan River was only a temporary check to his ad- vanee and on Mny 12 he de- fenated Ricl’s malin foree at Ba- toche and Riel was captured a few days Inter, WMNG—The Easter Rehollion brake out Jn Dublin. WRMG—-The United States fore melly declared war on Spain, “AND NOW THE THREE STARS OF TONIGHTS GAME. . F sat thin women suffer for science By ENNETH MacTAGGART TORONTO (TNS)— Twenty- four Toronto women, some of them grossly overweight, oth- ers decidedly lean, but all of them in good health other- wise, recently spent a lengthy sojourn in hospital in the in- terest of medical science. They allowed themselves to be starved, and to run up and down stairs despite their hun- ger. At certain hours, blood samples were taken to deter- mine what was happening to their body processes. Though no Startling cura-. tive discoveries resulted from g Fac KS Ksack It is not quite 500 years that man has known where he is. Practically all the important the thinking by mankind, Bible, Plato, Aris- totle, all the clas- sical philosophers, dramatists and: other explorers of } the human mindé and soul, wasé done at a timeé that mankind had? not the haziest notion of where he alone where he had where he was going. They thought the earth was flaji They supposed it ‘was some sort of miraculous con- struction with four corners, a top, a bottom, and that hell was underneath, and the sky was heaven, Yet despite their total ig- norance of where they were, the thinkers of the past did more thinking, got deeper.into was, let been or the region of fact and, the realm of truth than all the thinkers put together since Celumbus’s time -— accepting that as an casy sort of com- promise as to when we started to know where we were. Knowing where we are does not seem to have contributed much to our situation, except in the superficial sense that we have, in the same short period, gol rid of plagues, improved social conditions, got rid of ty- rants with crowns and install- ed tyrants withont crewns, in- vented a lew things like the motor car, airplane and rocket. ' The biggest faet about know- jng where we ure is that we are spending billions on space exploration in arder to try to Te) somewhere else, OUR DESOLATE NEIGHBORS One by one the planets tn our solar system are beings ex- posed by selentists as unfit for life In any form known, to earthian oman, First Venus was feamd to be too hot, now Ii has been disclosed that Mars Is probably toa dry, Conceivably Ino the seheme of creation there are strange forms of Ife unknown to in- habitants of enrth whieh could. flourlsh in such unlikely surroundings but the lHkell- hood appenrs dim at the best. Mars, long regarded as one of the more salubrious of the plants apparently is aw vast cloudless desert. waste and the polar “snow eaps” may be frozen dioxide, As one wil expressed |i, taking a jab at Tas Vegas, if it ever ls to be i resort pliunet for earthians the Martians will have to le- galize fambiing to make it at wl attraetive, -— Baeramento Bee eer mete ae aos a seen © gems of though! Trard worl Is the yenst that. adios dough, the experience, one of this continent’s most austere and conservative medical journals devotes four pages of its cur- ent issue to a report of the findings. The importance of these was that, besides confirming pre- viously accepted theories about obesity, they provide new knowledge for medical scien- tists working in the broad field of metabolism. such as endo- crinology. Metabolism is, roughly, the sum of the processes of the body’s utilization of materials for cell regeneration, and its methods of breaking down the materials into usable form. It covers such body pro- cesses as how insulin affects sugar chemistry in the body or what happens in healthy cells when they become cancerous. The renort on the project is contained in the New England Journal of Medicine, oldest medical publication in Amer- ica. The study was done by two young doctors, Lionel H. Ovie and Paul G. Walfish, during “ residency at the Toronto Gen- eral Hospital and as part of thev work at the University of Toronto. Over a period of several weeks the two doctors select- ed women, who volunteered to co-operate, from a specific age and type group. Eight were grossly obese, }’ne more than double noryre! wer’ it; eight were moder*t-’v «dese, an av- erage of abou. “% pounds over- weight, and eight were lean, or carrying about nine pounds above minimal weizht. All the women were about the same height, all were be- tween 37 and 43 years of age; none was permitted to smok- ing during the stay. The 24 spent three days in hospital eating normally and living in a ward. Then they began fasting, with blood samples taken after 13, 17 and 21 hours. All had to stay recumbent, to conserve body energy during fasting. Then they exercised and again samples were taken. Over 10 and 12 day periods, only some of them fasted, to determine specific factors. 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(30 YEARS AGO) ‘April 24, 1933 — Grant, Vancouver will in the : Gordon’ | barrister, «, handle the defence of* Anyox strikers who will take 2 af trial at the spring session of - the Supeme Court iassizes here’ | next week on charges of riot: ing. The presiding judge at ~* the Assize will be Mr, Justice... Denis Murphy. (20 YEARS AGO) April 24, 1943 — Miss Mabel: '. Faust, RN, Lady superintend- _ ent of the Prince Rupert Gen-..- eral hospital, leaves tonight. for Vancouver to attend a. convention, (10 YEARS AGO) . April 24, 1953 — The second panel discussion between: city aldermen and Booth High School -students is all set for next Tuesday night. Among those busily drumming up questions fer the broadcast are | Helen Trapp, Phyllis Nystart, Jim Bateman and Len Grif- fiths. . There’ll be one new pupil for the high school, Bill Martin. joins Marrot Brown, Penio,,Peneff, and Elsa Insul-~ ander. , ' According 10 Hoyle Q. 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