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PRINCE RUPERT | DAILY NEWS —

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

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1963

1963

 

City must consider special grants
~All Native event left in cold

‘ate last year there was great con-

* cern by City Council and Chamber
af Commerce over the fact the Native
Brotherhood changed the venue for
itS’annual convention from Prince Ru-
pert to Terrace

City phones buzzed continually and
letters on the subject were a dime a
dozen us council made a strong at-
tempt to find out just why the associ-
ation had decided on Terrace rather
thin this city.

Both the City and Chamber were
indeed worried about the matter and
axa result a controversy was touched
off, and to this date the actual reason
has never been disclosed either by the
city, chamber or Native Brotherhood
itself. There were many excuses given
hut no one bothered to pinpoint the
problem, and we do not intend to
probé the situation further.

The above is all water under the
bridge now, but what really concerns
ug Is council’s refusal to extend a grant
fdr the purpose of staging a banquet
wher the All Native Basketball Tour-
nameént is held here for six days start
ing March 9.

* In a letter to council this week,

Civic Centre Manager Jake Vanden-
béink appealed for $875.00 to take
care of the proposed banquet expenses
und was flatly refused with only one
council member speaking on the mat-
ler.
_ | Alderman A. Donald Ritchie said
if? the city sponsored the banquet it
would only set a precendent, leaving
the city wide open for other such af-
fairs.

. My. Vandenbrink stated that a
eteat number of Natives come to our
city for the tournament week. The
tourney is considered “one of the
largest sporting events in the city”
and in order to make the tournament
more interesting for coaches, man-
augers. and players his association had
planned to hold an opening banquet.

Comparing Myr. Vandenbrink's
plea with some made in other B.C.
communities and subsequently grant-
ed, the total amount involved is in no
way out of line.

lividently Alderman Ritchie and
other counci] members are not aware
of the fact that numerous cities across
the country quite often jump at the
opportunity to promote and assist
these non-profit organizations,

| QUIZ HALL

60 to TO poods
FOR MEN;
. 1 Which
Kennedy?

450 to 60 averages

city ds the birthplace of

‘ PhiladeIphian —~ New Vork City — Boston —

Washington
&. Which mineral
the Klondike?

Sitver -—~ Gola — Lead — Copper

has) keen

4% The lings of car adwt person will hold only two quarts

of airy
True or False

4. What is the ingin field crop in Louvislana?
Cotten — Sugar cine — Rice — Tohacea

FOR WOMEN:

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o® Which motion picture star is also a theatrical dramatie

reader?
Edward G.

Stewart -—- Spencer Tracey

Kach correct answer counts 10 points, Seore yourself
as follows: LOO penius; 80 to 90 superior: 70 to 80 excellent
$0 to 50 fair,

President

prominently identified with .

Robinsen — Charles Laughton — James

A few good examples can be found
in Penticton with its Peach Festival,
Kelowna with its Regatta, Vernon
with its Winter Carnival and even
Williams Lake with its rodeo. There
are countless others across the Do-
minion that are continually granting
funds for events less important than
the Native hoop competition. We don’t
say our Nutive tourney is as big as
some of the events mentioned above,
but ut least it’s a start.

With the many people coming to
town for this occasion the city would
benefit in more ways than one. The
public relations aspect alone is worth
the $375.00 apart from the number of
dollars that would be- ;spent here dur-
ing that week. 7

At times like this a city of this size
must dig into its coffers. We cannot
be niggardly when it comes to creating
a better image for our whole commnu-
nity.

It’s one thing to look after the tax-
payer's money in the best interests but
another to impress this same element
and the players and officials concern-
ed by showing some form of hospital-
ity.

As for setting a precedent, so what.
Is there really going to be that many
times the city will have to lash out and
is it really going to hurt the treasury
if we hit it up for this reasonably
small amount? As far as that goes a.
maximum could be set.

The city should be prepared to
meet such requests—even if it means
putting some funds aside.

The impression a refusal of this
kind will create in the minds of peo-
ple directly connected to the all Native
affair will harm us much more than
expending $375.00.

Surely our council men have
enough sport in their hearts to recon-
sider. We’re sure it would pay them
in the long run, and it’s not as if Mr.
Vandenbrink was asking for an un-
reasonable amount,

We do not imply that council should
cater to every call of the Native popu-
lation or its brotherhood. But if the
city Was so concerned as to the reason
the Native convention was pulled from
here then they could show their keen
interest now by kicking through, thus
creating hetter relations all around,
and letting: bygones he bygones.

FROM ESSAYS

How youth
looks at
smoking

If you pet that much nico-
tine on your fingers, think of
what.,your lungs. muat look
ke.—Wayne Barnes, Enderby,

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Boys take up the habit as a
sign of manhood and middle-
aged men continue it to eal
thelr nerves—Deldre Blower,
Kelowna,

 

John FE.

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Our youngsters are confront-
ed with a sauve, clenn-shaven,
tanned man with a cifnrette
ine his hand, while a beautiful

\ 6 Whieh country is noted for Its production of point blonde, also with a cigarette
d’Alencon lice? 8, Use ‘Hare tte,
‘ Mexico — Spain — Brussels — France smilek dreamily into his eyes,

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Viti — Hluae - Purple — White
'  & General Jobart k. Tee and his wife,
Custis, had no children.

True or False
VOR YOUNG PEOPLE: ~

fi. Two atone likenesses of one of thease: animals
mitrance of the central bujlchug of the New York Public Library.

Tiger — Horse —, ephant — Lion
. Who dreamed that he
Jacob — Eseau ee Samson — Joseph

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7 Whatis the leading color of Jarkspur?

the

naw @ ladder reaching to Weaven?

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We have children puffing into
one another's faces while still

 

former Mary in elementary schoal.— Olin
Stech, Mission City.
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are wl the = VANCOUVER (@ — Kathleen

thrown from her sporty

ear as) she drove home

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LETTERS

 

 

 

The Editor,

The Daily News:

DISTURBED GOLF BUFFS

The Prince Rupert Golf As-
sociation is disturbed by re-
ports and comments in your
issue of Tuesday, January 22,
about the proposed galf course
for Prince Rupert. Since there
seems to be some misleading
on this subject, may we point
out:

1. It is wrong to assume,
simply because the figure of
about 200 members of our As-
sociation has been quoted, that
only 200 people in Prince Ru-
pert are concerned with the
building of a course. Golf. is
the major sport today wherever
it exists. Actually, more people
are playing golt, both male and
female, young and old, than
any other sport except hockey
in Canada and baseball in the
U.S.A. Even these exceptions
are challenged in golfing cir-
cles. Furthermore, golf is the
fastest growing sport with five
million more players added in
the U.S. in the past two years.

2. One of the most import-
ant means of persuading many
of our expected tourists to stop
awhile with us on their way to
or from Alaska is a golf course.
Ttinerant golfers “collect”
courses—-like to try every one
they can find. Our thinking
has been slow; we should have
had a course ready for the
opening of the Ferry system.
This lack of foresight may we!l
cast this City many thousands
of tourist stop-over dollars.

3. “Need” is a relative thing
and very often a matter of
opinion. There will always be
“need” for improved facilities
of many kinds so that, if we
talk about “putting first
things first,’ meaning facili-
ties, it is to suggest that reere-
ational, educational, and art-
istic amenities be pastponed
until everyone has a conerete
sidewalk, a boulevard, and the
most modern mereury vapour
light in front of his home. wT
wouldn't be much of a place
to live in! What makes Prince
Rupert a pleasant city is not
the paved streets and sidewalks
and the new lights and other
conveniences much as we
want them, of course. but the
Civie Centre and the playing
fields, the Museum and the
Curling Rink, the movie houses
and radio and PV, the parks
and gardens.

I is offen a problem to pet
gaod men to come to Priner
Rupert and settle down with
their families for any Jeneth
of time: they like to po where
there are more attractive pub-
lic institutions and apportuni-
ties for their families. Some of
our teachers bave been avid
golfers; feaehers do not always
stay fone with ous.

Almost every sport is limited
to people of a certain age or
physical condition; this is neat
true of golf, Nor is golf a orieh
man’s hobby, Not only the man
but his wife and teen-age
children like to play,

te will not be particularly
easy fo build a course here;
that is perhaps why we have
hid to wail while samnaller com-
munities were building: altrac-
tive courses, Ti baa cama te
the place where the matter
should ne longer be publ off.
A clty this size dis expeeted toa
have a course nearer than 9
miles due east.

This City is expeeted to grow
and expand during the next.
few vears, ‘Ta attract tho Kine
of people we want fa hive
come and stay, tds important
fo offer them the amonities
they want and expect inca
modem city, A olf course for
Prince Rupert is nota lux.
wry item for n few) Mt son
RPTTOWA NOVE—NnOR artloies
and edttoriote credited to ather
TOW Pere Ao Tat NeCeANITTY res
firet the views af ‘The Pally Newa,

TO THE

EDITOR
important factor in the city
life we must plan for a very

early tomorrow.

Will Hankinson,
Secretary, PRGA.
EDITOR'S NOTE: We too are
disturbed but mainly by the
fact your association failed to
catch the point of our editor-
ial concerned. We made no
attempt whatever to condemn
the game of golf and its fast
growing popuarity nor did we
state that Prince Rupert could
not use same. We merely
pointed out that there are im-
mediate requirements more
important to the average tax-
payer who will have to pay for
this course in the end. As for
tourists stopping over here on
the new ferry system we can
hardly believe that the fact
this city will not have a course
in the early stages of this sys-
tem will cost the city ‘many.

thousands of dollars.”

The very recent survey by
Associated Engineers — points
out that what tourists will be
chiefly interested in are indoor
recreational facilities. By the
same token we cannot always
rely on the weatherman to co-
operate on outdoor activities.
Prince Rupert can be a ‘‘pleas-
ant” place to live with the fa-
cilities mentioned in your let-
ter such as—-to name = two—
Civie «Centre, and plaving
fields. However, what use are
they if not kept up and im-
proved from year to year. And
anyone Will agree our playing
fields and Civic Centre can cer-
tainly stand some impreving.
As for teachers coming here,
we're sure they don't come to
Prince Rupert for the sole pur-
pose of playing golf. It should
also be added that if the peo-
ple of this city truely want a
course then to settle any dif-
ferences perhaps we should
put it to them in the form of
a referendum, We'd like to see
one but unfortunately we and
any other small entity or group
cannot dictate to those people
who must shell out,

We ask that the writer of the
above letter take another long
look at our edifortal of Janu-
ary 22. Last but ino no way
least we are extremely doubt-
ful that §$100,000 will build a
course suitable to handle this
“huge”  expeeted influx. It
may however, give us ao piteh
and pute course,

Ans afterthought—Ineident-
ally golf is not the biggest par-
ticipation sport as you sug-

gest, What about bowling
that ever papular | indoor r sport,

ees,

According to Hoyle

Q. If two Stud Poker players
have “straights to the eight,"
does the highest of the ree
maining: eards deeide the win-
ner? M.M,

A. Only flve cards may. be
sed to determine thea winntng
poker hand. Tf two players
have elpht-hirh straights, they
are tied. Tit is the high hand,
they split the pot,

Q, How does the game of
Bund Cineh differ fram regue
lar Cineh? RAR.

A. Jn Blind Cineh, nine ecards
wre dealt toa each player, three
a. time. Then four cards are
dealt Ino front of eneh player,
face down, not te he touehed
until the bidding is) finished,
The high bidder takes up his
four cards and names the
trump. Then he cdiseards dewn
to six cnarda for play and the
othors take up tholr four enrds,
They discard down to six cards,
and the game proceeds lke
regular Cloch.

q, Cana Mnochte player ast

what suit dso timp after the
fret trick has been played?
O.W,

A. Yer, any player may nal
at any time what sult ts
trump din Pineehte,

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officers take aim with their

of Toronto’s 33 women
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police
service revolvers at the

fAepartment’s target range. They are (from left) Shirley Boileau,

Sat. Fern Alexender ard sisters Linda and ‘Diana Boug.

 

A Look Back at Rupert |

(50 Years Ago)

Jan. 25, 1913 — Mr. F. M.
Davis, the well known launch
and boat heuseman, and his
two assictiunts, obout whose
safety there hed b en consid-
erable ANXICby cwing to no-
thing having ‘bcenm heard. of
them for a week, returned to
safety last night aboard the
trawler Zebassa.

(40 Years Ago)

Jan, 25, 1923 -— F. F. Duby,
manager of the Prince Rupert
Lumber Company is severing
his connections with the com-
pany. at the end of the month
and is opening a.lumber brok-
erage office in the city with a
view of shipping lumber for
export from Prince Rupert.

(30 Years Ago)

Jan. 25, 1933 —- William A.
Leask is the new chief or may-
or of Metlakatla. He was
elected yesterday at a gather-
ing over which Indian Agent
W. E. Collison presided.

(20 Years Ago)

Jan. 25, 1943 — Appointment
of D. V. Smith as city ac-
countant and assistant treas-
urer was approved on motion
of the city council last night
at the recommendation of the
finance committee.

(10 Years Ago)

Jan, 25, 1953 --- Capt, Roy
Berryman and engineer Harold
Kellough of Queen Charlotte
Airlines delivered a full load
of mail to the postmaster at
Aiyansh, Indian village on the
upper Nass River. The villagers
had to cut a two-block-long
hole in the river ice for the
plane to land.

Lighter Side

When a man and wife died,
one went to Heaven and the
other to Hell. One day his wife,
who was in heaven, called her
husband on the phone.

“How do you like
there?” she asked.

“Fine,” he replicd. “All we
have to do is wear a red suit
with horns and every now and
then shovel some coal on tne
fire. We don’t work more than
an hour a day. How is it up
there?”’

“We have to
each morning
the stars,” she

 

it down

get up at four
and gather in
said. “Then we

have to get in the mioon and
hang out the sun. Then we
have to roll up the clouds. We
work 18 hours a day.

“How come you work — so
hard?" he asked.

“Well, to tell the truth,” she
replied. “We're short handed
up here.”

 

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By Gregory Clark vt

The last three times I ha ;
heard poetry discussed an ras
dio and TV -~ within the e pas
four months or so 2
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were the type who
pronounce the
word poem a
“poym,” and th
word poetry a
“poy-try.” Thlicey
do even = worse
They-call it “poy :

trihe’’ Any dictionary will
form these peuple how. many
syllables there are in the:

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we took a tompue-lashing from

our Leachers if we ecnatled a
poem a ‘pome.” Lo cant see
much difference between
“pome”’. and ‘poym.” Yet) the

people-to whom I-refer dou
less have at deast half a doze
academic initials after they
Names, *
Ts it their aceent To am come
plaining of? I don't know. #I
think if is a muannerisn. Be
engineers pride themselves ‘en
their plain, down - to -.ea1
specch. The medical men q
fect a quiet, way @f
speaking, &
Maybe the inteHecturts of’ Uege
arts find it} necessary 9
squeeze. all the blood out of
themselves and their mode gy
expression and adapt
mincing way of
ing with one another. Thus }f
any of us Happen to be Hsten-
ing in, we will realize we aye
outside. The wnion ¢ ard comes

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MAY SUCCEED GASTSKELL
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leader of the British Lahor

a possible
Gaitskell, the party.
leader who died January 18.
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