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2 Prince Rupert Daily News

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Post OMce Department,

Kutend C NR From Hazelton

For SOME unexplainable reason, all talk of open-
ing up the Peace River country to rail traffic

Ottawa

a@uthorizee as *“comd class r.al! | the

concentrated on an extension going
north from the Pacific Great Eastern Railway.
Even the able president of the Canadian National
Railways, Donald Gordon, have his
thoughts directed in that line. Although admitting

seems to be

appears to

. 3+} ¥ VI 17m £
in recent conversation with George Murray, Mer Lot
that such an extension was out of the

here was a guarantee that it would

Cariboo, ‘
question unless tl
pay for itself, Mr. Gordon was apparently impressed
with its possibilities.

While the possibilities are there all right, the
them is certainly not
branching out from the PGE. To bring out
wheat, oil and abundant of
Peace River country by this route would mean that

by
the

the

best way of reaching

other resources
traffic would meve along an indirect course into

Piiiee George, then meander about 350 miles into
Squamish and finally be lugged by barge inte Van-
couver, unless the southern extension of the PGE
ig finally built.

» By all edds,the shortest and sanest approach
lies in an eastward extension of the CNR line from
Hazelton, That point is just as close to Finlay
Forks, which would be a logical terminus for the
Peace River lineas Prince George is, and it offers
immediate aceess’'to the all-year port of Prinee
Rupert. The latter, in turn, is much nearer than
Vancouver to{Aiatic ports where much of the
Wheat would probably go.

- Failure to plan in this way would be transform-
ing a much-needed and profitable northern develop-
njent into anether sop for the south. It would bring
aji¥e the words’ ofsthe late Prime Minister Macken-
zié King which were spoken in Prince Rupert a full
3Peyears ago, Commenting on the future seen for
this city by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, he said:

“What was Sir Wilfrid’s vision when the trans-
continental railway was being planned, and his
vision of this particular city, Prince Rupert? I
khidw it was of ships plying from this very harbor,
chéssing the Pacific with the products of this. coun-
try; bringing, bagk..other commodities here, making
tifis: community one of the greatest marts in the
world.

~ “He had a vision of a railway running through
agountry as fértile as any in the world, with feed-
etSrunning north and south, tapping the resources
ofthe provineey*mineral and timber, and great
national wealth;ia great community with ocean

wharves, docks, repair yards, dry docks, round-

houses, hotels; Yailway stations and all of the sights
ant signs of°agreat world metropolis. And what
have you got today? A side line.”

If he were alive, Mr. King could make that same
speech today without changing a word. Thanks. to
the foresight of a few industries, there has been
expansion, but the continued national and provincial
policy to placate the more populated areas to the
south has led to impractical measures to promote
Vancouver at the expense of Prince Rupert.

To argue that in this particular case Prince
George has as much right to benefit from Peace
tiver development as Prince Rupert does not carry
weight, for the benefits to Prince George would
not be nearly so great as they might appear. For
most of the traffic, that city would be merely a
through point. There might be a little increased
activity around the railway yards to handle the
extra trains, and passengers to and from the north
would be stopping off frorn time to time, but that
is all.

A line into Prince Rupert via Hazelton, how-
ever, would revitalize this city’s entire shipping
industry. The extra business which Vancouver
would hardly notice would be to this port a breath
of new life.

But the principal argument in favor of the plan
is that it is far more feasible and practieal than
any other. It is not always convenient to be prac-
tical, but it should count for something,

Scrigtere P. assage for Today
“Keep yourselves in the love of God.”— Jude 21

Cholera made its first appear- Western cedar in British ont
ance in Canada in 1832°0n board) umbia reaches a height of 175)
immigrant vessels from England|feet with girth of from four to

and Ireland. eight feet or more.

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Report From...

Parliament Hill

By Edward T. Applewhaite, M.P., Skeena
The annual. federal-provincial agricultural con-
ference has heard a plea for the Canadian dairy

industry, as presented I
Federation

Nutritionists do not claim that
the nutritive value of milk and
butter substitutes has been com-
pletely established, but they do
say that the fatty acids promin-
ent in butter (and lacking in the
fats of margarine) are to be had
in Other ways; that human diet
should be considered as a whole
Much is made by the Federation
of the fact that a large propor-
tion of the oils being used are of

foreign origin Vegetable oil
foods are becoming popular in
th ‘“ountry because thes ”
relatively cheap, and because

consumers
their nu

have confidence in
ritive value

  

There has been quite some fire-
works here between Solon Low
leader of the Social Crediters, and
M. J. Coldwell, leader of the CCF
| Mr. Low made a very vigorous (t¢
put it mildly) speech about Mr
Coldwell. A day or two ago M1
Coldwell tried to raise, on a

question of privilege,” the fact
that during Low's speech, he
(Coldwell) had endeavored to
correct a statement which was
being. made by Mr. Low. The
Speaker called Coldwel! to order
Mr. Coldwell claimed that the
speaker had misunderstood his

point of privizege: The Speaker
of course said that if there was
a misunderstanding, it was un-
fortunate and he regretted it
However, Mr. Coldwell under-
stood that he could not make
another speech at this time. We
are all looking forward with
really keen interest to the owea-
sion. when Mr. Coldwell aoes
make his full reply; it should be
quite an exciting occasion

WANTS SPECIAL COMMITTEE

Howard Green brought up an
interesting question for the Min-
lister of Trade and Commerce a
\few days ago asking if were
to have a special committee on
atomic energy. Mr. Howe, who is
Acting Prime Minister while Mr
St. Laurent is away, said that no
consideration has been given to
the subject matter of the ques-
tion as yet. Mr. Coldwell said
that he, too,.thought it would be
a good idea to have such a com-
set up

Arthur Laing of Vancouver had
;a question for thé Minister of}

mittee

yy the British Columbia

of Agriculture.

Defence Production ased on a
newspaper stery that apple juice
would be purehased for the @Can-
adian Forees. Mr. Howe said hé
hadn't seen the article. But John
Dickey, his Parliamentary Assis-
tant, informed u; that Canadian
apple juice, fortified or vitamized
is on the ration scale of all three
of our armed serviees, and is
purchased in volume fer con-
umption. As apple juice is not
produced On a year-round basis
i good Dusiness for
rs to purchase seemingly large
from the processors, in
rather than from whole-
alers ag required throughout the
(Terrace fruit growers

therefore

mounts

season
year

please note.)
HEALTH INSURANCE

Among the . better-than-aver-
age speeches made in the Debate
on the Address, I would put that

of Dr. MeCusker ‘Liberal, Re
gina) on National Health, dur
ing our consideration of a sub-

with health
which he pointed

amendment cealing

Insurance n

out that it is important that
every .member .of the. house
should have a clear appreciation

of
term
aid

just what is meant by the
health insurance.” He was
that when many people
of health imsurance too
many of them think of it in the
much more limited sense of sick-
ness insurance, as he feared Mr
Coldwell did. Which Mr. Cold
well promptly denied. As a
physician Dr. McCusker reecog~-
nizes the importance of the wid-

 

er aspect of health insurance
Government responsibility for
health and welfare action in

Canada provides an interesting
study. Over the years the need
for soeial action has increased
and, gradually, public opinion
has changed to, favor a measure
of national responsibility for
welfare In the last
twenty-five-year period munici-/|
pal expenditures on health and
welfare increased from $21 mii-
lion to $72 million, Provincial
from $17 million to $238 million,
and federal expenditures in- |
creased from $50 million to $723)
million

services

 

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THANKS MRS. BECKER

Editor,
Tie Daily News:
In Mrs. Dorothy Becker's re

tirement from the local board. of
schoo] trustees, the community
sustains more of a loss than
probably is realized

It is true that neither she, nor
any other member of the quietly
hard-working school board has
hit the headlines often, but we
are indebted to all of them for
their honest and distinguished
service to the public, for much
time willingly given, and for
their conscientous study of local
educational problems

Incidentally, Mrs. Becker's
school board interests were not}
confined to the Borden Street}
SckOqL as sii¢@ested’ in. a_xecent!
Daily. News column, Under the
present set-up, the loeal board
supervises. & school district em- |
bracing many other schools be-
sides: the local ones.

Sehool board members are not
| so Much to be congratulated on
| “getting in” as they are to be
| thanked for their spirit of pub-
| lic service. Such thanks are due

those who have been eleeted by
acclamation for the new term,

KATHLEEN M: HILL.

 

 

| New York Rangers traded de-
fenceman Wated Babe Pratt to
Toronto Maple Leafs for Hank

'Goldup and Dudley Red Garrett
10. years ago today. Sparkplug of
Toronte teams. for several years,
Pratt won the Hart trophy as the
NHL's most valuable player in

| 1944,

 

RBOX |

CHARGE NOT TRUE

Editor

Daily News

Wednesday's paper contained
a news item on union charges
against the Kitimat firm

One who has seen almost
camps on the Alean project can
truthfully say this charge is un-

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As | See It
by

Philpott
ETuere

No Beards for Prophets
LAST YEAR END in this

column | ran a little
quiz to test the ability of
readers to prediet the fu-
ture.

I promised to send “the beard
of the prophet” toeach and every
guesser Who correctly answered
the questiong for 1952

Weill year ig not quite over
yet. But there will be no beards
sent out, for not a single reader,
ff the many who took part
cored a perfect answer

Seme came pretty close to
being right. But not a single
person. who sent me written
answers guessed that Adiai Ste-
venson would be nominated to
run for the Democrats

 

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* * +
HERE ARE the percentages on
the answers to the questions as
asked

Wu! Princess Margaret be en
gaged to be married in 1952”
Yes 62%, No

Will Margaret Truman be en-
gaged to be married in 19527
Yes 16%, No 84%

Who will be Prime Minister of
Canada on Jan, 1, 1963? St
Laurent 79%, Pearson 16°
Howe 0%

Who will be Prime Minister of
Britain on Jan, 1, 1953?
Churehil] 79%, Eden 19*
Bevan 2%

Who will be nominated to run
for Demoerats in the Presi-
dential electiom in USA.?
Truman 68%, Eisenhower
21%, Acheson, ete., 11%

Who will be nominated to run
for Republicans in the Presi
dential election? Eisenhow -
er 41%, Taft 38%, Others
21%

Who. wij] be elected President

of U.S.A. in November, 1952°
Eisenhower 48%, Truman
2%, Taft 9%, Warren 5%

Others 4%

Will there be a world war in

1952 involving Russia and
USA? No 100°
Will there be an outright end

to the war in Korea in 19527

Yes 68%. No 32%

oo & ¢
THOUGH nobody can win the
beard of the prophet for 1952

honorable mention for the high-
est score goes to the Ladies Study
Group of Ocean Fails, B.C. Con-
gratuiations te Mrs L. F. Sulli
van, leader for the quiz commit
tee. Their only bad mistake was
to. pick Dean. Acheson as Demo+
cratic nominee,

Of course the standings could
be changed slightly if either
Princess Margaret or Margaret
Truman were to announce be-

rue throthal in the next three weeks
; or if peace were suddenly to
Kitimat Constructors are par- . . : st
: a sy break out in Korea
ticular that bull cooks keep oo 2 6
rooming houses bunk houses andixry OWN answers came much
tents exceptionally clean and! ¢yrtner from the bullseye than
warm those of the Ocean Fails ladies
Floors are swept, beds made,,] guessed Princess Margaret

sheets and pillow slips. change’) would become engaged, that the
weekly, papers collected, and| Korean war would end—but off-
bottles removed daily Wash- | °et that over-optimsm by gué&s-
houses are disinfeeted daily, Hot ing that. Taft would win the
arid petd water, js provided-for ali | Repubdiican nomination and be-
shifts, for showers and clothes| come President, Thank the Lord,

washing

Men are comfortably housed |
and well fed on the Kitimat
project Kitimat Constructors

have even done better than
camps

As an itinerant missionary I
am glad to uphold Kitimat Con
structors against a wrong ac-
cusation,

most

VICTOR J. CARLSEN

SARNIA, Ont. ©—-Collections
of whitefish eggs in Lake Huron
are proceeding on schedule and
23,000,000 came from Colling-
wood to the fish hitchery at Point
Edward. The eggs are taken
from fish caught by commercial
fishermen, and the young fry

will be planted in southern Lake
Huron next spring,

SHIPMENT

JUST IN TIME
FOR CHRISTMAS

The New
GENERAL ELECTRIC
SWIVEL TOP CLEANER

Now on Display at

   

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AND ELECTRIC

Phone 644 Box 1279

| nronhecies

 

and American people; for small
mercies.

Some participants sent nre long |
for years to come
R. W. James, a mystic, of North
Vancouver, predicted the Liberals
would have a very close Calj in|
the forthcoming federal election |
—bombing of China by U.S. would
take place in 1953, with the Rus- |
sian invasion of West Germany
to follow--outright world war, he
thinks, in 1954. Undisguised Am-
erican empire will emerge, says
he, in. 1957

   
  
    

 

 

Law

Mr. Claxton Says it costs $369
o dress a recruit. The civilian
who has two of everything can
believe that.

vel]

Of course; worry kills more
people than work, More
worry.--Barndon Sun.

“The Plains of Abraham,”
historical novel has
quired for production in 1963, ac.
cording to reeent announcemen'

- ~ oe If reelected in the forthcoming ection 4
| December 11, I will support the best dial in),
Al PICK OF i upplying of Power, and will demand thar +,
THE MARKET terms and conditions of the power conpari
1940: Phy a tia | released to the Press. The citizens wij then haw
gray, " Oned motor, F) a right to deeide by vove whieh power corns
good threg, Real family car. they want, The Northern B.C. Powéy Gomn
oo Si seen have the water rights at Woodworth Dp
1950 Ford Ferdor- New paint, j . sa oodworth Dan
radio, heater, overdrive. Try §, main source of our water supply—which is wer.
it, you'll) bay it at S845 i will do my utmost to have the wa
1951 Pontiac j
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yer

throughout. Murry at $2065

Truck Department

Bob Parker Ltd.

of friendly
service”
Phone %% '

“The home

be technigolor, This movie will! vice~pr
president elec
be all about a French-Engliso sonnet Pac

 

boy and girl and how their love}
affair turned out, A couple of he-
men named as, Wolfe and Mont-!
calm wil] be seen as observers,
each being fatally wounded

Bire,
a8 sticking
is seeking

eT | Ireland
people ,

been fe-

” ae returned to the city

There should be an equal distribyt

(Signed:

 

 

the slightest

Ray Reflects and Reminis ca

Jury: Twelve men chosen to!in Southern California, It wil!

Riehar ‘
decide whieh side had the bette: Md Nixon, 1

going to put more
Britain to compe

This is usua}

out oy

trouble

 

jon of

Thé light trucks are moving) paving. im all residential areas; We need petip,
fast.-only: orve Jeft : ewerage conditions in some parts of the
1946 Dodge Pei — Would,
make an ideal huntings! reasons of health. We should also hays {{
truck $825.00 on ttre ground floor for collection of pi!
Heavy Duty ) My knowledge of the above has been ga
1946 178" Cab and Chassis—}) through having served on the Pinange Commit
New motor this year, ready and the Board of Works of last year’s co:
to work $675

Ald BW. Poul

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TRAVEL BY TRAI

Yow have your choice of restful sleeping accommodations
or cheerful day coaches ; « ; grand meals in the dining car... ;
room to stretch your legs, aiid) visit with friends enroute,

TRAVEL BYyf
Arrive relaxed, refreshed and

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CANADIAN P

ond

NOTICE

Once again | am «

Having resided im your city over the last 17

ffering my services as Alderman

YVeOr

record as a business man and worker for your communit

doubt is well known to you oll

You know my
capabilities
of

capabilities
as well as my energy to work to assist

citizens Prince Rupert, to regoin sound and

government, to assist in rehabilitation, without undue delay

pur city utilities, such os sewers, water supply, etc.

well-planned road improvement program, ar

fimprovements to our present Traffic bylew for your

the safety of your children

our cify

especially in the resident

| will support any

of a City Manager

| will support a decision on the Power Question

is in the interest of all consumers, with a long rang

and planning for future needs

VOTE

 

| am willing to use those

Yuu

sane

and adequate

wt
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ofet

1} area

und proposition for the engagen

PVH

X | H. KRAUPNER

For Alderman

If elected, | will use my best’efforts to further your.interest

lf defeated, | shall not be sorry, as | realize onl
the great responsibility | am willing to accept on yor

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delivery. Ask him
about this ideal
Christmas gift.

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