~ poiutie C a s bond Term Prosperity p t ar pl i B vo cont has inereased her to enc ytionalism, nationalism, the al nsion, moreover, oft hieh ec’ nomic thus is Canada appre hose outcome will powerfully affect the future, of | 9 and business in N¢ This Canadian na boom, well rhe may be, is making ¢ ever to problems exports for a If at the ‘As a roy a small man in a big po mercy of al commissior vin a lot DY hi ail © standar nearly anada 00 ntil Canada’s home erucially dependent on the reign through f¢ trac tandards can be Kept hig people needed for SINESS SPOTLIGHT Alberta Oil Board Controls Pressure Was te of Wells xe Car Alberta ha: sabe 2] vell. Goné ig the day of the an wild and uncontrolled » birth of a new well. cap f tren into the y enormou > ground for Alberta tural Gas Cons¢ 1938 to § dergrounc treasure t ip in vince un ise by conservli nergy and iding excesse i this of the fir faced by the tuation at the field southwest of emendous withdrawal hen incidental to the oil, had been made there the previeus 15 years Nastage reached 4s 10 000,000 feet 1929 alone, reducing sure needed to he surface. Gas f in big flares, causing a con- red glow in the sky for es around and earning the liey the nickname of Hell's Half Acre The board One major prot was the Turner Valley Calgary of gas recovery dut board cudlk the oil burned bring uous stepped in to pre- serve the field’s life. Each was assigned monthly pro- duction quotas based on its pro- ductivity, formation pressul'2 and gas and oil ratio At first, many operators re- sented these strict measures but by the time of the great Leduc oil discovery Was made in 1947 conservation Was accepted as a blessing to the oil industry along oi) well with the spacing of wells to one | producer in each 40 acres To ensure maximum unireate| recovery of oil from a field, it is necessary to make the most effi- | cient use of gas pressure that drives oil through the rock pores to. the well. This pressure is principally due to natural gas effects on Canada. economic dependence on en runs national tionalism balane beyond her control. In relying quarter of the can a biggel As | See It hh co snore Philpott e-President na Ottewa. ice Department Alberta Again ife GULL OSperity Nas a long li Thoughts en a smooth plane ride from Vancou- e short run the prospect ne Magazine says in its ver. metheds of transporta rational | tion: For romance, Seal of |by ship. For reliability, the | travel by train. For speed, it ased “not on gross in- ies, but on the endowment that will Tieent —resource travel by plane. | You can't fover the j need see much fiying : Rockies, but as the the issue are |plane glides down for the fand- ee ing the fields of Alberta look vite | almost those of Ire well VELCOD, St rained, limidi~ pd green as iand l ee ¢:¢ THERE is an election on here savs the boom has in Alberta—but you would | i never guess that fact from any- One 1S thing you see or hear. We drove north from Calgary on the main highway to Edmonton. In more than a hundred miles we did net see a simgle election card, not a single poster or billbcard mentioning the vote, now only a few days away. Evidently the Social Credit party is so sure Of am easy vic- tory that it feels it does not have to exert itself, and the opposing parties have not the means or inclination to do se im a way that makes a visible audible impression on. the IUTCK yurage Canada’s politi- blind begets eco- “Industrial difficulties ism‘means an easy way aching a critical stage often ta a usually + 1 ‘ ro Licie Says. into visitor As a matter of fact, the maim highway between Calgary and) Lacombe is in anything but first. class shape Apart from low) spots where the level of the) read is being raised there are numerous frost bumps nok yet smeothed out. Some of these are dangerous. Yet less than a week before the election the government feels so sure of :t- self that it does not bother even to rush*such repairs. Surely times have changed in this respect. I can remember in America.” could work rth out un-nationalistic rable ed and ‘anada more vulne her income, she puts outside world. 1 once phrased it, she is ker game: when he wins ds, but when he loses he 117] ‘ ‘ ge 9 |Many parts of B.C., where peo- win a lot and lose a ple could show you different stretches of highway which had been built just before such and such an election. * 2+ * BACK around 1938 I came aver to Alberta to try to find if the first Social Credit gov-' ernment would be re-elected. I soen found out that it. wouid I finally pinned down a2 group of rather untalkative farmers to give me the explan- ation. They admitted that the Social Credit party had not done any of the things it had prom- ised to do when elected (for in- stance to give everyone a eash dividend of $25 per month). But |as one put it “They're not as bad as them upon the fast-living oil) other fellers.” het By “them other fellers” I Hollywood gusher which | gathered he meant “the old bine | it came in, marking parties.” I imagine that this| Same general sentiment still prevails develops, she is American market, And le that Canadian hiving h enough to attract the market. market home adian Press vhich is dissolved in liquid pet- oleum or is in the form of a gas above the fluid level in the ormation If the oil flow is uncontrolle 3 pressure soon is dissipated rises, blocking off the oil : importanee of pressure |SYStem is on a is obvious when it is | 2458/5, here that under ideal |™ust vote its people into the seldom encountered, about 80 per cent of any oi] |!mto it, it is compulsory can be recovered from UMiversal within the municipai- the earth. Under modern con-| ity, whereas ours in B.C., like trol methods, the usual recovery | that in Saskatchewan, ranges from 25 to 75 per cent. overall provincial basis gas drive by itself is; Here the cost of the eompul- inefficitnt carrying me-| sory system falls mainly on dium. In oil fields that relied | home and farm owners. A 260- on this process alone, a mere 10| acre farm at Mayerthorpe, for oll was re-| instance, pays $41.58 per year in to 30 per cent of the covered, thus in a field that pro- | hospital tax. In the case of peo- * + BUT on one matter Saskatchewan BC. and are far ahead here on the workings of their) hospital system. While our B.C Water The maintenace ceGnsidered conditions, only aevnosit Dissolved a very duced 100,000,000 barrels of ofl,/ ple who live in rented proper- | 900,000,000 barrels | ties this tax is of course passed | as much as might be left unrecoverable. on by the landlords to the ten- Today natural gas related to | ants. oi! recovery is collected at the + + + surface as it escapes and foreed | THE BIGGEST myth ever put back into the ground to main- | tain pressure or it is separated|the claim that in Alberta pa- irom the liquid in gas processing |tients pay only a’ direct charge plants and marketed ‘of one dollar per day while | (Ret. ), Here is how [| rate | Shouted : him, | head and the | General. Ouse | d, of Alberta. I have checked up} province-wide each municipality scheme. But once they do vote | and | is on an| over the people of B.C. was Relax and Enjay oe REVELSTOKE LAGER ° ENGLISH DARK BEER Both beers awarded “Cross of Honor” for the Dominion of Canada, Brussels, Belgium, 1951. BE SURE TO . Ask for Them by Name | Enterprise Brewery Limited, Revelstoke, B.C. F Also—ENGLISH 3X STOUT “Ask for these popular BRANDS by name” ALWAYS THE BEST BUY This advertisement is not published or d'splayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. UNDER By SUR ROOF Kh Stuedv ' >i. “A friend of mine—my old commanding officer, as a night,” matter of faet—is announced Col, S. when he met me terday. “Would you like to I thought it was very white of the Colonel to invite me to dimner in my Own house, byt aft How long is this gentleman staying?” I asked Oh, he’s leaving the morning,” said the Coleuel. “He’s putting up at the local hotel,” I felt somewhat relieved. What’ With the Celomel and Amastasia and Hamish and Little Augie Pill- ing up the house and foreing my family and me to live in the shed, probably another guest wouldn’t have mattered very much, §tili, feit relieved “We're having goose,” ene! added That wa olonel usually next the Co!- even better The eats nothing but curry and rice I'll tell my wife,” I said. “She’l be delighted.” The Colone] frowned at me. “Boy,” he declared, “this dinner gentlemen only.” * So I had to ga and tell my wife that I had been invited tu our house for a goose dinner, and that it was strietly a stag affair. I ducked briskly when sardines av my head. I must admit that I, too, am a little tired of eating sardines and other canned. victuals. Conse- quently my mouth watered when I thought of roast goose.) At seven o'clock Major-Generai D'arey Dart-Jones made his ap- pearance, An imposing man, he rushed up to the Colone} and shouted: “Haw.” and the Colonei| “Haw!” right hack até; It really was a sentimentai| reunion between these two | Campaigners “When do we eat?” pered to Little Augie “Any minute now,” said the ex-blind pig king. “Hamish has} the goose in the oven.” We sat down to a polished table with the Colonel at the Major-General] en) his right hand. From the kit-) then I caught a waft of some- thing that made me -drool. We ‘had a decanter oF Dituie iS IO! acan of I whis-| my native Ontario, and also i | Augie’s extra-special goat’s milk| threw at me,” Drambuie on the table and the Colonel said: “While we’re wait-! ing for the fowl to ~ brought in, I thought, sir, th “Haw!” dia: the “Absolutely . “On your feet!” the |yelled at litthe Augie and me, when the glazses were filled. “To the Khyber Pass!” So we drank to the Pass and the Colonel Major-General smashed their glasses in the fire-place (My wife's glasses, incidentally). Fhen the Colonel called Hamish out of the kitchen for more goblets and insisted that Hamish remain to Major- . haw!” Khyber and the in hospital. Here the average charges for X-ray and other things (which are free in BC.) is $3.50 per day. Also there is no provision ta pay for patients |who must go from small towns to_big city hospitais, For B.C. to revert to the A! berta system backward step. NOW tr | Same time I was suddenly fear- | LAKE, Alberta—!™ she threw! old | | wife demanded, Colonel } would be a giant} ‘coming to dinner to- Skeffington - Smutts in front of the shed yes- us join t drink a teast to our guest, the Major-General Speech!” shouted the Colone when that was cone If you’ excuse me- ed Hamish Sit in your seat, sir! Colonel My manding officer is about to au- uress US Haw!” muttered the Majcr- General aS he got to his feet. | began to applaud, thinking that was the end of the speech, but the Colonel swiped at me witn his sabre (which he happened to be carrying) and I kept quiet from then on Pardon me,” I heard Hamish murmur, “if you don’t mind—.” His small voice was drowned the roar that suddeniy from the Major-General’s throat. Hf I had thought that “Haw!” was the extent of the Major-General’s veeabulary, ' was very much mistaken, He talked and on He tailkec about India and departed friends about Colone}) 3. Skeffing- Smutts and about himself When he finished, the Colonc! the response Thén we drank to the Major-General’s he alth, Then we drank to the Colonel's health: The fire-place began to fill with smashed Suggest- thun t COM. qereda Lie out in came on and ton made giasses Eventually—it must have been about an hour later—the Colonel turned to. Hamish. “Ali righ\ boy,” he said, “serve the dinner And open the windows, by the way. It’s getting very smoky in here. 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