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~INCE Premier Bennett has put hospital insur-

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‘tevenson and Kellogg report on the subject.
For too long now hospital insurance has been
ked around as 4 political football and there is
at the new government
heaving it clear out of the park, This
intention has not been expressed in so many words,
any move to put the plan on a voluntary basis

coneerting evidence th

ntempiates

iid accomplish just that
If hospital insuranee
iy premiums there i:

n voluntary payments.

on and Kellogg report wh

the province close to
ibly a solution.

If, as announced, the e

ave more than $1,000,000 yearly in administra-
ive salaries alone, there is every likelHhood that it
other recommendations which would put the

offe

program on an efficient w
We have gone too far

| drawn too much benef
heeause of some minor un

over, as we have already paid well for the list of
-ecommendations now in Victoria, we should have

look at it before it is dise

acue pre-election promi

UNDER OUR RO
By John Sturdy

Yesterday afternoon ot

nea with a sour expres

ought he was sore because I was reading one of|
. comie books, a weird tale about a well-built lady |

led “Nyoka, the Jungle
he book he still looked at

1

our name

t; best.” It

what
interrupt

e been fool'ling m }] tisis |‘
vith all t

HZ DUSIHESS

hat steadiast anc
Why
me the truth, Daddy?
t u driving at?” 1

phone and the Colonel and Little hand
Augie insisted I take a comfort-| youngsters in Vancouver alone
able chair in the livimg-room,| have already been contaminated |
and its

rea}-
prped up It's @

i found out what Sturdy
neanh hie
e { by @ larval tape-

1 the Drain
tared at the cniia ifn

For a

net peileve

aD-
ent I
those
SIfiais

horror mom
hai
d issued from h
larvai tapeworm of
And my
I ood saying it
How gare you
that? | timnmdered
“Oh, it’s all very well for you
splatter, Daddy said =the}
nall son But I looked it up
the dictionary
om the Old French estardis,
whieh means Gid, or Sturdy, a
disease caused by a larval tape-
rm of the bran.”
‘Hoh?”
‘You should have told me,
Daddy,” he added, and walked)
out of the shed.

LOOKS ff UP |

Of course I idn’t believe him. |
I tried to lose myself with Ny-|
oka the Jungle Girl, but it wasn’t}
any good. The more I thought|
of the child’s words, the more)
aunted I became, }

Rventually I couldn't stand it|
any longer, I sneaked over to|
our house, where our guests, Ha- |
mish and Little Augie and Col. /.|
Ekeffington-Smutts (Ret.) and|
nis wife Anastasia are living, an)
I evept into the living-room and|
founid the dictionary. |

fo my horror there it was:
STURDY (OF) Veter. A disease
caused by a larval tapeworm of
the brain, (See GID).

Well, I didn’t have time to see
GID. Just at that moment Col.
Skeffington-Smutts entered the
room and said, “Oh,” when he
saw me, “Anything I can do for
you, my man?”

“Colonel,” I said, “I’m the fel-
low who owns the hoase, remem-
per? Stury is the name.”

“Oh, quite!” said the Colonel.
Then suddenly he looked very
disturbed, “Oh, I say -- hey.
chaps! Chaps, come here!”

The chaps turned out to be
Hamish and Little Augie who en-
tered on the run.

“Here’s the fella,” said the
Colonel, and I found Hamish and
Little Augie staring at me. =
thought there was a hint of tears
in Hamish’s eyes.

“Sit down,” he

OW

speak Ke

Sturdy is)

said softly.

oted to the

Northern and Central

Daily Nev A
She Prince Ri Daily

BB.

' lieve it.

Hamish
lidn’t you| Ume

BE COMFORTABLE

{ made no protests.
Hamish

somebody was coming right over,|for education on thfs matter not | ;,, ca : |most generally used in so-called
Fe ap es sat ee cen | trailer trucks, somre refrigerated |“controlied” atomic energy de-| Stays on the

flesh | time to talk about the house, su | single family in the land.
to me! I

something on my mind - -”

another and nodded.

| with me,” I said, alarmed.

ugust 9, 1952

iiding of Prince Rupert
ylumbia,
u of Circulations
jation
aily News Limited
G. PERRY, Vice-President

Elm ore
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Tr year, $10.00

the Post Office Departmen

For Instance Drugs

GULL LAKE, Alberta.—

Here at the Alberta
‘School of Religion you
often hear the wisest

government agenda, we
ce public at an early date

in a conversation around
a tree, or on the sands

- beside the lake.

| For instance, this one I heard
this morning about drugs. A
: punch ef us had been talking
* i a ow every
barely survived on com- premade ame has te
not a breath of hope for ae some of its own lessons for
* a itself.
However, in the Steven- But one quiet voice warned of
ich is understoo ‘a carrying that idea too far
; a et nood - have “Tan samt just sit back and
$100,000, there is very | say, O leave the kids alone and
they will try out things for
themselves and sooner or later
find what is good and what is
pad. Suppose they try out drags
Soon most of them are rumed
almest beyond all hope.”

He developed the idea a bit,
along the limes that you could
not Jeave bottles of poison around
and expect an infant to try out
one after another and see which
was good and which was bad for
him

nquiry diseovered a way

orking basis.
with hospital msuranee,
it from it, te abandon it

popular features. More- | * +

|but who were cured, with the
arded in the interests of |help of old fashioned religious

| eoversion
Se:

OF

| drugs that most of us would say

beyond all hepe of redemption,

|judgment for they would hold
iv small son turned up in}
ssion on his face. At first) Father

| But if there is one menace on

is the traffie im narcotics.
+ *¢ *¢
{JUST a year. ago, when I was}
here on the prairies before,)
they were holding a conference
in Saskatoon on Ways and nmreans
of dealing with the drug menace
is almost ludierous to look
back on that conference now,
for over and over again speakers
: isaid@ that there was no wide-
The Colone) interrupted. “Get) spread addiction to drugs among
yn the telephone, e he ordered teen-agers in Canada, as every-
We can’t waste @DY) pody knew there was in the
Minutes may be precions.” USA.
Now we have been rudely,
So Hamish went away to tele-| Shocked out of our complacency
learned that dozens of,

irl,” but when | gave him!
me distrustfully.
“Don’t exert yourself. I’m surc
everything will turn out for the
“You know,” said Little Augie, |
‘to look at him you'd hardly be-|

been so jong since I'vc;at ages aS young as fifteen or
sat in my own living-room that | sixteen.
And ther | ¢ + ¢ |
came back and said| SURELY there is a crying need |
jonly through the churches,
1 thought this might be a good} schools, YMCA, etc., but in every
said: “By the way, } hav2;
\a son or daughter grow up to
‘THe three guests jooked at one|fourteen years of age without)
. | telling him or her the terrible
“Yes,” said Hamish sympath-| truth about drugs has not done |
etieally, “we understand.” |a good job. The same goes, even,
A fifth person new entered more, for older sisters and bro-
the room. It wag Dr. Jones from thers, for the youngsters often
the village and he said: listen to them more than to)
here as soon as I could.” eee
looked at me. “What seems to bel Every yourlgster should know
the trouble?” | that the “lift” novices get out of
“There’s nothing the matter | drugs soon becomes such a crav-
ing that almost all the victims
“He naturally won’t admit it,’|lose all moral sense and will do |
said the Colonel to Dr. Jones.|literally anything—no matter |
“But the fact is we learned the| how criminal—to get more drugs.
truth from his young son, He's * 9
suffering from the Gid—the| 1 THINK a person who sonunte}
Sturdy—tapeworm of the brain.”| murder is a minor lawbreaker |
“Then you don’t need me,” said| compared with the vile creature |
Dr. Jones. “You need a veter-| who, for profit, deliberately ruins
inary. Sturdy is a disease usuaily)a youngster’s life by enticing
found in sheep.” him or her to become a drug
1 exploded then. “Well,” i addict. Once eanght, not one
shouted, “if that’s what I have,| victim out of a thousand ever
it’s because I’ve been living in| escapes.

the shed with Little Augie’s) so long as we retain the death
goat. penalty for any crime, including |

I will state one further thing: | ¢hat of murder, I would make it |

I have burned the dictionary.|¢over the higher-up organizers |
And if I ever catch our small som! or the drug traffic—for these |
reading ——- but eee are human monsters.
—— om Se aed eeu As for the victims, the addicts, |
itn 2k veak eid-fasisioned pur- they are sick people and should!
be treated as such, The most |

pose of a woodshed. sensible way to treat them is in
institutions specially set up. It |
HIGH POSITION is better to give the .victims
OSHAWA, Ont. CP) — Leslie| what they must get—to prevent
Loueks, an employee of the pu | them from stealing, murdering,
lie utilities commission, had the | or becoming prostitutes to get
task of painting the city’s 79|the mony to buy what is literally
metal lamp posts, a none-| worth more to them than life
too-steady 20-foot . He| itself.
said the height didn’t bother) put every Canadian youngster
him; ohty the thought that be) should be taught that the drug
might spill paint on some husky | habit is the quickest, shortest,
pedestrian, surest, road to hell-on-earth.

OCEAN OUTPOST
The French island of Martin-
ique in the West Indies sends
two senators and three deputies
to the French parliament:

EUROPEAN PEAK
Highest mountain in Europe west
of the Caucasus is Mont Blanc
in France, reaching 15,781 feet.

ideas given out by some)

country minister, maybe!

\these poor souls were damned | 4 !0t more food

that there is no limit to the love tem with rations
or saving power of the Almighty June, 1953, has been completed
for anmether year
combination of
ithis earth, mere ruimous thanjirains, beats and barges which
any other I have come across os the food as far as 2,000
mites

U.N. FILMS TV program for Lati
‘United Nations R
on kimescope and will be pres¢

series entitied

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Children, so it’is said, are los-
ing faith in fairy tales. Perhaps
it is because of fewer honest-to-
Ged children.

ASK THEM!

The CCF convention in Toe-
ronto urged war on poverty but
declined to take from the reso-
‘yation any move meaning res-
toration of military prepare-
ness. Necessary though prepar-
edness might be sometimes, it
could not take the place of posi-
tive action to end poverty and
exploitation. The debate ws
-pitter. Wonder how they fee?
about accepting fifty years ago
wage scale, with 1900 ~cost of
living basis.

sipniicinensianiiil

War's shaaow agai mms the

n American countries, first of a
md Table.” These are filmed

ited om television stations of

Submarine Power Plants sii" tn

By FRANK CAREY

WASHINGTON (AP
two “rival” atomie subm:
construction.

Theoretically, one eou!
petitor while producing e
be more hazardous to oper

being a potential atomie bomb.

Arctic Pantries

: Of Army Signals
1 novsete toy ot peonis =0° Filled For Year

OTTAWA ©—The Army re-

But I also know of ports that its strmmg of signals
several other a per rae stations in the Arctie now has
pinensio | i e i § r ‘
| which were ruined so utterly by chicken dinners stored away and

besides
This was ome way of reporting

there or anywhere. I don't think that the job of provisioning the

these country ministers would | 45 tations of
ith that pessimistic : ee

nance. we 7 Territories and Yukon radio sys-

the Northwest

to last until

thanks to a
aircraft, trueks,

The job was handled by the
western army command and
transport office and the service
corps supply depot in Edmonton

Cooks at stations in Aliayik,
Fort Smith, Good Hope, Hay
River, Norman, Norman Welk,
Providence, Radium, Reliance,
Simpson, Wrigley and Yellew-
knife in the Northwest Territor-
fes.) McMurray and Chipewyau
in northern Alberta, must order |
their groceries early In the year
to get them before river naviga-
tion closes in the fall.

During May and June, 80 ton
of food and supplies valued at
$28,000 were sent into the hor
thern detachments to feed 104
men.

STARTED BY TRUCK
From Edmonton, giant sem- |
to earry perishables, sped north |
on the MacKenzie highway to|

, | Hay River on Great Slave Lake. | reactor will employ “slow” neu-|
Any father or mother who lets} tere the stores trans-shipped to | trons, 3

jriver boats for the long hawh up |

the MacKenzie River over the |
Arcti¢ Cirele to Akiavik.

More supplies were moved by
rail to waterways on the Clear-
water where they were packed

again on to river boats for the | faster particles
trip down the Athabaska to Lake | = eee ‘ aa

Athabaska and along the Slave |
River to Great Slave Lake |

Supplies must be specially |
packed at the Edmonton supply |
depot. In charge of the depot is |
2nd Lieut. H. A. Anderson of |
Saskatoon, who with Set. B. G.
MacKay of Ottawa, supervises
packing and shipping.

“We pack most stbres in wire- |
strapped trade cartons, stutfed
with shredded paper and cor-
rugated eardboard,” explained
Lieut. Anderson. “Glass jars are
our chief headache. They have
to be individually wrapped and
padded, Anything that can be
damaged by water, dry cereals,
peas, beans, flour, tea and sugar
has to be waterproofed by dip-
ping their cartons in wax.”

The chief shoppers are Lt.-
Col. G. F. Stevenson of Hamil-
ton, Ont. On his staff are Maj.
C. B, M. Foster of New Glasgow,
N.S., and Staff Sgt. H. T. Saun-
ders of Calgary.

So

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Oreece ahd Bulgaria that might
lead te Namber Three. Long
previous to forty years age, and
after, from the Balkans came;
endless tales no one in Canada
heeded. Bach was tiresome, and
what was told never got any-
where. Mr. Canadian, if you're
around 38 of 40, you'll remem-
per 1914. That yarn did

\—The United States has
rine power plants under

d be smaller than its com-
jual energy. It also could

‘ r j ist short of The happy employer is indiea-
a * pping ju t short tive of a satisfied employee anc)
the latter is always the most)
efficient. Customers are very)
sensitive to this. Nothing may)
1 js now under construction by| be said put the customer ai
the Genera) Electric Co. at an) ways jeaves a store with some.
AEC-owned site in West Milton, | thoughts somewhere tn the back |
¥ lot his head. His future patron-|
Its “rival,” farther advaneed| age is largely determined.
because work was started on it|
comer, is to be called the “sub-| SOMETHING FOR PERUSAL |
marine thermal reactor.” Ht 4s; Copies of the 136 page St
being built by the Westinghouse | Themas Times-Journal are be-—
Eleetrie Co. at the ARC’s reactor | ing reeeived in Prince Rupert.
testing station in Areo, Idaho. “| It gives a lot more of the imti-
Phe Navy already has laid the|mate history of Ontario then
keel of the USS Nautilus, the | the average school ever hope to
abmarine which will house an|equal It was, for example, at
atomic power plant of the St. Thomas, a train hit and
S‘T.R.” type. It has authorized | killed P. T. Barnum’'s monster
onstruction of another sub/ circus elephant, Jumbo This
vhich will be equipped with an| Was prize publicity for St
S.LR.” mode! Thomas. Phey talk about it yet

The facet that construction |
plans are already settled—even
before land-based models of the
power plants have been tested
-is a strong iméication that the
Navy and thé AEC figure both
types of power pliant will work
But neither agency has given a
tip-off on whether it considers
one type more promising than
the other

The two projected power
plants differ im-certain atomic

charaeteristics — gpecifically im
i Ss ew more years!
the type of neutrons or atomic give him just a f :

particles which will be employed There are those who feel —
to generate power should have nothing to de with

Neutrons given off by atomic government responsibility Mt
splitting are mostly “fast” neu- Churchill ights a fresh cigar,
trons travelling: many theu-| 24 remarks that “a prisoner
sands of ‘a ininute. They |! War is someone who has tried
can be lowed down.” but the| Kill you, and having failed m
slowest” neutron still travels the attempt requests you not to
6060 miles a minute kill him

The proposed submarine in-
iermediate reaction will employ
neutrons of “intermediate speed

that is, intermediate between

This device is to be called the
ipmarine intermediate reactor

The Social Credit government
orders new doors for the British
Columbia cabinet room, so that
iit will be impossible for anyone
in the ecorrider to overhear a
possibly »nportant conversation.
The job is quite unnecessary In
modern journalism, responsible
correspondents are hever found
there!

SAME OLD SPORT
Churchill is not eighty, but

THHeS a

i

BUSY SUMMER
MONTREAL, €P)-—-While Me-
Gill University professors and

a neutrons of an atomic students are away for the sum
jomb and the “slow NEUTONS | ner, registrar T. #1. Matthew
job coping with
jhundreds of applications from
The rival submarine thermal! progpective students in 50 coun-
tries, He hopes to get his vaca-
Phe slower. neutrons .trave),| tom in November on Sanuary.

the better are the chances of| * “?*gAMOUS ROOM = — ">

sustaining’ a “controlled” reac-~- The court room of the Vint-
tion, but the “slow neutron”

power plant has to be much pie | ners’ Hall in London was built
ger than one with in. 1446 and survived the great
fire of 1666.

vice

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Wake up, Prince Rupe
We Need -an Airfield.

Editor,

Can We secure a
Daily News:

now? In this Writer's gum
can be done but only '
of our representative j
realizing the utmost a ,
this air field ang the ts
dous importance to Prings

On the first page, lower right
hand corner of your paper Aug
1 you published’a smal) incon-
spicuous.picture of a new modern
plane. Underneath this picture pert and pressing :
you ran four lines of average size | My thoughts _ ™ :
newspaper type. It may be that’ are not new ar On this.
many people glanced over this pressed now {or
news item without more than ff they have PoE two
passing interest. To the writer ] would like to o taken j
this pieture should have appear- | Vanconver-Sandsnr i.
ed top centre of the front page air service whan
with screaming headlines ex-)Rupert should onal
claiming: “PRINCE RUPERT! matter. This js cana! %
MISSES AGAIN AS usUAL.” | We must wake up to reg)

Prince Rupert is a natural | Prine Rupert cay
cross roads for all modes of; ie © city 1 future yegp
Pacific travel. Without a land! Oneers knew that, We}
air field, Prince Rupert is again |'"€? of today must camy;

destined to lose its natural ad-| ig bagged ce
(of our children to di

reality.

and have 5

shows the new C.P.A. plane which |
will fly from Vaneouver to White- | i
horse. This plane will land at} a : ~
Sandspit. I have also been told! . 4
thal, as soon as possible, four-) D k 0 j
engine planes will be put on the, ar ut :

loeal run and these will land at} +s 4
Terrace. Prince Rupert slowly 'F B

but surely is becoming a branch | or ritis

line from Sandspit and Terrace

due to the lack of air field fa- !
cilities. Export Ma '

Many local citizens undoubted-
ly have had the advantage of
travelling to the present day Man and Japanese com
world business centres. The coupled with the dang
writer has not been off this con- increased wages in By
tinent to such cities as London, dustry may price export
Parts or Tokyo. On this side some the overseas markets, ay
of you have gone through air scored in a report recy
fields in San Franciseo, Dallas | leased by the treasury
or Miami. I have been fortunate; In 1948 exports from
in seeing Chicago, New York,| Germany and Japan
Washingtom, Detroit, Montreal 13 per cent of Britain

L. M. FRLS

LONDON “—Growth

|and Toronto air fields, I am not/} volume, but by 195! 4
| trying to compare cities such as | risen to 67 per cent. Int

these with Prince Rupert. How- period the share of th
ever, it is only by seeing the | exports enjoyed by thes
huge air fields and tremendous mer enemy countries ig
traffic in cities of this size that from two per cent &
one really appreciates the im- cent, while Britair
portanee of the modern airplane from 12 per cent |
in our present day living cent,

If you will refer to the front “To keep our snate
page of the Daily News of August jing further,’ save the
7, a feature artiele reads: “Union “we must keep our pi
§.S. Cannot Increase. Curtatling petitive. The da ager
Considered.” People would have js that wage increas
to be blind if they did not real-/ force up our prices thi
ize that we are fast approaching | wiji be competitive no
the day that eities will depend This possibility
on both air traffie ‘and air ther drastic euts in im
freight. Both, steamships and! report adds, is even a]
trains must realize that this is
inevitable. Prinee Rupert «will.

‘Continued 6n page

eventually have its land air fleld.’

It is bound to come but in this
writer’s opinion, by the time it
comes We will have fost any
chance of securing the f¥ehts |
that are now being planned and
which are so important to a/
;eommunity such as ours.

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