le cas ee a 1 il , pt { ante ae veoh bo ee) ' o bo aa ur 7 the wet wos haty, tae! rH pen Mtb / ake Lypenns i ow nie fNube Wully iene saturday, September ts, 1Yoe a ‘ . A Independent dally newspaper devoted to tue upbuilding of Pr.nce Abvet and Norther)) and Central British Columbia. . + Member of Canadian Press — Audit Eureau of Cireulat! ans pee Candalih' Daily Newspaper Assoctation, Ti tts published by The Prince Rupert Daily News Limited. "Sl RS MAGOR, President "H G. PERRY, Vice-President “ine * Subseripttorr Rates: ly -carrlor—Per week, 26¢f per raonth, $1.00; per year, $10.00. sy nall-—Per month, .75¢;,,per year, $8.00. , ‘uflion ized as City to. Héar New Note 4 ITHIN a. few honi's “Number, please!” in 1° Prince Rupert will be no more. The work of ttwo years willbe officially over and a new age in “city communienysionsavill commence, iH en the ant uihaten ef the moment the past has no place p ut it may he remembered that the lial telephone g hicni was not won without a fight, 4Ag voters were called upon to make their choice between the old and the new in September of 1952, there were protests that the city could find better ‘yays to spend money. It was argued that we need- ao new city hall, fire hall and police-station, and ahat the waterworks could do with some attention, there was also bitterness over-the fact that the fold liquor store, now housing the new exchange, “vould he lost as a potential source of tax revenue. 4 The criticisms were mostly sincere and. to asome extent sound but better sense prevailed, | 4Those concerned solely with the financial side of ithe issue taok too lightly the fact that, as one of | the, city’s most profitable operations, the tele- plone system must-he kept in efficient working | omer, 'o allow it to deteriorate would ‘be an in- yjWati¢e to the public paying for it as well as a mis- stake in economy, Repairs and maintenance were gon thelr way to costing more than a complete new 4installation, . a “An equally important consideration was the wact thatunless a city has reliable communicéa- ations, the rest of its services may suffer, What #200d are new fire halls and police stations if they ‘cannot be reached promptly by phone? Tt is not fvecorded whether the qld system ever prevented danemergency call from going through in time but athe danger of this happening was always there. 4/¢ was therefore not good enough. ~ __ At one minute past midnight Prince Rupert §will be listening for the dial tone, It will be the ‘emtendy, humming note of a city woing ahead, ——s reeset Careless Parents PUNISHMENT too often is not severe enough for parents who leave childyen in automobiles while they are drinking in beverage rooms, Ina. case the other day for instance, a man, father of five and a woman, mother of two, left six children the eldest six, in a car beer, A fine of $10 and }, costs for the man does:not seem very severe. It seems a queer kind of father-"! Wish .to see. the parliamentary hood and motherhood to leave children all that time while they are drinking. —Niagara Falls Review, change has taken’ place here All Aboa rd By G. ib, MORTIMORE since I attended the first. simi. In bars and sincke-filled - rooms everywhera, local ath- Jetes are passing unkind re- marks about the Lake Ontario rh2umatism, one of the newspapers, ‘Nausea Beats Chadwick!” the local swimmers who didn't make ft, wit said. “I didn't even know “That Mrs, Leuszler—pha!" © Nausea was swimming. One of faid a thin man who would ' those late entries, I guess, have drowned in a bathtub if | Probably swam second to Mari- somchody turned the tap en, lyn “She calls herself a distance At this point a real-life swimmer, A-huff! Aaahooff! ', Swimmer broke Into the con- Sorry, Just a little cigarette - Versation, He had entered the cough, That's the funniest har by mistake, thinking it thing 1... a-hofft Aad-hutf! was the YMCA, huff Distance swimmer “T’'ve been hearing you guys . talk, hg" growled, “and you ve Wore! Divgia nerve. Wot one of you could across a puddle.” “What difference does that That's a joke.” wy “Yeah,” sald A fate peefly Who locked a cinch’ to win’A floating contest, but a poor pat fur any swim gver ten yards, | “And Tm sure disgusted with | + swim ae eee Rupert