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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 Dally Newspaper Publishers Association.
Published by The Prince Rupert Daily News Limited

, JOHN F. MAGOR

President

J. R. AYRES
Editor

Authorized as second class

 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22,

T has been estimated that between 10

and 15 per cent of American children
are growing up sinistrodextrous. That
isn’t half as bad as it sounds. As all
who paid attention to their Latin books
would know, it simply means that they
are left- handed.

Some parents, when they see the
child exhibiting a tendency to use the
left hand in operations that normally
are done with the right—like writing
or throwing a ball or using table knives
—think it their duty to break up the
habit at all costs. Yet there are activ-
ities in this right-handed world in
which left-handedness is an advantage.
In baseball, for instance, where bat-
ting left-handed helps by putting the-
hitter nearer first base, and where
there aiways is a greater demand for
left-handed pitchers, “southpaws”,
than for the others.

_In many things, tools have been
developed to give the “lefty” an equal

G. P. WOODSIDE
General Manager

mall by the Post Office Department, Ottawa
1958

: Left-handers. aren't handicapped

break, There are left-handed golf
clubs. Violins, cornets and some wood
winds have been made for left-hand-
ers by the musical instrument manu-
fucturers,

The schools no longer have one-
armed seats that are convenient only
for right-handers. Some scissors and
knives are specially designed for left-
handers.

Only in driving an automobile does
the left-hander have to do his job right
handed to get along—unless he hap-
pens to be driving a car made for one
of the few remaining countries where
traffic bears left. And he has a little
difficulty with any pencil sharpener or
telephone.

Fortunately, as long as one has
both. hands. it always is possible to ad-
just one’s way of doing almost any-
thing. A child who wants to be left-
handed isn’t doomed to failure even if
allowed to follow his natural bent.

—Spokane Spokesman.

First thing first in education

HERE i is a school of thought in Can-

ada and the United States today

which: finds the solution to most of our
education problems in “more money.”

No one can honestly deny that more
oney is required to solve some of the
problems. such as the provision of ad-
ditional facilities and teachers to meet
the doubling of student population
during the next ten years. New
schools, however, do not necessarily

‘mean fetter learning; nor new teach-
s, better teaching.

. Ee we are to have not merely learn-’

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is wanted and needed, then we must

provide better teachers. |

After the teacher, the important in-
strument, if such it may be called, is
the curriculum.

Last come the physical facilities.
Certainly these are, in most of Canada,
better than ever before; and that is a
very good thing. Let us, however, put
first things first.. The paradox,
there is any, is that, while the physical
facilities have been so improved, the

standards of entrance to teaching,

though initially raised, have. lately
been allowed to fall, and the standards
demanded by the curriculum also have
been let down.

—Edmonton Journal.

Controlled marketing

ONE of the reasons for having con-
trolled marketing, as we have it
here in B.C. for fruits and vegetables,

-is so that there will be no cutthroat

competition between shippers to the
detriment of producers,

Practically, it is not working out to
the benefit of producers and consum-
ers are being gouged. For instance, 4
faney Jonathan apples, size 150’s, re-
tailed in Campbell River at 21¢, 544¢
each. For the whole box of 150 apples

on this basis the price would be $7.8714,

The lesson to be learned in this is,
of course, that the cost of services has
skyrocketed. Between the producer
and the consumer, are the shipper, the

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sales agency, the broker, the whole- .

saler and finally the retailer who all
take a whack at that $7 as well as the
transportation companies, |
If it is service we want, service we
get, at a price.
—Campbell River Courier.

 

INTERPRETING THE NEWS
Dieppe British waste

American military historian Samuel Elfot
Morison says the Dieppe raid was a British
waste of Canadian manpower.

In his book “Stratesy and Compromise,”
published this year, Prof, Morison writes:

“Pyom the thne America entered the war,
the joint chiefs of staff worked for 16 months
hefore they could obtain the consent of thelr
British opposite numbers to set up the cross-
channel assault that finally took place, very
siiccessfully, In 1044, and whose direct conse-
quence was the defeat of Garmany,

‘In order to persunde the British chiefs
of staff to agree to this, the United States
had to take part more or less unwillingly in
a sKories of Mediterranean campaigns and to
stand idly by while the British wasted thelr
manpower nnd Canada's on hit-and-run raids
such na those at St. Nazalre and Dieppe.” |

Asked by The Canndinn Press. to olabornte
on this view, Prof, Morison anys In n-lettor:

“My statement about Dieppe is based on tho
Taet that the rafd had no real purpose,

“The reason usually given for the rald war
that it was to unin experience for the future
large-scale operations the Normandy dfvaaion,

“Aly Winston Churehll) In The Hinge of
ato’ Indieates his personal Interoat In’ tha
rid. Wo atates, but J find ttle support for
his view, that no responatble genoral would
undertake the main Invaston without the ex-
porlence of such a largeesenlo operation...

“YT feo) that Dieppa was put on lnrealy
beenuae of stecossns In the enrller, aninllar
comminndo raids and posalbly na a toat related
to American prodding for a second front.

"ALIN, JL waa morely nv hitwand-run yatd
with very limited objectives which, In my

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By DAVE McINTOSH
Canadian Press Stafi Writer

opinion, did not justify the effort put into it.

"It also tipped off the Germans to the
wenkneases in thelr own defences and waa in
part rezponsible for the construction of thetr
Atlantic wall,

"TY do not quostion that the experience of
Diepne had a very sobering effect on planniny
for the second front and probably had an
influence on delaying the Invasion of Franco
to 1044,

“With due deference to Canadian feeling
I do feel, howovar, that the iden that Normandy
could not have been planned and executed
without the experlence of Dieppe ts an ex-
agneration ,.."

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Prof, Morlson's views diffor sharply from
those of Canndinn authorities on the value
of the Aug. 10, 1042, rald in which = the
Canadian force of roughly 5,000 mon in a nino-
hour ongagemont suffored 3,307 enaunltios, ine
cluding 907 dead and 1,046 prisoners,

Col, C’ P, Stacey, official army historian,
says In his book Bix Yenra of War that, tactic
ally, Dieppe was an almost complote failure
but that after D-Day the rnid appenred “In
Nh New perspective,"

Wo quotes Gen, H, D. G. Crorar commander’
of Fivat Canadian Army, os anylug in 1044:

I hollove that when thia war Js oxaniined
I propor porapactive, it will be sean that the
sobering influence of that operation Dioppo
On oxlating Alliod Atratogicn! conceptions, with
the anforcod roniization by the Allied govern.
monte of the lengthy and tromendain prépar-
ations necessary hofore Invasion could. be nte
tomptod, was a Canadian contribution of the
prontest wanificance to final victory,"

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DIFFERENT VIEW of Gowntown Prince Rupert is shown above
in aerial photograph taken by J. R. Wrathall from’ Pacific
. Western Airlines plane. Picture points up parkland and unde-
veloped areas in city in foreground, right centre and in back-
ground. Old Canadian National Railway administration building
can be seen in foreground while business section stretches

from McBride Street, strating’ at Civie Centre,
to Seventh Street starting at Elizabeth Apartments bottom —

extreme left,

right. Post Office. is dead centr.e Highway 16 can be seen
in curve to left of Algoma Park. Prince Rupert Boulevard, when
it is built will cross to‘left “of from left to tight from houses

at top left of picture.

 

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Houses arise where the trees
and fields used to be. In. place
of cows there are housewives
trading gossip and evaluat-
ing one another’s washing.

Where farmiers used to cut

the hay, anxious-looking sub-
urban husbands pilot their
power mowers over lawns,
pausing at intervals to com-
pore their own yards with the
ones next door for neatness. '

And so the city grows and
the countryside is swallowed
up. Some people call it pro-
‘gress. I call it corruption. But
I happen. to be one
small-c conservatives.
logical. people who prefer
things to be left as they are.

In this world nothing ever
remains the same. “The only
thing constant is change,’ so
we small-c conservatives are
beaten before we start. At the
back of our minds we know
that we belong to a lost cause.

We are always mourning for
landmarks and the spacious
views of former days.

However, we know that the
old things were’ not destined
to live beyond a certain time.
The destiny of this section of
real estate was to become
what it is now, part of a city,
the home of livewire, hustling
organization men and organ-
Izatlon women who do not
waste time on regrets, but get
in there and sell.

The “old things” them-
selves had replaced the pri-
meval bush, and the new sub-
urbs will eventually be slums,
df mankind stil tolcrates
slums by the time this sub-
division comes of age.

But it hurts the vision, to
focus upon such a long view.
Some of us like to delucle our-
selves, with the comfortable
fancy that there are perman-
ent‘ things In the world, and
then cry atter them when
they break up. even though
we know from the start that
jt had to happen.

Of course there are some
places where buildings out-
lve human beings, but not in

this dynamie frontier environ- -

ment. The people who truly
enjoy the ever-changing face

of the country and the elty |

are those who have a radian)
temperamont, exactly the op-
poalte neurosis to the one that
affileta small-e conservatives.

The radicals actually draw
pleasure from seelng = things
torn down and changed. There
ln a restive, sadistic hunger In
ineny that feeds on destruc.
tion,

‘Worst of the few

From The North Bay Nugget

veryone knows, or should
realize, that thora fs a minor-
Ity teen-age graup—just as
thore ia a minority adult group
mo (1 soclety which males
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Holding our north:

From The Sault Dally Star

Whether the DEW Ling will
bo of any practical uso we do
“not know, but if it paves the
way to occupation of our
Northland, evon for puryporos of
doploymont fh war, we shall
Baln. something,

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Another. thing that makes a
difference is whether you own
some 'of the landscape or not.
No doubt: it eases the blow of
seeing . an orchard chopped
down and a dismal housing
estate built in its place, if you
have a few thousands of dol-
lars of heart balm put away

in the bank.

 

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cleaners

From Sherbrooke Record

-A chain store executive gave
spinach as an example of why
food prices have risen. It. used
to. be dirt cheap and . filled
with dirt. Now it is beautifully .
cleaned and packaged and ex-
pensive. Some customers
would. not mind going back to
the dirt age te save a few
pennies.

Uncle Sam’s awake
From The

St. Catharines: Standard

While the Russians continu-

ally boast of their progress in
the field of missiles, the Unit-

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work in the same field.
logical to assume that.the U'S,
momentum will increase over
the years.

It is -:

BELGIAN COAL

Belgium's annual ‘coal. pro-
duction is close _to 32, 000, 000
tons.

 

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War on mess
From The
Stratford Beacon-Herald

A Cape Breton cditor la-
ments that it is too easy to
start the day’s task with a
mind made misanthropic by
the idiotic behavior of the hu-
man race. After reading the

' morning’s news he feels that

the world {s a mess.

However, there is a brighter
side, thanks to our scientists,
who have just come up with
one of the greatest. mess-elim-
inating discoveries of all times,
The old-fashioned narrow-
necked catsup bottle is’ being
replaced by catsup in’ a: can,
under gas pressure, Touch the
“button and the catsup flows
where directed.

asters at the dining table, no
more ruined neckties, .. shirt
fronts anc tablecloths. An en-
thusiastie newsman, ° writing
about it, calls ita ‘selentific
break-through in -the.. food
business almost comparable. to
the discovery of the wheel, .
We would hardly go that far,
but, at least, it does rank with
_the recent advent of toothpaste
-in pressurized tubes which has
‘banished the problem caused
_ by: people who Insist on squeez-
“Ing: a toothpaste tube in the
middie. Now, ‘ifsome genius

— will, only perfect an. olive pot-

tle from which olives will pop
neatly, ’ one ata time, under
pressure, we will have gone a
long way towards making the
world a les’ messy placé than
it has been tor. a . long. while
back,

 

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‘NOTICE RE SHOPS’ CLOSING

 

Notice ‘is “hereby given that ‘a public hearing will
be held in the Council Chambers, City Hall, Fulton St.,
B.C. at 7:30 p.m. on Tuésday, October
28th, 1958 to hear representation, complaints and ob-
jections to the present’ Shop. Closing Regulations in
effect in. Prince. Rupert and.to consider any possibic
changes in these regulations. —

Alt persons “who deem themselves affected or who
are interested in the above matter are invited to attend
and anyone in, attendance will be afforded an opportunity

Prince Rupert,

to’ be heard.

-R. W. LONG,
_City Clerk-Comptroller.

 

 

 

 

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