vy . Lan we t ‘ 1710 — PRINCE RUPERT DAILY NEWS — 1958 An independent newspaper devoted to the upbullding Jf Prince Rupert and Northern and Central British Columbla, A member of The Canadian Press — Andit Bureau of Circulation — Canadian Daily Published by The Prince Newspaper Publishers Association Rupert Daily News Limited JOHN F, MAGOR J. R. AYRES Editor President G. P. WOODSIDE General Manager Authorized as second class mall by the Post Office Department; Ottawa FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1958 Children should be watched when swimming T has been reported to us, by a man who took part in the rescue, that last Sunday afternoon a group of:men had to form a human chain to save a swimmer in trouble at the new Kloiyah Bay park. With the tide coming in quickly an adult New Canadian waded in to swim without taking a good look at the terrain over which the water had advanced. He stepped into a hole. The next minute he was shouting for help and a group of men managed to form a chain and drag him to safety. This can happen again at a_ place that has no proper level beaches, It can happen at good beaches and often does at places like English Bay and Spanish Banks mh Vancouver. It ean happen anywhere. Therefore, whether at Kloiyah Bay, Lakelse, Lake Kath- lyn or anywhere people swim, care should be taken at all times to swim where it is safe, Parents should be particularly careful with their own children. At Kloiyah Bay where youngsters go swimming at various Dancing school NCE again the results of another year of hard work are being dem- onstrated as Buddy Taft’s Civie Cen- tré. School of Dancing stages its an- view “Sweethearts on Parade.” the tiny mités making their first ic: appearance to those who have ed at their dancing since the ‘school opened five years ago, the danc- ers gave their “all” yesterday after- hoon and will do so. again tonight and tomorrow night. The success of the show and it alwaysisa success, despite the length of the review and the wear and tear on mothers ‘and children alike, goes in the main to Mr. Taft for his patience, endurance and ability to Store HERE is only one way the store hours controversy ever will be set- tled and that is for as many merchants as possible to get together in a spirit of;compromise and to agree first of all whether they are going to discuss the “problem from the point of view of business principles or their own per- sonal desires about having a particular day off. Compromise is the essential ingredient, because there is no one de- cision that can meet every wish of vantage points parents should not take their eyes off their offspring While they are in the water. It is not the duty of other parents to watch your child, , Nor, at this stage of development, is it the duty of the Columbia Cellulose Company to provide lifeguards. The company has developed this new park for the public, has provided a great deal of equipment and has further plans to improve it. Landseaping the coastline is not scheduled this year. Therefore for safety's sake, for the sake of others who could lose their lives through the negligence of one or two, keep a close eye on your children when they are swimming and wherever they swim. It only takes a second for a child to disappear beneath the surface. In’ crowded, noisy places their absence might not be noticed. There is noth- ing more tragic than seeing a child’s lifeless body being carried ashore. Don’t let it be your child. displays talent create routines for more than’ 200 youngsters. Sharing the honors are the mothers who have slaved over cos. tumes, the pianists who during lessons and rehearsals have played the same tunes over and over again until they could play them in their sleep, the electricians who set up the varicolored lights, the hardworking Civic Centre staff who set up the arena stage and the other essential props and last but not least the scores upon scores of dancers who created a circle of magic under the spotlights. For those who enjoy seeing colorful costumes, cute routines and budding stars, “Sweet- hearts” plays two more nights, closing every person or business involved in the picture, Council as its end is in the unenvi- able position of trying to make the de- cision that in the long run can only come satisfactorily from the business district itself. It would seem logical then for council, as we have said be- fore, not to legislate, other than to make permissible the maximum hours allowable under the Municipal Act at least for a trial period this summer. —Courtenay Argus, | (INTERPRETING THE NEWS “Trade main topic for Washington talks By ED SIMON Canadian Press Staff Writer The president of the United States and the prime minister of Britafn meet in Washington Friday at a time when the decisive events affecting the western alllance leave them In m4 the unprecedented role of bystanders. ‘ _ Its political fate hangs on France and Gen- . eral de Gaulle. Its economie future fs heavily colored by the Amerlean recession. And, for the moment, there apperrs to be virtually . nothing that President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan can do about elther, bho De Gaulle 1s busy trying to solve his own «problems in Algeria, bidding for the support of * the army colonels and right-wing settlers who brought him to power for policies which ‘may _ not be to their Niing., He must assure himaelf we of thelr loyalty before he can begin to denl With International relationships. : * K ik see SE ae we to The U8. slump, unpredictable In its duyae do ton, must run Jtg course, affecting the econ- omies of all countries in the American trading orbit. If it had been in Iisonhower's power to end It, it would have died long ago. ‘Yot Macmillan and Blsenhower are not likely to spend all thelr time together playing golf and apeculating about dopreasions and French prime ministers, Their baagle problams may have heon deferred hy the present uncertainty but they havo not disappeared. Tholr diplomats continued to hammer out the manifold details to be lonred away before i summit conference with Russin's Khrushchev hecomos possible, De Gaulle, {f ho survives, wil) \ have to be consulted before declalya steps can ' ho talon. But the prepnrratory work -can con- Urine, a ' * ” * The need to clarify the position of both | He eye Ty ed whan 4 aay 8 . po ay Meg (ee Ae mE Mee OOH, Cr a 4 po et Nea ats o> aAae ere agane Britain and the U.S. in relationship to the European common market remains urgent, even though France's political turmoll hag temporarily halted the market's development, Ay the president and prime minister confer, talks are going on in London among Com- monwealth economic experts, laying, the groundwork for the conference of Common- wealth finance ministers in Montrea) in B8ep- tember, Macmillan hopes the end result will be Commonwealth consent to Britain's participa- tion In a Muropean free trade aren, working In ' harmony with the alx common market powers, In principle, both the freg trade area and the common market already have Elsonhower's bleasing and, with reservations, that of most ‘Commonwealth countries. But negotlationa have been protracted and many problems re« main unsolved, ” , b CI ie A more recent addition to the Elsenhowor- Macmillan agenda iy the renowed Pressure by Khrushehev for the lifting of barriors to Rast- Weat trade. Britain has jong urged rolaxation of the restrictions Imposed, as the Initiative of the U.S., on the export to Iron Curtain countries Of goods considered of nosalble atrateglc value to the Russinns jn the event of a new war, Ptepeeneetiy: omnads e Longest ribbon From The St, Thomar Timon-Journal Walf the world's Newspapors are printed on Canadinn papor, Every hour, night and day, the Canadian mills manufacturing newaprint: . Produce a ribbon of paper equivalent to a five~ foot atrip 6,000 miles long that would streteh from Toronto to Baghdad,” "ta at aly . 1 tre,! . ‘ ‘ mat Pp bere e i mona Lata t cf hte to ae ee : : if eRe es ‘ ee a eee 4 All aboard By G. FE. MORTIMMORE SKIDEGATE MISSION— An 11-inch black slate totem pole will be the centennial gift from this Haida Indian com- munity to Queen Elizabeth, » Louls Collison, 75, carved jt with home-made tools in about a month of part-time work. The pole contains fra- ditional figures of Haida leg- end, surmounted by the image of @ supernatural frog. Mr. Collison is one of,a handful of men who still carve from native slate (more cor- rectly called argillite), a craft that has been peculiar to the Queen Charlotte Islands for a century and a half. The Haidas began carving elaborate tobacco-pipes from Slate not long after the first trading ships arrived late In the 18th century, They switched from tobacco pipes to miniature totem poles containing the same figures that were represented in the house poles and ritual poles of carved cedar which used to stand in thelr villages. . - Now there are two Haida villages instead of 20. Some poles still stand at the desert-. ed villages, but most succumb- ed to rot, - were shipped to museums or chopped down and burned by missionaries, and their converts, in an excess of | Christian zeal. Only “one full-sized wooden pole stands at Skidegate and one at Massett. But ‘a few craftsmen _ sti!] carve the jewel-like ‘minia- tures, one of which will ‘be a gift to the Queen. Quarrying the argillite is a young man’s job. From Skide- gate to the place called Slate- chuck it is a gruelling dawn- to-dark journey in boats, on foot up the mountains through the bush and return with loads of up to 100 pounds each Iab- oriously prised out with tools made on the spot. Only the boulders of slaze that have crumbled from a Slate cliff and buried them- Selves in the earth are of use. Exposed to the air, the slate is brittle and nearly impossible to work. The buried slate is soft. ot The danger to the Queen Charlotte slate-carving craft. experts say, is not so much the scarcity of carvers as the diffi- culty of getting suitable slate.” The slate is naturally a dull gireyish-black. Carvers ‘polish it glossy jet black with secret Preparations of their own, which are rumored to contain ingredients that vary from fish grease to shoe polish. Carvers charge prices rang~ ing from $3 to $10 an inch, de- ‘ pending on the girth of the totem pole and the reputation of the carver. Some also make | such items as book-ends and pendants from the same slate. “I’m $1,000 behind in my orders,” said 69-year-old Tim Pearson, one of Skidegate's most distinguished carvers, who works a six-to-eight- hour-day almost every day at his craft. Some younger men are carry- ing on the craft. Mr. Pearson taught his skill to his 14-year- old nephew, Garry Ross, who has carved a number of poles. Another Skidegate carver is Norman Pryce, 30. Up at Massett, Capt. Andrew Brown, a Haida ex-mariner who — served in sealing-ships, carries on carving at the age of about 90. He does not know his precise age. Robert Davidson, a 74-year- old. Massett gentleman with the robust physique for which the Maidas were noted in old times, has taken up the carv- ing art. But his orlglnal trade was boat-bullding. Like many of his people, he has a flair for that. He is one of the last men alive who could instruct a new #eneration in the art of mak- Ing the glant Haida cnnoes from a single eedar trunk. In the middle 1930s he helped his Jate brother with the last one ever made In the Queen Char- lottes, a 60-footer that was Shipped to the United States, As far as I can Jearn, there ts not one of the giant canoes Jeft In all the talanda, And In a generation there will not be a man left who knows how to make them. ' I flew down from Masaett to Queen Charlotte City In a BC. Alr Lines = float plane, over muskog, black penty Jakes, forests and tree-coverod mountatns, Queen Charlotte Clty In a spindly, green, pleasant flsh- ing village and partying place for loggers who come in from the camps to have somo fun, Across the channel — to the south {8 Moresby Island, the second of the two.major jr. Janda, Bix miles along the south. ern Graham Island shore js Skidegnte Mission, the amallor of two modern Indian settle. ménta on the tslands, This wos also a settlement In olden times, one of tho original villages Occuplod by the Haldas, who were the aca~ Kings of this const until) the missionnarios and tradorg mada Chitatians of them, ‘ I pe eer ye vos @es eee rf vy gee }- World will not pay.” oa we oe ae "Public shar es the blame From The Pertland dregonian The sickening case of Lana Turner and Johnny Stompan- ato should cause a lot of us to search our consciences. For the blame for the horrible sit- uation of Cheryl Crane ag slayer of her mother’s gane- ster lover cannot be limited to Hollywood and the barnyard morals of a few individuals. Movie makers put tight sweaters on curvaceous tarts and call it glamor. But it is the public that encouragés subversion of decency by its support at the box office. We- read of the many marriages and divorces and the in-be- tween or concurrent love af- fairs of such women as Lana Turner, and snicker or make baw@y jokes about the escap- ades. Otherwise, we accord them the honors ordinarily enjoyed only by queens. The newspapers, one must add, are Time to think From the Winnipeg Tribune The political auctioneering that has been going on hag touched off a long series of piecemeal debates on each new step toward the insurance State, but there has been pre- cious Nttle discussion of the underlying principles. Export or die From The Ottaw Citizen We can’t eat all our wheat or use all of our metals. We ex- ‘port or we die and we will not export if we go on putting up our costs, compelling price tags on our goods which the a x WITH PURCHASE OF TWIST! RAZOR OPENS. BLADE HOOKS ON, DRONS 1H PLACE. TWiST! Light, nev dar Se hk te Vea hk HARE ame What a Gift for Any @ GOLD-PLATED FISHING LURE Action-tested for trolling or spinning in frosh and salt } @ USEFUL FLY-und-BAIT BOX Styrene uillity case has « thousand-and- GILLETTE SUPER-SP paryners in guilt. One might .ask why child welfare = authorities children such as Cheryl to live in surroundings where © men move in and out_in unwhole- some procession. One might wonder why the father per- mitted this unhappy child to remain there. But finally we must ask ourselves why we do not demand common decency, as well as beauty and a meas- ure of ability. from the people we shower with wealth = and flattery. Gillett Veer hn oy 860 any permit civilized amenities, now have sym tres and motiern libraries. 4 These are enterprises betokening a cultural. maturity, and are the ide tion Canada is growing up. 2 Ry btor a at PRINCE bane CAEN RUPERT. ISN'T the only plac enjoying hot weather. T down south and p advantage of the. heat wave. All told an esti couverite Canada is ~ ete] sin at B ad From the Cape Breton Post Since the end of World War II, Canadian growth tn the fine arts of various mediums has been at a swifter pace ‘than before, Cities across the country that in the past were without such. SO ge FATHER’S DAY SPECIAL! 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