1910 — P 4 . RINCE RUPERT DAILY NEWS tet An independent newspaper devoted to the upbullding of Prince Rupert and Northern and Central British Columbia. a ‘ A member of The Canadian Press—Audit Bureau of ; ! Circulation—Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association ! Published. by The Prince Rupert Daily News Limited ie JOHN F. MAGOR } bo. President J. R. AYRES G. P. WOODSIDE Editor General Manager Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1958 Shift system threat if new school rejected .T this moment elementary school y : children living a block from Con- rad Street school have to attend King Edward school. Students not far from King Edward must attend Roosevelt Park school. In other words the ‘school boundaries are all ‘mixed up. The reason for the mix-up is the shor- tage of classroom space in the Seal Cove and Conrad Street area. It was had enough this September. Next September it will be worse. . That is why District 52 Sehool Board is asking for $148,621 of a $164,- (00, bylaw for the construction of a new four-room school and auditorium ut Seal Cové. The remainder of the bylaw is for current capital costs in 1959. Under the new Public Schools Act all current capital expenditures that are shareable with the provincial government must be presented to the voters for approval. Current capital césts for existing schools include such items as work on the various school sites and equipment. “All this and the new school costs must be approved Thursday by the A . * tt UDED with the pyramids and Colossus of Rhodes as wonders of the. world should be the Prince Rupert firehall. The main wonder is that it is still standing after all these years. Persons who have visited this blot on: the, landscape that houses the city’s firefighting! equipment undoubtedly ‘place the fact that it is still more or less upright in the miracle category. ' Built in January, 1912, the firehall ___has defied-time-and the elements, but the firemen who spend long hours there on blustery, stormy nights will swear that one of these days soon, in the midst of a gale, the firehall will dissolve in a heap at the corner of Fraser Street and Fifth Street above which it is built. ~ VICTORIA REPORT “VICTORIA—Next Monday, December 15, the politial eyes of all British Columbia—indeed, of all Canada—will be focused on Rossland- ‘Trail, that vast and beautiful riding up in the Kootenay country. There, in a by-election, made necessary by the resignation from the Legislature of Robert Sommers, Mr. Bennett's government will face its most severe test at the polls, much more severe than in the general elections of 1953 and 1956. A defeat for Social Credit in Rossland-Trail will certainly be interpreted—and rightly so-- as a defeat for the government, because this by-election is much more than a local test, with only local issues at stake. Because of the Sommers case and the Briggs case the whole pavernment record has become the issue; the very life of the government, one might sny, ts at stake, The Premier knows {t, though he won't admit it, and that’s why he and most of his cabinet ministers are taking part in this by- elaclion--why CCP lender Robert Strachan, MLA, and Liberal leader Arthur Laing and Conservative loader “Deane Finlayson (note the Report from United Nations taxpayers or the elementary school situation in. this city will become a shambles. Parents have been crying out for better education for «their children but there will be no improve- ment if theiy children have to go on a shift system of attending school. That is what faces the school board if more elassroom space is not provided. Furthermore Prince Rupert has enough trouble obtaining teachers to handle the present number of pupils in the current conditions. Where will the teachers come from next Septem- ber if the students have to be placed on a shift system? There will be too many pupils for the classrooms or there will not be enough teachers for the stag- gered shifts of pupils. The new school Will not-only alleviate the classroom shortage in the east end of the city but will give schools in.that section of town a school auditorium and lunch- room for the first time. At present- the basement of Conrad Street school serves the purpose there, a most un- satisfactory situation. Let's beat old firehall to the draw Hence the City Council’s request of the taxpayers for $130,000 to build a new home for the city’s equipment. A new firehall would give the regular and auxiliary firemen new sleeping and recreation facilities, pro- vide extra room for training and also include living accommodation for Fire Chief Earl Becker. By having the fire chief living on the premises, the - salary of an extra fireman is thereby saved. Voting in favor of a new firehall is not only a humanitarian action to pre- vent someone from being injured in the old building but would avoid the ‘humiliation the citizens would feel if the firehall fell down. Let’s build a new one before that happens. By James K. Nesbitt absence of the initials, MLA after these two names) are throwing their all into the fray, convinced that it’s now or never for them. The three opposition parties would rather have any one of them take the seat, than have Mr, Bennett's government retain it. Even Liberals and Conservatives, the avowed pol- itical enemies of CCF ‘soclalism would prefer to have Rossland-Trail go CCF than have it stay in the SC camp—a strange set of cirum- stances, but then, as the old saying ts, politics makes strange bedfellows. Actually, even without the Sommers case and the Briggs case, it would be In the political cards for the government—any government- - to suffer a reverse at the polls at this time, Outside Mr. Gunderson's defeat, Mr. Bennett has had it all his own way since he was first elected to the Premiership jn 1952, He has marched on and on, victory after victory. This cannot go on indefinitely; no government can be so good that It dosen't get a slap in the face now and then, Yes, an exciting by-election, and the result In Rossland-Trail next Monday will be Jong remembered by B.C.'s politicians. This Wk one of 0 series of articles written by Steen menor of pare homens Prank Moward who was recently delegated touttend the United Nations ak a partiomentiry abserver, We will report lis tnipressiend of wetivitles at the UN fram New Vaart, There are about a milton visitors a yaar ta-the Onited Nations, Every few minutes thare is a.proup of valtors that is taken on tora of the: United Nations building, These visitors, of course, do not get to see every part af the three hufe bullding, but only that part that dx nvniinble to the general public. Tha conferenca ined. committee rooms fre reserved for the exclpsive use of the delegates themselves, Towever, Visitors do pot an Impressive tour ofthe buildings. They are given a very complete neeount of the history, present activities and future hopes of the United Nations, ‘The guides who conduct these tours are very nmable and friendly, All to whom T have hnokon éxbibit a deop aincerity in thaty job, They do not act lke the guidos who eonduct xoominy guided tours and who éxplain things » naif thoy were giving ao recitation learned for ho achoo) concert. The voloos and friendly amilos of the guides leave the viaitor' with the yr.’ pression that thore ja something exéoptionnl nbowt. the United Nationa, Q Ym mre that viaitord who come to the Wnited Nations Jeave with the feeling that the United Nutdons ja the moat Important world Ln pers, “tee force for peace and that it must be maintained and expanded, This ts public relations and diplomacy at its best. The more that the general publle realizes the necdssity of using the machinary and fneliittes of the United Natlona to the fulléat, the better chance there will he for keeping peace and harmony throughout the world, Many public institutions do not work to the limdts of thelr capacity bheenuse of Jack of public information about them. The United Nations could onally fall prey to complacencay and apathy Jf adequate information 18 not, klven about St, Many other organizations, both private and public, nso become burenuerntic and dindain- ful of the public's inteleut hacause of Inck of Interast by thelr membarship. The milion visitora m year whoa tome to the United Nationa gat adequate Information, wiven Alneoroly, of the Untied Natdona, Thane employees of the United Nations, who conduct those viattors though the U.N, perform excep. Wonnlly fine service: {to Rocloty, by naaasintine jn the preservation of the hnumanitios, valuable By FRANK HOWARD Pia S snonernch nee arremetiarerr atc: a. enjoyed ‘Man bites dog Canadian newspapers exer- cise their right to . criticize most anything and anybody— and we think they When newspapers in turn are criticized they should take care- to receive the charge in good grace and grant at least the possibility that the critics may be right. 2 In such a mood do we look upon the observation last week of Air Vice Marshal John L. Plant, president of Avro Air- craft. According to The Cana- dian Press “he criticized re- porters; as apart from editor- ial writers, for placing inter- pretation on stories and ‘pass- ing them’ as facts.” _Air Vice Marshal Plant was referring particularly to the LETTERBOX — WATER SITUATION The Editor, The Daily News, At last night’s meeting, Al- derman-elect Hills stated that he would vote. against the Sewer Bylaw because the Water Bylaw and he felt that the water problem was more acute and more impor- tant than the sewer problem. I _, ‘realise that many voters have” the same misgiving, and in or- der that everyone may know the true state of affairs, 'L think it is only right that the situation regarding water should be explained before th vote on Thursday. L The City Council have been ee ee eecually concerned about. our water supply, and instituted a survey by the Associated En- gineers. Their : report was available early this year, and it was the intention of the Council to introduce both by- laws at the same time. Unfor- tunately, the change in the power rates recently granted by the PUC altered our fig- ures and the delay required to re-assess the situation was just enough to prevent the by- Jaw being ready for the De- cember plebiscite. It should be ready for presentation carly in the New: Year. Four alternatives have been presented, but the Council are pretty well of one mind to ac- cept the one known as 2b. This is the cheapest and involves pumping the water from Sha-. watlans and serapping the pipe line to Woodworth Lake. I do not propose to discuss the reasons for this but only to intimate what It will cost the tax payers, The scheme involves two phrases: 1.A pumping station at Shawatlans and a second res- arvolr on Montreal Heights. 2. A new large main to the water front area to improve the distribution system, The first. of these js assen- tial as our water source is jn jeopardy. The second js im- portant but not essential at the moment. The cost of the first is $460,000; the coat of he second $226,000. Thus the Loth) cost would be $086,000. In ine with Provincial Gov- ernment rulings this cost wll have to be met by a utility’ charge. There would te no Increase in taxes, If we do the whole thing at onee It will re- sult in a 40 per cent Increnso in water rates, or 90 cente a month more for the house- holder wha is now paying $2.28. Tf we only install the pump- Ing ostation and — roservoir which will make our supply gate, if will mean a 20 per cent Incronse or 46 conts a month, In considering the Sewer Bylaw, therefore, the tax pry. eran figure that early noxt year ho will be asked to anthe Orso an Inerease tn hla water rates of this amount. J trust that thig explanation will ree Neve the minds of many who ve coneerned wlth the thought of astrentondous ax- pense for water dn the nena hature, Yours sincerely, ALD, nN. a. LARCH, Mnoanee Chatemin, ~ Be ee oes should. - it was. being given preference ‘over.”: “as ~ posedly writing a i Ce Cc ee sad a From The Ottawa Journal! discussion about the CF-105 HUNDREDS OF SKATERS dot the ice at Oliver Lake, where last. weekend city residents © the brilliant sunshine and bitterly co d weather. 4 eee “Photo by Eric S. Martin. and what the Primé Minister's * statement meant or did not mean. We need not get into a debate about that here, for we have no reason to believe he was referring to reporters of this newspaper. But there Is some weight in his criticism of today's journalism if it be © made as a general statement and not related specifically to the CF-165. In the last decade or so there has been in Canada and else- Where an increase in the cus- tom, of what might loosely be - “personal journalism.” - called First, more articles are signed by the reporters’ names, and the distinctions between news and opinion have on occasion been somewhat obscured. Sec- ond, there is the increasing use and popularity of ‘‘column- _ ists,” men or women who put their name to a regular col- umn of comment or interpret- ation and who are given some latitude by their editors on the understanding that readers will not assume their com- ments to be necessarily those of the newspaper. If.a newspaper is not care- fully edited there is a ten-~- dency from these two circum- ‘ stances that reporters sup- “straight” ' news story intentionally or un- #y intentionally lapse into the ‘“£role of a reporter writing a signed “interpretive” piece, or even into the role of a colum- nist with some licence to free wheel. The result of any TT wee ' vigilance over these matrery™ is that a newspaper reader— whether he be an Air Vice Marshal or a _ candlestick- maker-—is left with an under- standable confusion not only as to what is fact and what is opinion, but if it is opinion whose opinion is it? Let! us say at once that THE JOURNAL does not inveigh ‘against “columnists” as such; indeed we have several in our own paper, ranging all the way from Walter Lippman on the world to John Bird on birds. We know that the public likes signed .columns if they are bright and informative and give an interesting opin- fon. Nor are we much against the more Nberal use of “by- , Wnes"—in an age of person- ’ alities who are we to hide our lights under a bushel; look to the radjo, for cxample, where the chap who tells you the time tells you then his name and the name of the fellow ‘who has wound the clock! But Air Viee Marshal Plant is right In suggesting that there ferrite ttre cate at ene ie V “sO ,® Competition From the Ottawa Journal Canada fs not engaged Inia competition of giving but the West has to be aware of the Increasing economic strength of Russin which permits her 40 export technien) asalstanee and money in addition to the political theories sa long her chief offerings. Paere—mm-ae0H setters hese nim mre BEELER tape pero ONAN, Conditional relief From the Calgary Wernld It is an common aight, Indecd, to soa tranait buses during the rush hours so erammod with passengora that the ontfooker can only feel a sende of roller that he or she is not in the vehiclo—unless he ls walting ‘40 board that particular bus, - ee enstahineesutatanaenatinanentatampaestatiated cotuaeneteeatoean te Dubious honor From the Peterborough Examiner ’ Canadians have the diublous honor of ving in one af the boest-fod and worat-rend coune tries among the elvillzed of “thia globe. Tf Agures about the randing of books collectad dn , THurape, North Amarien and the Yritihh Commonwealth nro to be trusted, we rend fewer books per caplin than “any other elvillvad Iand, witty the exception of the UB.A, ‘ , or journalism gets reprimand has been a lessening of the clarity that should proclaim _ whether a newspaper is stating fact or fancy. The newspaper profession. should not follow the vagaries of radio and tel- evision in .this matter. It should be our duty to make absolutely clear the three main types of message that come . into our newspaper: a straight news report (signed or other- wise), a signed personal opin- ion, and the unsigned editorial . opinion that is the opinion of the editors or, if you like, the newspaper. ‘ The Journai, for its own part, hopes to heed this deserved warning. ~ Te UR ee NA EM NT a Pt gi net LS Tag MRM MG hat hag AL RS being : pee aeieey Bethy hea gihy a This Is one of ‘a: series of ques- tions on city affalrs, problems and projects to whieh Mayors i. J. Les ter has’ offered (Oo provide answers. Questions should be sent. to “Clvle Questions and Answers,” City. Pall, Prince Rupert, together with name - and address, The answers do not necessarily reflect. the: opinion | of .. Q.. For some time I have. - noticed that Second ’ Avenue | ‘West’ from . McéBride. to : the’ junction of First, Second and... Third “Avenues. West. is. not ° during ley weather find parts of Second sanded Avenue are hazardous, partic- ularly on the section from Me- Bride to Third Street West to ’ Ninth Street. Is this the city’s” responsibility or provincial de-~ partment of highways? A.. This is the city’s res- . Public, ponsibility. and our : Works Department has in- structions in icy weather to sand the steep hills and corners | in the ity first, then the main traffic arterles and if the slip- peéry conditions. continue to endeavor to sand all. streets: in the city first, then the main is pada yt egy aA nag aA leage nape NE PAPE thy ea 5 1 \ vet Obviously it’ is . impossible to sand all city streets immed- lately and we expect that the - motorists will talse the usual precautions such \ as -No doubt at all. ‘From the ’ yo tae hs oe “ ak ° ee Civic questions and answers snow * chains or snow tires in the.,: intervening time that it takes ©: the city crews to get all the ” . Streets sanded, : : ‘Charlottetown Patriog ¢ eds ot i Minister’ of Fisheries. J. An=-°. gus MacLean has served notice *“! that any attempt next year to -”. indulge in. iNégal lobster fish=.. ing will be. met with the stern- >” est of government mensures. There can be.no doubt what-.’ . ever that the minister meang . ° juSt what he says; equally; there is little doubt that some fishermen warning... mene” . © BIG INDUSTRY © South Africa's eight motor” - will ignore the i vehicle assembly~. plants: em- * _Ploy, more than 9,000.workers. > : 6 This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia ‘ ’ ul an ae edie et oe Ot pet hee EH He we tee . 4 on his bunds, Spectator, it wer purchased by hin fathor, He retired from nett vin 1920 to take over management of Southam Linitud, at that time the holding Charcoal Sketch by Pybert C. Reet Wilson Mills Southam Toblisher of The Ottawa Citizen, [897-1420 . . . a Oo tte Vt. ig said of many notable newspaper persongres that they had printer's ink in their vein’ This may or may not have been so in the case of Wikton Mills Southam, but probably more to the point is the fact that be undoubtedly got it ‘ Closely anmociated with the printings and publishing: business for nearly GO veors, Mr. Southam made his Great contiet with it when he wow only 16 years old, . Tle went to work in the ald Mail doh Printing: Company which waa founded hy his father and which eventuuly became Southam Pros, Poranto, “This carly contact with Che netual production of printing, was never forgotten hy W. M. Southam. Ele never Joak interest. in the tachniques of printing or in the personalities ond welfare of the men who were entranted with the mechanical phases of producing bis newsapapor, . Wilson Mills Southam: wan horn Ortohor 2, 1868, at London, Ontario, eldest fon of the date Willinna and Wilnon Milla Southam, tl ! to Hamilton in 1877 when William Southam and hin partner bought The Hamilton Bduecated in publie uchoola and Hamillen Colleginte, he joined his fuller in the management of The Spectator on the doth of the partner, William Carey, In 1897 he heeame managing director snd publisher of Tt company for all the Southam intorent He rotired from active business in (026 and died on Aupuat 24, 1047, At tho helm ada nowapapor publisher, Wilkon Southienia quoating mind would Yond him to explore new patha. Indoetrinatad by , Governor General, he collaborated in founding the Proportional Repronontation Soclaty of Canada, amd in entiatingg Mackonzie i ing’s manibership. . At the ond of World War 1, whan the Croat, War Votorina! Anoclation lacked funds to rent adoqunte affice spice, Phe Citizen ront-froe, prnetically one entire floor of the Citizen Buallding. boginning of the G.W.V.A, emerged the Cinndian Loglon, . After retiremont from aetive nervien in Che daily newinpaper field, Mer, Southirin continued to follow ermacding path Dari che your of ch dipouned the views of Maynard Keynes in faveut of a me patie » to countered dotlation, ‘tiled to wip themppert af cabinet colleagues ar oconanide i recurrence of inflation, Mr, Southam win one af the feat to soni the value of chuudfled advartiaing to The readership of hin newspaper, an dlatinet, fram revanue, , “enrafully, Che roault. wae that elated advertising axcetlanes beaune a traditian with Te Citlzon, In TH00, lute Henry Cargill, dayghtora, THarmgemont rolationnbipy, when this war connidered a pluything far vislonarles, . Tr Southam anarriod Ponvtotta A, Cargill, third daughter of the MI), of Cargill, Ontarioe. hoy fe , UO ‘ Ve In hin lihoral thinking, Wilton Bouthany wan far alioad of hia time, Vrom hla martina, newapipor chive he had the keene avmpathy with the lehor movement and privately published many pumphtota and brochured an enlightened labor He write nn ndvecata of a roviied Ho moved with hia family ww Ottawa Citizen when ve direction of The Citizen in ' Lord Grey, Hpublishor made offican availible ronie doproaion, be ro Hhoral monotury rvaued wilh dim bait Vritne Minivter Honnetd i Ht ho fanraut rysel fyer Fontan ib id) four nen and two One of wenrlow fanturiig Conilan Cdltore and Mablldhinee Trepored Ny Canadian Dally Nawapapor Thiblinhara Ammorlation n liboral-thinking rons this pionaor orld Cadondar » gt