. : REN NN A : woe PHM IDI PIM I MM IIOP See go rege yaw MY dash ee ed oe OS 8 LY fie et pe ee ESD . Re ee ab ce ee DD we WB ye eb NA UU ECB Te AUR Pay ‘ | | “1910 — PRINCE RUPERT DAILY NEWS - 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 Daily Newspaper Publishers Association Published by The Prince Rupert Daily News Limited © JOHN F. MAGOR . President 'J. R. AYRES Editor G. P. WOODSIDE General Manager Authorized as second class mall by the Post Office Department, Ottrwa TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1958 Answers to bylaw queries already published SOME ETIMES an editor despairs when he reads questions and sees statements made by people he consid- crs of above average intelligence, when all along the answers have been published in his paper many times be- ‘fore. It gives the impression that either the public doesn’t know how to read ox that he’s not publishing stories that are easy to read. Take the questions to be posed at tonight’s public meeting. All four of them have been answered either at meetings earlier in the year or at City Council which is given extensive cov- erage by this paper. No. 1—How much will the sewer hylaw cost the average taxpayer? -That question was answered as recently as Monday night, published in detail Tuesday, when Alderman T. Norton Youngs and R. G. Large ad- dressed the Chamber of Commerce: ‘They said at the meeting that the overall bylaw for which the taxpayers will vote will be $1,643,000 of which $1,088,780 will be for sanitary sewers and $554,299 for storm or drainage sewers. . The sanitary sewers are to be inanced on a utility basis because if they aren’t the city could not get prov- incial government backing of its bonds. The sanitary sewers will cost each home on a sewer $3 per month or $36 a year instead of $15 a year which. is the current sewer rental. That is an increase of $1.75 a month. The storm sewers are to be financed out of the general tax rate, which it is hoped will be less than a 21/, mill in- crease because City Council mee to when there were unemployed. available in the city. | (4) Should the sewer bylaw, water bylaw, new firehall bylaw and posed new city hall all be undertaken at once, thus placing an extremely heavy burden on the taxpayer? ’ Now there’s a question! Who said anything about a water bylaw? There’s no vote on the new city hall. The only money bylaws on which the taxpayers are being asked to vote are on the sewer renewal and extension bylaw, a new firehall bylaw and a new school at Seal Cove to alleviate the crowding in the Conrad Street school area. Council, in an effort to make things easier for the taxpayer, re- stricted the voting to two issues, sew- ers and firehall. Council has no con- trol over District 52 -school board which is asking for funds for the new elementary school. _ Then yesterday we have an alder- manic candidate voicing astonishment at what previous administrations had been doing that the city’s sewers should have been allowed to get into such rough shape as they are now. He was astounded, he said. Well persons familiar with the city’s financial structure since the de- pression should know that most of the previous administrations spent 90 per cent of their time trying to keep the city from going broke. In the early 1930’s they failed and the city went men into receivership on May 4,.1933. Be- . - tween 1933 and 1943 the city was re- financed and little or no work was 1958 pro- done to the sewer system o1: any other affect Sav | bond issue W WH be floated on a 20-year hasis with principal and_ interest umounting to $2,569,867.50. (2) Should an adequate water sup- ply be insured before proceeding with the sewer bylaw? The engineering survey on the water system is not yet completed and if the sewers are held up much longer the city will be faced with a most ser- ious health problem, 3) In the event that the sewer by- law is given approval, will work be done by local contractors and will it start immediately to alleviate local unemployment? The same question was asked Mon- day night and the answer published Tuesday on the front page. Alder- man Youngs stated: “The work will start immediately if the bylaw is passed with Section ] heing tackled first.” As to whether local contractors will get the job, anyone who follows cily business knows that the project will he offered on a public tender basis rind the contractor, local or outside who Lenders the most feasible hid will he awarded the contract, Tf none is considered reasonable, the city works department might do the job itself, In any casa, an outside contractor would ha foolish to bring in outside help ‘Those who ignore law " isto he hoped that the ocension doesn’t anise again but should there he another big fire, the ROMP should cyackdown on motorists who drive over fre hoses, Automobile maniacs who haven't any more brains than to drive over an operating fire hose while a fire ia heing fought were ob- served committing this erime hoth at the Palmer apartments fire and the one next tothe Commerelal Hotel last iday. At the former one clad drove aver two horses on Tatlow Street, public works._The-City took over the handling of its own affairs again in 1943. Between 1933 and 1955 the City’s refunding issue of $1,785,000 was re- paid and during those years no major public works projects could be fi- nanced. The debt retirement ‘only oc- curred three years ago. Since then the city, with the help of its taxpayers, has been allotting thousands and thou- sands of dollars to making the city a fit place in which to live, As to when “the council became cognizant of the serious situation?” it was at least u year and a half ago when the council felt that it could within a year or two years tackle an estimated $2,000,000 sewer project and ordered a survey made, T results were published in’ February and the mapping out of the sewer pro- ject, plus its reduction in cost to fill immediate needs, has been underway ever since. In the meantime over the past few years council has been pour- ing $25,000 a year into sewer mainten- ance costs in the hope that it could get by until the city could afford a full sewer renewal and extension plan, Now it thinks the people are ready to improve the sewer situation and pre- vent an epidemic. Mayhe couneil is wrong’? Maybe the people of Prince Rupert want things to deteriorate still further? Sometimes we wonder. should be prosecuted It is obvious that at‘a fire hoth firemen and RCMP have their hands full, the former with the fire and the Intter with cvowds of spectators, At the same time, due to the stupidity of some of our motorists, it appears that one or two policemen will have to he atationed at five hoses ta make «sure they are not damaged, Tf anyone in- sista on driving over them, without permission, then they should be charged and piven the maximum under the city bylaw, which Is $200, “Hair”! —Qartoon by Tom Nicoll. — ALL ABOARD — ‘Cigaret makers used to pub- lish. advertisements aimed to convince people that smoking was healthy. With pictures of anonymous actors dressed up in doctors’ clothes, cross-sectional views of the T-zone and lyrical mes- sages from athletes, paid for at several thousand doljars a word, the tobacco men tried to implant the notion that their product would keep the under- taker away. Then the scientists spoiled their game by establishing be- yond “reasonable doubt . that smoking was bad for you; that smoking might kill you. Dr. J. W. Cook, vice-chancei- lor of chairman of a medical Search council committee on lung cancer, said recently that - evidence of a link between smoking and lung cancer is so Exeter University and: re- . Oil rights sale From The Victoria Colonist: The successful sale of oil and gas .exploration rights on some 2,000,000 acres in the northwest and noftheast of the Peace River district by the ._ Province this week should be. welcome for the $3,629,218 it will add to the provincial treasury and as another indi- cation of the interest being taken by the industry in un- developed territory beyond a major bidder at the sale, se- cured rights in a relatively new section of the field near the Yukon boundary, While development is con-~ . tingent on discovery, it is ob- he survey . vious that the Peace River dis- trict is attracting considerable attention on the basis of what already has been found. A good feature of the prov- incial sale is reservation in the name of the Crown of in- tervening territory, so that in the event of discovery and fu- ture development the Prov- ince will retain a definite in- terest in both af the arenas af- fected. Mr. Kiernan, as rmin- ister of mines, commenting on the outcome of the sale, ex- pressed satisfaction with the nature and the extent of the bidding, Several major oll firms bid for and obtained initial exploration rights in the unexplored region, By G. E. MORTIMORE strong that “if cigaret smoking were a paid occupation. . . it would be made an industrial disease and its. victims made liable for compensation.” This was only one of many such statements from medical scientists. . wy So the mythical nine out of 10 doctors and the sun-bronz- ed athletes had to beat a hasty retreat from. the cigaret ads. All their prattle about the health -- giving qualities of cigarets and the broad hints that tobacco smoke improved your wind, stopped you cough- ing and made you lovable and: popuar were over. Desperately scrabbling to reach higher ground, the to-, bacco men built special filters into their cigarets, “and tried to imply that their brand alone was tasty and cancer- free. “ -Research men to an extent cut away. their footholds again. ‘The cigaret men. retreated still further, into the realm of snob appeal. A cigaret ad in a clirrent magazine shows a pic- ture of a competent, purpose- ful-looking man with greying et hair, smoking a cigaret. Somewhere behind him, a dam appears to be under con- current explorations. Shel] Oil, ‘twice last year ma tee struction. This man obviously is the engineer in charge. He ‘Misguided tolerance From The Calgary Albertan A Calgarian was convicted of impaired driving. He was fined both times. and his licence = sus- pended. While his Neence was. still under suspension he. was con- victed a third time of impair- ed driving, after smashing up a parked car. For this offence a $300 fine was imposed, and presumably his licence sus- - pended again, For the other offence, of . driving while his Heence was sent to jail? . people suspended, the $200. Why In the world wasn't he Why must the public have to put up with Hike that? Will the courts continue to look so tol- erantly on him (and his Ike) until he kills someone? penalty was SAFETY Sayings— athe btatet eat f knows what’s what. “The Man who Thinks for Himself Knows . ” the mes- sage says, “only. ... has a thinking man’s filter... 4 smoking man’s taste! “This man thinks for him- . self. Knows the difference be- tween fact and fancy. Trusts judgment, not opinion. “Such a man usually smokes . His reason?. Best in the " world. He knows for a fact . has a thinking and a smoking that only .. man's filter man's taste.” What does all If you analyze the message, word for word, it has no meaning. However, it does im- ply quite deftly, that smart men such as engineers smoke . and you should do the same. / The busybodies who have brought pressure to bear on - regular auxiliaries - business, this mean? . _LETTERBOX. COMMANDS: “ARMY” The Editor, The Daily News: I would like to take this op- portunity to thank the Salva-_ tion Army for the thoughtful-_ ness of providing ‘the firemen with coffee at the Palmer fire, about a week ago. The RCMP also did a very good job, in- same Instances assisting with. the placement of hoses. The firemen did well ag cusunl and [ belleve that the deserve’ particular In appreciation From The Chicago Daily Tribune In public «affairs, it some- times happens. that every- hotdy’s business is nobody's That jis to say, we depend upon energetic and publid-spirited volunteers to carry on activities of vital im- portance to us all. A good case in point is the work carried.on by the Citi- zens Committee for the Hoov- er Report. These recommen- dations for improving ‘the ef- ficiency of government, now 64 per cent enacted, will save the taxpayers. $3 billion cor more a.year. Yet it is.a fair estimate that no suc.h. excellent results would have been. obtained without the unrelenting -pro- motion and pressure fenerat- ed by this group of citizens. The. committee is now dis- banding after six years of ef-: fort. Its members deserve , grateful appreciation for their tremendous accomplishment. praise. The walking public _ were quite co-operative but it seems very. difficult to get them to understand that. they, should ‘Stay back and give the firemen , a falr chance to fight. the fire The big bug of the whole:: fire, in my mind, were the peo- - ple with cars who seemed de- termined: to, drive | over, hoses’::that cross the . especially the ‘big- main” feda" hoses. 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