EEE 1910 — PRINCE RUPERT DAILY NEWS — An independent newspaper devoted to the upbuilding a of Prince Rupert and Northern and Central British Columbia, mote A member of The Canadian Press—Audit Bureau. of He _ Circulation—Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association ” Published. by The Prince Rupert Daily News Limited SR. AYRES we Editor «igh i A? POINTMEN T by the Chamber _ of Commerce of a committe to in- vestigate the tourist industry potential is a wise if somewhat overdue move. The proposal, which resulted from an original discussion on stores staying cpen to serve the tourists, has far greater ramifications for the future .than.in the past. There was a time, when in the summer months, a great number of tourist boats came into this port. That was the time to survey all possible methods of exploiting the tourist trade whereas this summer the cruise ship tourists were few and far between. However, greater things are ahead. for city merchants as tourists will be coming by road by the-hundreds once Highway 16 is completely paved and. . the Alaska-to-Prince Rupert marine highway is a reality. If enterprising businessmen and storeowners do not make an early start on preparing for. this eventual influx they are going to be caught short and the city will earn a reputation of being a town that tour- istS pass through rather than stop off.. ~The Daily News earlier this year, warned that a start should be made in the » * future on parking facilities £e ers. Whether or not the ma- ighway ferry systeth is ready to erate at a time coincidental with the fomplete hardtopping of Highway 16, doesn’t matter. The. trailer will be coming to see this part of the country anyway. Americans love to travel and to take all the comforts of tourists . JOHN F. MAGOR President G. P. WOODSIDE -' General Manager Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1958 ee Make Prince Rupert a tourist haven home with them. If they came here and discover there are no facilities they will leave and never return. Fur- thermore they will pass the word on to other's of the trailer fraternity and be- lieve us, word of that type travels quickly and great distances. The same applies to the merchants and any form of entertainment that would keep. visitors here and make them happy during their stay. . If there is nothing hereof note besides the~ museum, which continues to draw a large quota of vistors, then word of the lack will also be bandied about down south and below the 49th parallel. As to.the merchants who want to stay open. A very simple’ solution is available if they wish to make the ef- fort. They can petition the City Coun- cil to grant them an exemption from the provincial Shop Closing Act, and they can open legally. But if they are not going to take any concrete action except to open surreptiously whenever they see some tourists wandering the streets, then they are contravening the act and if someone lays a complaint then they can expect to be prosecuted. Local businessmen should do every- thing within their power to hasten the completion of the Chamber of Com- merce’s tourist industry survey, and, once they have the information, go to work to ensure that Prince Rupert be- comes a favorite northern stopping off place for southern visitors after their long drive north. : 4 Reputation very big asset THERE is something everyone cater- ine-tothe_tourist-trade should al- ways keep in mind. It is that if prices are right and service is good, the cus- tomers will not only return, but they will tell others, . The advice given the very tourist- conscious businessman is pertinent. The surest way to kill the tourist busi- ness in any area is to gain the reputa- tion for soaking people. That can hap- pen, and it sometimes does, Slick op- erators feel they only get one chance at a tourist and they try to make a kill- ing. The only ‘sure thing they do is eventually kill their own business, The tourist business is big business. There are more Canadians rolling on rubber this year than ever before and next year there will be more of them, plus more Americans next year than this. When they return to their homes they tell their friends about their ex- periences. They may not plan return- ing to this part of Canada next year, but some of their friends very probably will. If the word has been passed that Nanaimo is reasonably priced and pro- vides good service, the accommodation is good and there is a friendly attitude toward the stranger, these friends will plan to stop here. 4 Most tourists are willing to pay reasonable prices for the things they need, but they do not like being gouged. They expect to be treated de- cently and when they are they spread the news to those they meet on their motoring trip and to friends at home. Irom the standpoint of the people who cater to the tourists it’s a case of cast- ing bread upon the waters and it will return to them many fold. A good reputation is the greatest asset of the person who wants to do business with the travelling public. —Nanaimo Free Press, 1958 Crackdown ~ From The Ottawa Journal» *- “This man was “unable to., read any road signs extept those which read ‘STOP’,” de- clared the constable before the coroner’s Inquest into -the death of an Ottawa child. ‘ The jury absolved the illit- erate driver of blame. Now Wwe are told that: the ‘provineial licensing authorities are going to “get tough”. This. smacks too much of unlocked |. stable doors:and stolen. horses.., for us to be much. impressed. . We seem to recall similar “get. : tough” pronouncements sever- : al years back when a bus plunged into the cana! near Morrisburg carrying some 20 passengers to their deaths. There was quite a furor at that | time as to how the motorist re- sponsible for it all had come to get his driving Hcense in the first place, . Four new inspectors are com- ing to Ottawa to carry out this “get tough” policy. Again we are unimpressed. They should have been here years ago; they certainly should have been here to make sure that no one - is licensed who cannot read anything more than a “STOP” sign. . And are four inspectors enough? Should there not be 10-or-20 inspectors, any num- ber necessary to make sure there is no more of this sort of thing? . Jf someone cites the costs in salaries and training for hun- dreds of new inspectors, we suggest the investment is more sound than the present reten- tion of hundreds of. form-fill- ing clerks in the Government liquor stores. All Aboard & GE Mortimer. When our dog was ‘run over I made the usual © resolution: no more dogs. Some kind people telephoned, and offered me a FIRST OF A series of aerial photographs 0 aah Be SL by J. R. Wrathall from’ a. Pacific Western Airlines plane, shows ‘the Seal Cove area. Body of water in’centre is.Shawatlan’s Pas- sage under which city water supply: pipes are laid. Behind ' woods at end of passage are Butze Rapids and Miller Bay. In. centre of picture is Department of ._Transport sea plane ‘base from which Canadian Pacific Airlines ‘operates and in Seal Cove proper DOT lighthouse tender Alberni sits at. dock. Small seaplane is berthed at Pacific Western Airlines dock. On peninsula in foreground is Aero club headquarters, Prince Rupert and McLean’s shipyard, new one. “Thanks, but we’ve decided aganist hav- ing any more dogs,” I said. “Wonderful with children,” said the voice at the far end. ”: “We happen to be driving past your place today. Could we drop in and bring the dog, just so that you could take a look at him anyway?” “Certainly,” I said. “Of. - course, nothing will change my “mind.” We now have a dog. He’s a small, black-and-white, excit- able fellow, one-year old, most- ly border collie, known as Sunday. He came to us al- -‘ready -iequipped with that name. He was fairly subdued at first, and never barked, but wandered away the first time he was let ont of the house, and disappeared for about an hour. A small boy arrived to report that the dog had been sighted near the store. We went after him with the car, and soon spotted him weaving amiably along in company with a spaniel. He jumped into the car as soon as we called. He vanished again the next day, and we began to fear that he was a real tramp dog, one of the :kind that acknowledges no home. His tendency’ to wander was one reason why his old owners got rid of him. But he came back to us after an absence of an hour, wriggl- ing his whole torso with pleas- ure. Apparently he had ae- cepted us and the house. He goes upstairs every night with the boys, and Hes down to rest on thelr bedroom floor, Early in the morning he barks to be Jet out. When we open the door he rushes out and back In almost at onee, and begins to paw and lick at the older boy's face, until John is awake, While he was stil] unsure of himself, he would sit quietly in the car and wait for us, Now that he has galned confil- INTERPRETING THE NEWS Soviet universities curbed By THOMAS P. WIITNEY AP Forelgn News Analyst One of Nikita Khruschev'’s unadmitted pur- poses In proposing a radiea) reform -of the Boviet school system Js to laquidate Aoviet nniversities as centres of intellect ferment among Russian youths, Ne proposes to do this by turning them for the most part into night and correspondence senools, The Moscow press announced recently that the praesidium of the central committee hag approved Khruscheyv's “work-while-youestudy” scheme, to be put into effeet in the next threr or four years. . One reason for the proposed change js ec- onomle. The change wil mate dt possible for the Kremiin to mobilize for onannal Inbor millons of hoya and adrls from 14 to 17 years of ave, This wil help make up far an. im- pending nente shortage of young men and women due to the drop in the birth rate during the war. (fl Under the Bhruschev plan, after the seventh oy @ighth grade almost all children, except thoe exceptionnily elftad and Intended tn became aclentists, will bo put to work at manual Inbor on farms and tn factorios. They will be foreed to continue schooling, if nt all, at night elassos and by correspondence, Diurvlng 1066, under the do-Btallnizgation pra- a. pe ee own ane a aa eee mes “beeeedan eeeete OPE AOL Hae be ahe \ gram advanced that year by Khruschev, there was a Jet up In repression, As a’ result, much discontent with the Communist dictatorship came to light nmong Soviet university students, The Kramlln's answer to the problem Is to abolish universjtios as places where Inrge num- hers of students study and live together for periods of five yenrs and more. From now on, if ho Js hard-woyking enough to complete twa to three years of high school and thren years: of higher education at night and correspon dence coursor, the ordinary Soviet youth de- aldous of completing his higher eduention may, if lueky, be given a leave of absence for two yours of full-time study at a univeralty, Jt ts Khruschev's hope that this and the askocinted changes he has recommended wit! ho change the set up and the atmosphere In the Boviot educntionnl aystom na to destroy the creative exchanne of new politien) idans amone sludenta nnd make them submissive and obed- lont rervants of the atnte. ron Gans of “hou ghi Solitude ja nx needful to the Imagination nn rociaty th wholesome for the charnetor, -—Jamon Russel] Lowel] OOO eh ee POO Ae eo ae + en ee oe ee Aer wg yok oh eo er ne te hee "Pee hep eh “tbe dence, -he yips and barks tm- patiently untll we come back ~-even if we have dodged into n store for half a minute, He has already chewed up n slipper and torn a sheet bee Mr. K’s manners From The St, Thomas Thnos-Journal There have beon several cul- tured and tactful statesmen among the Communist leaders, hut Khrushchev ls not one of them, Most of his letter, whieh he presumably drafts himaelf, are the work of 4 boor who has no mannors and thinks that that best way to argue with opponents is to bully then, (ne te rm epmettneee—n ® ae NOE Ste REL ENROL RIESE eee Automatic steering From The Regha-Lander Post BUN In the blueprint stage but not counted out yet as an Imporsibiity ja nn magnetic eable that will guide the ear while the driver relaxes and mijoys the scenery. This ts ilways providing, of course, that by 1078 seanery or even the driver himself hina not | boon mechanized ont of oxtate Ene, é reve etgaete 6 ho pees fat t yond repair. He’s a snuffling, pawing, barking nuisance. But when any of us leaves house for even a short while, he welcomes us as though we were pilgrims returned from the East. ' We have a dog. Vee the , BRITAIN AND EUROPE UNITED STATES Curling cluk, B.C. Packers plant and part of its’ fishing fleet. . 7~Photo by J. R. Wrathall. f Prince Rupert taken Communist values From The » “Sherbrooke Daily Record | The man. living in: Moscow has to work more than ten times as !ong as the New York-— He has |; to put in three times the work’ | for his family bread and milk. er to buy a wool suit. Explosive message From The Windsor Daily Star A scientist predicts telegrams of the future will be sent. via . 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