| | ‘ on u wu _ PRINCE RUPERT DAILY NEW An tndependent newspaper devoted to the upbuilding of Prince Rupert and Northern and Central British Columbia, nee A member of The Cana dian Press—Audit Bureau of wiper Circulation—Canadian Dally Newspaper Publishers Associaticn me Published by’ The Prince Rupert Daily News Limited JOHN F, MAGOR J, R. AYRES Editor . President G. P. WOODSIDE General Manager Authorized as second class matl by the Post Office Department; Ottavr . FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1958 _ © School building program must continue ANCE again city schools are bulg- ing at the seams as the number of pupils outgrows available space, In a hurried but quite feasible, move Dist- rict52 school board and principals of . city schools found it advisable to shift pupils’ westward so that the Seal Cove and Conrad Street schools could, ac- éommodate the large influx... _ The increase was not a total surprise to either school board trustees or prin- cipals.: Whem: school closed last. June therd,were 1,207. elementary school pupils in attendance. When initial reg- -istrations were made Wednesday that number had increased by nearly 70. * Principals and school board trustees were not caught too unprepared. They had estimated an increase of about 44 but did not count on such a boost in pupils in the east end of the city. ' Quch a development reflects {the érowth of Prince Rupert and while it is pleasing in the sense of progress, the rapid growth of one section of the city with its subsequent demand for school facilities, calls for speedy and adequate: ction. NY of those workers now on strike in the steel industry may never'see the inside of a steel plant “Because fewer and fewer workers are needed. to produce the same. amount of steel. Where it took 16 man-hours to pro- duee-_an-American_ton_of steel_in 1941, it only takes 12 man-hours today. That’s a reduction in human labor of « whopping 25%. In the United States it is estimated that of the 655,000 steelworkers employed at the peak of produciton in November, 1956, per- Only two years ago District 52 school board thought it would have a_ breathing spell following its almost continuous school building program after the end of the Second World War. Crowded conditions at the high school plus parents and teachers dis- satisfaction with. the joint junior-sen- ior high school system, however, brought about a program for a new senior high school. Construction is ex- pected to start soon in Algoma Park. No sooner do they have that. school launched than this new problem arises. This time addition of two more rooms, as was carried out before at Conrad Street, school, will not suffice. A new roomy school with adequate classroom space planned to take care of the fu- ture is necessary as soon as possible. The trustees should waste no time in pressing their case before the taxpay- ers for a new school immediately while the public can see that a crisis is de- veloping and before a really desperate situation is Greated next year and the year after. | Bigger output —fewer men haps 100,000 will never be needed to make steel again. And the trend is pre- cisely the same in Canada. This gain in productivity hasn’t been the result of human sweat. Near- ly all of it stems directly from more and better equipment and the greater use of automatic ‘or nearly auomatic. machines, which in turn have been brought into use through steadily ris- ~~ing wage costs. “All you-need to inspire an engineer is a rise in labor costs,” said a shrewd American steel executive the other day. And in the post-war years, good- ness knows there has been plenty of such stimulation. : ‘Hunger for books’ From The Christian Science Monitor Perhaps the same thing is happening to books and reading as happened to music. When music began pouring out of radio earphones und then out of loud-speakers prophets of doom proclaimed that this meant the end of all amateur and most professional performing, Then came television and “hi-fi”, And instead of musical performance being mechanized, community orchestras have been proliferating all over the land, oo There seems no doubt that at certain ages juveniles become affixed to the TV screen instend of to the traditional child-story books. And this applies to legions of adults with respect. to any books, (But would many of these adults read anyway?) At any rate, Congress has recently appro- printed twiee the amount. the President dared ask to promote Hbrary facilities In rural areas _-to communities under 10,000 for existing libraries and for “bookmobiles” to carry read- ing matter down the highways and especially along the byways, From observation We would venture a guess that this project will carry books not merely beyond TV frontiers but into competition with viewing screens even within areas of dependable. TV reception. The director of the United States Library Services Branch spenks of “thjs tremendous hunger for books and information, The demand ig much greater than we cnn meet.” And ho credits network radio and television for build- ing the appetite, The appropriation is . for $13,050,000 for ‘A five-year. program on .a matehing basis, All the states but three are now participating. ; “ As with the grains of the field, the better the soll is prepared the better the harvest. ee ree es INTERPRETING THE NEWS Naval operations playing havoc with fishing Wy ED SIMON : Canadian Press Staff Writer The Royal Navy's uncomfortable yole of Goliath refusing to be pushed around by an Jeelandic David In the Atlantic fishing frounds in being watched by mort Britons with amuse- ment tinged with embnarrasasmont, oo The practice of repoliing boarders by dous- ing them with flrehoses and then warming them with eups of cocon ts unlikely to en for an enrly revision of the naval textbooks outlining the tactics that won the day at Trafalgar, Jutland and. the Rivor Plate, For the moment, the world of comle oper hns tilen aver. Official exchanges hotween the Brith and Teolandic governments continue to deal with: the situation with appropriate solaminity, Din- patahies from Royljavike may Indicate that Teoland takes o arave view of tho hostilities, But In eitain, whore the dispute over Tenand's nowly proclaimed J2-mile torritarial mitt hed troubled many obsarvora with thoughts of ponalhie yifts In the NATO Alliance, the shift from bellaoss commimniquey to 4 type of warfare resembling nantical erlokat provides an trrealatibte break In the’ tension. London's newspapers, almost without 9x eoption, ae offering play-by-play: yeporta from correspondents aboard the trawlers ov naval aacort vounela or ow aircraft skimming stone to the battle aren, Thelr recounts envry the atvonn inpltention that. things will blew over any day now. Tn Yeelund, where lefliat elements ave ate tempting to build up the affale into & full- \ geno Ideologien! dlapute, the broken windows in the British Embassy indicate that everyone jan't taking a almilarly light-honrted view, But the government's restraint reflects n de- aire to lenve the way onen for compronise, If the Yeelanders weve on shaky ground in their unilateral oxtension to 12 miles of thalr previous four-milo Jimit, tholr supports Ing argument that shallow-water operations thranten to deplete thelr fishing grounds Is worthy of Investigation, British trawlermen, fnoed with tho oxpon- alve alternative of madernizing their fleot with vousels capable of fishing In deeper wators, are strongly opposed to any move that would par them from their traditional flahing rrounda, But the government, while refusing to rocornixe the 12-mile limit, has repentedly ‘expressed ita willingness fo talk over tho yroblam of fish aonsarvation with the Tene andera. : Hoth problems were discussed ot length poriior thia sunmor at a United Nations con faronce in which Canad led an wnsuecesnfnl campaign for an International agreement on wider territoria) limita. Tho United Statoa jolned Britain and other Wortern Buropean countriad {yy aposing tha move. Amon the pretion mont anxtous to soe the problam shifted back from munbont crows to International experts nro the Rritish trawler captains, They're boginning to compinin that nil these naval operations are playing hob with the flashing. e- , s — 1958 TIME and PLACE... By WIGGS 0°NEAL 7 TIE INDIAN FINGERS On the highway- going to Telkwa, when you..come to a hill about two miles this side of Telkwa, known as Spud Murphy’s Ell, 1£ you look: carefully up on the hill to the left some distance you will notice two stone pillars sticking up out of the ground, standing there known as “The Indian Fingers,” The old-Indian Legend connected with them: is as follows: - One time many years .ago; in the remote past, the two Indian tribes living in these’ parts were always at war with each other. They both came-to realize the futility of war. No one ever won and the. fighting only brought misery and sorrow to the members of, both tribes. So they arranged a meeting to talk things over and see if they could do something about it, to stop’fighting ahd smoke the pipe of Peace, The two head chiefs, with all their tribesmen and their women and Kids and all their dogs, arrived on the appointed day, arranged at. the Full of the. Moon. The mecting place by ar- rangement took place ‘on ‘the hill where we see the Indian Fingers. today. Qn After a lot of ceremony ‘the Peace talks got under way. One Chief. suggested that. they both agree to, keep the Peace and to make the arrangement binding and sacred. to their forefathers and the Great Spirit. they both agree to kill one of their women ‘folk and thereby bond their promises in blood. The other Chief, who proved: to be a much better diplomat arid a deeper thinker, turned the suggestion down but tame up with a counter proposal. His. speech proved the result of deep thought and was a great’ success. He said, “My brother, you and I are agreeing to a peace between our tribes by killing two of our women, to bind the agreement. with blood, we are making others ‘suffer..and you and I do not suffer at all and spill no bjood:.We both!should: do the suffering:.and spill: our x own bload'as wé are thechiefs. I propose that you..and:I, my. brother,: bath: chop“ off. thée:-forefinger of our. right. hand. 'so that in the. years’ -to..come,* every- time’ we. look:‘at. the stub- of our forefinger it: will remind us both of our signing of the Peace ‘agreément :and ‘help .1s .-to keep. the -Peace.”. The other chief’ had:'to:-agree-or: else ‘lose face’ The two chiefs .cut off their fingers ,and ‘stuck ,them. in the ground side by side on Spud Murphy's Hill; “where we see them ‘today. The fingers shave grown:a lot. over‘the many hundreds.of "years. and have turned to.stone. 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