eee ‘ 4 ti 1 i t . on os gen ye : te, ” ar . ! Tow ma me ee , . : , t hot , : . : ue ‘ a tnnns Th hE oe sey i Dou ‘ 7 .. soa . “ ' : ' . : . . r ; an ” . oo fe ; . _ e cyy net . “ , . ce tte mh . . oe a . a eS os . —_ a on . an “ ws 1 : alt moa ot a ent Oe ee Tam 1910 — PRINCE RUPERT DAILY NEWS — 1958 B “.< United giving under attack 09° :2 ; / : cn Pe ay pe 4 nt Los an ant : “7 , Wes LN q : ; An independent newspaper devoted to the upbuilding ; . . a: ope . From:The Milwaukee Journal: 7 « ve . 4G of Prince Rupert and Northern and Central British Columbla. __ The “united. giving” méthod_ supplementaty’support . out- independently...., <. .#..! . . A member of The Canadian Press—Audit Bureau of of . community: support” for side’ the united’ drive: or to. . Thus those who believe the : Circulation—Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association worthy voluntary health and withdraw in: tavor of separate “united giving” method is pest. _ Published by The Prince Rupert Daily News Limited welfare agencies ig being seri-| drives... oa “and can he geared to support. > \ ously threatened: After a per- Community funds do suffer . almost all important health — JOHN F. MAGOR | the es CeR ee MAS seen under. certain handicaps and, and welfare agencies ae i LR AYRES. President: G. P. WOODSIDE the establishment of strong, « sportcomings.” ;Seme.' donors. quately are being challenged ' 7 " xm fF, successful communit fund V n b as - much? 0-0 ag. var hefard mini er : . Editor General Manager 1 S vbne Uilled dive as toeean oy 48. Never. before. They wilt: 4 Authorived as second. class. mall) by the Post Office Department, Ottawa i 4 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1958_ OE for the road often means two ; or more for the hospital, the Na-- tional Safety Council said. recently. ‘In a stepped-up campaign against ‘Christmas holiday drinking and driv- ing, the Council has asked its 8,000 ‘business and industrial members to take a new look at their office parties and either keep the cork in the bottle ior eliminate the parties. - ' The Council also is enlisting. the ‘support of churches ’of every faith antl creed to keep the threat of drinking drivers to a minimurfi over the Christ- Mas-season, | — ‘_..""We have no desire to. dampen. the Christmas spirit,” the Council said: “We only want to eliminate a definite source of death and destruction on the highway.” a : Council surveys show that a drink- ing driver was involved in 55 per cent .of the Christmas holiday ‘accidents ‘last year. - . Social drinkers—not the ebvious ‘drunk—are the big menace on the + AT a state welfare conference in i New York, recently, Buffalo’s su- ‘perintendent of schools deseribed a tudy.of delinquents from privileged as well as underprivileged parts ofthe -city. “In not a single case,” he report- ed, “was there a-really -round. home cand family situation.” |. . “~~At the same gathering an author+ ity on anthropology emphasized: that “the family is central to any under- Standing of juvenile.. delinquency.” -And then he ‘pointed. to the fact. that in city households, with few chores: for ‘boys and girls to do; children: often 4 4 t lack “a sense of place in the family or- anization” *~ Here is a problem = which, child ‘authorities say, cannot be given too anuch attention. But solutions are not - . One for road may mean two for hospital | highway, the Council said... Car weav- ings of the obvious drunk usually can be detected or avoided, but the social drunk, whose critical judgment is im- paired even with a small amount of © alcohol, appears normal until his wits fail him in an emergency. Three hours are needed to work off the effect of two cocktails, the Council warns the social drinker. And coffee doesn’t help. Only time will eliminate alcbhol from the | blood stream. | The Council also warns that no one is liquor-proof, although some persons ean tolerate alcohol better than others due to body weight and other physical factors. But even some impairment can be a life or death matter at the wheel. ae Omitting liquor at office parties . means that no drunken or tipsy driv- ers will leave parties to injure or. kill themselves or others on the way home, thé Council said. n Blessed be chores easy. .We know of a family, which when its three boys were growing out of childhood, lived in a ‘small city “flat” with little if-any yard, no grass to.cut,-no: sidewalks to shovel; no furn- ace. to tend. But the parents ingeni- ously ‘found tasks for each youngster’ manifestly meaningful to the house- hold’s operation, ‘Can one family carry’ out such a program-in the midst of. many. who. don’t?’ That admittedly makes family’ discipline—and self-discipline—harder to maintain: - But trying is better than - surrendering. And nothing at all would be accomplished unless individ- ual families at least did the best they could, | ANTERPRETING THE NEWS | *: “Khrushchev blasts ke Hous _ (Nikita) Khruschev still boasts‘ the West's *sestewriting arm. . >, When it comes to drafting agendas for “NATO the Russian leader is in a lass by him- wt : a -~ A yenr ago, his lengthy letters to. Western “Icnders, including Prime Minister Dlefenbaker, spravided the big talking point at the NATO skurhmit meeting In Parts. CO ~- “Now he's blasting atv Berlin. The result 48 that the former German capital topped. the list of subjects discussed by the NATO Counei) jn ‘Parls Tuesday. “ Uf it weren't for the chill of fear Implieit jn ‘the Berlin situation, some NATO. experts “would almost welcome Khruschev’s habit of *yunctuating NATO conferences with polemics ing palaver, ~ “ft, shows his respect for NATO and may -help- convince doubting. Thomases of its para- “Jiount role in Western defence. | « “We In NATO tond to ba a Nttle critical *thdht political consultation among the 16 mem- -her countries,” sud an offielal who has watched: rthe NATO Council at. work, wn K@o it's renssuring to: have the Russians: -comé ajong every time NATO meets and. say. wn effect that thisia where the West's forelgn “policy Ja determined," so oy .» In other words, If the Ruaslans believe in ‘NATO maybe Western sceptics should. believe . in it, too, « ‘Apart fram helping to write tho agenda . -for NATO meetings, Khrusehev acts. to. sonie. “degree as the alliance's unpaid publioity maa. . "and: morale booster, though the comparison. AviOusly has Umits. . o. OY fixing the spotlight on Berlin, pen. pal. -Whruachev has daflected attention from NATO. . “dhteynal worries, There Include reports of « mnew-erientation in Italy's foreign. polloy toward: Sa mare neutral courao, : olhing dotracta from the seriousness of. SSiopin. Tt fa vital to: Woat Germany and: theray fora to the Wont, Bocause of tha day-andenight. Ndontriat betwoen the city's wastern and eastern: naeetors, It is a throbbing hondache: for Russia, Lhe Hving He to Kant German prapagdnde, | Yor millions of Germans, Yerliy ty a beacon. “Rapidly re-ostablshing tials as one of Burepe's “prightest and gayest elties, Berth ty almont “to tia Woderal Nopublic what Paris iy to. France. ““ “the mare mention’ of the name brings ft gldam to the eye of Germens who Hive: elhewhera, —The Christian Science Monitor. oe ep NATO on toes _. By ALAN HARVEY ~ Canadian: Press Staff Writer “Berlin!” said a trade unionist to a. reporter in Cologne last. year. “I'd crawl on my hands and knees to get there,” . . The trade unionist’s tribute be accepted . laconically. by Berliners. They proved their’ mettle in’ the 1948 crisis and aren't likely to panic this time. The spirit of Berlin, in fact, may be a factor in the present deadlock. em. - Must adapt From: The Edmonton Journal Farming must adapt itself to the world marketing: situation. “Simply stated, if farm- ers are producing too much, they must produce less, If, by producing Jess, some of them run Into difficultics, they should vacate the field,” fer pany"? elit we SHORT NOTIOU—Thoy grow ‘am Mort—stroat, signs, that Js—in the, Richmond, Vn., suburl of Lakeside. This midget marker, only a Vette over four foet high, ty within enay roading holght of the youngater taking noltae of his whereabouts It aluo eliminates a-lot of neak- craning by motorists. who usually have 6 lool way up high on utility poles to see axtroot markarn, ET. Gel ” HOMES. FOR FROBISHER. BAY—Réesidents ‘of Frobisher Bay in the Eastern Arctic may. some day live in tower-like apartment blocks arranged around the periphery of a huge’ dome coverizig stores, banks, schools. and. other public buildings, As designed by the public. works department, the towers would connect to. a central dome by: elevators: Inside -the dome, where winter temperatures would be 60. degrees higher than outside, winter clothing would. be worn but no overshoes. Such ‘a’ system. of towers and domes could be repeated endlessly.to create a city. in the bleak Arctic. Present population of the Arctic settlement is 250 but government authorities see ita major. air base for ‘air routes and administrative centre of the Eastern Arctic. ~—-CP photo: Ing’. i TIME and PLAC _ By ENOCH R. L. JONES SENIOR CHRISTMAS IN KITSELAS 49 YEARS AGO ‘The winter of 1908 to. 1909, / the Enoch R.-L. Jones- family. at Kitselas, lived- in .a house - owned -by.the. Hudsons: -Bay “Company, and which was leas, ed by the Dominion. Govern ‘ment for’ use as a ‘telegraph : office. The house had four rooms, the Telegraph Office, bedroom, living room, and kitchen. The telegraph line ran from Port Simpson and where it connected with thé line from Dawson to Ashcroft. I was the circuit manager. | The only other buildings. in town that winter were J..W. “Jack” Paterson’s store—his Hotel, and a house at the edge of the town Occupied by Kit- selas Indian Chief, Richard Cecil. The Charles Durham family lived on their farm wcross the river. . Early in. the forenoon of January 3, 1909, Constable Charles Cullen came over from the Hote] and asked, “Is it true that you: have had an increase in your family, last night?!” “Yas,” IT repiied, “a girl baby _ by first mail team door we found inside; four 25-- pound sacks of flour; and’ 10 pounds each of lima and navy beans. That was all, and I bought the lot .on sight, these ‘_hé helped 'me'to carry home. ',, Going into the telegraph of- fice at once, I contacted Eddie Cox, manager of the Hazelton telegraph office. I told him about our serious food short- _age and arranged with him to Prince Rupert Yo Hazelton wend ree nm milk and two slabs of bacon coming down river. “Barney” Mul- vany and “Dutch” Cline were running the mails that winter, using eight or ten “huskies” to . the toboggan. * Cox purchased the milk and bacon for me at. “Dick” Sar- . gent’s store, ‘and the next mor- ning it. was on route to Kitse- las loaded on a toboggan with the’ outgoing mail. I believe the cost of the milk. was $3.50. for. the case, and the price of bacon was 37 cents per pound. . The total welght was around ‘ 65 pounds, Cox didn't know born at 2 o'clock this. morn: ° sf “What are you going to feed her?” was his’ next question. - "Oh," I told him, “My wife . is taking over that responst- - bility.” Then he asked, “What are: you going to feed your wife,” adding, “I hope you have | cnough grub to see you through the winter" Then continuing without Interrup- tion from me he expained, “When I heard that you had: an increase in your family, I wondered how you were Nxed In the way of food. 1 guens you haven't heard that the men from Foley, Welsh & would. not be less than Stewart's commiasnry departe | mont bought Paterson's entire . stock of food supplies morning. The construction cnmpas are facing a food shorts |: age and the company ta buye ing the entire stock of evdry | store up and down the river, Paterson wanted to hold same - supplies for the few settlora. qt \ this locality, but he was told everything or nothing,” |, It xeemed unbolievable, J thia . . without notiaing t hurried over to the store to nak." Paterson about It. He wis out, . hut his clork Gaorge err ‘cons \ firmed all that Cullen told me. kegs of naila, sovera) cuny of' paint, a holt of table olleatotly. |: avd the rat poison,” Kerr shouted, Ax an after thought, he ndded: “Lot's: sea. Beans to me hid: They've bourht everything, In sight except a couple of! Jack (Paterson) didn't take . then to the little storehouny over thera,” polnting td a Hote! - neape tl font by olght-foot alhad avi “Let's talee a loot." barre] just what “Barney” would charge me for transportating it, but he was sure the charge one eent per pound, per mile—a staggering cost which would have amounted to $65 for the 95-mile haul, When “Barney” deliverd the load,. In true Christian spirit he charged me only $16.50, Sim Doble, !In his telegraph . Office at Copper river heard the tale of woe I had related to Cox, and when I had fin- ished with Cox, Sim broke Jn and remarked, “I guess that of snlmon bellles ts yolng to come in very handy.” “What barrel of bellies," J asked him, He reminded me that when the steamer’ “Hnvelton” tied up at Kitaelns on {ta last trip down river that fnll, before the clode of river transportation, ho had arranged with me to have. Captaln Joe Bucey briny him two. barrels from the warehouse, there two: barrals he, had left there. whon he . transferred to Copper River, point blank that he had to sell” Vr T hadi done 6 Sim. raqueated, that. there: _ were tree batrela In the ware- house, and I didn't. know wha- ther they were empty. or not. “Bo it wos thrilling sews. wher he told me that morn- ing that all three barrels con- tulned salmon bellies he hind pieked himanlf that spring, and tint he hnd left the third Barre) In the wrrehouke for mai ' Whob on ohange in hardly one hour! AG 10 o'clock that morning I had bnon: throaten- ed: with atarvation and now ‘within the hour ft had flour, Unlocking und opening the heana, w barrel.of snlman bel» Jivw, and soon to be en rout 7 from Wasalion, o case af m and two slaba of bacon, (Vo he cohttnued) and ‘united furids “all” acrogs ~ ~America, there are numerous danger signs. | One is failure of some funds... to. meet even, far too modest -: goals. .This discourages work- ers; makeg it harder to ,raise . a@ successful enthusiasm | for drive another year, cripples important health and welfare :: “agencies which are unusually agencies, tempts them to raise - raising money . Pe re “successful in | - one ulilted dive’ as to‘each of” a dozen separate solicitations, The united drive may lack the ‘arate’ drives. 4 ‘Special appeal of certain’ sep- "The whaie: system, nowever,. 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