Doetite sr - ze Re; wi, cK “Ki e oe “f rk cf . oN whe wi Pe CT oe a . eal ee Inge Rupert ic 6, 1957 yee Vu ee we eh ee pee An independent. ‘dally. newspaper | devoted ‘to tise Uppullding of Prince Rupert and’ Northern and Ceiutral British Columbia, “Member of Cayjadian Press—Audit Bureau of Cirenlations . Canadian Daily Newspaper Association Published: by ihe Prince Rupert Dally News Limited . a. FP. MAGOR, President : ‘Subscription Rates: “By mati—Per month 81.00; per year $10.00. By. currier—per month, $1. 26; per year, $14.00 or ee “muthorivea as ‘second: class mall by the Post Office Department, Ottawa Mr: Hees Visit Welcome One PRINCE: RUPERT is always pleased to have visits by: cabinet:iministers but it is practically so in the caSe of Transport Minister George Hees. Just before the Conservative victory in the fed- eral elections,. the city received the good news that after'years ‘of enquiry and study which always ended in disappointment it was at last to be made the site of a land aiport.,. Although the project was official- ly on the books. before the election was held and there: was no visible way in which the results could in- fluence it execution, there was still uncertainty as to. wheather a. change in government might mean that Prince Rupert would. lose its hard. won recognition as a transpor tation centire. _ The visit of Mr: Hees is a heartening indication that. there are no grounds for any such fears. No doubt he is still in the process of acquainting himself with his new duties at Ottawa, yet he is finding time to make:this long journey to have a first hand look at the airport project on Digby Island as well as the marine installations which are such a vital part of transportation in this area. This is a gratifying show of iriterest so soon after Mr. Hees has taken over his important new office.and the warmth of our wel- come may be measured: accordingly, -We trust that he will feel well rewarded for the . time hei is taking to come here. $15 for 20 Cigarettes VERYONE E vaguely knows that “inflation” means an increase in the money supply, coupled with a rise in prices. Older people remember, not vaguely | but vividly, that everything from a house to a bottle of milk eost very much less 30 or 40 years ago than today. Few have figur ed out what things will cost in - andther 30 to’ 40 years if current inflation goes on— even at the PRESENT rate. William Mercer, lead- ‘that the Okanagan Itself is go- -inge Canadian: actuary, presents the alarming fig-. ures in Maclean’s Magazine. ait inflation continues: as now: at 3% a year. (and “ of course this is compounded annually,) a young man - of 1957 can expect to pay when he retires: $1.15 for a pack of cigarettes; $10,000 for a low-priced car; $20 for a bottle of whisky; $50,000 for a good working- man’s house; $200 for an inexpensive ready-made suit. oe / Do these prices sound fantastic? Anyone who thinks so, says Mr. Mercer, might call to mind that just before the first World War (1914-18) a man’s suit cost $10; a Ford car $690 in 1928; while T-bone - steak was 12¢ a pound as recently as the late 1980's. 3ut some economists think the inflation rate will RISIs from an annual rate of 8% to 5% or even 10';. In that case today’s young man will pay when he retires: $2.50 ov $15 for cigarettes, depending on whether one uses the 5% of 10% figure; $20,000 or $135,000 for a low-priced car; $45 or $275 for a bottle of whiskey ; $100,000 o1 $675,000: for ashouse ; $425 or $3,000 for a ready-made suit, wo Here’s how it works out in terms of income. If inflation does its worst, the young man now earning $5,000 a year will need $275,000 a year when he’s old if he plans to live in his present style. Even if the inflation rate stays constant and he’s willing to take n 50%, cut after retirement, he’ll still need twice what he’s earning now. Inflation threatens everyone’s security and can make rational planning by individuals, companies and government’s impossible. No partisan, sectional or class interest is of any importance at all compared with the national necessity of keeping Inflation in cheek, Fly with... ELLIS DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY Departs for Ketchikan—1:45 p.m. with connections to Seattle, Whitehorse and all Alaska ELLIS AIR LINES 425 3rd West Phone 2223 —The Minancial Post, Le eee ren pepe tert aemnmad erie e a rarer er Ros, Evenings Phone 3236 ‘Ver perspective what do you see? . You. see. city homes | and. rey) hy e Shrinking PENTICTON. I have been skirting the shores: of these beautiful lakes wilh a young couple from Burnaby who are looking for a lot. on which to build a summer Heme. The go- ing price for a..good. waterfront, lot in these parts runs around $2,500~~that is, almost the same as one has to pay.in metropoli- tan Vancouver. there are many hundreds of miles of actual shoreline on this gem- -like necklace of lakes, there is not as much in the way of suitable bulldiag sites as one ‘might snppose. Maybe I am away olf the beam, but it seems to me that in the next few years there will ‘be almost a tidal wave of people from Vancouver and points south and east who will be looking for summer home | sites in the inserior of B.C. I can’t see this great coming rush concentrating on the Ok- anagan, for the obvious reason ing to need all its own land for its own purposes. In the rapidly growing chain of cities in these parts there is enough local population to supply the future market for all the waterfront property that is available near- by. That means that the big future rush from Vancouver and other outside points will have to go further north, to the Cari- boo, to the Shuswap region, to Adams lake, «nd to the Kooten- ays—which are almost unknown countries to most Canadians. PROBABLY some As q See It: Loo ore Philpott But, strange to say, although |. Bae ie Cee Edens ~There is a rip- -snorting boom on’ in real estate hers in the lovely Okanagan valley, | ductive fruit and vegetable pro- ducing ‘land, in this Okanagan (the new gar- den of Rden), but it is equally true of the lush, soil-rich Fraser vaHey; and of my own_old boy- hood home in the Niagara: ‘pen- insula, Every time I revisit: my “old home In the Niagara peninsula I groan inwardly, and’ sometimes moan right out loud. For those wonderful fruit farms ‘are being literally gobbled up as sites tor the incoming faetorles mostly from the United States. - I repeat--I do not blame the individual farmer in the Fraser valley, in the Okanagan, or: in the Niagara peninsula for cash- ‘unlimited ing in, while the cashing in is vood. But the sum total effect of this transfer of food produc- ing land into factory. land, or even land for new houses and agartments,. is anything but gGod. .It is bad—very, very bad for this young Canadian nation. WE IN Canada do not have an unlimited supply of good agri- cultural land—above all of good ffuit “and vegetable producing land. But we do have an almost amount of space which -would make good sites for factories. Take the example of the Ni- agara Peninsula. Only a stones’ throw away, so to speak, are vast tracts of land east and. north of Toronto, which never was and orchardists' never will be good farm land— here in the Okanagan will be! yet would be quite suitable for indignant at me for saying it,} so many fruit bearing farms are! sub-divisions. Of course you cannot blame the individual or-' chardist for cashing in when some real estate operator comes along and offers him what often seems like a smali fortune. for the land on “which his family have had to toil and sweat to! make'‘a living. But if you look at-the Canadian picture in larg- factories taking wp more) and more of the richest, most pro- pansion of the metropolis of Vancouver ‘factories. So in the Fraser but I think it is a shame that: Valley. Also, the rich Fraser valley being broken up_ into housing | farm land which is being gob- bled up, bit by bit, by. the ex- coming great is lit- erally irreplaceable as milk-and- honey producing land. Yet only a few miles away are thousands of square miles of hillsides, and wooded land, which if- properly | planned and developed. would make it possible for the Fraser valley farms to keep on doing; the job for which - the good Lord rough hillside land can never do. What it can mean though, this. We need more highways. We need better highways. We need access, The Federal Government in 1949 committed itself to the wrinciple at pay: ng half the cost of the Trans-Canada Highway. This Trans-Canada which runs across the southern part of Canada, is nearing com- pletion, It is now time to start Planning another Trans-Canada Highway. in order that the bene~ fits of | inter-Provincial travel may be realized In the North as well.as in the 100 mile belt just ahave : the, Canada-U.s, ‘border! Where -nould there. be A, better project than the present High- way 16 Jor Pederal assistance. {f we can get the authorities in Ottawa to participate on a 50- 50 basis with Highway 16 we would be well on our -way to- wards the completion of a sec- ond Trans-Cannda Hiehway, The Provincial Department ol Mighways hopes to have High- way 16 completely blacktopped by 1900, However, Highway 16 Js a “dead-end?! road for lt stops Just Hast of Prince George, The Prince Georpe-MeBride section of! Highway 16 Is the most jim- portant part of Highway 16 be- anuse it doesn't exist only on paper, With the Federal Government putting thelr, recent announce- ment into effect In this manner, the Provinela) Clovernment could then coneentrate on the North- South roads, the oecess roads and the development roads, ta & much greater degree than they ure Able to at the moment. ed Tuesday, Highway. | Your MP Reports .. . By FRANK: HOWARD, A recent announcement from Prime indicates that the Federal Government has a desire to participate with the Provinces in development of the North country. What |.this means in. actuality we can only guess.: is * MLP. , Minister Dicfenbaker Transportation by highway isn’t the only way that people travel though and there exists another great improvement which could’ b made . which would be beneficial to this Nor- thern area. I got into a controversy with the C.N.R. officials a year or 80 ago about the service, or rather lack of it, on the Terrace-Kiti- mat run, At the risk of again causing some gest that the C.N.R. start, im- mediately to modernize its roll- ing stock. on, this,Northern run. Also in Conjumetionlteimustapuild or rebuild, a first elass rond bed and rail structure so that thea travelling time between polnta ean be reduced, To spend some- Frince Rupert to Terrace is nonsensical, especially when it can he driven by car in 2 hours (so I'm Informed), An average speed af about 26- 30 miles an hour on the railroad Is Just not good enough, yel we all know that with the anelent road bed and rauls it's not ante to do otherwise. 7 Many of the things which peor ple dream about for many yeurs seem to he Impossible of attain constructive erltlelam can cdo nnd what suggestion ean do alsa, Tf we keep our sights high, and our Interest and aurestiona on, n sound footing we aun neeom | push wonders, The Conservative Party's puh- CANADIAN. LEGION BINGO Piggy Bank Guaranteed $260 LEGION AUDITORIUM EVERYBODY WELCOME llelty alntomenta Kound food, August 6 Thal is not only the case here} ere he wg ULyY 7 Jel: ‘o ABE, also, u rec ord, | provided .them--and which, ‘the embarrassment to the C.N.R, I’m going to suge |. thing like 4 hours travelling from | ment, yet it’s surprising what! RECORD 1 RISE—Living ‘costs in’ Canada: continue ‘to soar and hit a record level in June. “This ehart shows the consumer-price index ‘at'121.9. The index is based on 1949 prices equalling 100. The United States index nse climbed and in Juste reve hed 120. 22 per cent of the 1947-49 aver- Bride Ship’ Operetta For Ce entennial — VICTORIA (CP)—An operetta by Mme. Winnifred.Lugrin Fahey of Vie- toria, featuring a brideship like that which brought the “king’s girls’ here in 1862, may forr m. n. part of British Columbia’s centennial celebrations in 1958, Satellite’ Money Asked WASHINGTON U?—-The US., Navy has asked Congress to 2p-' 60 prospective brides who ar- propriate an additional $34 ,000,- | rived here safely despite a plot: 000 to bring the carth satellite: to detour them during a stop at program to completion. This would make the estimate | ed total cost of propelling: 4 20- ; inch metallic ball loaded ‘with scientific instruments inte outer | space, and checking’: tts ¢ flignt, about $110,000,000. Fire Cast Down VANCOUVER (—British Co- lumbia’s rainy weather.is keep-. ing down the cost of fighting | forest fires. This year $12°,1’2 has been ‘ spent fighting 1, 103 fires. In! the same period last year, 2,050 | fires cost the province $328,981. The Forest Service reported ; only 41 fires were buring at the: end of last week. ‘phe Bride Ship—was composed ; There were about 6,000 white imen in British Columbia: in 1862, | but few white women. Arrange-\q]} over Canada, in New York iments were made in Britain for’and in Britain, was a producer | the emigration of boatloads of snd teacher ror yeurs in 'Tor- . marriageable young women. onto. She is an honorary mem- ' The sailing vessel Tynemouth ber of the Women’s Canadian, cleft England in April, 1862, with | Club, and of the Lady Douglas! ichupler of the 1ODE, : ‘San Francisco. i QUICKLY WED Thirty of the girls were mar- -ried within a few weeks, and the others not long after. Another bevy of hopefuls arrived on the ‘ Robert Lowe.the following year, and did not long remain single. Madame Fahey’s operetta — ! Freedom Bid Fails JACKSON. Mich. w— A free- com bid by two southern Michi- gan prison inmates failed be- cause one was too tat. Robert . Crouse, 23, and Cletus R. | 30 years ago, and it was first in Od, a L scape from produced in the ballroom of the. *€0n tried to escape 1 old Vancouver Hotel in 1927. rt! the world’s largest walled prison ‘later was staged successfully in! ‘Sunday by crawiing out through : Toronto, Guelph and Galt, Ont.: 'q narrow pipe hole in the base- Plans for its revival as a cen-! ment wali. McKcon made it, but! ' tennial attraction next year in- ! Crouse wot stuck halfway. His! ! volve a large cast. ‘There are 14; lead parts, 20 or 30 brides and Yells for help brought guards } an equal number of bridegrooms, punning. -with other. characters. ’ They caug ht MeKeon, i alee nee ween cite renenen ee (5 a . Roig EARMARKED FC , SARET. mark are to he tatdaoed YA new system of identifying cats _for thelr own protegtidn ; ‘has. ween Invented ‘by the Danish branch of the International Order of Service. All cats in Den- an the ears with identifying Here, a Copenhagen ' ‘ent Is given his “Heense plate. 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