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Nothing Like Coming Home

gN* the eee week and the few days remaining be-

for schoal reopens families will be returning from
holidays. They. will be coming. home from far off
places by car, boat, train and-plane. Mostly they will
be arriving fy om: the south, where in all probability
they. went in search of the sun, only to find that in
theii sibsence-it : had moved-up to Prince Rupert.
Whether they drove home or flew in or came by train
or boat, the feelings will be Mixed. The children, who
two weeks ago swore they wanted to stay in the
south. with g granny or with aunty and unele start
getting excited as they near home. ‘They see a school
mate they recognize, a familiar Jandmark arouses
their attention. As they near home they wonder how

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their dog is, whether their pet cat has been well look- |

ed after by the neighbor. Jather sighs as the thinks
-of the following. day. Mother thinks of all the wash-
ing: facing her after the long trip. She wonders what
shape the house will be in and whether , she has: to
clean it from top to bottom before she can be settled.

1 Then the house hoves into view. Everybody
ste ‘tg talking at.once. Gee! ! the grass is long. Have-

n’tithe flowers sprung up. Who left the lawn-mower

out before-we:left?. Then they are across the thres-
hold. The house smells-a little musty but it looks
quite neat. It’l] look better when the blinds are pull-
edvup. That’s mare like it. Well, everything looks
about the same. Quite a few changes around town.
They’ ve stated on MeClymont Park bridge...
swimming pool is progressing ... imagine Gaglar-
di signs right in town ,.. makes one feel right at
home after Highway 16... doesn’t look like they
.and wouldn’t it frost
you, while we’re rained out down south they have the
highest temperature in the province right in Rupert.

Then the unpacking... Honest to Pete you'd .
think we'd been away a year instead of two weeks.
We took about fifty per cent more’ stuff. than we
needed. We'll know better next year... or will we?
Wonder how things at work are. Well w we've god a bit
ofitan...wedid get arest. Where are the kids?
Shawing off their things to the neighbors. Mother’s
unpacking . .. father’s still lugging in boxes... tents,
bedrolls .. only managed to camp out four times, it
rained so much | Lae Everything unpacked ? ? Let’s put

a pot of coffee on...

» Ahme! Well! guess it’s s pretty good to be back.
War k won’t seem too bad tomorrow. Mother will be
happy again. next, week when the kids go back to
school again with not too much regret. Yes it's good
tohe back in Rupert again! |

 

 

N WEN? OF INDE PENDENCE — Bmiling Robby. Gower, n
S-yeur-old newspaper carrier for the Independence, Mo.,, Ex
mminer, shows the check representing the $1,000 he has saved
{y four years under the “Little Morchant Plan," Starting at
the age of 12, Bobby had the same paper route for those four
Qears, Now a junior at Van Forn Algh Sechoal In Independence,

the hoy plans to attend the University of Missournl to prepare...
{pron eareer in evil engineering, That money will yet him
att bo a “arand™ ilart,

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old dog new tricks.

Like many another grandpop,
I. have been doing double duty
this summer: as ‘24 hour baby-
sitter to two pairs of grand-
children, none of whom are yet
four years of age.

- Believe me this old dog has
had to learn plenty of new
tricks, -

It seems to me about the only
thing which has not ehanged In
the past twenty five years in the
handling of babies is the nur-
sery rhymes, Those three little
kittens that lost thelr mittens
still hold the attention of today’s
‘two and three year lds. just as
they did in 1930, or no doubt in
1830 or 1630.

But almost everything else has
changed. ..

IF YOU want to learn the trade

of baby sitter, you have to
start at the bottom, as in any
other job. .

That brings you to diapers.
When I was a young father no-
body needed to teach me how to
whip off one ‘set of three-cor-
nered pants, and whip on an-
other set. Having been raised
in a fantily ‘of thirteen children
I could do ‘that job in about two
shakes of a lamb's tail, and with
one hand tied behind my back.

But now I.find that the young
mothers of today scorn anything
as simple and economical as the
three corner fold: They insist
that their young go out into the
world square rigged.

Apart from the fact that the
square- rigging: style takes. .two
safety pins. where one used? to?
do, there is still another catch.
‘The tummies of today’s infants
are so well stuffed that they
have in their small way what
bothers me—bay window trouble.
The square-rigged napkins will
just barely go round, and hence
pang as precariously as any Bi-
‘kini

THE change that has taken
“place in the handling of the
other end of the baby is even
more Significant. My own dear
mother brought up me, and‘her
other twelve children with the

tion now calls, with admirable
candour, a “plug?’. No ,doubt any
device that. ever: briefly stopped |

 

 

 

ked Grandpop

WHO was that nitwit who said that you can’t teach an.

2 be

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ing was a welcome relief...

But in the 1920's, when ° my
own three children were coming
into the world, we though we
had become very ‘advanced and
scientific. The young. mothers
of that day were all reading the
latest books on child training.

in the twenties were all agreed

that allowing an infant to suekle |:
an artificial nipple was a mon-;.

strous, hideous thing. They“had
it all figured out that those rub-
ber nipples were germ spreaders;
and that they would deform the
jaws and spoil the teeth of the

poor youngsters whose parents|_

were so heathenish as to use
them.

Many a now- erlzzled . old
grandpop like pme owes a belat-
ed apology to‘his long departed
mother-in-law for the’ vargu-
ments we used to have in the
twenties about such things. For
mother-in-law “(God ‘rest her
dear.soul) just used to - smile
‘good-naturedly and ~- say ~ that
these baby. dectors did not know
what they were talking about. A
comforter, a- soother,’ a rubber
nipple, or as a young folks: now
call it—a plug never did ony
baby any harm, said mother-in-
law.

But in those days we ‘at dient
on the principle that doctor
knows best... _ - . . ‘

NOW if you please the very first
thing that grandpop has
learnt: is that the baby-experts

tof 1957 Rave put those plugs

ack in baby’s mouth, with the
full scientific blessing of some
hig shot called Dr. Spock. .

What this fellow Spock setms
to be saying is to let the little
blighters eat anything they want
to eat, drink anything they. want

want to go, and everything will
work out all right.

All right, that is, for anybody
but grandpop called in to baby
sit.

Come to think of it, what mor-
on coined that word baby- sitter?

Baby-chaser would be more
apt, for believe me, ‘this. new
generation surely gets around,
and shows every sign of gaing
places.

 

 

Victoria.

 

3
Legislative Buildings these days,

The by-elections over, the Pre-
mier will get down to settling
many important matters—nam-
ing a Minister of Agriculture,
for instance, and looking over
the list of his backbench sup-
porters and eventually choosing
Mr. Speaker, to succeed Thomas
Irwin, who is now a member of
the House of Commons, where
he'll be hurled in the little group
of Social Creditere, Instead of
shining in the B.C, Legislature

ast Mr Speaker, . ;

‘Sings: ete. GH tb >. af" ricul-
Luke "Niininbek Raiph Glitlwynd
in April, the Premier himself

has carried the agriculture port-
folio, to the annoyance of many
farmer groups, the horror o! Op
position Leader Robert Strachan
and the ehagrin of one of the
Fremier’s very own supporters,
Mr. Tisdalle af Saanich.

Messrs, Strachan and Thsdalle,
who seldom see eye to eye on

 

anything, Mr. & being CCF,
and Mr. T. being §.C,, are us one
jn) thelr agreement that = the

Premier Js giving B.C.'s farmers
the cold shoulder by nat nam-
Ing a full-time Minister of Agri-
culture,

The Premier, knowing that
polities Js palitles, expects sueh
an attitude from My, Strachan,
and dismisses it, but he's pained
by Mr, Tladalle's  erlticiam of
him, and smarts under tt, hough
he pretends he doosn't care,

 

oat

The 8.C,er who'll be named
Mr. Spenker will follow a long
ling of noted B.C. eltivens who
have held this top legislative
position,

Twonty men and one wannan—
Mrs. Nanoy Hodges, now Senna-
tor---have presided over our Lage

Report

- by JK. Ne

» By JAMES K, NESBITT
VICTORIA — Things are in a state of suspension in the

as the Premier and his’ cabinet

ministers are away electioneering for the September 9 by — elec-
tions in Delta; Cariboo and Burnaby.

 

the Crown Colony of B.C. be-
came a province of Canada, was
James Trimble.

Charles E. Pooley of Esquimalt
was Mr. Speaker on. two occa-
sions, from 1887 to 1889 and.
again from 1902 to 1906,

No Mr. Speaker ever
Mr. Premier, but a Mr. Premier
hecame u Myr. Speaker. After
John Hart left the Premiership
he was named Mr, Speaker, sue-
ceeding Robert Carson of Kum-
loops; who was not. well..

Thoberda' cushy thulhgcan@p ek -
ers-—-Hon, A. M. Manson of the
Supreme Court, who was Mr,
Speaker as far back as 1021: H,
G. T. Perry, Mr. Speaker from
1934 to 1037, who lives now fn
Victoria; Mr. Justlee Norman.
Whittaker, Speaker for nearly
10 years, fram 10387, longest:
Speakership in our history; Mr,
Carson, Mrs, Hodges and Mr.
Ihwin,

Who will now fret this august
pasition That's entirely up to
the Premifar,

Naming Mr, Speaker is one of

became

those bits of make-bellave of
our legislative life,
In theory, the Lecglslature

elects Mr, Speaker, Bul this ds
only windawedresslny,

The Premier, all on his own,
pieks Mr. Speaker, und then the
Leqlglature goes through the
motions of endoraing the Pre-
nular'g cholee,

‘The Legislature cowd turn
down the man picked by the
Premier, hut jt never does,

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halfway between New York and San Francisco. This sign’ on U.S. ‘Highway 50 gives. tourists
an idea of just how big the country is. Playing.second fiddle. to the a arresting sign is an
old steam locomotive, a gift to the town from the Santa Fe Railroad.

 

ern train is due here—more than
750 road miles north of Vancou-
ver—in the spring of 1958. Steel
already is laid about 60 miles
north of Prince George, paral-
lelling the John Hart Highway.
Almost double that mileage

‘still has to be laid through the

rugged
country.

PROVIDES SHORT HAUL

This rail link with the rest of
British Columbia will be a boom
to wheat growers and farmers in
the south Peace River area.
Most of the crops and cattle
now have to be trucked to Daw-
son Creek—sometimes hundreds
of miles. on, deeply-rutted roads
—and then shipped into Edmon-
ton on the Northern § Alberta
Railway.

The trans-shipment costs in-
volved mean that cattlemen and
wheategrowers in, the bustling
Cariboo area, south of Prince
George, have to pay as much fpr
feed and seed grain grown: only
a few ‘-hundred:;miles: away ‘as

and thinly - populated

they do for grain raised in Sask-

atchewan and Manitoba.

‘The Peace River area annual-
ly produces about 5,000,000 bush-
els of cereal. grain. Much of it
now is shipped by truck and rail
to Edmonton and re-shipped

| from there, although a certain! 40,000;
amount is being trucked directly ; 000.

‘By. AL MARKLE
Canadian Press Staff. Writer -

_ Northern Ribbon Of Steel Rail
Taps BC's: Richest Grain Land

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. (CP)—A ribbon of steel rail cutting through a

northern: wilderness soon will tap British Columbia’s richest gre ain land,
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to the Cariboo and other mark-
ets.

The region also. produces
about 2,250,000 pounds of for-
age crops, legumes and grasses,
per year. A certain amount of

this crop also is being trucked}

into the other markets but as in
the case of cereal grains is sold
on a farmer-to-farmer basis.

The quality of the wheat is
not quite as high as_ prairie!
strains, but blends well and. is:
in high demand for that pur-!
pose.

Russell Brown, district aeri-
culturist for the Peace River
area, says the feeds grains, bar-
ley and oats, are on a par with
those grown anywhere else.
Some of the wheat is of poor
quality for the commercial food
market but qualifies as high-
grade feed. :

Oats and barley are the larg-
est crops in the district, making
up about 3,700,000 bushels of the
total grain.crop. 4

Yields last year, slightly be-

low average, showed oats lead-
ing with 40 bushels an acre, bar-
ley second with 30, rye 25, wheat
20 and flax 10. Barley led in
acreage planted with 60,000, fol-

lowed by Gats with 49,000, wheat”
| The Daily’ News,

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‘about 2,900,000) bushels was sold
to the food market and 2,006,000
on the feed and seed markets.

Mr. Brown figures the PGE,
with a divisional line planned
for Dawson Creek, should raise
the interest’ in farming in the
district.

“There should be a lot of live-
stock shipped out of Fort St.
John when the PGE is put
‘through,” he said. “The stock-
men will be able to ‘finish’ cattle
on our relatively cheap local
grain and ship the animals di-
rectly to market.”

The present industrial boom
in the area, sparked by natural
gas .and its by-products, isn’t
helping agriculture, he said.

“Right now we have cases
where farmers have given up

for some of the industrial con-
cerns.

“As soon
down and the railway arrives, |
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tive to farmers of all kinds.”

 

LETTERBOX

REPRINT T “TRIPE ”
The ‘Editor,

i In your edition of August 19,
| you chose to reprint an editorial
from the Kitimat Sentinel con-
cerning juvenile delinquency.
The editorial, of course, casts no |
| refleetion on your paper, but
jone wonders why you would
; waste space on such tr ipe. The
‘editorial began “Almost every |
time new figures are printed
showing increases in juvenile
|erime, somebody hastens io
[ren out that most Canadians
are okay,"

The reason well- -meaning lay-
‘men “hasten - to, point oul” Jigs,
lin their commendable desire
that all youngsters ‘shall not
jHequire, a bad reputation us
i consequence Of a few.,

What sort of nnonymous writer
ds Ht that will, spraadeuntruths
ubout our young people, knowing

‘they cannot defend themselves,
' The Sentinel continued: “The

 

fact Is that youthful crime hus:

been on the sharp upgrade for a
‘long time.” Let us look at the
facts as supplied by the Dom-
indon Bureau of Statistics, cover-
Ing the ineidence of fuventle
crimes between lhe ages of 7
and 16 in Cannda:

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Womanhood: :
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hood firmly pinned duwn by" the: “

ears,” hecpunis an

Edward N, Connor, colunyn st
he.
reached: that pained conclusion *
ufter close observation of. ‘the
“formidable darlings” during a:
recent tour of the United States:
and from talking with Ametl--
can women tourists in London ~
“All this talk about the “dom-
inant male’ just ceases too be"
true when you sail past the Sta-
tue of Liberty. rochh

“The American 2 is more
miumpered, petted and pursued
than any other female on earth.
Not only have they pot the poor
sucker in a headlovk of inex-
tricable moral superiority that
will break his neck if he tries to
get free, but these Yankee Am-
azons are growing physically
bigger every year.

“The average American ' wo:
“man gains an inch jn height,
“very 10 years and now is a hatt
nead taller than she was’ .50
years ago. Come the year 2,009
the average honey chile will be
opping six feet four inches in
her nylons and looking askance,
at any Romeo trom Dallas, Den-
ver or Des Moines. who weighs
fess than 250 pounds and can get

under a six-foot door without
stooping.” os
Letting go at the-American

woman and matters financial,
Connor declares:

“She spends ecight billion dol--
Jars a year-on clothing, her
nakedness and considers that if |
she hasn't ut least one car she
isa eripple and that if she hasn't -
a refrigerator, television set and
washing machine, she might as
well live in a cave.

“She buys four times as muéh®
#oods as the man who provides
her with the money to do so and
—the most fatal statistic of all
—she outlives her husband by ,
an average of seven years,

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