Me 2 ee on " Le oy ote ote ee nem whoa ‘ Weg tdi age + “'J. R.. AYRES © . Editor. - G. P. WOODSIDE General Manager ” (Authorized as second class mall by the Post Office Department; Ottawa TUESDAY, AUGUST. 26, 1958 The day has yet to” ‘arrive when the a ' that medical science has - conquered : ‘cancer, -but : ‘hope’ that that day will, “come is encouraged by the work of - ' such ‘men as Dr. Gordon Murray, the 1 distinguished Toronto surgeon and di- rector of the Gardiner Medical | Re- search Foundation. — . vbr. Murray states, in.an article in’ ‘the Canadian Medical Association — Jyuirnal, that: there is no suggestion of i ; treatment. by surgery, radiation and ~other methods; responded favorably to ‘ his serum, Lives were prolonged by as ‘ much as three years. It is not this remarkable. achieve- ment alone that stirs hope. Dr. Mur- ray advances the theory that cancer is . this ‘crazy summer. but in record numbers the; ‘sockeye are moving to- ward ‘the Fraser. Once again British : ' Columbia has cause to give thanks for ; thé fantastic instinct which makes a {fish nerringly seek the far-inland degravel bed on which it was spawned rears before. x ’ > 3 4 v é d ? 4 4 4 ii & f i % he Ly 4 x & t millions of. dollars. of research, science +4 first and last few weeks of a salmon’ s , life; where it goes and how it lives in ; between are still largely a mystery. ‘. But. ;this: we do know: ‘that in the errace _is proud to pay tribute this week to Te DUNC celebration was held in ‘their honor at the new Civie Centre. Our community has grown out of our province’s hinterland because there were people with foresight and fortitude that laid the foundation. It was not too many years ago a wilder- ness—today it is a thriving commun- ity, These pioneers, who were builders, came into the country in various ways, -—by river boat, canoe, on foot and on snow-shoes to pick up their pre-emp- tions. Many of them are gone—some are still living, We owe them all a debt of gratitude for their hardiness and foresight. Had it not been for them there would not be a Terrace today. Appreciation should also be given to those who have carried on in their footsteps and are continuing to build world will be electrified by the news | 1a cure in his treatemnt. But patients _ who were doomed,: notwithstanding - After. thousands of man-hours and | ‘chas- -conclusive knowledeg only of the © ~The builders a on their foundation.” at - Progress against cancer | a caused by: a virus and that it might be posrible, therefore, to produce have been produced against some other virus diseases. “The most allur- ing prospect,” he declares, “would be “the _ development: of a vaccine with which the whole population might be _ injected in childhood to prevent malig- nant tumors.” It is not extravagant to believe that one day cancer will not only be de- feated but also prevented, for other — diseases that once were fatal are now curable and preventable. The genius of medical science justifies this faith, _ particularly when men like Dr. Mur- ray are provided through foundations with the means to concentrate upon the problem—The Toronto Telegram. The sockeye head for home ‘little late because. of the heat of fourth year the sockeye 3 reappear from the ocean depth in their millions, and that with proper conservation there ean be assured a time of frantic activ- - fish- ity on seiner and gill-netter, packer and slippery cannery floor. What has been done to restore and protect.the salmon runs in these wat- ers is a model of international co-op- eration. Doe But the ultimate credit for the ocean’s richest crop goes not to men but to the unbeliveable, secret but all- powerful force of nature which.makes millions. of individual fish decide, at the same ‘moment, that the time has come to go home.—The Province. g Weare clad on nist ere to honor all who have played a part in the building of our town. It takes a lot of people to make a town click. The Centennial Committee tried to bring all these people together to com- memorate this auspicious occasion. If there were some who were inadvert- ently missed from the list of “before 1910’ers” the Centennial Committee expresses its regrets, We are sorry that more of the later pioneers and the newer citizens did not come out to enjoy this celebration which would also have given them the opportunity of witnessing the open- ing of OUR new Civie Centre. Thanks should he extended to all who helped, It was an oceasion that will long be remembered, It will go down in the annals of our town.—Terrace “Omin- cea” Herald, Weather: whither? hither! Fvervhody talks about the weather, perhaps somewhat more purpose- fully than Mark Twain may have im- ggrined, while at the same time avold- ing a commitment to really do any- thing about it, This is the comfortable position to which weather comment- ators have been brought by the devel- opment of weather reasearch, Take that hot spell they've been having In Canada. There was a time when all a Canadian would be able to way about it would be “Phew!” Oy ita French equivalent, which may be “Pron!” (Inn codler season we should tnke the trouble to verify that trans lation.) Anyhow, what do they do in Cane nda nowadays? yey pat a weather. wise (oy otharwise) expert (or othere wire) to talk thelr way out of the cul de-sue (or not so cool-de-sie, a8 you like) by explainingy that this isn't real- ly Canadian weather at all. It came from (well, well, the electric fan has blown away the newspaper cutting) somchere else, Now, Canadians are not alone in this modern approach to the weather, which is to claim, if you don’t like it, that it has really approached you, So a Frenchman with a dripping mustache remarks that the day js per- fidiously English, ven at the North Pole folk could be heard to observe, if it weren't for the roar of the wind, that “this is regular South Pole weather,” The solution to Mark Twain's prob- Jem seems clears The only weather peo- ple should ever talk about is their own weather, as they do In Oklahoma, on those incessantly ohewhaten-kind of mornings that can't he deserthed ex- copt in musie—The Christian Science Monitor, ne wie apne, er 1910 - - _ PRINCE. RUPERT DAILY NEWS — 1956 ~ An independent newspaper devoted to. the upbuilding. of Prince Rupert and Northern and Central British Columbia, ae A member of The Canadian Press—Audit Bureau of . coe Circulation—Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association Published by The Prince Rupert Daily News Limited i Co JOHN F, MAGOR te EE ene . President - ee an. ‘anti-body against it just as anti-bodies re 30 | i ae \ 7m a et ee a iy wee 7 Bresen . “ KA te a N \ C AX ‘ ue | L 7 THE SALES TAX, which started at the inhocent- looking one per cent in 1920, now is at its peak rate of 10. per cent. After getting up to six per cent in 1924, it dropped back to one per cent in 1930, but rose again to meet revenue. needed in the. depression. - It. was eight per cent from 1936 to 1951. During the was special excise taxes were levied rather than an increase in the sales tax itself. Though the rate is.at its:peak, a widening vlist of items have.’ been made exempt. from it, Exemptions. include foods. The present. rate is made up of eight- -per-cent sales: tax, proper: and two-per- ~cent old: Age: security tax. ——CP. Newsmap. = = 3 545556 a 355 600 MILLION BOL ARS——|——|— | PENSION _ soo~ | PAYMENTS asuen DEFICIT — TOTAL DEFICIT with: ‘Patricia. "Sobalvarro, - 11, "penn natn once ‘ : LANDING-—Chama, 2 “Spanish - speaking. parrot whose ‘English. ‘vocabulary | ls. Hmited to the: word. “help” is reunited ¢, . and her’ cousin, Deanna Bev- escovi, 2; aftet. being lost in Kansas City, M o: The bird flew away but: was. found after a brondenst, of its” description. ee oy rere neem tuum, seep conten a Londen grows” From the London Free Press London has been bursting at the seams for a decade. 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