_ the White House—Andrew Jackson, PRINCE RUPERT DAILY NEWS -- An independent newspaper dévoted to the upbuilding of Prince Rupert and Northern and Central British Columbia. A member of The Canadian Press—Audit Bureau of Circulation—-Canadian. Daily Newspaper Publishers Association Published by The Prince Rupert Daily News Limited JOHN F. MAGOR - President "J. R. AYRES Editor OD Authorized as sccond class mo ' G. P. WOODSIDE General Manager mali by thé Post Office Bépattinent, Ottawa THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1958 Mayor makes Ottawa visit pay off. M4YOR P. J, LESTER imay not be a man of distinction sartorially, he may balk at robes of office and the accompanying trappings but when he takes a trip to Ottawa he’ certainly makes it pay. A great mary city vot- ers had misgivings when Mayor Les ter was elected last December but they needn't have so far as the City of Prince Rupert is coricertied. The mayor’s government-paid-for trip .to the capital for a civil defence ‘course résulted in dividends which should see the town acqiiire a inuch-needed city hall sooner than was ever anticipated even a miortith ago. | Be At a City Council meeting October 27, Skeena member of parliament Frank Howard painted quite a gloomy picture of prospects of having the fed: eral government reduce its $457,000 price on the present federal building. The government would go ahéad and build an addition on the federal. build- ing before it would let it go for any léss,-was,the word at that time. . What Mayor Lester did in Ottawa to charige the miiids of the hitherto adamatit Conservative: treasury de- partmieht and public works minister Howard Giéen, ow acting prime minister, is not known. But whatever tiethods of persiasion he used, the fact i‘erains that the government has — now offered Prince Rupert the federal | ‘building for $200,000, a reduction “of $257,000,-an amazing and gratifying development. eS : If the city can acquire the most presentable federal building for $200,- 000 in these inflationary times, we’ve got ourselves a bargain in anyone’s laiigtiage. We agree heartily with City Gouncil in commending the mayor for his good works. We don’t know how much the mayoi' learned -about . civil defence, bit we'll bet that the federal governtient learned something from the mayor abotit horsé-trading. Spreading its net ment to recruits; it is widening the “opportunity of attaining cormmission- ed rank. Gold braid.is not the only criterion of the navy, and in fact the petty officer corps is the backbone of any ship. There is service aplenty with honor and distinction even. with- out a ring on the coat sleeve, and now- adays in particular’a commendable degree of initiative and intelligencé is required of all ranks. ee - Jt is not in the nature of. things that all crew personnel have desire for commissioned status; many prefer to spend their careers on what probably is miscalled the lower deck. Where any young sailor has an eye on an ad- miral’s flag, however, no previous ed- ucational disbarment need’ now. stand irhis way. The navy will make up for any such deficiency by schooling him itself. This should be a boon for the type of sailor at whom the new pro- eram is aimed. ° Many young men are. forced to LETTER FROM WASHINGTON: Presidential job: appears no marrkiller . Wy GEORGE KITCHEN HE RCN is offering another induce-’ leave school without gaining matricu- lation standards, and through no fault of their own. Family circunistances ofteti cut short the education of bright students. Some of these boys find their way into the RCN, and potential- ly have the material the navy is look- ing for to keep its officer cadre at full strength. , It is planned now to several courses through which edu- cational standards may be brought up to the required level, either by junior matriculation training, grade examin- ations set by the department of edu- eation, or special officer-training courses. Obviously the RCN is spread- ing its net so that no good prospect is missed; contrariwise no young sailor need fear lack of opportunity for ad- vancement. = The navy-shcould benefit also from the fact that when the are commis- sioned the. successful candidates will have had experience of the lower deck. —The Victoria Colonist. _ pg & 4 Cahndiin «Press Staff Writer . WASHINGTON Ut—Dwight D.. Eisenhower has knocked the stiiffings out of the old. wives’ tale that the presidency of the United States is n man-killer and one of the toughest jobs in'the world. : In his sixth year in the White House, -lie recently celebrated his 68th birthday In. what his doctors described as an “excellent state . of health.” Ne then embarked on-an election campaign tour that might have taken the starch out of a lesser man. oe There have been other 68-yeat-oldators In Jamos Bye ehanana and Harry 8, Truman—but none with a medienl record Whe Bisenhower’s—a hoart attack, an Heltis operation and nm sdscnlled Uttle stroke ul) within two years, Cot * * LOTS OF TIELP yo Political phraso-mnakers always delleht In tallcing about how tough a job tha peraldehoy {t. | Tt unauestionnably carries with tt prant Yvar- ponsibiity bub the government does all it can to ense the burden. There are plenty of aides nt the, White House to relieve the president: of chores that bother ordinary monh—household problams and bills, banking, income. tax, va- cation and travel arrangoments, = | a “There nye ghost writors to fashion the prose idont's speeches and others to do tho Joba tint will Jenve his mind freo for great doclalots, | The White House jn a plensant' and édni- fortabla plnca in which to live tnd.there art two physicians remuldrly asalgned thare to lage itor the honth of the country’s firat thmily. Mnj.-Cion, Howard Snyder, the chiot Wilt House physician, not only watohod the prose Ident In Washington but also dn: his travols nhout the country, We adcompahier: the preg: ident on. his frequent tours aréund..the: wdlf ~ COUrAG,, | Coe peat, Thomac Jefferson, thikd pranident: of the United States, means (6 Knve beat the to picture the White House Job ab en’ Graal WWo.onédo onllod i “a aplandid mnlesry." We Ya Hin White House ot 04 and lived ON 8,” ‘Yin immediate predecemor, Sohn = Adame, Hved to 00, and Adams’ aon, John Quincy adama, , fire Hved to 80, dying on the floor of the House of Representatives, of which he became a member after leaving the presidency. Andrew Jackson, then in his second term, in 1834 and James Buchanan tn 1867 were just under. 67 when they wére Inaugurated and were just shy of 70 when they left the White House, Jackson died at 78, Buchanan at 7% Two former presidents, Herbort Noover, 84, and Narry Truman, 74, still are on the scene nnd going strong. toy Only one president aspirant is known to have expressed belief the presidency wna a soft touch, Admiral George Dewoy, boomed for pres- {dent after heroic service in the war with Spain, std in April, 1900, he was willing to be pres- ident, and then added his remark that the office of president was “not such a very alf- ficult one to fll." That was the. ond of the Dewey oom, Put uns or... From the Winnipeg Tribune Premier Roblin is reported as anhylyg that the government hns no intention of changing the Jaw hanning Hqwor ndvertiaing jn Mnit- {toba, If the governitient Js convinced that the progent Jaw ta wt right, whieh wo doubt, the attorney general should wet busy and enforce It. ° Responsibility _ - Law will never be strong or reayected unices it has tha sontimont of the people behind It. ¢ the peonle of n State make bad [nwa, thoy will auffer for §t. They will be the frat to’ nuffor, Let then auffoy, Buffering, aid nothing else, WI) Implant that sontiment of reaponal- bility which Ja the frat step to reform, . . e JAMES DRYON, LA Bible Mought for Trdey The Lord Is my shepherd. Puntos 2901, Lové ad faith aro keys to a happy life. ~ David aga boy wan usefully amployed. Play: boys often become bored with lfe, ¢ 1958 inaugurate” on All A Many shirts, dresses. and dish towels were, and still are, made from flour sacks, The only trouble about the versatile and ever - present floursack was that it carried the maker’s name, Some peo- ple thought that they lost their dignity if they allowed themselves to become walking advertisements for Five Roses or Robin Hood. One public-spirited milling company solved this difficulty a few years ago by leaving its sacks white and imprinting the company’s Inbel on tough paper, which readily soaked off, leaving a clean blank bag which could be converted into a pitlow-case or duster with- out further fuss, But this kindly gesture has been folled by a wholesome grocery firm, which hns taken to stamping It8 name‘on the bags in indelible ink. Now the housewives who use Nour sacks | wre trylig—-ao far-without af- fect—-to make the grocery frm mend its ways, By the time the morsaga gets through, someone will probably invent a plastle flour suck which {3 no use for any- thing except holding flour. Yowever, this will be poor public relations. Many a ehild of the depression remembers the thna when a layer on two Of flour anelk was all that atood ween hhynself and the wen- Hey, | Some of the homely ald paekaging materiala which were useful for making things wre now almort extinet. There wsed to bo numbers of wooden boxes available for making Jnto furniture. But wood has now besone such an expensive material that ; xearanly anyone can afford to Wie at. _ Almost the only wooden axes we Koo nowadays = are those that come heye from t ‘for tha loss ra wonderful Ay GE. Wlorlimors | China, Japan or Scotland with - ter, oranges or whisky in them. - The same goes for string. Parcels are atuck together with sticky tape. No longer is there a bog hanging behind — the door, filled with a tangle of different-sized string saved from. parecls. If you want string, you have to buy it—a deplorable state of affairs, However, changes jn pack- nging. methods have brought gaing as well as losses to the something-for-nothing — brig- ade. Thrifty housewives now have assortment of transparent polycthelenc bags which can be used for pnelk- {ng school Junches, wrapping soghy garbage, enenaing vog- etablod for the freezer, and carying wot clothes. | Selénee has compensnted ws of ,atring and wooden boxes, by giving us the tranaparent bag. The bag docs - hove a trencharous side to ita nature. Children have suffo- ented boenure they put plastie baga over tholr henada, Tho solution to this danger, perhaps, would be a Inw come pelling manufacturers to put holog jn tholr bags, or else color thom a @atinelive color nnd Jetter-them with warnings to parents, ntelligence is healthly From ‘The | Peferborough Examiner Rogonrch worlkara At the Univoralty of Toronto havo wtudied 90,000 ansod of nouros. fa, and have omerged with tho interesting conclusion that huevy-jeoblos jk an allmont which tonda to af lot people of modoat Intalligonae; an the LQ, visca, omotionnal malade juatment goos down. ITritelloct ia nol dangerous; on the con- trary, It ta hontthy. aperormee tot _ SPECTACLE of Britain's Qtteen Elizabeth was seen for |) | first time this year by millions '. of people in time when ' -televisied. Top picture shows |* - Queen Elizabeth r , from Throne with Speech Prince Philip . Photo at left \ peers, peeresses, bishops and judges and House of Co 4 mov aiy rien vo toy a e ~ The reluctant autoist. eo .. From Peterboro Examiner ” e No-extensive research need be undertaken to discover. the ~ reason: for the temporary failure of Toronto's new ‘crosswalk policy, It is simply that a majority of motorists are unused | to the notion that pedestrians have a legitimate right to cross the road. . ‘ WESTERN BIRD: |: Magpies, black, and: white birds about as big as a.pigeon, are known all over the, Prair- | ies but are rare visitors inthe. east. LS CANADIAN PEAK ~ Mount Logan In the Yukon, € highest Canadian peak at - 19,850 feet, was named after the geologist Sir William Lo- gan, who died In 1875. Fe . | Have a GOOD RUM. . fer your. ha Hart Oo gbmudeig of state opening | parliament by- Britain for first | |, ecremonies’ were reading. at. her left. shows. assembled members of the. mimons. | , —~-UKIO Photos. Small loca operating in inthe 18th CThis advertisement, ts not.punlisnea or displayed by the Liquor |” . Control Board or by the Government of Britian Columbia ° l sawmills were Nova Scotia early century. -. - fo ao dyhanl C Peart a> ee Charcoal Sketch hy Robert C. Reed The Honourable Richard Sineaton White The Honourable Richard Smeaton White, President of the Gazetio Printing . ‘Company, Limited, Mentreal, from .1910 until 1936, was born in Hamilton, _ Ontario, on March 17th, (St. Patrick's Day) 1805, of Scotch-Irish descont. Hia , father, Richard White, and his uncle, afterwarda the Honourable Thomas Whito, | Minister of the Interior in Sir John A. Macdonald's cahinot, owned the Spectator, Five years aftor hia birth, Richard Smeaton White moved to Montreal, whoro hia father and his uncle, Thomas White, had acquired The Gazette in 1870, Ho was educated in The Montreal High School, and Bishop's College School, Lanhoxville, Que, . He joined the ataff of the Montroal Gazette in 1886, ‘after leaving the Canada Paper Company; waa upnainted Busineas Manager in 1892, Managing Director in 1900, nnd, on his father's denth, President in 1910. Ho remained in this oco until he died in 1980, When Smeaton White was elected a Diroclor at the ago of 23, Tha Gavotte which was a virtually moribund news npor property when acquired by tho Whites, had bean placad by Richard ito, the Senator's father, in a pouition of finanelal atrangth and unocuallod prestige in the Jonrnaliatic world, mada pose sible by the exercine of rare hualnosa capacity, excellent judgment and hard work, Under Smeaton Whito's leadoralifo, The Gazette hogan na period of oxpnanalon that could not he held back, notwithstanding wara ant doprodlony, ‘The proaont impouing building on St, Antoine Street was built by him, and comploted in Naremboer, 1025, This was a peradnal triumph, culminating yours of planning und dreaming. Ho voluntoured for active sorvice in the Virat World War in 1014, and was re. fusad on necount‘of hin nes hut was appointed by tha Borden Govornmont age mombor of the Military Hospitala Commision, under tho Chairmanship of Sir Jamon Loughoed, loader of the Government in the Sonnta, In 101.7 ho wan nypointad ly Slr Rohort Bordon to {lie Sonate, To soon mada a place for himself in that body by his sound advice, anc tho annity of his viewpoint on publig questions, In tho Ronnte, Amoaton White bellevod Haat holy from the Voy of Common p ively pn (a morl a nd not from a partion alandpotnt, Ho felt the Sonnte should haa reviewing body, Although 1 atrong Connarvative, ho never atlandod a anucus of tha Conservative party, maintaining that Sonntora should he above party considoratiows on mattora coming before nn. Aftor (he Firat; World Way, Sir Robart don, Primo Mintator, In 1019— appolitud “A Hoyal Gommnlaaloin on Robert Ro atlona,” wndor the chalrmnne | ality of Chief Justice Mathors of Manitoba, Bonator White, on adcnunt of his knowledge of Inbour conditions, wan chormt av the reprosantative of Parliamont on that Comminion, Tn.1034 he was made fm oMeor of tha Logion of Honour by the Prontdent of the Vronch Republio, Ho waa a Kayornor of MoGill Univeraity, a trustee an mombor of Corporntion of Wahap's ivory » Lonnoxyillo, from which Univore —alty ha veoolved the dogred of Doctor of Civil Law, honoris caung, in the yaar 1032, dhould judo all loglalation Ho wan nlwaya proud that Tho Gayolle waa foundod In 1778 by Floury Meaplot, | nt tha instigation af Honjamin Franklin, 7 Porhayw tho finost tribute at hla danth {n. 1036 ¢ame from The New Yi r Timean. Vita nating Inonumont fe Men teabla and nto, anid its edita t | "Jt ia nol. oven hia nowapapor, Tt ia the anit in which: he maintalned it is \ falrnens, dignity, ence, sarvice td the publica. ‘Vo Alm ' la nawapanar was 1 wan fnve ntogrity, rogard for inte) n heredi Wy trun 6 was tha hen of 8 permanant tire atod with a publle.character and obligat + One ef 8 sarlew featuring Canodlen Yeditor and Publldheap Prepared Ty Canadian Dally Nowspanee Publuhers Asortstlog stitution, petoayt