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, and Northern and Central British Columbia, '
_Mémner of Cénddlun Press—Audit Bureau of: Cirewations
Canadian Dally Newspaper Association
Published by. The Prince Rupert Daily News Limited
bs J. PF. MAGOR, President

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Proceed With Caution

T will be unfortunate if, for the sake of an attractive
supply of immediate cash, the provincial govern-
ment’ should decide to sell the Pacific Great Eastern
railway to American interests. In such a transaction,
the intangible loss of the future would far outweight
‘the tangible returns of the present.

The point is that a great deal of fuss—much of
which makes good sense—has been created about
keeping B.C.’s development intact for Canadians.
» The subject has come up heatedly in the proposed
power development of the Columbia river, and it was
also thrashed out in the plan to harness the Yukon
headwaters for establishment of a northern meétall-
urgical empire. In a more. general way that affected
Canada as a whole, it was an issue in the last elec-
tions, with the Conservatives taking the view that
this coiintr y was being sold out to the States.

If the election restilts are any measure, it would
seem that the public is inclined to agree. However,
anly deal which transferred ownership of thé PGE
into American hands, would be a bold step in exactly
the opporite direction. By itself, the sale of the rail-
way might not mean very much. Although it has
come a long way in the last few years, the line is still
far from being a vital part of our communications
system. But before long the situation should be
quite different. Potentially the PGE is the most im-
por tant single key to the province’s northern devel-
opment. As it stretches north, sd féeder lines will

reach into the northern interior until a substantial

art of B.C.’s unexplored area will be served by this
one railway.
“=~ To pass this key into the possession of another
country, however friendly, would mean that to a dan-
@erous extent B.C. had given up control of its own
future.. Operation of our railways must rate equally
in importance’ with distribhtion of our hydro power
and ownership. of other natural resources. The pro-
vincial government will be wise to proceed with cau-
tion in this respect or it may run into a washout.

    

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‘ There’ s A Great Day Coming

© HOW: PHILLIP GAGLARDI, minister of highways,
has said he expects that by 1960 the highway from
Vancouver to Prince Rupert will be entirely paved.

Po the people, who are travelling this road, get-
ting splattered with mud, eating dust in dry weather,
replacing blown tires, spending the money at $150 or
more a crack to replace cracked wrap-around wind-
shields that have been hit by flying pebbles, renew-
ing shock absorbers, My. Gaglardi’s remarks, even
with reservations, are sweet music.

When this highway is .all black-topped from -
Prince George to Prince Rupert, some of the color
may be gone from travel along the road—but that
was chiefly supplied by colorful language. It is like-
ly the sunsets will be purple enough without the help
of the vocabularies of exasperated motorists.

We're quite ready to have an end of the “good
old days” when a motorcar could sink half out of
sight in the middle of the road and: when that land-
mark of French-Canadian civilization of two centur-
its ago, the corduroy road, had to be resorted to by
motorists hoping to get out of the bog.

The day the road is all done, there should he
dancing in the streets—prefer ably on' the asphalted
highway-——at Terrace, Hazelton, Smithers, Telkwa,
Burns Lake, Vanderhoof and George—and a vener-
thle. motorear of the 1912 vintage should he set on its
way to Rupert just to prove it’s a perfect road,

Hon, Phil Gaglardi, then held in highest regard,
should he made the happy recipient of one of the
widest and deepest holes {rom the old road, as a sou-
venir which he could keep in his ge inden—and per-
haps use as a swimming pool, '

And, if the same Mr, Gaglardi has not only suc-
ceeded in petting the Kitimat-Terrace road done in
1957 hut paved in 1058 and the north end of {t
straightened, froned flit and hlack-topped, he will
he the favorite son of North Central B.C,, kidnapped
from Kamloops and inducted as the honorary chief
of half a dozen Indian trihes along the route,

Meanwhile, with no strings attiched, we offer
is the logical slogan for three yours hence: “LET'S
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quake.”

found to be the sober truth when
the final effeets of the June 10
vote become clear to the nation
—which they certainly are not
as yet.

The fact of the matter is that
the whole political structure in
Canada was shifted enormously,
and I think permanently to the
left because of the peculiar way
in which the Conservatives won
the election.

The accusations which John
Diefenbaker and his colleagues | M
successfully made against the
iberal government were that it
vas insufficiently liberal.

The Tory leader won scads of
votes, from coast to coast—not
by preaching old fashioned con-
servatism-—not by promising to

-{give ‘Canada more of the well

known kind of Conservative gov-
ernment which ’ former Tory
ministries had actually delivered
in this century under Borden,
Meighen and R. B. Bennett, but
by a program of greatly extend-
ing the welfare state, and a vast
extension of public enterprize
projects, such as the South
Saskatchewan dam.

 

THE most fundamental fact
about that June 10 political
earthquake therefore was this:

The Conservatives successfully
leaped clean over ths Liberal
party, and stood on election day
for a program which wits clearly
to the left of that given hy the
Liberal government.

Mr. Diefénbaker, in fact, con-
vincingly promised to enact a
much more radical, advanced, or
“progressive” type .of program
than the Liberals had been. able
or willing to deliver in their 22
years in office—and this despite
the fact that the social advances
made ovér the years by the King
and St. Laurent governments
actually added up to something
pretty close to a “quiet revolu-
tion”.

The main points on which the

 

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As I See it

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© That June 10 Quake

BRUCE HUTCHISON writes in 7 ‘he Financial Post
that the June 10 election was —

 

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new Conservative. jeatler gather-
ed in his votes. wete not only R
far ery from old fashioned Tory:
ism. They were in Hne ‘with
what rank-and-file. Liberal MPs
had unsuccessfully pressed their
own government to do.

The. Conservatives won: three
seats in various parts of Canada
which had formerly been held by
front bench, veteran CCF MPs-~
Gillis, Noseworthy and Knight.
Surely one reason for this sig-
viticant shift was that most of

Diefenbaker’s ‘most spectac-
war and specific promisés were
identical—-at least on ape r—
with the well Known progr am of
the ccr. com es,

AU FURTHER | signifi icant.

 

“fact

about’ the political, artiiquake|

on June 10-.was this!’

It was the right- -wing, ‘and net
the left-wing, of *the” ‘biberal
party that was wiped’ out.? .

The cabinet ‘ministers * who.
were defeated included a ‘couple!
of middle-of-the-road | Liberals,
such as Walter Harris. But the
right-wing, headed by the re-
doubtable C. D. Howe himself,
was annihilated .— Winters,
Gregg, McCann. and. son on all
went down like nine- -pins.’

But the left wing Liberal cab-
inet ministers all survived—-
notably Lester Pearson, Paul
Martin, Jimmy Sinclair and even
the indestructible Jimmy Gard-
iner—who must now see a Con-
servative government ‘build the
South Saskatchewan dam for
which he fought so long, bit un-
fortunately so unsuccessfully, 1 in-
side the liberal cabinet: -

All of which adds up’ to some-

thing of profound importance to
all Canada.
_ It means, among other things,
that the Liberal party, even to
survive, will have to take early
steps to’ re-establish itself solid-
ly to the’ left of the “Consérva-
tives. That will, of course, re-
quire a national convention; and
the ‘selection of 4 new leader, at
the right time.

 

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‘ata western beach resort.

My friend Don goes out to the! -ulous mammal—without falling

tesofé sometimes to visit his’

fatheri- n-liw,

ing stones. at those crows,” said

Don. .

“The other day I watched
crows at work = on_ raspberry
eanes..One crow would light on
the top of the can and bend ‘t
over. AS soon as it was horizon-
tal, the other crows would
swatm afl over it and strip the
fruit.

“Then they would move on to
the nebx cane, and as far as 1
I could see, another crow would
take a turn at bending the cane
over. and the first crow would
have his share of the berries.
Of course, every cane that got
the: treatment was broken.”

“Did you just stand by and
watch the crows wreaking this
havoc on your ‘father-in-law’s
garden?” I asked.

“Tt was such a smart trick that
I could scarcely believe it,” said
Don, and there was grudging ad-

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“another thing,” he added. “If
people leave their lunch for a
ew minutes, the crows will: have
it. They'll take sandwiches out
of bags and shake them loose
from the wax paper.

“You can see them flying back
-and forth down the gully like o
regular transport line, each
crow going | away with a whole

sandwich. -

“And then the people come
back and find their lunch box
empty, and they stare angrily at
their neighbors on the beach,
suspecting them of taking the
found .

Then Don started talking
about using a gun to discourage
those .crows, but I left him at
that point, It seemed to me that
any man should be able to
match wits with a crow---rascally
bird ver rsus wicked and unscrup-

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“I used to wonder why my fa-;akin to the feeling I have
father-in-law, who lives there. cowboy movies, where I cherish

 

back on artificial aids.
My feeling about the crow is
at

a secret hope that the bad guy
will knock the wooden-headed
hero into a cactus bush and ride
into the sunset with the gurl.
The crows are among the bad
ruys of nature from our point of
view, but they do have a certain
rakish charm, I like to see then
win sometimes. However, I am
not unlucky engugh to be a far-
mer, or 2 small bird. If I were
either one, my opinion would bey
much different.

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August 1

10 Years Ago

No less than 1,200 or so letters
weighing some nineteen. pounds
in the gross were dispatched
from Prince Rupert today in the ;
inauguration of the new air mail
service from here to Vancouver. \-

30 Years Ago
The. annual Knights of Col-
umbus picnic was held yesterday
at Digby Island when a very
large crowd assembled to enjo;s
the outing in splendid weather.

 

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40 Years Ago

The Rev. Dr. Grant, accom-
panied by Mrs. Grant and fam-
ily, left this morning for Terrace
where they will
vacation.

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