4910 — PRINCE RUPERT DAILY NEWS 7 ¥ We Neh i ll ls ay See do ee tganen eee VW PEP SPH Tew ye See Deh yee ee ve oY weve MDS were cae t An independent newspaper devoted to the upbullding vf 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 Runert Dally News Limited JOHN F, MAGOR President J. R. AYRES Editor a. P. WOODSIDE General Manager Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department; Ottawa TUESDAY, JUNE 24, ‘1958 Water, sewer problem must be dealt with ATER this year Prince Rupert prop- erty owners are going to face the same problem that the village of Ter- race has already met and dealt with— the acquisition of a new sewer and water supply system. Last week, Ter- race property owners voted over- whelmingly in favor of a water works and a new sewerage sys- tem. The thriving village decided it would assume for 20 years a $351,000 debt and give industrial plants and its residents a modern system with which the village can grow and prosper. ° The situation in Prince Rupert re- sembles the Terrace picture on a much larger scale. Here we have a city, in- corporated for the past 48 years, Which has had partial amenities, which, now the city has grown and is still expanding, are worn out and old. There are already signs that parts of ‘Prince Rupert’s sewer ‘system have served their purpose. There are breaks which have been patched up again and again and have become so rotten that further repairs are impossible. It would cost thousands of dollars to re- place these old rotten sewers and such __projects' would have to be undertaken intmany places around the city. uch deterioration is also evident he water supply system from Woodworth Lake, despite almost con- tinual repairs by the city works de- partment. A report presented city council by Associated Engineers Ltd. states that certain sections “notably 13,500 feet along the shore of Shawat- lan Lake, have deteriorated badly.” This line, the report. continues is kept in “serviceable condition only by constant patrolling and patching.” In the past, joint failures have occurred and during such failures the city must | rely entirely on the emergency pump- ing plant at Shawatlan Lake. The re- port concludes that “it is evident that the city’s water consumption has out- HE ‘young fellows one sees around the streets these days, with long, untidy locks are perhaps ‘unwittingly stamping themselves as hooligans. This hairdo and the lack of manners that often goes with it are those of the teen-age delinquents of the slums, and it isa shame to see boys wearing these trademarks, Tt is easy to say this is only youth’s eternal struggle to assert its independ- ence. This could he the case, but when modern © Can't be grown the capacity of its present sup- ply system... The simple fact that on - many days that the booster pump op- erates around the clock, verifies that there is absolutely no reserve in supply.” It is clear then that one of these days sufficient breaks in the line on sufficient number of occasions will leave Prince Rupert without water, Only two winters ago, residents had a sample of what it would be like to be without water when a mudslide took out the pipe at Shawatlan Passage and the reservoir emptied. It can happen again at any time. Therefore before the end of the year the city property owners are go- ing to have to rally around for their own protection, both health-wise re- garding the sewers and for drinking, washing, industrial and other pur- poses to make sure that both the sewer system and the water system are re- placed. City Council is studying a master plan that estimates a $2,076,500 bylaw will be necessary to improve the sewer and drainage system and a $761,000 bylaw will be needed to improve the city’s water distribution system. The property owners may well study it themselves. They are going to need it just the same as anyone else. It is no good a taxpayer saying “Well I don’t have toworry. ’mon a new sewer now” because the sections of sewer at both ends of his “good” section may be ready to fold. No, Prince Rupert has to be as progressive as Terrace. If a few taxpayers in that interior vil- lage can revamp their sewer and water systems, surely a city with 10 times the property owners can borrow an amount which is actually smaller on a per capita basis to make sure that this city keeps up with the times and can provide essential services for both new industries and new residents. that bad a hoy wears those hadpes he is adver- tising that he belongs to the jungle slums of the big cities, and that he does not care if people consider his morals lower than anything he could possibly imagine, Of course, he knows and his elders know that this is not true. However, one thing leads to another and it’s not hard to imagine our streets menaced by gangs of hoodlums, Stettler Independent, (NTERPRETING THE NEWS Eisenhower aide may become liability By may KITCHEN Canadian Press Staff Writer The days of Sherman Adams as a White House power may well be numbered. President Eisenhower says he “needs” his Minty assistant, but there is growing doubt as to just how long the president can resist the demands of Republican politicians that Adams be dumped on the grounds that he has become ® politica) lnbility. Even Willium F. Knowland, the influential ' Republican leader un the United States Senate, has joined those expressing doubt as to. Adams’ usefulness since the disclosures that he accept- ed gifts from a Boston textile millonalre whose Plants were in difficulties with the Federal Trade Comnilssion, The politielans and the president, who ad- mits his assistant was “imprudent” in placing calls with the commission on Bernard Gold- fine's behalf, can be expected to look at the Adams caso from varying viewpoints, ui ile i 6 Intuonhower's own position is secure, The presidoncy js his until early 1961, when his presont term expires, and by Jaw he is prevont- ed from sceking a third term, In that sense, the president has no political worrlos, - Not so the politicians, Twenty-one Repub- Niean seata in tha Senate pnd 198 in the Nouse of Representatives will be at stake In the con- gression! olection this fall, Rach man running jn those Individual conteats wants. ag aloan a plato. ns possible-—certainly In his own office and especially in the Ropublican-dominnted White Nouso, Though Elsonhower may feel he has closed the case with his press conference until voling: time. They bribery which Adams hurled in the 1952 pres- Identinl campaign against those in former President Truman's entourage who accepted freezers, mink coats and other gifts from per- sons who had business to do with the govern- ment. From the viewpoint of the Demoernts, it may be Just as well if Adams remains as the president’s right-hand mah, Some of the mud hurled In ecampalen oratory may spatter off on Risenhower, as Republlean party loader, This is one of a number of reasons why some Republicans are so anxious to get Adams out of the president's vielnity. Parents’ job nk town of Ponoka has adopted a curfew bylaw that will make it an offense for a child under 16 years of age tobe on the streets, unattended, after 9 o’dlock in the evening, If the parents’ can’t and won't do this for the goad of their awn children, what can he expected from a bylaw, —Camrose Canadian, 1958 statement this weck of his need for Adams, the Demo- crats can be counted on to keep the issue alive ‘sll are smarting over the charges of = i Ve Ve yw e “Cowboys. coming home _ Why n not t negotiate on DEWlines? This country’s two best-known instruments of military de- fense have again come under public discussion within the last ‘few weeks. ‘The governments of Canada and the United States have hinted officially that the DEWline is obsolete. So, it has been charged by a number of intelligent people,’ is the CF-105 Arrow, Canada’s most modern interceptor plane. There are other intelligent people, including many in places of authority, who, deny both these nervous assertions. Let the Russians attack over the roof of the continent, they say, and the DEWline will detect them hours before they can reach their targets. Our Arrows, amply ‘warned, will rise to mect and destroy them. This pattern of attack, defense and victory depends, of course. on certain minimum conditions. The Russians must use bombing planes or, at the very worst, air-breathing guided missiles. They must not use long-range ballistic missiles, Sput- niks or other weapons traveling at speeds and through regions the Arrow and the DEWline cannot reach or comprehend. Unless the attacking force does come within these specifications, even the warmest champions of our present first-line defenses admit that they are, indeed. already out of date. Behind this endless and not very fruitful debate about in- dividual radar chains, individual. aircraft and individual rockets, one blanket truth—a truth covering all instruments, all weapons and all foreseeable occasions—is fast emerging. It is not just the DEWlines and the Arrows that are obsolescent. Military defense itself is obsolescent. We can still defend ourselves to some degree by threatening the potential enemy with at least as much destruction as he threatens to inflict on us. In that sense the deterrent remains a means of military defense. But once either side starts shoot- ing—and either side will surely mean both sides—all their science and inspired gadgetry will have little more protective value than a row of muskets. Once any major atomic attack is launched, the chance of repelling it wholly or even substantially will be almost negligible. Even the optimists seldom rate the odds against effective military defense at-better than 10 to 1. The pessimists put them closer to 1,000 to 1. Perhaps we have no choice but to take the risk, however one-sided. In the atomic lottery on which every living being’s life depends, it is slightly better to have our hopes riding on a thousand-to-one shot than to have drawn a non-starter. But if we're willing to gamble millions of lives—not to mention billions of dollars—.at such forlorn odds in the military field, why are we so reluctant to gamble at similar or coneeiv- ably better odds in the political and diplomatic field? No doubt it's somewhere in the rance between ten to one and a thousand to one against that the Russians are really and at last prepared to talk disarmament and atomic control in all snriousness and some good faith. But If such odds, unattractive as they are, are worth taking in a clash of mathines and bombs surcly they're worth taking too in an equally fateful clash of minds and wills. If we can justify our costly and almost-certain- to-be-useless DEWlines and Arrows on the ground that they're better than nothing at all, why can’t we justify summit con- ferences on the same Bround? Weakness won't help Before any summit meeting has been arranged, before Khrushchev has made even a suggestion of a possible conces- slon, we now read of individuals and organizations ready to weaken or even destroy NATO In advance as a condition for something which they call the casing of tensions and peace. Many who have perhaps been distinguished for various en- deavors, but not for understanding Soviet policy, are now proa- posing advance snerifices In order to break what ts called a log jam with the Russians, ‘These people whe want the West to make congessions in advance of a summit meeting have learned nothing and they have forgotten everything, Weakening our position in advance js no way to deal with the Russians, who are realists above ull else when it comes to power politics.—Galveston (Texas) News, JUST_THINK OF IT! r—y— This Refrigerator In YOUR Home FOR ONLY A FEW CENTS A DAY! Philco 10.5 cu. ft. Rofrigorator Full Width Froozer ........ veneers $379. 95 (Ganvantont Tema Avranged) Northern B.C. Power Co. Ltd. Bosnor Block, Prince Ruport Phona 4210 Stowart vw ev ow oe spr rere nes wwhe yo VR ate ea ee eee wee ee eee ovens { Victoria Report VICTORIA~- A cenutry ago this week the first newspaper in British Columbia was pub- shed, For that matter, it was the first newspaper tn what is now Canada, west of the Great Lakes, June 26 of 1858 saw the birth of The Victoria Gazelte-—-at 25 cents a copy! The paper lasted less than 18 months, when it was put out of business by Vhe Colonist, which started publication six months after The Gazette, and {ts still pub- lishing, Three Americans came ‘from San Franeisco to start The Ss a ee . by J. K. NESBITT and to be pleased, “Contrive, therefore, but with dexterity and propriety, that each person may have an op- portunity of discoursing. By observing this rule everyone has it In his power to assist in rendering the conversation agreeable; since . though he may not choose, or be qualified to say much himself, can pro- pose questions to those who are able to answer them,” Strange, a scholarly article like this, in-a small newspaper, in a boom town of miners and shacks and tents.. A newcomer to Victorta that of our now stately capital: “For the privilege of sleeping on a pile of lumber tn a halt- finished house, and providing my own panikets, I pald a rate equal to the charge made ‘for sleeping accommodations Ina first-class metropolitan hotel, When I objected to ‘the ‘prices, the proprictor cooly remarked that I was not compelled: to ‘enter into the contract, and added, with a cruel attempt at facetia, that the price was not high, considering that he furnished lodging—and ‘boards —pointing to the plank that was td’ serve as my bed, by way Ta ee SE Gazette. It was a good news- summer 100 years ago wrote to of explaining his atrocious paper, far smarter, far better The Gazette his | _impressions joke. " written at first, than The oxo = en enone Colonist, whicn was started by that eminent British Colum- bian, Mr. Amor de Cosmos. The first two months of The Gazetle give us a good picture of the Victoria of 1858. filled with miners from California, on their way to the Fraser River gold rush. Victoria was a town of tents and shanties, and The Gazette was constant!y warning of the danger of fire: “A hint—we notice that none of the nu- | merous buildings now going up are provided with chimneys. In view of the severe winters of this region, this is a grave oversight. The expedient of a stove-pipe hole, in lieu of a chimney, is an unsafe one, and save up to ™® oo regular U DRIVE RATES | | Hourly, Daily, Weekly and Monthly Rates on 1958 Austin and Morris Cars From $2.50 per day, 5c per mile, plus gas Reserve Now BROADWAY J DRIVE LTD. 996 W. 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