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CASTLE NEWS, Castlegar,

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Thursday, September 25, 1952

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EDITORIAL

The Long Week .. .

Association’

It seems that somebody in.the Provincial Department of Public.

‘Works has a peculiar conception of the term “a week.” On August
3, the commissioner of public works: for Castlegar reported to the
village commission meeting that Edgar Jamieson, Superintendent
of Public: Works for this district had given verbal assurance that
pedestrian i lanes on C ia Avenue would be approved
within a week after receipt of application for them. We understand
that the village office filed application: for six pedestrian crossing
lanes at the six major danger spots on Columbia Avenue, imme-
diately on, receipt of this report. The approval of these lanes has
not been received yet. 5

Now any grade two student will explain that “within a week”
means within a period of seven days of 24 hours each. Allowing a
liberal fhree days for the village’s application to reach Rossland, a
total of 49 days have elapsed since the application for the crossing
lanes was submitted. The approval for them was to have been
effected within-seven days. :

But perhaps Mr. Jamieson has a time system all his own. Per-
haps he means a much longer period of time by the term “week”
than the customary meaning. Perhaps he means 365 days instead
of seven, In that case he should have advised the ‘commissioners of

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clared, “and it is time that they
took some action.”
The delegation is also to ask

for enfor of the two hour

this fact to avoid confusion. Or if there is some other i
for the delay, why has he not advised the commissioners of it? We
understand he visits Castlegar quite frequently.

Certainly we can see no reasonable cause for the delay. It is not
a ighty deci of grave that the approval entails.
Yet the need for this approval grows more obviously urgent and
pressing with each sundown and each additional car that zooms
through Castlegar via Columbia Avenue.

The hazards of Columbia, Castlegar’s unregulated highway
through Main Street are self-evident. In addition they have been
emphatically pointed out by the Chamber of Commerce and the

“Village Commissioners, They, have been grimly illustrated with a
fatality last year, and a near fatality this spring, and the two car
smashup last week.

What is the Department of Public Works waiting for then? Do
they want the necessary crossing lanes painted in blood?

The village commissioners are not entirely blameless either,
however. They greeted the reported promise of approval of the
lanes, with jubilation and were prompt in despatching an immediate
application for them. But with-each passing day of delay and no
explanation for the same, they have done nothing to expedite the
matter. They seem to have forgotten it. In the face of the obvious
danger, such lethargy is inexcusable.

The: Publisher And: The Editor

effect.

parking limit on Pine Street and
restriction of parking on Colum-

ommerce

Chamber.

Mr. Waldie relayed a request
from Nelson that their bid to have
the rowing events of the 1954
British Empire games staged at
Nelson, receive the support of the
Cc Ch Th ti

bia Avenue also. It was
that the commission be once
again reminded of a_ previous
Chamb recc i that
all day parking facilities be pro-
vided on Main Street, and’ the
traffic congestion in front of the
bus depot at bus arrival time be
brought to their attention. Bier
Public Works Problems 7

A. R. MacDermid, chairman of
the roads and bridges committee
suggested that the time is ripe for
the Chamber to lend their sup-
port to the demands for a Deer
Park-Syringa Creek road. He also
recommended that in view of the
number of recent accidents on the
Cascade route, the very least the
government can do is to post
large signs at either end advising
motorists of the danger and that
“they travel there at their own
peril.” This recommendation was
adopted unanimously and a letter
is to be written'to Victoria to that

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‘(Whis' is! the‘ fourth ‘in'“a series’ of how a

weekly newspaper functions.)

The. person who has final responsibility for any paper, is the
publisher. He lays down the newspapers policy, and has supervision
over all departments. .

The publisher's responsibility extends to every word printed
in his paper. He is held responsible for all news items and editorial

and has yr ility for paid adverti
and articles. Publication of a letter over the author’s name, does
not free a isher from his r ibility.

The editor has the day to day task of carrying out the paper’s
policies as laid down by the publisher, All the reporters and writers
work under his direction. The space and treatment any particular
story receives, will depend on the editor’s judgement.

Broadly speaking, therefore, the publisher lays down the policy
of a newspaper and the editor carries it out.

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his visit to this district, were re-
ported. Mr. MacDermid recom-
mended that although the minist-
er had intimated that Castlegar’s
needed bridge might be realized
sooner if agreement to a toll
bridge were signified, the Cham-

e
added their support to Nelson’s
bid.

The resolutions passed
i i were-

e
ed. They were:

1, That dormitories be provided

Bie U.B.C. for out of town stu-
ents.

j 2. That the educational setup
in the province be revise:

3. That the southern trans-
provincial highway No. 3, being a
shorter and more speedily com-
pleted ronte than highway No. 1,
be completed in preference to
highway No. 1,

4. That curbs be placed upon
“ribbon development,” i.e. set-
ting up of stores and settlements
along a highway.

5. A Castlegar resolution, that
the government be asked to make
a speedy decision regarding Cel-
gar’s forest licence

and W, T. Waldie reported to the

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Mountain Standard time zone be
voluntarily moved to Farron, B.C.,
to eliminate the confusing bian-
nual time changes, is to be ‘mail-
ed to the various Chambers of
Commerce and Boards of Trade
for approval,

ber should i pressing
“for a bridge.”

He also disclosed bridge com-
mittee plans for installing light-
ing of the model bridge on Col-
umbia Avenue.

Secretary R. Couchman read
letters from the Department of
Public Works advising that Pass
Creek Bridge s to be replaced
with a wider bridge in the “not
too distant future” and that the

P

A. Anderson reported that the
Doukhobor problem also received
considerable discussion at the
Associated Boards meeting. The
delegates agreed that the Douk-
hobor prisoners convicted on ar-
son charges, should not have been
released before serving their
sentencs,

Mr. Waldie reported on his
participation on the Consultative

imp: nt

Robson-Syringa Creek road will

take place after the tourist season

as soon as machinery is available
for the purpose.
Talk of Telephone Troubles

Much concern was expressed)
over the poor long distance tele-|
phone service expérienced in this
district. ‘It was moved that the
B.C. Teleph Co. be r id
to install a Nelson outlet for Cas-
tlegar in. addition. to the Trail
centre which now serves this dis-
trict. The company is to be re-
minded that in many cases it is
possible to drive to Nelson morc
quikly than a call can be put
through.

The secretary reported that the
telephone company has promiseq
installation of new phones as soon

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as a repr of
the Chamber and his position was
reaffirmed by the meeting.
* Two new members were ac-
cepted without ballot. They were
Dr. C. S. Fowler and Robin Pin-
cott.
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at the meeting a fellow
J. A. LeBar of Stroudsburg, Pen-
nsylvania. .
.Mr. .LeBar congratulated. the
members of the Chamber on the
fine work represented at the
meeting and lauded them for
their support of Nelson’s bid to
have the Empire Rowing games
held in that city. ’
He encouraged them, to keep on
pressing for betterment of their
‘problems because, he observed,
“the squeaking wheel gets the
grease.” - ,

as de plan is in-.
stalled and: preference is to be
given to schools per the Cham-|
ber’s recommendation.

It was also announced that an
application for a pay-phone booth:
in Castlegar, is before the com:
pany.

St. Laurent Visit

A report on the visit of the
Prime Minister of Canada: to this
district on Labor Day was madé
by M. Dalton, one of the wel
coming committee. He describeg
the Prime Minister’s humanness
and his observation that Castlegar
“has a very fine ferry.” -

Whereupon, Mr. Dalton Tecall-
ed, we were prompt to acquaint
him with true state of affairs, Mr.
Dalton passed on the Prime Min.
ister’s suggestion that, since Bc.
will soon have the largest alumi.
num refinery in the world, the
steel shortage should ‘not ‘deter
this district’s. insistence upon a
bridge here but that an aluminum
bridge should be. asked for.
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