CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, Nov. 1, 1962 CASTLEGAR NEWS “Here Yet the press the people’s rights unawed by by gain” Seldom has a 4, 1] turning point in NJ; Canadian ~ history been .so clearly marked as ,by the ena ct ment last ‘month in’ Wash- _ington — of Presi- dent John F. Ken- nedy’s Trade Ex- pansion. Act. Can- ada. isn’t even mentioned in the Act, bat its poten- . tial effects on this country are as. drastic “(although exactly opposite in’ in-” tention) as the enactment, 84: years ‘ago, - of Sir John. A. Macdonald's National Pol- icy. Forty ‘months remain in which Can-_ ada must decide how to meet the Ameri can .president’s: bold bid to liberalize world ‘trade through a round robin ‘of: tariff slashes. The decisions we take in +. these 40 months will almost ° certainly make or break this country. If Kennedy's proposal is intelligently exploited by. our: political ‘leaders, it could help solve the unemployment and ‘balance of payment difficulties that. are ‘troubling us so gravely in1962. Té it succeeds as Kennedy has ade taken to make’ it’ succeed, it. could open for us a new. way. of bargaining with and competing against ‘the. big industrial ‘na- tions -that are. coming together in ever- larger. trading ‘units. Instead of being locked into a domestic economy of -18: million people, our manufacturers could sell to. nearly half ‘a billion potential customers in the, US. and western Eur- ope. But none:of theie prospects will fol- low if all we do is give lip-service to the ideas in the president’s bill. To take ad- vantage of. it, we will have to lower or eliminate our ‘own tariffs toa previously inconceivable degree. There are’ grave risks: ‘in . this course; they: have always seemed ‘so grave, indeed, that until now ‘one of the immutable axioms’ of. our. his-, - ” Cuba is Stand for Coiaunige | Check 3 If there is one thing that free people must understand ‘about the Cuban crisis it is that Presid is pr by the dreadful diplomatic lessons" for which we paid in blood and agony in: the _last struggle. The 1930s, said the president, taught us that ‘aggressive conduct, if allowed to and d, ulti- go mately leads to war, y ‘Tn this scene Cuba is merely the cur- rent testing ground on which the Soviet Union is: trying to find out how. far ‘and how fast it can push the United States without a nuclear war. _ ; Cuba is the “latest version, of, the ‘struggle over Berlin, the thr : dred and meets ory has been that Canadian industry can|e grow only behind high protective walls. If the walls come’ down, some factory gates will have to be permanently closed. But if we bargain toughly and adroitly, |§ the over-all effects on the economy should. provide us‘ with an escape from the trade impasse in which we now find ourselves. Instead of holding rigidly. to the be- lief: that an east-west trading’ pattern" is|f basic ‘to our: survival; we.‘shall have. to VICTORIA: REPORT | Lindsay Does a Good Job By JAMES K. NESBITT ra It may. seem ay, has some shi Columbia: in 2 Aber ‘of ‘people ugh accept the as’ yet untested \ thesis. that {and highways Was double Canada’.can prosper as a ‘junior partner. the same month 5 with the U.S. in.a Mr. Lindsay, an honorable, de- region, with predominantly north-south trading lines. § ~. dlcated man, looks a very worried man. these days, “|"There he ‘is, trying to do the very best job he can, and a: very good Unless: we find the courage for this job he does; white, at the same time kind of gamble, Canada faces the al he’ sees’ ‘more tive, ‘of: ;pecoming:. a sort of “Manchuria- ials for others to process while. our stand- ard of living slides ever lower. One effect of the changes envisaged by the American president would be to ‘omy with that of the U.S. Paradoxically, careless “and discourteous all ‘the ime. ‘That, to bli means. he ee ‘ ti BS with-h raw ihater- failure, which, ‘of c case’ at all. Without. t Gectee: Cinde say, and -his fine staff, the death and maimed figures would ‘be very much. higher. The Minister of Highways, the “entwine even more’ intimately our econ-|Rev, and the Hon. Phil Gaglardi and Mr. Lindsay, do not see eye-to- eye on speed, or on the basic cause the same step could also guardntee our of accidents. future as an independent’ nation. Politi- Mr, Gaglardi says that by far eal union with the US. will be easier to|the greatest number of accidents avoid if the cial’ partnership we is caused by drivers who have been enter is not between the mammoth econ- . Lindsay, while cer- tainly not “discounting. the awful omy “of the U.S. and our, relatively minor|menace of the drinking. driver, one, but’ between us and the entire At-| 20esmt belleve the figures for them lahtic community of -nations. out, For Canada, this ambitious partner- ship holds great promise and grave risk. We have about 40° months’ to make up are as high as Mr. Gaglardi makes According :to Mr, Gaglardi; if Nquor was abolished, it would be perfectly safe to drive 80 miles an hour, a view which causes George our minds: gamble or play safe. This mag-|Lindsay to: hold his head in his|. azine believes that if. we. gamble we hands and. shudder. I'm, with Mr. Lindsay:.” until’ we - have: divided might lose but we will probably: win; if| highways, anything more ‘than 70 .we play safe’ we can only Jose. Jean|is Monnet, the architect: of the European Common Market, ..once: advised. a group of doubting politicians not to :be, overim- pressed by material problems.: ‘‘They are not very hard to resolve,” he said. ‘What | sore; it: only stands to reagon that|']. if we can do 60 in broad daylight, |" counts is to make’ up. our’ minds’ to see things. inthe perspective: of building the future, not ‘of preserving the past.” -—. Peter: C. Newman in Maclean's: Mee: azine 35," < with Cuba she will have poised a rocket pointed at the heart of the United Siates. | And from there she will ‘undoubtedly be emboldened to have her way, in Berlin, |° with Formosa, South America ‘and a coe en other hot* spots ‘where is pretty. dangerous, Me. Lindsay—and I agree with him on -this*one, too—feels that be no greater, than 50s Everyone ness’ is, ‘in itself, a hazard; there- we should not: be permitted to do more than 50‘\in the blackness. Even ‘ruling out the danger factor, it. would: make: ‘driving much more comnrortable: ne too, that ‘Mr. Lindsay titnks“t here "sould be'compulsory testing of ‘cars “throughout “the province, as-in the city of Van- couver.’I say that if a 0 Will: Dobson: new: dea Sots ne BC. Weekly News. ‘Asso on.:He was elected i lons of the 44th of the BCWNA kh Hospital Hore = Thirty-e! eight more Pittents were admitted ‘to the’ Castlegar | ¢ bosp ital duririg the first eight mane att : of 1962 than for the ‘compar Ae perlod last year. 00> “There “were °1,338. adult and uta patients this: year compared 231; s Ladies this’ year as compared with 152 in the same period Jest year, |: There were’ 8,224\ ‘adult. and Team .4 patient “days and 8 801. newborn | team 12-1 points. Patient Out patient visits ‘of 2,497 dur- J. Hardy. 647; D. jadiéa high single, N (0; Granstrom) 268 Tan points, team 1-3 Points 2 vs team’ 5 +1 point; Team |2°-°3 points vs team’ 10:-1 points; Team 3 = 0 points vs team’ 6 -'4 points; |1; Teddy B - points: vs team 7 points; ‘Team 8 <.0 points ve team pared with 7,887: adult and child) 45-_ 4 points; ‘Team 9-'3 Points, VS . Team high ‘single No,’ 10: iN Harshenin ' 613.”, No blows, | Janet th 1,800: last ‘year. There were Seat) 919; ‘Team high: aN .. ‘ tr babies born in the eight months Other oot Mm: Thompson 6 813; int Thumbs 1; King zing 3; 5 Sea 4 E <| vers. 855; Team high’ three Beavers 50. Chorogirls 3; Five | Beatniks 3;- Flyers: 2. | Tuesday Mol : Ladies’ high. single’. vOlga: ‘Har- shenin 259; Ladi ies high three Olga Brownlie,. Team’ high’ single ‘Bea- Team. pi : fenders Ay Deadbeats 33 ree Reformers 3}: Springbacks 1. ‘Other’ /600's_Ken Price 73! Evelyn Scheidt G08, Team points, Beavel of this year. compared with ient. occupancy’ averag this