THURSDAY»: AUGUST 9, .1956 ‘CASTLEGAR | NEWS Published Every Thursday By THE CASTLE NEWS LIMITED Castlegar — BC. L. Vv. CAMPBELL, Publisher * H. G. CLASSEN, Editor ¢ dian Weekly Newspaper A jation and 4 B.C. Weekly Advertising Bureau SUBSCRIPTION RATE :— $3.00 per year; .25¢ per month by carrier. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office - Department, Ottawa. EDITORIALS PARKING ON PINE There is only one block: in Castlegar which is’ used for real, “downtown” parking,. and that is Pine Street between Columbia and Front Streets. And by no coincidence, the parking in the block ° is deplorable. This: is true in particular of the north side’ of Pine, where parking is parallel to. the sidewall There are 18 parking spaces marked. off with white lines in ‘that section, but as often as not about a dozen-cars manage to occupy: the block. This is. because too many drivers carelessly ignore the marked-off spaces, "and about one out of four cars can be found. blithely straddling, the lines, taking up one-and-a-half to two spaces.’ . The parking problem, (of. course, is not mi de my--wife sa: when to Teese my tap ; thing I know I get tw offender ....” ‘ (3000 Volunteers To - Ww rk Fi “Centennial By End Of The Year (Victorla)—: Three. hundred .. by George Classen i Statistics are ,a wonderful but intoxicating “prew!'— whi means, that they must be con- ‘|sumed in moderation. “IT: love statistics,’ ‘because every so ‘often, a couple figures will tell me at a‘ glance: what pages and‘ pages of verbiage never seem to get “across. And here, beside my typewriter, lies a little booklet entitled, “Quick Canadian Facts”, -with—T hépe—| SP! a’ wealth: of curious and. en- lightening statistics. This bakice ‘tells us, for eSimple, that even way back In 1951 Trail: had about twice the population» of Nelson, which ‘No Gorumisslon is gonna tell me | goes to show’ that’ jobs*and hard and ‘I says, ‘Sure, sure,’ and next |cash are still’ the biggest popu- months of hard labor as’ a: sprinkling lation builders, with beauty run- ning’ a poor second.’ It also shows that while in By E.G.0. 1901, only one in ten thousand workers. are‘ currently engaged in British Columbia's 100th . birthday party in: 1958, and before the year is out, the ch| number will be increased to over 3,000. ‘ “Our .17, sub-committees, are ‘now ‘fully organized’ and | meet- ing . regularly,” L. J. Wallac Chairman of the. B.C. Centen- nial Cornmittee said. today. “The entire Province is represented on’. these . sub-committees, and each ‘committee’ member is: a. specialist in his or her field” The’ 300 - member group gon is st of local Ci tal celebrations: committees. © “Most of the 200 cities, muni- - cipalities” and ‘ unorganized~ areas in the Province have taken pre- liminary steps: towards obser- vance .of the Centennial’ year,” sald Mr, Wallace, ‘and it; is be- coming clear that the number of persons who will play, an active role in planning the: ; huge was © there Se ‘one divorced), person per évery thousand in'1941, and two per thousand in 1951—still not too bad. It's in the field of wages party will wel over 3,000,", An organizational, directory of .the. B.C, ‘Centennial: Commit; tee is being forwarded to eagh Be emmounity to sinlet niece local ang other + gine jon‘ and ‘idvice where some of the ‘most p easier by the fact that telephone poles, norm on the sidewalk, are two feet:.out in the street a constant. menace to-fenders.”-We. understand ‘that it is planned te extend. the sidewalk’ to ‘take in’ the poles,’ and. we hope that .the Village can soon. see its way ‘to tackle this: job.. : Another’: solution, perhaps,» would be diagonal, _ parking, as on the south side of Pine. Whether ‘this would still leave enough ° oF" the roadway is for traffic: experts'to decide;. in any case, diagonat parking would add to the parking space, and would: " largely: do away with the present “one-and-one-| half”. - space parking In the me mend_their ways a bit and to think of the other fellow... s UNHISTORIC raeaCiS Fi House. of Comi . S recently, ‘Exterrial Iking of. the Rus- not taken to. nee by Fred Ss. Zoplitny, MP from. Manitoba, who said that. the uU “Poles, who were Slavs, too, hada £ edom"” for which they had as promptly, retracted, fae pcoretess: and .unhistoric ex- pression," “This. sort .of:.: polite political double ‘alk has . bedeviled national” international ‘relations for many years now, ‘and indications are that it is getting worse ‘and :worse, until’ all frank: ‘and. practical dis- cussion. ‘will be paralyzea, and only, a’ meaningless le'.dogma remains. to :prove: that the Ske ; . tradi ion. of - ‘democratic. ~rule. They have a “tradition ey im from domination: by other S— yes; * but, nota ‘tradition of. democracy - in c i Peter the Great. ‘democratic? Taras" Bu “+ There is nothing: to be aha ‘of in. having 6n,‘can’ be a , when ‘a : n better knowledge; ‘Sees: fit to iypocrit fal: ‘breast-beating ft for the benefit fon. ‘|moved by a concord of sweet _| liam Shakespeare. - ime, we urge Castlegar drivers to | ’| pipes begin to play. + | wards the’ pipes goes beyond a biased historian could hope .] ings their outward signs of joy, ‘| FIERCE CRY ~jcoe was A DIVISION OF OPINION “The' mar that hath no music in himself nor is ‘not sounds is fit for stratagems, treasons, and spoils,” or so said the man who had something to say on almost everything—Wil- I write this because I feel a little guilty over a somewhat packhanded dig at the pipe band | am the other day, and I was taken to task for it as well. Actually, I was just indulging a fancy, IRDOWIDE perfectly. well that those who dislike the pipes are lost souls in any. case, and, those who like them will simply take| ¥ the remark as intended or shake their hears in pity. In spite _of are : divided sharply. into’ two opposing camps when. the = (bee pipes are,;mentioned, ‘The cons are co! st to the blood li: occur. The “pool says that the average .wage in Ca- , in this year: of the Lord scream and drone of the war 1956, is $62.29. That's an average pipes. I have never savagery of it,-The hot rage in the hills one evening still ‘for and time stood it was timeless. . THE SCOTTISH a hornet’s nest stirred into anger. THE RAPPY PIPES OR HOME Some years later I climbed of|to me like there ‘must be an awful lot of vice-presidents ‘in there. And please don’t think that of| other fields.in Canada are green- the thrill of it, the Se and smeltermen. ‘Looks Scotland and the village pipe er, for Bc, has’ the highest band was practicing im the glen|average wage of all. provinces, and the music came up into the|and Vancouver the “highest of hills. It drifted up on the sum-/ the large cities. Castlegar doesn’t mer breeze over the purple hills| figure in the booklet, an incom- of heather, laden ‘with sweet] prehensible omission. perfume, now faint, now louder, a } Picitalion ait “continues to breath’s space and for a little/ fascinate me, and I learn that while all history was one. And) last year, one out of four _im- again I have never forgotter for migrants came.from the . United Kingdom. Germany ran neck to neck, each supplying China many, and . Italy Hf LAMENT Finally, I remember Sicily.| about one * in five or six. ee: called Happy . ) Walley the] d campaign and in a valley which the pipes. are: the i of the devil and that they, consist of.a sack. full of cats. and an armful, of .gaspipes. .Any sug- gestion therefore. that ‘that|* noise” is music is met’ with hoots of derision and insulting pressions. The. pro's. on the other. point with pride. to the anei and. honorable lineage of the hag -pipes and feel a fierce joy stirring in their breast when the JHE PIPES A. WAY OF LIFE Actually. one’s, reaction ito- simple ; slike or dislike. That. is for. and en- |The flowers of the Forest, was de held a mem- orial service for the deal. That simple service with a pile. of ‘drums as an altar, the A. more, It was just. after the Sicilian] sent us :1,918: ‘native. sons - that six dollars paid for campers went. to, the United | Kingd only one’ out of ‘twelve ‘went é that way in 1955, while eight tes. caught by. a. tabulation of the leading ‘industries of Canada, and I cannot help doing ‘a little division there, which tells. me . that the average’ annual income of.a “non-ferrous smelterman in 1953 was -$3,840, ‘while that: ir my own line (Printing and Pub- lishing) was $3,290. Looks like some of the bosses crept in there, The. average income - of a sawmill worker, on the other hand, was an_ incredible $2,230. Not only that, but fully. ‘one third of all industrial ‘estaplish- ments in Canada were sawmills! Maybe there is something, after all, to the charge that Canadians are =.just hewers of: wood and drawers of water for our richer cousins... : ‘ : 2 . Mstor vehtoles also came ‘in had cars.in 1955,-not drape ranks of sad faces, and the major played while pacing slows ly .up and down, that famous Scottish lament for: the, dead. the most ‘touching I have ever attended. The man without a sobbing of the pipes as. the pipe comes. into focus as we turn our nearly enough, : Interesting. was the fact that. West Germany sup- plied half as many motor. ve- hicles. as-England | that. yeart. _No tear in his. eye. was indeed aj culosis of came almost with © a).sense of tough one and: the Last Post| And 175 persons. were miurd éd. relief. with memories, - More cheerful again is the I feel sorry. for those who| mighty, field of trade and . in-|-ac ¢ dislike the pipes..They are rich| dustry. ‘While’ in ,1938, . just ters. .the regions of personal ire- ligion. ‘Nor are the reactions based :..on «.purely. nationalistic grounds, I ‘know Scotsmen who can’t abide the pipes. (the Scot- tish pipes, that is), while ; in Italy’ I have seen Italians ‘caper with joy on hearing the regi- mental pipe band, Nor do. I find “any. difficulty in appreciat- for I have a long train of hap- py ‘associations. with the pipes. THE_WAR_PIPES’ One: of my eafliest meniir- ies is of going to see the maqvie the infamous-massacre of Glen- d. ‘The Camp- “OPEN FRIDAYS UNTIL 9:00 PLM. ‘}fire, > bearded: clansmen come: swing- ‘}last “year, and..Canada is now] — ‘| the world’s (largest, market .ifor |.” iG goods. Mhells,:: traveling: . through the highlands, ° accept. the . hospitality. of. their: jancient”; enemies, -’ ously, massacre > they ..can. reach ir the-castle. Annie Laurie ing dut of their crofts, down. the hillsides, | their small shields; :in arms ‘and, their great clay~ the mores’ ‘across. their shoulders— Othier countries sold $4.7 bil- Jion worth’ of goods in Canada foreign-made Inanufactufed: ealled’“Annie Laurie in which! . ‘MacDonalds, and then. treacher- |’ LOOK FOR fore the war, one out of - AUGUST. 7 0% DISGOURT. ON ALL” CASH NURSHASES Buy During The Month | ,,of August ‘and S AN. AT: Leitner's ; sent-2more «military. ond: reinforcements ‘to’ the Mediter- }|rangan as a show of power in|" the Suez crisis. Britains most) an modern’ aircraft: carrier,:the 22,- 000-tor (Bulwark, steamed . out of! Portsmouth for a secret des- “the "Medit In Cairo, officials da plan| gi * I've: bee hearing “strange -agaln »However; : what jane 3.0f for mobilizing -Egyptian -youth into~ “security-,battalions”. More}! than 1,000,000 young men were | reported to’ have volunteered. In Athens, a high Egyptian em- bassy sourse said that Egypt, iif! provoked into’ “war, will not: he- sitate’.to. destroy the. canal. i OTTAWA— The © * eost-of-liv- ing index rose . to. a post-war peak in June, ° ‘the bureau | of vratistics reported. Carried up- ward almost ‘entirely by an in- crease inthe food column, the consumer price index ‘rose to 118.5, ‘trom 117.8. Price increases were noted in potatoes, eggs; coffee, margarine, bread, toma- toes, and all cuts of. meat. /PITTSBURGH.—Steel prices were pushed upwards an average of $850 a ton- by U.S, Steel Corporation, the largest produc- er in. the U.S. A check showed that’ nearly half the industry's working force has been recalled to the job as - steel corapanie’ |: ©)