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CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursda:

y, Jan. 7, 1960

B.C.’s. Conservative, Leader
Puts His Foot in His Mouth

A number of British Columbians are
beginning to feel a little sorry for B.C. Con-
servative leader Deane Finlayson. The poor
fellow seems to put his foot in his mouth
every time he opens it. .

His latest public outburst which has

the sympathy of a number of people con- -

cerns his statements on highway expend-
itures mentioned in Trail by Premier Ben-
nett. Mr. Fnlayson quotes the premier as
saying in Trail that his'.government is
spending $100,000,000 a year on highways
and will continue to spend this amount an-
. nually ‘for the next 10 years.

“This is another indication of the pre-
iers irresponsible attitude to finances and
utterly false claims,” says Mr. Finlayson.

It is no such thing.

What Premier Bennett did say in

Work Needed on

One of the major local projects of the
department of highways in this area dur-
ing the next fiscal year should be the wid-
ening and improving of the Deer Park road.
In fact, the department shouldn’t wait until
the next fiscal year to start on this work.

The blasting of Grey Wolf bluffs, one
of the most dangerous parts of the road
between Syringa Creek and Deer Park,
should be done this winter.

Although a shovel was on the road for

Forgei Politics
On the Columbia

The daily newspapers found a juicy
morsel recently in the statement of the
minister of justice that he hoped the B.C.
*government would make a “maximum” ef-
fort to assist development of the Columbia
on the terms of the IJC agreement.

Less than 10 days before Mr. Fulton
made his comment, his colleagues, Howard
Green and Alvin Hamilton, following ‘a
meeting in- Victoria said the government
saw “eye to eye” of Columbia develop.
ment. Mr. Green and Premier Bennett
agreed that the cost would be split. At the
same time Ray Williston, B.C.’s minister
in charge of the’ power issue, said his gov-
‘ernment was'anxious to push the Colum-
bia work with all speed.

Mr. Fulton evidently didn’t confer
with his colleagues when they returned
to Ottawa.

: There are -genuine Political ¢ conflicts

Trail was that his government would spend
$100,000,000 yearly for the next decade
for a total 10-year expenditure on highways
of $1,000,000,000. He did not say his gov-
government was presently spending $100,-
000,000 a year on roads.

But though he has again put his foot
in his mouth by basing his comments on a
misquotation in Canadian Press reports of
what the premier did say in Trail. we can’t
feel too sorry about the Conservative lead-
er’s faux pas.

After all, the premier has been stat-
ing publicly for many months that his high-
ways minister’s annual budget would be
increased to $100,000;000 a year for the
next 10 years and surely Mr. Finlayson
must have realized, before he -made_ his
statement, that the premier must have
been misquoted.

Deer Park Read

two weeks this fall doing normal mainten-
ance and a grader is on the road full time,
ho major work has been done on the 20-
mile road in the past few years. Yet a large
school bus makes-daily trips over it with
children from Deer Park and Renata.
The lives of these children alone de-
mand that work be done improving the
road, without mentioning the number of
tourists that make use of the road from ear-
ly Spring to late Fall and the residents of

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Civilization Break Down

Information booths for motorists are usually neat,
stocked with interesting reading.matter and staffed hy
people who know thé country round about. An oddity is
that, although most motoring is done on weekends,
practically all information booths close from noon Sat-
urday to 10 on Monday morning. — The Printed Word

STUBY ACCIBENT-FREE TOWNS -

A community which goes for four and a half years with.
out a fatal traffic accident, points out the Victoria Times, “has
mastered a technique which deserves the careful study of
other towns and cities . .. Medicine Hat, Alberta, is such a
place, and its good record is not the result of luck but of.

ion and Taw ,

i INDUSTRIAL.
FIRST AID CLASSES

Start January 10

IN THE

GLO UNITED CHURGH HALL
AT 7.89 p.m.

No Driving Schools Here

: No further weakening of the high school curriculum can
be tolerated by making a place for car driving training, argues
the Calgary Herald, “Driver training has nothing whatever in

‘that area who use the road daily.

$75 Car Labor

. How much labor would you ex-
pect to buy for $75? bots “e j

That is about the average weekly wage
-in Canadian manufacturing plants, and in
a period. of a week one factory employee
can turn out a lot of work. But even with
the highly efficient tools and machinery
now in use, would you expect one man in
an automobile plant to turn out a complete
ear in one week?

That is not within the bounds of rea-
son, yet a publication issued by a Toronto
local of the United Auto Workers union
reprints figures obtained from some un-
named “research agency in Washington”
that claims the cost of “productive labor”
in a standard four-door sedan is,$75.

Research agencies in Washington
must have some new approach to arithma-
tic, for applying old-fashioned long div;
ision to figures made public by car manu-
facturers in Canada doesn’t give an an-
swer of anything like $75. Admittedly, it
is only a rough rule of thumb, but divid-
ing the number of cars and trucks made
in Canada in 1958 (a total of 356,333 units)

between the Peace river and C
river developments, but at the same time,
these are being accentuated for purely
political purposes. And that is unfortun-
ate. — Revelstoke Review.

Grandpa's Advice

‘Till your own dear land, my boy,

And ever peaceful be,

For nowhere in the world but here
. Contentment will you sde.

Plant the fertile seed, son,

And watch it tenderly,

For from your little ficld, my lad, ,
There springs sweet liberty.

Reap what you have planted,
And let your thanks be deep,
For honest toil like yours, lad,
Has earned a restful sleep.

Heed me son, when I tell you this,

Do not think I have merely grown old,

True happiness comes from the feel of the earth
And riot from the feel of’ gold.

— Margaret Obedkoff’

> try’s big payroll is part of the labor cost

into the ive parts industry’s 1958
payroll (a total of $148,931,995) gives an
average of $417 in pay for each car and
truck driven from the factory.

Nor would that be the total labor
cost. The automotive parts industry in this
country employs from: one-half to two-
thirds'as many workers as the car plants

with It is purely extra,curricu.
lar and must.continue to be treated as such in this. province.”

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themselves. Certainly that supplier indus-

in making a car or truck. Beyond that are
steel mills, plastic plants, rubber factories
and many other primary manufacturers
that draw part of their payrolls from the
automotive industry. It’seems likely that
if the $75 were multiplyed’ by 10 it would
still fali short of the labor cost in the man-
ufacturer’s price of a new car—tThe Clip
Sheet.

Tax Question -

There is no valid argument against a
sales tax for school purposes—the only
questions are when, how much. and by
whom? — Olds (Alta.) Gazette.

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By JAMES K.

if the paid the sal~

Constant increase in teachers’
pay is bringing cbnstant demands
from municipalities that the
provincial Lae ae take over

aries, and exercised no control
over teachers,

It could well be good for the
province and its people if the
paid all the salaries,

entirely the

. salaries.

.. Most B.

making then uniform, throughout
the province, The feuchers do not

insist they’ o going broke oe sine
teachers’ salaries,

Latest storm has started over
a $100,000 a year increasé in tea-
chers’ salaries in Greater Vic-
toria, An arbitration board made
the award. The Mayor of Vic-
toria, and the’ reeves of the ad-
joining municipalities are horri-
fied, insist the taxes will have to
yo up to pay the higher salaries
to teachers,

if the provincial government
takes over full payment of tea.
chers’ salaries, the teachers will
become nothing more, nothing
less than civil servants, 'The ten.
chers themselves are fearul of
this, for they don't want to be
celussified as. civil servants, for
what reason they do not explain,

Yet, their demands and their
pay increases are bringing the
day closer and closer when they'll
be civil servants. The government

vill have no

but to enforce it.

Th

ly want sa.
lary scale, preferring to negotiate
piecemeal,

There's no reason why a tea-
cher in Vancouver should have
higher pay than a teacher in, say,
Kelowna, Vernon, Prince Rupert
or Cranbrook, A teacher's a
teacher, and the students in out.
lying places are quite as impor:
tant as the students in Vancouver
or Victoria.

For some renson the provin-
cial government has been afraid
to set a uniform standard of
leaeli pay throughout the en.
tire province.

Rut it will conic when the
government takes over full pay.
ment of teachers’ salaries, and
turns the teachers Into civil ser.
vants,"2.move the government
will be forced to take by the
teachers themselves who do not
want such a move,

It's bound to come if tea-
chers’ salaries keep rising, with
the municipalities unable to pay

e
could not pay teachers’ salaries
and permit teachers the freedom
they*now have. It would not be
honest .with the people's money

without taxes, and no
taxpayer favors his taxes going
up to pay teachers more than
what. the public considers ade-
quate pay,

_| railway cars,

Buring Gacember

An employee of Cominco's
refining department, C, A, Nagel,
has been “pwarded §250 by oe

that

Labor Minister's

It ‘is my hope that good
health and good fortune may be
yours throughout the coming
year, i

has Pesuited ine more Geonomieal
bracing of jumbo lead Pigs in

Cominco regularly * awards
employees for useful suggestions
through a suggestion visn com-
mittee, The award to Nagel
was the largeht gl.
diurmg the past few month:
the latest awards, Cominco p

t to employees, at
T and Yetlow-
knife for 72 practical suggestions,
L, BM. DeLong, superintend-
ent, relining department, pre-
senting the $250 cheque, -remar-
ked that a iot of good ideas had
come from the refinery shop and
that Mr. Nagel was helping to
keep up the good work,
An idea tor a device used
for temperature control at the

ant, previously submii-

Aschibald, smelting
department, earned him an ad-
ditional $45 award. ‘This inereus-
ed the amount received by Mr.

L we are heading
into the “fabulous ‘60's” under
highly favorable conditions and
we can look forward to consider-
able progress and development
in the years to come,

New projects abound on ev- |.

ery side, In ‘the North plans call
for tremendous deve‘opment —
hydro.clectric power, # new rail-
way, a new pulp mill. The total
expenditure in this area alone

1 be phenominal In the South-

t we can lools forward to hy-
dro-electric development on the
Columbia ‘and a new primary
steel industry. While on the
Coast new power, pulp and’ paper
pants are under way.

These are but a few of the
basic projects, They will generate
untold numbers of job opport.
unities and, the opportuni!y for
better earnings, They will also

y
to come to British Columbia. To.
gether, these basic industries and
he  Seeondary. inaustries will in

Archibald for his i to
a total of $70.

A.R. Harmston and J, Irvin,
Tadanac Electric Shgp, shared a
$35 award for pointing out im-
provements for motor control-
Jers on lead furnace cranes.
During te period, four staff

: approved Aicucstions: They are

Movvadea Bahai.
- $100, 000. 00 ut

ape sme by wort Now Yoon?

‘That's right — your $100,000. 00. For, believe it or nof,
you'll likely earn more than that during your working
years. Question i is: how much will you keep? |

Right sow is the time to resolve to keep a larger
part of what you earn chroughout this new year. And
the place to Keep i it is in a B of M Savings Account. ° ,

"Make saving every pay-day your No. 1 New Year's
resolution this year. The B of M can’t help you
resolve to stop eating between meals or get you to
work on time, but it can help you save,

Why not start your account tomorrow at
“MY BANK” — it’s a good place to accumulate a
portion of the vast sum you will earn during your
working years. It takes just one dollar — and three
minutes — to open your B of M Savings Account,

Here's a

resolution-

keeper ... Ask

at your neighbour-
hood B of M branch.
for a copy of our
booklet “Blue-Print for
Successful Personal and
Family Financing’.

Ie will show you

how to make up =
workable budget

that will keep your
New Year's

resolution intact.

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Castlegar -Branchi: RONALD MINNION, Manager

WORKING WITH CANADIANS IN. EVERY. WALK OF LIFE SINCE lel.

for

S, E, Angus and LW. Waterloo
of Trail, and W. H. Webber and
M. A..Melior of Kimberley.
Awards ranging from $5 to
$25 were paid to the following
employees, at Trail:

R. Nichols, P. C. Berry, G. H,
Castle, V. Georgetti, J. Dunlop,
E, Cowlin, G. Worobey, J. A.
MacLeod, W. Miller, S. Laluk,
J. Ellis, W. J. Rogers, R, White,
P. I, Gandreault, H> Ohryn, I.
Dergousoff, G, Osachoff, L.|
Harmston, H. Wuori, G. Morton,
L, Bogie, T. D'Amour, B. L. Mc-
Peek, A. H. McNab, O., Person,
K. Campbell, I. M. Kissock; W.
Martin. %
. C, W. Warrington, F. Baileys
AL W. Irish, W. Young, C. F.
Heney, A, R; Johnstone, A. R.
Harmston, J. Irvin, L, Perri, F.
Adie, J. Colligan, C. M. York, J.
A. Dellow, A, P. Sdao, R. W.

*| district highways engineer.

fclaneie a high Sevel of ay one
ment. ¢

The facts demonstrate that
our province has been keeping
up with and surpassing the pace
of economic growth of the rest of
the nation — there are many
more persons employed now than
one year ago and British Colum-
bians enjoy the highest rates of
Pay and shortest working hours
of workers anywhere in Canada.

ss. Ci i

benefits . have been greatly | im-
proved, A new appeal procedure
was adopted, the waiting time
was reduced and many benefits
were increased,

The new appeal procedure
provides for a three-man medical
review panel, One of the -mem-

bers is nominated by the work.
man, one by the employer, and
the chairman is appointed by the
Licutenant-Governor. :

The panel hears cases in
which there is a medical dispute
to ba resolved, Their decision is
final and is binding on the Work.
men’s Compensation Board. It is
our hope that the new procedure
will meet objections which were
raised previously, and that it will
be a truly effective method of
handling that small percentage of
cases in which the workman is
not satisfied with the decision of
the Workmen's Compensation
Board,

At the session of the legis-
lature this past year the Work-
men's Compensation Act was im-
proved in many other ways:

British Columbia now has the
highest widow's pension in Can-
ada — $90 a.month, Children’s
allowances were raised to $35 a
month, Orphan's allowances rai-
sed, to $40 a month, Lump sum
payments on the death of a work.

man from $100 to $250 and the
lump sum payable to a widow
on ‘remarriage was increased
from $1,200 to $1,500.

The maximum allowable
earnings were increased from
$4,000 to $5,000, This means that
the maximum compensation a
workman can receive is now
eae instead of the previous

sar definition of the word
“accident” was broadened to al-
low the Workmen's Compensa-
tion Board to accept certain con-
tentious cases which it might
otherwise have to reject

‘And the waiting period was
reduced from six to three days.
This means'that after three days
a workman will receive full
compensation from the first day
instead of aftér six days, as at
present.

Undoubtedly, we have thes
finest Workmen's Compen a
Act in ali of Canada, Our tene.
fits are among the highest -— our

appeal procedures the bes‘.

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Kinnaird Proiests
60 mph Speed Limit
Through Half Village

The new 50 mph speed lim-
it in Kinnaird between -the fire
hall and the southern boundary
of the village has been protested.
by the Village of Kinnaird to the

Comm, G. S, Rust said he

feels the new limit is much too]:

fast and will make walking along
the highway dangerous, He sug-
gested, an “enforced” 35 mph ii-

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ning through Kinnaird would be

Anderson, J. Alton, L, B. Wiens,
G. A. Jackson, F. deMorvay, G.
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Kinnaia Mit
Rate Lower?

Kinnaird’s mill rate may’ be
‘lowered this year.

Finance chairman G, S, Rust
told council Monday night that he
will attempt fo reduce the. mill
rate in his final budget to be pre-
sented by the third week in Jan-
uary because he fears aq ‘slight
movement” of population fo un-
incorporated areas, .

Mr. Rust said there has been
an increase in water rates this
year and assessments have also
been increased, He said he fear:
that this will not.only stop peop-
le from moving into the village,
but atso encourage some resid-
ents to move out.

“Pm going to try to do it.
I don’t know what I can do,”
said Mr.- Rust, Village chairman
Carl Leeblich said he would like
to see a lower mill rate but said
he didn’t want to see services
curtailed to achieve it.

A provisional budget approv-
ing general expenditures for 1990
of $39,495 and $24,706 for water
was approved by council,

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