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EDITORIAL,

A Hospital Will Save You Money

* Although the enthusiastic attendance at the annual meeting of

. In our search (purely academic

By E.G. 0.

of course) for equality, we find
the feminine side of the question
unfortunately addicted to the use
of what might be termed “leading
words or expressions.” Since these
“leading words” are essentially
propaganda devices used con-
sciously or unconsciously for the

purpose of they are
i with the

the Castlegar and District Hospital Society two weeks ago
there is.much strong stpport for 1 of al ital at Cas-
tlegar, there is also some stout opposition to it.

Many individuals don't want a hospital here because of the extra
taxes it will mean; others say it would be a waste of money since
there already are hospitals at Trail or Nelson. We've even~beard
one individual suggest Castlegar should work for a skating rink,

ity hall or ity centre before even bothering about
getting a hospital.

Such objections, or any others for’ that matter, can only come
from utterly selfish motives, How anyone, who has community wel~
fare at heart, can possibly be opposed to a hospital at Castlegar, is
much more than we can understand. i

"Taxes will be slightly higher, true. But those higher taxes will
actually be’saving money for the taxpayer. One needs'to enter Trail
or Nelson hospital just once and the combined costs of ambulance
service, visiting trips, telephone calls, and greater inconvenience
jncurred by the patient’s family will be much greater than the an-

~ nual hospital assessment the same family would pay to finance their
own hospital in their own district. The saving would be immeasur-
ably greater for the many families who require hospital care several
times per year. ‘ i

To use the existence of hospitals at Trail and Nelson as an
argument is even more invalid. Why should Nelson and Trail rest-
dents alone have to pay for a hospital Castlegar District residents
also use? That's not only unfair to Nelson and Trail but something
we have no right. to expect, We've been getting a free ride at the
expense of Trail and Nelson on hospital requuirements till now but
surely we don’t want to continue doing so, when it has been shown
~we can afford our own hospital. ;

° The argument is invalid for another reason. Local doctors tell

us there are many persons in this district, children especially, who
require hospital care but aren't getting it, simply because the hospi-
tals are too far away, and quite pressed for room.

This means those who don’t want a hospital here, don’t want
many persons to have the hospital care they need. ae

As for getting a skating rink or community hall or civie centre
before we bother about a hospital, if there were some conflict
between the two so that one would stand in the way of the other,
perhaps then there might be some nt. Even then, a
it should be obvious that a hospital is the first requirement of any
growing community today.

founding of true equality and
should be struck out of the lang-
uage.

One such offender is the term
“fair sex" as applied to women,
By implication therefore, there
must be an“unfair sex”, ic. men.
Since even according to the writer
of “Afternoon Reflections” both
sexes have an equal claim to
beauty of feature, then the ex-
pression is weighted and should
be discarded,

A second offender is “the form
divine" as applied to the female
pody. This is reaching pretty high
even on the wings of poetic li-
cence,

Now the writer would

In answer to the question, what
can we do to prepare for the pop-
ulation increase and how can we
prepare for it? Mr. Root said:
“The only,answer I can give you
for the moment is carry on as you
have been carrying on. We don't

Canada’s .

know definitely how many men
we will require nor how this will
affect the community’s growth.
The great population increase will
probably not come for a couple
of, years yet anyway.”

‘As for Celgar lending some sup-
port to Castlegar’s demands for a
bridge he declared: “I can’t say
we're not interested but at the
same time, we don't. want to
throw our weight around. We are
anxious to stay away from politi-
cal problems as much as possible.”

First Bank

Bank. or MonTREAL

4
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“WY DANK

TOA MILLION CARADIARS

WORKING WITH CANADIANS IH EVERY WALK OF LIFE SINCE 1817

The time to discuss such prob-
lems with Celgar, he said, will be
when a plant manager has been

Castlegar Branch: JAMES R, ELLIOTT, Manager

appointed here.

He explained too that once the
contract with the government has
been, signed, there will be a time
limit for construction of the plant

BUSINESS DIRECTORY

He did not know what this would

be but pointed out it was five
years in the case of the Prince
Rupert project.

Preliminary i for pro-

concur with the philosopher Sch-
openhauer who said “It is only a
man whose intellect is: clouded
that could give the name of fair
sex to that undersized, narrow-
shouldered, broad hipped and
short-legged race.” But I must
protest the use of the term, ~

By reverse logic, since artists
huse women as models and since,
as Mrs. Collinson insists, artists
are the least qualified judges,
therefore the term already stands
condemned in point of fact.
Further, how can a body whose
“beauty” varies not only accord-
ing to the periodic dictates of
fashion (— the hour-glass figure,
flopper, iminent starvation model,
ete.) but from country to coun-
try to be termed divine. Divinity
should at least be consistent,
don’t you agree Mrs. Collinson?

In fact, however, a hospital ‘should not be any in t or
hindrance to a hall or skating rink or vice versa. The hospital will
ion and the ity hall, rink

be financed by a little extra i
or centre by direct contributions or shares, perhaps. It is not beyond
any taxpayer's ability to pay his share of both,

Most of the objectors to the hospital are so extremely fortunate
-that they have never needed hospital service. That's the main reason
why they see no need for one here. We hope their good fortune con-
tinues so they will not need to be fushed to a hospital 20 or 28 miles
.away someday, Neither they nor us, nor anyone'can guarantee they
will be so blessed, however. The odds, in fact are against them.

Five Years Ago
‘This Week;

(From the March 25, 1948 issue
of the Castle News.)

duction tonnage, which cannot be
definitely known until the maxi-
mum cut allowed is known, were
400 tons of sulphite and 275 tons
of newsprint per day from the
Castlegar pulp mill, which will
use coal for fuel almost certainly
unless natural gas becomes avail-
able.

Another question asked was
“How does your company feel
about producing the finished pro-
duct in B.C.?”

Mr. Root replied that extreme-
ly desirable as this would be, the
small pergentage of the product
that ‘the home market could ab-
sorb and the high tariff barriers

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preventing its export, make this

too impractical.

“Canada is the largest producer
of pulp in the world,” he explain-
ed. “Since it’s products can't all
be sold here, we can only export
the raw pulp to world markets
for finished production.
Mr. Root, who arrived from.
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day ‘for! Naksup’ whére‘hé spoke

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‘0 anyone who is the least bit ity minded, ver, it
eo be vious the Castlegar District MUST HAVE a hospital of
its own. Indeed it should have one even now, With the expansion
_and development the Celgar project will bring, that need will be
tremendously greater. 8
"Support: your Hospital Society. Vote FOR the Improvement
‘District when the petition is circulated.

“Taxes And Welfare

Defence Minister Claxton observed not long ago that “A danger

we have to face is growth of the feeling that anyone is entitled to a
free ride. In these times some people look to government for social
security and welfare payments from the cradle to the grave, for
relief and assistance if there is too much or too little sunshine or
rain, for higher handouts and lower taxes — all on a platter and
at once.”

a ‘The Senate Finance Committee a short while later echoed: “The
increasing tendency of people to di d that the n do
something about ali kinds of problems which the community or the
individual should solve for itself or himself, is, we believe, account-
able for much mounting public di and, if. hot |
bids fair to undermine our present system of government.
_ + The Prime Minister himself said’ the same thing a short while
Jater. Out of total Federal expenditures of $4,500 milion, Mr. St.
Laurent points out, more than $1,000 million goes for social security
payments. Yet, warns the Prime Minister, taxation é¢annot be in-
creased without grave danger to the national economy.
Those loudly demanding expanded welfare service could well

ider these horitati

Kerr last’ Monday's
meeting of the village issi e
on behalf of the Castlegar Public | visits to the Celgar communities
Library Association with a re-| must become less frequent. He
quest for financial support, It was | said he ‘was leaving for Montreal
agreed that the Library Commit-| this week.where more of his time
tee express their views at a pub-| will be spent. .
lic meeting of the Water Works
By-law to be held next month,

changing considerably”
i 1 t and his

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The local Guide Association
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Thursday, March 26,

1953

CASTLE NEWS, Castlegar, B.C.

‘ Business In B.C.

Droves Of Prospectors

~ Expected In Hunt For

Copper And Uranium

' By FRANELIN PRICE

RP,

to a

are
take to the hills in large numbers to have ‘di 3
da new el
this spring in spite of the drop in pr s for sm
base metals prices that has closed Posed to fit with the;
several mines, Copper and urani-

um will be the brightest lures.
Tommy Elliott of the B.C, & Yuk-
on Chamber: of Mines in Vin-
couver estimates there will be
about 500 in the field on full and
part time basis...

Here are some of the current
reports from mines: Shutdown of
Island Mountain near Barkerville
Jooms, following the report of an
operating loss of $15,000 for the
year, Previous directors. had de-
cided to discontinue mining when
an operating profit could no long-
er be made.

Silback'Premier will be closed
@s soon as work in hand can be
cleaned up.

Western Tungsten & Copper
reports a loss for the year but
this appears to be due to the
heavy costs of moving equipment
from the Rocher de Boule mine
to the Red Rose Tungsten Mine
where concentrates worth $1,225,-
900 were produced.

Production of Columbia’ Lead
and Zine js expecicd to be in full
swing at 100 tons daily capacit;
in mid-March , ‘Tumgsten Land

'y of F

Yukon,
Leduc Glacier,

a staking race between Frobisher
and Granby of B.C. It is true that
agents of Frobisher have been
doing some hurried staking in the
area, but Granby's president, L,
T. Postle, of V » says Gra-

is said | would be the terminus of an all-

y slectrolltie Canadian line and that’ they are
is is sup-| now seeking to di

posed to fit with the survey of the fineries that will be bs

huge 5,000,000 horsepower potent-

ial hydro-electric resources of the

Uranium and | or copper on the
25 miles from
Stewart, are sald to have set off

application before the Board. of
Transport :Commissioners for a
branch line’ from Sumas to de-
liver 35,000 barrels of crude a day
to the now-building . $35,000,000
General Peroleums refinery at
Ferndale, Wash. is running in to
opposition from the B.C, govern-
ment and the members of Par-
liament for Burnaby and Frazer
Valley, -

It is claimed by the B.C. gov-
ernment and the federal members
that Trans-Mountain got its origi-
nal charter and permit by giving
the impression that Burnaby

crude to refineries that will be or

Cominco J.P.C. Awards
Show Upward Trend,

Consolidated Mining and Smelt-

employs bi et

‘ees may be out to top the
cash. total they carned by submit.
ting worthwhile suggestions lagt
year,

In January and ‘February of
1953, Cominco paid out $1,848,
This is an increase of $465 over
the same period in 1952 and, if
the trend continues, this year's
total may be well over last year's
mark of nearly $10,000.

may be built in the U.S, HIGH FEBRUAI
that: Mountain's position is| TO KIMBERLEY aan
at a Id. ket] N. R. Lind of the Electri-

price . structure governs crude
prices, and that the best thing for
Alberta is to sell the oi] where.
and how they can,Regardless of
the truth of the claim that Trans- |
Mountain allowed a certain im-
pression ‘to be created, the fact is
that Oil must be sold where it is

by is only airlifting equipment for
a@ summer. drilling on claims ac-
quired two’ years ago from the
Karl Springer group. :

STILL “GASSING” ON GAS
Natural gas hearings roll on in)
Washington and it's still any.
body’s game, or Westcoast Trans-
mission has it in the bag,.depend-
ing on how you figure the odds,
There seems no likehood of a de-
cision before August or Sep-
tember. Residents of the interior
who hope for natural gas for
home heating or industry must
wait until then to hear what is to
happen, rs

trates wil be produced for the
time being, and other ores kept
in reserve.

Canadian Johns Manville has
optioned asbestos claims near
Cassier Asbestos .Corp., and Dor-
reen Mines holds asbestos claims
in the same area, Asbestos, now

may INCREASE CAPACITY

al for
Alberta’s gas and the lusi

in the Northwest United.
States, and that it must go by the!
cheapest methad, which is pipe.
Trans-Mountain’s eritics may
be right in saying a different im-
pression of the pipe lines func-
tion ‘may have been encouraged,
but the facts of oil ics al

TRAIL AWARDS

, GE. Bradley, employed in the

it
present point to pipe-line trans-
Port as the only practical compet-
itive method of transport,
Alberta oil and gas develop-
ment requires that the natural
gas incident to crude Production,
and the crude itself, must be
marketed. In the long run, only

t

Trail, collected $65 for suggesting
a pipe line change which resulted
in a substantial saving of steam,

trate Plant, is $60 richer for an
idea which has been applied to a
movable conveyor in the Nitrate

Stora;
rails he

Plant at

S. J. Bowen, Ammonium Ni-

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have d

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Figures just’ released by The

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ALCAN TURNED DO’ :
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win from the U.S. Federal Power’
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being exported from B.C. for the

first time, Was one of ‘tthe bright
spots in the 1952 prospecting pict-

TERRACE EXPECTS BOOM
Terace is expecting to benefit
from the B.C. Power Commis-
siner’s plan to build a line that
will carry Kitimat’s surplus pow-
er into the region of the CN R's
Prince Rupert-Prince George rail-
road line. A+.boom.for- Terrace
seems in the cards when this is
completed. It means cheap and
penal Power for manufactur-

Quebec Me

when on stream in October,

Oil Pipe Line,
to cost $92,000,000 and carry crude
718 miles from Edmonton to Van-

ica las been given’ a definite
turndown on their proposal to de-
velop the hydro-electric

bag breakage.

Crichton in the Zine Plant Mach- |;
ine Shop. He suggested using a
die for bending certain types of
pipe lit This resul i

maintenance costs and red

A cheque for. $45 went to A.

this week, Resources Minister | 5
Winters said in an interview that

of the Yukon River. In New York | Savings and the elimination of .

,(Contnued on Page 7) ranged from $20 to $5,

afety hazard.
The remaining February awards

| couver may be engineered to car-
ry half as much again as the line
was designed to carry at maxi-!
mum. ‘

3 The annual report of the comp-
any, issued March 17, says capa-'
city could be boosted to'as high
as’ 300,000 barrels a day by using
up to 14 pumping’stations instead
of the three, designed to deliver
up to. 120,000barrels in October;,
, Meantime’ ‘directors are con-
sidering a fourth station to boost

throughput .-to 150,000 ~ barrels

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