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CASTLEGAR a NBS 4 Thursday, s 3, 1964

SUGAR

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“AND SPICE

BY BLL, baikey

When 1, was, a,,Kid,; the
tourist business , was in its
infancy. Oh, ,.thera..,were
quite 8 few. American li-
censes around. in. July and
August. Everybody thought
tourists were a good thing
and something should be
done about them A fe: peo-
ple with large houses and
small incomes, ‘ike my
mother, put up ‘Tourist Ac-
commodation”: signs and
were not only flabbergasted
but delighted to rent huge,
imaculate rooms, with
breakfast, for the improba-
ble sum of 72.

But on the whole, the tour
ist business we: just 2 little
extra gravy. The small town
drowset. through the sum-
mer. The merchants
lounged in the doorways of
* their quiet, store. waiting
for.,6 o'clock to. come
around, 50 they could get
home, gulp supper and get
to the ball oark.

What. a difference from
the slam- bam-thank-you-
mam , atmosphere , of the
modern tourist town.

Today, the tourist - busi-
ness, for many towns, ts not
just a little ‘extra’ gravy. It
is the cream in the coffee,
the cheese with, the apple
pie, and tho quick foltaay in
thi south during February,
along with a lot of other,in-
digestible and useless, but
pleasant luxuries.

It is, for many. a@ small
town merchant, . the , differ-
ence. between , survival of
the fittest and getting along
nicely, thank you.

For’ merchants, the: tour- .
ist season isa mixture, of

exhilaration and exhaustion. -

‘The: harmonious: jingle of _

3h mas cash register is offset by

;discordant. scream.
aening feet. y

ly find themselves courted
like courtesanr

Aside from ,the ‘economie
impact, the tourist . season.
has an emotional effect on
* the. small town: :. When .the
first .visitors.begn to arrive,
early’in summer, they in-:
fect a color, and excitement
inte the town, with their dif-
ferent: clothes: and -ccents °
and mode of life.

Old friends drop by, have

‘a little yarn about what ‘they :

{did last winter, and like: ap :
Dot, urge, “Now-you be,sure
‘and come.up to s¢2 Us at the

‘and:
‘ -gmoked glasses, Thousands

of. their: fathers, in. hairy
Se at pot aa and

sy this e
and a place to pt shop-
tak.: three times as
Tone. and you can scarcely
cross. the,,street:,for con-
was crawling 4 ratte. ona
has hae lost . ent
and individual ty. ‘

. As August nears ita end,
there is a little sadness is

ce.
clr 3
backs, look around and see.

their friends,

Within a: week,’ ‘they have
forgotten ‘the scramble and
the rush and the sheer fool-
ishness of making, money,
and, full of renewed inter-
est in thelr town and them-

: selves, ‘get down ‘to .some-

thing serious, ke planning
‘a hunting trip, or faving a
“Pi

‘The tourist season is a lot
of fun. For the tourists, =.

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THE CHiLDREW S CORNER |

This bird
of prey

is known

to, have
powerful
eyes, ana a
wingspread

, often more
than 10 feet
What is 4t?
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“Now 14 years: old, Princess ‘Anne as ‘taken’ to

sailing just as enthusiastically. as her dad,

the Duke of Edinburgh.This picture was, taken

aboard the Queen's. 35-ton yawl Bloodhound at
f a recent., wregat ae:

A. CANADIAN “aaquor’ company wants . farmer 4
have never grown corn to’ try Yaising’ an'/early
maturing varietye Canadian farmers grow: only
one-third of the corn needed in making ‘Canad=
dan whiskey, which is 88 per cent grain corns
william Timmis,left, Arthur Downe and Drs VeGe
Mackay, right,...'
at an Ontario farm.

:BY RAY, ARGYLE
The: greatest economies up-

history
5 pass esa the. Beret ofa

full-blown. boom this, week.
After more than 40 months of
sentimious good business, the

xperts profess to see nothing

rt bri; ht omans on, the horl-

wen for the rest of 1964,

can iimes of such prosperity,
t. e: big: question. is always:
when wil the bubble burst?

Attar looking at all the «
nomic. indicators, , the signs
are that Canada andthe Unit-

i States:< may, (;be.. going’
through a final big boom be-
fore. an atitomation . break-
through which. could bring a
radical ‘readjustment in the
employment picture, -the
labor force, business and in-
dustry. And it’s too eat yet
to; tell How we will react to
such & break-through.

. is current, economic
boom; longest uninterrupted |
growth period since the war,
has been highlighted the. past -
few weeks by the semi-annual’
Yeports..of major industrial
firms. ‘Without exception, the
blue, hip leade.s , have ..re-
vealed record sales and ..pro-
fits, 4. many ‘up 50 to
100 Je cent over 4963,

tthe same time, retail

ede soared, we auto in-
rea ;Wwill turn in a record
eight million sr. y i. the
U..8. and Can:
ployment in ve tumbled a
a 9. pericent of.the. work.force

the us: and five . Ber cent

_ THIS WEEK & NEXT: HOW LONG THE BOOM?

since 1049 better, than, one
third of this increase has been
eaten up by rising prices. The
consumer price index hit a re-
cord 136.2 in July (figured on
1949 prices averaging 100) and
this was a gain of three per
cent in the Jas: 12 months,

Despite the healthy employ-
ment nt pleutre, the labor force
is about to be inundated with
iene faults of the postvar

om :now reaching
working “age., An, estimated

9,000 teen agers entered the
work force this summer, and
many,...lamentably, ..are.. not
equipped with the. skills to
aurvive a computer age.

‘Two facts that stand out in
the current prosperity binge.
First, Canada’s economy re-
m: ins closely, tied to the U. S.
and trends there foreshadow
developments in this country.
Second, the jobless:rate in Ca-
nada haa now edged above the
American level and it'is evi-
dent that industry. will have to
continue expanding rapidly to
keep pace with our increasing
population.

Desp! ite the present une-
quelled _pertod of ' business
prosperity, competition 1s be-
coming increasingly more
farce. Bankruptcies of. Cana.
‘lan companies are at a near-
record level. While many
firms are prospering as never
before others are on the mar-
‘gin of failure, In 1961, for ex-
- ample, forty per cent of Cana-
dian companies failed even to
show a profit,

It must also be remembered
tiat every boom since the war

éat hag been, followed by a reces-

crop
stock market has settled com:
‘fortably at a new high plateau
capltal 4 investnient in new
industry ‘rémains

_, plan
igh, o¢ tevetion. is setting a
“dizzying bi d, bisiness in-
- ventorles show le ee is

In, the,..face.
“Bright tacts, thera ae ap-
pear little room for pessimism
in: Canada in’-mid-summer,

. 1964. Indeed, there is little

room for, pessimism, provid-
ing the country hangs on to a
healthy share of realism.
While average. wages in-Ca-
nada have nearly doubled

sion, every recession has Jas-
ted longer, and in every reces-

é sion unemployment has been

greater ter than in the Preceding

osiapanies into

zaatton era of which, Nort
‘America now ‘stands on
threshold holds: a Dieters

promise of greatly increased ©

Jeisure and : prosperity. © But
there will inevitably be many
hard and perhaps even tragic
adjustments to be made along
the way.

to compete ts”

business proce-
st result of which *
te jobs requiring’
‘only limited ‘skills. The auto-

Have a Brobiem? Wiite to C
Doris Clark in care of this'newspa

DEaR DORIS. — One.
night when our friend Jane
‘was baby sitting a car
ped in front «” the

se, A man’ got out, and
iding in front of the
a 80 yott could see only
from the waist down, point-

or ‘bothured then, he
screams... He’ seems. very
jealous of his ‘younger
brother::

Yet'he is a lovable boy
and loves to be hugged. We
are trying to get help for
hin: jut it takes so long to

te some very

pal

‘Then months later it hap-
pened again. The -drapes
were drawn,and he stopped
right in front of the picture
window.. Before, Jane”

thought she was Imagining

t this tine you cout
bal "distinctly what lie’ was
doing. -;

Jane woi't phone the ‘po
lice. She is feared that if he
is ut in fail he will be given

ght sentence, if any, and*
the, since he will know who
t him to jail, will come

te .ck and scare: ae more.
ANXIOU FRIEND

!DEAR ANXIONS —. Jane.
is. understandably | upset.
But. such a: man. expo:

himself only wheii-he py an
ly is

‘ audierice and -ordinari!
not out so harm anyone.

home to give
: tion -he ‘seems to ‘want so
+ much? He‘ screams ‘if ha
* doesn’t get his own way at
. home, .or goes. to. his bed-
-Foom and Hes in bed for ‘the
rest of the

get
PERPLEXED MOTHER
DEAR PERPLE ED —.
V’d‘suspect your boy finds
his dream world more satis-
fying than the real one,
wee his young brother hes

in his eyes) usurped

i noth er's attention and

where she now (as he s¢es —

it)deserts him all day long.

Professional care is
essential. ‘But.you work in
+ the right direction when you
_find the time to engage him
ina sociable, creative activ-
ity which ‘will improve his
, opinion himself.

DEAR DORIS — I went.

» with. a boy, who, broke. up
with me over ‘my saying

‘Hi’ to his’ cousin. { went
.out with the cousin; and
“then the-ex-boy friend went
to hig aunt (the ' sy’s moth-
er) and told her nasty, un-
trite things abdut me.,

Well, his aunt wrote and
told me I coulds't see her
gon until I) proved thess
things weren't true.-So I

d_ took

“ “don't: wait Her’ gon. to’

think I’m'a cheap buin.
What do I do pews

EPRESSED

: DEAR DEPRESSED -

N pine whatever. You

ae to

“I WANT TO FISH AN’ WW NO
WON'T LET ME WATE fae GO OUT

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| -PRINTING.
OUR 17

Last : weekend saw. the gpen-
ing of the hunting season, but
with not too: much of a bang.
In fact’ was‘out'for the first
three hours after dawn and ne-
ver heard a single shot fired.

I went up above the Genelle
bluffs, where'all the deer‘have
been crossing the road for the
past few: months —:and causing | di

eart failure, and accidents, for
a few motorists: It was: my. in-
tentions to: try..and drive ‘any
deer I'saw further back from

the road. .

; However, by. the time I
reached the designated area,
which was just before dawn,
there were 14 cars parked alon,

, an cotati t hope Jengt

on gol g
en 8a
road in Shout ‘four miles, park-
ed, set up. my, spotting. scope ing
wn,

and sat. dow:

In a two-hour period I saw
seven does, three - of which
browsed ‘slowly by with within allng

shot : distance,

blowlng from them. te na ind
as I never; moved, they never

acy T was within: miles.

‘hrough the; spott ting ig geope
a

I watched a doe an
tal

3 ve Ae
hunters: walk ‘by below ‘them, shoitt

io,

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Phone “865-4911

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The hunters never: speed and
Fm, sure: never. knew ‘the: deer
were there. When they had pass-

ed: by: the: ‘deer : flicked | thelr |

tails and bilssfull browsed off

a ee Tne a score of this
ri or let the sports shop

‘In the. East’ Kootenay, deer,

‘mouse, elk and goat, were taken

on’ the opening: weekend, with
at’ least’. two > goat falling to

Gastlogar. guns.

Brown and Stan An:
gus art ed four from the road
in ‘the white swan, country at
around the 7,000-foot level. Ai-

ter a three-hour climb, and hav- |

date they
0 grizz] 128. 80. coungn't
shoot ~ — the: enehed the level
of their. goats' and: managed) to
get to: approximately: 100 yards
where:they picked the two they
wanted.
One-rolled down the moun-

tain side and by: the time fey ‘

retrieved it'-and” fens
way out of ‘there
black and almost mi

ly 7 not a‘bad: ABBE for the

season as the Boone: and ‘Croc-
kett' minimum ‘is 48.’

T hope.to head for. Elk Val-

yy ‘this: weekend '‘to” try and

ate ins that bull that: came

»| almost ‘all! the: way last year, I

expect. a ‘lot ofthe: boys

be over’ there: it \being’a long

weekend: and cows being open

as well. See-you over there?
‘Alot of the fishermen are

mess of ‘lovely 20-inch Rainbow.

The only trouble was that when
they got ‘to it, the car ‘wouldn’t
start. Net result — a hike of a
few miles to get a mechanic and
one day late getting home. But
fol hunting a fishing

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