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CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, March 3, 1960

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CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, March 3, 1960

Time is Running Out
For a Second Ferry

Time is quickly running out, as was noted at
a recent Chamber of Commerce meeting, for the
installation of a wharf and piers for a second
ferry at Castlegar.

The Columbia river will soon begin its yearly
climb to high water levels and it'll be impossible
to do the necessary’ wharf work for this year’s
heavy tourist traffic, Also, the old: ferry at Nel-
son has to be dismantled, brought over here, and
then reconstructed. All this takes time.

Several months ago we urged Highways Mir-
ister Gaglardi to move fast on this problem. We
pointed out that long line-ups are still a common
sight at the ferry and that the situation will get
worse before it gets better. Last summer line-ups
of 90 cars or more, lasting several hours, were a
common sight as local residents and tourists wait-
ed to get on the 28-car ferry,

‘Traffic figures for the Castlegar ferry during
the past few months bear out the need for a se-

Strachan’s Pol

payola—the kind that pays off at the ballot box.

Mr. Strachan’s high-minded scorn at the idea

of business and industry financially supporting

the parties of their choice hardly seems consis-

* tent with the CCF’s right-about-turn on the is-

sue ‘of the government's increase of the home-
owners grant from $28 to $50.

A week ago Mr. Strachan took a strong

stand against the increase in the grant and said

that his party, if it were in power, would abo-

NO TIME

Won't you read me a book
Or tell me a story—"
Teach me a little rhyme?
I'd like to my dean,

But I'm very sorry—

I just’ haven't got the time.

. ists

cond ferry, In September car traffic was up 7,000
cars over the same month of the previous year,
in October it was up 9,402 cars, in November it
was up 6,006, in. December it was up 5.435 cars
and figures released last week show car traffic
was up 6,081 last month over January of 1959.

At the same time, traffic, figures for such
other categories as number of passengers and
number of trucks carried are also up every mon-
th.

The cost of building the proper

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here for the second ferry and the cost of dismant-
sing and reconstructing the Nelson ferry will be
considerable, but if a bridge crossing the Colum-
bia near Kinnaird is still a number of years. off
then money should be spent on the second ferry.

And it should be spent fast, before another chao-'

tic summer is our lot at the ferry when the tour-
ist season begins.

itical Payola

services,
Last Friday Mr. Strachan, after a CCF party

caucus, announced that a CCF government would yun into millions of dollars a year in many states.

not revoke the bonus. In other words the social-

It is plain that Mr. Strachan and his follow-
ers have been trapped in a highly embarrassing

- situation engineered by a master strategist — one

W. A. C. Bennett — and that they are, striving
to without mor-

tal damage.

In this we cannot blame them, They are in
business, political business, and are as vulnerable
to political expediency as the next fellow. A pol-
itical party that can’t marshal support cannot
survive,

Strachan can work himself into such a lather
over one ‘kind of “political payola’ when
knows that his profession demands that the em-

ie vince from an

Won't you take me out fishing,
Or play pail with me,

Show me a trec I can climb?
Find something to do

And don’t bother me!

Can't you see I haven't the time!

But when you get older

And stay close to home more,
What are you going to do?

When the now grown-up children
You never had time for,

Don't have any, time for you.

— Margaret Obedkoft

VIEWPOINT. CORNER

‘brace’ an equally virulent variant of the same

thing.

Political parties exist and survive om two

things—money (enough to finance

Crime and Litter

A punishment to fit the crime has been devised for highway
litterbugs, by Judge G. J. Smith, of the Cass County, Mo., magis-
trate’s\court. He sentences the offender to clean up about a mile
of right of way under the watchful eye of a state policeman.

Gathering up the the bushels of beer. cans, bottles, paper
empty clgarette packages and other assorted trash
strewn along the highways is calculated to be a sure cure for the
habit, “And witnessing such a detail of kitchen police also has a
lish the grants and divert the money to social restraining effect on other potential trash tossers,. Besides, it saves
the taxpayers money that- would otherwise have to be spent in

cartons,

up the The

More and more states are adopting laws making it-a mis-
demeanor to throw trash on. the highways, Perhaps the kind of
penalty ‘meted out by the Missouri magistrate is r@eded to make
these laws really effective. — Editorial fn ‘The Saturday Evening

Post. é

Electrical Asset
Low cost electricity is one of the greatest natural assets in
Ontario, declares the Wingham, (Unt.) Advance-Times. “It has,
What we do think rather odd is that Mr. more than any other tactor, led to the transformation of this pra-
to an ii eg

for this ry work.

PS rane -
To Insure your Dependents
NOW .and

and

other costs) and votes (enough to keep a party
somewhere in the running). +

Pretending to ignore one and paying tribute
to the other makes a party look a little like the

Pro-

vince

whited =

CCF leader Robert Strachan, who recently
derided private contributions to political parties

as “political payola,”
his party is vulnerable to another kind of political

has mow. tacitly admitted’

Progress on the] Arrow Lakes

Numerous letters and arti-
cles have appeared in the press
lately as to why the High Ar-
-row dam should not be built,
“put as far as I cam see no real

* reason has been advanced,

' Is the Arrow, Lakes valley
progressing or going -back
should be the basis for our con-
sideration, so let’s check a few
facts.

‘About 50° years ago there
was a daily boat service both
ways on the Arrow Lakes; this
was reduced to one boat daily
one way, then again reduced ‘to
three boats per week and now
no boat service between Edge-
wood and Nakusp and only a
makeshift service from Edge-
wood to Robsor. .

Both that service. and the _
one from Nakusp to Arrowhead

+ and Trail but now

Burton’ and” other ‘lake settie-
ments rather than being ship-
ped out.

Carleads of hay and vege-
tables were shipped to Nelson

in’ giving us a bigger payroll
and helping the unemployment
situation, so why try to keep it
out by objecting to the high le-
vel dam?

are imported and the hayfields
that exist are ‘not even cut in
many instances, Poultry and
cream are in the same category,

‘so what about the wonderful

farm land that those opposing
the High Arrow dam are talk-
ing about? What good is It?
What is it producing and wiat
revenue is there from it? No-
thing. -

How about the tourist
trada?_ At present most of our
roads are not conducive to the
American traveller as they are
too narrow and crooked, but
wher some of these roads ‘are

The given by
some of.the people, especially
in the Nakusp area, is that ev-
eryone on the Arrow Lakes is
against the high dam. This is
not correct.

Even when a reporter from
the Vancouver Province toured
the district recently on a ‘‘con-
ducted tour” visiting mainly
those who were known to op-
pose the high dam, her report
was ,that.the opinion of the
people was about 50-50 for and
against its construction.

Personally % have spoken
te people from Nakusp, Arrow
‘Park,

are both heavily
so it shows that they are not
paying from the business that
they are getting. Ther there
was a. passenger train service
from Nakugp to Nelson and
one from Arrowhead to Revel-
stoke but now they are both
discontinued. A daily bus ran
from Vernon to. Nakusp but’
now that~has ceased to func-
tion, so where is the progress
there?

A few years ago all the
ranchers along the lake made
their living from their ranches
but mow most ‘of the places are
not producing as their owners
nro working in the bush or at
the mills,

In the Burton district there
used to be about 20 carloads of
apples: plus a fair amount of
cherries shipped each year but
now apples are brought into

ted they will be
and straightened and then -we
can ask our American friends
to visit us.

Boating on a lot of the lake
is dangerous at present unless
one knows the channel, Sand-
ihars and stumps are a danger
to fast-moving boats from_.both
the danger. of a-puncture ar
rudder or propeller trouble, but
with. 40 feet of water there

need :be no worries on that ac-_

count.
What about ‘revenue to the
province and perhaps to this

‘particular district? At present

there is practically mone ex-
cepting from the-lumbering and
that will. not bé, affected, byt
with the payment for the use of
the water by our friends to the
south plis the amount‘of power
that we will be getting back we
.can induce industries to come

and I have yet to
meet one who is strongly op-
posed to the flooding of the val-
ley; in fact; ail have suggested
‘that there seems to be no fu-
ture for the valley wher the
logging is finished and if we
have a chance to make use of it
now then we: should not miss
the opportunity,” .”

‘The old saying holds good

in this case’ as in most others, |-

namely, “The more’ you~ give
the more you get back," so the
more. storage. we. give our
neighbors to the south the more
power we will ‘get back and the
more. revenue’ we ‘will rective.

So let’s quit playing politics
and get on’ with making an
agreement on: the matter and
get the development of -the
mighty Columbia started. — A
letter from a’ Burton - resident
to the ‘Nelson News,

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’ ‘Canada. ‘is moving” a8 fast'as
posible in negotiations with the
United States for the _$1,000,600,-
000 C

eral” offer of ‘financial partici-
pation which had been made at
the last meeting of the policy li-
aison. in Ottawa Feb.

Resources ‘Minister Alvin Hamil-
tom said Saturday’ night in Vic-
toria.

“We cannot move faster
than we are moving,” he said.
“There are just not enough hours
im the day.”

Federal? Justice Minister Da-
vie Fulton added that “Z think
an agreement with the Amerl-
cans is an encouraging possibil-|
ity.” But he declined to comment
as to how,long it might take to
reach an 4nternational settle-
ment. .

_.Canada and the U.S, are ne-
gotiating om the basis of Canada
receiving 50 per cent’ of :the
downstream 4 mower beenfits gen-
erated in the U.S. from water
stored north “ot the border, The
next round of negotlations start
tomorrw in Washington, D.C,

The two ministers made the
comments in interviews follow-
ing o day-long meeting of the
federal-provincial. Maison com-
mittee, which maps policy for’ &|
united Canadian‘ stand in negot-
jiations “with the U.S,

Asked for details of federal
proposals for Mnancing the vast
scheme in collaboration with the
province, Mr. Fulton pointed toa
press release which said among

9- -20, 1960.”

‘Mr. Fulton said details of
this proposal have not been made
public: but “we have made an of-
fer ‘to B.C, and are waiting to
see what the province will do.”

Premier Bennett told the
B.C. legislature Friday he has
not been able to get a flrm com-
mitment from Finance Minister
Fleming ‘on how far the federal
government would go in finan-
cing the Columbia Scheme,

It was ike Pp
river power development which
spurred the United States to ac-
tlon on the Columbia river ne-
gotiations, Premier Bennett and
Lands Minister Ray Williston
told the British Columbia legis-
lative Friday.

“Kill the Peace, the opposi-
tion say,” the Premier declared
during a debate on government
power policy, “If you do, you
will never make a deal on the
Columbia river satisfactory | to
BC"

Mr, Williston, backing up the
premier’s. statements, said when
the Columbia was first mooted
he was convinnced. that “there
‘would’ neven” be a. Columbia

the things was the “fe-

agreement unless we had an al-
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of Peace)

Grand Forks could be the
future site of an alternate air-
fleld for CPA’s regular Iand-
ing field at Brilliant,

This stiggestion was made in
a letter from the Castlegar
airport committee to the Grand
Forks city. council. The letter
suggesta that with the com-
pletion of the Christina Lake-
Kinnaird highway, the ,alrfleld
at Grand Forks would be a
distinct feasibility, eat

The committee's letter nated
head heavy fog, conditions dur-

and

« By JAMES K. NESBITT

SC MLA’s have a happy,
carefree, fooling-themselves fa-
culty: of pretending that all in
British Columbia was terrible be-
fore they, took office in 1952,-

In'fact, to hear SC’ers taik
you'd think . British Columbia
didn't exist at all prior to 1952
when the Bennett Soclal Credit
government was sworn into of-
fice, as,;much to the surprise of
Mr. Bennett himselt as to any-
one else,

Cabinet ministers. when they

aanee make landings hazard-

ous and often Infrequent at the

Castlegar field, but It would be

possible to have a field

Grand Forks where instrument
could be

give of their depart-
ments, always ‘start at 1952, the
inference being. that

this budget — ." ais didn’t say
how much!

MLA’s, you see, take the
‘budget for -granted, an accom-
plished fact, which-it is — bud-
gets bore them,.and so they tolls,
or subjects neurest and, dearest
their hearts. — which’ can be
anything from moongazing and
birdwatching to the dangers, to
them, of cigarette-smoking and
the horrora of fluoridation.
Well, after all, a Legisl.
ture’s a public forum, and if we
read what our MLA’s say, and

study what they say, and form
some opinions of our own, and
let them know our opinions, we
and they car learn a great deal.
oe

For two weeks CCFers stood
in the legislature and found the
1960 Bennett budget a pretty bad
document — full of bribes to the
electors, filled with fraudulence.

'Yet Friday they all stood and
voted for the budget, which
doesn't seem to make much sen-
se,

. The Liberals, George Gre-

gory of Victoria and Mel Bryan
of North Vancouver were more
consistent and voted against the
budget,

If they had their way —if a
majority had voted sgainst the
budget — the government would
have had to resign.

Oddly, while CCFers think
the government ‘is so terrible it
should resign, they voted that it
should carry om. Of course, this
is one of those where you're
damned if you do and damned if
you don't,

were not good then, but now, af-

inlter nearly eight years of Social

Credit — well, isn't it wonderful,

The Grand Forks ‘council
agreed to the committee's sug-
gestion that a meeting be held
between the interested parties,
to study the matter further.

Some time ago it was sug
gested that Grand Forks make
representations to the federal
government to bulld a new
field near the : Boundary city,
but’ no. concrete results were,
obtained,

Building a new landing field
or,. lengthening the present
Grand ‘Forks field’ would be
necessary if the alternate ficld
plan were, put into effect,

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what we have made,

bent fulfilled, what hope there is
the future, as long as Social
Credit’s in power, of course,
which, ‘in the opinion of this col-
umn, will be for. a good long
spell yet, and everyone might as
well get used to it,
‘Typical of this “it-was-ter-
rible-before-1952” routine is Alex
Matthew, the rotund, very genial
‘| Scots'-tongued SC MLA for Van-
couver Centre, who put his ver-
sion of Social Credit philosophy
this way:
“British Columbia did not

‘try our way ‘until 1952, and it

hes had. nothing but progress
and development evar since, Af-
ter'we took office you could br-
gin to hear the merry hum of in-
dustry. Previous.to that B.C. had
tried the out-moded Model T way
of the old-lite parties, and the
dismally impotent way of the
Coalition, both of which merited
the cold, finger of ‘pub-

by
across ‘Canada who participated
in ‘Hallowe'en for UNICEF,” a
substantia! increase over the
1958 total of $135,000,

.In- addition, purchases of
UNICEF. cards ‘increased some
50 per cent over the 1958 ‘Seure
of $79,000,

‘These totals were announced
by. 0 Mrs, Jean Arnold Tory, Na-

Naess Association in
committee for UNICEF,

‘result of the success of these two

programs,” commented Mrs, To-
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“Thank God, British Colum-
bia did not try! the way. of the
greatest flop of the century, the
way of Socialism, If they had
done so, B.C, would have been
in a sorry  plight,: indeed.” °

for you, isn’t it? — and Mr. Mat-
thew, as he spoke in this vein,
heard thé jeers of OCF’ers —
and they were just whistling in
the dark to keep their courage
up, the SC’ers .said,. because
they're afraid of. Social Credit,
that’s what!

Perhaps, we should not ve
too critical of SC’ars for talking
this bold way;‘if’ they weren't
impressed with their’ record, who
on earth would be? And, by thus
talking, they : set up ‘a’sort. of.
bandwagon, and ‘get it.rolling. —
and ' the’ public’ dearly loves a
bandwagon, ‘and_,,likes' to climb
aboard, ‘as: lorg as it’s purring
joyfully: along, as Mr. Bennett's
government is today.

5 co.

ndsand Forests Minister

low MBA's for making too long-
winded’ speeches, on .every, sub-
Jeet under. the sun \He didn't
Pp quite so bluntly. as this; he
said: “It’s supposed to be a bud-
get debate — .” And 'th
mored the’ budget, ,
about lands and forests,

Gordon

hear Mr. Willistor give what he

| called -a lecture, ‘and then not,

himself, : analysing the budget.
Mr. Williston grinned tHat it’s
pretty difficult te analyse the

* | budget, and Mr.. Dowding said it

sure is. However, ‘Mr. Williston,

‘|naturally,.thinks the 1960 budget

a first-class, marvellous budget;

.[Mr.“Dowding ‘is sure it's. mostly

a big hoax, designed to catch
votes for: Social’ Credit.

Mw. Dowding dealt with the
budget for about five minutes,
then, bewildered, threw it into
the bucket, saying: “So much for

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