i CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, Jan. 14, 1960 rie Lending Kootenay; ° Pan So The famous Austrian com- poser, Franz Schubert,. died of _ NISTORIA REPORT os CCF Ready for Next Provindal Election 2 ” Besides. his ‘wife, he is sur- vived ‘by four daughters, all of “" come to the eke ‘ CASTLEGAR NEWS vf . Any one of | “them would be better than Nixon. But Stevenson would-be-best of all. It will be ‘a long-drawn out job ‘to ne- gotiate with Russia. The new.disarmament plan for example will demand at least four years of. stout talking. The man. woh wins thé next . presidential election ,. will sit in the White House, and at the summit, for s those four. critical: years. ‘He couid bring. off a triumphor trig- GROCERIES \ MEATS [- 3rd_at Maple — Phone 4201 — We Deliver We Reserve The Right To Limit yactity WINTER INTER: ‘Margarine, JACKETS .. QUILTED LINED . REVERSIBLES __. NYLONS . - “WOOL & ‘MELTONS - EITNER’S. CLOTHING LTD. “APPLE ‘AND PINEAPPLE SQUARES — BRODIES MIX | PKG. fr) ger a tragedy. — Vancouver Sun ea STANDING RIB- ROAST BORE CHORES ee: LEG 0 PORK GENTRE, Ib.,........ 59e “END OT, Tn. vies. 55e Fowl, boiling- son cite a WATCH FOR RED waren NEXT WEEK F DINING ROOM = : . sa Ane ES La MEG SOS By “JAMES K, NESBITT, British Columbia, ‘lke .Que-, bec, has lost by death two prem-| ders in succession, on two. occas- ions, but longer times elapsed ~ than between the deaths of Pre- miers Maurice Duplessis and Paul Sauve, : In BC, in August of 1889, Premier -A.- E,:B. Davie’ (the grandfather of today’s Minister -of Justice’ at Ottawa,» Hon. E. Davie Fulton)’ died in office, He was succeeded by John Robson,| who died in office in 1892 when Pulp, Paper Proxy Says 1960 ‘Good’ For. Paper Industry R. M,- Fowler, president. of * the Canadian Pulp and Paper As- societion and the Newsprint As- suciation of Canada, said mills were:;producing at record levels , 88 1959 drew to a close and can jook fon a good year in 1960. Fowler said final 1959 fig- ures-for pulp and paper mills will disclose that overall output equalled that of 1956, the all-time record year, - “Atthough at the “beginning of 1959 production was lower than ‘in 1958, as 1959 drew to its close the industry was produc- ing at a rate exceeding the high- est levels ever attained in its his- “tory,” he said. Taking a look at the future, Fowler.‘said: “The future outlook for the pulp and paper mills has -im- proved decidedly during the last 12 months, The demand again ap- pears to be gathering momentum, Business, conditions abroad are such as to increase the consimmp- tion “of pulp and paper.” He said ‘the final figure for wood pulp production by Cana- dias mills in 1959 is expected to run close to-10,500,000 tons, an in- crease of about five per cent over 1958, Total newsprint production was only slightly lower than in the record year of 1956. in London on government busi- ness, Robson: caught his finger in: the ‘door of | ahansom cab, dead in-a few days. In March of 1918 Premier Harlan Carey Brewster, B.C.'s first Liberal premier, died in of- fice after two years, He was suc- ‘ceeded by John Oliver, who also died in office, but nat until nine years later, in 19: All our other premiers were eithér defeated at the polls or re- blood: poisoning: ‘set! in; he wae, , the Premier aoésn't: have an ‘election’: until’.1961__ there's danger, the ‘CCF enthusiasm . will Janguish and ‘fade ‘like the:sum-" mer’s rose; that’s one of the dan- gers against which Strachan’ will have to guard... He'll have: to keep CCF enthusiasm . at ‘fever pitch during the.long period when the Premier. will purposely: Keep everyone guessing as to when the election will be, However, no man can better do the. job for. the CCE, for: Strachan has become to his jéb, ot signed » sin- ce 1903, only two quit office on their own accord — Sir Richard McBride, in 1915, when he went to London as B.C, agent-general ond John Hart, who, in 1947, stepped down to build up his own financial business, and did so suc- cessfully that when he died ‘in 1957 he left. $500,000, There's only one former: B.C. Premier living today, Hon. Byron Johnson, who was chief of gov- ernment from 1947, succeeding Hart, untit 1952, when W. A. C. Bennett's Social Credit beat his Liberal government and he was defeated personally in New West- minister, He lives today, in his 10th year, suffering from paralysis, at his fine home on the Victoria waterfront, ‘receivirig $5,000. a year from the B.C. government as a token of the people's grat- itude for all he did for them and his,native province (born in Vic- teria), not, indeed, that he needs the money, being a well-off man, after a lifetime of hard work. However, it’s a nice tribute ‘and no one begrudges it, Too of- ‘ten have our public men gone out of office unthanked and negiec- ted, .and: that’s why .many “fine People will have nothing to do with politics, whichis a loss for politics, as Premier Pattullo used to say, quoting the dictionary, is the science of government, not something of which to be asham- ed. Boy ee &@ i The CCF, under hard-going, imaginative, persuasive, -- deep- Robert Strachan, is ready for the Feneral election it feels; Premier. Bennett will call at any moment, _ | which:he ‘won't: Already the, first’ CCF elec- tion propaganda’ sheet is out to the public, It even says, in large letters: “Vote CCF — X.Y Strachan gives a message: Dr. Charles Alfred Holstead Wright, one of Canada’s out- ‘ been mainly in research and dev- | whom are married ‘4. typhoid fever at the age of 31. te Born’ in ‘Salisbliry,’ NB, ‘Ap: rill 4, 1896, he moved to Vancou- ver with -his family at the age of 14, He was UBC's first chemi- cal engineering graduate in 1917. After .serving.overseas in World War I he returned to UBC and in 1921 received his doctorate in physical-chemistry at McGill) University, After further study in Europe: he worked briefly in the United States, then returned to UBC as 4 lecturer, His work with Cominco had played a d role in the estabiishment of the, fertilizer industry in the 1930s. | During World War II he became “The rapid ment of today merely sharpens the long existing conflict between those who derive théir livelihood from. ownership, and those who survive by. the sale of thelr la- or, ; {In any sane’ society. the » | purpose. of production: and dis- must be the and widely known throughout British in a host of i devoting considerable time to the famous heavy’ ‘water project. died in the Trail-Talanac Hospital Friday afternoon, He was in his G4th'year, Dr. ‘wright collapsed. in his ote at The Consolidated Min: of the basis for ‘a sttisiying life Cor all its citizens, “It is impossible to achieve this goa) while the natural re- sources and wealth-producing machinery of the community are primarily devoted to serving the|| interests ‘of the small’ ownin; Broup,, The \CCF ‘is pledged to take such, steps’ to rectify this situation, as. are: possible within provincial pdwers, “We are. also confident that the time has ‘come when the people of British Columbia will join us in’ moving towardé- this goal of