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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.
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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