mio tye eee ph sop emeie armen ac nies CASTLEGAR NEWS; Thursday, - Feb. 24, 1966 “Hore let the press the people's rights CASTLEGAR NEWS Established in Nineteen Parrot Premier Bennett's proposed redist- xibution bill is a slap in the face for the $-. Kootenays. : Under it he has reinstated all north- ern ridings as they presently exist (includ- ing the widespread Atlin riding which has only 1,574 registered voters.) He has also increased the number of seats in the Le- gislature from 52 to 54 and has combined the singl constit ies recom mended by the Angus Royal Commission for Vancouver and Victoria into two-mem- ber ridings. In taking this action the provincial government has gone outside the terms /of reference that it laid down for the Royal Commission. It told the Royal Com- mission that there must not be more than 52 seats, that no riding must con- tain less than 7,500 registered voters by 1975, and that the’ Commission should take into account historical and economic considerations. Under the proposed government bill ' we in the Kootenays stand to lose four of our present eight ridings. Grand Forks- wood is being incorporated with the present Similkameen riding into a new constituency to be called Boundary; Kaslo-Slocan, R ke and Columbi ridings are to be combined into a new sprawling constituency named Columbia River; and Fernie and Cranbrook ridings are to be combined into one new riding to be known as Kootenay. The Rossland- Trail and Nelson-Creston ridings are left almost untouched. The reasons advanced by the Prem- jer for retaining the northern ridings are that the great developments taking place in the north country require effect- ive representation fully equal to the re- presentation now enjoyed by that region. What about the Kootenays? SUGAR AND SPICE unawed by infl bribed by gain” Hundred and ronpSeca Bennett Must Retain Kootenay Ridings Aren’t we making progress? Aren’t we enjoying the greatest pros- perity we’ve ever had? Aren't we busier now than at any other time in our. history? Isn’t the Columbia river development equally important with the Peace river project (if not more so)? And as for the proposed Columbia River riding, it is a nightmare proposal that must have been dreamed up on a stormy, pitch black night. It incorporates into one constituency communities with such diverse interests as Invermere and Golden in the East Kootenays and Edge- wood and Slocan in the West Kootenays. While it would have 11,500 registered voters (as compared with Nelson-Creston’s 12,100), it would cover an area of 19,630 square miles or seven times Nelson-Cres- ton’s 2,760 square miles and 15 times Rossland-Trail’s 1,300 square miles. The problems of travel and communication for an MLA in a riding as large as Nova Scotia are obvious and need no detailing here. What the people of the Kootenays want of the government — and what they demand — is equal treatment with the rest of the province. In the case of proper and effective representation of our interests this means no less than that the government treat the Kootenays equally with the north and amend its redistribution bill to provide that all present Kootenay ridings be re- tained with their present boundaries in- tact. Let Vancouver have its increased re- presentation, but let the Kootenays, the Okanagan and the North keep the voices tiat they now have in the Legislature, that they deserve, and that they should con- tinue to hold. By Bill Sniley Calamity Se eae ous a Best in Us the been snowing and People who with sal- wouldn't. give day will stop out of a snowbank. People who wouldn’t buy an apple from a boy scout will shovel give us a di out old ladies’ handed, without ‘water. They die in their “hundreds, frozen grins on ge faces; clutching their snow-shovels. I speak from experience. This morning, my neighbor, with whom.I exchange a care- fully amiable greeting every six months, hi ordinarily you the time of and shove you mushed out, grinning like a gargoyle, motor Trunaing, to drive to. work. driveways. the wasn’t practising ene And strangest of all, they manship..He was being a good smile and grin and chortle neighbor. while they're doing it. Not only Got to work, and found that one chap had driven do they revert through the storm for four-and- to humanity. They return to @ 9-half hours to make it on time. cert primitive ing tainttle with ‘the elements. People who will ible hapa the first time in his life. be used for re- Fortbours ak about a Gate IS FOk, of Normally, he thinks of na- ture as something subdued, something to be sreation, 1 oF oe at and say- form of a bl an earth arthquake 0: crossed _ the - him Tent back on his primitive neem. And strangely enough, it is only when nature comes up with some kindof a spectacu- lar that man seems to shed his scale of materialism, get down to his basic virtues, and find out once again what makes the aman, race go ee in ever- i iMELEOO hour as proud as though they'd just We Live in By Pastor D. Reeves Calvary Baptist Church So few today have a per- sonal faith in the Lord sesus, Christ, but this is not becar . we live in a land of penighted pride in do- He was slit-eyed, unshaven, and - something of a hero, for per- Lhate to Porotty, it, in case old Mother N. is listening, but perhaps we need a few more holo- es and ‘hurdicanes. They nvork a lot better than national- ly _ advertised Brotherhood Sahara, single- Weeks. VICTORIA REPORT THERE'S OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM,” By James K. Neshitt Figeting Phil and the Diligent Hones What's call- ed the Budget, Debate, but is really a mara: thon Mf speech 3 is just about over in your Legislature. It has. ‘been most- ly hi im, J efacyone talk- away with now and then an soen that chat is soon for- gi mon- ere’ll will mier is playing politics with the Angus reports, The Premi will say it’s he oppositionists who are playing politics. oo there you have.it — the Pr mier will have his own way, but no conclusions will be Senne a tical opinion. It’s ple, in the: pollt reach conclusio’ always do, and sara politic- ians do not like jthose conclu- though n across at thi now and shouting, ‘aid; ‘shouter he’ is.:] ing his real destribution rita mined it will go throu way he has fashioned 3 it appears that he mi call an election on thi if there's too much stormy ob- jection. : The Premier is always holding the threat of an elec- tion over opposition parties, which say they’re ready to take : appears re- LAP session, on the Premier, the minute be - wills it, but when’ an election is called, they call it a snap election designed by juss Pre- mier so that he might, he hopes feather his own political nest. mhats the way it is with poli- Everytime an oppositionist gets up he comp! ty and bit- terly, about the state of the i Uries leave the faith of our fathers. We know better than to squan- der our substance on riotious away Let us remember that “to that have never “him that knoweth to do good, cadent nation discarding it ts great, Christian isa and doeth it not, to him it —that is quickly sin.” God will judge us mits ing to the light we have re- ceived. darkest corner. Tosity, unselfishness, thers fie Ie ae hen peop are gettin the teeth from ‘ oy ing country. One that ora in breaking: step with those hat have gone before and finds pleasure in removing every an- cient Jan ‘k. We cannot plead ignor- ance of what is right, We.do know better. It is not lack of knowledge, but lack of beds jence. Like the prodigal so! we have deliberately chosen ‘6 We need to learn history and take note how {Gea has dealt with flouted his laws and swerved from the faith: He has brought down the mi; from. Our’ so accept them. - roads in his own constituency. This is time-honored fashion. 3 oppositionists © seem to have ganged wu! come too the mass conclusion that the roads are onl in South Okanagan an loops ridings — the home tor: Htoriesio! of two ow werful men, the Premier and Highways Min- ister Gaglardi. Oppositionists insist that what they say about Hhoss and a roads na, ively, and as they so insi lessrs. B. G, smile enigmatic ‘smiles, at which tele are past masters. Mr, Gaglardi sits as pati- ently .as he can, which is nat ily at all. L ds is 80, » DOR Th his way legislative sessions. He can’t see the need of them. The Premier endures ses- sions, I must say he's diligent in his attendance in the House, except for a few days before the budget, when he spends much time in his office. Other than that he’s seldom out, though he usually slips away for 15 minutes for a pot of tea in the legislative restaurant, When the Premier isn't in his place a legislative speech somehow falls flat. The Prem- -_ inspires eres either to sions bore. him stiff, and ore ier: shows his boredom by yawning and figeting and sometimes snoozing. He says there's too much talking and’ too much politicking: at sessions, and he suffers pains in the neck, sit- ting there, and he longs to vish praise or biting cotton. His like him ther so they may try to needle him, and make him hopping med, which sometimes they do. And ‘so it goes — it will be ihe end of March anyway be- fore the 1966 session of your Legislature ends. In. Days of Old When Mowers Quietly Purred" By Joseph C, John ‘ Suffolk County News A friend of mine, haras- - ged by the high decibel count from nearby power mowers, tried a stratezem the other evening which he passes on herewith to other suburbanites. He’ ducked into his cellar, spent a half hour or so poking among piles of assorted junk, and emerged with a hand mow- er. As he moved slowly and quietly across his front lawn, e by one his neighbors turn- ed “oft their infernal machines . snd gathered in a small knot in his premises. ~“What is that thing?,” one id. it is “And,” chipped in his wife, “It is Eood exercise.” “Not only that,” he add- ed, “but it gives the worms a chance to get back into their holes before: they. are. cut in half, and excretion from nice, fat, healthy, whole worms ma- kes a goo turf.” “well, ‘now, ain't that some: thing,”, one of.‘the commented, “what ‘wont thoy think of next?.” He asked for and was granted it, “Po be aon ie through the ozone. A Measure Of Journalistic Art ta aa publisher James Parton on the duties of reporters and histor- A Bold Young Irish Commissioner Enforced the Law at Wild Horse Creek . Peter ‘O'Reilly Now. hoya, there piu be 0 shooting, for. ere shooting, there will surely Be hi mE did Peter O'Reilly lay down the law in the rough and oting. i@ had come out from - Ireland in 1859 when he was just reaching manhood, but already he had 5 Trish Revenue Police and he was a logical choice when Gov- ernor James Douglas wanted a stipendiary magistrate’ for Fort. ane = Wil o years he was gold commissioner: a and nd istipens magistrate in hand. He held the same posts at the Big Bend and la- charge a royalty gold that tas! — but it was a futile under- the royalty was Reilly. was appointed judge for Yale in’ 1867 but he was back in the mining camps of Omineca soon after. In 1871 he led a party ona historic winter trek to the coast by the Skeena River Toute over times 30 feet deep was given in-law to B.C.’s first Lieutenant- Governor Joseph Trutch. O'Reilly settled in Victoria and his last appointment was Indian Reserve Commissioner. 4 strike ter at Wild Horse Creek. ‘When He died in 1905, FARMERS! WIN A WESTERN-SIZE PRIZE IN THE ELEPHANT BRAND ‘BEST IN THE WEST’ — By Local unirencs a God-Forsaking Country Buia SPREAD happened before..The . tainly destruction of Sodom and hildho: uld ‘soberly heed the timely * those epoca ace of the trans aa was ae hed, will be Berd. and Our forefathers’ faithfully. delivered unto us the whole others who: . eet quantity of: books mite control were devoured by inst the EA | fore “Sure is bigger than fast year’s big contest!” . GRAND PRIZES | "1966 GMC half-ton | PICKUP. TRUCKS “Yeah — more big prizes —and no © figurin' to dol”: :: ing time just around .the ‘corner, rigl time to see the man at your it now Is a ‘good ' quality fertilize PREEM- YUM BREAD LARGE. 20-0UNCE LOAVES" -2. for-53¢ a , eo ‘ 6 2 i es - ee Balt emis, uci ede OOC rifty, Sliced, 1-Ib, Pkg. Chuck STEAK, Pound 0.0.0.0... 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