‘THURSDAY, MAY: 1, 1952

CASTLE: NEWS, Castlegar, British Columbia

PAGE 3

Mother's Day Gifts

UNEMPLOYED RECEIVE
-FOUR HUNDRED MILLION
FROM UNEMPLOYMENT I. A.

For. Sanday, May ape

“Gitts trom your Jeweller
are Gifts at their best.”

yyment insurance dur-
a its first 10- years of existence
in Canada has proven, even in
years of record high employment
to be of inestimable benefit to
the individual, the community
.and ‘the nation, stated Hon. Mil-

_ ton F. Gregg, minister of labor

recently.

Mr. Gregg pointed out that
at the end of February, a total
of $416,918,240 had been paid out
in benefits since the inception of

insurable employment; 2,989,000
by April 1, 1951, and 3,170,000
on December 1; 1951.

From the inception of the Un-

employment Insurance Act, up.

to the latter part of 1950 the num-
ber of employers covered by the
act had increased from 160,000
to 227,000: Extension of the act
to cover employment in lumber-
ing and logging across Canada
which took place in April, 1950,
added considerably to the num-

the U: ment

in 1941 and a total of.3,234,500_
claims for benefits were paid up
to the end of 1951. He stated
that the number of persons cov-
ered by the Unemployment In-
surance Act was Steadily rising
and quoted the following figures
to- illustrate this — In May, 1950,
there .were 2,659,000 persons in

ber of ployers covered by the
act. By September, 1951, a fur-
ther increase in the number of
covered employers had brought
the total figure to more than
243,000.

Mr. Gregg pointed out that al-
though the Canadian economy
had remained extremely buoy-
ant, changes in the economy and

in the international scene -had
resulted from time_to time in
frictional, unemployment, while

the cold Canadian winters con-.

tinued to cause spotty seasonal
unemployment. It was not im-
possible to conceive” the hard-
ships which might have been
suffered by the individual and,
at certain times, the wider
dampening effect on the nation-
al economy, had it not been for
the buoyant influence of this”
continuity of income provided by
the benefit payments from Un-
employment Insurante fund.

While . benefit payments pro-
vided income at a ,lower level
than that to which the bene-
ficiary was accsutomed, neverthe-
less these payments provided a
strong support to the temporarily
unemployed individual, and the
general economy, the minister.
said. .

To those who continued to
pay. unemployment insurance
over .the years without having
found it necessary to draw bene-
fits, the minister had this to say:
“The unemployment insurance

In the old days a logging camp was often a collection of flimsy tar paper shacks
at the end of a muddy trail. You stripped the hillside then moved over into

the next valley and started again. There was no permanency, no attempt at

conservation . . ._ just the urge to move on—to stake out new timber limits

‘while the going was good.

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But we’re NOT moving on! Columbia Cellulose Company is. i the Prince

Hupert and Terrace areas to mee Our forest properties will always be green.

eS scenic beauties and providing speedy ‘access for fire protection. And, these

a

ever growing, evergreen forest remain open to hunters and fishermen to enjoy.

This is a new kind of logging operation . . . a planned long-term development

policy which will yield greater benefits for every one of us with each passing

year. No, Coluntbia Cellulose is not moving on—we’re moving in.

Columbia Cellulose Company is
the. Sirst unit of a rapidly expanding 7
Cc

ial or

Within afew months, this organizsa-
tion will be combining timber
from British Columbia with natural

gas derivatives from ‘Alberta to
produce a wide range of fibres and

other acetate products for Canadians '
from coast to coast. Our program

of continuous forest yield ensurse

lasting full-time employment for

th d:

ae

workers.

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PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.

Please send me, Nuahout charge, the attractive. —
20-page illustrated booklet iahe, Rigee of Tree .

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you pay works for yoy whether
or not you ever find it neccs-
Sary to draw benefits. Unem-
Ployment insurance provides a
direct support to the total spend-
ing power .of the community and
nation and dces much to prevent
local and temporary recessions
from snow-balling into a situa-
tion directly menacing the whole
level of employment.” :

RARE WOLF

Central Press Canadian

Bud Chudy, a trapper of Fisher
Branch, Manitoba, about 100 miles
north of ‘Winnipeg, stands beside a
rare albino timber wolf which he
shot last week. Chudy got on the
trail of the white wolf after it had
killed a heifer in the Roy’s Lake
area, six miles from Fisher Branch,
The animal weighed 93 pounds and

was 72 inches in length.

:
TOURIST TRAFFIC UP

Honorable Douglas Turnbull,
minister of trade and industry,
this week released official fig-
ures reporting 12,484 fareign
vehicles entering the province on
Traveller’s Vehicle Permits com-
pared with 9,891 in 1951. This”
means that between 8,000 and
border despite the fact that
10,000 more visitors crossed the,
March, 1951 benefitted from {the
Easter traffic.

Tourist figures for the first
of the year are
‘equally - gratifying, 29,266 permit
entries to British Columbia com-
pared with 25,004 in 1951, an in-
crease of 18 per cent. The in-
cfease for the who'e of Canada
amounted to 7.3, per cent.

British Co'umbia’s particularly
healthy advancement in tourism
is partly accredited by Mr. Turn.
bull to wilter appvreciat'on of our
improve! highway system and
of our standarils of accommoda-
tion. .The recert developments
of s'ti anc other winter sports
facilities within the province are
also attracting a considerable
number of visitors. The minister
added tat -ne noiao.e increase
in. the .early months of the year
may aiso reflect, to some ex-
tent, tle interest of tue British
Coiumbia Government Travel
Burea' in tcuris: season exten-
sion al‘heugh up to the present
the emphasis has been on May,
June and September.

Castlegar Sccial

Mr. and Mrs. Brick Saunders
have returned from their honey-
moon and have’ taken uy resid-
ence in Castlegar.

Mrs. C.ava Saunders nas re-
turned from. Vancouver where
she at.eucec. the Liberal cunven-
tion.

Rev. Joseph Barnes of Castle-
gar left for the East by truin on
Monday. While in the East, Fath- ~
er Barnes will receive mevical
treatmont “from a Speciaust in
Toronto. During his absence
Rev. Father Anthony O.M.1., of
Cranbrook will be in charge of
St. Rita’s parish and St. Jusepi’s
in Kinnaird.

Mr. and Mrs. John Luke of!
Marysville, B.’C., were renewing
acquaintances in Cz:stlegar on
Sunday. They are former resi-
dents.

Mr, J. ii. Toogood attended
the Philatelic Society meeting in
Trail last week.

Mrs. Alice Zuckerberg has re-
turned home after a short holi-
day.
of Grand

Mrs... A. .S> Riley

“Forks is a ‘visitor at the home

of her daughter-in-law and grand
children, Mrs. I. Riley, Sherril
and Carol Lee.

W. R. Atkinson of. Vancouver
Wisited’ last’ week at the home
of ‘his brother and sister-in-law,
Mr: and’ Mrs. Les Atkinson. :