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2 CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, November 26, 1959 %

_ Education Should Stretch Young Minds.

It was several years ago, before Sput-
nik I ascended, that the Western world
first took note of the toughness of the Sov-
jet school curriculum. There was evidence
then that Russian children were given har-
der mental exercise, and more of it, than
the children of North America.

The Russians are now making their
study courses more difficult still, accord-
ing to the Soviet News Bulletin.

In their “elght-year schools”, corres-

Foreign

year.
Withoyt

mathematics,
ges, in this

years, a study of the atom.

language study, with special

attention to “simple conversation” on ‘“‘soc-
io-political subjects”, is to begin in the 5th

necessarily imitating the Rus-

sians, our education planners should note
the emphasis on the really hard subjects,

science and foreign langua-
curriculum. When the smoke

of pedagogical argument clears, there’s al-

ponding to Canada’s Grade 1-to-8 elemen-
tary schools, there )s to be a “much better
training in mathematics”. The chemistry
course has been expanded. The physics
course will include, in the 7th and 8th

ways one

is to stretch
disciplines.

disputable fact that r

the way to produce well-educated youths

their minds with the toughest

— Financial Post

VICTORIA REPORT

Cox Makes Trouble for Robert Strachan

By JAMES K. NESBITT =; matters worse for him and his

CCF leader Rebcri Strachan, | party. ‘
for the first time since he took Cedrio Cox, CCF MLA for
leadership of his party in 1956,| Burnaby, and son-in-law of the
and became the Leader of Her| late Ernest Winch, doesn’t like
Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the | the CCF tie-up with organized la.
Legislature, has some internal} bor and says so in a loud voice,
trouble on his hands, a trouble|and it’s this that worries Mr.
which makes him most unhappy, | Strachan, who does like the tie-
and somewhat mad, though he| up,
does his best to control himself Strict CCF disciplinarians
and maintain ‘a brave front. like Mrs. Grace MacInnes, daugh-

He knows that any popping- | ter of CCF founder J. S, Woods-
off on his part would only make! worth, says stern action should

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be taken against Mr. Cox for
throwing such a monkey-wrench,

Mr. Strachan, however, smi.
les a tolerant, stralned-sort-of
smile, says, why, of course, in

tions to the Kinnaird

Syringa Creek Parents

Want Better

A request by Syringa Creck
parents for transportation assis.
tanee for thelr children attending
the Robson elementary school
was made at the last meeting of
the Castlegar school board,

At the present time, students
at the Robson clementary school
have to walt for the bus from the
high school before they are tal.
en home. Parents now want an
earlier bus service for their
children, :

The request was turned over
to the board's transportation co.
mmittee for study.

The high school drainage sy-
stem was discussed and a survey
is to be made for the installation
of disposal basins, A report on
preliminary plans for the addi.

Bus Service

cost of putting electric power in-
to Gibson Creck and Pass Creeks
schools,

Means of obtaining a better
water supply for rural schools is
to be studied “and put into ef-
fect if possible.” District superin.
tendent: C. S, McKenzie was re-
quested to ask the minister of

ion to make
appointments from areas in the

tschool District which failed to

appoint representatives at mect-
ings, « :

The board approved the use
of the Tarrys school activity
room for junior, intermediate and
senior badminton.

B.C. Telephone Co. .
Extends Boundaries

The B.C, ‘Telephone Com-
pany's exchange boundaries of
South Stocan will be enlarged to
include subscribers in the Pass.
more-Slocan Park area of Cres.
cent Valley.

V. C, Owen, district commer.
cial and traffic manager, said ad-

‘Thank-You’ Given
For All Donations

Many small donations of
fruit, flowers, vegetables and
magainces are made to the Castle-.
gar and District Hospital and ara
not acknowledged because people
don't leave their names, admin-
istrator J, Bainbridge sald last
week,

ditional circults will be provi
along the Slocan-New Denver
highway at a cost of $17,000 to
include nine toll-station subscri-
bers and provide for future
growth, ‘
Toll-station subscribers pay
a basic amount plus a charge for
each call placed, Following com-
pletion of the project, scheduled
in about six months, they would
pay the regular monthly multi.
party exchange service rate.

ON ive thank-y
those who donate the above items
and don't leave their names was
given by Mr. Bainbridge. If a
donation to the hospital is made
and the donator’s name is known,
a letter is sent thanking him for
the donation.

A. Nielsen of Nielsen's Flow.
ers donated his time in planting
bulbs in the hospital's flower
beds sald Mr. Bainbridge,

and Twin Rivers schools were re-
viewed.

The board approved the re.
ceiving of applications for the
position of half-time stenograph-
er at the high school, The build-
ing committee will study estimat_
ed costs of installig propane
lights at the Champion Creek
school, =

The September dally average
of hot soup served at the high
school was 50. Secretary-treasur.
er C. H, King was authorized to
obtain full information as to the

ceived by the CCF, which DO
come from passing the hat at!
public meetings, from member-
ship fees, and from the “little
man” in the form of coin, fold-
ing money AND cheques,
“Names of contributors, to-
gether with the amount of con-

the CCF there's absoulte freedom
to express one’s private thoughts,
and that Mr. Cox can say what
he likes, even though what he
says doesn’t agree with majority 1
CCF opinion,

There's talk Mr. Cox may be'
read out of the party. That’s not
likely to happen. Mr, Strachan's
make Mr. Cox a martyr, and pol. '
itical martyrs always win a cer-
tain measure of public support.

Unless Mr. Cox stirs up more
serious trouble, there'll be no
reason for reading him out of
the’ party,

On the other hand Mr. Cox
could well resign from the CCF
and try to go it alone as an In-
dependent Socialist, However, if
he does that he won't last long.
Independents don’t get far in
these days of the mass mind,
the pap-fed multitudes, The old
days of rugged individualism,
when a man could stand on his
own two feet, ate gone, People
feel they get farther if they re.
main with the herd, and this is
a pity, an awful dullness, a cor-
roding conformity being the re-
sult.

Premier Bennett, naturally, is
delighted with the Cox revolt. It

Vancouver bolted Social Credit.
Mr. Bryan, you remember, tried

sion, felt his political impotence,
and scurried back’ to the Liberal
fold, which he had left when he
saw the Social Credit light,

certain amount of personal sym-
pathy with bolters, even those
who bolt away from him, for he’s

itical history, having walked out
of the Conservative Party, in

turned Social Credit, marshalling
those new-found forces, so suc-
cessfully that he achieved the
Premiership, as much to his own
surprise, 1s to everyone else's. '
While the Cox action is em-
barrassing to Strachan, and plea.
sing to Bennett, it won't, in the
Nong Tun, much affect the forces
;of the CCF, even though Social-
ism's enemies talk themselves
into believing it will. It's really
nothing much more than a rip-
ple in a cup of tea,
eer

Mere mention even the faint-
est whisper of poitienl , party
campaign funds sends the poli-
ticians Into embarrassed, stub--
born silence or loud protests of
innocence,

I sald the other day: “No
one can ever pin any one down”
on the source of campaign funds,
they being so shrouded in mys-
tery. .

. Comes a letter from Dewd-
ney CCF Association, which says:
“If you refer to the Socreds, Con-
servatives and Liberals that may

so, From our knowledge of
costs of election campaigns, it is
quite obvious that the agency.
type of advertising on behalf of
those parties requires donations
on the grand scale.”

The letter continues: “.. ..
to include the CCF party,
Majesty's loyal opposition in Br: H
tish Columbia, is unfair. There
has never been any secrecy about

AFTER 6 P.M. PHONE RESIDENCE 541 THRUMS

the source of campaign funds re-

a rugged independence for a ses- | im

Mr. Bennett probably has a/ 4

one of the top bolters in our pol-| ff

lold and spectacular fashion, and | §

tribution are published and cop-
ies sent to the many thousands
who have contributed. These to-
tal amounts balance with our
campaign expenses. Our ' books
are ‘open,' as has been stated
many times by Robert Strachan,
and others of our party. You may
have the privilege of examining
our books if you wish to do so,”"

That's a good, courteous, cla-
rifying letter, and I thank the
CCFers of Dewdney for the in-
vitation and accept the explana.
tion. ~

Now, if Socreds, Liberals and
Conservatives would make simil_
ar explanations, we'd have a
clearer picture of where the mo-
ney comes from to fight elections,

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No temperamental storm window can defeat this family
minister of labour. Leaving the difficult jobs to the pro-
fessionals, he looks after smaller repair jobs in his home,
himself. He’s a determined fellow who aims at keeping
his family expenditures well within his income at all
times. ‘.
. The Minister of Labour at Ottawa requires millions
of dollars to meet departmental expenditures, each year
++. and his department is only one of many.

Money for all departments of government comes
through the Minister of Finance who gets it largely in
taxes from Canadians such as you. When more money
is spent than is: collected in taxes, government must
borrow from you... or else create new money. The
creation of new money is one factor that leads to inflation
+++ which means your dollar buys less and less,

The government has been spending more than you
have been paying in taxes, To narrow the gap between
income and expenditures, new taxes have been imposed.

The next step should be to reduce expenditures, or
at least hold the line. Undertaking new commitments —
adding new welfare or other services — will only make
it that much more difficult to pay our way. Tell your
M.P. at Ottawa that since you are-trying to save, you
expect government to do the same.

You:also help when you save more by means of life
insurance, savings deposits, and the purchase of govern-
ment bonds. Your savings help to create a SOUND
dollar; and this, in turn, helps to create job security for
you and more jobs for other Canadians.

A SOUND DOLLAR MEANS
A BETTER LIFE FOR YOu
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Pass Creek Park Avea
Discussed by Chamber

If a community can attract
24 tourists a day it Is equivalent
to having a local business with a
yearly payroll of $100,000 W. H,
Hepper, district parks officer
from Nelson, told the Jast meet.
ing of the Castlegar asd District
Chamber of Commerce,

He said the camping business
is not a bubble that will soon bur.
st, It is a business that keeps
growing,

Where before government
camps had nine to 10 units, they
now have 90 or more sald Mr.
Hepper, Reserves for: parks in
the Castlegar District cover more
than 950 acres.

A reserve of 300 acres has
been placed on Indian Flats
above the Brilliant Dam, but one
has ot yet been placed on-Pass
Creek near the car bridge.

Mr, Hepper recalled that Re.
creatlon Minister Westwood had
been in Castlegar and had seen
the site. He said it was his un-
derstanding that if a reserve were
placed on that area it would be
developed as a class C park — a
park completely under local con-
trol and financed locally,

Cc. A, Anderson, commodore
of the Arrow Boat Club, told Mr.
Hepper that he felt the Pass
‘Creek site “is the only logical
location even to consider.” He
sald there is a lack of trees and
water at Indian Flats, there are
gravel pit scars and garbage
dumped there, and private gravel
pits are located right next to the
flats.

On the other hand, said Mr.
Anderson, there are terraces, ad-
equate playing fields, water and
trees at the Pass Creek site.

. Roy Brown, a member of
the Chamber's committee study.
ing the Pass Creek site, said
there are 120 acres there. The
grass land was not flooded this

300,000 B.C. Homes
Will Receive Xmas
Seals in Few Weeks

The 1959 Christmas seal cam-
Paign is under way. Over 300,-
000 B.C. homes will receive their
Christmas seals by mail during
the next few weeks.

The. Rev. H. S. McDonald,
minister of Hastings United
Chureh and volunteer’ treasurer
of the B.C. Tuberculosis Society.
thinks this year’s Christmas seal
is the best in the 51 yeer history
of.the soctety.

“Certainly there could be no
more appropriate seal for Christ-
mas than this one depicting the
nativity scene."I am biased of
course, but I think a good many
people will agree that this is the
prettiest and most appropriate
seal we have ever had,” said Mr.
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year, alhough flood water hit 29
fect,

He sald there was the possi-
buity of a natural pool at the
site and the park could be de.
veloped over the years to as far
as the first falls, He said there
was’ “very little’ private land
which the’ government would
have to purchase to turn the
area into a park,

R, A, D, West said the heat
on Indian Flats is unbearable in
the summer. He said lack of wat-
er and shade cause the heat to
reflect off the mountain so that
camping is impossible, A

Mr. Hepper said department
minds “are not fixed” on the
Indian Flats site and he would
be wiling to look over the Pass
Creek site with Chamber mem-
bers later this year and again
next Spring.

U.S. and Canada
Paying Attention
To Retarded Kitls

One of the encouraging things
about these times is that a great
deal more attention is being paid
to the needs of retarded child-
Ten,

All over Canada and the U.S.
People are realizing that these
youngsters have not been given
the chance they need and deserve
to develop into useful citizens,

Here in B.C, the Association
for Retarded Children are parti-
cipating in the first province-
wide fund drive on behalf of
these youngsters, The slogan is
“Retarded Children Can Be Help.
ed — Let’s Help Them Not Hide
Them,” 2

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Four British-built automo-
biles now imported to Canada
took their names from bicycles
and bicycle manufacturers. They
are Rover, Singer, Humber and
Triumph,

ROLLS ALONG
The powerful Swedish car,
Volvo, now imported to Canada,
gets its name from the first per-
son singular, present tense, of
the Latin verb vélvere, it means
‘T roll along’.

Teachers’ Status
To be Subject
Of Trustee Talks

B.C. School ‘Trustees Assoc-
jation will call a conference be-
fore the end of the year to dis-
cuss teachers’ status and suggest-
ed new classification.

Mrs, Marion Ricker of Na-
naimo, president of the associa-
tion, announced plans to call to-
gether the parties vitally inter-
ested to develop a concerted, mu-
tually acceptable plan that will
benefit education in this province
in general and the students in
B.C. schools in particular.

Her action followed a Victor.
ia report that a special committee
of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation
is placing before BCTF members
a new plan under which teachers
would be placed In three classi-
fications — Instructor, teacher
and professional teacher, and be
paid accordingly.

The . conference would in-
elude department of education,
University of B.C. College of Ed-
ucation, trustees’ association and
teachers’ federation,

“The trustees association has
been making an exhaustive study
of teacher competence for three
years or more with the object of
obtaining better teaching for our
children,” said Mrs, Ricker.

“This has included merit ra-
ting, subsidies for teachers in
training, salary incentives for
teachers obtaining improved cer-
tifleation and so on,

“As a result of these studies
the Association developed a plan
for a ‘professional scale’ under
which teachers obtaining degrees
and advancing in qualification
would also advance in salary:

“This plan,” Mrs. Ricker
said, “was placed before the De-
partment of Education for study
last August, with the object of
continuing the study and bring-
ing it to the point .where we
could discuss it with teachers
and with the College of Educa-
tion. We are convinced that any
plan of this nature must have
the whole-hearted co-operation
of all groups affected.”

The BCTF committee pro-
posals, as reported in the press,
would ‘divide teachers into three
Classifications; sst up a Federa-
tion board of review to classify
all teachers; classify teachers on
the basis of competence, exper-
fence and educational accom-
plishment; and limit salary lev-
els available to the classifications

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