CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, Feb. 9, 1961

CASTLEGAR NEWS

and Forty-Saven

A Thorn a Perrault's Side

Just about everybody in this world,
ho matter who they are, usually have a
thorn of somé kind in their side. For some
people it’s the boss, for some housewives
it's their children, and for some’ young.
husbands it's the mother-in-law.
For political leaders the thorns in
' their sides are usually some faithful sup-
porter who continually brings them em-
, barrassment.

Here in’B.C. Premier Bennett has his
share of thorns in the persons of Messrs.
Tisdale, Corbett and Shelford. For Oppos-
ition leader Robert Strachan, it’s Messrs.
j Cox and Nimsick, and now, for newly-elec-

‘ ted.Liberal leader Ray Perrault, it-appears
as if the thorn in his side is going to be
his running mate from North Vancouver,
J. Gordon Gibson.

Mr. Gibson, a few days before the
current Legislative session started, gave an
indication of the irresponsble barbs which
: he'll be hurling hither and yon in the
House.’ They’re the type of remarks which;
will bury completely anything worthwhile
, the other three Tiberal members might
‘say.

The Vancouver sun quotes Mr. Gib-.

son as telling the University .of B.C. Lib-
eral Club a few days before the Legisla-
: ture opened that “If I said today some of
the things I intend to say in the legislature
I could be sent to jail, but I will have im-
munity of speech in the House.”

The only impli which bl

The people i in this favored age group,
many of them still at university and many
of them still r i
from their parents, would thus, under Mr,
Gibson’s system, be allowed to have the
same effect at’the polls as their parents

“AND two of their grandparents put to-:
gether. This makes Sense? . :

Mr, Gibson,’ if’ he promises nothing
more, certainly promises some amusing

speeches’ in the House. It’s too bad there ¢

isn’t a:Hansard in the B.C. Legislature to
record thern. And then again, perhaps it’s
a good thing there isn't. If there were, the
publishers -of \children’s stories’ would be

up in’arms over the public treasury being te.

used to print such fiction.
£ * * *:

Since the above editorial was written,
Mines Minister Kenneth Kiernan drew Mr.
Gibson’s remarks to the attention of the
House and asked Speaker Hugh Shantz to
determine whether Mr. Gibson should be
tried by the House on a charge of breach
of privilege, penalty for which is imprison-
ment for the duration of the session.

Mr. Kiernan said he took Mr. Gibson’s
remarks as a personal affront and said it
left him and his staff charged with graft
and corruption. He. added:

“If this type of unsupported and slan-
derous attack on ‘people in public life is
to continue unchecked, we will soon reach
the point where no one who takes any

men can draw from such a remark is that .

Mr. Gibson is going to say things in the
House which he can’t prove, and therefore
he wants to be in the House when he says
them so that the persons of whom he will
falk won't be.able to get at him in the
courts, .

But as if this utter nonsense weren't
enough, Mr, Gibson continued: “I haven't
started. to look under the carpet yet. But
when I lift it, I know the ‘dirt will be
there. You namé it — mining, railroading
any other department, I’m sure it’s there.”*

Thus, knowing exactly what he’s
. looking for, Mr. Gibson is going to expose
it — expose it in the House that is, where
there is immunity of speech.

But if all this foolishness still weren't
enough’ Mr. Gibson proposed yet another
bit of ridiculousness toe the university stu-
dents. He told them that he beieved in a
voting system in which there would be
different.colored ballots for different age
groups. Voters in the 21 to 30 age bracket
would be given four votes apiece because,
he says, they have the biggest stake in
this province's future.

t of his personal integrity
will be prepared to accept: public office.

bility of defeating the government
on the floor of the House, But he

VICTORIA REPORT

Few Fireworks.

faction from the foct they're so
By the time you read this the|Proud of thelr name, s0 proud of
their party,
now, as they always have been, and
so they “will remain, though there}
will be ups and downs aplenty. |

By JAMES K. NESBITT

1961 Throne Speech debate will be
almost part of our legislative his-
tory. What was said? What was
done? Nothing very much, However,
it was democracy in actlon and for
that we should be thankful.

Premier Bennett, os minister of
finance, will bring down his bud-
get Feb, 10, Next Monday ° the
speech-making . will start all ‘over

again, In what's, called the budget ‘

debate.

fireworks)so far,-this session, ‘Oh,
the odd loud voice, now and then,
a. boom from Libera! Gordon Gib-
on; a-roar | from Highways Minister
Gaglardi, “a shout from Oppasi-,
tion leader Strachan, but not much
pummelling and pounding. The ex-
plosions will come when the formal
speech-making ends, .when. the
House is In legislation and estima-

Mr. atrachan nioved a want-of-
confidence motion in govern-
ment, knowing full well he'd get
nowhere, had the slightest possl-

wanted to gee the combined oppos~
ition ‘stand, shoulder to shoulder, 80
that the Premler would be suitably
impressed,

And Mr. Bennett was, though
he kept his calm exterior, Far the
first time he reallzed that he had
lost strength last September.

look pretty — 16 CCF.

‘There inaven't; been too many

velopment division, of the Congoll-
dated Mining and Smelting Co. The
appointment, announced by R. D,
Perry,
The opposition this time DOES | anager of Cominco, ts effective

that they're Liberals

G. L, Filippell! has been named
technical service engineer, sales de-

vice-president -and general

ers and four Liberals —~ an increase

of six.over last session. They stood) aintain his office at ‘Trail, In his
new position, he will be concerned
with the promotion of sales of Co-
minco chemical products,

as one to show they have no con-
fidence In this Social: Credit ‘gov-
ernment, but the whole Social Cre-

dit aide of 31, acting on the tip of

Attorney-general’ Bonner stood 88/4. ‘Fuipnelli was supervisor of files
Fi and records, for the company and
Se eave pvery confidence /was ‘responsible forthe establlah-
in the’ government and, think the| ment of a company-wide ‘system of
reporting, filing and recording pro-

one, too; shoulder to shoulder, to

At that point olves into
chaos and ends in dictatorship. 2

Mr.. Kiernan said the Legislative Pri-
vileges Act, Chapter 215, provides that the
House may act with powers of the courts
to investigate assaults made upon members
during the session or 20 days before or
after it. He asked the Speaker to ‘deter-
mine what action should be taken.

Mr. Gibson then read a Ietter,he had
written to the mines minister. In it he as-
sured the minister and the House that his
remarks had not been intended to cast any
aspersions on the’minister or on the civil
servants of the province. -

He added, however, “I fully intend, to
set forth my views on this goyernment
and its policies in my‘speech to the House
. .. Let them judge me after they have
heard me.”

The Speaker made no stat t fol-
lowing Mr.. Kiernan’s remarks in the
House, but the following day he said he
thinks “off-hand” that Mr. Gibson’s reply
is sufficient “to take care of the matter.”

‘Creston’s Place in the Sun

With the signing by Canada and the
U.S.A. of the C ia river d
a little history comes to Creston as being
the first community in Canada and the
U.S.A. to have a finger in this big venture
between two countries.

In. 1922 when Levi Humphries was
MP for Kootenay East, he, with Guy Con-
stable, went to Alberta to meet Mackenzie

Dam ‘is on its way. We feel one of the
most able men, a man who, knows the
River, its intricacies, its history
a who at present is responsible for son-
ar soundings relative to silt deposits, Guy
Constable, should be giyen a place in the
scheme of things,
When the picture looked the darkest,
Mr. Constable stood by his guns in Koot-

King, Prime Minister, who was
east after a tour to the west coast. The
two men brought to the attention of the
great statesman the possibilities of, the
Kootenay and Columbia rivers, the: latter
being the topic of conversation,

Mr. Constable feels that the Hon. Mr.
Williston has done a great job for Can-
ada and B.C. in the C \

enay t;.he fought Gen. Mc-
Naughton, chairman of the International
Joint Commission on his views of the mat-
fer, and’ by: consistent lobbying, writing
and cajolling, today sees light in the cén-
struction of the Libby Dam.

Recently Guy. Constable was feted un-
der the Board of Trade presidency of

in that, by ‘subtle manoeuvering Canada
gained great concessions by not being
taxed if the two great projects go through.

With the announcement coming out
of U.S.A. and Canada it would seem Libby

Johnny S . Men of all stations. of
life paid tribute to his public service and
development, not only of rivers but of the
East and West pelea — Creston Re-
view. : vriil

oppositionists nothing but a bunch
of

votes,

Thus does politics divide your} graduated from the University of
Alberta with a BSc. He started ser-| °
after all, you are the bosses 8ndq/ vice with Cominco in 1945, ‘
‘Mr, Filippelil ts welloknown for

coF’ers, looking back to Jast| nis active

‘MLA’s — but be not critical, for,
you voted for them,

September's election, express great j
satisfaction with the results, SC’ers
last legs, will be defeated in 1964,

causes 8C'ers to hoot, though some-

out: looking for | cedures,

president of the unlor Chamber of
say they're smug. COF'erg feel sure| Commerce, he has also been active
the Bennett government’s on its|in the Canadian Counell. of Chris-

tlans and Jews, the Red, Cross and
and say 20 in loud voices, which| Rotary. <

Mr, Filippell! will continue to

Prigr to his new appointment,

Born in Trail, Mr. Filippelli

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Well, no matter what

in 1964,. opined ‘ Attorney-general,
Bonner, the CCF won't win, since,
by then, the COF will have changed
its name to the New Party.

‘The Premier likes to needle
CoF’ers, because they're going to
change thelr political name.. The
Premiers on vulnerable ground
here, leaves himself wide-open,
since he has changed his political |
mame several times — and look
where it got him — & ine very
top.

He started out 8 a5 8 “Conserva-
tive, was forced to become Conger-
vative, then became a

Conservative, was forced to become
@ Coalition Coservative, though he
hated it; then he became a Pro-
gressive Conservative again, run-
ning for Ottawa, and, defeated,
turned Coalition Conservative again,
and then Independent,’ and then
Social Credit.

But so far the coF‘ers haven't
rubbed these facts into he Premier
very much, but they will if: he
keeps twitting them about the CCF
changing its name. However, the
Premier, growing more politically
hardbolled with the years, doesn’t
embarrass easily.

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PTA Discusses
PE Programs

: A panel discussion on the Phe:
sical education programs in ‘sel
of various

of physical education taught varied
ools| from area to area,

* the last meeting of the PTA,

Speakers dealt with: the phy-
sical education provided in the
schools df British Columbia, Eng-
land, Australia. and ‘the United
States. ~~

Miss Mary Richardson- outlin-
ed the progress and changes over
of -the phyaica! ‘education programs
ie a vORED, up to the present time,

BC, schools,

Now patterned for the moat
part on the Americar system, phy-
sical educational sessions were de-

mainly to games, rather then,
body-bullding exercises, she com-
mented. Miss Richardson also re-
ferred to recent studies which
European physical educa-
tion systems to be much superior
bp cmcee in thee Glaler and Consds,
In English schools, sald Miss
Valerie in

schools were . poorly
équipped for, the: teaching of phy-
sical education, declared Bruce Mc»
Leod. Only one 45-minute period in|
a week was devoted to PE and in
that session students were to part-
iclpate, Genernlly, he said, the pro-
gram ‘followed the European  Pat-
tern’ of physical’ education,

Mr, Crawford pointed out that
in the States equipment for all
kinds of physical education was
Yeadily available while most. schoo!
seasions alloted for PE were devot-
ed to sports, rather than atraight-

Prrhibabitasaak nnd Bach atate, how-

ever, seta up its own pi

Orawford said, eae ee A
Moderator J, Bilesky concluded

physical

Placed on good posture, akil? and
sportsmanahip. For the moat part
schools in that country were well
equipped with apparatus for type

were

In other business during the
evening it was atated that Clade
Bissell, district school superintend..
ent, had obtained a copy of the
Chant Repoort on and

Kinnaird Resident
Discovers a Letter
Stamped at. Waterloo

The first town in the Castlegar
District was Waterloo. It was lo-
cated. just across the Columbia
river from , Kinnaird,

Ww. Dempscy of Kinnaird, who
nbw owns a store at Fort Steele in
the East Kootennays,' recently found
@ letter which was mailed from

but which ended up in the
dead letter office of the post office
as undeliverable, -

Stamped at the Waterico post
office on Dec. 24, 1897, the envelope
contains a letter advising: two men
by the names of William : Gibson
and Charles Burton that no bills
of sale were recorded inthe aad
regiatry ‘office against some claims
the twg men had purchased.

‘The ‘claims ‘mentioned’ in‘ the
“Itetter are the Black Prince, Gray
Copper, Yellow Copper, Copper
a Copper Belle and Mountain

lew.

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Plans Office Here

Alrling /U-Drive’ of Trail- this

_ Minor Hockey -
Gets 2 Donations

Two donors to the Minor Hoc-
in

Pythian Bis association secre-
tary Earl Bindtdrd sald this week.

would speak to parents and teach-
evs on some aspects of the report
at @ future meeting.

irs. P, Vaessen, president ‘of
the group, reported on her atten-
dance at a meeting of the Kinnaird
TA when road safety

said“ that parents of high’ school
students could do much. in instill-
ing good safety habits among their
sons and Qaughi

for children was discussed. She|?

week ite to
épen a ‘branch office of the com-

cal office will be operated by his
son R. Melatini who was married

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CASTLEGAR NEWS, “Thursday, Feb. 9, 1961

Kiwanis Club Executive Installed

"Installation of the “club's new
executive by district © ileutenant-
governor Jim Culverwell of Chew-
elah, Wash. highlighted the 14th
annus! installation banquet and
dance of. the Castlegar Kiwanis

Club Saturday night. g

Mr, Culverwell installéd the new
executive consisting ‘of: Al Harvey,
president; Bul Shkwarok, past pres-
ident; Earl Greep and’ Aage Syi-|-
veat, vice-presidenta; Mel West, se-

cretary, and directors, Jim “Corbett;
Ed Fredericksen, Gus Leitner, Mice
key Moran ond Bill Oleskl, ,
Chairman for the banquet, at-
tended by about 120 persons, was
club’ member Jim Corbett.- Enter-
tainment was provided by The Tri-
diots, a local group who first made
their appearance at the club's an-
nual eraice last year.
e three members of ‘The Tri-
tots — Jock Kittough, John Lan-

dis and Bill Oleski — entertained also made by Mr, Gulverweul,

4n a calypso fashion and sang songs ‘The club’s committee chairmen
that they had re-written with the] for 1961 were also announced, They
names of club members and guests|include: Ed Frederiksen, asgricul-
inserted. ue and eonserrationy Mickey Mo-

The club's past
F, Shkwarok, gave his report he Een Sharples, ous committee,
1980 and the banquet also heard Earl Greep, ae, education and
an address by Mr, C1 Pro-
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Shkwarok for five years — were, ray Little, youth services.

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