CASTLE NEWS,

Castlegar, B.C.

| Thursday, Februany 3}. 1953

THE CASTLE NEWS

Published Every Thursday at
“THE CROSSROADS OF THE KOOTENAYS”
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Sugar beet g: ir Canada

now are producing enough raw

. Safety Measures For Our Ferry

extra on the Ci

-~ each ramp and the former single chains have been replaced

“heavier ones. All are more securely locked in position, This should
Day tragedy.

da much to help prevent a of our C!

The Department of Public Works has kept its word and installed
ferry. As H, T. Miard
promised a locat delegation, an extra, heavier chain is now in place at

These measures are not enough on a long-time basis however,

by

.. Public leaders must keep the for the

pr ion which is

consideration.

1
i
i
q Also, even though the main element concerned is the safety
li provided, it is also apparent that use of the new, heavier chains
is slowing traffic on the ferry to some extent. Extra work has
resulted for the ferry men. Anyone who doubts this, might try

placing one or both of the newchains in position.
We feel the only real ‘ion to

an: ferry should be as safe as possible,

entirely p ¥
dangers of traffic violation.

to be now under study. The extra
chains do offer protection where the former arrangement did not,
but are not adequate enough to cover all situations. Since it would
not appear too difficult to make changes whereby the present
movable ramps could become solid wall protection, it should be the
duty of the public works department to give this feature every

is
the bridge that we .need. Until, we bea the bridge, however, our

At the same time, let's not forget the-Hon. Mr, Gagliardi’s
_ warning either, that ‘the most elaborate safety measures will not
must realize the deadly

“THE FAMILY CIRCLE

‘Just
LOOKIN G

Thank you

By E.G. 0. ~

of ars
A fortnight ago this column
took a brief look at the teacher
and his or her qualifications,

even briefer look at the other end
of the school log, —the student.
Starting at the age of six as a
very Bmall tadpole, the - student

Another Organization Needed

highly ized. Our

a large number of Broups.

‘ ~. a gregatious animal ben

in the

ing The, more

than less organizations in the future.

There are both and to this si

, If the district we live in, should’not be noted for anything else,
it would be entitled to considerable prominence by reason of the
number of active organizatfons it has..We are probably the most
organized district in the country. In certain respects, we seem. too
is spread too thinly over

There is little that can be done about this, In fact, no one parti-
cularly would want to see anything done about it.|Man is naturally
on Organizing’ himself ‘and his‘ neighbors

into some form or another. As long as there is a divergence in poli-
- tics, religion, pursuits, tastes, ete., there is bound to be a correspond-
and wide-
spread the differences in the former, the more numerous will be the
number of the lattér. In all probability; we shall have more rather

proceeds through a variety of ex-

This week, we shall take :anj,

to supply roughly one-
quarter of Canada's sugar needs,

Seals bears; birds: amd other fish
eaters are well known natural
enemies of Canadals Pacific sal-

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‘WORKING WITH CANADIANS IN. EVERY WALK OF LIFE SINCE

in the above | vein with a: tfew
feeble that

school could help one eae an
educated adult and could help
(one to learn to think, at the very
bottom.

A second teacher assigned. the
same topic, but, prewarned, map-
ped out some of his own require-
ments of students while the class
was working: He then read these
to the class, much to the amaze-
ment and chagrin of the latter.
They were as follows:

I expect the school to give me
students who:

1. Are in school because they
have some reason for being there,
2, Are cooperative, not spoiled
or

for ani per-
_jiod of some 12 years, emerging at
grade twelve as,.what he fondly
imagines to be, a fairly import-
ant b

If however, he ventures to hop
from: his’ intellectual puddle | to

8. Are keen, inquisitive andi in:
terested in life and work. Bla:
and lackadaisical types need not
apply.

4. Have sume goal and realize
that they have some responsibill-
ties in hing .that goal.

the lake of senior
or~ to ‘University, ‘the horizons
which have become increasingly
large and familiar, vanish in a
flash to. be repliced. by vast and
misty vistas, stretching toward
horizons, which, if he thinks back,
are not to dissimilar té those he
peered at in grade one,

In his poem ‘“Ulysses,” Tenny-
son“has this fabled and famed
traveller say:

‘Tarn a part of all that [have met;

Yet ‘all’ experience is ah arch
where through

Gleams that untravelled whose

in that this allows more district’ residents to have’ experience

temperament,

however. It is advantageous to have a large number of organizations

leadership and community activity.. It allows each person a choice
Reg of societies’and he can join those most suited to his personality and

margin fades
Forever and forever when I

move.”

Each student is to a areater: or
lesser degree, a Ulysses, who,
bringing with him his own back-
ground of heredity and home en-
runs, walks, crawls,

in

On the other hand, some thirty or more

are often
fit of the whoie district, \ :

ive in .

It? would seem, therefore, that the efforts of our various societies
should be united in some way. If these organizations of ours, are to

among a
if population such as ours, each working independently of the othier;
s for the bene-

or in some cases, drifts through
school along the path of least et-

5. Are aware of the priviliges
offered.them in school and are
aware of their duties to that
school,

6. Are scholars as well as
athletes, If they quality in: one
branch, they: ‘should’ be itoad-

other,
%. Can recognize they: need help
and either have the will to help
themselves or will approach (and
not .reproach) .me about’ their
weakness,

8. Register dissatisfaction with
a mark between 50 and 65, an in-
ee that they are just getting
9. Will expect

less, |. ‘gbtain

more; take less, give more;. ask
less, search more; talk less;
think more; less, work

minded enough to accept the| :

Castlegar Branch: JAMES R, ELLIOTT, Manages

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more; dream less, achieve more.
In the: third. of. this series bé-

fore Education Week, we

tempt t ition Of the

fort, and each -in turn,
on ‘the’ interest ‘and effort he
brings to the job, becomes a part
of that experience.’ -. *

Today, probably. because of the
hundred and one things which the
school and teacher are expected
to.do for the student, too many

i anything we shall p: chave to estab-
lish a sort of sup il, osed. of ives from each
organization in :-the district, and ged with inating the

. efforts ofall.

In this way, ‘Universal district
backing of, the |

istrict. ‘Then possibly,

jects, would get the universal
the skating rink, the park,
the community hall, ‘and: some of ‘t ie other’ big projects’ we have
talked abouts so Jong, and done nothing: about, could be accomplished,

think. of the school as a
glorified cross between a recrea-
tion’ centre ‘and a rest home for
senile. adolescents, and not as a
place ‘in’ which to prepare them-
selves ‘to become educated and
thinking. adults.
.| Equal number of equally opti-
mistic pupils regard an ‘education

a of an easy: job with good

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x Bone teacher, after a discussion
with ‘his’ students, assigned an es-
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Texpect the School to do for me.”
He‘got'a long list of suggestions

as a stepladder to the “pie-in-the-|

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a basket of gifts’ from .thé.sisters.
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‘Thursday, February 5, 11953

‘CASTLE NEWS, Castlegar, B.C.

Page 3

Business

By FRANK ‘PRICE
245 feet and ‘160 feet.

“Blowing in of two shallow ‘car-
‘bon dioxide gas wells at ‘the
south end of Mara Lake near‘Sal-
‘mon Arm marks the first time
4hat ‘this useful gas has ‘been
found in Commercial quantities
in this province, Carbon dioxide

British Columbia during the com-

ing fiscal year will be about the

same as last-year — $59,000,000 —
t

In B.C.

bs ‘
Federal government spending in

tabled in

or “C02” d into “dary
ice” for . se rciueration. Gas ‘Ice
‘Corporation (Canada) = ‘Litkdl.

brought in fhe wells at depths. of

0
the “House of ‘Commons by Fin-
ance Minister ‘Douglas Abbott.
However, increases are recorded
in provision . ‘for the tax rental

tt and money. for public

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development
money for new’ ‘hospitals.

made their first shipment to Van-
couver from their ‘Watson Lake

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‘rate of 10,000 tons per year, the

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Spring Tea Planned
By-Kinnaird WAL ~
Of United Church

Plans for a spring tea were
made at the meeting of the Kin-
naird ‘United Church Women's
Association. held at the home of
Mrs. P, Smibert on Wednesday of
last week,

A new member, Mrs, J. Mclim,
was welcomed and won the host-
ess prize.

Gifts of Bibles were sent to the
two past presidents, Mrs. A. C.
Ackerman and Mrs. K. M. Spence
as a token of appreciation for
their leadership during the past
four, years,

sick visiting convenor for the
year, and Mrs. W. McNec led the
devotional period.

Refreshments and a social hour
followed the business session.

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Final for the
spring tea, to be held in March,
will be made at the February
meeting at the home of Mrs, A. C.
Craig.

.The president, Mrs, E. A, Fitz-

PIPE
THAWING

itish Columbia

patrick, reminded the members ie ANYWHERE! 5

the Women's Day of Prayer to be ?

held in the Kinnaird Community ANYTIME!

Hall, February 20, She also esked

that the members attend the de- ‘

monstration of a respirator at the i. M. CARD

dinaaled Hall, Friday, February Robson
Nirs, Cc. Shand was inted

om on ‘a’steamship or
ding ‘the invitation from the
g0, too.

Biggest single scheme will be the {5

Pa ‘i
estimates the Terrace-Kitimat 43-
mile-link will be completed by
the end of 1954 barring delays in
ot teri:

anni of the Skeena River |’:
which calls Tor a 1,013 foot bridge.

Small logging _ operators on
Vancouver Island ‘daim shat big
vhave a hol

simait ‘operators.

Sane possibte effects of . the
Trans-Mountain pipeline on the
poeple of. British Columbia, par-
ticularly, in the lower mainland
areas, have ,been suggested by

aga D

Small Operators Association filed
a brief with the government in
Victoria. This brief detailed their’
dissatisfaction ‘with, the present

on them. Last week the eared

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Mr. “White said, pipe line delivery
of crude is. unlikely to make any 4} -
iceable change, at least in the

policy of the p:
ment on forest management. It
urged: that all applications for
licenses in the Barkdey-Clayuquot
Sounds area be rejected.

:The,operators said that the for-
est. wealth of the Island was great
enough to: support :both the large
operators and:the.small. But these
two areas’ishould/be' setup. as

public . working | circles for the|

early stages. But, he-said, com-
pared-with prices as they may be
between now and. August, pipe
line ‘delivery may bring.a.reduct-
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Pacific Coast prices of crude oil'||
and refined products may advance’
in ‘the-next six. months but.B.C,
can expect. prices to:come down
again‘when the crude comes over

9 am, to 9 Pm,

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Congered with present .oil Ag Pa GPR I I a I ITO PIP
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