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CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, December3, 1959

Too Much Emphasis Can't be Put
‘On Highways in the Kootenays ;

The Liberals are “beating a dead horse” says
the Trail Times if they are trying to make the
citizens of this province believe that too much
emphasis is being put on roads by the Social
Credit government, ;

Quoting Liberal leader Perrault as saying the
B.C. government “puts too much emphasis on
new roads and bridges and asks the public to
measure progress by them,” the Times comments
that such statements are “the typical outlook of
a Vi centre i politician of the
old school who thinks that the eastern
of British C i ‘inci with the 0}

Valley.

“Mr, Perrault is the leader of a party that
has had more terms in office in this province
than any other party, in terms of years perhaps
four times as many as Social Credit.

“And yet it is only now that the West Koot-
enay is getting a semblance of the highway sy-
stem its economic and social status deserves.

“One may not hold any particular brief for
Social Credit, but the average West Kootenaian
certainly will resent the general statement that
Social Credit is putting too much emphasis on
new roads and bridges.

“Zt is impossible to put too much emphasis
on roads and bridges in this area, and the Social

Credit government 1s perfectly entitled to ask
the public to measure progress in ferms of roads
and bridges.

“Of course, the public will also measure lack
of progress in terms of delay in the construction
of roads and bridges; but at the moment there is
ample evidence that the Social Credit govern.
men is living up to its word hereabouts,

earesr BOOK ON THE CUBAN SITUATION

“For many, many years under
tions headed up hy Mr. Perrault’s predecessors in
party office, the West Kootenay has been en.
tirely ignored in the matter of highways and
bridges.

“An area that has contributed more to the
provincial economy than any other place, or com-
binaion of places, outside of Greater Vancouver,
has been so shabbily treated that even now, in
1959, it is not possible to drive safely and easily
to the coast except through the United States,

“The citizens of the West Kootenay contri-
bute more in taxes to the provincial exchequer
than the citizens of any other area in the pro-
vinee — and might as well have lived in Green-
land for all the Liberal administration kenw or
eared,

“To us, roads and bridges are tangible evi-
dence of governmental progress, and Mr. Per.
rault is beating a dead horse in trying to get the
West Kootenay to take any other view.”

UBC Extension Department Helps
Citizens Through Correspondence

The University of B.C. extension department
has been a guest in this District for a good many
years, Through its services, citizens are able to
take degrees by correspondence, borrow records
and books, participate in conferences and semin-

This development is an indication that the

for adult ion are i ing and
the council will be asked to study and advise on
such matters as province-wide services, educa.

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assessed, The. formation of the extension council
is an attempt to improve this communication and
to bring the services of the university in closer
touch with the community.

In the intradveti-~ tn his report Dr. Friesen
speaks of the need for a new. public awareness
and effort if we are to build a society of quality
and abundance, The council, it is hoped, will be
another tool to be used effectively in the task of

‘ive adult ion — a prere.
quisite for such a society.

Retarded Children Can be Helped
Let's Help Them, Not Hide Them

The double-barrelled slogan which the As-

“sociation for Retarded Children for B.C. has

coined for its campaign on behalf of handicapped
youngsters is very apt. .

There is no doubt that the first line of the
slogan which serves as the headline for this
editorial is true. There is ample evidence of this
in the chapter schools of the association through-
out B.C., including Silver Birch School here.

There is evidence of it, too, at Woodlands
School, the provincial hospital school for these
youngsters, where many of them are learning
such useful manual trades as gardening, uphol-
stering, cooking, waiting on tables and shoe re-

airing.

» There is evidence also in the fact that an
Illinois steel mill employs 400 specially trained
retarded adults at regular rates of pay and finds
them excellent workers,

But what about the second line, “Let's Help
Them, Not Hide Them?” —

According to reliable statistics, there are an
estimated 9000 retarded children of school age
in B.C. and many more in’ the over and under
school age A
again, three per cent of the population is retard-
ed in some degree,

Here in B.C., the organized programs of the
Bg and the jati provide special
education and care for just over 3,000 of these
children. Where are the rest? Are they still child.
ren being hidden by parents or guardians who
don’t know of the new, hopeful things that can
be done for these youngsters?

This is a good time to think about this pro-
blem because this is Retarded Children's Week
across Canada and the U.S. It’s a big problem and
it deserves a lot of thought.

As a matter of fact, Dr. J. F. McCreary, the
Dean of Medicine at the University of B.C., says
it’s a “gigantic problem.

“Numerically and socially,” he said, “it is the
most important chronic disability of childhood in
Canada today.”

With that sobering thought in mind, we feel

it is our duty to urge our readers to support to |

the limit of their ability the financial campaign
of the association this year and to pitch in and
help the local chapter in every way possible to
overcome the problems facing these children and
their parents.

As the slogan says: Retarded children can be
helped. Let's help them, not hide them.

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VIGTORIA REPORT

Craigdarroch Castle

By JAMES K.

the s of the

Your capital's new Society
for the Preservation and Main.
tenance of Craigdarroch Castle
will work toward eventually tur.
ning one of the city’s most prom.
inent landmarks into a public
museum,"

You from out of town must
often have seen this turreted
castle — some people call it a
monstrosity — and wondered
about it, sitting there high on its
hilltop, At present it’s headquar-
ters for Greator Victoria School
Board, When and if the Board
moves out, the new Sovicty hopes
to convert the Castle ino a mus.
eum, furnished as it was in (he
guy 90's,

Graigdarrech — named for
the birthplace in Scotland of An-
nie Laurie — was built in the
1880’s by Vancouver Island coal,
timber and railway tycoon Rob-
ert Dunsmuir, who, however,
died in April of 1889 before his
castle was ready.‘

The next year his widow mo.
ved in, lived there, lonely and
sorrowful until her death in 1908,
when her son James was Licuten.
ant-governor, living a few blocks
away at Government House, He
and his mother were not on spea.
king terms, having fallen out ov.
er a lawsuit involving the family
millions, This no-speaking het-
ween mother and son was one of

f
Dunsmuir familly,

Gemmercial Letter
Comments on Hogs

On Jan, 11, 1960, the new sy-
stem of deficiency payments: to
hog raisers announced by the Ag-

and painters from San Francisco
to work on his castle, Magnifi.
cent curved stained-glass came
from Italy, mosaics from France
for the tower floor. In the Ub.
rary, the mahogany fireplace has
this inscription from Bacon:
“Reading Maketh.a full man,”
and the stone fireplace in the
hall, has this, from Shakespeare's
Troilus and Cressida:

r Board
will become effective,

The current Commercial Let.
ter, published by The Canadian
Bank of Commerce, in a discus-
sion of the pros and cons of var.
fous means of stabilization, po!
ts out that the new method, re-
Placing the government purchase
of pork surpluses, has the ap-
Proval of the experts who have

ever smiles, and Farewell goes
out sighing.”

Fortimately many of the or.
iginal features of the Castle have

en saved, such as the porte

the oval hallway, the

built.in sideboards in the 50.guest

dining room, the bronze plaque of

deer in the forest, over the hall
fireplace.

Dunsmuir and his wife, and
their two eldest daughters, little
girls then, and their new-born
son James reached Vancouver Is.
land in 1851. James was born
Oregon ‘Territory, when his par-
ents and his two small sisters
Were on their way from Scotland.

On Vancouver Island another
son and six more daughters were
born to Robert and Joan Duns.
muir, and then came the James
Dunsmuir family of two sons and
eight daughters, Of all these
people, but two are living today,
daughters of James, whose wife

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Carolina, for years mistress of
Hatley Park, now the Canadian
Joint Services College,

Robert Dunsmuir died at 64,
a few months after being threat-
ened with death in anonymous
letters, signed, in Greek, “The
Black Hand.” A man was sent
to jail for five years for writing
these letters, but the shock and
worry had heir impact on Duns.
muir's health,

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People are funny, and I do
mean “funny peculiar,"

Our neighbors to the south
have gone into one of their per.
lodic flaps over the possibility of

only are we immortal but our
wives and children are also.
Some how 79 people, mostly wo.
men and children, managed to
Kill themselves by carelessness at
home last year and 41, mostly

geiting cancer from
and in spite of the assurances of
an expert in toxicology that a
person would have to eat 15,000
pounds of berries to get cancer,
the bottom dropped out of the
cranberry market with a loud
sloppy squish.

A similar scare occurred in
Argentina a while ago when
some preservative used on beef
Was rumored to cause impotency,
The entire male population from
babies to octogenarians at once
Bave up their favorite beef
steaks and the only happy ex.
pressions to be found for weeks
in Argentina were those on the
faces of the octogenarians and
the steers,

children, sf
with 4,100 hospitalized for the
same reason.

In fact, according to Labor
Minister Lyle Wicks, the average
yearly accidental deaths in B.C,
for the past six years have been
1,161 — most of them preven.
table. We'll certainly have to
keep a close eye on those cran.
berries,

ee

Another peculiarity of the
average citizen Is that no matter
how much or how little he knows
about his own business he is al-

ways an expert in numerous’

other fields. -

XI was only slightly taken
aback therefore, when I read re.
cently a n by a senior

Both are i
it at Perhaps

that “persons are too

Mrs, Robert D seems
to have lived the life of a recluse
in her castle home for 18 years.
There was a glittering wedding
in the Castle in 1891, between
Jessie Sophia, the 6th Dunsmuir
daughter, and Sir Richard Mus-
grave, an Irish baronet, but in
the newspapers there’s no men.
tlon that the bride’s mother took
any part.

Did she fancy herself “The
widow of Craigdarroch” as a fa-
mous lady in England once fan.
cied herself “The widow of Wind-
sor?”

She was canny and shrewd,
and when she put up money to
get the Musgrave ancestral cas-
tle in Ireland out.of the red, she
took the precaution to insist the
property was put into her daugh.
ter’s name. .

She didn't always live in a
castle; when she first reached
Vancouver Island she did her]
own cooking, and, without bene.
fits of servants, looked after her
growing family, to whom she was
a good mother, adored by them
all, even by James,

Tragedy has stalked the fam.
ily, and their wealth didn’t save
them from the sorrows that be-
set ordinary folk. There have
been seandals, and law-suits, and
goings-on. of all sorts. The ypung-.
er son of James went down in the
Lusitania on his way to the 1914.
18 war; Kathleen, a daughter of
James was killed in a German
air raid on London in 1914,

Whether they wanted it or
not, the spotlight has always
shone on the Dunsmuirs who,
for generations, provided Victor-
ians with glitter and glamour,
and juicy morsels about which to
chit-chat, and embroider, until
the stories became, to great ex
tent, nothing more than idle gos.
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the Argentinians had great theo.
retical cause for alarm for after
all we only eat cranberries a
couple of times a year or so, but
nonetheless it does make us look
silly,

Ttking for example the fact
that at least 240 people ‘will be
killed and over 1,000 injured on

| B.C. roads this year, do we hear

any public outcry demanding
more severe handling of drunk.
en speedsters, the chief culprits
in this carnage? Not likely,
Either we subconsciously
think to ourselves that “that
drunken speedster might be me
sometime” and give an ironte
twist to the golden rule by say-
ing nothing, or are we like two
-diers who were talking on the

eve of going into a suicidal en-|-

gagement.

“How would you feel, Bill,”
asks one, “if someone told you
that every man in this regiment
except me would be Killed to.
morrow?”

‘Yd think it'd be awfully
fonely here with all of the
gang gone,” answered Bill, For
many of us — whether it is 240
or 240,000,000 — it makes no di.
fference to us for it always hap-
pens to the other guy.

We are immortal. And not

comfortable” and ‘that the old
testament law of “an eye for an
eye and a toath for a tooth”
should be the rule for criminals,

In the first place the sug-
gestion is a little ridiculous as
even so staunch on old testament
type as Ibn Saud of Saudi Ara-
bia pointed up when he asked
which of the insistent relatives
of a man‘killed, when another
man fell on him out of a date
palm, would he be ready to fall
on the culprit and kill him in a
like fashion. :

In the second place, if this
theory is followed to its logical
conclusion, crime should have
been non-existent in the 18th
century when prisons were hell-
holes and a man could be hung
for stealing a loaf of bread.

‘The fact that crime at all
levels was rampant makes the
good man even more ridiculous
as a penologist. And thirdly, pri.
sons are still prisons; People are
certainly peculiar.

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