CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, April 5, 1962

Established in Nineteen

(This is the second in a series of
. editorials explaining how a weekly news-
= nef paper functions.)

A newspaper has we customers to
please—the subscriber and the advertiser.
Of these two, the subscriber is the most
important.
This is true even though the adver-
tiser provides most of the revenue of any
paper. But .the advertiser buys space for
one reason: to get his message read by ‘a
large number of people. Therefore ae is
vitally d in the circul:
advertising media, The greater the chee?
tion a paper has; “more advertising it
igher the rate it can

Over the years, therefore, the paper
must cover the activities which interest
j f

lf The Canadian Chamber of Com.
“merce were looking for additional evi- -
idence of the need for its action program
“Operation Freedom”, it need look no
further than the atticle by F. R. Varela
in the February issué of the Canadian
Commentator: Mr. Varela states quite ser-
iously, “If Canada is — as the Chamber

CASTLEGAR NEWS

Hundred and Forty-Sav

Subscribers & Advertisers Must be Pleased

its readers, Otherwise circulation will
drop off and advertising revenues will
shrink in consequence.

It is because of reader interest that| [i

such a large proportion of weekly news-
paper space is - devoted to District ard
personal news. Often this may seem of the
“Mrs, Smith went down the road to visit
Mrs. Brown” variety, put: the little item
has definite reader appeal to the Smith
and Brown families, ‘relatives and all
their friends, In the Castlegar News we
haye had many examples of the great
interest ‘taken in personal and District
news.

Reader interest builds circulation and
upon that circulation a newspaper's: Te
venue dep Thereft

VISTGRIA REPORT

. By JAMES K. NESBITT:

It's the mor-
ing after as I
qwrite this. Tho
1962 session. of
L

Election Dates Should be Stan

ear. The driveway had been clear-
ed of the public's cars,’ which I
thought undemocratic. Where was
His Honor? ;At the cabinet meet-
nee, All: this. was most’ unusual

led
VNEennett front by the

time you ‘read this.

Will our Premier have called

an election? Something’s up, and

up to this” jmcment the remlees

tion

setup. ¥
The night of the closing, His

Honor’ the -' Lieutenant-Governor,

the
er of any paper the subscriber is the most
important person.

Support Individual Initiative & Freedom

at bringing to Canadians a better under-
standing and appreciation of the worth
of individual freedom, the virtues of our
political system of democracy and the
growth-p ial of our system
of competitive enterprise.

In supporting the basic principles

with his aides ‘and secretaries mar-
ched out: of the legislative cham-
ber. Then I’heard the cabinet bell
ring. ‘An “hour. later I left the
Buildings, and; to my surprise, the
Government’ House cavalcade’ was
still drawn. up ‘outside the “main
entrance ‘— ‘two city motoreycle
policemen, a shining,
driven ‘limousine, and @ quale

affeur-|for holding im:

Bite minutes later an alde
dismissed the _ motorcycle police
and the four RCMP contables, in
their_scarlet: and. gold, who were
standing ‘at attention outside the

Village Streets Being
Graveled and Graded

About. 680! yards of
were spread on Kinnaird vilaase
roads.in the month ‘of: March, re-

ch
ib

Hall of the Premiers,
Two hours after he had’ pro-
L

at

dard.

eee on ‘strings, never free
from an election, everything a

rogued ‘th His Honor
emerged and went home to Gov-
ernment House. Yes, indeed —
most unusual.

The ' Premier, who had spent
the'day in Vancouver with Federal’
finance Minister Donald Fleming,
was button-holed by reporters. He
we all smiles, ap) fresh as

pear
7» Where he gets his energy
1 know | not. His pace would

does or does not do,
predicated on an election,
And so it is that we live ina
jay-after-day. whirlpool of politl-
cal, instabilitybecause we permit a
premier, ‘at’ any “moment he sees
fit, to call an election. -

tin | Coin mince it Fo iizei

ter = Program Gaesienses

call | orted foreman Curt Waterman at,
+ | aC : oma bits

13 drive ways which’ were ‘dug u
by (Inland Natural: Gas Co, ta
patching’ of holes’ on: the black:
topped ’ streets and leaning of
culverts and ‘drains,

March’snows caused the crows
to .spend’37 hours plowing snow
and sanding roads: Since the snow.
disappeared, 56" hours ‘have ‘been
wal epent in’ grading § gravel roads.

“Among conatruction work was
the building “of a stand for ‘a 300
gallon drum m3 ales ot a cage
dogs and
six: barricades tor rod Blocks,"

of keep everyone
right.

Guessing
ip | his t.’ He: doesn't: hay to fell
it vaults

him:
ters

tion: eayiot th sich’ oF our Cons
I'm of: the. conaldered: ae fiat
our. -Conatitution » should -ne!

four. years, ‘to the v
the. United States.
~ Until ‘this’ “happens welll live

will be. ay.

12° The selection. is we toa

dividual’ and: includes

sulphate sulphate * and ae
year distribution ‘will

| agala be \eondtictod: from the gal-

vine yard in raanke. and will be-

gin today. and:end on Saturday.

“<< Special ‘cards, which’ ust he
presented at the pickup ‘area,

Been made: available: to call. ‘alg

in constant political ‘uproar, dike

ible employees and pensioners.

The picture of the fat and

underlying its beliefs, the Chamber of

ists —- moving into the spi era
of a ‘cradle-to- -grave’ Utopia, she is mere-
ly following a modern world trend and no
amount of quixotic opposition is going to
change the’ pattern.” There is in this
aes ger the taint of defeatism. ,

it this

of what Mr. Varela. himself admits is “a
modern world trend”, that the. Chamber
is resisting by means of an educational
program on behalf of Canada’s

ce it’ does, of course, op-
cue communism, doctrinaire., socialism
and excessive welfare statism. Obviously
these ‘isms’ are diametrically opposed to
Chamber beliefs and principles and to.the
true welfare of all Canadians. Mr. Varela,
who seems to have absorbed. more than a
reasonable amount of leftist virus, expres-
-sed the view that ‘people’ have always
looked: to the State for aid’” and that ae

greedy ‘king the whip

slaves, dies hard in the minds of
some people. Enterprise and ex-
ploltetion, haye long been” spelt |
ted in the cartoons and

over a cringing group of industrial itia

in: | Teagui

dividuals, Socialism, on the other
hand makes the..individual subor-

te to the collective grqup.
eat of the great advantag

aimed at destroying freetom of
and it. with

system
iS that’ individual decisions’ affect

some. form of cole.

Socialists always start out with|
the bland assumption that Social.
ism hds a monopoly on all the vir-|
tues ‘including integrity and com-
passion, This runs contrary. to the

of the pr ior
himself is “archaic’.: This, of course, is

system of private; competitive enterprise.
The Ct of C it has

in the ek er and will of the

Canadian people. We believe that. Canad-
ians will not drift towards their own des- .
‘truction- when. they read the signs along
the way indicating. clearly the final des-
pent

‘Varela : again; supports the Cham-
n When -he' says that Canad-
‘care who pays” for more
“welfare, and that ‘few of

gone wild and insults the charac-
‘ter of every freedom-loving Canadian..."

In’ the ‘introductory. brochure ‘of ' this
action program, the Chamber’ points. out
that it is in’favour of a well-balanced pro-

of all of us. There‘are
good free enterprisers and’ bad|
free enterprizers a iuet ae there are’

few people. If a man

actions may. affect ‘afew people
but: the ‘system ‘of checks and ‘ba-

may-be done. On the:other hand,
under, Socialism, if a planner or a
group’ of: planners: make.a misake
oract in a crinfinal'manner
decisions can. affect the lives. of all
of a country.

good
‘The man who heads the com-

of tyyorid.

a crook or “makes’ a’ mistake; his.

lances will limit the harm which | whi

Mr. Khrushchev and his: col-
leagues believe in Socialism. We
don't ‘believe’: that’ any thinking
person .would’ place ‘them’: in’ a
higher category, morally, ‘than the
Jeaders of the nations .of the free

“A man cannot be judgea mor-
ally on the basis of ‘his economic

om,
right of the individual to make his
own! choice ‘as to how, ‘when or.
he will spend: his income.
ane free enterprise pbelleves that

to‘ his” 01
sources’ for Tapp iness and security,
e'“common” man “is by ‘nz-
ture an‘ individualist..He ' wants‘ to
stand ‘on ‘his Sow -two feet and =

‘for
efforts. The‘ history * of makin
testifies to: ‘this great’ truth.” rue
capitalist or the enterprisex, | be-
cause of his belief in freedom and
the worth: of the individual, is’ pro-

ot adequate tng Ps “risk, ener
eir | gy, fhitiative and along

tecting :-ant not some
great seated interest, but: every

with the right to enjoy the full
fruits thereof. Given equal. ethical

Joving citizen. — The Vancouer
Province: ._

munity chest, or the Red Cross, or

and one other service,’ social or

gram of social welfare. It, beli , how-
ever, that a country, like al individual or
a’ family, should not undertake’, things

which it cannot afford. A{ social welfare

your com-
munity is ‘more: thar likely an en-
trepreneur ywho - believes «in “and
practices the principles of freedom
of enterprise. :

The man who ‘runs his own

program should be of a scope t
with. what the national economy can af-
ford without damaging the system which

ey
unwittingly, they have become prey. to
statist’ propaganda which is one of the
means by. which the communists and
others discredit our. system, ‘and because
of the apathy which the program is de-
signed to. offset.

Mr. Varela falls into the common er-
ror of the ‘critic who passes his judgement
i we use the word ‘loosely .— upon the
jacket blurbs rather than on a careful
reading of the book. it is quite evident
that Mr. Varela has no clear understand-*
: ing of Chamber policy and has not ex-

amined the details of the program of-‘“‘Op-
4 eration Freedom”. If he had, he would not
have described it as an “anti-communist
drive”. Overlooked is the fact that this
is a positive educational program aimed

"We have a formula prepared by the

produces the tax revenue to: ‘support wel
fare.’ it sit too:
suggest | that Canadians, given the ‘means
and the opportunity, are much, happier do-
ing things for themselves than they would
be. if compelled ‘to take action by a gov-
“ernment. which makes:.the ‘decisions. for'
them? The basic and essential purpose of
“Operation Freedom” is: to put Canada
back on the road to ; progress and pros-
perity. In a prosperous Canada,’ all Can-
_ adians benefit. It is much ‘more important
to concentrate ‘on ‘baking .avbigger cake
than to divide -up the. existing. small. one.
To:recover our drive, initiative: and enter-
prise, Canada must’seek out the principles
upon: which our previous growth ‘was bas-

ed: To.do so, we must-recognize the errors} .

and deceits which are inclined to throw
us off course. — News Letter

How Does the Stenographer Stack Up?

postage due on press releases; n-is the

staff of the dian’ Weekly
Editor” - for aebeniine the amount of
news matter in next week's issue. It goes
like this:

(w/p x n/d) 2 —m equals ¢

t
Where: w is the weight of the press
releases in pounds; p is the amount of

of news copy. in’ type-written
lines; d is the number. of days the ‘Teport-
er has, been continuously sober; t is’ the
number of times . during::the , preceding

week the printer ‘has. cursed at. the editor; |:

m is the chest measuremént. of the’ new
in ‘millimetr

final result in Sa inches. z

cand. ¢'is the]!

grocery © store, ‘the’ factory em-
Ployee who: buys ‘the occasional
share of stock in-the company for
which he works, the hired general
of ja: large :

to| the farmer who .has put’ his chil-
dren ‘through: college ‘by. his ef-
forts on the land, are all free en-
terprisers. who go.to church, love
their families ‘and participate in
the activities of’the community: to

at ‘least the same extent as those
who profess.a belief in Socialism.
‘Free enterprisers or. capitalists

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of economy. of space. *

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Ethe 90-cubic-inch*M:

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than. major: compétitors’..75-hp

{The Mere: 1000’ has +

i I-black. color | styling,
and Mercury’s new: Power-Dome
cylinder head design, which
“squishes” the fuel-air. mixture
inalde the combustion chamber.

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B.C., the winner of the’ Castlégar-Kinnaird Kins-

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men’s bingo prize is pictured receiving the $500
prize money from Ernie Kruetzky, . president of

Square Dancers Hold

Final Session ‘til Fall

Castlegar Square Dance Group
known as the Kountry | Kousins
held their coals dance of. (the ‘sea:
son on March 28, This ‘is
vanced group of “thé night school

. Classes,

George Woods of Trail is their

the. ad- |:

instructor and in the last session
he was assisted by caller Jim Me
Luckie:

A special Presentation was
made to George and Mary Woods
by Mrs, Ralph Harding, who pre-
sented them with a glass coffee

On fiand To Cpen Fall
Fair in September

A Fall Fair meeting was held
on Wednesday of last week in the
Legion Hall with nine present and
president Pete Ewart presiding.

Prospects of having the 1962

Fair in the arena’ were discussed
and at.a later. date ‘the executive
will visit the arena and make a
Plan for arranging tables, etc.
;.. Correspondence. included re-
‘plies from some of the organiza-
tions and a letter from H.
Herridge, MP, stating that he will
be present to officially open the
Fair,

It .was moved that a grant
from the.KRC be applied! for.

The dates for the 1962 Fair
are‘ September 21° and 22. This
will be. the* 16th annual: fair. -It

| Was announced the admission mn price

be the same as
The insurance will- be. ‘discus:
sed again at a later meeting, but

‘and “a’ matching sugar

“Harding expressed ‘the

appreciation of the group to Mr.

and Mrs. Woods ‘and’ ‘hoped the

group would see: the couple: again
next season at their dances,

Mona Menard‘ also received a
gift forthe special work she did
on the emblems, On-~ presenting
this gift, Jim’ McLuckie: said ‘how
much. this work: was appreciated.

“Also a gift of a maw and, paw
mug was made by Jim’ McLuckie
to Mr..and Mrs,.W. Shay for-look-
ing after the “pop break.” Thanks
were extended to the Shays on be-

half of the group.

The’ group made final plans
for April 14 when all of George

w.| Woods’ groups will dance together
Trail,

Members .were reminded of
the hoe-down to-be put on by the
Nelson association which was held
on Moreh 31_ in, Nelson,

‘There Will be a ‘Jamboree held
in’ Trail: on April. 27-28 and in
order to keep'up the-interest Mr.

icLuckie ‘will - hold" small’: dance
sessions at the homeof Mr, and
Mrs. ne Stoochinoff.

ON

a decision was made to
materials “for a new banner. .

Mr, ‘Ewart volunteered to en-
sure that the Fall Fair books are
Printed.

Immigration to Canada in the
first nine months of 1961, totalled
56,168, down by one-third | from the
similar period of 1960. °

and crear holder, together with a| d

H, W. Herridge Will Bo| x. tis

Many. Circles Worked For

The United Church Tea

The Circles of the United
Church Women held a very. suc-
cessful Easter tea and bake sale

charge of decorating, ‘The serving
table was covered with a lace cloth
over white and \centered with a

slippers. Proceeds from the sale
of the slippers are to be used to
send'aboy or girl to camp this

fi}
ghurch. berement.

P. Swift and Mrs. R. H.
Pratt "received the guests as they:
arrived.

The hall .was’ ‘ beautifully de-
corated for the occasion with
much’ credit to the members of
Friendship: Circle who ‘were in

High Schoo! Exams
Not Encouraging
The Thinker

TORONTO — The. progress of

, | thousands of Canadian high school |.

students is being determined, in
port, by tests that encourage the
guesser. and discourage the
er, says‘a high: school principal
in the April issue of Imperial Oi
Review. a

Dudley. Bristow, principal. of
Pembroke, Ontario, Collegiate In-
stitute, says in an article that he
is alarmed that up to, 80 per cent
of the content of high school tests

-}in nearly: all provinces consists of

multiple choice. questions. These
are questions..where the. student
ticks one of several Possible ‘an-
swers.

Having a. number. of choices
encourages guessing, Mr. Bristow
says,. Also multiple choice tends to| we.
discourage. the :. thinking ; process,
because’ the opportunity ‘for’ the
student to .read.- widely, ‘think
clearly and make intelligent sees |
ments is‘lost. Furthermore, he sees
janger in lining up.a string of |=
false answers to . register. even
briefly on.the mind of the stu-
dent. “The weaker the student,
the. more: likely ‘he is to consoli-
date wrong impressions, _ Mr, Bris-
tow says.

The examination never. has
or never willbe ‘an’ infallible
measure of students’ knowledge,
Mr.- Bristow continues, But. they
are still the best measure we have
and a useful preface ‘to adult life
where we ‘continually face tests of
one kind or another. Thus it is
the more impértant that we:make
examinations * scrupulously: © fair.
Multiple choice tests are not al-
ways fair.

“urns duriag the

OY. Dertnce

” Civil Defence Emergency Plan-

{ning now ‘involves. two: intimately

related concepts: arrangements for
the continued operation of govern-
ment and- economy on one hand,
survival measures for ‘the Popule
tion on the other.

WHISKY.

Even melting’ ice: cubes
can’t dilute the true taste
of Adams’ Gold ‘Stripe.
It keeps its flavour to the:
very. bottom of the glass .
—the ‘mark ofa great.

Next time you buy, try _
mellow custom-blended
Gold Stripe, in the con:
venient 12 and 2s ounce .

CANADIAN RYE

o
mauve tulips and heather, ‘Hang-
ing from the celling to each of
the four corners of the table were
Pale green and yellow streamers
Bnd these were attached to the
ceiling with large’ yellow. ribbon
bows, The centrepiece was flanked
with mauve tapers in glass holders.

Each tea table was centered
with three daffodils, pussy willows
and a mauve’ ribbon. bow with a
wee yellow, chicken,

Presiding at the tea and coffee
‘ternoon : were
Mrs. W.. Easton, Mra,.I, McNeil,
Mrs. E. J, Lipsett, Mrs. J. McGilp,
Mrs. L,. Cantell, Mrs, R. MecCut-
cheon and Mrs, J, Sherbiko.

The bake table was under the | 5
supervision of Unit Three. Circle
and members in charge were Mrs,

think-| yf, ‘Blaihut, Mrs. C,:Bradford, Mrs

E.  Forgie-Thompson. The pantry
table, which was a project of the
Dogwood. Circle, was handled by
Mrs, J, Sherbiko. while Mrs. P.

Oglow was in charge of tea tickets.

Unit <.Four’’:Circle was. in Tipsatt

charge of the novelty table and the
members . in. charge, of this table
» McCutch Mrs,
. .Waters, Mrs.. J.
‘V. Hall and Mrs, E, Jackson. Mem:

Members of Friendship Circle
were in charge of serving the tea
and they were Mrs. Les Davis,
Mrs. W..Harrower, Mrs. P. Wool!
Mrs. P. Moroso, Mrs. A. Dube, M
S. Melnick and Mrs. J. L. Vigue,

Mrs. E. Kraft and Mrs, W.
Shay- were kept busy filling the
tea and coffee urns.

Slippers To Go On
‘Sale at Circle Tea

Members of Friendship Circle
of the United Church Women held
their regular meeting at the home

Mrs, W. Shay Thursday even-
ing with Mrs. W. Harrower as co-
hosts

ducted ¢ routine business, Mrs. Har-
rower was in charge of the devo-
tional period. Membership commit-
tee members were named and they
P. Woolls and Mrs. J.

@ religious devotions were
Jed oy Mrs, P, Swift.

Plans for the Spring, tea were
and the slippers for the
sale were finished. Also, the cen-
trepieces for the tea tables were
completed, The proceeds from the
sale.of the slippers will be -used

Mrs.|to help some girl or boy attend

summer camp.
“At the ‘tose of a very) busy
2 | evening the hostesses served deli-
cious

RIB STEAK |

~ Grade A Boot

W. Shay, president, con-| |

CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, April 5, 1962

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