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CASTLEGAR NEWS Thursday, October 1, 1959

Nobody Seems to Want Inflation .
But Everybody Encourages If

Inflation is a dirty word, much abused
in the abstract. We would have less trouble
with inflation if its symptons were unpleas-
ant. like those of smallpox. Unhappily, they
too often resemble those of alcoholism. A
little inflation. like a couple of cocktails be-
fore dinner. is deemed to be rather nice. °

The ultimate consequences of inflation
are extremely unpleasant. Economists can
demonstrate that hy wearing down the pur-
chasing power of the dollar, inflation mak-
es it almost fruitless to make any provision

+ for retirement in old age, or even for the
support of loved ones if the breadwinner of
a family is prematurely striken.

THE WORKING MAN is happy to get
ayraise in pay. It means nothing to him that
his wage rate has been advanced about
twice as fast as the productivity of indus-
try, which is bound to produce inflation,
and has been producing it in this country
since World War 11. He just likes the feel
of more money in his pocket. 7

THE INVESTOR likes to see his stocks
go up. He is undisturbed that their rise is
not caused by increasing earning power
and dividends, but by bidding for equities
as a hedge against inflation.

THE BUSINESS MAN likes to see his
sales volume rise, and his profits with it.
He is willing to ignore, for a time, the fact

that his greater turnover represents higher --

prices, not more units of merchandise.

THE MANUFACTURER is happy to
get orders for government boondoggles.
The fact that the things he makes do not
add to the productivity of the country is,
if he is short-sighted, immaterial. The gov--
ernment Spending is “good for business.”

HE FARMER is happy to have the

government spend billions of dollars each
year to support the price of his products.
He dogsn't mind too much that this in-
creases prices to the consumer, restricts
consumption, destroys his foreign markets
and results in huge stores of his crops he-
ing placed in dead storage for lack of buy-
érs at ‘he artificially fixed prices.
: SPECIAL INTERESTS all want the
government to spend more money. Yet ex-
cessive government spending is the most
powerful inflationary influence in the na-
tion today.

In sum, nobody is in favor of inflation,

THERE’S A CHANGE
There's a chance that you'll win,
There’s a chance that you'll lose,
That you'li climb dazzling heights
Or you'll tall;
But the one that is certain
To spell sure defeat,
Is the chance of not starting at all.

— Margaret Obedkolff

No fax Relief

New York’s Governor Rockerfeller is
an outstanding example of a politician who
sets more store by fiscal responsibility than
by short-term popularity.

Not long after he came to office, Gov-
ernor Rockerfeller announced tax increases

, that shocked many of his supporters. Since
then, political observers who have assessed
the situation are agreed that he is some-
what less popular than heretofore.

Notwit di has
again shown his faith in sound fiscal polic-
ies by stating in a television broadcast that
he expects no relief for N.Y. taxpayers at
the 1960 session of the Legislature.

“We cannot push a button and roll
new money off the printing presses and con-

_ tinue to spend without concern for incom-
ing revenue,” says the N.Y. Governor.

Mr. Rockefeller is not one of those
who believes that he can win a lasting pol-
itieal reputation by pretending that public
services cas be provided free. Chances are
that his political honesty will pay off and
that he will be around for a long time —
longer, perhaps, than some of his irrespon-
sible free-spending opponents would like to
imagine. — The Letter Review

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but many like it.
That is a fact that this nation must
face if itis to escape further degenerative
- inflation. The object lessons are plain be-
fore us. We have seen inflation, either slow
or runaway, wreck not only the monetary
system, but the whole social structure, of
one European nation after another. Some-
how, Americans think that it can’t happen
here. By the time they are proved wrong
it may be too late to do anything about it.
— The Chicago Tribune. ,

On Liquor Ads

Newspaper reporters have been try-
ing for months to find out what sort of new
rules will-be adopted by the provinces for
the regulation of liquor advertising.

For a long time the liquor commis-
sions or liquor control boards of the pro-
vinces have been quietly at work on some-
thing resembling a gentlemen’s agreement
or a code of ethics, intended to produce a
common policy instead of the present crazy
patchwork of different and conflicting pro-
vincial regulations.

° If a policy based on common sense and
designed to work rationally should emerge,.
even the angels should sing. Any Canadian.
who tries to explain to a visitor from
abroad the’ parochial and. provincial cus-
toms of this country, in the light of reasorr
or of human ngture, has .an. immpossible
task. ‘ A ‘
Local autonomy and local option are:

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‘Hurrah’ Not ‘Dictatorship’ §

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Reserves Should Be Placed
On Pass Creek Park Area

The provincial department of recreation and conser-
vation should place a reserve on lands surrounding Pass
Creek near the Pas$ Creek bridge for future develop-
ment as a park.

That this would be done-was indicated last week. to
members of the Castlegar and District Chamber of Com-
merce by Hon. E. C.Westwood, minister of recreation and
conservation.. Mr.. Westwood. said he would send a repre-«
sentative of his department into the District to view the
Pass Creek site and Indian Flats. :

The Pass Creek site proposed by the Chamber of
Commerce is ideal for a roadside park and picnic: area..
It has lots of room: for'a playing field and has an inlet that
can be turned into a safe swimming hole.

The proposed site is an area that, with work, canbe
developed into a park that will equal Kelowna’s. Hard.
workers and money are both at a premium in this fast-
developing District, but reserves should be put on this.
land so’ that when both these commodities are available
the land will be also.

Says Editor of Bond Plan

There has been a great protest.recently that Pre-
mier Bennett has been “forcing” the purchase of Pac-
ific Great Eastern Railway bonds on civil servants of
the province. ‘ :

What has happened is that a directive has gone *

out from Victoria saying that the provincial govern-
ment pay offices will no longer deduct payments on
Government of Cariada Bonds from pay cheques, but
they will deduct only PGE bond payments. ~

We agree with Mr. Bennett, for a change. Why
should the provincial government deduct payments for
Canada Savings bonds, at great administration expense
to the province of B.C., to see the money go to Ot-
tawa, when it can use the same process for the pur-
chase of bonds which are directly of benefit to the pro-
vinee of B.C.

In addition to that, the bonds are better than Gov-
ernment of Canada bonds, because: 1. they earn the
purchaser 5 per, cent interest instead of 3% per cent
on Canada Savings Bonds; 2. they are redeemable at
the full purchase price at any time. Government of
Canada Bonds are not in fact now a $100 bond is worth
about $88 if you cash it in before maturity—even
though you paid $100 for it!

Another main point of course is this—no one is
forcing any British Columbia civil servant of any shape
size or seniority to buy PGE bonds. He can take his
whole paycheck and buy Canada Savings bonds, Po-
dunk Oil Wells or whatever he desires. But if he wants
payroll deduction he gets PGE bonds. We think if he
wants any bonds, the PGE isn’t a bad buy at all.

Certainly it isn’t unr ble for a provincial
government to encourage the purchase of its own
bonds, especially among the people of the province it
governs, and certainly among these people who are
directly concerned in the government as a means of
earning a living. :

We suspect the cries of “dictatorship” hurled hea-
venward by irate civil servants were premature and
ill-directed. We say hurrah for the government for hav-
ing enough sense to take the step. — Grand Forks Ga-
zette.

WINTER SLACK HIGHT DISAPPEAR

The time will come when most of the winter-’slack
in employment will be taken up, predicts. the Regina
Leader-Post which points out that “Each winter, we
make some progress in mastering our rigorous environ-
ment by maintaining more winter work.” *"" =

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desirable institutions, but, in a shrinking
world, they need a lot of reconciliation and
simplification. What was good enough
when -people seldom traveled to the next
village, and were not enjoying radio or
transatlantic telecasts, may have little prac
tical value in this day and age.

Living next door to the United States.
as we do, how can anybody pretend that
anything is achieved by restricting adver-
tising by Canadian brewers, vintners, and
distillers? The advertising of their counter-
parts in the U.S., Britian and Continental
Europe stili circulates throughout Canada
freely and in great volume. — Printer and
Publisher.

Recognize Red China

Haven't we had about enough of the
tired and dusty American answer to the
yearly question of seating China in the Un-
ited Nations?

The Chinese Communists may be as
wicked as Washington makes out, but that
is entirely beside the point. :

The UN is not, and was never meant
to be, a club for like-minded members.

Tt was meant to be a world-wide forum
in which international toubles could be
aired and an attempt could be made to set-
tle them.

It cannot fulfill that function so long
as the biggest country in the world, contain-
ing a quarter of the globe’s population, is
excluded from mémbership.

The Soviet Union has various times
been accused of all the crimes with which
China is charged. But it is a member.

Not so many years ago Japan was do-
ing worse things than the Soviet Union has
even been accused of. But it is a member.

By a splendid irony, the latest aggres-
sion of which China has been accused has
been’ against India. And it is India which
this year, once again, has proposed China's
UN membership.

The Indians believe, first, simply that
it is wrong that China should not be in the
United Nations; second, that it would be a
lot easier to settle their differences with it
if it were. .

Which ‘makes a lot more sense than
the American moralizing. —- Vancouver
Province. :

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‘HOSPITAL BISASTER

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call, the superintendent nurse
‘and the administrator or their
deputies,
_ (a) The doctor on call will
ensure’ that one other doctor is
instructed to proceed to the
scene of the accident and that all
other available doctors are in-
structed to proceed to the hospi-
tal. He will then proceed himself
to the hospital where he will
take charge of all available med-
ical facilities,

(b) The nur:

vide a man to direct traffic and
maintain order.

The superintendent nurse
(or. nurse in charge) will assign
three nurses and three aides ,in
teams of one nurse and one alde
who: will strip«casualties on ar-
rival. This must be done with all
possible speed, using scissors if
need be, and the patients, wrap-
ped in blankets,

One member of the office
staff, nominated by the adminis-
trator, will endeavour to identify
casualties and tie to their arms

se will, before procegding to the
hospital, call (or have someone
else call) all other nurses and
aides, at least two nurses being
innstructd to proceed to the scene
of the accident and the remaind-
er to the hospital.

(c) The

ecards supplied by
the Civil Defence entering on the
cards all available information
concerning identlty. She will also
maintain a list of casualties
which will be passed to the ad-
ministrator as soon as possible.

The doctor on call will exam-

ine .on arrival,

will
call all other staff,
Communication will be set
up by the police between the hos-
Pital, the RCMP headquarters
and the scence of the accident, All
information concerning patients
received at the hospital will be
released by the administartor and
not by anyone else, There will
be a full exchange of information
between the hospital and the po-
lice.
2 The Despatch of Immediate
Ald to the Scene of the Accident
Arrangements will have been
made, as noted above, for one
doctor and two nurses to proceed

accident,
. The Civil Defence authorities
will make available in the hospi-
tal an emergency box containing
needles and

(a) Those who are dead will
be certified dead and removed to
the basement for later removal
from the hospital.

{b) 'Phose who are in need
of immediate attention will be
sent to cither the emergency, op-
erating or case room for treat-
ment,

(c) Those not in need of ur-
gent attention will be moved to
the nursing wing corridor to be
attended to later.

Any drugs administered to
the casualty will be entered on
the’ identification tag together
with, any notes on the patients in-
juries or other given.

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Fall Fair
Prize List

‘The foliowing are the winners

‘|in the junior section of the 18th

Annual Castlegar and District
Fall Fair held Sept, 18 and 19 in
the arena. .

The grand aggregate winner
in the junior section was nine-
year-old Alexa Condy of Kin-
naird.

VEGETABLES, FLOWERS:
Gail Konkin, Slocan Park; Bar-
bara Popoff, Slocan Parrk; Alexa
Condy, Kinnaird; Linda Bro, Rob-
son; Loulse Popoff, Slocan Park;
Sharon Konkin, South Slocan;
Joan Popoff, Slocan Park;

Donna Popoff, Castlegar; Ro-

‘|bert Wadey, Kinnaird; Johnny

Popoff, Castlegar; Elaine Ads-
head, Robson; Kathy Giraud,
Robson; Maxine Adshead, Rob-
son; Geraldine Giraud, Robson;

Elaine Kanigan, Kinnaird;
Evelyn Hunter, Robson; Joy An--

supplies of. oxygen are available

and that all equipment is in wor-
king order.

Office staff will report to the

Th q

Soreptimist Governor
Visits District Group

‘The governor of the western

derson, C: ; Barbara Guido,
Kinnaird; Dorothy Thring, Cas-
tlegar; Elaine Hirtle, Castlegar;
Sheryl Anderson, ‘Castlegar.
NEEDLEWORK: Gail Kon-
kin, ‘Alexa Condy, Eileen Kani-
gan, Geraldine Giraud, Vera

e
operator will take charge of the
switchboard. .and ignore all in-
eoming calls: which are neither
urgent nor to do with the emer-
geney. She will remain at the
switchboadr at all times, — *
No calls will be passed to the
i will

“Vhere a tourniquet is applied,
the time at which this was done
must be stated boldly, preferably
on a piece of ive tape stuck

area.
be carried where’ necessary by.
messengers, , Other. office staff
will engage as directed in the

of patients and the

*o the

drugs together with btn dress-
ings and other medical supplies.
The contents of this box will be
checked at three-month intervals
to ensuer that they are in good
condition,

_, On being called, the admin-
istrator will instruct the janitor
to go to the hospital, collect the
emergency box and take if to the
seene of the accident. He will
then return to the’ hospital.

If need be, the RCMP will
suspend traffic on the ferry and
ensure that the doctor and nurses
are given priority in crossing the

iver.
3. The Organization of the Hos-
pital to Receive and Treat Cas-
ualties

After ensuring that the es-
sential personnel have been cal-
Jed, the nurse in charge will make
necessary arrangements to have
the emergency room, the operat-
ing room and the case room pre-
pared for the receipt of casual-
ties. The emergency room will be
used for fracture cases, the op-
erating room for surgery and the
case room for the treatment of
shock, :

Disposal of patients already
in hospital: On arrival the doctor
on call or doctor nominated by
‘him, shall classify ali patients in

ing blue cards indicating:

Stay.— for those patients
who: cannot be moved. The ad-|
ministrator will then notify the
transport division of the Civil
Defence to provide ,the requisite
number of cars (each car having
two blankets) and arrange for
the transport ‘home of all those
patients who have no blue card
attached to them. This transport
will report to the nursing wing
door at the east end of the hos-,
pital.

Reception — Casualties arri-
ving from the accident will be
received at the ambulance’ en-

of to
the

al
patients will be sent to the ad-
ministrator,

X-ray — The technician will
be called and shall call the radio-
logist if needed. -

Laboratory — The technician
will be called and shall call on
Trail hospital for assistance it
needed. She shall notify the per-
son in charge of the blood don-
ors list to send available donors
to the hospital immediately,
where they Should report to the
office. ° :

The BMR room shail be used
for taking blood as needed for
transfusion. Unless the required
groups are easily ascertainable,
the technician will take O nega-
tive blood and if donors are not
available she will ask, through
the administrator for the RCMP
to bring whatever supplies are
|available from Nelson or Trail.
hospitals.

She will also take necessar:
steps to secure additional sup-
plies of Gentran or other plasma
boosting agent.

Medical staff — All doctors
will change into OR clothes on
arrival and. be assigned to either
the emergency, operating or case
rooms, They will place themsel-
ves under the direction of the
docter on call who will be in
charge of al medical facilities.

Nursing staff — The St. John
Ambulance and Home Nursing
will provide the hospital with ad-
ditional personnel trained ° in
Home Nursing. The superinten-
dent nurse or deputy will place
these emergency nurses ‘under
the direction of one or more hos-
pital staff nurses in

Kitchen staff — The first
cook will be called and she shall
call all available kitchen staff
who shall report direct to the
kitchen and prepare soups, bev-
erages etc. and such other food as
is requested from the floor.
4, Expansion of Hospital
Where the extent of the dis-
aster calls for the expansion of
the hospital facilities the Civil
Defence will provide the hospital
with 27 beds and matresses and
60 blankets. These additional
beds will be accommodated as fol-
Jows:~
Wards 1, 6 and 7 — two addition-
al beds each — 6 beds
Wards 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 10 —
one additional bed each
— 7 beds
Ward 11 — 2 additional beds

Corridors -

Since the ‘hospital was built
to provide for expansion upwards
to create a 50460 bed hospital,
all the basic facilities will be ade-
quate to deal with the above in-
crease in beds.

Home nursing personnel will
be engaged under the direction
of the ‘registered hospital nur-
ses and volunteers will be reques-
ted through the Civil Defence to
provide , additjonal help in other
departments. $ z

In the event of a catastrophe
even greater in extent than so

region for Inter-
national was guest of honor at
the regular monthly dinner meet-
ing recently of local Soroptimists,

Mrs. Francis Wagner of Cal-
gary arrived by bus from Nel-
son and was taken to lunch by
local Soroptimists, She was then

1) taken on a tour of the District

and that evening aitended the
club's regular dinner meeting and
spoke on club extension,

Corrected List
Of Fair Winners

The following — corrections
should be made in the. list of
Fall Fair prize winners carried
in last week's paper.

Mrs. F. Konkin of Slocan
Park won the Pitt's Challenge
Cup and the Robson Farmer's
Intsitute Memnto Cup. Barbara
Konkin and. Joan Popoff were
winners in the junior vegetables
and flowers winning the Robson
Women's Institute Challenge Cup
and the Fall Fair Memento Cup,

Mrs. F, Konkin was aggreg-

ate winner in the senlor vege-

Robson; Joan Popoff,
Slocan Park; Sharon Konkin.

_ HANDICRAFT: 'Emmor Spe-
rry, Castlegar; Alexa Condy; Vic-
tor Giraud, Robson; David Oglow,
Castlegar; Tom Condy, Kinnaird;
Willa Condy, Kinnaird;

Gail Konkin, Tannie Roberts,
Kinnaird; Rudy Priddy, Kin-
naird; Danny Jack, .Kinnalrd;
Norman Harvey, Kinnaird;

Eileen Kanigan, Tom Oglow,
Wayne’ McNichol, Kinnaird; De-
anne Roberts, Vancouver; Billy
Mentgomery, Kinnaird;

Donald Sperry, Ken Wyllie,
Robson; George Markin, Castle-
gar; Sharon Konkin, Johnny
Johnson, Martha Peter, Renata;
Peter Dodgson.

ART: Alexa Condy, Emmor
Sperry, Tom Condy, Willa Condy,
Barbara McNichol, Kenny Oglow,
Eileen Kanigan, Danny Jack,
Lindsay Anderson, Theresa Os-
wald.

Jimmy Merrifield, Helen
Johnson, Martha Peters, Ian Dun-
nett, Iona Dunnett, Cecil Chevel-
dave, Bruce McNichol, Sharon
| Konkin, Jill Hughes, Doreen Phil-
lips, Tina Weodrow.

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far dealt with, arrangments have | jf /

been made for an auxiliary hos-
pital to be set up in the high
school, *

The beds and bedding will be
obtained through the Civil Defen-
ce and in the

the wards to receive casualties
and i i

school activity room. The cookery

nursing service on the wards,
Maintenance man and jani-

tor will be under the of

room will be con-
verted into a hospital kitchen and
other rooms would in these cir-

the administrator. The mainten-
ance man will on arrival at the

trance where the RCMP will pro-

hospital, ensure that adequate

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