QUT IN THE OPEN Radio-TV Competition From London comes word that officials of the BBC are in deepest gloom. The trouble, it seems, is that since the establishment of the. Independent Television Authority, with its commercials, and its sponsored shows, BBC radio has-been losing its list- ening audience. at an appalling rate. in fact, in the second quarter of 1957 BBC's radio audience drop- ped by more than a million tisteners. Now the BBC, it must be remembered, also pro- duces television shows, in competition with the publicly but lly-minded Ind ent Television Authority. But although BBC-TV has fallen off, the decline is nothing like what has been happening to BBC radio. Chances are that if BBC had to compete with private radio, as does the CBC in Canada, it wouldn’t be faced with desertion by so many of its radio listen- ers. In fact, it is fair to soy that in Canada radio has retained a remarkable popularity despite the advent « of T.V. In fact, a good many privately-owned radio stations are a fot more popular than CBC-TV with the listening public. The explanation fies in competition. For com- petition -invariably results in better programming, whether in radio or TV, and the public benefit. Why “Deficiency” Payments? In a brief recently presented to the Federal Government, the Federation of Agriculture asks for ‘deficiency’ payments to prairie grain. growers to compensate them for the “unreasonably low returns” from wheat, oats and barley in recent crop years. Whatever shape the Diefenbaker Government's agricultural policy may take, so-called “deficiency” payments along the lines suggested by the Canadian Federation of Agriculture should be ruled out. For implicit in the proposal is the suggestion that even with the good crops and relatively high prices of the ipostwar years, prairie agriculture has not been self- supporting and therefore farmers should be compen- zsated for their deficiency” in income by the fexpey~ ers of Canada. Even under conditions of economic ‘stability, any Government would be ill-advised to allow itself to be persuaded that prairie agriculture’s costs should be underwritten in this way by the taxpayer. To do so under present inflationary conditions with the pur- chasing power of the dollar steadily shrinking, would be folly of the worst sort. For “defi based on a sliding scale would inevitably stide upward until the burden of the taxpayers became intolerable. Peking Tightens The Screw - The opening speech of Red China‘’s Prime Min- ister Chou En-lai, delivered ot the opening of the National People’s Congress in Peking, should effec- tively shatter any lingering illusions about tolerence and freedom of speech under Asiatic communism. Chou En-lai seized the occasion of the meeting of Red China’s “partiament’ to launch a “correct the wind" campaign aimed at the denunciation and punishment of the “rightists.”’ Critics of the’ Red Chinese regime who exposed. ‘ themselves following Mao Tse-tung’s speech of fast _ February, in which on official communist blessing was given tp “criticism,” are now being denounced as “rightist conspirators”. Mass orrests have begun, and there is no reason to suppose that mass executions will not follow, Oriental subtlety has never surpassed ‘tactics such as these. Opponents of communism, and com- munists disillusioned with bureaucracy and the eco- nomic shortcomings of socialist planning, have been smoked out by the device of inviting the public te indulge in a brief spelt of ‘criticism and free speech.” A more flagrant example of the opportunism and im- morality of communism would be hard to imagine. THE OLD HOME TOWN server reom By STANLEY “THE Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Assn. Subscription @ Castlegar. News Pubilshod Every Thursday At c ADS OF THE AYS" Castlegar, B.C. L. Vv. CAMPBELL Publisher Member: BC: Weekly Newspapers Bureau Rate: $3.00 per year — 250 month by carrier Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa “The Audience-Is Getting Restless”’ Gregory — Toronto Star HOUUUTARURITQUUADEOUEOUEEADEESUTALnedRaTaNea euUcaTaeaesseULNG IT By CENTURY SAM Well, I don’t say you have- n’t got some real men in BC, today. But a hundred years ago we had some men here, too. And they had to be good in them pi- oneer days, You take a man like F. J. Barnard. He was the foundation of the B, C, transportation in- dustry. F. J. was born in Quebec. He was 12 when his father died. He started right out to earn a living fof the rest of the family. He worked up so he got in- to business in Toronto — but he didn't do well. So he emigrated to B.C, He travelled third-class steerage to ‘Frisco, to save what few dollars he had — a rough, tough trip in them days ” He arrived at the peak of : the sold, in the spring of ‘59. He only had $5 when he got to Yale. But he earned some- thing sawing .cordwood, He, got a job. as Yale -con- stable, One chore he had was to take two prisoners by canoe to New Vrestminster.. He got there after fighting off. one of? the prisoners who tried to shoot him, Other jobs he had were pur- ser on the steamer Yale, (1 knew him at that time)’ building part of the Fraser canyon trail and clearing Douglas Street in Yale. ; He started his real life work in 1860 when. he got into the express business. He did this by carrying letters and papers on his back, travelling on foot from Yale to Cariboo, 769 miles the round trip. He got $2 a letter ‘and sold papers in the Cariboo mines at $1 each. By 1862 he had got on enough to start a pony express. This meant that he lead a horse, The horse carried the express goods, He carried the miners’ gold out, for shipping to Victoria, leading his horse and ‘outsmart- ing bandits. He took a chance in 1862 and established Barnard's Ex~- press and Stage Line. He got 14 passenger, six-horse coaches on the road. He made very: good money that year and got a mail contract, took over all gold es- cort work and went into the Victoria end of the business, He lived there with his family ti he died, . He was the man that brought out “road steamers” from Scot- land, They. wouldn’t work on our roads and he: lost’ heavy. He also lost out on a’ con- tract to build part of the trans- continental telegraph .line which TIMELESS TOPICS By Archdeacon. B. A. Resker BEAUTY This world of ours is a very beautiful place. Many of us have seen some of that beauty this summer. We have the good fortune to live in the most beau- tiful part of Canada. How often we-take it for granted! On my travels this past few months I have seen the gloriés of the great mountains, the wonder of the sea in calm and storm (Gods “ wonders in the great deep"). I have seen the park-like glory of the English country side, (so carefully tended,): also the rug- Zed beauty of the wild Brittany , coast, The beauty of Nature tells of the love of God for Man to whom He has. given the power to see and wonder at it all. He has also given Man thé power to create beauty .in Gar-, den, Architecture, Picture and music, we can cooperate with in making the earth still more beautiful. We can also cre- ate the highest form of beauty that of Character and Spirit. But! Man can also destroy the Bzauty of God's creation by his slums, his war destruc- tion (still evident in Europe) he can, as so often we do in Can- / ada, make very little effort in keeping the streets and surroun- dings of his clean and idea the r Barnard was elected-to the legislature for Yale. He was. a strong man in favor of confed- eration, He ‘was-also in: the. fed- eral House in’. 1879.. He was a progressive, gotahead. man — one of the real Sevelopers of BC, Just” think * what “ehat~ one man did with his time and his $5 that herhad When he .Jand- lidy."He.also Jets Sin spoll the beauty of Character. Let us do more to cooperate with God, who is Perfect Beauty, in - making | this world more beautiful.“ Let us tidy up the - street in front of our house (when..the ditches are filled in). selves and in the growing gen- eration, (Leaders are so badly Sunday Church Services #@ |) MEOW!-- FTE EEE T! one are rearvaam eroware. , weh Anas Aan OR ST. RITA’S CHURCH Rev, E, Brophy, P.P. Masses at 8:30 and 10:30 Benediction Friday at 7:00 p.m. Confessions Sat. 4-5 and 7-8 p.m. COMMUNITY BIBLE CENTRE Sunday in the Legion Hall 10:30 Sunday School 7:30 Family Service At 51 Columbia Ave. ST. JOSEPH'S CHAPEL Rev, E, Brophy, P.P. Masses at 8:30:and 10:30 a.m, Confessions ‘Sat. 4-5 p.m. Wed., 7:30 Young People’s Hr. CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS Sundays at 10:30 a.m. Twin Rivers Hall "PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH * OF CANADA Kinnaird * Fri, 8:00 Prayer & Bible Study} THE UNITED CHURCH PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE Sunday School — 10 am. Morning Worship — ue am. - Evangelistic — 7:30 p. Prayer and Bible study, Thurs, 330 p.m, Everyone Welcome (during. summer months) Robson: -Ist- and 3rd Sundays at 11 am. oo, Kinnaird: Service of Worship at 10 am. Castlegar: Service of Worship] Sunday worship 11:15 a.m. Sunday School during worshi:» . THE ANGLICAN CHURCH ‘Sunday, September 21 Robson 8 am. and 7:30 p.m. Kinnaird 9 am. Matins. ~ Castlegar 11 am. H.C. at 7:30 p.m. Sunday School 10am: Sunday School 10 am. ~ Western Canada, especially of Westward Ho! By Lewis Milligan One of the impressions | received during my re- cent trip to the West Coast was that the people of the Prairies, _ were more Americanized than the people of the East. When | mentioned this to a retired Manitoba farmer he said that was due to the fact that the early.settlers on the Prairies’ were fargely Americans from ‘the Middle West. My impression was that it was due to their closer juxtaposition with the States, whereas the . people of Eastern Candda are more insulated from American influence by the Great Lakes and’ the St. Lawrence River. What struck me most was what appeared to be exclusive tuning-in to American television and radio programs. That may be due to the fact that it is easier tuning-in to closer U.S. stations than to those of the CBC in the East. But | noticed that even the local private radio stations ysed recordings of a de- - finite American flavor in sentiment and patriotic 'in- fluence. One instance of the Jatter surprised and amused me. It was a recording of Kipling! 's song, ‘The Road to Manadlay.’ That song was originally put into the mouth of a British soldier with a cockney accent. But the voice that came over the rcdio was that of an American with a clipped Coney Island accent, and the music was jazzed almost beyond recognition. The whole thing was completely Americanized. The line, ‘Come you back you British soldier,’ as sung, sounded to me like, ‘Come you back you Yankee soldier,’ The people of British Columbia, particularly of Vancouver and Victoria, have always been regarded 7 very English. They are still proud of their historical - British monuments and landmarks, 1 name Larkhill on one of the buses in Victoria, and it immediately carried me back to Larkhill Lane in West Derby, a rural suburb of Liverpool. Victoria used to be ‘a favorite resort for retired British army and naval officers. When | visited the city 30 odd years ago | met an ex-civil’ servant from India, But there are few if any such today, for even high-ranking British of- ficers could not live on their pension so far from home. Although the city has grown in recent years, it still has the air of a holiday resort, and its equable climate and remote tranquility attract @ constant stream of tourists and retired people who wish to end their days far from the madding crowds of the big cities on the mainland. Alberta and Saskatct 2 are close but they are nominally different politically and they are each proud of their governments, But neither gov- ernment is practising its economic principles. There is no Social Credit.in Alberta, and ‘there Socialism in Saskatchewan, Alberta has: come into a rich inheritance. of oil for which there is a ready market. Saskatct has great in stor- ed-up grain, but is not sufficiently Socialist to sell it without a good profit. Moreover, the CCF govem- ment has so far weakened in its hatred of the Capi- talists as to invite them to explore the province for. iahb. * oil on a free enterprise basis. When I asked an editor what Socialism hed done for the province, he thought for a moment and said. We have a very fine public medical "service." Manitoba is nearer to Ontario in every way. The people, are more eastern than western in character. Winnipeg is the Torento of the West. The Manitoba. farmers are involved in the’ surplus wheat problem, but they are not “dependent on wheat because of their mixed farming. “ may have our heads in the air, but we keep our feet firmly on’ the sround, “* an old. former told me. : mcublic To View fRailway Operations . VANCOUVER — “A “giant Bportrait in words. and pictures maof the Canadian Pacific's const to coast system for handling the mass of paperwork’ required to ‘operate the railway, and featur- ‘ ming the new IBM 705 “electronic brain” has commenced :.a two- month tour across the country in a specially-fitted railway car. The exhibit, which will reach British Columbia on Sept. 25, traces the history of record- ing transactions and processing business information from the earliest times — from the clay tablets of the Sumerians and the abacus of the Chinese, centur- tes before Christ, through the early typewriters, comptometers and adding machines. ‘Ghe’ display shows that as late as 1881 when the CPR was business Rev.A. 0. McNeil Elected. Pres. Bible Society Never has the Bible Socicty in its 153 years of‘ translating lack of funds, declared the pro- vincial secretary, Rev. J. A. and the been. with such .tre- dence was in: long- hand and all statements and were calcu- noticed the™ is fittle | needed to help with the char- Church Let: us do-all we cam to dev- d hel; . elop fineness of character in our- ecter training of our Scouts and church can ip you. develop, organizations.) Guides and, Brownies and fine character. You’ lated with pencil and paper and . written out in ink, REGULAR CONVENIENT SERVICE... 2 Leave the car behind and ride in comfort... relax and enjoy the. ever-changing mountain vistas . .. sleep while Canadian Pacific carries you through the night, and arrive at your “destination refreshed and ready for the day ahead. “tPyavel through the Kettle Valley in air- ': conditioned conches and sleepers drawn .It shows the advanced ma- ‘chines, including small electron. ic computers, which were in use on the CPR before the new pro- , Bram was inaugurated in 1956 and demonstrates how new ‘tools have made possible a re- .volutionary new approach to handling CPR paperwork. Prominent among the new tools is the from all parts of the world, and yet it is forc- ed to curtail production due to Tingley, V speaking at a rally in the Cast- legar United, Church. To curtail the producing of Scriptures in this time of world erisis, when secular and pagan munications which provides 24-" hour ‘wire service over a coast to const network on . “carrier” circuits which enable many més- sages to be: sent simultancous- ly over the same pair of wires, ; such as Commun ism are flooding the world with their books is disastrous, con- tinued the speaker, as he-uppeal- ed for more generous support. The missionaries of all e said, are calling in the exhinit is the flow of Canadian Pacific information from its source at hundreds of points pains the country by wire, mail machine”, which enables the operator to produce a record on punched ‘paper tape or punched cards simultaneously with typ- ing the original document, From here on, all processing is ac- ‘collostion points called Centres” at Vancouver, Calgary, Moose Jaw, Winnipeg, ‘North Bay, Montreal and St. John, It is then further processed and relayed to the Computer Centre complished entirely by hani. cal means, : Equally prominent is the role of Canadian Pacific Com- for on tor Bibles. Testiments and Gos- pels and millions of -awakening people are pleading for the Word of Life. Shall we deny to those who sit in the the light Reaches Columbia The Inland Natural Gas Co. Ltd. transmission line has reach- ed the banks of the Columbia River, according to the latest report issued by Ford, Bacon & Davis Canada Limited, Inland's engineers, Actual pipe strung 15 now only 15 miles short of the 304 mile total length. The with Westcoast Transmission Company line at Savona and ex- tends to Nelson, Eighty-three miles of laterals and stub lines to Interior communities are now ‘more than. 80 per cent com- Plete and 95 per cent of all mains have been Jaid in com- munities to be served. Individual house and busi- ness services are nearing com- pletion and censtruction of city gate stations is well underway. Inland expects to begin turn- ing on gas in its system during of truth and freedom? asked the secertary. ’ The meetiny saw a motion Picture portraying some of the work of the Bible Society in New Guinea and other islands in the South West Pacific. It the giant and eventual flow back to those requiring 1t. by sthooth ‘diesel power: |. ‘Go Canadian Pacifie— westbound via the ~ » Kootenay Express, eastbound via the Kettle _ Walley Express.” For Information end reservations, coll HM. B. DALTON Phone 4951 ina way the power of the Bible in the lives of backward people, and indi- cated the. urgency of sharing its message with all mankind. Mr, Tingley stated: that in 1956 the Bible Society circulated nearly 10. million copies of the Scriptures at a loss of nearly 1 million dollars, since it always = makes the Scriptures’ available ata price people can afford to pay, . Rev. A, O, MeNeil, ‘minister of the United Church conducted the rally and was elected pre- sident, succeeding Miss' J, Pen- noyer. Rev. F. E. Woodrow. is secretary-treasurer, while Dr. William Wright, Wm. T. Waldie and Robert Tozer are Honorary Presidents. Other members of the committee are Mrs. 8B. Trussler, W. T. Easton, Philip ‘ Toogood and K. Spence, The brewed.in the Kootenays : to Kootenay tastes Tro. ministers are vice-presidents. An appeal is to be made to the Welfare Society for funds, and an appeal will be made to the cherches on the last Sunday in October, which is to be ob- serped as Bible Society Sunday. Civil Defence Leduc, Deputy Office: for Kinnaird-Castlegar, explain- ed to-day the purpose of Nation- al Civil Defence Day and the need for public co-operation and support, “Every Canadian community — the biggest and the smallest — has a part to play in Canada’s Civil Defence program. If it doesn’t play that part, the com- munity one day might suddenly die, The prospect of a nuclear war must be faced. And because’ it must be, Friday, October 4, has been designated ‘as Civil De- fence Day nationwide to remind; Canadians of this necessity. The target city can save its i only by dispersal, That's where: the rest of the country cémes in — as reception centres, except in re: mote cases, The first evacuees would arrive over a period of six hours. They would be billeted on the basis of one for each member of a ‘in the i This advertisement isnot published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the G f British Columbi: se hs os bushmaster, was mislaid for a time en route from’ trinidad to the Toronto zoo, It was in a bag inside a box + that.was left on a Buffalo platform and, had people known the |, contents of the box, it would have been given wide berth, The,;' ber of the pit viper family, fs bad- tempered 9. bushmaster, mem! aggressive, fast and fearless and its bite is usually fatal speciman is three feet long but, if it lives, could grow to be a} 12-foot length, making it the second largest Polsoneu snake in} the world, Cobras are larger. area, The rest of the evacuees would arrive later, over a stort- er period, to be billeted at first on a five-to-one basis. Whether a community recieved the first evacuees. would depend on its distance from a target aea, The last evacuees would have to be put up by the communities near- est the target area, They would- n't have time to go farther. A reception area could ex- pect about two hours warning that a flood of evacuees was -coming. Obviously, it would be BUY THE BRANDED COAL : BUY MIDLAND and KNOW IT'S GOOD DER YOUR COAL OR! N-0-W FOR PROMPT DELIVERY — PHONE 3551 Mitchell Hersad Limited too late to prepare to accomo- date them once the bombs were falling. To lay out ‘the necessary plans in advance is the purpose of Civil Defence, It is the government's job — the federal, provincial and municipal governments — to get a .Civil Defence plan started appropriate to the area its. res- ° ponsibility covers. 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