CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thureday, ‘Jon, 18, 1966

CASTLEGAR NEWS

“Here let the press the people's a in

by gate”

ndr eoiens Forty Savon

Silatesmen
Statoments

“W's our oll out here, I
say Ottawa should keep its cot-

Centennial — Must be Made Now

Castlegar residents with strong views
and preferances on what project should
be Pp as_ this ity’s Centen-
nial project have two more days in which
to make known their suggestions to the
Centennial Committee.

After that the, Committee will make
tits choice and the die will be cast.

: A Fitting Feast

Last week’ ing-of-ag

The C is to be tul
ed on the strenuous effort it hay made
to canvass public opinion for projects.

Countless news. stories have appear-
ed in this paper in which mention was
made that the Committee desired sugges-
tions, advertisements were run-by the
Committee and individual Committee

have button of
the public asking them to take an inter-
est in the Centennial Committee’s work
and to suggest possible projects.

No matter what project the Commit-

tion for the new Town of Coaleear was
; am excellent affair for which the organiz-
‘ers deserve high praise.

It was a fitting way to recognize the
,changing of municipal ‘status from a vil-
‘lage to a town and was a birthday party
‘that will long be remembered.

‘ Let us hope that the happy spirit
that prevailed that evening marks our
municipal life for many months and years
. to come.

tee ch (and it makes no bones but
that it is leaning towards development
of Pass Creek Park on the basis of pre-
sent information and. interest), it can at
least be sure that only silence should
greet its choice on the part of those who
may disagree after the choice is made.
Those who feel strongly about the
choice of project must act within the next
48 hours. After that the comments of
sidewalk superintendents won't count for
much, and shouldn't be listened to.

Fauquier-Castlegar Road is the Solution

This winter’s heavy snowfall and the
trouble it is causing both the department
of highways and motorists alike on the

“Salmo-Creston and Kinnaird - Christina
Lake highways should serve to illustrate
very uiridly, the desirability of a road con-
i quier and Castl along the
: Arrow | Lakes over the road link between
‘Fauquier and Passmore being promoted
‘by both the highways department and
B.C. Hydro.

In justifying the choice of the route
over the 6,000-foot summit on the Fau-
quier-Passmore proposal, department spo-
kesmen and Hydro Authority personnel
have claimed that snow is no problem if

ONE MAN'S OPINICH

men and equip are 4
able to keep roads open.

AR gi recently inted
out in a news story carried in this pa-
per that estimated road construction costs
do not tell the whole story. He claimed,
with justification, that the cheapest road
to build might ‘well be.the most’ expen-
sive road in the long run when all other
factors, including maintenance, are taken
into account.

fy avail.

This year’s heavy snowfall, coming - tthe

hard on the heels of last year’s record
fall, should serve to prove that a second
look should be taken at the Fauquier-
Passmore route before an irrevocable de-
cision is made to build it.

By F. B. Pearce

SUGAR AND SPICE

THE RECEPTIONIST

By Bill Smiley |

The Pioneers Stay in the Frozen North

This is the
time of year when

m™ money than I.
They leave our northern com-
munity for Florida, Mexico, the
West Indies,

. In short,

It's as much a part of our
heritage as the Saturday night
bath, or spring cleaning. And
I think it’s a good thing.

When the last barber or
bricklayer has bragged about
being of off to the Bahamas, when
last druggist or doctor has
informed me pompously that
“We'll probably take in Aca-
Duleo this year”, I feel a sense

The rats have left the
freezing ship, and there’s only
the hard core, the sturdy pion-
eer types, the rugged individ-
peers and the poor people, 1 der

An Education Fit for a Modern Prince

When people
so often hold
forth on educa- §
tion I think of
Betty. When she
was three she co-
uld read 40
words. Now she
refuses to learn to read tho-
ugh it is quite obvious that she
could do so easily.

It is a simple demonstra-
tion of the fact that education
really begins with what a child
wants to learn.

*

*

In these days of mar-
vellous scientific advances
there is a tendency to insist
that all pupils should learn
mathematics and science so
that they will fit into the eco-
nomy of the new age.

This sounds reasonable un-
itil you meet the: Bettys who
don’t want to learn and won't
or can’t tell you why. There
is no way of making them learn
any more than one can take a
horse to the water, as the old
saying goes, and make it drink.

is _nrabable_that- most

thing is more exciting than
planning education for others,
Particularly if one of the oth-
ers is Prince Charles. When
it was announced that the heir
to the throne was to be sent
to a school in Australia those
not in a position of authority
promptly raised their loud
voices,

One asked if he were be-
ing raised to be a lumberjack,
another said it look as if he
were being prepared for the
life of a midshipman under
Captain Bligh of the Bounty.
Another envisioned a life
where poor Prince Charles wo-
uld attend MIT or the Sor-
bonne of which the writer, a
lady, knows nothing.

The critics even complain-
ed that his present school,
Gordonstoun, had not produc-
ed one scholarship student in
1964,

* * *
Yet this may well be the

best feature of this school. It
is not turning out brilliant
scholars but people. It isn’t ne-
cessary or even desirable that
Prince Charles be a scholar-
ship student. His destiny is not
with science but with people.

. As the poet Pope said some
wo centuries ago, the

study of mankistd is man’ If
he goes to other parts of the
Commonwealth to meet people
of different manners and cus-
‘toms the is getting the educa-
dion which will enable him to
rule well.

Yield
Darling! When you leave:
The utter barren void your

leaving leaves,
I walk my fields — can’scarce

elieve
My total count of sheaves,
— Hugh Lefolii

The rest of us, the est of
us, can get down to Teal
glory of winter:living, without
stumbling over a lot of sissies
who are better off down there
getting sand in their navels.
one of the old true-
blue pace fighting it out with
the elements, I am inclined to
scorn them. As a humanitarian,
Ican oily, pity them. Think of
what they’ re missing
What is there in the soft
and sensuous south to equal
that crunch of toes breaking
off, that crack of bursitis in
the shoulder .when
the first curling ne,
pnap of thigh bones on the ski

Let's take a look at a
couple of these hot-weather
hounds. Look at this bird in
Florida, Gets out of bed and
there's that same old crumby
monotonous sun blazing down,
just like all othe oth: ys.

evital range juice on the in-
evitable patio; the inevitable
trip to the beach with the in-

evitable obscenely fat softies
lying all around, Or the inevi-
table sweating it out on the

golf course with a lot of other
middle-aged Hars,

And here's our pal in Mex-
ico, just getting up at 10.30.
He’ hasn't paid last
come tax yet, butik he
$1,500 from the bank to make
the trip. He has a hangover

ei sixounce; forty-

drinks, and a

twisted back from trying to
Ngo.

His wife, in the other twin
bed, looks like ‘an inmate of
Belgen, ; because she’s had ver

0)

es, he auine. They totter
bie into the muggy heat. And
another horrible day in Aca-
pues has begun.

F's not like that around
here. My daughter wakes me
at six-thirty and I call a cheery
good-morning. It may sound a
bit more like “RUMPH” but
it’s well meant. My life’s pant-
ner shoves me out with her
foot ten minutes later.

Down to a jolly breakfast:
vitamin pills, cuppa tea and
half-slice of toast. There's the
thrill of variety as you pre-
Pare for the day. When dawn
comes, will the sun be shining,
the snow falling, or a blizzard
howling?

Out into the wild white
yonder. Grab the shovel and
make the snow fly, chuckling
heartily all the while as you
think of those poor slobs in
the south, with nothing to do
every day but the same old
thin;

gs.

The clean, fresh northern
air hics your lungs like a dum-
dum bullet. Bark seal-like gree-

children instinctively know
what they want to learn. If one
does not like social studies it
is most unlikely that when he
is an adult he will haunt the
public library reading books on
history. In effect all the teach-
ing he received in social stu-
dues has been da,

Of course parents do have
to plan. what their children
should learn. When the time
comes they may mect the ridi-
culous requirements of univer-
sities and employers. It is just
as hard on the parents as it is
on the children.

If this were a much hap-
pier world than it is, children
could choose what they wish-
ed to learn, which is what they
do before they go to school.
They would probably learn
more about some things and

_ less about others, but they wo-
uld be. happier.

So we. choose for them. No-

The Perilous Continental Exploration
Of Scots-Born Alexander Mackenzie

Continuing the series of
rr of British Co e

Sir Al Mack

was placed in: charge of Fort
Chipewyan on’Lake Athabaska
iw 1788, The following year

The first man to cross con-
eye North’ America by
ne

route to the Arc:
i cate Hs a the ver that today

Mi

was disappointed by his
chievement. He knew his jour-
ney was so difficult that the
route never could be used as
an.artery of the fur trade —
and that, not fame, had been
his purpose.

Born in Scotland in 1764
he had come with his parents
to New York in 1774. He was
schooled in Montreal and en-
tered the fur trade as a clerk
in 1779; In 1785: he

to

rage in 1791 to’ study: astro-
nomy’ and navigstion and the
following year wintered ‘on the
Peace river in preparation for a
journey into the unknown west.
On May 9, 1793, with his lieut-
enant ‘Alexander Mackey, six
Voyageurs and two Indians, he
set out by cance toward the
Rockies,

The foll the

west, for’ the North: West Co:,
soon. became. a- partner and:

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Peace to the Parsnip, went
south. over the .di-

ting to neighbour, whose head
is 4 pe visible over his snow-

Off to the garage. Excite-
ment of wondering whether
the car stort. The sheer,
demonic joy of belting out cot
the driveway backwards a
trying to smash throu; ‘ie
beak’ the ‘enowplow has
up. Sometiniés’ you make it,
- The skidding, slithering ad-
venture of the drive to work,
Wheels spinning, visibility
twelve feet, every man for
himself.

The goodfellowship and
vivacity of the teacher's cloak-
room, everyone stamping, curs-
ing, and running at the

And another day of glor-
ious winter living. has begun.

ML the
When you ne them thawed out.

“Hingdts otf wll our
fesources” _ P. A: Gaglardl.

“In, pa peabocta a speech
is. jks ‘a love affair; any foo}
start one, but to énd it
souls conalderable skill” —
Lord Maneroft

.

“ring, Hoting and loot.
ing are contrary to the’ best
traditions of this country” _
Lyndon B. Johnson

*

if “make the news, I don’t
read the news” — W. A. C.
Bennett

U.S. Universities
Employ Drastic
Parking Means

While attracting staff, find-
ing building funds and obtain-
ing a workable curriculum are

the commonest headaches for
most university administrators
throughout the world, mony
American college heads find
they have a 4 Problem which
is all their. o7

The apten is cars, a
monsterous flood-tide of stu-
dents' cars. Affluence and
sprawling campuses have led
undergrads to take to autos
by the thousands, reports Time

Magazine.
In consequence, many seats
of learning have had to take
drastic measures to keep the
situation in some Gort oi

Qne university has been
forced to use traffic lights and
a police squad throughout the
day and another is building

jes.

The ever present vehicle
has even started to intrude in-
to the classroom. Some under-
grads have been known to pick
courses because they are con-
viently situated for Parking!

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