CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, Jan. 23, 1964

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MLA Must Back Hospital Expansion Here

The Trail Times, in its continuing efforts to have the Trail-Tadanac Hos- pital placed in a favored position by the B.C. Hospital Insurance Services at Vic- toria, last week called on Rossiand-Trail MLA Don Brothers to oppose any addi- tion to the Castlegar and District Hos- pital. It did so on the grounds that such expansion here “would tend to worsen the gradually improving financial picture at TTH or discount the regional status of the Trail hospital.”

The Trail Times’ first duty is to its own subscribers in the centre in which it is published and we applaud its inter- est in its own backyard.

Mr, Brothers, however, is the elected representative for the whole Rossland- Trail constituency and as such his inter- est is not and should not be so parochi- ¢al as is that of the Trail newspaper.

" The board of management of the hos-|{ pital here has done a commendable job]

in improving the financial picture of the

hospital. All that they have done hasn't!

met with universal approval but it has re- -sulted in the minister of health telling ,the board that if they continue on the path they are following, then their repre-

i will

K. NESBITT Once more your MLAs, from all over’ this big province, have as- sembled in this, your capital city of Victoria, to * perform their pu- blic duties and rick up their $6,- z . 10, which tho taxpayers so generously provide them, though, truth to tell, the taxpayers have nothing to do with it, the people giving their elected the power to help

sentations for hospital meet with approval.

Now, with Columbia development as- sured, the need for an expansion of hos- pital facilities here is unquestioned.

Mr. Brothers should present the needs of the Castlegar hospital to Mr. Martin and his colleagues and the needs of the Trail hospital as well. But he should not, as the Times appears to suggest, favor the requirements of the Trail hos- pital at the expense of hospital expansion here. i

Are You a ‘Sender’ or Are You a ‘Taker’?

The father who sends his boy to the arena usually tucks his feet’ under the chesterfield, sits back, turns on the TV, watches the Leafs, criticizes the commer- cials, then goes out and is not home when Junior returns from the arena.

The “sender” wouldn't know the score of any of the lad’s games — he has te bowl when the team needs an extra car to drive them to a game. All in all, he has just too much to do. But maybe Mom can go to the odd game, and a lot of Moms do.

Junior’s team is in the finals! Now we find Mr. Sender one of the first in the arena. First of ‘all, why isn’t the heat turned on for the kid’s games? I'm going

‘to sce. about this, Why don’t they give the

kids decent sweaters? The manager ought to be shot for letting them play with those crummy sticks! And if‘ the coach doesn’t put Junior back in I'm going right down and do something about that. Who in blazes ever told him he was a coach!1?7?1

We don’t heed to say to you: “Sir, are you a sender?” You couldn’t be you're going down to the arena this week he- cause it’s Minor Hockey Week in Canada. But if this IS your first trip, please think it. over and come back again. j

Incidentally, please pass the word to “Mr. Sender” and maybe he'll join you as one of those who will “Take — not Send his boy to the Arena.”

¥ Canadian French—WNot French Canadian

Why all this fuss about bi-culturism in Canada? Why should we have to set up commissions to deal with something requiring: nothing. more than a little com- mon sense? :

Canada is. a two-language country. We cannot escape that; nor should we try. New Brunswick is a two-language province. Again we should recognize this.

There are elements on both sides who feel their particular type of culture should be forced on the other factor.

Nothing could do more harm than such an attitude.

Culture is not something which can be legislated. It is something which must be accumulated. It is something we rnust want.

How do we go about solving this bus- iness of bi-culturism?

It isn’t. going to come to those of us who advanced to middle age, or beyond; depending upon who is the judge of mid- dle age. I can’t speak French, and I do not

Maturity

We woulldn’t have bet a nickle that the recent Civil Rights march on Wash- ington would have come off without vio- lence some place along the line.

But it did. !

Surely, we thought among 200,000 people who feel strongly that they have been handed the dirty end of the stick there has to be some few, at least, who will go too far.

But they didn’t.

The march on Washington was a demonstration’ that Negro Americans are

determined that arbitrary and unfair le- -

gal restrictions against them are no long- er tolerable, but in a deeper sense it was a demonstration of maturity and dignity that puts the lie to those whites who whould deny the Negro.

— Franklin (N.H.) Journal-Transcript

suppose that now I am going to. learn. Yet the Canadian French — I be- lieve that there should be no term such as French-Canadian or English di it ‘should, and must, .if.we are. going to. get anywhere, be Candian first — can be a very charming people. They have some habits — or culture — which en- rich our lives, if we don’t turn our backs and close our minds.

There are many delightful - things yeh

we can learn from the Canadian French.

To do this, we must first have a thorough knowledge of their language. This is not easy for older people to learn.

So we should start in our schools. We should start to teach both Canadian languages to youngsters in their early grades. This isn’t going to solve the bi- cultural problem in a year, or even in a generation; but as we learn to speak both languages, there will develop a greater understanding of each other a- mong Canadian French and Canadian

English. :

Councillor Ivan W. Reid of Norton, was on the right path when he suggested some months ago, at a meeting of the Kings County Municipal Council, that a bonus be paid to teachers who can teach in both languages.

Councillor Reid, I feel sure, can speak no more French than I can. Yet he has the vision to see that our future generations are going to benefit by being able to speak the two languages. The longer we hold off recognizing the im- portance to the other language, ‘the long- er we are going to place handicaps — yes, even barriers — in the lives of our sons'and daughters, and. our grandsons and granddaughters. i

I hope Councillor Reid reintroduces his motion when the Kings County Coun- cil meets again late in September.

We in Kings County need every benefit we can get; so let’s do something _to bring these benefits into existence.

— J. L. McKenna in Sussex. (N.B.)

ay Kings County Record

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repr themselves from out of the public treasury,

By Easter, your MLA’s will be home to tell you how hard they work, Government members will say the govenment’s wonderful, and the opposition docsn’t know. what it's talking about; oppositionists will say toss Social Credit out onto the junk heap, and good riddance. This is politics, and it'll always be thus, as long as we elect our legislatures on.a basis of politics,

Legislative opening day is all pomp and, circumstances, fuss and

| feathers, and make-believe, quaint

and time-honored and all that, but most of it quite unnecessary in the modern world. Ilowever, I suppose that the old saying is true, that it's better not to live by bread alone, and so I suppose the ancient pag- eantry does brighten up a drab world.

The. Licutenant-governor, ar- riving this year in the legislative chamber, looks amazed to learn there's no speaker, and so he leav- es, announcing he'll not return un- til the House elects a speaker. So out marches His Honor, flanked by his serious-looking aides, and, the House goes through the motion of electing Mr. Speaker, who is Wil- liam Murray ‘of Prince Rupert, a pleasant, quiet studious type who, I predict, will be a good boss of our Legislative Assembly, standing for no nonsense, but being lenient at the same time.

Mr. Murray, as Mr. Speaker, was all cut-and-dried months ago. The Speakership is one of those plums in the hands of the Premier. Mr. Speaker’s formal election is just make believe, but it's time- honored and therefore the make- believe will carry on.

Back in the House, Mr, Speak- er there, His Honor the Lieuten- ant-governor reads the Speech from the Throne, Premier Bennett sit- ting starry-eyed, hanging on.every word, which:he wrote ‘himself, the specch ‘telling. as little as possible of te government's intenfjon; but extolling the virtues of Sogial Cre- dit, which our Premier’ !says’ is not a political party, but a little movement for the good of all the people; you know — fairness for

House Opening in Victoria

'be high in the government's con-

Dill is never known, it being well hidden in what's called the govern- ment’s “incidentals and contingen- cies.”

That night, the socially clite and the politically. important “whirl in the mazy waltz” at a State Ball in the glittering ball- room at Government House,

Next day, in the Legislature, the speech-making starts, in what is called the Address in Reply to the Specch from the Throne, Dan

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Campbell of Comox and Donald Brothers of Rossland-Trail will move and second, This is looked upon as a great honor, showing Messrs, Campbell and Brothers to

fidence. Therefore they say nice things about the Premier and tell. us how lucky we are to have W. A, C. Bennett as aur chief man. Yes, these two praise the govern- ment to the skies, scoffing at the opposition. This is time-honored. °

Next Monday Opposition Lead- er Robert Strachan has his say. He will tear into the government, saying it's terrible, and would be even worse if it was not for the splendid work of the New De-

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mocratic Party, This is also time- honored.

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Teenage Years To he Discussed By SHSS PTA

Have you ever wondered what is expected of you as a parent and also how much of a teenager’s behaviour is his own -responsibi- lity?

Have you ever wondered just what it is a parent must under- take in order to guide a teenager successfully through these deli- cately balanced years? These and other aspects of the teen years will be the topic of a panel discussion at the next PTA meeting to be held on Monday night at 8 p.m. in the Stanley Humphries. Secondary School caf- teria, ;

Panelists will be Rev. F. H. Willey of the United Church, Con- stable E. Proke of the RCMP, ma- gistrate H. C. Pitts, two parents, Mrs. J. 8, Scott and Robert Hunter, school counsellor Jim Crawford, | ==, and two students, Jeff Banigan and | mill

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And so the legislative wheels are set in motion on opening day. In the legislative chambers the VIPs sit cheek by jowl, almost in each others’ pockets, everyone hob- nobbing away as they await the performance, they al! in their best bibs-and-tuckers, come hither to these marble halls to see and be seen and counted among the so- cially elite and the politically im- portant.

Then off all go in regular football rush to the Empress Hotel for the Premier’s handshake at the monster government reception, for which the public pays. How- ever, the cost isn’t too great, since no booze is ‘served, the Premier being strictly teetotal. The exact

Appears Obvious Typhoid Case Bid , Not Start Locally

It “now appears obvious” that the case of typhoid in Castlegar in December was brought into the country by the immigrant youth who‘contacted it, medical health officer Dr. James McAn-

week,

However, noted ihe MHO, the youth is a carrier and will be restricted to employment where he will not.be handling food and allied occupations such as milk handling, (2. ov i

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