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CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, March 3, 1960

CASTLEGAR NEWS

Published Every Thursday At “THE CROSSROADS OF THE KOQOTENAYS” Castlegar, B.C.

Alternate Landing Field Suggested For Grand Forks

Columbia Power ‘Fast as Possible’

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CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, March 3, 1960

Time is Running Out For a Second Ferry

Time is quickly running out, as was noted at a recent Chamber of Commerce meeting, for the installation of a wharf and piers for a second ferry at Castlegar.

The Columbia river will soon begin its yearly climb to high water levels and it'll be impossible to do the necessary’ wharf work for this year’s heavy tourist traffic, Also, the old: ferry at Nel- son has to be dismantled, brought over here, and then reconstructed. All this takes time.

Several months ago we urged Highways Mir- ister Gaglardi to move fast on this problem. We pointed out that long line-ups are still a common sight at the ferry and that the situation will get worse before it gets better. Last summer line-ups of 90 cars or more, lasting several hours, were a common sight as local residents and tourists wait- ed to get on the 28-car ferry,

‘Traffic figures for the Castlegar ferry during the past few months bear out the need for a se-

Strachan’s Pol

payola—the kind that pays off at the ballot box.

Mr. Strachan’s high-minded scorn at the idea

of business and industry financially supporting

the parties of their choice hardly seems consis-

* tent with the CCF’s right-about-turn on the is-

sue ‘of the government's increase of the home- owners grant from $28 to $50.

A week ago Mr. Strachan took a strong

stand against the increase in the grant and said

that his party, if it were in power, would abo-

NO TIME

Won't you read me a book Or tell me a story—" Teach me a little rhyme? I'd like to my dean,

But I'm very sorry—

I just’ haven't got the time.

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cond ferry, In September car traffic was up 7,000 cars over the same month of the previous year, in October it was up 9,402 cars, in November it was up 6,006, in. December it was up 5.435 cars and figures released last week show car traffic was up 6,081 last month over January of 1959.

At the same time, traffic, figures for such other categories as number of passengers and number of trucks carried are also up every mon- th.

The cost of building the proper

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here for the second ferry and the cost of dismant- sing and reconstructing the Nelson ferry will be considerable, but if a bridge crossing the Colum- bia near Kinnaird is still a number of years. off then money should be spent on the second ferry.

And it should be spent fast, before another chao-'

tic summer is our lot at the ferry when the tour- ist season begins.

itical Payola

services, Last Friday Mr. Strachan, after a CCF party

caucus, announced that a CCF government would yun into millions of dollars a year in many states.

not revoke the bonus. In other words the social-

It is plain that Mr. Strachan and his follow- ers have been trapped in a highly embarrassing

- situation engineered by a master strategist — one

W. A. C. Bennett — and that they are, striving to without mor-

tal damage.

In this we cannot blame them, They are in business, political business, and are as vulnerable to political expediency as the next fellow. A pol- itical party that can’t marshal support cannot survive,

Strachan can work himself into such a lather over one ‘kind of “political payola’ when knows that his profession demands that the em-

ie vince from an

Won't you take me out fishing, Or play pail with me,

Show me a trec I can climb? Find something to do

And don’t bother me!

Can't you see I haven't the time!

But when you get older

And stay close to home more, What are you going to do?

When the now grown-up children You never had time for,

Don't have any, time for you.

— Margaret Obedkoft

VIEWPOINT. CORNER

‘brace’ an equally virulent variant of the same

thing.

Political parties exist and survive om two

things—money (enough to finance

Crime and Litter

A punishment to fit the crime has been devised for highway litterbugs, by Judge G. J. Smith, of the Cass County, Mo., magis- trate’s\court. He sentences the offender to clean up about a mile of right of way under the watchful eye of a state policeman.

Gathering up the the bushels of beer. cans, bottles, paper empty clgarette packages and other assorted trash strewn along the highways is calculated to be a sure cure for the habit, “And witnessing such a detail of kitchen police also has a lish the grants and divert the money to social restraining effect on other potential trash tossers,. Besides, it saves the taxpayers money that- would otherwise have to be spent in

cartons,

up the The

More and more states are adopting laws making it-a mis- demeanor to throw trash on. the highways, Perhaps the kind of penalty ‘meted out by the Missouri magistrate is r@eded to make these laws really effective. — Editorial fn ‘The Saturday Evening

Post. é

Electrical Asset Low cost electricity is one of the greatest natural assets in Ontario, declares the Wingham, (Unt.) Advance-Times. “It has, What we do think rather odd is that Mr. more than any other tactor, led to the transformation of this pra- to an ii eg

for this ry work.

PS rane - To Insure your Dependents NOW .and

and

other costs) and votes (enough to keep a party somewhere in the running). +

Pretending to ignore one and paying tribute to the other makes a party look a little like the

Pro-

vince

whited =

CCF leader Robert Strachan, who recently derided private contributions to political parties

as “political payola,” his party is vulnerable to another kind of political

has mow. tacitly admitted’

Progress on the] Arrow Lakes

Numerous letters and arti- cles have appeared in the press lately as to why the High Ar- -row dam should not be built, “put as far as I cam see no real

* reason has been advanced,

' Is the Arrow, Lakes valley progressing or going -back should be the basis for our con- sideration, so let’s check a few facts.

‘About 50° years ago there was a daily boat service both ways on the Arrow Lakes; this was reduced to one boat daily one way, then again reduced ‘to three boats per week and now no boat service between Edge- wood and Nakusp and only a makeshift service from Edge- wood to Robsor. .

Both that service. and the _ one from Nakusp to Arrowhead

+ and Trail but now

Burton’ and” other ‘lake settie- ments rather than being ship- ped out.

Carleads of hay and vege- tables were shipped to Nelson

in’ giving us a bigger payroll and helping the unemployment situation, so why try to keep it out by objecting to the high le- vel dam?

are imported and the hayfields that exist are ‘not even cut in many instances, Poultry and cream are in the same category,

‘so what about the wonderful

farm land that those opposing the High Arrow dam are talk- ing about? What good is It? What is it producing and wiat revenue is there from it? No- thing. -

How about the tourist trada?_ At present most of our roads are not conducive to the American traveller as they are too narrow and crooked, but wher some of these roads ‘are

The given by some of.the people, especially in the Nakusp area, is that ev- eryone on the Arrow Lakes is against the high dam. This is not correct.

Even when a reporter from the Vancouver Province toured the district recently on a ‘‘con- ducted tour” visiting mainly those who were known to op- pose the high dam, her report was ,that.the opinion of the people was about 50-50 for and against its construction.

Personally % have spoken te people from Nakusp, Arrow ‘Park,

are both heavily so it shows that they are not paying from the business that they are getting. Ther there was a. passenger train service from Nakugp to Nelson and one from Arrowhead to Revel- stoke but now they are both discontinued. A daily bus ran from Vernon to. Nakusp but’ now that~has ceased to func- tion, so where is the progress there?

A few years ago all the ranchers along the lake made their living from their ranches but mow most ‘of the places are not producing as their owners nro working in the bush or at the mills,

In the Burton district there used to be about 20 carloads of apples: plus a fair amount of cherries shipped each year but now apples are brought into

ted they will be and straightened and then -we can ask our American friends to visit us.

Boating on a lot of the lake is dangerous at present unless one knows the channel, Sand- ihars and stumps are a danger to fast-moving boats from_.both the danger. of a-puncture ar rudder or propeller trouble, but with. 40 feet of water there

need :be no worries on that ac-_

count. What about ‘revenue to the province and perhaps to this

‘particular district? At present

there is practically mone ex- cepting from the-lumbering and that will. not bé, affected, byt with the payment for the use of the water by our friends to the south plis the amount‘of power that we will be getting back we .can induce industries to come

and I have yet to meet one who is strongly op- posed to the flooding of the val- ley; in fact; ail have suggested ‘that there seems to be no fu- ture for the valley wher the logging is finished and if we have a chance to make use of it now then we: should not miss the opportunity,” .”

‘The old saying holds good

in this case’ as in most others, |-

namely, “The more’ you~ give the more you get back," so the more. storage. we. give our neighbors to the south the more power we will ‘get back and the more. revenue’ we ‘will rective.

So let’s quit playing politics and get on’ with making an agreement on: the matter and get the development of -the mighty Columbia started. — A letter from a’ Burton - resident to the ‘Nelson News,

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’ ‘Canada. ‘is moving” a8 fast'as posible in negotiations with the United States for the _$1,000,600,- 000 C

eral” offer of ‘financial partici- pation which had been made at the last meeting of the policy li- aison. in Ottawa Feb.

Resources ‘Minister Alvin Hamil- tom said Saturday’ night in Vic- toria.

“We cannot move faster than we are moving,” he said. “There are just not enough hours im the day.”

Federal? Justice Minister Da- vie Fulton added that “Z think an agreement with the Amerl- cans is an encouraging possibil-| ity.” But he declined to comment as to how,long it might take to reach an 4nternational settle- ment. .

_.Canada and the U.S, are ne- gotiating om the basis of Canada receiving 50 per cent’ of :the downstream 4 mower beenfits gen- erated in the U.S. from water stored north “ot the border, The next round of negotlations start tomorrw in Washington, D.C,

The two ministers made the comments in interviews follow- ing o day-long meeting of the federal-provincial. Maison com- mittee, which maps policy for’ &| united Canadian‘ stand in negot- jiations “with the U.S,

Asked for details of federal proposals for Mnancing the vast scheme in collaboration with the province, Mr. Fulton pointed toa press release which said among

9- -20, 1960.”

‘Mr. Fulton said details of this proposal have not been made public: but “we have made an of- fer ‘to B.C, and are waiting to see what the province will do.”

Premier Bennett told the B.C. legislature Friday he has not been able to get a flrm com- mitment from Finance Minister Fleming ‘on how far the federal government would go in finan- cing the Columbia Scheme,

It was ike Pp river power development which spurred the United States to ac- tlon on the Columbia river ne- gotiations, Premier Bennett and Lands Minister Ray Williston told the British Columbia legis- lative Friday.

“Kill the Peace, the opposi- tion say,” the Premier declared during a debate on government power policy, “If you do, you will never make a deal on the Columbia river satisfactory | to BC"

Mr, Williston, backing up the premier’s. statements, said when the Columbia was first mooted he was convinnced. that “there ‘would’ neven” be a. Columbia

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Grand Forks could be the future site of an alternate air- fleld for CPA’s regular Iand- ing field at Brilliant,

This stiggestion was made in a letter from the Castlegar airport committee to the Grand Forks city. council. The letter suggesta that with the com- pletion of the Christina Lake- Kinnaird highway, the ,alrfleld at Grand Forks would be a distinct feasibility, eat

The committee's letter nated head heavy fog, conditions dur-

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« By JAMES K. NESBITT

SC MLA’s have a happy, carefree, fooling-themselves fa- culty: of pretending that all in British Columbia was terrible be- fore they, took office in 1952,-

In'fact, to hear SC’ers taik you'd think . British Columbia didn't exist at all prior to 1952 when the Bennett Soclal Credit government was sworn into of- fice, as,;much to the surprise of Mr. Bennett himselt as to any- one else,

Cabinet ministers. when they

aanee make landings hazard-

ous and often Infrequent at the

Castlegar field, but It would be

possible to have a field

Grand Forks where instrument could be

give of their depart- ments, always ‘start at 1952, the inference being. that

this budget — ." ais didn’t say how much!

MLA’s, you see, take the ‘budget for -granted, an accom- plished fact, which-it is — bud- gets bore them,.and so they tolls, or subjects neurest and, dearest their hearts. — which’ can be anything from moongazing and birdwatching to the dangers, to them, of cigarette-smoking and the horrora of fluoridation. Well, after all, a Legisl. ture’s a public forum, and if we read what our MLA’s say, and

study what they say, and form some opinions of our own, and let them know our opinions, we and they car learn a great deal. oe

For two weeks CCFers stood in the legislature and found the 1960 Bennett budget a pretty bad document — full of bribes to the electors, filled with fraudulence.

'Yet Friday they all stood and voted for the budget, which doesn't seem to make much sen- se,

. The Liberals, George Gre-

gory of Victoria and Mel Bryan of North Vancouver were more consistent and voted against the budget,

If they had their way —if a majority had voted sgainst the budget — the government would have had to resign.

Oddly, while CCFers think the government ‘is so terrible it should resign, they voted that it should carry om. Of course, this is one of those where you're damned if you do and damned if you don't,

were not good then, but now, af-

inlter nearly eight years of Social

Credit — well, isn't it wonderful,

The Grand Forks ‘council agreed to the committee's sug- gestion that a meeting be held between the interested parties, to study the matter further.

Some time ago it was sug gested that Grand Forks make representations to the federal government to bulld a new field near the : Boundary city, but’ no. concrete results were, obtained,

Building a new landing field or,. lengthening the present Grand ‘Forks field’ would be necessary if the alternate ficld plan were, put into effect,

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what we have made,

bent fulfilled, what hope there is the future, as long as Social Credit’s in power, of course, which, ‘in the opinion of this col- umn, will be for. a good long spell yet, and everyone might as well get used to it, ‘Typical of this “it-was-ter- rible-before-1952” routine is Alex Matthew, the rotund, very genial ‘| Scots'-tongued SC MLA for Van- couver Centre, who put his ver- sion of Social Credit philosophy this way: “British Columbia did not

‘try our way ‘until 1952, and it

hes had. nothing but progress and development evar since, Af- ter'we took office you could br- gin to hear the merry hum of in- dustry. Previous.to that B.C. had tried the out-moded Model T way of the old-lite parties, and the dismally impotent way of the Coalition, both of which merited the cold, finger of ‘pub-

by across ‘Canada who participated in ‘Hallowe'en for UNICEF,” a substantia! increase over the 1958 total of $135,000,

.In- addition, purchases of UNICEF. cards ‘increased some 50 per cent over the 1958 ‘Seure of $79,000,

‘These totals were announced by. 0 Mrs, Jean Arnold Tory, Na-

Naess Association in committee for UNICEF,

‘result of the success of these two

programs,” commented Mrs, To- TY. piraciminen of additional

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“Thank God, British Colum- bia did not try! the way. of the greatest flop of the century, the way of Socialism, If they had done so, B.C, would have been in a sorry plight,: indeed.” °

for you, isn’t it? — and Mr. Mat- thew, as he spoke in this vein, heard thé jeers of OCF’ers — and they were just whistling in the dark to keep their courage up, the SC’ers .said,. because they're afraid of. Social Credit, that’s what!

Perhaps, we should not ve too critical of SC’ars for talking this bold way;‘if’ they weren't impressed with their’ record, who on earth would be? And, by thus talking, they : set up ‘a’sort. of. bandwagon, and ‘get it.rolling. — and ' the’ public’ dearly loves a bandwagon, ‘and_,,likes' to climb aboard, ‘as: lorg as it’s purring joyfully: along, as Mr. Bennett's government is today.

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low MBA's for making too long- winded’ speeches, on .every, sub- Jeet under. the sun \He didn't Pp quite so bluntly. as this; he said: “It’s supposed to be a bud- get debate — .” And 'th mored the’ budget, , about lands and forests,

Gordon

hear Mr. Willistor give what he

| called -a lecture, ‘and then not,

himself, : analysing the budget. Mr. Williston grinned tHat it’s pretty difficult te analyse the

* | budget, and Mr.. Dowding said it

sure is. However, ‘Mr. Williston,

‘|naturally,.thinks the 1960 budget

a first-class, marvellous budget;

.[Mr.“Dowding ‘is sure it's. mostly

a big hoax, designed to catch votes for: Social’ Credit.

Mw. Dowding dealt with the budget for about five minutes, then, bewildered, threw it into the bucket, saying: “So much for

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