Thursday, June St. 1951, THE TRIBUNE, WILLE S LARB, E.@. Page & Rocky Point To Be By-Passed Asheroft — Rocky Point on the Trans-Canada Highway between Spences Bridge and Ashcroft Manor will be a thing of the past in the near future. A new survey for the Trans-Canada Highway, about seven miles long, will by-pass this section of the old road. announcing a change in policy Our Market will be closed from June 25th We will be re-opening on July 12 as the CARIBOO CUT-RATE MEAT MARKET Instead the right-of-way will climb up and around to Venables Valley — historic in past years — and then go down to meet the highway at or near Oregon Jack Creck, another historic stopping place for the teamsters- Rock Point is extremely, narnow. Although only a few hundred yards long and dangerous to traffic, it has been used since early Cariboo freight- ing days, when teamsters with eight horses and two or three wagons, ne- ligetiated it, to July 12th watch for our week-end bargains in Govt. Inspected, Fresh-Killed Meats, smoked meats, etc., and a complete Delicatessen Counter We apologize for any inconvenience our temporary elosing may put our customers to, but for the past five years we have done relief so that we could take a holiday, but without - Again, our sincere apologies for the tem- success. porary inconvenience. advts. in the ‘‘Tribune”’ for everything possible to get C. H. Poston. Letter to the Editor Thurs., June 14, 1951. Dear Editor The Tribune, I have just finished reading “over- taxed’s” letter and though he (or-siie) brings out many sore points I'm afraid this person has not made a very good investigation for facts. It is entirely wrong to say that children up to grade four have no solid grounding in arithmetic tables, ete. I have found it quite the opposite. T have a son in grade 6 and a daughter in grade 2 and I have found that they are learning reading, writing spelling and arithme- | tic and such courses as science, social studies as much as three years earlier than we did just 15-20 years ago. Chil- ren seldom learned to read a book in grade one — now they go through several in their first term. Then in grade 2 they learn to write (they learn- ed to print well in grade one — and to count and do small arithmetic OLD RYE WHISHY | This advertisement is not published ot displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Colum problems). In grade 2 they do simple fractions, adding and subtracting — in fact much that I remember learning in grade three — in a large city school. Myson, in the higher grade enjoys greater facilities for science right now in grade 6 than we did in 7 and 8 — of course these last two grades I finished, along with my 9th, in a little one- room rural — and I do mean rural, school, where no matter how ‘good our teacher was there was just nothing to work with along that line. No plumbing facilities either’ -- water in a pail from a nearby creek — often filmed with tree pollen and tasting “weedy” — heated by one old drum type wood heater. For the privi- lege of this’ education we had to walk, in all weather, 31% miles to school. There was no such thing as a bus — and we started out well over an hour earlier in the summer to reach school by*9 am, —in the winter we left home in the dark and arrived back by dark. — from 7 a.m, till 6 p.m. — and no- plowed roads either. I am very happy that my children, and thoso of my former classmates who still call the Cariboo home, will not have to get their education under such con- ditions. The more we can do to enhance the education of our youngsters, the more we should do — they will build or destroy our Canada of tomorrow — depending on how we have trained their minds. Young people, now are holding responsible positions which just a few years ago could only be held by men or women a good ten years their senior. As for the dormitory — I hope sin- cerg)y that we get it.as it will mean that at least fifty percent more good grade students will be able to carry on their education instead of, through lack of finances, having to “go hay- BULLETIN No. 3 or doing housework, Many a cherished dream of an ar- dent grade ger is blighted because the high school is too far away from the home ranch and the folks just can’t afford to “board out” their young hopeful. Besides — doing their own work in the “dorms” and work- ing with all classes of other high- schoolers it will teach these young people true Democrocy and tolerance which is often denied students in smaller communities. All this is not idle speculation -- these observa- tions are my own — made over a period of years when I was faced by these self-same problems. I guess we all feel badly about the lack of basement space for the chil- dren — still it’s a great improvement over the ane room rural school...We4 would have had them if the first by- law had asked a larger amount to cover the rise in ‘cost of materials, ete. We must finish that which. we all agreed to start — if we started to build a house costing $6000 and after geting the basement in found that the amount would only cover about the ground floor — surely we would not be satised to force a rapidly growing family to dwell in an overcrowded, unfinished two-storey home. No. We would borrow money somehow to nish the house. So it is with our school. My boy has spent four of his [Church Notices| ST. ANDREW'S UNITED 11 am. Sunday Schoo! 7:30 p.m. Evening Service. no ST. PETER’S ANGLICA 11 a.m.-Sunday School 7:30 p.m. Evenson. aes SACRED HEART Sunday Mass 9:00 am. Sunday Devotions school years in a room in the old school and now my daughter must be denied the use of a- basement in the new school — all because of a crying need for more space; surely in the face of all this no one can hon- estly, and with a clear conscience on his duty to the future Canadians — no one can vote against the by-law. We are not as yet entitled to a vote on that which is so close.to our hearts, but God Willing we will soon be able to build our home in our beloved Cariboo, which we believe truly to be the Land of opportunity and the finest place on earth to raise a family. Come on, folks, we who have the well earned reputation of helping all should surely be ready to help our own. We in B.C. have the finest education system in all Canada — we must work to keep it so. > Sincerely, yours for the future, Lilian Deschene, (Another Caribooite) In 50 years of operation North Am- erican railroads have cut fatal rail accidents by 56 per cent. Coast to coast, one of Cenade s finest London Dry Gins at a popular price. advertisement is hed on disleved by the Liquor roe Board or THE ATTACK The word “attack” may fill some of us with apprehension. But the word ‘defence’ ... modern defence ... is ene that when properly understood can dispel fear and instill reassurance. Many lurid stories of destruction are exaggerated but they have their origin in truth. Modern defence is understanding what may happen and knowing how to fight back. weapons which might be used against us. An Any defence must take into account all the various methcds and attack with explcsive and incendiaries would produce: Blast... Splinters ... Shock... 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