Thursday, February 5, 1953. THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. = Page 5 Funeral Service Held For P.G.E. Conductor Funeral services. for Richard H. Corkhum, 53, PGE Railway Conduc- tor who died suddenly January 16, was held January 20, in the Lillooet United Church with the Rev. Finlay of Ashcroft conducting the service. The deceased, who was widely and favourably known to travellers and those resident in towns along tne PGE right of way, had been with the PGE for 30 years, during the last 12 of which he served as a. conductor. Mr. Corkhum, known to his legion of friends as “Dick,” had a slight heart attack a few days before his} passing and had been Staying close to home. = He is survived by his widow Louise Marie; a niece, Mrs. Russel Philip in New Westminster, a brother, Murray, and three sisters, Blaine, Helen and Lottie; and a sister-in-law, Jean Corkhum, all of Chester, Nova Scotia. Following the Lillooet service, che body was sent to Vancouver, where last rites were held January 21 at the Crematorium Chapel under the auspices of Mount Garibaldi Lodge. A.F.& A.M., of Squamish. Kamloops Sets Dates Of Annual Spring Show The Provincial Bull Sale and Fat Stock Show will be held in Kamloops on March 10, 11 and.12. J. EB. Fry, secretary of the B.C. Beef Cattle Growers’ Association said entries for the 35th annual rshow and sale are already larger than for the 1952 event. With the United States’ embargo against Canadian cattle due to be lifted March 1, American buyers are expected to re-appear. A chance of a lifetime . 20% Off on these Floor Models Electric Washing Machines THOR TURB-O-ROLL SIMPLICITY Gas Washing Machine SIMPLICITY COOLERATOR REFRIGERATOR 9 cu. ft. model that have been used as floor models Lake Hardware & Plumbing in these new machines The Cracker Barrel Forum By A. J. Drinkell This week the boys took cogniz- ance of the multitude of words pres- ently being written upon the subject of food production and distribution. Needless to say they emerged more bewildered than ever because it all} seems so contratictory. On the one hand we are told one half the world is on the yerge of starvation, that this food skortage will become more acute as time goes on, and much more along the same lines. Farmers are urged to produce more and still more food in order to avert the dis- aster we are heading into. Farm papers and organizations, on the other hand ask what sense is there in producing more when they cannot profitably dispose of present production. Many feel they should curtail production to avert financial) ruin to themselves. Uncle St. Laurent informs his fellow Canadians we must have expanded world trade, particularly for our primary pro- duets, to ensure a healthy economy and yet, in the next breath, he tacitly admits his government can do very little to even help our farmers regain lost European markets. The United Nations Food Organiz- ation has just issued its second report and in it advises governments to stress the necessity of producing more on the acreage already under tillage rather than concentrate upon new development projects for which capital may not be readily available. This emphasis is advocated as a short term policy to speed up the much needed additional production. De- velopment projects should be the long term objective. The boys may be pardoned for remarking they ex- pressed that view point many months ago in this column — Remember? 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For full information apply right away or write fo: No. 11 Personnel Dépot, West 3rd Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. AB40W-BE Jointhe CANADIAN ARMY ACTIVE FORCE Now// WHITHER THE SURPLUS The same report however appears to embody no concrete proposals for facilitating the distribution of food surpluses now existing in some coun- trie’, of which Canada is one. The Western Producer may have come close to the reason why no solution of this vexing problem has been reached when, in effect, it stat- ed that those in position to effect a solution appear to lack guts to do the job. It may be argued the system of currency controls exercised by the international financiers, is a hard nut to crack but now we have a World Bank there appears no valid yeason why we should not have a world currency unit into which all national currencies could be readily converted, at fixed values, for the ‘purposes of international trade. Of course, we are not financiers, but we do know that if an owes his grocer a bill which for one of many reasons he is unable to meet on due date but is willing and able to pay cash for subsequent payments until the old debt can be retired, his grocer will not tell him he is only ab!e to accept his dollars at forty cents each because of the outstanding iu- debtedness. That grocer would quick- ly be labeled as a fit subject for Es- sondale if he tried it, yet that seems to be what is done with debtor ne- tions. Instead of imposing bona-fide credit restrictions they discount their monetary units thus making it in- creasingly difficult for them to re- main in business and almost impos- sible to repay their indebtedness. It is found to be more profitable for the “money bags” to underwrite a whop- ping credit in terms of the reduced currency values, Then follows a series of intricate market manipulations always favouring the boys who are not even required to display the sign of the three balls. We are told this is a situation which will not be reme- died until the farmers and taxpayers in the countries affected give more adequate financial support to those organizations able to bring the pres- sure to get rid of this and other in- insidious trade restrictions. We would point out that in this abun- dance of verbiage one vital appears to receive no mention, name- ly, the United States, which has rown into the world’s’ leading na- jon, 8 its largest free trading unit. Canada is forging rapidly ahead along the same lines. Free Trade built the British Empire. Why then can we not successfully apply the same prin- ciples internationally in a world that is constantly growing more closely knit? Less Cattle Being Readied For Spring Market In Canada It is the view of the Council of Canadian Beef Producers, Western Section, that the number of cattle being fattened for spring market is smaller than in the winter of 1951- 52. . ‘The United States is reporting 16 % more cattle on feed than in the pre- vious year and the largest number on record. Bastern Canada has rough- ly the same number of feeders as in other recent years but the western provinces will probably have 10% fewer grain-finished cattle to go to market this spring than was the case in 1952. Although it is difficult to estimate the number of farm raised cattle that were retained on farms, as a result of Federal policy, to be winter fatten- ed, figures are available to show the movement of feeder cattle from pub- lie stockyards and packing plants to country points and from country points in one province to country points in another. For the four west- ern provinces, the total for such feed- ers up to December 20, 1952, was $9,163 head compared with 124,797 for the same period in 1951. With serious losses from feeding operations in 1951-52 cattlemen in the important feeding areas such as Lethbridge, approached the current season with special caution and are known to be carrying smaller stock. From a number of estimates, it seems that the total of cattle heing grain- fed in Alberta for the current year down about 20%. There is no evidence of substantial change in feeding cattle numbers in British Columbia and Manitoba, but from the central section of Saskat- chewan, there is evidence of a major decline in grain feeding estimated at 25%. Notwithstanding the abundance of feed across the West, there is no rea- son to expect unusually heavy deliver- ies of grain-fed cattle in the spring months, individual | factor | —Central Press Canadian Chief Mathias Joe of the Capilano Indians in British Columbia has ap invitation to attend the coronation and he intends to go, He'll go if he has to paddle a war canoe across the Atlantic, SPEECH FROM THRONE Foremost among the measures to be brought before the Legislature by the Social Credit Government will be legislation to encourage the develop: ment and expansion of the natural resources of the province and to ex- pand the program of the building of highways without increasing the net debt of fhe province, Lieutenant- Governor Clarence Wallace, C.B., stated in his Speech from the Throne Tuesday as the first session of the twenty-third parliament of the prov: ince of British Columbia opened. The throne speech did not enlarge ‘on the development measures to be considered in the expansion of natur- al resources, but in regard to the highway program the Lieutenant- LEGISLATURE TO CONSIDER LARGE PROGRAM OF HIGHWAY EXPANSION Accident Victims Were Well Known Locally The death early last week of Burt and Howard Evans, Washington ranchers who were killed in the crash of their light plane, occasioned a sense of loss among many ranchers in the Cariboo who knew the men. The brothers were killed when their plane struck a power line and crashed. They operated ranches near Omak and a great deal of the stock that was shipped from here by R. E. Neil, went through their sale ring < Okanagan, Wash. Both men were :~ Williams Lake at the time of the i vernor Said the Legisle woul be asked for appropriate funds for the work, amounting to twenty-two million dollars. Other legislation to be considered will be: Amendments to the Social Security and Municipal Aid Tax Act to include further exemption on meals. Provision to lighten the cost of education and the setting up of an assessment commission to establish equalized assessment values for school purposes throughout the prov- ince. A program of improvements and reform of provincial correctional and penal institutions. As a result of the findings of the Liquor Enquiry Commission “rem- edial” measures will be introducea for consideration of the legislature Setting up of two committees, one to consider the Buttle Lake power situ- ation and the other to inquire into the development of the Columbia River Basin. Presentation of legisla- tion contributing to the solution of the Doukhobor problem. Setting up of a committee to study the possibility of a redistribution of the seats for the legislature. 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