TEH TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LARH, B.é.

Thureday, Becember 84, 1959

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Williams Lake Tribune
Established 193) Clive Stangoe, Editor

Keeping Christmas

Tomorrow. is Christmas Day.

needs to be told about the ‘

should be kept. From our

church the age-old message
part of our life as life itself.

But somewhere along the way we have forgotten how tc

of Christmas has been as much

put our knowledge into practice. We still pass on the story of ‘
still sing the heart warming carols, but the
majority of us do it wifh the feeling that these are forms to go
like filling stockings or put-
ting up the traditional] tree — customs designed principally for

Christmas and we
through around December 25th;

those who still believe in Santa Claus.

We have forgotten that Christmas, the annivé rsary of the

birth of Christ, has a very
sage is the same today as it was that first Christmas, one of hope
understanding and love for
sage that we should carry in
by “keeping Christmas.”
of the year.

The Railroad. Policy

For everyone living in the Central and Northern Interior,

And it should be kept every day

from the Cariboo to the Peace River country, the report of
Premier Bennett’s proposals to the Federal Government made
welcome reading, particularly in regard to the Pacific Great

Eastern Railway.

Since-coming to power, the Social Credit government’s
formal policy on the PGE has been slightly hazy. Individual
members have of course thumped the platform tables and
given orcl support to the theory of expanding our railroad, just
in the manner of politicians of other parties in the past. But
this latest development is soMething else again, Here we have
a4 government committed to a definite policy and attempting
to honestly implement a course of development.

This first move on the part of the Social Credit government
to make the Centra] Interior’s 40-year-old dream become
reality might easily meet with defeat. Ottawa may balk at be-
ing asked to dip into Federal revenue to the tune of some
$150,000,000 as its share of the fi year program. If this
transpires, it has been suggested by observers that the proy-
ince of B-C. will move aggressively to make a deal with U-S.
railway interests that haye become enthusiastic about our
province’s future, x

Although we have been out of touch with him for some
time, it could well be that a great deal of the Social Credit
enthusiasm over the future of our railroad has been worked up
by our own representative and cabinet minister, Ralph Chet-
wynd. We know that in the past Mr. Chetwynd has been an
ardent supporter of the plan for extending the line both north
and south, and as minister of railways he doubtless exerts a
great deal of influence in government policy in this regard.

‘Whatever means are used towards the end, we hope the
government will have every success in their Plans for the
Pacific Great Eastern,

Two ane Two Make Four

Few people in Saskatchewan were either pleased, or sur-
prised, when the hospitalization tax was boosted for the second
time since the inauguration of that province’s hospital plap
This time the jump was 50 percent, to bring the annual indi-
vidual rate to three times what it was to begin with, The
Estevan Mercury reports.

Yet there will be no general storm of protest, the paper
says, for people of Saskatchewan have accepted the hospital
services plan as worthwhile. There is proof forthcoming that
‘costs of operating it have increased to the extent that the higher
tax is justified, The Mercury declares,

What is of interest to people in other provinces is simply
the fact that governments, no matter what their political com-
plexion, cannot seem to escape the laws ef economics, Hospital
Plans, perhaps more than anything else, have a way of high
lighting the fact.

Neither the Socialists in Saskatchewan nor the Socreds in
British Columbia have been able to find any easy way out of
the hositalization cost problem.

Even a politician cannot make two and two equal five. No
matter how you try to disguise the fact, the public cannat es-
cape the necessity of paying the bills for such welfare schemes.
That is why the politician who promises to make a service free,
or even unduly easy to pay for, is either fooling himself or
trying to fool the public.--Abbotsford-Sumas-Matsqui News.

There isn’t one of us whe |
why’” vf Christmas or how it
earliest memories of home ana

real message for all of us. The mes-

our fellow men, That is the mes- :
our hearts, that is what is meant be l

The Cracker Barrel Forum

By A. J. Drinkell

Our last talk-fest of the year proy
ed a somewhat ragged affair. Some
were inclined to hold a post-mortem
upon the events of the dying year
while others seemed inclined to con-
ture regarding what lies ahead in
54. Really there is not much to be
guined by too much looking back,
but we couldn't resist a resume of

Perhaps the most important event
of the year was the cease-fire order
in Korea. We hear a great deal about
the United Nations doing nothing but
taik, and that may appear to be the
case. Nevertheless, talk i8 a much
more expendable commodity than
human life and if wé must keep talk
ing to avoid more shooting then we
should encourage the United Nations

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to enlist the services of every .\meri-
can senator. They are so adept at the
art of filibustering. :

The year now closing has not been
too good for certain branches of ag
riculture and some other industries,
in fact we may safely sav it has, been
bad. Just how bad may not be fully
revealed until well into the coming
year.-By and large, however, we feel
the degree of goodness, or badness,
hinges largely upon the present mon-

The teachers’ salary question in
District 27 will go to arbitration it
Was decided following a breakdown
of discussions between representa-
tives of the teaching staff and the
school board— Police state that
Henry Seguin, cut down here in a
un battle last week, is also wanted
in connection with.a murder in On-
second year
the store of Western,
| Rife & Pigeon was awarded the Jay-
; cee challenge plaque for the best
exterior Christmas lighting effect in
the commercial division. The award
for the home division went to Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Kyte— Local busines&man,
Bert Lloyd. revorts that he witness-
ed an appearance of one of those
Mysterious flying saucers at Vander-
| hoof— Sale of the well-known A&P
Ranch on Chimney Creek to R.A.
|“Puage” Moon was compieteie=
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Memorial

ten peréent. pe
;Patenaude, who handled the ‘Grst
telezvaph key at Harper’s Camp (in
1902, lias retired trom the Dominion
| Government service—

FIVE YEARS AGO
December

A crowd estimated at. more than
400 packed the Elks ‘Hall to enjoy
| the annual sehoor concett— Ti a let-
ter to W. H. Edmunds, president iof
the On To The Peace -Association,
Premier Byron Johnson stated that
the B.C. Government has not as yut
received any bona fide offers toward
the purchase of the PGE— The vil-
lage of Williams Lake received
$1,950.36 as its Share of the receipts
from the three percent sales tax—
Dr. I. M. Cowan, consulting scientist
to the provincial game commission,
who has made a study of the situa-
tion in Cariboo, stated that ranchers
need vigorous and immediate protec-
tion from predatory animals, with
efforts first concentrated on wol
— Pioneers of Ashcroft, Mr. and Mrs.

WISHES

~ A wealth of health, happiness
nd contentment are our wishes for
all our friends and

acighbers on this most joyous holiday.

Central Service

Paint must be a “good preserva-
tive .. . judging by how women are
| outlasting men.

i Best way to tell you've reached
, middle age is when your wife tells
| you to pull in your stomach and you

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| already have.

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INTERIOR WHOLESALE
DISTRIBUTORS
Williams Lake, B.C.

jR- D. Cumming,- celebrated their
Golden Wedding— Otto Baer. long-
time resident of Likely, passed away
|at War Memorial Hospital, and the
| death also ocurred of Andrew Car-
| nigie ot Forest Grove—
TEN YEARS AGO
No issue of The Tribune this week.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
December 28, 1933
Five hundred people assemblea

in} at a Community Tree concert spon-

sored by the United, Anglican and
Catholic churches and the ° Elks
Ledge— Jean Elizabeth Rankin of
Soda Creek was united in marriage
to William Gordon Roberts of Bar-
kerville— Charlie Norquay was the
lucky winner of a heifer raffled by
the Community Welfare Fund—
Clifford Eagle “was elected manager
at a meeting held to reorganize the
hockey team— James Slee uf Riske
Creek died suddenly— Sheriff of the
Cariboo County is M. C. Wiggins,

“and Deputy Sheriff is J. R. femilton- 5

etary well-being of the individual
hence our reluctance to dweil too
long in the past. We much prefer to
move ahead into the future with vi-
sion undimmed and confidence un-
shaken. We may experience a little
tightening of the belt during the
months ahead but we Canadians have
little fear if we keep our minds away
from needless forebodings and at-
tend more strictly to business.
OWN APATHY

Right now we arg victims of our
own apathy. We have unlimited re-
sources; the eyes of the world are
focussed our way in ever increasing
intensity; we have what other
countries need; we have it in abund-
ance. Many need it desperately. Uur
concern is to make it possible for
them to acquire it. It is no small
chore but one we must tackle with
a will to succeed. Our abundance of
foodstuffs would then prove a bless.
ing indeed instead of being a cause
for anxiety as at present.

Most economists pooh-pooh the
idea of any deep depression. A few
are sounding a mild warning. Should
ihe unexpected happen and the pres-

sincere wiehes for all our friends who have made

this Christmas such a wonderful one for us.

Cariboo Home Furnishings

May, you find good cheer, peace and

happiness at Christmas time. These are our

ent period of readjustment gain too
nuch momentum we can be assuren
the various levels’ of government
will not sit idly by waiting for dis-
aster to ovetake us. They +21 not
long be our governments if t” ey do.
The temper of the people today would
never tolerate. the ineptituce that
characterized the authorities during
the last depression.

There is much evidence ‘his fact
‘as finally dawned upon our ‘op level
Politicians. Mr. Gardiner p>rsonally
‘lew to Rome to place the r~gency of
our surplus food supplies hefore the
Tnited Nation Food and / griculture
Organization. Wit what success, is
tor future revelation. Even Mr.
Howe, that master optimist, is slowly
climbing from his lofty pedestal and
speaking with added caution with
each public utterance. The urgency
being given the St. Lawrence Seaway
and other developments may be re-
garded as good omen. -

AWARENESS IN B.C.

In B.C. our government with all
its faults, real and imagined, shows
signs of the awareness of the need

}to be prepared to proceed with local

developments. They presented a gooa
case to the authorities at Ottawa de-
spite the contrary opinions ef; the
cynics. True enough, no red carpet
was spread out to keep their brogans
clean, which is one of the unfortun-
ate faces of our political set-up. The
party in power at Ottawa feels it in-
cumbent upon itself to refuse assist-
ance to any provincial government
not of its own political stripe, and at
all levels of government a constitu-
ency represented by one outside the
ruling clique virtually is without rep-
resentation of any kind. That is
wrong — grievously wrong. It is one
angle of our form of government
which everyone should strive to have
eliminated. Any member, or sub-
ordinate authority, is the duly elect-
ed choice of their district whether
the party in power likes it or not,
They should be made to like it hy
pressure of public opinion upon each
and every sign of discrimination.

Probably what is most needed in
the months to come is faith in our
selves and the ability to keep our
eyes constantly trained upon our ul-
timate destiny. We have practically
everything else,

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