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Establisheq 1921 Clive Stangoe, Editor
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X-ray Surveys Help

In a recent inforniative article on tuberculosis, Dr. G. J.
Wherrett expessed the opinion that the 20th century might
be destined to mark the final defeat of TB.

Since 1900 the death rate has declined steadily and dur-

ing the past 10 years the rate of decline in Canada has been
unprecedented -- from 51.5 per 100,000 in 1942 to 17.1 in 1952.

Three things have contributed to this advance. Earlier
diagnosis, made possible by more full time clinics and mass
surveys, bringing thousands of patients into sanatoriums when
chances of recovery were at the maximum; more sanatorium
accommodation; improvements in treatment, strikingly
evidenced by new drugs and advances in surgery.

Despite these advances, however, tuberculosis is still a

major cause of death. In Canada last year 2,457 people died
of TB, and 18,000 were in hospital.

Taken as a community, we in Williams Lake cannot do
much to help in providing more beds if they were needed for
the treatment of patients, we certainly cannot help in finding
new drugs, but we can take an active part in the work leading
to early diagnosis,

Next week the mobile X-ray unit is coming. to town for
two days to check on all those over 16 years of age who are
willing to spend the few minutes necessary to walk down to
the Elks Hall and step in front of the X-ray machine.

Naturally the maximum benefits of these mass surveys
is obtained it everybody takes part. If, for example, four mem-
bers of five ina family get their chests X-rayed, that family is
20 per cent short of giving full co-operation to tuberculosis
prevention. If the missing person is a parent or grandparent,
the figure is much higher, for the likelihood of an adult having
tuberculosis is at least ten times that of a child.

Let’s do our part in making that hope for the defeat of
this disease in the 20th century a reality.

The Careless Cause Fires

This is Fire Prevention Week.

What that sentence means to those reading it, depends
entirely upon themselves. If it serves to jog you into a mental
awareness that there are conditions around your home or place
of business that could be termed fire hazards and should be
remedied, then the sentence and all it means to those entrusted
‘with our fire protection is worth printing.

If it reminds you that you are probably on occasion care-
Jess in fire prevention habits, so much the better. Human care-
Jessness is responsible for most of our fires, avd those are the
ones to whom fire prevention week is a fai ure. There are
something like 60,000 fires amnually in Can aand in 1952
for example, smokers carelesses and matches ¥aused approx:
mately 40 per cent of them. .

In public places safety rules are enforced by law, but you
and I alone have the authority to- enforce safe living in our
homes. Only if it inspires us to do that the year round is fire
brevention week a success.

What Story Is Correct?

An iteresting look at hospital survey work was recently
given in an editorial in the Langley Advance. Wrote the
Advance: “‘One of the good-points about Tom Irwin, M.L.A. for
Delta, is that he has a mind of his own and is not afraid to use
it’in the interests of the people who elected him. He recently
criticized the Provincial Government, of which he is a member,
for its failure to release findings of a survey on the hospital
situation in the Fraser Valley. The survey was completed in
December of last year and was intended to show where hospital
expansion should be made. Mr, Irwin was quoted as saying ‘It
it takes 10 months to make these result known we would be
better off without it. These frustrated hospital boards have
waited long enough.’ ”

These remarks on the Fraser Valley survey are interesting
locally since the British Columbia Hospital Insurance Service
has used this same survey as a reason for keeping the War
Memorial Hospital Board in a ‘frustrated’ condition since last
spring. Mr. Irwin says the survey was completed in December,
1953, but up until July, 1954, B.C.H‘LS. officials told local
board members they could not study our _accommodation
problem because the Fraser Valley survey Was still being
conducted.

Which story is correct?

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A little while ago one of the boys
Was notified he must present himself
at the local Court House to undergo
a test in connection with his drivers’
licence. At our last hold-forth he ro-
galed us with a few highlights of the
trip. 3
Betore commenting upon his ob-
servations we wish to emphasize the

act we have considerable respect for

our public servants most of whom
are conscientiously doing as good a
job as they possibly can, hampered:
as they frequently are, by red tape,
political wire-pulling and a not al-
ways co-operative public. Upon rare
eccasions, however, we run into the
individual who thinks a government
appointment automatically confers
upon him the title of Mr. God along
with the privilege of being abomin-
ably rude to we less favoured un-
fortunates.

Such a person
seems to’ have
formed a part of
the group detail-
ed to conduct the
recent drivers’ li-
cence tests. He in-
formed one man
he felt like throw-
ing his licence out
of the window

just for the pleasure of seeing him|

go down to pick it up and carry it
back upstairs. To another quite ob-
viously not of Anglo-Saxon origin
and who was experiencing some diffi-
culty reading and answering the
questions set forth in the oral partion
of the test this pseudo diety said
“Where do you think you are now?
Snap out of it, man, and answer the

questions; you're not in Czechoslo-
vakia now.”
Another person who performed

the entire driving test faultlessly was
given a restricted licence for not
pausing long enough at an inter-
section. Atfer having read so much
about the menace slow-poke drivers
are under modern traffic conditions
it seems somewhat of a contradiction
to penalize those whose reflexes are
so responsive as not to require half
the day in which to size up the traffic
situation immediately around them.
We do not advocate a policy of
physical violence in dealing with such
flagrant abuses of authority but of-
tentimes we are really astounded by

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uccepted from these misfits in the “2 Pech cae
public employ. Either of the victims ANAL RELA

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referred to could quite easily, have aR
busted this chap’s nose. One could

even have tossed “him” out of the alte

window for the sheer delight of see- ARIBES oF ME Sout
ing him pick himself up and limp SEAS WEAR BRAIDS
his way up the hill to the local bone Bihan one

clinic. Both would have heen fully
justifiied in being violent and abus-
ive. It is to their credit they remained
calm.

There seems little reason to doubt
the man suffers periodically from
severe bilious attacks one of which
was rampant while at Williams Lake. NG
We suggest that in future whenever
he feels one of those rounds coming
on he retire to his hotel room where
he can get the bile off his stomach in
dignified solitude; otherwise, some
inconsiderate person may report him,
and his malady be overlooked in the

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furore. In any case, we fee)
both the taxpayers and his long-
suffering victims would much rather
pay his salary while undergoing a
restrained convalescence than while
enduring his rudeness as he albours
through a slower and much more
painful public recovery.

Smiles .

Things have a way of working out
for the best. Other people's troubles
are never as bad as ours, but their
children are always a whole lot Worge.

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Many a man would reach greater
height if he had more depth.

One of the tempering influences in
resisting temptation is that it may
never come again.

A crank is usually one who is ~
romething of an expert on a subject
in which you are not interested.

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Leo Fowler Lakeside

Sete ero
Total net general expenditure of
Canada’s 10 provincial governments

increased 40 percent from $867,000,-
000 in 1949 \to $1,233,000,000 in
1952. The figures do not include debt
retirement.

EDWARD M. TAKAHASHI

OPTOMETRIST

At the end of 1953 the Federal
government had 40,000.000 pounds
of butter stockpiled as a result of
price-support operations.

will be at the

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From the’ File¢

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of the Tribune || » Wednesday, October 20th

ONE YEAR AGO
October 8, 1953
Cariboo Cattlemen’s Association
stockyards bulging this morning with
2440 head contributed in the com-
mercial classes of the sale, up 590
over last year. Alkali Lake takes four
firsts in commercial classes. Len
Wood's Elwood Royal Ticaldo named
Grand Champion bull of show—
Hunting trip for a Merritt family in
the Horsefly area ends in tragedy
with the accidental death of Mrs.
G. Woodford— Funeral service held
for Fred Herbert Wheatley, resident
of Miocene for 21 years— Verdict of
accidental death returned by jury in-
quiring into the highway death of
Francis Tresierra— Veteran skip
Tony Woodland picks rink for entry
in British Empire Games bonspiel—
Gordon Sellars, member of St Jo-
seph’s Mission Calf Club, took the
majority of awards in junior com-
petition at the Cattle Show—
FIVE YEARS AGO
October 6, 1949
In recognition of his assistance,
ranchers of 150 Mile Livestock As-
sociation have presented Game War-
den Leo Jolin with two specimen
cases for his wildlife collection. Mr.
Jobin killed three wolves that had
destroyed a number of livestock
First barred owl to be taken in Brit-
ish Columbia shot at Likely by Bud
Morgan— Raising of rafters started
this week on th new Catholic Parish
Hall. The stricture faces the pres-
ently non-existent Fourth Avenue—
Suicide of Oscar Oberg, 67 year old
resident of Cariboo, discovered by
B.C. Police constables—
TEN YEARS AGO
October 5, 1944
Louis LeBourdais, MLA for the
district, states government has larg-
est road program laid out ever con-
ceived in history of province. Plan

includes reconstruction
ing of Carihoo High :
tension into Peace River country—
10,000 head of cattle yet to be sold
in Cariboo and at usual selling date
last week there were no buy.
sight. Situation has d

Cariboo Cattlemen’s Association wor-
rieé about outcome of 12th annual
sale—
TWENTY YEARS AGO
October 4, 1934

One ofthe largest meetings of the
Board of Tade held to discuss road
problems. President Roderick Mac-

kenzie urges the board to stress im- from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

portance of the completion of the
Soda Creek road, which would short-
en the distance to Quesnel— Chil-
cotin mourns the passing of another
of its old-timers in the death of H.

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