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THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAEE, B.C:

Page 5°

“THIS WEEK

IN OTTAWA”

By H. D, Fulton, M.P.

January 14th, 1956
QUIET
The Session has startec quiet-
ly: that is, without anything un-
expected occurring. This is not
to say there are no problems on
the horizon — or strong feelings
about them — but rather that
the approach to them has been
singularly un-spectacular.
WORK
The Throne Speech in fact
Was a monument of dullness.
Throne Speeches are not usually
brilliant — they are not novels,
or adventures tories, but rather
working forecasts of the Govern-

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“The Paris mobs were very rude
They took my Royal City food !”

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ment’s working program for the
Session. So no one expects them
to sparkle with wit, or bristle
with unexpected surprises. This
one certainly ran true to form.
OMISSION

To read it, one would think
there are no real problems fac-
ing any Canadians at this time.
Certainly no new or challenging
measures were announced to
meet them. There is mention of
the wheat surplus; but no men-
tion of the fact that the markets
for our grain are proving elusive
and unsatisfactory, and that the
marketing system has proven

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| totally inadequate. In fact, all
ptbat is done is to lay the blame
for the situation on a series of
bumper harvests. The only mea-
sures forecast to help have al-
ready been criticized almost uni-
versally outside'the House as not
meeting the situation. And noth-
ing at all is forecast to meet the
situation of other agricultual
producers — of beef, apples,
potatoes and other products —
faced with rising costs and de-
clining prices.
DEPARTURE

Faced with this rather unin-
spiring menu, it has so far prov-
ed difficult to inject much ufe
into the debate. Mr. Drew made
a great effort, and succeded mo-
mentarily. One of his most tell-
ing phrases was when he was
criticizing the Government’s
method of disposal of surplus
Canadian butter at less than cost
to Communist countries instead
of to the Canadian taxpayer who
is paying the shot. He reminded
the House of the slogan used in
Germany before the war: Guns

or Butter. The East Germans,;

he said, are now more fortunate
than they were pre-war, for now
they get both: Guns trom Rus-
sia, Butter from Canada.

RETURN
The Prime Minister’s reply
was — perhaps deliberately —

tuned to the dull atmosphere of
the Throne Speech itself. He did
not answer any of the criticisms
in kind, but devoted himself
mainly to a review of the recent
Dominion - Provincial Confer-
ences. Under these  circum-
stances, the debate has returned
With one or two temporary e:
emptions, to the same atmos-
phere.
POSSIBILITY

Some say the Government is
deliberately trying to keep this

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to survive. An appeal to the government met with refusal to

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Session on a subdued level. But
It is early still:
Mr. Howe has shown occasional

the mercurial

signs that some of the criticisms
of wheat-marketing policy are
getting under his skin, so there
may he opportunity yet to report
on some lively scenes.

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Lone Butte News

(heid over)

MR. and MRS. PETER JHA-
KUL are spending the next two
months at their home in Kel-
owna.

ON SUNDAY,
Mr. and Mrs,
celebrated their
ding anniversary.

LAST SATURDAY evening
the P-TA held a whist party in
the school. Seven tables were
filled. Twenty hands were play-
ed. Mrs. Robt. Donald won the
ladies’ high with 141 points,
Mrs. T. Matthews won consola-
tion with 114. O. H. Gibbon won
gent's high with 143 points,
Ivan Kemp won gent’s low with
116. The ladies served refresh-
ments. A collection of $20.32
helped to swell the P-TA treas-
ury.

January 15th,
Fred Atkinson
fifteenth wed-

BIG GREEK NEWS —
Bags First Cougar
(Of Season

Cecil Henry bagged his first
cougar of the season last week,
when he and Sherwood
were riding in the Groundhog

son,

Creek country.

WM. TYMACHKO, who traps
on upper Big Creek, was down
Thursday with his dog team for
the first time this year. He re-
turned Friday taking home sup-
plies from Bell Ranch.

HUGH REDFORD, who- has
been away for a few weeks, re-
turned to Sky Ranch Tuesday
With his bride. His marriage to
Janice MacLeod took place at
Westwold on January 9 The
young couple had a honeymoon
trip to Calgary by train, before
loading their livestock on Piltz
white truck and heading out for
Big Creek.

FRANK WITTE was called
‘on Thursday by the Department
of Highways to open up the Big
Creek road along the West Pas-
| ture where it was blocked by
formidable snow-drifts.

MARY and LEN LIDSTER,
who have been staying at Wil-
sons’, left Thursday to go to
work at Ashcroft.

MR. and MRS. DUANE WIT-
TE are away feeding cattle ac
their meadow. Daughters Arda
and Caroline are staying with
Hattie and Frank Witte to .at-
tend school.

RODDY WATT Sr. is back
from Chilliwack to stay at
Breckness Ranch in the absence
of Bruce and Phyllis Watt. With
him is Bill Foster of Williams
Lake.

Dog Creek News

(held over)

GEORGE SARGENT of the lo-
cal Indian Band returned to Co-
qualeetza Hospital Tuesday for
further treatments.

HILARY PLACE spent the
weekend in Town along with
Adrian and Martin. They brought
home Rita and little Carmen on
Sunday.

MRS. C. R. PLACE is up and
around again following a week’s
indi: ition.

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range such as catalogues, blot-
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ticker tape, blue prints, stock
certificates and even currency.

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SOME KESIDENTS report see-
ing a robin around the last few
days so we are not so far behind
the Okanagan after all.

Heavy reliance on world mar-
kets for Canadian export cou-
pled with cutthroat competition
from foreign products at home,
renders Canada vulnerable to‘
the slightest increase in pro-
duct costs.

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