THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUN: ‘Wednesday, August 5, 1959 KNOW THY COUN EDITORIAL PAGE TRY Two Montreal youths, after many months of say- ing, recently set out. on seven-week. They are not the first to do this and they will not be the last, but it is good to know that there a t in investigating the attractions of their own country before those of any Canadians with a keen i other. How well do most of well, we fear. in which we live. What percentage of Canadians in British Colum- bia or Alberta have ever visited the Atlantic Provinces, How many of those in Quebec or On- tario have ever spent a vacation west of the Rockies? These are extreme examples, it’s true. provincial travel between adjoining provinces is not The’truth is that as a people we are much more prone to take our vacations south of or vice-versa? what it could be. the border. . To some extent this is own land. that is the sum total of all The vastness of this land, spanning as it does half a continent, is indeed a formidable barrier to frequent comings and goings between the peoples of the various This is particularly true, of course, of those provinces. at the opposite ends of it. But the barrier is by no means an insuperable one. We enjoy better communications and greater freedom of movement than ever before. is less justification for ‘‘ compartmentalized ” word can be forgiven) thinking than at any time in our history. cross country Canada at first-hand and_g — Letter Review a commendable venture trip. Their aim: to s get to know it better. e your nter us know Canada? understandable. the provinces and regions. The arrival of the jet age opens up more exciting possibilities still, As air t faster and more convenient, ward to a big increase in groups of young Canadians and colleges, as well as to ravél becomes less costly we can perhaps look for exchange visits between from the nation’s schools an ever-larger yolume of commercial and tourist traffic. Out of all this will com e—is maybe already com- ing—a new appreciation of the country that is Canada. Most unpopular tax ever ing industry is the recent 10 for use in transportation. This makes fuel oil on t the same price as gasoline. It is to be regretted th upon the progressive man W engine in his truck. Diesels age, cut down Just a: s Henry VII taxed window pan imposed upon the truck- percent tax on diesel fuel he Alaska Highway about at the local members as ho dares to use a diesel save fuel, give more mile- the cost of transportation. es, the present B.C. government taxes diesels. Here on the Alcan W. tions are under way v' ercen pays not one pel ance and operation of the diesel is considered he tax is passed on to the co aa d cost to every and that makes adde' chandise hauled by diesel o It is to be regretted tha legislature did not poards of trade were not very protest this diesel oil te here great trucking opera- and where the B.C. government t towards construction, mainten- military road, the tax on extortionate. msumer, of course, pound of mer yer the highway. t the local members of the Local alert, or they would have entered a protest against the tax. One result of the boost directions for an investigati line and oil in British Colt field of enquir ‘ ; of price structure which in helpful to the commercia to the oil industry. It is especially painf the extra tax thrown into th the heads of the B.C. gove province debt free an cash being wrung from the js now a clamor from all on into the price of so- mbia. This opens a wide and can onlysresult in a revamping the long run will not be ] truckers and will be costly ul to the truck people to find heir gears at a time when ynment are declaring the ‘d therefore not in need of the Alaska Highway truckers. Not very In all but a few cases, personal know- ledge of Canada is likely to be limited to the province But going south can often be a good deal less of an adventure— and certainly less rewarding—than discovering one’s And if we are to give meaning to our nationhood and foster a sense of national pride and cohesion, we must surely come to know more about not only our own province or region, but the Canada In consequence, there Gif -the PERFE CT UNIVERSITY For of at le students. ation, wi ing higher educa expansion being the ideal unive has many year ast some professors, anada this ideal seems far The ber of students demand- th the increasing num vide accommodation for them. It is from the scious effort to attain the ideal. in that i a machine that will be learn.” machine control and lo aims may be too mod not yet known whether a University of Saskatchew: A nstitution are said to be & able ‘ bot According to the report, now see it as possibly bei ng-range weather for ation and large programs planned or already the builder If they should be succ — Printed Word rsity, in the opinion been one without from realiz- of building under way to pro- recent news report an indicates a con- group of professors ngaged in puilding h to think and to of the ng of use in traffi casting; but their sful in educating machines to deal with these complicated tters, there seems to be no reason to doubt that Haching be trained to handle most machines could eventually of the subjects on th ‘Among the obvious adv human students are no footb no graduation students being to e curriculum, the facts that all fields, no auditoriums smonies. Prob cere would be needed at first, th learn how put in time that function would a the machines themselves. the frigh For the tening prospect that they dered obsolete by machines. antages of machines ov to serve and adjust the machin they would require , no examinations ably some hum eir function merely Jso be assumed by professors there is also would be ren- a ee ng But even inter- Our ship moved, ponde y out from her ‘Montreal The band played “There'll be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight.” Col. streamer: retched and People hand- kerchiefs and fe e glamo: travel if the airpl: the ocean lin in an liner is too comfortable. of pre ONE YEAR AGO August 6, 1958 Two brothers and children were reporte early this morning when boat was found drifting on Quesnel Lake in the Mitchell area 14° miles south-east Charles , with his two sons, aged 10, and Ran A complete plan to restore eserve Barkerville, Brit- ish Columbia’s m ta mining town, has been an- nounced, Among buildings to be Kelly Howl and the Chin Free Mason Hall. A paved road to the old town will be built from the uriboo Highway .. . Preseti- adges of ser- to tation of 10-year vice w made last Mrs, L. Moxon and Tom Denny. Pigeon made the week ntations. FIVE YEARS AGO August 5, 1954 When the doors open at Wil- liams Lake High School for the fall term, the familiar fig- ure of principal Joe Phillip- son will be missin Mr Phillipson was a leader in local district and finally provincial circles New principal at Williams Lake High School is Thomas Beames, who has been on the staff of Quesnel High School for the past three years : Del Fowler is rapidly coumpleti the excavation along Railway Avenue the of the main for hat street . te i Lumber Co, is buildi a mill on the western end o: I pe on the Callo- way Ranch property : Stewart, committee chairm in charge of of Trade’s scheme the a petition to Post Office Department asking for air mail service for the district, reports that the peti- tion was forwarded yesterday, signed by 600 residents. Above is shown the only drug store from Williams Lake to Ashcroft when it was built in 1921. AS IT U ED TO LOOK run by Ken Rife’s fathy and was situated where the Bor! It was now stands on Mackeng Avenue. yski Block With G. E. Mortimore feel at home. can’t stand pi Human beings ction. Our two little boys have pro- ided some spice of trouble on e. They fought, got refused to and be- at the dinn able. Luc iy, we have t table com- panion unny-tempered Italian In the m Je all Michdel st from an upper nk to the r. But the carpeting padded his fall. He n't even dented. Stewards provide, built-in dance or to one gf the ip's-bars._A children{s rgom . Sein eof Folk if you want to go * much of tH daytime. They sive you a Be flagon of wine with meals} There is plenty to do: swijming, trap shoot- ing, gymndum, deck games, movies, hfse racing with cardboari forses advanced by dice, and Just lounging and Staring athe sea. Service [nd accommodation on this slp are good for the money. fet we haven't en- joyed ourgives as much as we did eightfyears ago aboard a Cunard sfip in which the ser- vice wasfof a slightly lower standardj Then, made a number pf cheerful gcquain- tances. Now we haven't got to know many people. we The passen’ haying di ent national backgrounds, tend to split into, cliques and individual ‘ splint! There Canadian army wives goi ov , Many with child to join their husbands; Ger- mans revisiting their native land; parties of America TEN YEARS AGO August 4, 1949 Donald Ross, age of the Chilcotin country since 1893, passed to eternal r last. Tuesday at War Memorial Hospital, after living a lo} full lite and hing his many children grow to maturity their children . Ninet guns entered skeet competition Sunday afte noon at the Stampede gfound: popular Murdock 89, a pioneer the last to make this a very in the short month sine club wa land is now sport the trap formed hooting A tull J, A. Bsler, here the time inspec- stationed tion and filing of reports on all for applications to or land from the Deparument/of Lan other reports on land mat to the department . . . Abbott's Maple Leafs again upheld their high lead in the team purchase and for rs local three- office announced this week that preparations are now being made to commence construc- tion from Prince George south on the Pacific Great extension. It hopes within the next few weeks to let tract from Prince George to Red Rock Creek, a distance of cd . A total of 1,200 ducks have ben banded to date stern a con- miles by Jimmy Hatter, biologist of the UBC and his three ants at Chimney Lake in thei study of the wild life of the Cariboo. TWENTY YEARS AGO , 1938 All was shocked Saturday to hear of the sudden of Mrs. A. D. Mac- wife of the Rey. Dr acKinnon, pioneer mis- of the Cariboo, and of the famous sisters, Lovette and Joy . Accord- ing to reports the Cariboo Hudson — gold mines are operating their mill on a 75 tons a day basis, working the dump and clean- ing up preparatory to cl down the mill. Provincial- iis sy thd adjoining deck- chair, or accidentally jostle you in a corridor, but they are le interested in anyone out- side their circle. ,To me, there is something allen about these young stud- emts who are so health oth and sure of them- I find them frighten- People of the mating age, théteens and twenties, haven't mujh time for children or for senfe dotards in their thirties, anypay. Girls outnumber men two) on this ship. Crukes this are happy hunfag grounds for sin men} Even married men allod to admire the female scenfy in a detached sort of are wayfike old milk-fed cats ing fildly through the of aipviary. Wget along well with the famigthat shares our table} Ron y aero [gine technician who had enlist} in the Royal Canadian Air Hee in Britain, under a speci@ recruiting — arr it.fle intended to settle in anaqafter serving his four ys But m after the Arrow projeqhad been abandoned, there’ fs a surplus of aircraft technifas. He fildn’t land a steady job as automotive mechanic gh he had the alifications. So he is Kk to England. s dan iceberg, shaped fe a derelict corvette encasedp frozen spray; a s, and a distant parallel course, | against the ex-| The sun be-| mly, and men the deck without | lolled a shirts | rly fmnorning I saw the In a few hours Southampton. | anizing ie Printed Word in a small town Phat the monthly dd by the local cation PMiitee for the amusement§ his age group should be BSferred to the afternoon. | “There 4 Many parties | io go to PIShi" is his reason | THE MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT KID GLOVES .COME OFF OTTAVA—Back in the days when tle Canadian Broadcas Orporation was both judge smd jury of the sins of private broadcasters, loud was the ery for an independent reg- ulatory board to govern the 's airwaves. ing hen the Conservative gov- y. The CBC was divorced irom the regulatory board, and a new set of broadcast czars —the Board of Broadcast Goy- ernors—was named. But if the private broad- casters thought they had won the day, they had another think coming. And so did the CBC. The Diefenbaker govern- ment, with an eye both to the CBC's popularity with minority groups, and the sins of some private broadcasters, chose some toughies to run the new board. As chairman, the’. govern- ment named canny Andrew Stewart, president of the Uni- versity of Alberta, a Scot with a broad background of royal commission work under three political wings—Social Credit, Liberal and Conservative. Two more permanent mem- bers of the CBC were named, and both of them came from the coldly realistic world of the press. As Dr. Stewart's deputy, the cabinet chose Roger Duhamel, of Montreal, a_French-speak- ing newspaper editor with a literary and cultural flair. The third spot went to Carlyle Allison, a strong Diefenbaker ConSeryative who left the editor's chair at the Winnipeg Tribune for the new job. With his trio and a dozen part time searchers firmly office, the shocks began. CBC, feeling somewhat be- neath its own dignity, had to come to the BBG for approval when it wanted to open a new TY, outlet. The board gave it a hard time before the go- ahead signal. Private broadcasiers fearned smarten up and provide better program fare in future. Then board member Allison hit out on the campaign trail with a crusade for better news vided they pass BBG tion. But then another stinger: A maximum of two hours of broadcasting time each day in the choice time spot—between inspec- covera: on radio. His words é didn’t fall on deaf ears. Sand 11 erved He told a proad- , ” £0T Purposes to be prescribed Ce biuntiy PY the board.” That means, fiat imoee radio newscasts qvere’: "2, o@ect Mian Chey noasaa ual ebviodcly prepared and de- ‘SEE Barmeulen miler sae bite a % : that good—and ive an office boy—and g eacreg. By aa ote mainly Canadian — sounded like it. Develop your newsrooms, ing audience advised the broadcasters, 80 “phese regulations will not after the big national and in~ come into effect before mid- ternational stories as well as the local ambulance calls, and pay better salaries to your newsmen. a He might have added that the BBG will be listening to see how performance improves —but he didn’t need to. The radio men got the point. The BBG’s blossoming-out, however, occurred when the board announced terms and conditions for competitive tele- vision. Stiffly and with no signs of bias in favor of either private or public broadcasting, Dr. Stewart laid it on the line. Any successful applicant will have to provide 55 percent Canadian content. in his pro- gramming. And no fooling. No American programs will be permitted across the bor- der without the BBG’s express authorization—for si by either CBC or private stations. All stations in Canada will be checked week by week to see how they measure up. And woe betide the man who tries to cut corners. _. ., intended cabinet by Programs submitted for in- de ae eee as con, PHime Minister Diefenbaker. dentification as Canadian con- ; nt“will b toaiaveea Cail The late: has it that Gordon tent will have re a Cana- best ; ave to have @ Can®” Churchill of trade and com-- n nation: rodueer of : : j peers aoe °F merce will switch portfolios director, ‘tio-thirds Canadian ™* 1 : cece a with George Hees in trans- writers. And if a foreign star pe S port. But not a word of con- is employed, then both pro- ea : firmation from the boss ducer and director must be anadians. = e Finance Minister Stations will not be allowed on the air before noon—a harsh measure, perhaps, but designed to keep costs down in favor of better programming 1960, when the first competi- tive station is expected to open, either in Winnipeg or Vancouver. A public hearing will be held first, in November, to hear the pleas and com- plaints of the would-be broad- casters. But the board indi- cated pretty clearly it is not prepared to let barriers down. ‘With all the rules and regu- lations, the fat prize of a private television licence sud- denly looked a great deal less attractive from an investment point of view. Thanks to the BBG, it's go- ing to be mighty expensive to maintain a television station in competition with the CBC. _ The CBC, too, was going to find it harder to please the board than it was to please its of di was what the private broadcasters asked for —and they got it. It remains to be seen how well they can live with it. CAPITAL HILL CAPSULES Rumors still flying about an Fleming's future is looking brighter. His budget deficit, which topped $600,000,000 last year, has been cut to half in the fir: Tesi, the RG Sold ake Z quarter of 1959-60. Explana- te ee an onthe “compctitivers komm: BYsines — boomin! nonseuse. will be allowed to schedule a *S2™- Half a dozen radio men who had been trying to run their stations on the recorded music- plus news-plus sports ‘principle found themselves on the mat to explain their “ philosophy of broadcasting.” of their licences don the board's appre- ciation of their philosophy, and they came in fear and bling. as it turned out, all of them got their licences renewed. But the worst offenders got the shortest terms, and sharply-worded warning Renewal hing trem- » to 15-minute or half-hour period of pure, unadulterated com- mereials in morning hours— if anyone cares to tune in for We a, oe ee ae THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE Established 1931 that. This was designed to Editor, Clive Stang boost revenue and thereby : on boost quality of afternoon programs. 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