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THE WILLIAMS

LAKE TRIBUNE

Wednesday, August 26, 1959

EDITORIAL PAGE

THE SHADOW SHOULDN'T EXIST

Every once in a while, a newsaper editor
sought out by someone interested in suppressing a
news story before it comes out in cold print. Gene-
rally there is a selfish motive behind such an approach,
although there are occasions when interested persons
are motivated by the thought that adverse publicity
can do irreparable damage to a cause, a community
or a minority race.

Such an incident occurred last week, and we were
the recipients of several visits. The story concerned
the young Indian woman delivering her own baby and
abandoning it, and at least one of our visitors im-
pressed us with his genuine concern that such a story
might have a detrimental effect on the struggle that
goes on to bring the Indian people up to a stage where
they can cope with the white man’s society and be
accepted by it.

There was no thought on our part of “ killing’
the story, pecause aside from the fact that we are a
medium for dispensing the news of the day, we realize
that no problem vanishes just by ignoring its presence.

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But the thought that we members of the white
community might be inclined to judge the Indian
people as a whole because of ‘the plight of this one
person is a disturbing one. The woman was
one of the few young Indians to have a practical
training in a vocation, and to gain a responsible place
for herself in a public institution. On the basis of her
success, teachers among the Indians were hopeful that
others could be encouraged to better themselves, and
that business firms and institutions in the white com-
munity be pursuaded to give them equal opportunities
of employment.

This is as it should be, and we would hope that
in the white community we are adult enough in our
thinking to continue seeing that opportunity exists for
trained young Indians. The basis-should be ability
alone, and not affected by some individual’s regrettable
mistake.

HIGHWAYS OF TOMORROW

We often deride coast residents for their lack of
knowledge of the Interior of the province, but we
probably aren’t beyond criticism ourselves.

As members of the Board of Trade, we have heard
petitions from other chambers asking for support of
the Yellowhead Route, Roger’s Pass and the McBride-
Prince George link. And we can’t remember on any
individual occasion when the meeting could intelli-
gently discussphe merits of yhe proppsal.

Until we made our motor trip east, we were just
as confused about the value of these routes as anyone
else, but at least on two of them we can now see their
position in relation, to trans-provincial travel.

The simplest one to discuss is the Roger’s Pass
link between Revelstoke and Golden, since it will
soon be an accomplished fact. At the moment this
part of the Trans-Canada is wide, paved highway to
within a few miles of Revelstoke, going east. Highty-
odd miles east of Revelstoke is Golden, and from there
your problems are over, is far as highways are con-
cerned. But in order to reach Golden, you must take
the Big Bend, which involves the better part of a day
and 200 miles of jarring travel.

How much Roger’s Pass highway is going to mean
to British Columbia can be gained at first hand in
Alberta. Its completion is looked forward to there with
greater anticipation than here at home. To residents
of the southern part of the prairie province it means
a quick, comfortable trip to the coast.

The Yellowhead route will be a major highway
construction project because it must be brought up
to standard along almost its complete length from
Kamloops to Jasper, but it offers terrific potential as
a scenic and quiet route to Edmonton. Along most
of its length the road does not appear to present much
in the way of mountain construction. The Thompson
Valley is fairly wide and only narrows to a canyon
for a few miles on the long stretch to Tete Juane
Cache. Since it is only 750 miles between Vancouver
and Edmonton on this route, one gains some idea of
its future value.

‘THE GOVERNMENT OF
‘THE PROVINCE OF BRITISHCOLUMALE

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

SEALED TENDERS, marked “Tenders for
Agricultural Clearing,” addressed to the Land Clear-
ing Division, B.C. Department of Agriculture,
Legislative Buildings, Victoria, B.C., will be re-
ceived by the Department until 31st ‘August, 1959,
for land clearing in the Quesnel area.

Tenders will be submitted on a per hour basis
for crawler tractors equipped with suitable land
clearing blades and rear winches. No tenders will
be considered for tractors of less than 90 draw-bar
horsepower. No guarantee of amount of work can
be given. No special tender form is required but
tenders must set out: Make, model and year of trac-
tor, make of clearing blade and braking equipment,
location of equipment and rate per hour. Moves will
pe paid a flat rate of $12.50 for each job. Allow-
ance should be included in the tendered rate per
hour for extra moving costs over and above $1

The Department reserves the right to reject

any or all tenders, and lowest tender will not neces-
sarily be accepted.
Hon. Newton P. Steac
Minister of Agriculture.
Deputy Minister.
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Victoria, B.C.

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LETTER TO
THE EDITOR

APPEALS FOR DONORS

The. Editor,

The Williams Lake Tribune
Dear Sir—Through your

paper I wish to appeal to

every healthy man and woman

between the ages of 18 and 63

to be a blood donor at the
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society's laboratories
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fusion of infants affected with
Hgemolytic disease of the
ueYborn. Without question,
this added gratuitous service
will ultimately have a marked
beneficial effect on the coun-
try’s infant mortality.

HUGH K. ATWOOD, M.D.

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ONE YEAR AGO
August 27, 1958
After a long break following
the serious early-season fires
in the Chilcotin area, this vast
forest district is again dotted
with raging forest fires. The
largest one is burning at’ the
south end of Chileo Lake
“For the Present,” the Village
Council has given up the idea
of trying to find an alternate
source of water at the airport.
Councillor Tony Borkowski
stated that drillers had gone
down to 298 feet in search of
water, and it appeared there
wouldn't be enough volume
With the new school term only
a week away, there is little in-
formation on the teacher si
uation in District 27. A week
ago the district still needed
25 teachers for rural schools.
Best informed guess that
the term will start with about
10 teachers short

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FIVE YEARS AGO
August 26, 1954

The Tribune office closed
down for this one week and
an edition for this date was
not published.

TEN Y! RS AGO

August 25, 1949

An application for a charter
to operate an air service be-
tween Kamloops, Williams
Lake, Quesnel and Prince
George is being forwarded to
Ottawa this week by Central
Interior Airways, and is re-
ceiving the support of the
Northern Association Boards
of Trade, according to Russ
Baker, president of the com-
. A loss in hay so large
cult to estimate has
already been ffered by
ranchers in this Cariboo dis-
trict due to the excessive wet
weather and cloudiness in the

opinion from several reliable
sources.

The earthquake felt in

boo at 9 p.m. Sunday night
registered as far away as Loa-
don, England, and was a
meiae oanthoanse ea. in

— By Clive Stangoe —

COULD BE WRONG, but somehow I get the

feeling that much of the fun has been taken out of

camping,

There probably
are still some hardy
souls who mean what
they say when they
take along the “bare
necessities,” but they
are not too evident.
Most tourists head-
ing back to natu
either tow a trailer
as well as the family ¢9 9
car loaded with equipment, or
they put it on the roof and
end up with something re-
sembling a double-decker bus.
And this extrg load doesn’t
consist mainly a food, (To go
camping in the} modern way
one needs sari cots, air
mattresses, sle#ping _ bags,
deck chairs, electric lanterns,
insect repellent, folding table,
at least a double burner gas

the Pacific which
whole northwest of the
American continent .. .
than 900 acres of excellent

shook the
North
More

been added so
the crop

farm land has
far this summer to

producing area of South Cari-
boo by the government owned
clearing
Land

de-

and operated land
machinery under the
Clearing Scheme of the
partment of agriculture,
cording to MJ. Walsh, dist-
rict agriculturist. . i
development of a hydro-elect-
ric plant on the Quesnel River
is drawing the attention of a
large number of interests as
plans and data are steadily
being compiled by the B.C.
Power Commission.

ARS AGO
1939

TWENTY ¥
August 24,

The cattle market in Van-
couver was fully a quarter to

a half a dollar stronger this
week, and the demand was
greater than the supply.

Evidently the calling of a

special meeting of the Cariboo
Stockmans Association to
consider a new proposal for
the marketing of cattle to be
presented to Geo. Davidson, a
well known cattle dealer in
the district. It is understood
to incorporate a company of
ranchers to sell their cattle
co-operatively by their own
commission agent.

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THE WILLIAMS LAKE
TRIBUNE
Established 1931
Editor, Clive Stangoe

Published every Wednesday at
Williams Lake, B.C., by the
Cariboo Press Limited.
Subscription per year — $3.00
Outside Canada — $4.00
Advertising rates on application

Authorized as Second Class
Mail by the Post Office

despite the fact that more and more
tourists are taking their holidays ‘“

under canvas.”

stove and possibly
f those cute
barbecue
to men-
tion acomplete set
of pots and pans and
crocke Th

some

of
essentials to modern

camping — added
equipment varies
eptibility of the

to mail order cata-
and the great field of
advertising in general. The
completed camp in many cases
appears to!contain all the com-

fort? of ‘home without
roof.

with the
camper
logues

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THE MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT

POPURAER OR

OTTAWA— Immigration will
be down again this year. In
fact the immigration for 1958

and 1959 combined will be less
than that for 1957. This is a
safe prediction as long as some
extraordinary event—liké the
Hungarian uprising of 1956—
does not bring a mass of mi-
grants rushing suddenly to
Canadian shores.

A Title over half of the im-
migrants who came to Canada
in a year usually arrive during
the first six months. Last
year’s half-year figure was
67,744 and that for the full
year, 124,851. Figures have
now been released showing that
only 57,089 immigrants came
in the first half of this year, a
drop of more than 10,000 from
last year. The total will prob-
ably fal short of 1955's 109,946,
thus making it the worst year
since 1950, when only 73,912
immigrants came. In 1957—
the record year since 1913—
Canada received 282, 164 people.

CAUSE OF DECLINE

Several factors appear
behind this year’s decline. The
government has never lifted
the ban it imposed in July of
1957 against open-placement im-
migrants coming here from
other than Britain, France and
the U.S. unless there were open-
ings in their trade in Canada.
The restriction, imposed to pre-
vent the swelling of Canada’s
labor force in a time of reces-
sion and unemployment, still
Keeps out some immigrants who
would “take a chance” on find-
ing their feet in Canada.

But probably the main reason
for the decline is Canada’s eco-
nomic condition contrasted
with that of the countries from
which we traditionally draw
the largest numbers of immi-
grants. It is the normal pat-
tern for boom periods in Can-
ada to draw the crowds, with
the effect reaching a climax
just on the eve of bad times.

to lie

BAD PUBLICITY

The news of bad times goes
out and the flow declines well
into the period of, recovery.
Thus the highs in/the immi-
gration graph often seem to be

chasing the lows orf the econo-
ymie graphs. .This 4ftfect, oceur-
red following the fecession of

1953-54 and, as noted, is more

partly because the government
started cutting down before the
recession was really felt.

But the immigration “re-
covery” this time may well not
match the economic recovery
the €xtent that it did last time.
Publicity in Britain, tradition-
ally the chief source of immi-
grants, has been extremely bad.
One mass circulation news
paper went all out in picturing
Canada as a “man trap” trying
to lure poor unsuspecting Brit-
ons to a hard-times country.
icles about Canada in other
while not S0

British papers,
uncomplimentary, have a much
cooler tone than before. On
the other hand, both in Britain
and in Buropean countries
where Canada has not been
subjected to adverse publici
there has been great economic
upsurge. Times are more pros-
perous than before and seem
to be steadily improving. So
why leave for Canada?

Of the major source countr-
ies, only Italy is still sending
as many people to Canada as
we will take, with the result
that Italy has outstripped all
other nations as a supplier of
New Canadians. But just com-
paring the first half of this
year with the first half of last,
British immigration is down
by 5,397, from 16,292 to 10,817;
German by 2,556, from 8,475 to
5,899; Netherlands by 1,703 to
from 5,013 to 3,310.

HOME MARKET

This could be the beginning
of a serious economic problem,
for unless Canada is to remain
forever as dependent on seling
her resources in foreign mark-
ets as she is today, she will
have to have bigger home mark-
ets; that is, people. And, with
the growth of the European
Common market and the deve-
lopment: of industrially-poor but
resource-rich countries of the
world, Canada is in danger of
losing foreign markets. The
US. with jts huge domestic
market, is in a much better pos-
ition to meet this kind of
threat.

Canadians have, of late, in-
dulged in much boasting, re-
viving as though they believed
it, Laurier’s, txuberant phras¢)
“The Twentieth Century be-
longs to Canada.” There have

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morow’s Giant” and “Canada,
the Golden Hinge.” Perhaps
we have been on a golden
binge of phrasemaking and
should now sober up a bit.

A good place to start making
a reassessments would be in
our restrictive, discriminatory
immigration policy. More >
should be done to attract pros-
pective immigrants. Special ad-
vantages should be held out to
them. Free passage should not
be out of the question for people
with qualifications we particu
arly need. Nor should special
technical schools, with langu
age-training and an allowance
for students, be out of the
question for desirable unquali-
fied immigrants. Chinese, Jap-
anese, Negroes and others of
non-white skin are part of the
Canadian community; we must
start breaking down the bar-
riers and letting more in.

This is a big country with «
a lot of filling-up to do and
those of us who are already —
here are not God’s chosen
people. Prime Minister’ Diet
enbaker once said—in an elec:
tion campaign speech to New
Canadians—“We must populate
or perish.” We will, no doubt,
be delighted to handle much of
the populating ourselves; brt~
we are dependent on immi-
gration for adequate growth.

CAPITAL HILL CAPSULES
Cabinet changes on August ”
20 were just
new season starts. A further ¢
new sesion starts. A further
strengthening of Quebec re-
presentation is’ expected with —
the replacement of Secretary
of State Courtemanche probably
by Noel Dorion, former senior
Quebec town prosecutor and
close Duplessis ally. Courte-
manche reported on way out |
after embarrasing government,
with announcement to his con-
stituency, claiming credit for
obtaining Bomare site in his
riding.

Threatened resignation from
CBC Board of Direstors of Man-
itoba Professor W.L. Morton
if “Preview Commentary” not
reinstated is said to have been
the erucial act in*deciliiIng “tn
to order Acting Pres’
dent Ernest Bushnell to puff

Having thus equipped them- ™atked for recent \ecession— been book titles, “Canada, To- the program back on the air.
selves as a c ly inde- \
pendent unit, the camping ‘

family takes to the open high-
way, with one weather eye on
the map showing where those
popular (and fully equipped)
camping grounds are located.
A satisfactory substitute is an
open field close to a lodge and
other human beings. If there
is a tap nearby, so much the
better. We remember one
lodge owner being slightly
amused at the camper who in-
sisted on filling his water pail
from the lodge tap rather than
dipping it from the lake, re-
gardless of the fact that the
source of supply for the lodge
reservoir was the same shim-
mering body of water.

On the other hand, the de-
sire for comfort with our
outdoor living may not stem
entirely from the fact that the
nation is growing soft. Age
may have something to do with
it. Today every member of
the family goes along, and
probably in the past camping
was the sport of the young and
their cast iron stomachs and
good, warm blood.

In the days our own
youth, we spent weekend alter
weekend during the summer
taking off on cycling jaunts,
our entire equipment packed
on the rear carrier, including
the ingredients for bannock,
which we were addicted to
cooking, and sometime; cating.

But today the Stangoe tam-
as well equipped
as the rest of the world as far
as camping is concerned. And
sometimes they actualiy use it

—but with 2 chilly
day on a trip and a “no
vacancy” sign—and we're the

closest motel’s next clients.

It is little wonder that cur
ven-year-old daugater is a
little confused on the subject
of camping. Coming back last
weekend from Chimney Lake
after visiting friends who were
actually under canvas. Elaine
was arguing heatedly with her
equally young cousin and
called on us as the final auth-
orities. Her cousin had made
mention of the fact that our
friends were on a vacation and
Elaine was insisting that they
weren't—they were camping.

In the 20 years from 1939
to 1958 total spending by all
governments in Canada in-

creased from $1.1 billion to
$9.7 billion.

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