Page 2 THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE Wednesday, September 28, 1959 THE WASHINGTON CHILL The visit of Soviet Premier Krushchey to the United States has evoked considerable comment, par- ticularly the incident of his arrival when, President Eisenhower pointedly refused to shake hands in pub- lic with his opposite number. Whether it was a breach of diplomatic etiquette or not—and on the surface it certainly appeared to be—the incident seemed an ill omen for the scheduled talks between the two leaders. The little people of the world gave a shiver of apprehension at the formal coldness exhibited. To those of us in the democracies, communism is a way of life that is abhored, and the Soviet Union with its record of oppression continues to foster, this feeling of revulsion. But in the light of the terrible destruction that can be wrought by modern weapons, there is also a conviction that we must find a way to live and let live. The alternative is oblivion. Did the coldness indicate that the former is con- sidered impossible? KEEP THE FIRE LINE CLEAR As much trouble to firemen as the flames they battle, according to Fire Chief Sid Pigeon, are the “fire chasers,” particularly those on four wheels. Anxious to get as close as possible to the fire with a minimum of effort, these people drive right up to the fire truck, bump over fire hose, and generally cause as much confusion as possible. These careless “fire chasers,’’ besides breaking the law (it is illegal to park closer to a fire truck than 100 yards during: a fire) these drivers are en- dangering the lives of the firemen. Rushing out of smoke-filled rooms to get a needed piece of equipment from the fire truck, a fireman is oblivious to the danger of traffic that shouldn’t be there. Unless the public respects the fact that firemen need a clear area when on the job, Fire Chief Pigeon warns that sooner or later there is going to be a “‘ terrific accident.” A fire is a magnet it is difficult to ignore—but when you drive after the fire engine, park a safe dis- tance away and walk the rest of the way. A GOOD EFFORT Last week, writing on the coming blood clizic, we posed the suestion ff LOW big are we?” Well, now sets nearby, aS well as the town proven) NTERS STILL NOT WELCOME A short time ago we printed a release from the provincial association of fish and game clubs that indi- cated public relations between sportsmen and farmers were at their highest point in years. Hunters were x going to bend every effort this season to respecting the property of rural dwellers—at least those hunters who are members of fish and game clubs, This was to be = particularly true in the Interior. Well, the hunting season isn’t very ol@ but al- ready there are examples of thoughtlessness and down- right carelessness coming to light that fail to substan- tiate any improvement in the conduct of hunters in this part of the Interior. One rancher who lost four head of cattle last season when hunters failed to differentiate between a deer and a Hereford, published warnings this season that trespassers will be prosecuted. Another rancher waited until the season was a week old before break- ing into print—in his case he was getting tired of ex- pending time, money and effort in rounding up stock that drifted out the unclosed gates. And the sale of “ no trespassing ’’ and “ no shoot- F ing ” signs is just as heavy as ever as property owners throughout the istrict post land as being closed to hunters. So much for the optimism expressed by the game élubs. Possibly their efforts to educate club members have been successful, but this alone will not remove the signs on private property. To the rancher, a man with a gun is a hunter—and by bitter experience he : as found he can’t trust them on his land. The educat- ig process on the part of the game clifbs will have to gb deeper than its own members if public relations petween hunter and property owner are to be really improved. THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE Established 1931 Bditor, Clive Stangoe Published every Wednesday at Williams Lake, B.C. by the Cariboo Press Ltd. Subscription per year, $3.00. Outside Canada, $4.00 Advertising rates on application Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office. EDITORIAL PAGE 20’s. in the early st Used To Look Here is a view of the mining com- munity of Likely taken Today mining is secondary to a flourishing lumber business there. ONE YEAR AGO September 24, 1958 One conclusion that district lumbermen must have come to at their meeting here last Fri- day with Forest — Service officials and MLA Bill Speare, was that there is no possibility of reconciling their desire for a higher timber cutting quota and the forestry policy of sus- tained yield . . . Jack Bracken- bury, of Mackenzie Avenue, appeared before Williams Lake Village Council last night, furthering his complaints about the noise caused by the planer mill of Lignum Ltd... Lumber is once more being hauled out of the Chileotin district follow- ing settlement of a dispute between independent truckers and planer mills . . . It was “Bill Kohnke night” at the Elks Hall last Saturday and a sell-out crowd was on hand to cheer the popular wrestler for his final appearance in the professional ring... War Mem- orial Arena will have artificial ice this winter. t to._this, ef@giv benefit wrestling announcer Bert Roberts FIVE YEARS AGO September 23, 1954 Over 150 people are expected to attend the charter night celebration of the local Kiwanis Clib to be held in the Elks Hall tomorrow night . . . There were 595 head of cattle moved through the yards of the Cariboo Cattle- men’s Association last weekend Breeders throughout the province will be contributing 70 head of registered stock for the annual Bull Sale here October . The telephone situation in Williams Lake can be ex- pected to show a tremendous improvement with the change- over this week from the ant- iquated switchboard that sub- scribers have been complaining about for years, to a spanking new one. TEN YEARS AGO September 22, 1949 Forty-eight members, mostly of the New Westminster Board of Trade with a few from Van- couver, spent the forenoon at Williams Lake as guests of the businessmen on Sunday in their exploratory trip of the Interior It is with the greatest regret that we have to announce the passing of a great friend of the Cariboo, Walter Hogg, age 59, we believe who passed away quietly at his home in North Kamloops Tues- day morning . . . Expectation that cattle prices will stiffen more in Canada as a result of the devaluation of the Canadian dollar in the expressed opinion of many in the cattle industry of Cariboo .. . Following shortly after the announcement by Finance Minister Abbott that the Canadian dollar has been de- valued 10 per cent, he also an- nounced that the government would, commencing Tuesday morning, purchase gold from the producers at $38.50 per ounce... TWENTY YEARS AGO September 21, 1939 re- War highlights—Russia pudiated all treaties with Poland, claiming that if there was a Polish Government its whereabouts were not known. . The British airplane carrier “Courageous” was torpedoed by submarine and sunk... Tw hundred head of beef were being gathered by A. Knoll at Cheza- cut last week for shipment by boat to the Vancouver Live- stock Exchange from the port of Bella Coola. — LOOKS AT — A crude attempt to discredit teachers ‘By A. J. Drinkell In its September issue, Liberty Magazine— under the guise of issuing a challenge to Canadian teachers—prints an article by one Hugh Garner, which definitely reflects the workings of the mind sunk in the literary gutter as low as it is possible for one to get. We true purpose is stimulate circulation by stirring up a heated controversy, as the Canadian teachers whom it so crudely maligns are offered the regular professional rate of remuneration for the best article entitled “Why I am proud to be a Canadian school teacher.” The teaching profession silent. This me contempt. man left good positions to enter, or re-enter, the teaching profession. One quit a position selling ad- versiting space of a B.C. news- Paper at the age of thirty-five. A young married woman in Edmonton with two teen-age children returned to teaching. A Toronto friend holding down a handsome public relations job left the firm to take up teaching again and a scientist with 12 years university training in- cluding five years post-graduate work and drawing a sarary of $5,400 recently resigned from the Department of Mines to accept a high school teaching position. PAMPERED? These people, says he, like thousands of others gave up these good positions to enter the country’s most pampered pro- fession. Teaching offeres them so-called “professional” stand- an aura of social respect- y; a field’ with minimum standards training make an engineer that would or chiro- They are wept for praise and martyr’s pinnacle. practor laugh. over, lobbied placed on a Well, I can’t weep for them, says Garner; teaching is just a soft way to earn a buck. Evi- dently this man cannot give his friends credit for having honour- able motives. He appears to have made no attempt to check the results obtained by these people in the classroom. He just condemns them willy-nilly, as either unsound mind or utterly penurious. ‘There is much more in similar vein. He quotes instances wheré teachers have run foul of the law, some on rather serious charges—all friends of his—Ye Gods; one wonders what kind of company this man keeps. They all seem to be either daft or im-moral. His own school days lasted ten years throughout elementary and technical high school. He claims he does not remember one of his teachers with love or gratitude, in fact, I remember none of them at all, says he. One evidently had an unerring aim with pieces of chalk. A woman teacher slam- med his head with a dictionary for questioning the law of gravi What knowledge he picked up was in spite of them —not because of them. Evi- dently he was a provocative pupil who does not appear to have improved with age. He does not con- cede there are a few dedicated ~ teachers but for every one such there are a hundred who look upon the teaching profession as a soft way to make a dollar. There is an acute shortage of teachers across the country salaries _ off Wdatever the cage it ifficult to believe those |people vho are responding to the need re all doing so from ulterior otives. There must be something more than visions of a soft job in a field of horribly low standards impelling them. If really compelled to answer such a diatribe we would require just one word “Phooey.” TBS, tle PAUL ohne SO THE MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT WHICH WAY QUEBEC? OTTAWA — The possibility of a political revolution hangs over Quebec now that death has ended the long and auto- cratic rule of Premier Duples- sis as head of the powerful, ultra - nationalistic Union Nationale government. In some quarters it is argued that nothing will be changed, that under the leadership of the new premier, Paul Sauve, everything will go on as it had before, but this is almost inconceivable. Ever since Duplessis created it in 1936, the Union Nationale has not been a party in the normal sense, but a personal instrument, one that had its foundation in his own cunning and personality. Over an 18- year period since 1936 he managed to keep it in power through one of the most efficient party machines the country hag ever known and an appeal to almost every con- ceiable French-Canadian fear and prejudice. Premier Duplessis’ appeal was essentially to the people in the country, people whose roots stay deeply in the past. Before them he raised the image of deep plots being hatched in other parts of the country to deprive them of their birthright — their re- ligion, their language and their culture. The rural parts of Quebec, where his appeal was greatest, are also dispro- portionately represented in the legislature compared with the heavily increased urban popu- lation. TRANSFORMATION But over his years in office Quebec has undergone a start- ling change, with the province growing from a rural economy into an industrial giant. This transformation hag brought with it equally startling social changes and a new attitude to- wards political questions. Through contro] of the polit: cal machine, government pat- ronage and his own far-reach- ing personal appeal, Premier Duplessis was able to retain power while resisting change. Mr. Sauve, more liberally in- clined that his predecessor— and in any case not strong enough to stand againft the wen mark Une{negin- Siew era in huebes Because there is still strong element within the Union Nationale party that is far to the right of anything else on the Canadian political stage and deeply imbued with the Duplessis* tradition, Mr. Sauve will undoubtedly move cautiously, but move he will. With “Le Chef” gone, he the is undoubtedly aware of ra By Clive Stangoe WHEN Paul St. Pierre, a coast daily, goes hunting, this world.” Paul night Street just back from a trip into the Chilcotin. After exchanging greetings, his first remark was: “Say, Clive, did the Rus- sians really land a rocket on the moon?” last on I met Friday Oliver x wk ok AND SPEAKING of Oliver Street, I hadn’t realized how dark the town’s main thorough- fare is until I sauntered around the shops. We badly need another row of street lights on the opposite side to the existing ones. * * LATE LAST SATURDAY afternoon we went hunting—the “we” being myself and the .410, Ward acting as grouse spotter, Elaine and neighbor Diane Court carrying out a continuous debate on whether they should be on the expedition at all or back at our Chimney Lake cabin playing house, and in the rear, Irene. For good measure we had Homer along, but since he was all over the countryside on interesting side trips, he could hardly be counted. For safety’s sake, father was well in front, with son calling out over his shoulder every two minutes when he saw a bird— any bird. While we trudged on with no sight of a grouse, the younger members of the hunt rapidly well-known writer for he really goes “out of lost interest in the object of the exercise and started casting around for something to collect. “HEY, MOM, LOOK AT THE PRETTY ROCK.” (Sotto the rear) “Don’t shout, Ward, you'll scare the birds.” voice from Well, it sure is a pretty rock. “HEY, THERE’S ANOTHER ONE.” “GEE, LOOK AT THESE SWELL TOADSTOOLS, DIANB. NO WARD, YOU CAN’T HAVE THEM, WE SAW THEM FIRST. M-O-M-M, MAKE HIM STOP.” Well, it was a nice afternoon for strolling down the old logging trails. Peaceful, too. By the time we had reached any given area everything wearing feathers had long since vacated the spot. Despite Elaine’s oft-expressed doubts, we came out of the bush about two miles up the lake with everybody accounted for—every- body but Homer. On the way home we whistled and called periodically but there was no sign of the brute. Even Irene began to doubt my insistent protestations that a dog couldn’t get lost in that bit of bush. I was right. As I pushed open the cabin door (it has no latch), Homer howled a welcome from the closest sleeping bag. fact that the provincial Liberal party, under the new leader- ship of the Hon. Jean Lesage, a young and energetic former minister in the St. Laurent Cabinet, now poses much more of a threat to the UN govern- ment. He is bound to move closer to the centre, to adopt many of the social welfare measures that have operated for years in the sister province of Ontario. Among the first changes that are ‘likely to be instituted by Premier Sauve are acceptance of the national hospital insur- ance program and of university grants from the federal gov- ernment. MAY ACCEPT GRANTS Premier Duplessis never quite closed the door on the COMMENT FROM AUSTRALIA The Editor The Williams Lake Tribune wv Dear Sir—For some consider- able time I have been kept up to date with the events in the Cariboo through the.mediumi of your paper; this has been made possible by the kindness of an old friend, a Mr. Brian Higgins of your district. I spent a month or so in Wil- liams Lake in the late twenties and was for a short while in the employ of the late C, Moxon and his good wife. What really fine folk they were and I quite often recall the pleasant evenings playing five hundred with the Moxons and the chap who used to run the town lighting. It was always snug in the Maple Leaf in those days. I often tell my girls what fine friendly folk there are in Williams Lake; and one of these days I would like them to visit with you all over there. After getting bdck to Aust- ralia from Canada, I bought a saddle horse and pack horse and headed back up north here, but beforg I let those two horses go, I had covered 2,770 miles in a little over 18 months with them. I really enjoyed your Centen- nial issue of 1958, especially the article on the late Norman Lee’s trip to Teslin Lake with his cattle in the early days. Although we are still 250 miles from our nearest rail- @ head, we are compensated by having a fine bituminus high- way running north and south through this property. It may interest cattlemen of the Cariboo to know that stock men up here are having an ex- ceptionally good season both for prices and rainfall, the rise in prices having being brought by trade that has opened up with the U.S., and most of the stock from the territory is going over to the U.S. as boneless beef. It may also interest your readers to know that the King Ranch (Texas) of Santa Gertrudis fame has acquired interests in several large properties up here, one of them being Brunett Downs Station, with an area of 4,780 square miles. This probably carried a herd of 60,000 head of cattle, but the drought of ‘57-58 wiped out ap- proximately 25,000 head. It is, I believe, planned to run Santa Gertrudis cattle on the property. I think you give the Stampede very poor coverage considering it is the main event of the year for your town. (That is the actual events and who's who in the ranch world.) Wishing you continued suc- cess with your paper. C. Ulyatt OPINION FROM A TRIBUNE SUBSCRIBER OUT OF THIS WORLD The Editor The Williams Lake Tribune Dear Sir: Ixnay on the rough stuff! That piece of hardware that you tossed up hit me right in the middle if my Mare Imbrim! It raised such a dust that the kids were scared stiff, The wife's fit to be tied, too. She had just hung out all the Fall clothes for an airing and they got plastered! With the water situation what it is up here, everything has to be dry- cleaned, and that plays heck with the budget. If you do it again rn really fix your clock! I'll go out of orbit, ruin your tides, and wreck your calendar system, Yours and no foolin’ The Man in the Moon (Other letter on page 6) former, although he remained very cool about it to the end, but he made it clear time ang again that so long as he livea he would always oppose the acceptance of grants for edy- cation in any form from the federal authorities. Now that he has gone,, Premier Sauve is expected to find a form under which the acceptance of uniy- ersity grants will be palatable. In all the other provinces, both these measures have been accepted as a matter of course. Their acceptance by Quebec, however, will represent an al- almost revolutionary change of attitude, and an indication that Sauve sees the political necessity of new measures suited to an urban industria] society. For the Liberals in the province the death of the wily old leader and founder of the Union Nationale party is a mixed blessing. In a sense, the party is weaker now that he is no longer its leader, but his passing at the same time removes that choicest target for Liberal attack. If Premier Sauve can manage to hold on through the next election, he may win time to consolidate his position and set back his party’s eventual defeat for years to come. CAPITAL HILL CAPSULES The federal government's butter price support program is facing a crisis as surplus stocks in storage head for a new all-time high. By September 1 the volume of butter in storage across the country jumped to 124,084,000 pounds, 10,000,000 pounds above the seasonal peak that was hit in November last year and only 3,700,000 pounds be- low the record of 127,800,000 With butter expected to con- tinue piling up for another month or so, there seemed little doubt that the surplus on hand this year would far exceed the 1955 high. This would present the government with a serious disposal prob- lem and perhaps the necessity of dropping the present 64- cent support price jr selling to vonsumers at a 1 if Needs ql exceptional must be met By REV. A. ANDERSON If you are an exceptional per- son, you have to be treated as a special case. You can’t just be lumped together with everyone else. The rich man, the boss, the man with power or prestige—we usually think of those as the ex- ceptional people. So when we want to uSe “pull” somewhere, we try to line ourselves up with one of them. But they aren’t the only ex: ceptional people around. They aren’t the only ones who need to be treated as special cases. What about the fellow with the physical handicap or deformity? What about the person whose mind won’t move along for him as well as some minds will move? What about the chap with a background of which he can’t be proud? What about ajl those people who don’t look the same or speak the same as most of us? All these are ex- ceptional people, and we live amongst them. In Williams Lake we are mak- ing some progress toward look- ing after the needs of these ex- ceptional people. But we still have far to go. If, for instance, anyone wanted to teach English to new Canadians on a volun- teer basis, I’m sure he could be put to work. Exceptional people are to be found anywhere. In fact, if we were to push this thing far enough, we would find that each one of us is exceptional in some way of another: an exceptional talent or ability, an exceptional personality, an exceptional ap- pearance, an exceptional back- ground. We all stand out some- where, for better or for worse. It is a mistake, then, to think about others as if they were all the same, and only you were an exception. Each person needs to be- recognized, and known, and loved as one supreme im- portance, not just as one of a crowd. Is he not “of more value than many sparrows?” (Luke 12:7). The man beside you is an é@x- ceptional person and needs to be treated as if you knew it.