By V. VICTOR

COMOX. COMICS: A squadron
leader from the base accompan-
ied by a number of other ranks
of airmen recently discovered
men isolated from their base of
supply can survive indefinitely
on mollusks and other type of
sea animals.

This is really not an original
discovery. Archaeologists while
probing camping sites of West
Coast Indians have found evidence
to show Indians lived in thatarea
as long ago as three thousand
years, which isa long time before
the arrival of the first freight
supply boat that now plies these
waters. It is now officially known
that airmen who have not been
able to make it back to base will
not perish from starvation.

There is another point, incase
of an accidental explosion of the
nuclear arms that. are supposed
to be stored at the base, there
would be cooked oysters for a
good many miles away for those

who can’t eat raw shell fish.
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“HUB CITY HOOPLA: Nanaimo
must set some sort of record for
infantile controversy. Last year
a local lawyer revealed how
teachers were brainwashing pu-
pils with socialist dogma. The
“teachens, one andall, hotly denied
the charge.

Last month a member of the
medical profession revealed the
startling news of the tremendous
increase of juvenile motherhood
and promiscuous sex behavior
of Nanaimo youths. This in turn
was denied by a member of the
Health and Welfare department
who stated this was not the case:
statistics show this type of mis-
furtune is actually on the de-
crease.

Last week a chap by the name
of Patrick O’Neill informed the
populace that students today, by
and large, are very poor readers.
This too found a hot denial from

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ing profession who insists, in
fact, childrenare far better read-
ers than those of yesteryear.
This is the extent of the contro-
versial issues as presented by
the local rag.

It seems by filling the pages
with this nonsense no one is
liable to accuse a local realtor
of being a staunch supporter and
friend of hatemonger Eric Butler,
and one ex-mayor who is ditto
with Butler, or a couple of mem-
bers of the legion, and an editor
of a paper. There are more
worms in the wood than that,
as the Good Book says, “By their
fruits ye shall know them.” The
remainder of the Butlerites are
known also. ~

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DOWN DUNCAN WAY: The
leader of the opposition in whose
riding Duncan is the centre, has
given his verbal support to the
United Appeal which gets under
way shortly. Mr. Strachan used
the usual cliche about the appeal
being a worthy cause and all
citizens should support it to the
best of their ability.

There is no doubt every one
must give oftheir time and money
in order to get the amount of the
goal set and also in order that
the Director of the United Appeal
will be able to justify the $25
thousand salary he receives each
year, (not to mention a fat ex-
pense account),

Four dollars spent each year
on a subscription to the TRIBUNE
is a far better investment.

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HEADS ITALIAN PARTY. Luigi Longo
has been elected general secretary
and leader of the Communist Party
of Italy, replacing the late Palmiro
Togliatti. Longo had served 18 years
as deputy leader.

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By MAURICE RUSH

Minister of Lands and Forests
Ray Williston last week released
his long-awaited decisions on
timber licences which could have
a profound effect on the develop-
ment of B,C,’s forest economy,

Faced on the one hand by the
pressure of the giant forest
monopolies who fought among

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icences cover-
ng huge areas
of public for-
ests, and the
"growing public
outcry against
the giveaway of
our resources,
forward with

Williston came
compromise proposals,

By radically switching around
forest boundaries in central and
northern B,C., and by granting
large but reduced forest areas to
the companies involved, he at-
tempted to satisfy their demands,
The companies are Columbia
Cellulose Ltd,, MacMillan-Bloe-
del and Bulkley Valley Pulp and
Timber Ltd,

Special plums were held out by
the Social Credit minister to the
forest monopolies, Instead of
granting Columbia Cellulose the
licence it applied for he added
most of what it wanted to an exist-
ing licence the company already
holds, While not granting the en-
tire area asked for by MBPR he
added to it the bulk of the forest
around Kitimat which was for-
merly logged by small operators
who will now be wiped out in the
area, ;

Thanks for
good wishes

Dear Friends,

I want to thank from the bot-
tom of my heart all the good
and kind friends who stood
by me during my crucial hours
in the hospital recently. Your
good wishes helped me fight a
vicious enemy,

Looking at your cards, flow-
ers, plants, etc. —frompress
clubs, committees and indivi-
duals — it seemed as if all of
you were saying to me: “Come
on, Mary, hurry up and get
well. We need you.” Of course,
just knowing thatI had so many
pulling for me did a lot to
keep me in this wide world.

I wish I could thank each
of you individually but, since
this is impossible, Iam taking ]
the liberty of doing it publicly.

MARY GAWRYCKI

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The Bulkley Valley company,
formerly known as the Houston
group, was given a huge public
forest area in the Smithers-
Burns Lake area, This company,
which seems to have won special
favors, has a _ secret partner
whose identity is not yet known,
but it is widely speculated that
U.S, interests may be, involved,

While handing out all these
plums to the monopoly interests,
Williston was forced to make
concessions to the independent
small logging companies who
strongly opposed some of the
applications at the hearings held
some weeks ago,

These concessions took the
form of creating the new Skeena
crown forest which would enable
small operators in the Terrace
area to maintain their present
cut at the same level, He also
gave assurances that the forests
now managed by the B,C, Forest
Service would be “inviolate as
far as any future tree farm li-
cences are concerned,”

The latter assurance is some-
thing like the man who closed
the barn door after the horse was
gone, While it will be of some
value to some independent log-
gers, the pledge is being given
after the Socred government has
virtually handed over most of the
best forest lands to private mon-
opolies,

The major concession to the
public outery against the give-
away of B.C, forest resources
came in the decision to create
the 18,880 square-mile Finlay
Forest in the Rocky Mountain
Trench which will be maintained
by the B,C, Forestry Service,

with the timber sold by the gOv-

ernment to private bidders,

In making this decision Wil-
liston rejected applications by
the Cattermole Timber Co,, and

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Alexandra Forest Industries for
licences, In rejecting their appli-
cations the Minister offered the
two companies 21-year timber
sale agreements which would give
them priority rights in the area.

This latest concession to public
protest marks an important land-
mark in forestry policy in that
for the first time since Forest
Management Licences were se
troduced, it represents an admis~
sion by the government that it 1®
practical for the government 10
run the forests, retaining publi¢
control of raw materials, while
selling logs to private interests.

The demand that the whole
forestry policy of B.C. be T©”
vamped to turn over operation of
all public forests on a sustaine
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Forest Service in order to retain

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