weil, ‘ fn, ———_, NEW HAZELTON, B. ©., WEDNESDAY; DECEMBER 19, 1934 OMINECA HERALD _ tap Es eee SE Lz CEKERERERECRKERES RR OE RT OT RR UR ICC: So PPP ES EDEL Pe SE RSE TEP D ESD YF ~ Ea the residents af Noctherw and Central Brit- ish Galumbia 3 extend my sincere tnishes fur a Happy Christmas, and a Urosperons New Pear. Olof Hanson Prince Rupert Br The Sea From Onr Own Reporter The sea serpent legend lingers. The allest. sea lore scientist in British Cal- wohia, Dr. Clemens of Nantimo says, there aint no such animal.” But to judge from comment in many promin- ent publicutios, concerning the finding of this monster skeleton o Henry Isl- and, near Prince Rupert, speeulation continnes. Skeena is receiving a lot of frof page -space, and editorial philo- sophy for nathing, ‘+ _* & Dr. W. 'T. Kergin and danghter Mar- saret, are on the Pacific voyaging to Ilonoiulu aboard the Empress of Jap- in. Der. Kergin says he feels the need of a rest and change, and as there are 136 persons disembarking at Honolulu for the Christmas holidays, many oth- ers are also responding ta the exotic lnre of this famous eross roads of the Pacific, . Xe oofet Wheat) will be moving through Prinée Thupert this winter after more m year’s wit, The first week in Jan- vary the SS Bradtnrn, of the Reardou Smith fleet, Mngland, will he here to tike on ahout a quarter of what js vow in the elevater. This will make it Fail carga, Vt is anticipated — that the elevator will he emptied to make Wwiy for new erop shipments. This shomd menn a ship a month until well Fete fle spring, THOUGHT MORE MEN WERE LOST ON DORREEN MOUNTAIN Last week the people of Dorreen be- ean to fenr that they had another om their hands when some of the men who went ont with Cons Martin to dook for Arthur Michel. did not return when expected nor for sever] days wffer, Part of the party wis sent THD Wonountain where semcane snw smoke connie fram about where it was well known there was a eabin, Tt was at first (honght the Michel might have vone up the mountiin and had got ta this cabin. This was not the ense and if is believed that some Indians had nso the erbin enroute over the hill. Anyway the men who went up there mnde a thorongh, search ‘of the. moun inin and they fontd no trace of Michel The men had been away so long that it was fenref they had disappeared as They were all back {fn eamp by Raturday, aan La n ' about that game. Steve McNeil Is Still Active at Copper City Stephen MeNeil, an old timer around New Unzelton and Tazelton, wand of Inte yeurs a resident of Copper Cily, spent afew days in Smithers last week business. a prospector, aud he knows quite a lot Ie has some claims on the Copper River and he believes he hus something very good in a gold quartz group he has been working on for a number of yeurs. engineer or two in fo look it over and he has always received a guvod report which verifies his own opinion of it, Ths coming yenr he expects to unload nnd tike life easier in future, When Steve went to Copper City he wus induced to invest some of his cash twoa small farming proposition. He got a good piece of land, has a nice little orchard and a strawberry pateh, Int he says farming is not so hot—too nich thne must be spent on the hands aud knees around the berries and the vegetables, and his old hones are not 80 responsive as they once were. He would be willing ¢o dispose of his lit | te farnt tea yormger min ving or ondining are not so bad. stil upto thet. or at least not have sone Steve is He has had an ‘|ing a grudge around with them. Let OUR CHRISTMAS GREETINGS The Omineca Herald wishes all who read this and others, a Merry Christ- mas. May o true spirit of Christmas be abroad in the land thig year, and may a lot of animosity, bred from the pinch of hard. times,-and based on a false foundation, be forgotten in favor of 2 goad opinion of all our fellow citi- zens There are none so bad, but what they might be worse, and most of the badness and meanness we think is to be found in the other fellow, is usually bern of our own imagination or the imagination of another who may also have been misunderstood. But under the most favorable circumstances noe one ever got any satisfaction in carry- this be a real happy Christmas. For give all the mean things you imagine have heen done to you. You will feel a lot better. You will see that noth- ing mean was (done to you. Terrace Notes Toney ‘Thompson. son of Mm aud Mrs, Itoss ‘Phonmison, is making . satis- factory precress in Prince Rupert and ‘is expected home this week. tht . Carl Mueller was one of the victims of the icy conditions, Working in the bush at his place on Lakelse oad, he slipped off a log and suffered injuries to his right hip, se om Rev, W. R. Welch made a trip along the Hne lnst week, being away from Wednesday until Saturday. He visit. ed Pacific, Dorreen, Cedarvale and Minskinech, , eRe rd ite Dt tS es ESET SEP OE TTSSESESIVELENES FEY D> ST Co the residents of Skeena are extenece amy cin~ tere tnishes for a Mecry Christnas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year. . B. T. Kenney - CLCCL CLEC EL CeCe eC CA eee ECC CT CECCCER CLL CCL EOL ELS Nursing Service _ At the Hospital Is Little Known At this season of the year everyone is more ov less in a festive mood and Hood Sint ast it shevdia he pita ls, is and what it is for. has a never-failing souree of supply. Perhaps at this season we might be willing to learn something about what our hospitids: represent and we give here something from' the pen of Miss Ethel Johns, R.N., whois known toa Matt Allard and Bill Cavanagh came in from Kalum Lake on Thurs- Prospect He ean day with a nice bunch of fur off Matts trap line up the Beaver river. In- eluded iu the lot was a pair of nice fisher. * * & Audrew Kennedy and his | partner hive made the high seore so far for the trapping season, Andrew was in from the line at the beginning of the week with five fisher pelts. see Over the week end the conntry side took on a real uspect of winter. ‘To~ many meaber of the family. and thoy eitoapproach close ta oor ga hy the OQ) raneh on Friday and tald the Terrace part of fhe per diem cost, and even News he had just shipped his first lot patients who ean pay nothing at all. fo herd over aquy mere than he is any way, hotter flan he has been far years and [a oe 7h . is confident that he wHl live as jong MTT. wards the end of the week there was! . atshow fall, and wnless there is a sud- day of the year, the Prono phystert standpoint Steve is} den thange there is every prospect of stand ready te render expert niarsing good old white Christmas. — oem W. ‘Troeston wis in fram his mink Notice is hereby given of a Public Meeting in the hall, New Hazelton on Friday evening, December 21, 1934, at the hour of 7.30 o’elock, sharpe, for the pupose of discussing the matter of an overhead crossing of the rallway on Tenth Ave, .New .Hazelton. ~All citizens of New Hazelton ta he present. are requested gs: ., + + fon Thursday for the vaeation,. TURNED DOWN A YACHT Somo oof fhe sports in Mugland had Hider that a rew oy ee thing to presert te THs Majesty rest yerr oo the occasion af his jubl- The sim of $2,000 was proposed to he poised for the yacht, bunt THis Salesty state) that he was very fond of Nis present yneht, Britinnin and he thomeht it wenkd be much better to de- vote the mover fo some more useful purpose while the world wrs in such Hn unbahuived state mid there was so much suffering among the people, macht wonld be a PUBLIC MEETING IN NEW HAZ- ELTON FRIDAY NIGHT of furs from that venture. BIL has done a lot of work developing the pro- anhnials all the attention they have needed. He is to he congratulated on bringing the raneh to at point of pro- ductlon, and many wish him all sue- cess in yenrs to come, ** # In our ramblings round the country side we fing many interesting things mmdoart times come across wark that displays renl artistry. ‘Phe other day Wwe dropped in on Fred Michaud, and We noticed a palr of Snowshoes frames hanging on the wall. They were not Intee, a nan can spon them from tip to tip with outstretched hand, but these frames were in perfect propor- thon. shaped and: finished with more skill than a pair of work shoes, aud one of these days Fred will fi] them With just as mnch eare as he hng tak- en in dotng the wood work. Fred told ts there was more work making a min ature pair than in building a sat for, service, —— Miss M. Weleh leaves for Vancouver ject and has heen content to give the! number of local people, haying met local hospital, Miss Joins writes :— “In my judgment the public tends to taking muvsing service in hospitals for #ranted and does not realize how heay ily its cost weighs upon the hospital. Tam afraid you will think this ‘old istuff’ and so it is, Hut so are the Ton Cummandmeuts. “The pmblie shonld be better inform- ed caucerning the funetion af the hos- pital as the principrl source of skilled and continuous nursing service. “Pwenty-four hours a day, ou every hospital must : 4 jeure. The pmblic expects that -this Ithis service shall be available at all “times for jnitients who cin pay only a “Yet it entails upon the hospital a large. finaneial outhay, ; “Competent and continuous: inyzs- ‘tng service does not just happen, It han only be developed when certain ‘essential factors are present, The hospital must seenre professionally qualified nurse administrators to dir- ect ix] supervise its nursing activities The rnuk nud file of the nursing force Olof Hanson is Off to Ottawa After Business Olof Hanson has completed a tour of his constituency and will legye this thinking about how to do something week for Montreal where he aud Mrs. that will please some one. That ia all ilanson will spend Christmas with the gat while son, Olof. and then until the House of’ thinking along these lines why nut Commons opens after the middle of give a little consideration to our hos- January. Mr. Hanson will spend in con We all know what a hospital nection with bis own busiuess, . We are quick very hopeful that he will be able to to think and say things if the hospital secure a, iumber of orders for cedar service does not come up te our ex- pulés and Piling, and in that case he fechuions. Also We are ppt to regard will open up some of the camps and a the hospital and its serviees in a light good number of men will find employ- similar to that light in which we re- ment. . gard a government—an intitution that} He is Mr. Hanson is going to try bis ut- most this session to get some action in Ottawa that will benefit -Skeena, , uot only the coast, but the interior as well and it was to gain the ideas and needs of his people that hé made his jrecent trip around the’ empire he re- presents. He spoke of his trip to the ; Queen Charlotte Islands, which “he her on one or other of her visits to the “said he had really never visited before He went around the island and he gol off the boat and went inland and be sw something he had no idea existed in the way of timber resourees. The operators over there are using modern methods to log and they are taking only the biggest trees and leaving the others uninjured, and to grow for an- other crop. The camps and boats connected with the cups are all fitted with radio- Pliones and are in constant touch with euch other all the time, This is one of the great things of the mInodern world, Years ago a boat might he overdue for days, or maybe weeks and no one would have any idea of its Jo- cation, Now if tronhle crops up as- sistance can be sent immediately the report is received by radio: Premier R. B. Bennett stated in Ot- tuwa the first of the week that as soon us therreport from the Price Spread Comission was received the govern- ment would be prepared to provide legislation to control business and pro- tert the publie from excessive profit. miking, He says the day for the big Drofit baron has iussed. mist meine np te certain accepted stundards of professional fitness, and? hurses mnust be well fed and housed. these essential factors in mind wilt! necessavily-epst money, How could it! be otherwise?’ Yet nursing is an. in- dispensable factorin hospital service, and hospitnts' are pubiic: utilties,.The public pays for. other utilities, Why not for nursing? For hospital nursing is a public utility, and will be so‘ re- garded by the public if and when. the hospitals themselves recognize i ag such. ‘ _ “Our hospitals “cannot close. The stunding army, of -health must, always he ready to protect the health and lfe of every: citizen. “The public should oon 4 iCuntda with mare horses than “A musing service organized witht‘ yenr. know the story of prepareduess behind gether.” - ® *- # Nova Scotian is the only province in last every Instliution, It should renlize that the army of health ‘stands. ready for action in times of ‘failure ag well aS in times of success, duting war and during peace, Always the . workers in the army of health from their fortres « es in the hospitals are. safe-grarding the public against pestilence and dis- ease, and guaranteeing to the cltizenry the most priceless ofall human pos. Session—henith,. The publie must. re- alize that health and hospitals ‘ate In- evitably and inextricably bound: ‘to.