Page PRINCE GEOKGE CITIZEN Prince George Citizen ESTABLISHED 1916 locally owned, Independent newspaper- published every Thursday at Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, ty (ftw Central Interior Printing Co. Ltd. Largest circulation of any weekly newspaper in British Colombia north of C.PR. Main line. Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers' Association. .THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1944. The Picture is Bright These are the lazy, casual "grousing" days of the year when sumrncjr holidays/ the heat and a natural drowsiness induced by unsettled ¦weather give people in Prince George a sense, of being in the dunips emotionally. A feeling ol futility. Yet a stroll in the cool of the evening • would show active construction work under way about town, with -many home owners industriously busy. ()n the veranda steps one can gather from the Coast dailies plans projected that, if. raa-\terialized, will make dreams come into reali ties, ami banish for good the lurking fear that Prince George is about to slip back to where it was 20 years ago. That Prince George is the focal point of much interest from outside is only too obvious from activity within the city and that developing beydnd our boundaries. Few people here realize-that Prince George, parked plumb centre in the middle of B.C., -lias an annual volume of retail trade totalling some $7,697,000 in a trading- area.1 emlrracing 36 communities with a combined population or close to 31.000 people. We are on the through road, by rail and highway, from Vancouver to Prince Rupert, with but a short gap to link us via McBride with Edmonton. The 450 railroaders employed between iMc Bride and Kndako have achieved one of the finest jobs of pushing freight and passengers of any sub-division on 'the C.N'.R^with a fair to certain assurance that post-war traffic for export purposes will,approach the same levels with a lull between for necessary replacement work. ---The two big producers at Wells anticipate full scale development immediately conditions permit. At present some 450 jobs are going begging in this Sclcctve Service area. The 118 mills in Fort George Forest district anticipate a post-war activity even great er than that of the past two years. The sudden interest in soft woods due to certain new processes has caused interest in experts to perk up among operators dubious of competing with coast fir or hemlock. If one ticks off exactly what administration areas are governed from Prince George and the firms that obviously have allowed for postwar, expansion in buildings, then a bit more cheerful attitude is engendered. Apart f om this there is the $1,736,400 salted away in the past six Victory Loans in the district. In all it's a bright picture. A BetteriJFiur Prince Georgcrnd district annual Fall Fair ^ts-aivexample of what can be accom-ed through the maintainance of the old get-together spieit of helpfulness, although in recent years eoo few have had to carry the major load. Early this year indications were that we would have no fair, so poor was the interest and attendance at meetings called by Prince George Agricultural and Industrial Association to lay plans for the exhibition. However, the'old faithful came through once again and now the Fall Fair prize lists and entry forms have been printed. The agricultural association is to be commended for its performance. This and similar associations are all that make the difference between a virile community, and a dead one. Prizes for various sections have been increased 50 per cent, particularly in the livestock division, and new sections include pets and sheep, and children .are asked to join, adults in showing their animals. Between now and the two-day. Fall *Fair, August 22 and| 23, business firms, restaurants, hotels^and-^everyone—-should show a keen interest in it. And farmers aricMoca! producers of vege* tables and flowers, and the women, too, should not hesitate in planning to exhibit and join in friendly rivalry. Let's make this fair the best yet! Epidemic Control The proposed epidemic control unit Dr. John G. MacArthur is arranging on instructions of the B.C. Medical Association is not an alarmist project. It is a sane, far-sighted plan designed to protect Prince George in days to come when Canadians return from far corners of the earth where disease, blatantly evident or baf-flingly obscure, has stalked with death and starvation. The transition qf war has shifted large populations in Canada with subsequent over crowding and health-draining travel, work and living conditions. The return of men enured to hardships no civilian can conceive and conditioned to certain immunities may possibly, as post-war periods in the past have proven; expose those at home whose resistance has been lowered to disease of epidemic proportions. Nearer home, in fact in several homes in this community, another factor offers itself, willingly so, the lowly bedbug, whose increase is alarming housewives and those to whom it presents an easy carrier of disease. The transient nature of many temporary residents is believed- responsible. That over-crowding is evident in Prince George cannot be denied. These three factors alone justify immediate formation of the community unit, representative of* all health-conscious organizations. It may well be that a debt of gratitude may be due the sponsors—the Canadian Medical Association committee on emergent epidemics—in years to come for the preventative nature of this safeguard. \ ------------- V ——:-----— Broken Arteries \ "Broken Arteries" was the theme of an editorial in The Vancouver Province which urged that if there is any misgiving that we shall lose a first-class artery in the North let us compromise and get on with the job, a sentiment that The Citizen heartily concurs in. The Province says: Today our Cariboo Highway stretches a long arm towards the Coast from Prince George. It loses itself forlornly in the wilderness just short of the Coast Range and has long been a symbol of the B.C. tradition to build highways that melt behind the beyond. Blood brothers of this lonely road run out from Princeton towards Hope and from Hope towards Princeton, and there are other lost highways on the North Thompson, in the Peace country, Omineca and Vancouver Island. ""*' '"'"¦¦,'Q^-^1 They were born to be arteries-but-each has. baited somewhere along t^je-Toad to its objective. The war d£d"3omething up north to break this tnjdition. The Japanese peril showed the fessity of railway and highway connection with Prince Rupert. United States and Canada went to work, smiting mountains and filling valleys, and now a highway is almost ready ro link with the arm from Prince George. Jt overlooks the splendor of the Skeena gorges. This is the highwa^ for which Ottawa appropriated the last $3,000,000. It will run from Prince Rupert to Kitwanga, at the end of the Prince George road. Whatever is left from these millions, savs Mr Creara, will ' ¦ . ¦¦» be turned over for rehabilitating the disre-paired end of the Prince George-Kitwanga road, if the province matches Kitwanga costs dollar for dollar. B.C. members of parliament want Ottawa to finish the repair job as well. They; claim that was the original federal intention. But now, surely, the vast army of equtp-menti available should not be allowed to be dispersed for lack of a corripromise arrange-ment^pn a repair job. Prince Rupert, seeking modern highway connections with our road system for a score oPyears, should at last have her reward. ------------- V ----------— The dimmest lights have the most scandal power. It will take sand,and grit—not soft soap—to clean up the mess, we're in. ? ? ?........* * ? \ To find the secret of true greatness look for-the gifeatness in the other fellow. APPOINT PRINCIPAL FOR NORMAL SCHOOL VKTTORIAr-Harry Oswald English has been appointed principal of Victoria Normal School, with Dr. Henrietta Alexandrina Ramage Anderson as vice-principal, the B.C. Department of Education has announced. Mr. English, former vice-principal, succeeds Dr. V. L. Denton, who died suddenly In June. 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THE DAIRY EMER E'S in the frontHme of morejtfod. the fight for food—and In 1942-43 he produced, in British Columbia 575,000,000 lbs. of milk, of which 242,000,000 lbs. went into concentrated roods, powdered milk, etc., easily shippable to our overseas battlefronti Because milk and cheese have taken their rightful'place •1 the top of the "training table" of our armed forces, Canada must have an ever-increasing flow of these priceless fo$^jt to maintain strength, health and morale tv Seriously handicapped though they are by ^shortage of. Jabor, the British Columbia dairymen^ and their families are making superhuman efforts to achieve the record production required to take care of both civilian and military consumption alike. !'•* "~-\ PRINCETON BREWING,CO. LTD. PRINCETON - BRITISH COLUMBIA la H9 ¦ Offered in tribute to those who work for victory toda? and -better* times tomorrow