h gitlzen Established 1916 Published five days a week n Prince Gorge British Columbia by Citizen Publishers ond Printers Ltd A member of The Canadian Press the Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association ond the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized es Second Class Mail by th Post Office Department Ottawa for payment of postage In cash J I MILLIR General Manaatf D C THACKtft Mafieflftf Editor MONDAY MAY 6 1963 A place to start saving A new government has taken charge of Canadian affairs and one of its first jobs should certainly be to cut down drastically the waste and extravagance which has featured several previous administrations One of the more obvious and simpl simplest ¬ est ways to begin this task is to elimin eliminate ¬ ate a large portion of the printed material which is sent out from govern government ¬ ment offices and departments under the guise of publicity and public re relations ¬ lations Its a fair guesstimate that the ton tonnage ¬ nage of paper and ink which is sent out from government offices would more than pay all the salaries of all the editors who daily toss these releases into the nearest waste baskets This is not to say that all the material is useless On the contrary some of it is highly useful from the standpoints of news and background But certainly the vast bulk of the material which is sent out in the guise of news is completely worthless The saving to Canadian taxpayers by eliminating it would be substantial And it would be a good place to start econ economizing ¬ omizing Island with a history of trouble Hispaniola home of Haiti and the Dominican Republic is a Caribbean island that has been a centre of tur turmoil ¬ moil since Columbus discovered it in 1492 Spain and France plundered the island and subdued the natives Roam Roaming ¬ ing pirates terrorized the area French speaking Haiti takes up the western third of Hispaniola The United States occupied Haiti in 1915 and left in 1934 The 4200000 Haitians mostly negro make a bare living farming About 3000000 people live in the potentially prosperous Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic which exports sugar cocoa beans and coffee Dom Dominicans ¬ inicans regained freedom recently after slaying dictator Rafael L Tru jillo and ousting his aides Franco had to show hes boss By ALAN HARVEY Canadian Press Staff Writer Spains slow sidelong pro progress ¬ gress into the 20th century is bound to suffer a tempor temporary ¬ ary check with the execution of Communist leader Julian Grimau Western versions of what happened in Madrid agree that the trial was a mockery of justice with Grimau punish punished ¬ ed mainly for alleged crimes committed in the savage days of the civil war a quarter century ago One popular conclusion is that grizzled Francisco Fran Franco ¬ co Spains perennial dictator is still dwelling in thp past still eager after all these j cars to wreak vengeance upon the lowliest of his civil war opponents Nearly everyone of mature j cars remembers the ciwl war with a thrill of horror It cost 1000000 lhes and left a mark upon the Spanish soul nobody wants to sec it happen again But it may be wrong to suggest that Franco risked turning Grimau into a nation national ¬ al martyr merely for the sake of revenge Franco is a man of ice who seldom acts on impulse He conies from Uaji cia in northwestern Spain an arid region whose people are known for their dour calcu calculating ¬ lating qualities It can be argued therefore that in ordering Grimaus execution Franco was less in interested ¬ terested in settling old scores than in deliberately reviving the memories of 1936 as a means of intimidating restive Spaniards For the last decade Spain has been moving in reluctant crab like style away from her old isolation and toward a ten tentative ¬ tative understanding with Europe and the West Ad Admirers ¬ mirers of the Spanish people and they are legion welcom welcomed ¬ ed and encouraged the trend For a time Franco himself seemed reluctantly ready to condone the new liberalism as long as his personal power re remained ¬ mained unaffected Perhaps the pace has become too fast During a wave of strikes last summer the Spanish church showed sympathy for workers whose minimum wage was only recently raised to 60 pesetas a day from 36 or to about 1 in Canadian terms from 65 cents The church went so far in its tacit support that it was reported Francos ministers protested to the Roman Catho Catholic ¬ lic primate of Spain Cardinal Pla y Deniel The church and the army ere the two main props of the Franco regime With an Ibe Iberian ¬ rian version of something ap approaching ¬ proaching liberalism apparent apparently ¬ ly taking root in the church Franco may have felt a drastic move such as Grimaus exe execution ¬ cution had to be made to show he still is the boss Promises to be redeemed By GERALD WARING OTTAWA This may not be the most promising new government that ever took office because Prime Minis Minister ¬ ter Pearson was chary in the election campaign about mak making ¬ ing commitments lest the voters disbelieve him But those he did make he didnt hedge with buts and maybes and more surprising surprisingly ¬ ly still he tied them tightly to a timetable The test of his ability to keep to his time timetable ¬ table will come when parlia parliament ¬ ment meets in two weeks Pearson and Finance Min Minister ¬ ister Gordon look for quick parliamentary action in their economic program A municipal develop development ¬ ment and loan fund Pearson hopes to encourage construc construction ¬ tion and increase jobs by substantial grants and low interest loans to municipali municipalities ¬ ties for many much needed public works projects A June budget Pearson It will mean tax incentives special depieciation allow allowances ¬ ances and other government measures to increase indus industrial ¬ trial production and tax in incentives ¬ centives to increase exports A department of indus industry ¬ try Gordon For working out industry by industry w ays of producing more goods cither for export or for the domestic market without add adding ¬ ing appreciably to costs A national development corporation Gordon will assist in the expansion of all kinds of productive indus industry ¬ try large economic pro projects ¬ jects which are beyond the scope of private industry which in the past have had to be promoted and financed by people who live outside our borders this trend should be reversed A national economic council Pearson to determine the needs and the long range requirements of our economy and also to find solutions to our problems be before ¬ fore they develop into nation national ¬ al crises A federal agency for de development ¬ velopment of economically backward areas Pearson The problems of a lagging economy and unemployment must be approached on a regional basis The govern government ¬ ment must offer loans grants and tax incentives to com companies ¬ panies which are willing to build plants and other facili facilities ¬ ties in districts where there is a surplus of manpower This is the legislative pro program ¬ gram to turn existing wheels faster to create more wheels to turn and to provide more jobs It is tied in with a program of hard inter governmental bargaining to ensure Canadas inclusion in new world trad trading ¬ ing patterns based on Euro European ¬ pean and American plans for expanding trade Mr Pearson also Jias listed certain lines of action for his first 60 days that arc cither non economic or only peri- Higher loadings Pacific Great Eastern total revenue cars loaded on line and received from connections in April this year were up more than 30 per cent oyer the corresponding month in 1962 Aprils total was 417a com compared ¬ pared with 3085 in April last j ear The accumulated total for the first four months of this year also was higher at 16003 compared with 13908 pherally so ile promised to set up a national commission on biculturalism to strengthen the unity of French Canada with the rest of the country and an all party Commons committee on defence policy There is a certain fuzziness around his intentions concern concerning ¬ ing nuclear weapons that prob probably ¬ ably wont be clarified until after his conference with President Kennedy and after the NATO ministerial meet meeting ¬ ing here later this month But there is no fuzziness about his promise to establish a portable pension plan to which workers and employers will contribute so designed that workers can take their full pension rights with them when they change jobs This will be done immedi immediately ¬ ately medicare will come later INCIDENT IN A SMALL TOWN It takes courage to stand up to a bully The writer of the following letter is an ordinary cititen of Terrace He describes an In Incident ¬ cident which already hat be become ¬ come commonplace in the big bigger ¬ ger cities of Canada and the US and which without good police work and serious pub public ¬ lic co operation could become a matter for concern in the Northern Interior It is something for all law enforcement officers includ including ¬ ing prosecutors and magis magistrates ¬ trates as well as the public to think about Editor The Terrace Herald I was driving along Park Ave having just been to the Post Office when I saw a car driven up and parked on the sidewalk completely blocking it opposite the Civic Centre with three young men by the side of it talking to two girls I stopped my truck and wrote down the number of the car whereupon one of the joung men came across to me and said Im from Vancou Vancouver ¬ ver dont try to be a citizen I replied Well Im from Terrace it doesnt matter where joure from jou have no right to drive up on the sidewalks weve just paid a lot of money to have those built Whereupon he said If you turn me in Ill burn jour house down you got a wife and kids Ill beat them up I then attempted to start my truck to drive off to the police station He snatched the kcs out of the ignition and threw them across the road I got out of the truck One man was behind mc and one in front he slapped my face and the one behind said and you struck him first I saw a car coming down the road I stopped it and asked the driver to go to the police station as I needed as assistance ¬ sistance He laughed as did the boys in the car with him they apparently were my as- LefferS TO THE EDITOR Letter for publication are welcome They must be brief and will not be printed unless accompanied by the name and address of the writer although a nom de plume may be used if desired Opinions expressed in letters are the writers and not necessarily those of The Cititen Sir This is an open letter to the Womens Auxiliary to the Prince George Regional Hos Hospital ¬ pital As a bemused spectator and a voting member of the Hos Hospital ¬ pital Society I view with some trepidation the role the Womens Auxiliary might un unwittingly ¬ wittingly play in the coming annual meeting On one side we have the hospital board who arc at times a rather pompous group believing that the ultimate in running a hospital is operat operating ¬ ing in the black Personally I think the ultimate is the curing of the sick On the other hand is the now notorious group of 10 petition signers who are bay baying ¬ ing at the heels of the board and firing charges of mis mismanagement ¬ management in all directions It is now going to end in a membership drive with each side trying to recruit enough new members to out votc the other This will only prove that one side or the other is more successful in putting the heat on their friends to join and vote their way The real issue is whether the charges levelled by the group of 10 arc true or false If the charges arc true the board should be asked some rather blunt questions and if the answers are not forthcom forthcoming ¬ ing then resignations arc in order If the charges arc false then the group of 10 should be wal walloped ¬ loped on the ends of their noses and thrown back in their kennels But to deny this group its say by packing the assembly and out voting them is a breach of basic democ democracy ¬ racy and will prove nothing As members of the Womens Auxiliary you will probably be asked to throw your vot voting ¬ ing and membership recruit recruiting ¬ ing power to one side or the other If you choose sides in what is shaping up to be a real mud slinger the auxiliary has everything to lose and nothing to gain As one who has had mem members ¬ bers of my family in the Prince George hospital I would like to thank the auxiliary for the excellent job its members are doing What impressed me most about your organization is the sense of dedication that most members have You are not like the do gooders who put 10 in the collection plate and then spend the rest of the year crowing about it I would hate to see this organization choose sides in this row because no matter which side you choose you have lost Make up a party and enjoy a wonderful evening this Wednesday at HOTEL SIMON FRASERS SMORGASBORD Served from 5i00 pm to 930 pm in the ballroom For reservations call catering manager lOgan 4 5191 C D CORMACK chiropractor wishes to announce that his office is now located in the SPRUCE CAPITAL 1UILDING 1717 Third Avenue 10 4 5942 If ou side with the group of 10 and their charges prove false vou will be discredited along with them If you side with the board and the charges prove to be true you will be judged the same as the board No matter which side you support if that side wins the other side will scream that you have been brainwashed and our voting power has blocked the truth If by throwing your votes to one side or the other you do suppress the truth for the time being by not allowing it to become known through an investigation your organiza organization ¬ tion will have lost some of its moral integrity You are too good an organ organization ¬ ization with too good a repu reputation ¬ tation to lower yourself by being used by cither side Tell both sides to jump in the lake Do not worry which side is right because the truth will eventually float to the top Forsoothe Verily -hJ sailants friends and they stayed to watch the fun I walked across the road and asked for admittance to the house The daughter of the home owner- refused to allow mc to enter to use the phone to call the police The man was slapping my face and taunting mc to hit him back However bear jn mind that if I did not hit him back I could charge him with assault plus the fact he had seven other friends standing by I considered it wise to run for the next house where I was able to use the phone to get assistance The police arrived took the details and with only a car number to go on were able to apprehend the thugs with within ¬ in an hour The ringleader was charged with assault and next morn morning ¬ ing was standing barefoot be before ¬ fore the magistrate a very different person pleading that he was sorry for what he had done he had been drinking etc and only wanted to show off In front of the girls He had a poor old mother to support in Chilliwack and was only here to get enough money so that he could re return ¬ turn home He almost had mc in tears However the magistrate was able to assess the situation clearly and imposed a fine of 150 payable immediately or 30 das in jail Consider if this had been your mother father sister or brother walking along the sidewalk and confronted by these thugs in broad daylight at 530 in the evening in the middle of town or a woman with a baby buggy Just consider the possible results and after thinking of the threats Ill burn your house down Ill beat your wife and kids up yes it docs sound a bit like a tv program but believe mc when you arc on the receiving end its very real The reasons for this letter arc 1 Since the increase in staff of our police if a citizen phones for assistance an im immediate ¬ mediate response is available c CAN YOU BUY A NEW CAR NOW 2 In this case the police apprehended the thugs in less than an hour with only the car number to go on 3 Heavier penalties are be being ¬ ing handed out to meet the increase in this type of vio violence ¬ lence and vandalism that the town has suffered over the last year or so 4 Citizen should support the police and give them as assistance ¬ sistance and be prepared to charge the offenders when caught This way we can keep Ter Terrace ¬ race free of thugs and our property and families safe Yours very truly Vic Jolliffe ADVERTISING SPECIALTIES Calendars Book Matches etc OUTDOOR DISPLAY MATERIAL WM BUYLOR LTD 2131685 Third Ave Phone 564 5612 Use Citizen Classifieds British Columbia Telephone Company BSSSSSSSSSSSSSJ i JbJb K 4H ssfcJfciJiY bbbbbbbbbbbbbb J- bbbbbi bbbbbbvvbbbbBi bibbbbV bbS aBB Tssbbbm mpjjiggffjg 4flBBBBBBH BBBBBBBk lii - i -BBBBBBl 90jbH ibbbbV bbhIOjbi V HHHHHHm mmmIH I jWH- iHw- S jSf t BBSBBMwiJB irlw BBftdBBMBYavBBTJ fc 5f SJSSJip JP it3 h wm FNiw - BiSjfiS sksmPsTsTs JOHN A McMAHON DUNCAN K MocTAVISH O BE QC Mr John 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