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I J ^ BilR?*S^ £ Your | $ Community I Paper J -*-fc*-k-k-k-k-tt-*-tt-K-K-KV-K-*-K-*-»-K-fc-* THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR ********************** | The Voice | of the I Valley l Forty-Ninth Year; No. 6. PRINCETON, B.C., FRIDAY; 25th I EBRUARY, 194->. 5c per Copy; $2.00 per Year And Now ; \ wvvuvwwwwwwwww EDUCATION And AH That ■« Pgr^CETON SPLIT ON SCHOOL BSl'E: PROTEST TO VICTORIA • P.T.A. Goes After Board And Principal After P.T.A. Sanitation Expert O.K.'s Site ——I f N the throes of an incorporation wrangle, Pjjinceton is split anejw over schools. The board plans, to build a $300,000 addition. There is dispute over the site. The Parent-Teachers' Association disagrees with the plans. A representative disagrees with the board. The P.T.A. has asked the Provincial Education Department for an investigation. The principal has challenged the P.T.A. — and been sat on. Now we probably willbe. Meanwhile a sanitation expert has said the site is o.k. that way, with provisions. Here is your dutiful analysis,-^ but if you don't enjoy this sort The Way Out * of thing moeie ;than we do, we hate to have to urge your dutiful reading of it. Bored With The Board §§§ On 10th January, at the reg ular monthly P.T.A. meeting, the school site was discussed and a committee was appointed to in vestlgate. On 11th January this committee wrote the school ooard, asking to meet th© board and discuss the matter. The comma.tee says it has not yet received a reply. Mrs. E. MacDonald, who was a member of that ooimirnittee', is] £ilsp an elected' representative for the school district; she is not however, one of the five trustees, I Five trustees are elected by the' representatives (who have been, elected by the ratepayers). There :s some public doubt as to the purpose of these representatives,! and their (continuing powers, after they have elected the five trustees from thei r own number. | n was of course a simple pro The looal interpretation seems, fesslonai finding, made in hs to be that the authority lies with responsibility, and not intended the f ve trustees, which makes aS an arg1imienA on rival sites the whole position of popular Dr.. philips supports this view representation curious. I and makes )t ciear that he has The P.T.A. letter was before intended no personal argument the board at a regular meeting. in the debate. It is simply ms the same nghit. The plans, were responsibility to see that any produced and Mrs. MacDonaM' school site is sanitary. In his was asked about her objections ' competence he had reasonable She held out for a meeting with doubts. He referred them to the the P.T.A. ccimmiAee. , competence off a sanitary en- It wais moved' and carried that gineer. ing endorsed the present site. Dr. Phillips's pronouncement naturally had inamificaiions in' an issue that was fast coming to a head, with the emergence of opposing camps, one favoring regaining 't|he present site, the other advocating moving It to a new site, and it is simply f actua») that the issue, like many, others exampled in inoorportatiion, became one of local polit cs for mirny on both sides. Under the circumstances. Dr | Phillips's pronouncement was argued controversially and in some cases distorted. The Doctor's Dilemma the plans be senit to the Education Department. Mrs. MacDon . aid said there was not much pouit after that in meeting the P.T.A. committee. Representatives do not vote on i-iuch matters In The Den Of Fair (?) Women On 12th January the P-T.A committee met to discuss the board's acton in sending in the plains1. It was decided to lodge a demurrer with the department. On 15th January this letter was sent. Signatures were obtained of some 50 ratepayers iand parents, but it was not a petition, and no general canvass seems to have been undertaken. Stated objections were. (1) site too small for proper playground space; (2) sanitation of site questioned; (3) heavy hign- wav traffic, with noise also railway noises; (4) plans for proposed building considered inadequate. These points are considered elsewhere. On 18th January the depart- -ment acknowledged the P.T.A. letter and sa d the x objections would be investigated. At the same time the department wrote the school board", enclosing a copy of the P-T-A letter. The Spokesmen Of The Wheel On 26th October at the weekly Rotary luncheon, 'there was a disouiSfcsiion of school matters, doubtless prompted bv the fact that the .annual ratepayers' meet ing fell that night, and' that a luncheon guCst was Mr. Colby of the public works department. Paul Phillips, -it- An expert has squefched anxieties and whisperings of the sanitary suitableness of the site as no local argument could. Call in the rest. Let an educational expert examine our needs and review the plans. Let's have the town planner's report. School and community are complimentary, not competitive. What is right is best and nobofly should oppose i Call a special meeting to ensure an intelligent vote, not a defeat or a mistake. Let the P.T.A. respect the authority of the board, the board the interest of the P.T.A- and the interests of the town. And the principal st:ck to his job. Let's each do ottnte and pull together. alongside fflhe "old one. The old one was converted by W. C. Mc Dougall as a house - - now the Oreskovich place. Then an addition was built to the school in 1917—the completed unit that is now the elementary school- The h gh school building also evolved in two stages, begun about 1925 and completed some six year's later. Almost immediately they needed still more room, and 'the old court house, which had been replaced oy the present structure adjoining, was jjpught and moved to the school grounds. As With huil'ding, so with groundls — steady expanson, .until the whole section from Vec. milion avenue to Bridge street has been, or is marked.to be, acquired for school purposes. A street was closed to make the area compasfi. With the space between Endoliffe avenue and the-river expropriated for the highway, ths removes & considerable section of cramped downtown area, alongside railway, highway and river, and It is not surp-ising that there are I claims for i ts value as Industrial and business property. Actually the school site issue is not new. It was gone into when the high school addition was discussed, though it did not. then have the. present significance, wh. eh largely arises out of the routing of the highway- .. [IlilillliiSlilll! • rt 1 i Elmer .Loves Edith trui—xXx He referred the matter, on ha own initiative, to his own department in Victoria. They enlisted the services of another department, who sent the chiei sanitary engineer highest auths arty in British' Columbia. This expert, Mp. Bowering, made a personal examination. His report, considerably later and obviously following due deliberation, states that if proper steps are taken, there is no objection to building on' the present s te. on sanitary grounds. He does not specify what remedies should be taken, or what they would cost. His letter reached Dr. phiU'ps this week and he immediately conveyed its contents to Mr. Elmer Burr, school board chairman D.n. Philips now considers his responsibility in the matter fulfilled, and poinds out that such responslb 3ity is in no way con cerned with rival school sites. Progress of the nprogressive i From that time the board ha-' more or less been committed to the present site as the,, pernw-.- ent one, and has systematically acquired and) consolidated the property. Whatever the decision the wisdom of 'this pol'cy is reflected in present values, it has been a good investment. The Little Red School House The story is ireally one of ex pandtag Princeton and goes back a long way. It is a far, cry from the little one-roomed place that Miss Dunlop proudly opened m 1900,, and' they had to shanghai one wee chap who was under age to make the quota—to the huig-j ing school population of 500 and staflf of 2iQ(, wth centralized facilities for the district under j the modern ambitions of thei Cameron Plan. It should be noted that after I the preliminary'—classes in the' Harris-Mcintosh hall under Miss; Murray and Sam Spencer's private classes—the regular school has always been on the present rite, though in those days t was Dr Prir-fet-,n virtually in the tall timbers. Now MH HI BU sssr-' xzttza the present site. He was reported the some day in The Star as saying: "the area is impregnated with sewage, tests of wells in the vicinity show, and hie (was) opposed to any .additional Duilding until passed by a competent santary engineer." Dr. Phillips takes liis st?nd on that published statement. He had not been approached by the board, and he was not at the ratepayers' meeting following. His opinion was however quoted at the ratepayers' meeting, when a- lively discussion arose on 'the school site, with obvious partisan ant'cirwiHon. By a vote of 56 to 21 tine meet- sramped — site in the cent.al town th/stffc has bulged over the twin-river basin. ' The first school, it seems was a rented buiding, built privately for school purposes. In 1910 Princeton got its own school building, a two-room structure These very facts, it is, however argued on ither other side, make it undesirable for school purposes under changed condi-. tions. Though it represents a vitsi area in itthe economic ex- pans on of _aramped downtown Princeton, it is relatively small right now for school purposes, especially playing space, and there is no chance for any more expansion. And the very factors that ar© assets for economic use —railroad and highway - are Mabllit'es for school purposes. JJt is, this, view holds, the key to the systematic planning of the expanding Princefron, and the last chance at this late date. The opposing view is that there Is nothing wrong with the <lte for school purposes, and since it represents good value, there is no reason to sell, especially -ince no suitable alternative site has been suggested. Wanted: A Solomon This is the factual issue, although other motives are imputed oh both s des. More room is a recurrent ailment in Princeton school affairs and the record is of recurrent furies. Nor doe3 the logic of retrospect and prospect indica+e th?t this flurry wil solve the difficuPy automatically for all time. It was 'thought ten years ago that had been done already. The crux is again that we must try to design, rather than plan, for the unpredictable. Princeton is at a chang'ng phase. The old SKtn does not fit and is bulging at tflse seams. Nor is there any clear blueprint of what to plan for. There are un- pnedictables in events and' inher- WITH malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us str"ve on to finish the work we are in-" —LINCOLN eni d fficulties in locale to accommodate theni. That of course is true of all planning .and there is no genera!!' foiranula for essentially local peculiarities. No Time For Nonsense There are par/tents that Prince ton could leap forward in a way that would make the past trend of expansion, .already embarrassing in circumstances of locale, no gauge at all. On the other hand, that is largely speculative, pivo'ing on the one side on a general post-war revolution that may be inflated and may be the Miroes of a new era- Whichever it prove to be, the looal angle in it is even more speculative. Even now, in still abnormal—and actually unsound — oond tions of supply and demand., there are disturbing factors. With a tremendous Influx of population and product on si&mutos, there is no great substance; very li+tle construction, the bursting of bubbles, like the B.C. shipbuilding industry,.lumber and fishery ex- oorts and mwlhi else, fundamen- taA in +he artificial and unsound stimulus. There is considerable unemployment, and disturb'ng evidence that an inflated and unsound stimulus which could not stand is .breaking down. On the other hand, there is a sound and permanent development of solid resource®, grabbed at unsoundly in hysteria, which will find sound., increasing place in the general economy when that economy., now 'n its hangover, adjusts itself on sound lines Princeton is an extreme case of that general condition. There has been solid progress and it will continue, but the present condition rests much on inflation ■and speculation. There has been a purely temporary influx due to construction projects; "it is now tailing oflf.. There is disturbing unemployment, and in common with the general' pattern, bad distribution and bottlenecks.. It is not stable. .?nd ga.mbllng.on it is not .planning, and, we have attracted srime gamblers in our new outlook, plus of course a few true bu Mens. Buf-.' in the present situation'/ it is not at all easy to be a true proiohet, and that is what we need—not wranglers. Our Basin - For Dirty Linen? We start with difficulties. The basin in which Princeton was launched would be filled by a very modest town. The school at one tikne made an appropr ate and modest demand. Now that the population has far exceeded the narrow basin, the school has to make an excessive demand, with the business demand for the space made more urgent' by Aha very saime -'--^HAni—a nar_ row centre for an overflow town. It ism. case of increasing pressure on the narrow basin, with a reluctance to spread out over the benches. And an increasing pro- ■Dor,'io.n s taken ur> for overhead —railw.a.v, government, and the like There are inherent difficuQ- '»s in the wedge-shapedi, tow- Ivinis: basin; .and it was never nlanmed as a unit4- in the first rflace, bu+ mpr.ned in na reels w th a. heri*asrft vf awkwardness; as in the street scheme. In 1860 the Royal Ens-Sneers, brought out to plan the development of Brii^ih Columbia, ou| rf- the wilderness, in sheer science selected Princeton, ,as a basic .stafion on the log'^a1 rou*e and (oroiected a city of the proportions its position .and resources dictated—all in the future. 'That was the ideal in abstract, disinterested planning, and it :s the realistic situation which the THAT THE DOCTOR;! • Editor, star; Sir: Re: School Site A large new addition to the present school was proposed some months ago. Knowing the nature of the ground at the present site, I if elt it my duty, as Medical Health officer, to oppose any further*'building UNTIL the s&i had been, approved by a compe. tent sanitiry engineer, from point of sewage disposal. On 27th October, 1948, I w.ote to Dr. G- P. Amyot, Deputy Minister of Health, asking that a competent sanitary engineer oe sent to Princeton to report on the present site, and it® .suit- abilty for building from the point of view of public health. Mr. R. Bowering, Public Health Engineer and Director of Environmental Sanitation, visd/'.ed Princeton in December for this purpose. I received from him on 10th February, a letter from which I quote: "Following my visit to ■prfneeton I have given much thought concerning the proposed .nhool site at Princeton. With what I was aWe to observe at Princeton a ad with infbrmtttion. that we have here, I am of the opinion that the school couii be built c\. the presently proposed sire without hazar^ to health, provided that the disposal of sewage was very caref iJ.lv planned and pro.ided that^ theii"3 were no deep basements." In view of this report I see no further objection from a public health point of view to building on th"1 present r,'te, provided hi." recommendations are observed. PAUL PHILLIPS, M.H.O. ir If t.ie doctor will excuse the observation—meant for others*— this is a model letten.—Ed'. evolving inexorable logic of events now confronts us with. It brings d fficulties because politics, beyond our orbit, interfered and the lesson is clear if we interfere, in our own situation, by our own politics. On The Benches Or On The Shelf > Thane *s gtnowing real zatdon that Princeton should have been on the One Mile flait at the original planners proposed, but now what just growed has grown embarrassing. There is much niggling about the few blue chips of downtown locations. To maintain the .present s'te with any efficiency, there must be expansion to the nearer benches, and there is reluctance, to go there, with a grabbing for and clinging to the prize locations. £clitor, Star; Sir; An an acuiiwe member of !he P-'ji-A. wim & aesire w Keep the record stra gn^ and to oorrec; any misooncepiJions regaraing ou-i executive committee stu j group which might arise from ■toe crimcai aaacK which Mr. Alexander made at quit recent meeting (14th February) I nyr.t raise tne whole subject from ..ne status of a whispering caanpaaga to one cf facts. The P.fA- handbook recommends the study group method font symailer groups to explore any subject (subject matter un- Jimi'jed) more .tnoroughly than is possible or even advisable at a general meeting. Only 'those interested attend and even controversial matters are studied on an intellectual level. The subject of the fiist study group was incorporait.on. It was chosen because so many needed community improvements depend on it. It was purely, fact finding. Enquiries wane made locally for material, but no assistance was forthcoming. Therefore the commituee invited Mr. O. L- Jones our MP., of Kelowna, one of the outstanding authorities in B.C. on municipal affairs. That he gave t'.ie better part of two days is indication of .the esteem in which he holds amai* groups who try to improve community standards. All members of our asso.j<aLion who had expressed interest were invited1, and so were many cut- side the organization, quite indiscriminately. Since time was limited, we approached those whom we felt would appreciate the objectives ^dq the non-c^n troversiai nature of the study group method. I personally nvited Mr. P C. Gregory and members of his board of trade comimittee;, Mr. Earner Burr, the Rev. Browniee, Mr. Avery, Mr and Mrs. Prossei' and numerous o'hers. Our next study covered school planning (banish us to Siberia) in which all phases were discussed. Considered were reporits and letters from authoritative sources blueprints and estimates ot costs for schools being built la other places. Let it be known that a study goup is not a pressure group and makes- no recommendations It is just one of the ways in which we .can be better informed and therefore better citizens. The clear.logic is that 'n a limited downtown area the property must be jud ciousy assigned to the greatest all-round advantage and selfishness is the worst possible approach. School adte is only one of the many problems and difficulties that have emerged out of tftiis situation. The point is that they must be fa«ed in relaton to the whole problem of town planning or it will just be shifting water from one place to another and seeing it run bach. It is unfortuna/e and the unwisdom of earlier times is going to be expensive. But it will be more expensive yet if we ag- gravte it by more selfish unwisdom. Every step must be in line with an over-all, final pla-n. W^ begin to see already the cost of evasion. There are. glaring ex- (Page Eighteen) Again in the desire to keep the record straight I question the right \tf anyone to have dociir mteiriltsi (or copies) presumably on file in school board offices for any c-iose whatsoever. Tint they have been in the hand? of a member of the P.T.A- and use<l to launch an attack on that organization makes it doulbiy deplorable. ADDITION—But our own littU Nur(e)tmfoerg trials are besid'S the point. It is raaMy our fichoolfl which are on trial and suppression of truth about them or refusal to study the plans which have bean found acceptable from noint •"£ function and economy in other areas is not being fair either to the ratepayers or the _ children. I would suggest that each whis I oer be met with a penetrating | nuestian about the school or a ; further study of facts about new schools which are ntoiw bein<; built in We.stview, Lang-ley, Richmond, Westbank and many other places. EDITH M. MacDONALD if Though mercifully spared the aura of integrity and intelligence of her selection, your paper humbly can't see the rjoint of all this If, as she says, it is beside the point, why not leave if there? If you are going to ask us to print all the private .feuds in harmonious Princeton, you are going to compain louder of a later paper—and how. In a-l this frenzv of fairness, hows about being fair to the printer? The .right of private study is so obviously inontestable. They ''.an - even vStuiov my harem so long as they keep it private, and even if thev don't, with Mr. Pri- (Page Eighteen^ 1 A kitten (said the schoolboy, or was it the other wav round?,/ is a. bit of fluff that rushes like mad at nothing, and stops before it gets there. OouM we be — or catty? I PAGE EIGHTEEN— * THE SIMILKAMEEN STAt, PMNOKtOW, 11 FRIDAY,' 25th FEBRUARY, 1949. r» • A REPORT TO THE RATEPAYERS RE. SCHOOL AFFAIRS I h:ive reached certain conclusions about school business through regular attendance at (District 17—Ed.) Board -meetings and from an unofficial canvass of parenl's and ratepayers. -, Princiston sahoeQs have one count against itheim to begin with, inasmuch as this attend- Einee area has only two. trustees cm the five-man Board- One of these Trustees is chairman w'At vote only in case of a tie. There are three other Representatives in Princeton area, but | nee they vote only on the.budget or bylaws involving money expend'i- tuireSi they have little to say about policies, school building plans and staff sallary policies. (The w. iter later .amends this-Ed Because this squalen exists, P.inceton Representatives and Ratepayers need be especially alert, and :'mporiti:int issues' should be scrutinized with care and if possible have full approval and support, or if necessary even strong opposition. Through a number of yeas ihe school has been laillcwed to deteirioir.ate to an inito'erabe point as regards, sonne classrooms sanitation, overcrowded play space and lack Of modern equipment. The Board has been busy, for . about two yiaains negotiating with the Department of Education regarding new bu Wings and additions to existing buildtogs. Preliminary plans are now complete amd were sent to Victoria for Departmental approval During the time these plans have been under .consideration citizens have been studying arid thLnlktag. Town, planning experts have coumsei'led .aaainst retiain- ' ing the present sate for school purposes, aind our Medical Health Oflficef advised th?<t no further! building toe done until a qualified inspector has repo'ifed fav- onably- That ireport has net been received as yet. The desire to se)e Ian extensive .proigir^im n- vofliving some .$300,000 is: far from volving some Jn300..0O0 is far from unanimous as iregpsrds the present site. ('.Sanitation ouestion now answered—P.17—Ed.) In view of this, your Representative has . tried to make a oarjisc':i3nr.'.cirus survey of .'the pos- sibiMtir:^ frr building a new ele- mientaiTy school on a new site, with a p" ogress ve plan for ev- emtutei'ly moving the remaining section as existing buildings, be- comie obsolete ifpr school purposes!. NOW. when it is still possible to rrrrri a compromise pitem. is the itime to open up the subject and if agreement estn be reached insist that your Rapre&entat'ves and Trustees execute the plana .you. as ratepayers have agreed upon. One group * that is vitally in- teresjred in school welfare requested that the Board receive a «amim'iitfcei° from theiir ongan ■ izat Ofi to discuss alternate plans In the face ctf this: request the Board .moved to spud the plans to Victoria immediiRltely, thus blookdni?; amy discussion for changes. Ratepayers will be asked to vote on a money by-law either accepting or rejecttae the plans as they stand.. It will be too ]iaft°- to- amend them. ' I would emnbhsize again the disadvantage Princeton endures under the existing school arrange ment and .state that amy d's- agreement tha* I have with the Board of Trustees arises from a sense of responsibility to the ratepayers who elected me, and a desire to put the interest of the school population ahead of any other issue in which Prince- AIIThisand Heaven Knows [From Page Seventeen] irmples of c-ties that had to turn uack and found it costly indeed, uat cheaper than blundering on. At any stage, it always is, but the quicker you turn back the cheaper. Two years .ago, in mounting difficulties, a town .planning expert was brought hare. He never made a report, .and whatever he had to say, we should have it. P; is, 'however, known that .the expert, Mr. Graham, gave major cons deration to the school 0 <e and did advocate moving the school. It is claimeia in some quarters that toe gave up the job of planning Princeton without moving .the school. Princeton should insist on having h's report as a basis not only ne school issue but to the larger problem of which it is fc vital element, now in focus. It is stupid to dogde vital issues just because they are awkward. The Board Has Its Problems s H fact that the school met with Mr. Graham. He It boa: advoea-ed alternat ve sites. The approach was actually made to nagotia.e for another site. Then he school'boar decided to stand pa. Nothing came of Mr. Graham's examination. Whatever his iindintg, why can't we have it? There s5 no objection to and there can be no dispute w th the .'ianitary engineer's finding. He mr.de his report. Why not ths 'own planning authority in a rr..:.. e vital matfter, to which the sanitation question s simply incidental. And wS;h no possible knowledge of what he will say. why accept one .authority -and res', t another? Let's hear from Mr. Graham. ISJfel The school board's, position :s n^.r an easy one. They have to adapt sound school .aidsmihisira- ton to the difficulties of the local situation. They obviousij feel thajt their job is school administration first. But devotion does not preclude the wider view. The school is part of the larger community- Interested more n school administration than in Prirreton's planning, inspector Manhesrni favors another site. The board takes the attitude that it planned .and sticks to its plan, not convinced there m a i better one. It is not going to 'gamble. This may be a flash, a flush period. It depends somewhat on Copper Mtn,, and directly and indirectly that industry contributes to .thie cost. If Gran- by jfuddeinily closed, where would we be. saddled to a big. school oomimi'fi+iment, reasons one tnus- tee. That is surelv ultra tmld reasoning, but even more danger ous is the recklessness of late- arrival speculators and promoters impatient to cash in on, our long pretoairtion. , Wisdom is with nePhe^. Plan- nrna- is not reckless committment but knowing what you are going to do at the right time, to the ^est advantage. The Cameron K^Iiecrankie Paralleling the cnanglng phase in looal affairs is the changiiig •'ita'us of the schools. Nor ? it a'Jways sound either. The junior high school, we .aire told for ir.- s'.ance is now in expert distaste. The Cameron Plan, it is admitted, has by no means gone 'uni- fo. only well. They say it was put in too abruptly, surely confession rather than explanaik'n. But as well as cornmunir;- growth and its problems, the -school ha^s to face the demands of changing standards and methods, some of which it would, take trustees as crazy as experts to predict or pepare for. rheee changing standards are a factor m the present plans and1 the present issue. On <tlhe dther hand, education in a -democracy must not get out ton miay foe involved. MRS. EDITH MacDONlALD, iSchiool Rapresenltartive thaF^woman^ [From Page Seventeen] ion ho'ds democracy in its ha^id of democratic hand. Yet eduoi- & bit of a poser. So school site is an- old problem, and the present building j program is a hangover too. The' ccurt house purchase was litole more than an expedient. For seme years flhe school has been making do. So have a great many schools in the upset post-war situation. They have needed a new building for years. For at least twj "hay have been working on m The architects held up th? plans for months. Then they were unsatisfactory. More delay. Then changes In school design based on changing standards dio_ ta'ied basic changes. The plans were made all oven again, this time by reputed expert- school arehi'iacts. Finally the plans were to 'the board's liking; not the P.TA's. And on top of *hat the whole question of site, opened up ail over again. And those thrawn besoms of the P. PA. And all this in the paper, fs it any wonder a weary trustee, who go s paid exactly nothing (and don't say it's more than they're worth) says he is just about ready to quit? While the plans ware hanging, fire the area ■ adjoining was cleared for the highway. The board bought f|wo of the houses. One is being used as a temporary classroom, the other for a taacher to live in. This cost some $3,000. The board says it was good business. Many schools have had t«o make provisional arrangements; we got- good value. The pwvnt sit© we have seon. is long teran board policy. Fur years they have been adding, acquiring ground. Now events challenge that policy. They mean to stick to it. I Sell? No, Buy! Evidence «s in their latest step to acquire the last private holdings in their planned school zone They have been trying to get these .by direct negotiation' for some time- Now they have begun expropriation proceedings. Two owners are involved, both old-timers and one a noted ski .ing family. Naturally there ars sentimiamtial considerations, and the rival factions have seized on it too, so that it has become an issue within an issue. Mrs. Paul is one of those grand rare women who say' little. This v rtue is embarrassing to the board, for she won't say "ves---' So as ■provided by statute the bdard has — reluctantly we are sure—started expropriation proceedings. This, supporting their avow- p|l stand, is seen as proof of their determination to carry through their plan, with the present s'te. Some see it as a challenge' although it is probably just taking its normal course. "Don't give in,"" the holders ar^ being told, "it won't be schoo1 site .om-vway." The proceedings w 11 be interesting, in view of t!r>is argument. The normal procedure • • • will be arbitration by a panel of three, with the owner and the board each having a representative, The site issue may well be an important factor. This then was the background to the P.TA's request to the department for an Investigation though there is no surety that it has been generally so stud-, iously considered. The P.TA.'s points are in,broad outline those of the advocates of a new sice, thuugh there is considerable opopsition outside ihe PT.A., and; considerable sup_ port for the present site outside the board. The P-T-A- says the present site is too small, especially in the matter of playground space. There is .apparen|tly no ciear- cut definition. Certainly in big cities, where property is valuable the ideal living space per pupil as recommended by educational authorities, is impratical, and the same principle applies here. After all, the proportions of our school are about the same as a school unit in a metropolitan area, and the property factor is reiat'vely similar. We just can't afford the ideal space per pupil, or we must go out into the hills. it would be valuable If soma Who's Going To Move Who(m)) of the advocaittes would give us a comparison of space per pupi in some of the Vancouver schools. But certainly it can't be much , greater than our present site Du* I provides, and nobody adtvocates 1 ' ' moving all the schools in big o ties out H the fields. When advantages are countered by disadvantages, you have to seek th? best compromise, and not erca the magic of the Cameron Plan can give both the specialized ad i vantages of centralization and ru'ial playing space—and make it practical value for a-dernioera- t'c society that pays, and says- Whether or not this is the best compromise we can have in Frincqton is .another matter, but we can't have it both ways. Although we got it cheaply, it is valuable property. It is just the .same as (throwing .money around because you found it. Ratepayers are cit'zens too, and the school must take its proper place among ad civic values. Whetar. the site Is too valuable for school purposes is somethtng the board should be eager to know and ac- oept, in the . true relation of schorl <fo carnmunitv. and ihat depends on many things. But in precisely the same log'c they ase right to make a reasonable compromise cm playing space, based on the relative value of the ©round. There comes a point where the two graphs converge.— ground value, .and minimum play requirements. That point needs some argument. The board feet? that the space offer's good civic va'ue, plus a safe guarantee of playing space, now and for the future. The PT-A. disagrees. It says the . ground is not only too smalt ibut quite unsuitable for play—.mud, dust and similar factors. It argues that under these circumstances the younger pupils have no chance at all. %t also suggests, a se-narate but related point, that there shouid be better playground supervision ■ij'ii«ra»i*yrgT7--.- "Much More Than A System Of Wires" ^^K^m d deaux's and Cousin Joey's consent, they have my permission And invite whom they like, just so to-ng as it isn't me or any of my private harem. But why ask us all to endorse their dubious selection of representative interest, integrity and intelligence when thev flatteringfly to- orude u.s all out? ' - The onlv pertinent point is 4heir 'voluntary banishment to Siberia. Destined for there my- /-.elf, I object- Nor do we think Cvisin J-^ev wil give an invi- 4n.t,--rn to thrawn women of either srv—pd P9—Poo concurs. TP©—Picture ours, but not m "I use the telephone every day of my life without realizing, perhaps, that it is much more than a systsm of wires, transporting my voice and others from one place to another." So a telephone subscriber wrote, in praise of service on a long distance 'Call during an emergency. "What I have found it f be in th's particular matter is a group of very friendly people, people who understood my problem, my worry, and who did everything humanly possible to assist ms-" BRITISH COLUMBIA TELEPHONE CO. The board counters that when Lhe new buildings go up and the addi'iional ground s obtained, the whole playground scheme will be revised—and supervised —with a good, reasonable standard—as a school playground. For requirements beyond that there is the civic spents park, which the school expects to use for f eld games. The proposed gymnasium - auditorium would also make a big difference. And You Could Feed Them Less The present school site is approximately 3.5 acres; with the proposed addition, 4> 2 acres. It should be possible to get a fair ruing on whether this is adequate fori the present school population of about 450—and what It. may 'reasonably reach. On1 the face of things, it would seem .that the playground question on tlhe present site is largely a matter of adjustment, and no great obstaele, in the necessity of compromise. But an authoritative opinon could surely be easily obtained. The P.TA- reminds us that there are objections to the site on sanitary grounds. If It is argued that this is a pricked bubble new, the answer .s that it is not, and was never taken over- seriously in objective approach.. It was a rather happy windfall £or the moving brigade. After all, most sites are sanitary,. or can be made to be, and the verdict is just about what could be expected- It is surely an indi- ea'l on of the wish- being father to the thought that there has been some attempt to compromise the MJl-O-'s perfectly judl- al position. He gave a fair and honest opinion—a, correct opinion in 'the qualificat on he attached to it. Some oi the business critics should remember that it has been pointed out tfrat most business places violate ■dtp ct sanitary rule:? and their eagerness over the .issue questions whether they would be squeamish about the umsani^a.y ,-ibe for business purposes Sanitation: But ■H b h On the o/theri hand it woidd be all wrong to dismiss the .relation issue summar ly. It is unusual, but important, and the important point seems to be ch-i/. while the expert did not condemn the site, he cad no: altogther approve it. The point is not at, all answered unt 1 we are toPJ What must be done to satisfy sanitary requirements ana what it will cost. Surely the board wil; go into that. The P.TA-'s third point concerns noise and traffic hazards. It was reported that Mr. Graham, the planning expert, huw- 'ayer he felt about mov ng the school' as an essential to proper planning, did find that the approaches to the sclinnl could be made safe by fencing it off from the highway. Thai is the LPage Nineteen Pleasel • THE STAR SIMILKAMEEN AGENTS: PHONE 36 SHADES OF YESTERYEAR We packed them allin, somehow. In the back, the fur-wrapped ladies, jockeying for the best positions ... the men taking the front... Uncle John, majestic at the reins. Yes, even the pawing, impatient horses sensed the fun ahead. A flick of the whip and, away we^ dashed to the sleigh ride supper. You recall? The village hall and its white spread tables heavy with piping hot food, steaming, coffee, and, of course, Princeton Beer. For then, as now, Princeton was top beverage favorite ... a delightfully, palatable beer, brewed of finest available hops and the famed Tulameen waters, by a house to whom fine beer-making is a tradition and a pride. PRINCETON BREWING CO. RiPpRINCETON, B.C. LTD. This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor er by the Government of British Columbia. WSk SI' FRIDAY, 25th FEBRUARY, 1949. • THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR, PRINCETON, B.C. —$AGB NINETaSN OPEN LETTER TO J. STALIN School Daze, Iron Rule Day si? Oh Dean Joey: Mefofoe you don't remember me on account of oeeauSe while you are at Yalta soaking in stogie's and caviar, and playing go-seek with Winnie, I am at Hackney sw?!rjip.Tjg gag th© kink's la-trines with Pte. Shannon and playing pickup with Fanri"- at Piccadilly Circus- Anyhow, I know you won't oib- jeek to me writmk on equal terimis, on account of because you are I'.he brains of th- °-reat fraternity of the proletariat and me, I am the other end, and we are "Omrades in 'unns, and in the Atlantic Cihaitreir, eh, toyarish? Excepk tlhiat you do the talk-ink and I do the fishtink, and also I I fcc Roiled Boozineers we have besides me and Pte. Shannon also He. Konofsky, also here a lot of Pop-ski is. Aflao I have a scar in imv pons asinorum like 1 heroes of fifp Red Armv in victoria's retreat. Dear1 pal Joe,-1 wil finamkfy admit I am a very worried guy. I f*niow you have; ^Ow t'f.^.TibWs too Joe, but wil'h Praivda it is different, thev swallow what -ou tell ^arn, iand pay for it, ot. else, and if you know Pfiideaux and Pros- ser and Pom. vou wit think no- ~ik of Potsdam amd Poland and -(hie Pope, also ''two female women to which atom bumps and -bazookas arie ihrneysuckflteB Though I" w .ail frankly admit if she is still tei^Cni'inik I will not mind, rt'laying after school By the way, how |§| -"ou get . on v^ith dames? You see, hene thev don't' ©o in the front line or in Mm fe'csfe- 1 hough they B as Helsinki start all the trouble. We1'!, Joe, this ain't no Red STar like you .got and I tell you j.; § i have my troubles. Also ■Tiewrge does. You1 know, Joe, the is susjposed to be over, it W0§ b,e- n i how could you win r Vke you sav? Bu4-. <hia com- vadss cm parliament hillski aind | -,*.s tf-yoff don't seemi to know j|L. yet. on account of because we ■do rot sref. Ta^s.news out here rn Siahbeeria, only CBC, static iahiri; electric razors- V/ell, Joey, when I get bteck fncrn tpg fascis'' mess, things is in a fasnisst mass neht here. The 'enx-ernment rrm+roOis everyhng but the weathei'i, witch is '*ihe ^v t>i'nk I wish- they will control. But .mefofoe this is communism, not fascism., eh Joe? Any- wv, when %ey has a baiby, I *i vs iand tb?v has .all the fun. It is railways like that, Joe. They [From Page Eighteen] aa.'dlnal point, for wherever you put the school—since this alert newshawk has never observed 'that our httle angefls have wings, except of course our good Joe-king teachers—it is hard to get quite away from traffic. In fact the P.TA. has been much concerned about, traffic -at some distance from the school. This of course is an important matter ■and has much to do with the town plan, bus nothing to dlo with the school site. The fraet pa$ th- if ost important highway in the west runs 'alongside your shiool is of course somCJhing not dismissed so easily from the sheer pomt of view of the school, and certainly not- a factor that was consad&red when the site was first selected. By A Darned Site % * * * * after that lousy dig, old boys of ■he school who have reamed a strange loyally to their old alma mamimy and who might well be given more ear as $he arrived -future gene-ation we spout, so much sophisr-ry about in L-be yeast (images are running away with syntax) —\ well, any way, the old. boys tell us that even in their crude s'trugglimgs lowardls erudituoni the noises made it ha 8 to concentrate, ven when the pedagogic ankles v/ere shapely. The chairman ought to know, but even the old ironbeads anions- us whose edu- . on was neglected elsewhere are not going to recommend moving the road we fought for fori) twenty years, ev-i' if p doesn't .rum down our street. We are quite sure however that geant Major Foirley will be delighted to reroute the railway by Broxburn and change the Though the board has decided nt it does not warrant) moving iihe school, tihey do agree that except in the windfall of enhanced property value, it is not particularly desirable, since even professor 'Oaanpbell does not recommend bringing" the benighted from Vancouver to Princeton to be educated, circulation stunts notwithstanding. The local Jack Kearns mlay be able to do some- th ng about this, despite the popular misconception that the original edition was not ?■ promoter, but a fighter. But to get back to authority calls it social degradation!, at 3 p.c. It- s very democratic. Joe. Ev- ybody demands, everythinjk and don't giye nothdmk. Right mow in Princeton B.C. they are claw- ink on incorporation and before 'hat is done they are clawing up t'lhe school', witch is unsanitary; "i may say m stinx. So they ail write to the paper. You knew with Pravda it ees not like zees. In USSRski, no b ble it Pravda, nyett do Uke Red Star say, no harashia, shot at sun r se; in HMS PrinSky. not make fo- Sim Star pHienl'y -much trouble, half shot #>y susprise. - Before one trouble,, is. now kopek Hleba lopiim toomiuehiski; ■u'';lviercri oehim toomuohskd, vodka ochim taomuohskl. You ask i 1 I Everyibo^iv oiavnru ealupisl. 0)m Harrnan too. If no print | -M'nistl, get sore,, take ad out,, Wi Bfler., start own' journalski. If pr'nti gialtupisti. get sore, take ad out, qal Hitler, start own iournalski-. Talk plenty galupsti, write pJeini'ty eafapfifri. No metal, Duma control. No coal, Gordie control. No paper, Hitler! suma- setchi. I think you say we fix Hii+ler, all finish, go home. How come? All day work; no fun. Poshli spach, ine^ghlbor's dog, Jimmy Fairley's ttoain, big truck, wake up. No woman, wake up no fun. No good. Plenty trouble, big • A low-cost Canadian Government Annuity guarantees you as much as $1200 a year for life. 9 No medical Examination is required. • Your Annuity cannot be seized under H any law. You cannot lose your money even if your payments fall into arrears. • Anyone, from 5 to 85, is eligible; Annuities Branch DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR HUMPHREY MITCHELL Minister A. MacNAMARA Deputy Minister Mail this Coupon today POSTAGE FREE Annuities French, Department of Labour, Ottawa. Pisase send me COMPLETE INFORMATION abc-.it' lanadian Government Annuitie- 1AME. (PC-NT wfcdom— or how could you be reading this?—we do, in dollar ojemacracy, choose our doctors and our newspap&.is. In government however, the distinction is more subtle. But the principle is the same—we rest our confi- dence in what we bel"eve to be the ibesi value, in vaOiuies we do not know, delegating them to specdialiiisits, retaining the power to choose. In principle the Cameron Plan ^n education is an attempt to protect us, democratically, fl-om our own unwisdom. We delegat-3 more to the experts, but retain the power to choose them. It is therefore more than ever a mat_ "er of professional competence and sincerity, and' our aonfidence in it, and it is doubly disconcerting and hurtful when we find squabbles in our school boards and patent muddles in the work- ng of the new educational man clanging bell to" a harmonizing j date, in the laanazing confession be-flat sergieanit-anajor to onable our future citizens to concentrate ion the noblest chapter of Canadian history, how we morcgaged our future to create the gr&ting- est transportation cistern on earth, or under It. But friend Jeems aside, which is vliefe we prefan to have him, it is high time something was i me about unnecessary train rackets, as is done elsewhere.. -Even .so there will be inevitable yard noises vihich certiainly would have upset a teimperaimental genius like and Just think what you would have been spared could p be proved I eve | sot out of 2nd rimer, which might have been g> for the aforesaid accident if primary ankles. Of course my pafe will refute that despite the aiociden*- of English, the logic and. the rntedigence are s^lll 2nd or imer. I :a.m content. How^soeve,; thQ intel'Mgence, the ankles that attracted weme not \ attracted, and I can look on. school ma.t- 'Vrs in celibp^ei • vdetach(m(ent, wiViii^h I will bet most of you wou^d eiive two bottles of beer to be able to do. Boys Will Be Noise '' hat the .mistakes a:ise from the flact that they went after it too fast and haven't got it working righlti yet. To apply this to the plans, it is disconoeir.y ng that there should be differences and muddles up above. School .plans are the sort of thing most of us delegate to experts we have confidence in. [t is hard fori smaO stockholders to have to umpire for doctors and' directors who disagree — and the doctors part is an un- forunat'e allusion should it suggest—which it does not intend— sanitation, where, we haive seen Mrjiere is no disagreement. The Ladies - - God Bless 'Em It is hard to translate plans into prose, and' we urge that this be regarded in broad outline, which, after all, is all laymen should be asked to decide on. While not experts, the P.T.A. t should be remember .©d, 5s a group from all categories, interested as true amateurs—in the love of the •profeispilon — a liaison between expert and layman, encouraged bv the 'experts for the under- .i^ncmng by 4lhe public of what the experts aire trying to do in the public interest. It is mani- fertlv 'nisincere and unprofessional t"» attempt to undermine or belike it Inst because it dis- a.orees. whether right or wrong, in trving conscientiously to do exmr-tlv what it is ursed to do. We .nhall examine Ps relative status in dscussing procedure. but Jhe point here is that is has a right to nespeotful vionsideira- tiion or the auLhoritles should asti'ganatize it as inteiference rather than urging it as co-opei-'- adon. This s bad and hardest of all on .the confiding public, encouraged to confide some of its inrJerest to 'the P-T.A. All this wrangling and muffing by those to whom, you ent-ust confidence s bad, whether or not you accept Mr. Matheson's warning about not believing all you see in the papers, since true education — the search for knowledge and tru'tlv—knows that education is not at ail the schools. iWe stfill say it's not .the public's pigeon to tnmplie between cocks, bu- to say yea or nay when toe expa ts have come together with their worst, but the cookS' .?i e putting it to us, so there vou are. The board seems to suggest there are too many cooks, and Miia principal to doubt their rival qualifications, but there were at least more cooks, than p'in- ciipali?, ;?nd a womar> can argue democracy when it suits h°r You see what Adam and the serpent let you in for, both the ribbing and +he appu.j for the teachear. Oh, me! Them Wuz The Days rs In birdseye, the elementary school would be completely revised and converted1, occupying Jhe front left wing of an H - shaped unit, two storeys hisjb. Behind this an L-shaped high school, the rear top quarter of the H. Matching the elemeniCaflry buidling, on the down-town side, a new gymnasium-auditorium, abou'j 90x50- Beh nd this a new manual, home economies' and monopoly of the J lunch room. There is apparently I no special place where the hara- Seh'ool planning, most -of us. done-toy sirens of six can powder will agree, is not .the layman s pigeon. Even the kitchen has been ihiapply sold by the expert, and the coanbinatiori is a good e-ducat .onalist and a good arohi- teot. We thtak the government dleparitment should provide both, predicated on a survey -of the local Situation. Ordinary intelligence should then be able to endorse a 'plan it could hardly create. The sovernanent seems to maintain such expert sk 11, .but only to check on its coni- mlittimeint to pay naif the co.-rt. Expensive duplicatl %n is a mystery of governm^n; efficiency. At any rate, the iA&ns have peen painfully—iand expens.vely —.prepared, over two years iand at double toll, ana the depart- ( •ment's experts will—or are paid i to foe—fiatisfied witn ;hiean before we are askeid to buy the model 'kiitchien, .'ind that wjuM seem to be sensible procedure. But the women of the P.T.A-, who rather •fancy thev know so.mel5fo.tng about MtchiemsiHamdi are going t'o help to pay for this one and are intere^ited in what cooks even it '..t-'iev ana not- dioins +he cooking, hi^ye other ideas. You know how W"im0m are iand after all tha1 is wfRat tfoie exraerts on-'-ourage when thev encourage P.TA's. their noses, but this does nob seem to be whit a' the stour !* about. When we started school we had to hike two miles to a little red school with a couple of littfer ones behind, with the play grnjond a half hard boiled egg of doping bedrock hewn out of <4ie forest primeval, wherein and 1 [Page Twenty, Please] tSgt tf«^ But to be sober and dull, which we oan usually manage, the matters of road and railway, while not mountainous, are worthy of same .consideration, In which, don't vou think, P might be a good idea to sound pupils and teachers. A trotting poll of some 20 reveals that about twenty percenit. (.mostly young *Uns) don/It notice the noise, probably because they compete very wel. About half sary- it is getting worse but still not serious. The rest are either neurotics or geniuses. Why not ask your child and see how he (she or -it) rates?. The P.TA. doesn't like fhe! plans. Most of us don't know whether we do or not, and would not had we the fullest chance to see and study ithem. But we are going to have to vote ftn them, ours is the final say. We shall have to cons'der else- ^eMe Kh© «u!tlhority and pro-- l!n'y of this issue, but it is necessary to make the point here that the dlffiCulity of democratic education is that we, who ?re unqual fiedi. have to decide on highly technical' matters of an important profession. It would be about as sensible if we voted for our teachers and doctor's and reports, and how they were to teach and operate and report. It is true, and tragic, that we dictate ouVi government in iust that abandon. Now it would be very mulcta worse if we' had no right of choice, but we must not lose sight of th's pitfall of democracy. Now perhaps not always in headache. ParijaJsta you send as- per.inski. Sue de smnasetchi; no gun. Duma say. Russian shoot you, harashia, yiou hero;you shoot you no harashia, you bum- Can't drown self, capitalist American ski take water, if trj kill self, Duma stop, say joriime, kill you. Better not I work for Pravda- Make for you plenty much trouble, like Comrade Tito. More foef'teir- Joe you start nice quiet war, plenty atom bump, bazooka, I go brick 'get some peace, Balsfooi sposefoa; spokw'na noche. d. tayiior, pete. M Glossary (free translation, not1, subject :"o 3 p.c)>—<tovarish: conV rade; hleba: bread1 ochim. very,' much; harasha: .good nyett: no;' Tass: Soviet news agency; Pravdal tm'lh, also official Soviet newspaper, as is Red Star; cuttyetti: | ciitiie''s, meat; gavoru: speak, say Duma: goveirnment; galupisti: nosense, b.s.; jiournalski. news-1 paper; poshli spach: go to bed, sleep; parjalista: please; sunia-; setchi: bughouse; balshoi sposefoa: thank you very much; spo.| kwina noche: good n efot. j HOSPITAL BY'EVERYOI Persons who have not already paid at least six months" premiums are in arrears wi ARE NOT PROTECTED Bring your payments up-to-date now >W DUE to De followed by two more instalment payments in February and March to complet* coverage for 1949 DON'T SLIP BEHIND Persons who have not made any payments should make arrangements ta da so immediately sPH Persons using the instalment plan who have allowed their payments to lapse must complete them to acquire coverage for themselves and their families. NO HOSPITAL INSURANCE CARD CAN BE ISSUED PAYMENT HAS BEEN MADE UNTIL SIX MONTHS' Mail or Bring Payments to THE LOCAL OFFICE WHERE YOU REG! .TERED 22, BOARD OF TRADE BLDG. PENTICTON COURT HOUSE PRINCETON Until your Hospital Insurance Card is issued, keep your receipt as proof of eligibility for benefits B. C. HOSPITAL INSURANCE SERVICE PAGE TWENTY- 1 THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR, PRINCETON, B.C. FRIDAY, 25th FEBRUARY, 1949. AN ANALYSIS OF SCHOOL PROBLEMS IN PRINCETON, WITH THE VARIOUS OTEWS it [ From Page Nineteen ] ■wine-eon we indulged in th* iina.ij.vy ct.it oif caSi.if.ei> aiiu i>-ifeeo, oe^we-n Line seuiors l u±ey we it oiggerj and toe juii^o-is <.yie>o weie in^re; ,wi.n i\iJiue peroou ana Oo. as not cross nu-ises.. Until in mia-cerm, when noioody heard the oeiL, the principal came out to investigate, and Sh>ek Bou- Akis, unin'Kinigi S. Oswald riauiss wais priivate taykxr on patrol, naanuuid a raviircd irom the rampart, Willi dire -lesults ' to Bmu, Akis's wood and S- Oswald's ivory, and later to Bou Akisi Life Begins || At Forts Mostly we had to carry wood and often chop it, or study the tropics in the cold; just so long as we didn't have to carry Katy Except the time when Mr. Bur- bridgie's celluloid collar proved .r.esistible to an icicle; it was quite warm behind the equator tor a spell. Whether we — .and Katy—are any better for it is a matter of opinion. But. there still seems to foe difference of opinion Irhe modern way. Why don't .the P..T.A. and the board play forte? There was also the time when one of our younger eldier statesmen, much interested in the present emibrogli)o, was prope-rfly put through the gauntlet at MiH- str.eaon Park, had certain experiences wi'.1h a founding kitten, helped dress a hardware store window with a handy domestic article usually found under the bed, swopped' purpi© and yelow sox with a not so prominent editor, came up with unwonted emphasis in the conjugation of the verbs "co" and 'do"j—irregular at any.rate—but seems to have become quite' a model citi- ■ zen, with a reluctance to remember IQrue triumphs of youth. For our debased part, we find education in the ultimate pretty tame, and fancy more aspiring character in these, callow quirks. But Mr. Cameron knows best; we simply wish to shock the P.T.A. But to cease being egotistical, here is what the Board thinks the. new school should look like (no change for th's architecture): • * ■ • * Towards Tunnel— AUDITORIUM ELEMENTARY GYM- Q SCHOOL MANUAL, Etc-g- g 3 HIOH SCH —Play space to Bridge St. This would give eight elementary classrooms aga nst the four at present, with four classes mow in makeshift quarters. The gym and manual building would be new. 'But the jV.TA doesn't like it at all. in pn nciple, they seem to tbnk it penny wise. They put firct the poor, overworked teach, ers ,snd Hhe dear, underprivileged children, but tbey also think the ratepayers won't get value for ihei's money. The new. classrooms will be 24 x32. Present enirojUment is over 280, not "evenly d'lstributed, with considteixiafole doubi-aig up. The beard says that this makes no difference, 'because the' new idea in inst-uction calls for many s. udy (no instruct on) periods'. The department limit per tieaioher is 40, but the P.TA says Uhe accepted Ideal limit is 35. The P.TA. says more room is needed- That would mean more teachers Citing .the new vogue in their flavor, -they say that there ,s less lecture now and more demons*, a ting and doing, and a large special room is needed for that. The board says the auditorium W&1 do. The P.TA. dJSaigrees. The PTA. says the classrooms are not designed for the new instruction. It also says the present cloakroom and toilet facii lies are a disgrace, and the proposed ones stiffl far short. Bert suggests providing each kid with a bucket * * • —^Army surplus. The PTA. also wants a separate teachers' room for the elementary teachers. In the background there seems to be some slight suggestion of clash between high and elementary brackets, and the P-T.A. is toying wth complete separation. They say the two units are on utterly different lines in the ne» instruction and are better under separate organization and supervision. Working this in with sites, the P.TA. would build a brand) new elementar unit- ana new location The auditorium - 'gymnasium to go up alongside the high school and if it were later moved, could be turned' over tc the public or sold. So w lih the laboratory. The older elementary students could easily have access to these facilities and the younger would not need them. And the P.T.A- th'nks we are going to spend more for make-do tlhlan we would to make new. It has been ■ scouting sM- over the country afitea opinions and plans It cites a six-room school with gym for $181,000, another, for $184jQO0, a gymnasium-auditorium plus laboratory bui'lding for $105,000. The board think® it has managed very well, is particularly proud that it has not had to take recourse to the shift system. It; points out that one of the Hope road houses is used for classes, the other to provide hot lunches for out-of-town pupils. It main- "PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACT" • Section 146 (1), (2) & (3) • • • tains Khe same salary schedule as the Okawagan, with increments each year, it acknowledges considerable practical' help and generosity fliom the P.TA- As to thf expropriations, it says that COd Virginia is wUMng to sell but only to the school, and it was Mr Paui who first proposed the transfer. Mart has different ideas. He suggests tlhe school be moved to the airport, or that the bus do iai pickup, failing which he should at least be made Minister of Ed1- ouatibn in lieu. It is our own serious thought that an element in town planning would be to movs the airport well out and so release fine ground for building, with Mart imiaved ten miles further still, isniong the rest of 'the wolves and wild animals. This controversy has been go-j ing on for some time, and really hotbed up after the ratepayers' meetng. Representatives Are >resentatives At that meeting' Mils. E. Mac Donald, prominent in the P.TA was elected representative. She did not become a trustee, and was soon at variance with the board. She addressed to the ratepayers 2/ minority report, published herewith, and held unti1' it could be put in perspective with the whole issue. In that report she suggests- that the 'proposals for the new Repi lep-iesentat'on on the board. In this investigation shows her to be mistaken, and she herself hastens to agree; which is just substantiation of your paper's policy of full and deliberate airing of publ c issues, rather than | rrushfing into earor. The act does limit Princeton ' to two trustees, while representatives are in ratio to taxpayers- The chairman is one of the two Princeton trustees, but h. s chair ■ maship is ex-parte: it proscribes none of his privileges or powers as trustee. Mrs*. MacDonald says | she has only recently been able to see the act. It is odd that meetings should not have made the point clear any way. We shad examine this n turn. Along with Mrs. MacDonaid's e P.T.A- * NOTICE Princeton General Hospital Association ERSHIP FEE DUE Annual Membership Fee in the Princeton General Hospital Association is due and payable on or before 28th FEBRUARY, 1948 Only members in good standing may vote at the Annual General Meeting*|ff§ Fee $1.00 T«AKE NOTICE that Lots. Nos. • 24, 26, 26 and 27, Block No'- 23 Plan' N|o. 55, Princeton Assessment District, are required for school .purposes, and that a plan • thereof, together wi^ notice that the said Lots are so required, has been deposited in fflie Land Registry Office at Kiimlaops, British Columr>ia SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 17 (PRINCETON) Wilfred- E. Freeman, iSeraetary-Treasurer. Pmneeton, British Columbia, 11th February, 1949. (2 school are rXs^factafy, tCt j ^^\^« oaone th the ratepayers should bring them * adion—a^p',oach *» *e boar, into line rather than be forced to delay the much needed project by voting them down. iSfoe also suggests that Princeton does not get proportionate WANTED IMMEDIATELY—Experienced waitress for The Coffee Shop at Oopepr. Mtn. LAND REGISTRY ACT SECTION 160 Government of the Province of British Columbia DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS IN THE MATTER of Lot 10 in Block 12, Map 55, save and except coal, Princeton. Assessment District: then' to the department. Fireworks At The ! Sewing Circle Last Tuesday came the regular P.TA. meeting. It was common knowledge that the cards would be down. There are those in the P.TA. aligned with the boaind, including Principal Alexander, who s taking an active interest in the issue. The argument was that the Similkameen Electoral District | NOTICE OF TRANSFER OF HIGHWAY RIGHT OF W'iY eas®ii lipfUre Rubber Boots, Leather Boots, Work Gloves and Gauntlets TV'OTICE is hereby given pur- sulainlt to Section 17, oif tne "Highway Act", 'that it is the intention of the undersigned, thirty days after, the publication of t/hiis Notice, to transfer that portion of the TfefoJt-of-wav of the Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway and Navigation 'Company's righft-oif-way, contain, "ng 2.04' acre®, more or less, and is shown as Parcel C on a plan prepared by P. W. Gregory, B.C. L.S„ and resristered in the Land Reeristry Office at Kamioops, B.C., under number B.-6174. E. C. CARSON, Minister of Public Works. Department of Public Works, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, BC. Government of the Province of ) British Columbia t>ROOF having being filed in my office of the loss of Oeff' tifieate Of Title No. 56715F to the above-mentioned lands in the name of Sarah Steele amd bearing date the 30th of December, 1930. I HEREBY GIVE NOTICE of my 'intention, at the 'expiration of one calendar month to issue to the said Sarah Steele A Provisional Certificate of Title in lieu of such lost Certificate. Any person, having any ilnfoimatjion with reference to such lost Certificate of Tlte is requested to communicate witl the undersigned. Dated at the Land Registry Office, KJamloops, Brl'Sah Columbia, th s 6-th day of December, one thousand nine hundred and (forty-eight. C. F. (MacLEAN, Registrar To: P. W. Gregory, , Princeton, B-O. PTA. commaitfce — Mesdanies Martin, Iversoh and Harlook, acting with the executive—had exceeded its autho-dty. Policy, it was proposed is set by the organization; the execut ve must carry out policy, but not go beyond it. Claiming that the committee in approaching the department had exceeded its authority, Mr. Alexander moved a vote of non- confidence. It w.as seconded by Mrs. M- Brydem On a secret ballot it was lost 15 to 6, with twi afostaih'ng. Now this was a very serious step, .and its consequences a vie- . tory for the opposition to the j boand, and a serious personal • THE STRANGE CASE of the man who ded without cause has gone to the eKperts. Last Wednesday Herman Walch, 43, Mascot mliner, suffered a simple leg fracture when a car tipped But he died under an! anastfoetic Awhile .the leg was being set. Autopsy showed no cause the man simply stopped breathing. Coron_ er's jury brought n an open verdict and sections of the lungs and heart have been sent for pathological study. • • • -^BREAKING JAIL by smashing the bars witln a table leg last Saturday night, 45 year old Thomas Lidstbne was picked up by Princeton police at Osprey Lake 'after .a radio alert brought a tip from a resident there. The man, picked up to answer four outside charges, had hiked along the track in sub-zero weather, was resting "xi a cabin there. Up to-day, Lidstone got two years and one day on local count ■*- m + if A NEW POLLING DIVISION, Princeton-North Centre, is created in a federal "eai gnment. Out to Mazama now conies in Yale riding. Election this year. If if i( ^PRINCETON Bill Irwin won the ci:iossiciountry-jumips combined title at the Dominion champion- 'sbips at Fort William. if if if • SISTER ETHEL won the sla- iom-dioiwnhilO: at Ottawa. •k RADIO-PHONE equipment has been installed at Princeton for trans-Canada phone service,' with lines down due to thaw. In Coqu halOiai 40'-ft snowpiles have routed all trains by Spence's Bridge and /all trains are late One Mile road being kept open at great risk, with dramatic yarns. Three big snow units here fo > Hope-Princeton road. • TOTAL snowfall (official) now 44 inches; with 11 Fr day. Highest temperature 22nd, 43.2- if HERE for game banquet-— 'fisheries official Kearns, -game commissioner Cunningham, Art Higigs of Summerland hatchery and Mrs. Higgs, Earl Martin, Merritt game warden-, and Al. Denton wth films. rebuke to principal. the campaigning {Back Page) Princeton and District Fish and Game LIMIT FRIDAY, 25th FEB'Y 6-30 p.m. Sharp ELKS' HALL Prominent Speakers DEPARTEMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS PUBLIC NOTICE LOOK AHEAD! BUCKERFIEJLD'S Seed Grajm, Grass Seed All varieties of GARDEN AND FIELD SEEDS AND GRAIN J.&M. CAS GROCERIES, FRUIT, VEGETABLES fjf FLOUR AND FEED -We Deliver Weighty Orders In Town Only All Day- SOUTH BRIDGE ST., PRINCETON PHONE 1-3-7 •ynE 'undersigned' be'ng a person .authorized by the Minister 3? PuMic Works in wnitng to ex- ennfee fte powers vested in the sa.id Minister under Part 2 of th@ 'iFiphway Act", and being of the crofo'on that the Highway1' are liable to damaige through exfra- ordinisiry fradjfflic, makes -the fol- Wrtne: Regulations nu^usmt to Section 35 of the said Act: The flollowini? load, and speed I'milotions are imposed from ^Welv^ o'Onck midnngtht. Feforu- nrv 23. 194.9, until further notice «n all hflgbiwaivs wi+hin Area No. _ of the Similkameen Electoral ni^rict. Trucks with tmleumatic tires>: Paytoad (i.e., load carried) not to exceed 50% of the licensed carrying capacity. Dated at Penticton. B.C., this 23sd Feforuarv, 1949. A. R. COLBY. Ass's District Engineer. CREDIT UNI CAPITOL THEATRE PRINCETON Showings 7 and 9 p.m. • FRI., SAT.- FEB25-26— THE EMPEROR WALTZ wth Bing Crosby, Joan Blondel jMON., TUES.- FEB. 28, MCH. 1— NIGHTMARE ALLEY with Barbara Stanwyck WED.,THURS- MCH. 2-3— THE OTHER LOVE with Tyrone Power, Joan Blondel MATINEE SATURDAY, 2 p.m. Credit Unions cushion the shock of higher living costs through government supervised Credit Union saving and its contributory borrowing convenience.. ,;&;. SAVINGS AND LOANS ' are both insured against death or total jdisability. In either case the loan balance is forgiven and the savings doubled. 189 CREDIT UNIONS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA MORE THAN 34,000 MEMBERS OVER $600,000,000 IN ASSETS A growing confidence in credit unions is indicated by^the ten-year development from a single group of seven unemployed British Columbia;.citizens. EACH CREDIT UNION AUTONOMOUS Each member has one vote; no proxy voting; members elect their| own managing officers. Those handling funds are bonttled. _f$; GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION The Credit Union Act and Rules act the guide to th<* operation of Credit Unions in the province. Accounts are exiamined regularly by qualified Government Inspectors. ' For further information about Credit Unions or about forming one, contact Mr. T. A- Switze#, Inspector of Creliiit Unions, Court House, Vancouver, B.C., or The Credit Union League, 96 East Broadway, Vancouver, B.C. GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT The Hon. Gordon S. Wismer, K.C. . Attorney-General. jr ■-w^i k?>H ^______m___
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