/hite:Rock,, Weekly CE LOCATED AT 14899 WASHINGTON AVENUE. Published Every Thursday at White Rock, B.O. Phone: Windsor 89701 S - \uthorixed—Second Class Mail, Post Olfice Dept. Ottawa. Subscriptions (in advance), Canada $2.50 per year; U.S.A. $350 A. PRICE ATKINSON, Editor and Publisber. CORDAY M. ATKINSON, Associate Baditor. B.C. Weekly Newspapers Advertising Bureau. Vancouver Office: 508 Hornby Street, Vancouver, Member B.C. Division of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, Cubs And Scouts Set Pace If the new Scout and Guide Hall on Legion property off Johnson Road is not ready for use with the New Year, it will ot be the fault of some of the boys who hope to use it. Con- struction bas now reached the stage where much simple inside carpentry is required, and the boys, hearing of this, are coming in large numbers to volunteer the work that their dads have failed to do. Tt all began with a meeting of the First White Rock “B” Wolf Cub pack held in the new hall because rain and a leaky roof had turned their old one into an aquarium. They were given the job of stuffing shavings into a section of wall for in- sulation, and did more work, the sixteen of them, in one hour, | than twenty men would have done in two hours. First White Rock Scouts were next, sheeting and insulating a large section of wall on their meeting night. Then a band of } volunteers from First White Rock “A” Cubs foregathered on an } off-meeting night and proved that they too could work with the best. By that time the news had spread, and boys began to turn up at the hall on their own after school, equipped with a few ready tools, and with vast quantities of enthusiasm, willingness, energy, and good cheer—boys from First White Rock, boys from Second White Rock, and boys with no previous connection with Scouts at all. | The boys have vastly cheered the few determined men who have contributed their time and their money to the agonizingly slow progress of this building. They have offset the sense of | frustratien over legal delays, the worry over money shortage, the bewilderment over lack of help from other parents. They—the boys—have given not only a new hope that the job will be done in time, but also fresh proof that it is very well worth doing. It’s a spirit that many an adult might emulate. Brighter Side Of Nuclear Fission| Ever since the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima mankind | has been dogged with fear of a third world war which could | mean the end of life on this planet. | Each year has seen the addition of still more gigantic devel- opments along the line of nuclear fission, culminating in this year 1958, with the threat of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Perhaps in the face of the unknown we have tended to over- emphasize the destructive power of the new scientific advances and lost sight of the great power for good in the discoveries of | this second half of the 20th century. | Ottawa N Dear Friends: It seems that the tempera- ture in the Ottawa Valley is tojarated from those become more frigid. Similarly, |supply. the atmosphere of the House is gradually losing the genial spir-'should be but one, and only it of brotherly love, co-opera- tion and kindness which has|solution to go into Ways and ‘ficulties in solving its Centen- |i marked this Session to date. dit spokesmen took lusty verbal swings at the Minister of Fin- cause he brought in tax chang- es, but because of the method he employed in doing so. The story was a long one but I shall make it as brief as I can. During the past Parlia- ment, the Committee on Priv- “ee oad TecJons browph ith the rules governing the proce- dure to be followed in carry- ing out the work of Canada's Parliament. It was felt that we had had our own Parliament for enough years to have our own set of rules, The recom- mendations were accepted by Parliament and passed by it, Rule I, specifically said that where the Canadian authori ties had not had occasion to rule on a point of order, then we were to refer to the rules of » United Kingdom to estab- lish what the rule would be. The question, of course, is a procedural one and has to do with the Rights of Parliament. The Minister of Finance, Mr. Fleming, had brought in cer tain changes in the tax struc: ture of the country in the course of introducing his estim- ates. This meant that the mem- bers of Parliament were auto- matically denied the right to amend the government's pro- posals—a right that has not |been denied a Canadian Parlia- ment since 1880. The Standing Order govern- ing procedure in the House of Commons had been changed in 1955. At that time, it was de “A CHANGE OF CLIMATE,” by Jay William: Liberals, CCF and Social Cre- On The Bookshelf ews Letter cided that the rules respecting ways and means should be sep- ing It was decided that there : ~ I SUPPOSE White one, eight-day debate on a re- not alone in B.C. jn Means before any increase, Dlal project problem. It's big- decrease or other changes af- Sest neighbor, Vancouver, has Hfecting the tax to be paid was had its headaches, too, and to take place; but there was to S¢ems reluctant to cross the ance the other day—not be-|be one such motion in each ‘bridge leading to a decision. |agony, or Sometimes, I am forced to the ‘conclusion that it is small won- der we haye international dis- ‘agreements, leading to the de- ‘structivoness of war, when the jneighbors in ne small com- munity, or members of a com- mittee, find it so impossible to gree. session of Parliament. The danger of the action that | the Government is now follow- jing is not so apparent as it possibly should be, but you will probably recall that the his- tory of the supremacy of the} people over the taxes they are! to pay dates back to the time of King John Ist of England.| witte Rook cath oor ion No one is denying the chan-' money to be at on ig we ges in taxes—proposed by Her 'struction coming from Federal Majesty's Ministers in Ottawa and Provincial grants seemed —are desirable changes. jthe perfect solution last week. The argument is: this estab-'I certainly ope Council decides lishes a precedent—a bad pre-jto take up the idea. As far as I cedent. If the government has jhave been able to learn the the right to reduce taxes in present set-up of all Healt ser- this way, it then has a similar |vices for White Rock being right to increase taxes in the handled from the one small same manner, Cloverdale office is most unfair to the health services workers. A TOTAL of 23 workers must operate from one small office. There are four desks in one rom alone which was planned to accommodate only one desk. ! i The taxpayer of Canada has ght to have these tax chan- ges voted upon. They should | be brought in in the normal’ fashion by a resolution to go into a Committee of Ways and |w; ee - Means. In that way, AN tae the travelliny time con- A sumed coming and going from that way alone, can we keep| Cloverdale to White Rock it |the government responsible to|}must be utterly impossible for parliament and through it to the health workers to give the the people. service required. The government still has} FIRST UNIT of the central- time, and it is to be hoped it jzed city hall, all on one pro- twill have a change of heart— Perty, plus a comfort station that is, not yet too late to \0m the ground floor with out: bring in a resolution to go into Side access for the convenience Ja Committee of Ways Means to allow for proper de- seems a very fine solution, tak- bate and amendment of the mo- ing a longer view of the needs Hore, and so vote the changes (+ white Rock. The welfare as they should be. | Bre * 2 G. HAHN. Office, for which the city is now paying something in the neighborhood of $100 2 month, includuing janitor fees, could also be housed in the Health |Centre and small community metings held there. | | in five canoes were hoisted fock havini dif- |; and of the public, the Health Centre’ rey pulp can do no} the number of fai ‘They only feed , over-developed love of sensa- tionalism inherent in far too may people. Newspapers that stoop to such means to sell pa- pers are entirely overlooking the human element—I might have said “humane”. They have failed to ask themselves one question: “What if it were your mother, or father, or brother? This and That “WANT ADS. COLUMN.” Wanted! A house by the edge of the sea, right by the edge of the seal By a hillside and flowers and a tal swaying tree— A tree that at night will whis- per to me of it’s patient my- sterious life. A house just large enough for two— This house MUST have a love- ly view, So that, Whichever way I look, Whether I sew, or knit, or cook. I'll see the hill, Thi watch the sea, YH glimpse the whispering tree— O! snug little house, wherever you are Built of dreams and of hopes, and lit by a star, Wait for me! ° swaying, . Sylvia Walton. 15160 Prospect Ave., W.R. overboard from a British sub- marine in the mouth of the |rive Gironde, whence they in- Christmas Greetings . As he journeys hrough If we could concentrate on the good mankind might obtain | England, ayatee Spain from the “foot loose” power, as atomic energy has been called, |and, finally, Majorca, in his {quest for the HATC ge of Clim: gi his ed account us people and various the threat of war might pass. Not too many people realize that nuclear power is not local- | ate,”” ized by geology, as coal and oil are, nor by geography like hydro- read electric power depending on waterfalls. jof v It can go anywhere, into the Arctic, or the desert, or the |places; whether it be a thumb- heart of the jungle, because once an atomic power station is built nail sketch of his Majorcan it does not need surface communications, like roads or railways, |/@ndlord, an abbreviated his- to maintain its fuel supplies. tory of medieval Carcas e,|commando raid of the war.” ' ltended to paddle 70 miles up} river to Bordeaux, to destroy the limpet mines German} shipping engaged in vital traf- fic with the Far East. It must have been a tremendous undertaking, for a German of-| ficer called it “the outstanding } Christmas will have come and gone, ere another ryhme I'll write So I'll wish you a Happy Christmas, hope ‘twill be good and bright. You will wish the same to all your friends, and that with goodly reason, Extend to one and all, the compliments of the season: Christmas time is different from other seasons of the year, It somehow makes us feel good, spreads around good cheer. Of course there are dissenters, but this I will maintain, In the field of propulsion, the possibilities, too, are stagger- ing. Cargo and passengers will soon be hauled around the seven seas, on tiny chunks of nuclear material. Nuclear-powered loco- motives are already on the drawing boards and both home heating and cooking may also use the new fuel. A British scientific writer speaking on the BBC recently pointed out that a piece of fission fuel no larger than a match box has the energy equivalent of 150 ten-ton trucks of coal and that a gallon of ordinary water has as much fusion energy as 100 gallons of gasoline. The power which can be developed by this means for the backward races of the earth strains the imagination. Man has one of the greatest adventures of his whole long history opening up before him today. If we choose peace, the adventure is ours. If we choose war, or have war forced upon us, either annihilation or a new dark age will be our only future. eee Accommodation For Tourists It looks as though White Rock is not as yet fully aware of the potential in tourism—to use the newly-coined term—which her situation and climate have given this city, True, our reputation as a splendid place in which to retire or to bring up one’s children, is almost as great an asset to the whole Semiahmoo Bay area, which includes Douglas, Ocean Park and Crescent as well as this city. It is a well-known fact that B.C.’s recreation and conserva. tion department is pushing park development in all areas. To anyone who has motored into the Okanagan this past year the wonderful park sites along that famous lake are well-known. Before the construction was complete, families in their cars and trailers were pouring in. Tt is equally wellknown that camping in government-con- or an account of difficulties during his ighter’s illness, Mr. jams provides a highly re: able description of his expe ences abroad. “COCKLESHELL HEROES,” by C E, Lucas Phillips The story of this book goes back to an icy night in Dec, 1942 when 10 Royal Marines linguistic baby Wil- 4 CASTLEGA volt interconnection shan plant on Arrow Lakes MAJOR LINK in British Columbia's power grid is 60,000 Light Co, plant at South Slocan. Lieutenant-Colonel H. G. Hasler who planned and led the raid, compiled this book diaries and personal and because of ry and sacrifice of also the authenticity | and details of the raids, this interesting narrative will ap- peal to serious students of the art of war. Telephone Number White Rock, will be Wew OCAVER SCHOOL DISTRICT Sealed tenders will be all trades for the cor classrooms and activity ary School. to biddors afd for the office of the Archi! neLsom 12th Ave., Vancouver, inders ll b B.C, Power Commission What and West Kootenay Power and NOTICE As from FRIDAY, December 20, the School Trustees for a firm bid ictio In spite of every one of them, there's real gladness just the same, And we are not unmindful, of those who've passed away, Many faces we will miss this coming Christmas Day. “et’s give God praise, for the many ways, he allows us to extend | To all our friends and relatives the hearty greetings that we send: W. F. McCLINTOCK. of the City Hall, WI. 8-251