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International Crisis, 1956
je, we imagine, will in future years look back
to hake of Novena 1956, without linking it in
their minds with the fateful first days of September, 1939:
Intermingled in these thoughts will be the voices on
fadio and television if not prophesying war at least sound-
ing like harbingers of evil things which are bound to come.
‘And there, we dare to hope, the analogy will come to an
end. For, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, and all
our doubts and fears, one fact emerged clearly as hour suc-
ceeded hour and the grave or impassioned speeches from
the delegates to the United Nations came over the air and

into our living rooms : :
It was, that no matter what weaknes it may at times

display, the United Nations is still the best hope for peace
the world has in this year 1956. But it must be a U.N. with
more power to act, If they can now, following the sugges-
tion of the Canadian delegates, set up an international army
to take over the police action Britain and France were forced
to assume, we may yet see peace in the Middle East in our
day.

‘An ounce of prévention is worth many pounds of cure,
the old adage runs. Much as we may regret the necessity
of events which developed so swiftly around Suez, we have
to recognize one thing:

If, some years ago, the nations making up the U.N.
found it pos le to assent to the organization of a world
brigade” the tragic events of the past week, including

had
fire
the

betrayal of heroic Hungary, might never have occurred
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.. 1 2
White Rock Has No Status
We were definitely jarred when we opened the Pre-
liminary Series No, 5 of the Census of Canada, 1956, to find
that White Rock which is said to have a population of nearly
G,vu0 peopie is not even mentioned.
Search the columns and columns of names and popu
lation figures for cities, towns and villages, even the columns

of this fair

in French (cite, ville or village) and the name
resort is nownere to be found.

Here in this impressive document are ns
With a mere handful of inhabitants, but our “city in size,
White Rock, is overlooked.

To take a few examples: Spruce Lake, listed as a vill-
age in Saskatet , has 99 inhabitants; Wauchope, in the
same province, has 73. The city of Beauharnois in Quebec
has only 6,722 people within its environs. Coming nearer
home we find that Duncan on Vancouver Island, given the
noble status of city, has only 3,149 residents, and Salmon
Arm, holder of the same proud litle, has only 1,332.

To anyone who might question why, the answer is plain.

White Rock, either by choice or force of circumst
has through the years remained unincorporated. As a result
the honour of being listed as a city in the national census
in this year 1956 was not for her.

Somehow, as we closed the Preliminary Series (Serie pro-
visoire) we could not help feeling just a wee bit cheated,
We had a sneaking notion we would have liked a good
many thousand fellow Canadians, who will no doubt scan
the pages of this nose-counting report, to have seen among
the entries under British Columbia cities, White Rock, popu-
lation 1956, 9,000; 1951, 5,400.

That would have told the rest of Canada in no uncer-
tain terms what we are, where we are and what splendid
growth we are making.

Deas Island Tnel

Tt must haye been a bit of a shock to many readers to
learn from newspaper reports that the much-published Deas
Island Tunnel was not going to be entirely under water.

Senator Tom Reid has announced if present tunnel
plans were carried out the economy of New Westminster and
the whole Lower Mainland could be affected.

The Senator has proposed that construction on the tunnel
be halted until such times as tests can be made the e!
Model at the U.B.C. ae

It seems strange that plans could have e

progressed as far

as they have with no mention of the tunnel projectin,
feet above the river. Fete
Most people’s idea of the under-river tunnel is i
is that it is

a tube far enough below low tide that it would i

it

with shipping on the Fraser. ne
Many in the White Rock district who have watched the
peey progress with interest and realized the great benefit
esto bai Se reste, on hope that there will not be

length; slay if construction is halted in order t
a See eneecn of the plans, pe

it iny gation there should be in order that all
vestige y public
doubts about the tunnel may be cleared up at the earliest

oak ‘ Tides of White Rock District

Station, Point Atki

nce |

OU! and recollections
Bren to dreadful ad
‘Wars have crowded the minds
of countless people the past |®'
weekend as radio, TV scts‘and
newspapers brought hourly/
tidings of events moving re- |
lentlessly towards yet another
World crisis: ;

Canadians no name.
aide more vivid in memory | Miles cast ss bi ene
as a symbol of sacrifice in the } A very short ne paid ne
name of freedom than that of ;Unvelling took place the
Ypres. ‘That is why it was Mr. Plerre Mihara
particularly fitting that Mr. |che. MBE, Rois ey oe
and Mrs. W. G. Higgins, Police in the town, conceive
Washington Ave,, should walk |the idea that it would be a
into our newspaper office on |&tateful gesture on the Nits
|Monday bearing a picture of }Of the townspeople if they
lthe Menin Gate at Yyres, The |could pay a nightly tribute to
jpicture is being displayed in the memory of those who had
the window of the Semiahmoo ae in the defence of the
Sun during this week preced- |town.
lire the solemn observance of | BUGLES SILENT, 1940-44
|Remembrance Day, next Sun-| That is why today, nearly
\day, November 11. 40 years after the illustrious
) Mr. and Mrs. Higgins who jaction at Ypres, the Last Post
‘have lived in White Rock since !!s sounded every night at sun-

known gray
35,000 names of

Tyne Cot Cemetery on the
Passchendale ridge about six

1940 brought the picture of down under the imposing
the famous gate back with |walls of the great gate. Only
them from England where|during the dreadful years of

the
1940 to

enemy occupation from

they had gone to visit the
1944 did the silver

grave of their® last remaining

sing” |
are inscribed on panels at).

carefully ove

son, P.O. Cla Higgins, |bugles of remembrance fall si-
who crashed near London jlent During the brief cerr-
in 1942 and is buried at Car mony all traffic at either end
berwell, Mr. Higgins, Senior, |/of the memorial is halted.

fs a veteran of World War I.| Owing to the s i I-
Still ¢ g on the family |uation in currency consequent
tradition service, M I upon the ¥v the capital fund |

gins today is convener of the | which de s the

local Red Cross workroom. the 1 service

| IMPOSING MEMORIAL jlo ficient to carry on.
As is no universally |The committee jn charge wel-

known, the est fighting come donations from-any who

on the Briti front in tk are Interested

1914-18 war took place in on this simple but uni-

salient formed in fr gue ceremony in memory

Ypres 3 de- jthe £ ‘with no

fence of the to

s said

uate he so thoughtfully brought |'To the Editor abe. es
nd are |the picture of the Menin Gate |Dear Sir: |Peeeeer lenaid’ esiorisike
ieteries in |to share it with residents of| On the day following Hal-|tnic ea eae te whe Sen
90,000 | White Rock: |loween the Semiahmoo High |shmoo Sun “On reading news-
no, “We should all show our|School students were at all |papers,” brings very vividly
known «grave appreciation of this fine pic-|the Hilltop business places to aie Ben Franklin's max-
What more suitable ture of remembrance on the| washing soap and wax ftom lim “An investmentiin knows
could be found than of the c’ of Ypres \the windows. I think that this ‘ledge pays the best dividends.”
of the old Menin t least y letter of |shows a wonderful spirit on|We are apt to take our niews-
ramp: at vartfelt thanks and appreci-|the part of the students as|papers for granted ee it were
trance to the ation to Mr. and Mrs, F. Van-|well as a proof of the good|without “realising what we
so that a suitable | |devoorde De Marez, Les|work being done by the Gwe this régulae: ard iclenaly
might be ere panels Chausser de Dixmude, |teaching staff of the School. |visiton as you aptly describe
containing the names of the Belgium.” It shows that these young peo- 'j¢_
= = _ _ |ple are achieving a Concept of} Onell wcholireal i
THE EGYPTIAN CRISIS. social responsibility at an ear-| jena} eerie rai ae
On Egypt and of Israel, I sure am no authority, ly age and it promises well \ratly become well informed
|We k the British and the French, stepped out with |for the future of this country.) 5045 aqq@ more than! Helmighe
activity; The future of this country will jthink to his out of college
While Eisenhower decries the move, their action he’d abate, |be in their hands, and events) ication,

| Tw

| lion's tail, Egypt did underrate;
Eg

er, ‘just like Hitler, the proverbial barber's cat,
Full of wind and bluster, an opportunist rat;

| This ig one time John Bull, did not give one dam,

Of reaction from our friends, better known as Uncle Sam;
| You know the famous saying, “The end justifies the means,”
A British diplomatic mc could be other than it seems

| What is Canada’s position ny wonder what ‘twill be,

| A case of history repeats its elf, namely, that of “wait and
see”;

John Bull works for his country’s good, without undue hesi-
tation,

While some politicians put first place, to winning an Elec-
tion.

W. FP. McCLINTOCK.
Flashbacks Of The Past
(From Semiahmoo Sun Files)
October 5th, 1939. PEACE ARCH HIGHWAY MAY BE RE-
NAMED.
The Provincial Government will be asked to re-name
the Peace Arch Highway the King George VI High-
way, it was decided at a meeting in the City Hall at
New Westminster. A resolution to this effect was
passed and will be sent to Surrey, Burnaby, New West-
Minster and Vancouver Councils for endorsement and
will then be submitted to the government.
° . .
October 18th, 1940. NEW KING GEORGE VI HIGHWAY
OPENED BY HON, IAN MACKENZIE, ‘
A dream of pioneer days was realized on Wednesday,
when the new King George VI Highway was formally
dedicated before a throng of Canadians and “Americans,
thus forging another link in the system of trans con:

tinental highways and welding closer together the two
gteat North American Nation: 5 es
° .

. ;

October 27th, 1939. BREAKWATER STARTED.

Construction commenced on Monday rmorni

Rock's new floating breakwater when a

rig and crow commenced work on the $4,800
A

October 27th, 1939. NEW HIGHWA\ GOOD ¢
comp!

|

when |

|

|per cent.

j}to the future.

dd Ks
The majority of motor yeh

cle ‘owners pas abe:

and drive their vehicles year 'c

in and year out without acci-|j

dent. a

That majority is slowly and (option of
surely being nibbled away by ,Certainly called
an ever-increasing fhinoritseh DRASTIC MEASI
and that is the reason Insur- be adopted to
ance Cone are now mak- " public and the
ing plans to increase rates
next year by not less than 10 patria Crt ‘shi
be given by Insurance Com-
panies to their policy-holders
,with clean records for safe
driving.

Only by putting teeth in the
Motor Vehicle Act in these “a
ways can we hope to lower
the number of deaths on the *
highways o? the Province 7
which for the first nine ;

months of the year rose to
@ point 214,

THIS IS YET ANOTHER
CASE of the innocent having
to pay for the guilty. Acci-
dents are increasing at an/|
alarming rate. Most of them
could be avoided if the drivers
practised road courtesy.

The shocking complacency.
of governments, the automo-
bile industry and the general
public, has reached

jdone by pupils in cleaning
windows in the Hilltop busi-
mess sections is due to the
teacher or teachers who or-
ganized it—we understand as
\2 substitute for Physical Ed. rs
classes that morning, and to 2
Suggestion from the Students”
| Council.

Letters published in this col
in helping to|"mn are the sentiments of the)
jriters themselves and are not
of |neesssarily subscribed to by the
known | Falitors.

1445 Foster Street. |

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15360 Royal Ave.

Noy. ist, 1956. Now aeabae:

Tf he goes further
and preserves in a scrap book
whatever he may deem worthy
yy; ly of preservation, he will find
CUS this a fascinating hobby.
PAT CAMPBELL. |nhave found it to be
Editor’s Note: No one with |\times. ‘The printed’ ~
any intelligence has ever con-|thus at hand at
demned the whole een-age|reference long
generation holus bolus, but at) which is heard o

such as this suggest that Can-|
ada can look with confidence

recognize the strong “anti-|
society” tendencies of a mini- cess y
ority of that age group in al- to your tr
most every community today. all White Rook.
We should judge that most of _ You

the credit for the good work Wane eL