Thursday, June 23, 1955.

THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, BC.

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Cabaret Boosts Fund For Scouts

A fund raising cabaret was held June 10th in order to raise money for the Boy Scouts Association. A good crowd turned out and from all reporls a wonderful time was had by all. .

AN EMERGENCY Community Club meeting was held Tuesday to discuss the building of a Community Hall. It was decided to purchase lumber from Gordon Jakel and a work Bee was scheduled for Sunday. Many hands turned out to start the first part of the building which meant levelling off the ground that had been previously bulldozed out by Norman Telford.

FOREST FIRES are once again doing destruction and damage. Our local Forest Wardens and Ranger have already answered numerous calls, i

A PAREWELL PARTY was held Saturday at the home of M Mrs. Duke Martin for their gs daughter, Carol Kienas, who will leave at the close of school to join her pafents at their new home in

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Terms Election as Presbyterian Moderator “Crown of My Efforts”

—Central Press Canuaian 81st general assembly of terian Chureh of Canada, mecting in Toronto, evected Dr. Walter T. McCree, seen above, as ils moderator. to succeed Rev. MeLean of Victoria. Dr ‘ native of Sunderland. Eng. who retired last vear after spending 22 years as pastor of a Toronto chureh, defeated only other nominee. Dr. John Logan-Vencta, of Ottawa by only six votes. in one of the closest elections ever recorded.by assembly.

Licences For Dress, Variety Stores Granted

Business licences were granted last week to Doreen K.°Smith and Irene Moquin for the operation of a ladies’ dvess shop, and to Alf and Allan Smallenberg for the opera- tion of a variety store.

Both business houses will operate- in the same building, at the corner of Oliver Street and Railway Avenue that is undergoing extensive altera- tion work.

The dress shop will he open for business sometime in Angust and will operate under the name of Lady Pair.

A peddler’s licence was granted to Logan Garment Co. of Lethbridge to operate in town.

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This Week In Ottawa

By E. D. Fulton, M.P.

4 June 18th; 1

CONFUSION

Defence estimates are being de- bated now in an atmosphere of con- tusion and speculation created by recent statements and events occur- ing outside the House with astonish- ing rapidity. Appointments, promo- tions and retirements in sehior De- fence Department positions form the backdrop to an unusually interesting discussion, ~ SENIOR

The first, and most interesting to us, is the appointment of A.V.M. Frank Miller, native of Kamloops, to be Deputy Minister of the Depart- ament — the senior position apart from the Minister himself. Jn this capacity, Frank Miller will be the Senior Administrative Officer in charge of some 117,000 military and 57,000 civilian personnel. He will have charge of a department spend- ing close to $2 Dillion annually, nearly one-half the total national budget. NORMAL

‘This appointment has been uni- versally commended. All are agreed that the new Deputy is well qualified by character, training and experi- ence to assume his new post. Al- though the most important of the appointments, this ene has therefore created far less still than the others, since it has been known for some time that the present Deputy, C. M. Drury, has been anxious to return to private commercial life. SPECTACULAR

The other major

changes have

been far nore spectacular. This is].

mainly because of the background of controve: created by some ex- traordinary ill-advised public state- ments made by senior military per- sonnel — entirely contrary to the traditions and requirements of their position as serving officers. UNIFICATION.

The first of these was a statement by A. V. M. Roy Slemon, Chief of the Air Staff, to the effect that uni- fied. military command of all Cana~- dian and United States Forces was coming, and was inevitable and pro- per. . Defence Minister Campney had ro sooner finished explaining that this<was not a reflection of-Gov- ernment policy, but only of a “trend in military thinking”, then he—and the whole House—were flabbergast- ed by another even more egregrious “blooper’’.

This was a speech by A. V. M. Plant, -Chief of Technical Services of the R.C.A.F., in which that offcer was reported as saying first that the Army should be abolished and the personnel made available to the Air Force, and second that any time the Russians wanted to attack, we were ready, willing and anxious to take them on and would “lick the pants off them”. z RETRIBUTION

This time the Government reacted much more violently. Plant was re- lieved of his post within the week, and “transferred to a position re- moved from the policy-making sphere. Mr. Campney issued a state- ment condemning the practice of senior military personnel intruding their viéws in the field of policy, which is a political r i

and issued a directive to the three

ervices outlining the limits of their jactivities in this connection.

INTERRUPTION

The feeling here is that this action had been too long deferred, and that the Government by its very laxity in not dealing vigorously with such statements in the past, had allowed, if not encouraged. the trend to the point where a bad situation had de- veloped. It is unfortunate that a brilliant career had to be interrupted to restore the situation. RETIREMENT -

Then came announcement of the retirement of General Simonds. Chief of the General Staff of the Army. ‘The previous events had served to emphasize that there was disagreement in the Services them- selves with the allocation of man- power as hetween the services. Gene- ral Simonds was known to feel in addition that the manpower policy of the Government was not produc- ing sufficient men to fill the require- ments of the three Services in a sen- sible Canadian defence set up. His resignation, at the age of only 52, at the peak of his career—when fur- - ther promotion might haye seemei more in order—has emphasized t! whole problem of manpowe®: only as regards the size of the ov all defence forces, hut as to the allo- cation of existing men as between the three Services. MIS-DIRECTION

General Simonds, it seems to me, took the proper course: when things got to the point where he and his civilian superiors no longer saw > to eye on the policy he was called upon to administer, he accepted his retirement without comment.

The principle of our syst and the only workable one —

are supreme, The°Military Chiets administer the policy laid down by the political heads, who must there- fore accept responsibility for the conduct of service matters. For this reason, the Conservatives in the House strongly condemned Mr. Her- ridge, of the C.C.F., when he made a bitter personal attack on General Si- blaming developments in the Army to which Mr, Herridge is opposed. Mr, Her- felt, would have done much better to direct his attack om the Government and the Minister. There the responsibility belongs.

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