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Published five days a week In Prince George, British, Columbia, by Citizen Publishers and Printers Ltd. A Member of The Canadian Press.               Authorized as Second Class Mall by the Postmaster General.
J. E. MILLER, General Manager ___________________________D. C. THACKER, Managing  Editor___________________.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3,   1961
Those Different Figures
By BRUCE  LiEVETT CP Staff Writer
The harassed desk clerk looked up from the stack of U.S. currency, sighed as he
lost count, and said: "Now the shoe's on the other foot." That about summed up the attitude of money-handlers  across  Canada  to  the
Gerald Waring Reports
A proper evaluation of the Columbia River development plan in comparison with the Peace River scheme is far beyond the comprehension of amateurs.
But it requires no keener perception than a layman is capable of to question the veracity or accuracy of some of the "professional" estimates that are handed out by politicians and other interested parties.
The B.C. Energy Board report, supposedly compiled by experts, claims that the price of Columbia River power at Vancouver will be 4.03 mills per kilowatt hour, while the Peace price would be 4.2 mills if developed by the government or C>.4 mills if developed privately.
At the beginning of its quarrel with Premier Bennett and his bully boys of the B.C. cabinet, the federal government estimated that Columbia power could be delivered at Vancouver
for 3.77 mills. Bennett scoffed at this figure as being a mere guess, unsupported by any engineering studies. Now, after complete studies by independent engineers, Federal Justice Minister Davie Fulton says ' that cost will be 3.G mills�more than half a mill cheaper than the estimates prepared by the B.C. Energy Board's experts.
Only two conclusions can be drawn from these different "expert" figures. Either one group of independent engineers is wrong, or both are; or else either the federal or provincial politicians are presenting a false set of estimates.
.lurfticc Minister Fulton said Tuesday night he doesn't fully understand the B.C. Energy Board's report.
The chances are good, Mr. Fulton, that you aren't supposed to understand it. and neither are the people of B.C. So welcome to the club.
THE COLISEUM, OTTAWA �All the senses, including ESP, come into play in covering a political convention. You see, you hear, you feel, you smell. You even taste the hot political air that dries your lips and coats your taste buds with alien tobacco smoke and other effluvia.
Sensory perception is not all for the eyes and ears in this sweating-hot arena with some 1,900 delegates contributing to the aromatic distillate of hundreds of box stalls, stock pens and fowl cages that lingers from last year's exhibition. TV lights glare down, camera eyes watch unrelentingly, and shirt-sleeved speakers boom brassily over the PA.
This New Party is the "party of the people," so shirt sleeves are the rig of the day
Letters to the Editor
In Auspicious Company
By DAVE MclNTOSH Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTTAWA�When it comes to political leadership ambitions, CCF Loader Hazen Argue is travelling in auspicious company.
That company of underdogs includes Rt. Hon. James Gardiner, former Liberal agriculture minister; Hon. Paul Martin, former Liberal hoallh minister; lion Donald Fleming, minister of finance; and Hon. Davie Fulton, minister of justice.
Mr. Gardiner ran against former prime minister St. Laurent for the Liberal leadership; Mr. Martin against Lester B. Pearson, and Mr. Fleming    and     Mr.     Fulton
against  Prime enbakcr.
Minister Dii'f-
Mr. Argue appears to have about as much chance against Premier Tommy Douglas of Saskatchewan for the New Party leadership.
In such affairs, the brutal point of decision is: Which man can win more seats for us?
And the brutal facts are that Mr. Argue leads a party of only eight Commons members while Mr. Douglas has been premier of a province for 17 years.
It is apparent that most delegates think Mr. Douglas can win more scats for the New Party than Mr. Argue. Whether Mr. Argue does better than his underdog predecessors in other parties may depend on the actions of the   New   Party's   temporary
hierarchy   before   the  Thursday voting.
The executive is behind Mr. Douglas all the way. If it pushes too hard on the leadership and other issues, it may bring on a rank-and-file revolt.
Such convention revolts are extremely rare among long-established political parties. But this is the convention of a new party and it may not go exactly as the founding fathers have planned.
Mr. Argue's only apparent hope is that a party of the left will want to be farther left than the trade unions in it and will reject the tenets of the executive.
There is no sign of such a rebellion among delegates. At least not  yet.
Boys Will Be Boys
BELGRADE (AP)�A new generation is coming of age in President Tito's Yugoslavia, youths who have known nothing but a Communist regime. Yet many of them and the country's Red rulers are strangers to each other.
It is a eon!inning battle by Yugoslav Communists to reach the youngsters, especially the more sophisticated ones in the cities.
The party is doing a better job with the country youth. Urban boys and girls who have grown up since the enthusiastic days of the wartime partisan struggle are more Interested in jaw!i jeans and jalopies lhan they arc in politics.
The problem of youth is one thai gets an airing almost daily in the Yugoslav press.
Politika, a Belgrade daily, recently interviewed Mika Tripalo, president of the cen-
tral committee of the People's Youth of Yugoslavia. He complained that some young intellectuals "do not understand changes at present underway in our social, and first of all. in our economic system."
Diplomats and other in Belgrade say the youngsters giving the Communists (rouble are not anti-Communist, just not interested politically. They feel Yugoslavia has had its revolution and that sacrifice is no longer necessary. Clad in blue jeans, they like
to walk the cit) boulevards or
sit ill coffee houses and talk. Jazz   clubs   are   springing   up
around the country. With import regulations being relaxed, tnore and more Yugoslavs are beginning to think of owning cars. Some youths have acquired old jalopies and are Setting's mania for tinkering with them.
University students arc assisted by the state and many seem to be perpetual undergraduates. But the government is considering limitations on their allowances, to force slackers off the campus and into jobs.
The government has taken other measures to reach the youth. Perhaps the most successful arc road gangs of hoys and girls helping to build Yugoslavia's new highway system.
No one is forced to join the gangs, but many find it an easy way_ to have a vacation. They only work part of the day. Afterward comes swimming, campfircs and all the trimmings of a picnic.
A few Indoctrination courses are thrown in. but on the whole it is a free vacation, with good food and good fun.
(Letters for publication are welcome. They must be brief, and will not be printed unless accompanied by the name and address of the writer, although a nom de plume may be used if desired. Opinions expressed in letters are the writers', and not necessarily those  of The  Citizen.)
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for most delegates and party brass. President Claude Jodoin of the Canadian Labor Congress started his speech in a jacket that he shed soon after blastoff. But gentlemen of the press wear jackets.
The convention floor is a mass of delegates jammed along tables piled with working papers, earphones, Douglas hats, Argue hats, New Party boaters and plain ordinary hats. It is a sea of little movements that occasionally whips into waves of applause or a choppy motion of arms reaching for translation earphones as someone opens in French.
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This is no penny-pinching CCF convention. The CLC unions put up $38,500 to rent this big league ball park for the opening game of the new club, and nothing is lacking.
Delegates have fancy bronze and enamel badges that look like the Order of Lenin, 3rd. class. The Toronto PR firm that union dollars hired has provided PA srid earphones, intramural broadcast and radio receivers, press releases, socialist literature, union displays, decorative insignia and bunting. Lacking: photos of previous leaders. It wasn't politic to contront the union delegates with photos of J. S. Woodsworth and M. J. Colciwcll.
The New Party color is green, so naturally the background decorations are blue and yellow. Put them together and you get green. Everywhere the twin symbols of this nco-socialism are repeated.
One is a stylized Parliament Building, distinctly phallic, denoting strength and virility, one supposes, and symbolizing democracy, political power, or theatre of operations, whichever way you want to interpret it.
The other is the party insignia, the letters N and P spun together, sharing a common centre stroke. It's the new CNR symbol, the cattle-brand CN that now adorns box cars, but inverted for New Party purposes, with the
centre     Btroko     elonKHiod     to
form the tail of the P.
This is an unruly convention. Nothing cut and dried. It needs a strong chairman to get essential ground covered. It got one in the unlikely person of Prof. George Grube (Greek ancient history at Varsity), long-time CCFer. Backed by the CCF brass (except Hazen Argue) and with union men like Joe Morris of IWA down on the floor keeping their delegates in line, Grube   and   his   fellow   chair-
fact the mighty American greenback is again top dollar.
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AVhen the U.S. dollar was worth 97 cents north of the border, Canadians collected the thi'ee-cent premium. Now it's worth about $1.03 and the tourist is taking advantage of the situation.
The Canadian Press, in a cross-Canada survey, found that to the visitor it isn't to much the money, it's the principle of thp thing. Canadians are taking three main stands on the exchange rate:
1. Ignoring it.�accepting U.S. funds at par as many of them did when the U.S. dollar was worth less. If anyone complains, they pay.
2 PayiiiK out change in U.S. money and leaving the exchange rate problem for somebody else to figure out. 3. Checking the exchange rate daily; it fluctuates a fraction of a cent, and paying it.
A, check of representative bars in Toronto disclosed two paid the premium, tlireo accepted U.S. funds at par, and one used the U.S. change system.
Marcel E. Provcncher, business manager for the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa, reports: "The rebate is being well-received by American customers. It is specially noticeable through the fact they have been freer with tips to bell-hops recently."
Most of Montreal's famed night spots accept. U.S. money at par. except the Monterez Candlelight Room which accepts only Canadian funds.
The tourist industry is the main summer activity in Quebec City, a fact reflected in the careful reply from the Chateau Frontenac: "We arc always happy to refund a discount to our American customers. They appreciate it and it's good for business."
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One report from the border city of Windsor, Ont., across the river from De troit, said the premium situ ation is a mixed-up affair.
Mac Dunbar, secretary of the chamber of commerce, said "merchants are not getting as much American money now as they used to wlH'ii C :i ii :i <1 i .'i n x would dump it in stores to gel the premium. Since many stores bore are not paying a premium at present, these dumpers are taking their American money to the hanks."
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Out West, in tourist-conscious Victoria, complaints that the merchants wore not paying the premium caused a newspaper to send out a reporter to survey the situa-
Commerce spokesman said: "No problems have arisen here since the government devalued the dollar. We are most interested in seeing the American tourist gets full value for his dollar."
Said the manager of a large Edmonton restaurant that serves liquor: "If nobody kicks, we don't bother to pay it."
From Lethbridge come reports that some Montana merchants are charging 10 cents on the Canadian dollar, that others refuse to accept Canadian money-at all.
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Winnipeg merchants generally follow a rule that, if the discount is .less than three cents, forget it; if it is three cents or more, pay up. How do the tourists feel? Says Ernest Carlson of Summerville. N.J.. holidaying in St. John's. Nfld.: "What I'd like to see is the dollar even in both countries so it wouldn't be an embarrassment all the -way around."
George Krug, visiting Quebec City, said: "A few years ago I came to Canada and had to pay a premium because the Canadian dollar was higher. Now that the shoe's on the other foot, I'll take advantage of it."
E.  Bovel,   retired  Chicago
printer visiting In Montreal: "Only a few small stores did not pay me the premium. They should give the premium. When I came to Canada two years ago, in some places out West, I was charged even for the service of changing our money into Canadian."
Mrs. Cora Lynch, retired civil servant from Durham, N.C.. said in Montreal: "It doesn't bother us. What's a few cents?"
Jack Berry of Toronto, publicity chief for the CPR-owned Royal York Hotel, says:
"Of course they're not complaining. Why should they, when they can give a $10 bill for a 20-ocnt article and get back the item plus $10.10?"
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