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Long Time Resident.
Passes at Trail

Mrs, Jessie Lavina Ann Read,
wife of Mr. W. E. Read, of Cast-
legar passed away last evening
in the Trail Hospital. Mrs, Read
was born in 1889 at Birmingham,
Eng. and came to Canada and
settled at Pincher Creek in 1895.
She married W. E. Read in 1916
and they lived in Coleman, Alta.
until 1947 when they took up
residence in Castlegar.

Mrs, Read is survived by her
husband, two sons, John of Rion-
dell and Alfred of this village
and a. Mrs.

Concert
(Continued ftom page D: es

and the old Welsh Folk song,
“All Through the Night”, As an
encore the Choir sang “Blow the
Man Down”,

A display of marching and
baton twirling by Gail Seaton’s
Majorettes was grecled with en-
thusiastic applause, and the
troupe of girls dressed’ in blue
presented an attractive picture
as they performed to the accom-
paniment of the Senior Band
playing the “Officer of the Day”
march,

Creston. There are three grand-
children,
Funeral will be

F gant i 5
the ‘recently organized High
School Dance Band made its first

announced later by the Castle-
gar Funeral Home.

Hospital
(Continued from page 1)
peen made to have at least’ one

with the playing of
the popular dance style music,
“Y Almost Lost Mind”, “Pennsyl-
vania 6-5000" and “Begin the
Beguine”, Thirteen Sr. High
students make up this promising
group.
The i

other of the
Society present at each meeting,
so that all queries may be an-
swered,

The Society will be repre-
sented at the Kinnaird meeting
by G. Reith, at the C

of th
was devoted to Saale “py the
Senior High School Band.

The first two selections pre-
sented were, the March, “Mighty
Mite” by ea Mesang, and the

to

meeting by M. E. Moran, at the
Robson meeting by W. J. Ban-
nigan, and at Tarrys by A, E.

by Corelli,
The playing of “Silhouette”
featured a clarinet solo by Lorne

Norris. Those tr ing to Deer
Park and Renata will be R. A. D.
West, J. Waldie and M. E. Mor-
an. 7
Pamphlets which will be in
the mail to all householders by
Thursday of this week, are now
ready to go out, and Mr. Reith,
who has been responsible “for
compiling the pamphlets, had one
on hand for display..The pamph-
let is a tri-fold affair and fea-
tures on the front fold, an at-
tractive cut of the proposed
hospital. On the inside of the
pamphlet are all the pertinent
facts and figures which the vot-
ers will be interested in on the
day of the plebiscite. The Execu-
tives of the Society were very
pleased with the sample shown
by Mr. Reith and felt a good
job had been done on the layout
and printing.
The matter of getting: the

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up for discussion and it was re-
vealed that local post offices
would handle them for a small’
sum. The Kinnaird Women’s In-
stitute has been busy folding the
papers and getting them ready
for the mail, or whatever method
of distribution is found most

feasible, A

In regular business of the
evening it was learned that the
Inland Natural Gas Company

WALES OF
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Wann sad friendly as only wood can be,
Etch Wood reflects the play
of light and shade like a piece of delicate
sculpture, A fireplace wall
becomes » show-piece panelled in
Etch Wood. Halls, dens,
gamcrooms radiate hospitality.
Yet Etch Wood is inexpensive . . .and
hard as hardwood.

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has ided to by-pass the Hos-
pital property with its proposed
pipeline... This matter had been
a source of some.concern to the
Hospital Society, as the Gas
Company had previously wished
to run their line through what
will be the parking area of the
Hospital grounds.

Dr..V. B. Goresky, Dr. C. S.
(Pat) Fowler and Dr. H. Rueb-
saat attended the meeting and
inspected the plans and specifi-
cations with the Architects, and
others prasent were Mrs. C.
Saunders, G. Guido, J. Sherbiko,
A. Culley, J..C. McLeod, J.. Wil-
liams, G. Reith, M,.E. Moran, R.
D. West, President Earl Norris,
and Secretary W. J..Bannigan.

The meeting was held in the
Drafting Room of the high school
and was chaired by Mr. Norris.

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G » Music Festival win-
ner of last year,

Following selection was the
well known Overture—'Gypsy
Life” by Forest Buchtel.

‘In the “Carnival of Venice"
Fred Hostetter as Trumpet solo-
ist gave a fine performance of
this old favorite,

Soloists Jack Ford, Frank
Perehudoff and Fred Hostetter
combined their talents to present
a much enjoyed Trumpet trio
in the selection “Bugler's Holi-
day”.

At the close of the prostany
the
‘of spring flowers to nee _Fish-
recognition of the
many extra hours Mr. Pishwick
has given up to help them with
their music, while their gift of
appreciation to Mr.. Fishwick
himself was a conductor's baton.

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Published Every Thursday at ‘The ‘Crossroads of the Kootenays”

VOL 10, No. 11

CASTLEGAR, BRITISH .COLUMBIA

THURSDAY, MARCH_ 14,

1957

Sherbiko, Banigan Returned
To. Hospital Directorate

+. John Sherbiko and Walter J.
Banigan were re-elected by ac-
clamation to serve three year
terms as Directors of the Castle-
gar. District Hospital Society at

to vote at the time, This is ac-
cording to the constitution of the
Society.

Mr. Moran said it is import-| iM

ant for people to realize that the
fon of the Di of the

the Annual ital Society
meeting held Monday night in
St Alban’s Hail, Castlegar.

v1 The Executive - officers of
the ‘Board of 9 Directors remains
the.same:as the 1956 slate, Pre-
sident, -A...E. Norris,’ vice-presi-
dent, M. E: Moran; Secretary; W.
J. Banigan, Treasurer, Mrs. C.
Saunders.

The appointment of a director
to fill the position lett vacant by
the resignation of G. Rilkoff, will
be made at:a later meeting, Re-
maining 3 directors are G. Guido,
Miles MacPherson and G. Reith.

President Nosris reported on
the negogiations which had been
necessary to have the sketch
plans approved by BCHIS,' say-
ing that no less than 11 sets had
been, forwarded before accept-
ance. The final working draw-
ings are now in‘ the hands of the
officials at Victoria, arid’ as scon
as the “plebiscite is passed suc-

, and word of approval
is received from BCHIS, tenders
will be called for the construc-
tion.

Answering a query on the vot,
ing for Directors of the Hospital’
Society, Mr. Moran explained
that only those who have. been
paid “members for. the past 60
days are eligible’ to vote for

these directors and directors must

come from the membership, it is
necessary to have as ‘many as
“possible . in the: organization,., $0,
“that there will ‘be. moré’ choice
in the future, instead ‘of the same
members being elected.éach time.
All those who. paid: ‘their. dues at
this: time, and “from:

€9 days. before the next Annual

meeting will therefore be eligible

Hospital Society has nothing
whatever to do with the Board|
or Hospital. Trustees, who ‘are
elected by. the ratepayers of the
Hospital District, and consists of
5 trustees, 2 from Castlegar, 2
from: Kinnaird and. one: for the
rural area,

The Trustees have the final
say in any plans or the spending
of any money for projects the
Hospital. Society may prepare.
The Trustees aré thus the custo
dians of the money raised by the
bylaw, when it is voted on, and
if the ‘D are fed,

» -L. Cantell,’ treasurer -of ‘Silver Birch School

they may vote the Trustees out
and elect a’ new board.
Speaking on the beginning
of the Hospital Society, Mr. Mor-
an said that years ago it had
been:; thought that Hospitals
should be financed by gifts from
large corporations, but in many
(Continued on page: 8)

Little ‘Theatre Group
To Present 3-Act Play

The three act comedy “The
Late Christopher Bean”: will be
presented in the Kinnaird schoo}
on. March 29-30. The play is. un-
der the direction of Mrs, Lake-
man and was written by Sidney
Howard. ‘The cast is as follows:
Dr, .Haggett, L. Lakeman, Mrs.
Haggett,.Gwen i Ada

nice Lightle. This amount. was_

a.cheque in the amount of $263 from Ber-

raised ‘by the

grade six classes in the district through their doll
raffle. The two other young-ladies in the picture
are Margie Nazaroff and Gayle McPh

4 New Directors Elected
At Projects Meeling

\ of. the C
and District Project Society elect-
ed'four Directors at the Annual! and

Meeting. held in the- Parish Hall!

Tuesday night, °

New directors are E. Fredrik-
sen, C. F. Sanderson and J.
Lewis, to Serve 3 year terms, and
R. Bro, orie year term.

‘Vacaneies' were caused by the
resignations of H. Pitts and Dr.
R. Walley, and the expiration of
the-terms of W. R. Brown and

Asggett,* Evelyn’ Burrows; ‘Susen|
Haggett, Betty Hutton, Abbie the
maid, Virginia. Walper, :Wasren
Creamer,’ Art. Sutton, .G.-Hug

W. R. Brown, retiring direct-
or, thanked the: nominating‘com-
mitted"for their work ‘in drawing

Ch

are “among others, the boarding
in of énds of the rink, sewrage

Tenders For Truck

Arrangements are tole ahead
for the opening of the new two-
room addition to. the. Tarrys
school, and both ‘the Hon. eo

facilities,

of

rooms, and so on. However, even
in its present stage, and not be-
ing Feady until later than antici-|
pated, a considerable amount of

we ‘had been made of the buiid-

‘ Mer. Anderson stated.that the
deficite of about $5,700 which
now. exists must be made up, and
some .sovt of drive. for. funds
would have to be made to enable

and the Deputy Minister, Dr. H.
L. Campbell have. accepted in-
vitations to be present. The ten-
tative date will be early in May,
it was revealed at the regular
Monday meeting of the Board of
School Trustees of District No. 9.

J. R.-C. MacBain, newly ap-
pointed Trustee for the Brilliant
Dam area was sworn in at the
meeting,. by Sec.-Treas, .C. ee

the Society! to: undertake further | Ki

work. “The rink", he said, might|

up: list. of names:

be, called ‘a.“triumph and a.tra-
getie-A Jin that despite

ve
Andy Mewhinnie, The setting is
of modern dimes, near Boston.

B.C. Telephone Upgrades
Service in Local District

of the nati ri

“3. Election of? the executive
body Within the directorate will
be-held at. the Director's. meet-
ing on.March 27th, y

- President C. Leeblich gave a
brief resume of ‘the year’s activi-

ties, and a discussion was: held |.

on the and

. was | alt
‘Me Dalton: + dt AEE a

B and a
‘construction -had gone on as far
as it has, and a tragedy, because
so few people who ought to have! R
an active part in the. building
show ‘even the slightest interest
in it. s

Dave Ci L king on

- Barrys, 3
nata Representatives, S: Konkin,
Mrs, c. Williamson and W.'R.|

Directors Of Go-on
Discuss Arrow Boat
Club Proposition

At a well atended mecting
of the Robson Co-operative Ex-
change members. discussed a re-
quest by the .Arrow Boat Club
of Castlegar, for permission to
obtain foreshore rights in front
of the Co-op property, and also
an option to purchase the Co-op
building property.

“Opinions were expressed in
favour of the request and the
proposed development of the site.
Co-op directors are authorized to
continue negotiations to arrive at
a satisfactory conclusion, ©

Hospital ‘Meetings
In District
Well Alfended

Succesaful meetings | have
been reported from all centres
holding meetings to discuss to-
day's plebiscite on the Hospital
by-law.

The scale model of the pro-
posed Hospital was taken to each
of.the series of meetings, which
commenced with the Thrums-
Tarrys meeting Thursday of last
week. George Rilkoff acted as
Chairman of the Tarrys meeting
and A, E. piles Hospital Seay

in
the. Society, 2

Going to the Deer Park and
Renata areas on Friday were B.
A.D. West and J. Waldic for the
Board of Trustees, and the Society
Directors were represented by W.
Banigen and M. E. Morar. -

Speakers . at. the . Kinnaint

.| meeting Tuesday were G. Reith,

charge of preparing. working

the.
for review and approval of the,
final budget ‘totalling $566,778.
J. M. Macbeth was again
i auditor for the school

(Continued on page 5)

* (Continued on page 5)

for the past year. Owing to the

BY c. Jent c
a to
telephone ‘service to some 200
subscribers in Castlegar as‘ a re-
sult of a $21,000 cable project
throughout the area,

‘The improvement program will
mean extensive changes to‘auto-
matic equipment in the telephone
office and also requires a change
of telephone numbers’ for. ‘tie 200
subscribers affected.

Company officials propose to

* spread the number change over'a

: period of several weeks to mini-

mize inconvenience tosubscribers.

(All new’ number listings will

dé contained in the’ next Castle-

gar. directory. In fhe meantime,

-subscribers who ‘encounter diffi-

‘culties contacting a party who

may, have a new .number are

asked to dial. “oO” ‘tor operator,

and she will supply the new num-
ber.

=| Kinnaird Village Comm.
Shows Improvement
Financially For ‘56

The Commissioners will check
on the possibility of arranging a
lease-purchase plan, for the fin-
ancing of the necessary Chlorina-
tion equipment.

By-law No..65 which consti-
‘tutes. amendment No,'6 to zoning
Bylaw’ No. 4 was given. its. first,
second and third ings, Mon-

1 figures on the vplunteer
labor picture -being ‘unavailable
‘at the present time, the Finan-
cial statement . will be presented
at a- later meeting, and will ap-
pear in ‘the newspapers. at that
time.

A report was heard from C.
A. Anderson, Chairman. of. the
committee handling the volun-
teer labor for the rink construc-
tion.

Mr. Anderson said that much
credit is due the few faithful
workers who kept on at the job
even though discouraged at times.
‘Thanks is also due to the ‘Village
of Castlegar for the use of men

day night. Necessity for the
‘amendment bylaw was caused by
J. Latkin’s application to open a
garage in'a residential area.

J. E.- Macbeth, Auditor ‘for

and and to private
individuals and the Kinnaird
Village for the loan of equipment.
There: were also the ladies who

District Welfare Societies

Holds Annual.

ird-Rob:
The

Cc on ail

Cast-

dealing

ieese and

Society were hosts Tuesday night
to the Annual District meeting
of West Kootenay Welfare Soci-
ties.

with

.There were no delegates from
Rossland present, Of the Castle-
gar: Directors, a ‘ful! board was
in. attendance, these being E.

F i q ban-
quet for about 4 “KRC directors
and guests, the meeting: held 2

debate on the topic tor | W.

Fi ick, F J. FE, Kil-
lough, E. LeRoy, A. A. Lamb, F.
Webster, . W..T, Waldie, C. Idle,

Re seks, -J.

discussion ‘at this years’ meet,
this topic being, to upet extent
the Welfare i

oR. CG
Kelly, L. E. Cantell, John'Dun-
lop and Sec.Treas, A Gray.:

to inquire into the ‘finances and

vate of thents to the Centlanae

of the y or-

for the and

had spent a lot of time
volunteers for as on .the rink,

ganizations, —_
D from the larger

the ‘Village of Kinnaird,

i are: ted to} the.

record the new * for

to discuss the 1956

: quick’ future reference in calling

and advised
he

and for

and high school students who put
in a lot of hours on the job.

‘ Mr. also

friends and
A new Castlegar directory will
_ be issue June 1,

Funeral Held Saturday
Fer Mrs, Jessia Read

Funeral services were held
“Sat. from St “Alban’s Church
for the late Mrs. Jessie Lavina
Ann Read, who passed away in
the Trail-Tadanac Hospital on
March 6th.

” Rev. W. Edington officiated
at the services: and organist was
_ Mrs, F. A. Hostetter.

Hymns sung were “Rock of
Ages” and “Abide with Me”.

Pall bearers were R. Harding,
‘A. Richards, ‘L.
Worobey, V. Jenks and’ F. Naz-
aroff,

Interment was in the family
plot.of the Park Memorial Cem-
etery at Kinnaird.

Atkinson, _ G,|.

th of the Vil-
lage showed considerable im-
provement. over the p

on the fact that although there
is quite a_risk attached to this

ear.

. Mr. Milne, Contracting En-
gineer for the main pipeline being
installed by Inland Natural Gas
Company, also attended the meet-

sort of ructi being done
by untrained workers, there had
not been a single accident on the
job. - e
Things to work for this year,

highway.
A

to be payed were

ing to discuss pipe-li
‘Chairman’ of the. Board S.

C. Muirhead announced that oe
Public Works -D

turned over to the fiance com-
mittee for: approval before pay-
ment.

be working on the job of cn
ing up damages to Mrs. Burke’s
property, caused by the bench
tank overflowing. This work will

{| be. started as soon as the frost

is out of the ground,
_ The matter of J. Hipwell’s

of pipe. lines was
| by the C

and Village Clerk, P, Smibert

was instructed to order 2200 ft.

of 4 inch cast iron pipe from

Gordon & Belyca of Vancouver.

Steve Jankola i the

centres were in favor of a greater
degree of control over the bene-
ficaries, but the smaller villages
were inclined to go slow and
not press the question too far.

Many interesting points were
brought out during the discus-
sion.

Other were

a special thanks, te the Legion
No. 170 Ladies Auxiliary who
catered for the event. -

,A discussion was held on
next years’ annual meeting, time
and place, however, nothing de-
finite has béen announced on this.

2, Last of the meetings was held
Wednesday’ at Robson, and a
good attendance was on-hand to
hear the remarks of J. Williams
and R. West, who represented
the Board of Hospital Trustees,
and W. Banigan and ©. Norris
were on hand for the Hospita¥
Society. 3

New Appointment
For fan Barclay

The Eero of Ian, A.

Alec. Gray, si y of.the
KRcC has now. moved into his
office in woe Legion Hall, and is
from 9 am

the handling of canvassing for
funds, and the ‘ion of adver-

to § pm oat the office, for the

tising.

It was decidea to form a
joint committee to go-into the
matter of advertising more fully.

Delegates from the Trail
Welfare Society were R. Rams-
den and D. Crowder, and Nelson
Delegates were P. O. Bird and L.
Hart. Represerfing the Fruitvale
Society were Mrs. BK. Shorting,
R. Leckett and W. Martin and

of anyone who wish-
es to talk over matters connected
with the Welfare Society.

AL HORSWILL: 5!.RCTED
ROTARY ‘PRESIDENT

A, T. Horswill was elected
president of the Castlegar Rotary
Club at ther dinner meeting held

as the Exe-
cutive Vice Srabiont a of Colum-
bia Cellulose Company, Limited
and Celgar Limited has been
annuonced by T. N. Beaupre,
Executive Vice President. Mr.
Barclay will continue as Assist-
ant Secretary of Chemcell.
Born in Montreal, Mr. Bar-
clay sewed oversess with the
Royal Canadian Navy. Graduat-
ing from Harvard (MPA) and
McGill (Faculty of Law) Uni-
versities, he joined the companies.

¥e in the Ci Hotel.

Vi Office in 1952.

It is just 20 years ago this year
that Mr. Morswill was elected

Board that Tadanac Fire Ronald
had ired a suction hose for

water. supply was up for
discussion and it was decided. to
cut off the back water line to
J. Lazareff's property, and to

‘provide -water:service from the

the Village, and the Ct

‘was rep) by Mrs,
K. Mantin and R. Weber.
Also present were W. E.

ers moved to have a letter of
thanks to the Fire Chief for his
co-operation.

the
Comi ai Mr.
MacNaughton acts for the Con-
solidate? Mintwe and S~eltine

id of the Nelson Club.

Vice president is C. T. Onions
and directors are’ AY Anderson,
R. Fenner, R. Brown, J: Lamont
and Dr. G,. Page.

The new slate of officers will

tale aver at the end of June.

— F-L-A-S-H —
‘The Princeas Margaret Fraser
Valley School, beat the
Rockers in their first game
by a score of 36-25. .