CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday June 26, “1958 | Text-Book Rental Up $1 Schoo! Board Announces An increase in text-book rental fees paid by high ay Mckenzie attend the annual Bo, school iArustecs aeoenen has been the department, of. education. rhe -will.start in September trustees were advised. at Monday’s reg- ular. school board meeting. Students in Grades 7 to 9 will now pay $4.50 and Grades 10 to 13 will pay $5. This amounts to ‘Gn: increase of $1 for each student rental fee. The board reviewed quota- tions on applying the remainder ef the insul-brick and asbestos shingles at Castlegar elementary schools With Guy Guido being successful bidder. Others sub- mitting quotes were Oglow Bro- thers, Kootenay Builders and Castlegar Building Supply. - Appointment of Miss Bar- bara Tarbet to the teaching staff was announced. Miss Tar- bet will be remembered by many residents, having been on the staff a few years ago. The board approved a re- quest by the Kinnaird school to hold their annual picnic Thurs- day. They also approved the use «of Tarrys, Valley Vista and Oot- ischenia schools for health clinics ‘under the direction of the West ‘Kootenay Health Unit during the months of July and August. Kinnaird elementary school will hold its first Awands Day “Wednesday (yesterday) and a re- resentative will attend from the ‘board 6f trustees. ‘The board has approved hav- Sng district superintendent C. S. Memorial At Tarrys To Barry darford | A bronze plaque in memory of the late Barrie H. Harford former school inspector of Dis- tricts No, 8 and 10, was unveiled in a brief ceremony at the Tar- tys School June 19. Mr. Harford was Inspector here from August 1955 to Nov- ember 1956, Officiating at. the ceremony held during an afternoon assem-, bly in the Tarrys. school activity reom was S. J. Graham, district superintendent of the Trail school district. Mr, Graham was, introduced to the pupils and a small group of guests by C. S, McKenzie, dis- trict superintendent of Castlegar school district, who said the pur- pose of the assembly was to “pay tribute to a man who did a gteat deal for you. “Many of you will remember him, Probably all the children except those now in grades one and two,” he said. Introducing Mr. Graham, Mr. McKenzie told the assembly of the long friendship of Mr. Har- ford and Mr, Graham, who had come to the area at the samie time, and after Mr. Harford’s death Mr. Graham had served as District No. 9 school inspector un- til a new appointment was made. Mr. Graham in a short add- ress said “it is an honor to be asked to assist in identifying this school with the memory of Mr. Harford." ~ In- the brief period of little over a year that he was in the District Mr. Harford had accom- plished a great deal for the area, and had won the admiraticis of all, Mr, Graham said. Mr. Graham said there was one point about Mr. Harford that really stood out, “you would get nothing but the truth from him.” Mr. Harford had a “great love for boys and girls,” he continued, and a desire to see them get the best they could in education, Mr. Graham said he felt Mr. Harford had a very particular) tun interest in the Tarrys schoo), He enjoyed visiting it and b hefd in Kelowna in Senterstn A discussion was held on the matter of lawn mowers for the high school grounds’ and track. The board is considering the use of gang mowers which would be attached to the case tractor. ofl in the various district ‘schools, date of the next regular meeting. ‘Dr. J, Conchie, dental of- ficer of the West Kootenay Heifl th Unit, will attend the July 14 meeting to speak to the board on the 1958-59 dental programme, Secretary-treasurer C. Ii. King advised board members that Frank Reder, secretary of the B.C. school trustees as- sociation would be in Castle- gar June 25 to attend the meet- ing of the West Kootenay Branch of B.C. school trustees. eee inspection | bat Fuel tenders have ‘been calied|* for supplying of coal arid furnace’ the bids to close at noon July 14,/° Procedure Bylaw Amended| for ion of the tank said A bylaw iyied No. 1 ‘was given third reading at the last regular mect- ing of the Castlegar Village Council. Among several changes, most important is the change of meet- ing nights from the first and third Mondays to the first and third Tuesdays in:the month and approval to dispense with reading minutes of previous mectings. Commissioners will’ be pro- vided with typed coples of minutes at least'48 hours prior - to the meeting-and will be able to study the minutes and bring ) up any points in conection with ‘them without the lengthy pro- + cess of.having entire minutes read aloud. Also presented at the meet- ing was th amended water rates bylaw No, 134 which will in- clude the increased charges to schools in the village. Rates have been set at $1 per pupil per year for schools. Hospital charges will be $1 per bed per month. The increased charges for dairies or milk processing plants were repealed and will be return-' led to the $7.50 rate. Price of water hook-ups in| the village is also slated to rise. The new figure is and the trustees, showing vuiement to be in a satisfactory state, Disbursements amounting to $60,145.19 for. the month of May were approved by the trustees. The secretary was requested] to send a letter of thanks to the ‘West Kootenay Power and Light Co. for their assistance when the Tarrys pump was giving trouble. The board received two let- ters of thanks from the Castlegar Grade 2 class who had use of a school bus for a trip to the air- port, also a letter from H. F. Hy- son, principal of the Brilliant,| Robson, Tarrys and O: $45. In this connection, works supervisor McNabb was question- ed as to average costs and stated the last two hook-ups had cost $54 and $47. This was actual cost of materials, fitting and back fill and did not include wages. ° Associated © Engineers, in charge of water survey and com- pletion of bylaw No, 113, advised Council that the present $25 hook-up fee is much too low and recommended an incréase. Commissioner Maddocks re- ported Don McMasters of As- sociated Engineers had been in the schools for the use of buses on the day of the track meet. A third letter of thanks came from the IODE for use of the elementary school grounds and. bus garage for the May Day celebrations, An open letter to parents of graduates was received from the town of bylaw No. 113 and said they have had quotes on the new water tank. The engineering .firm is now ealling for confirmation of these quotations and 2t work would be unuerney, within three weeks or a mon’ iccarem will be responsible Mr, Maddocks. 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Edward of Trai! and Henry of Kay) Audia grandchildren and one great- + Published Every Thursday at “The Crossroads of the Kootenays” EEGAR NEWS VOL. 11,-No. 27 CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Thursday July 3, 1958 10 CENTS PER COPY Band Concert, Drill Display, Missile Exhibit At Air Show RCAF personnel totaling 128 air men and officers will be in Castlegar July 26 to put on a band concert, marching display and missile display. Commissioner R, C. Mad- docks, who is in charge of ar- rangements for the show, said a 40-piece band will provide march music for a “very highly trained” drill-precision team and will play during a missile display in the af- ternoon. They will stage a band concert that evening. Mr. Maddocks said “higher Commission to Study Sons Suggested by UBC Professor A’commission on Doukhobor Pan affairs is needed to help solve the ‘problem of the'Sons of Freedom a UBC professor said Tuesday‘in ‘Eastern Star Tea Held on Spence Lawn Termed a Success Minto Chapter No. .79 Order; of ‘the Hastern Star held a very]. successful strawberry tea, bake sale and apron sale. Tuesday, on the lawn at the home of Mrs. x,|' Spence, Kinnaird, Mrs. Rose Johnson welcomed the guests. General convenor was Lil McKenzie. Committees . in ‘charge were: sewing, » D. id B.C, school trustees and will be distributed from the high school. The letter is designed to help interest the graduates in taking up teaching as their career, W. Roy Brown, high school principal, attended the meeting to discuss several items of work to be done during school holi- days and to discuss teachers’ ap- plications. Library Announces Summer Hours The summer schedule at the Castlegar Public Library was an- nounced at the last meeting of the library board, The library will remain clos- ed July 1, Dominion Day, and will not reopen’ until July 8. Hours will be from 7 to 9 p.m, and the library will not be open on Fridays or in the after- noon, This schedule will remain in efect until September 2 when Tegular hours will commence. During regular business the meeting endorsed signing of the contract with the Inland Gas for heating the library building. Officials said work has started on the job. The library will receive a $300 grant from the village of Castlegar to be used for improve- ments to the building, plumbing and heating, A grant of $350 will come from the provincial library com, mission to match that of the Willage for $350 book-purchasing 4o the children sing. In conclusion, Mr. Graham told the boys and girls he plan- ned’‘on visiting in Chilliwack with Mr, Harford’s family if possible, and would be able to tell them of the tribute in his memory at the arrys school, - discussion took. place on the of periodicals and it was decided to subscribe to. the New York Her- ald Tribune, Expenses approved for pay- ment were the current light ac- count and an amount of $100 to the Literary Guild for the year. will be due Other guests by Mr. McKenzie were George Craft, former schoo] board chairman; R. J. MacBain, . representing, the school board, and H. Fe Hyson, principal of the,Tarrys School. Music for the singing of the National Anthem was provided by Mrs, M. G. Fleming at the piano. : As for renewal in July, libnary chairman C. H. King will check into the matter. Directors present besides Mr. King and secretary-treasurer-W. Markin were Mr, and Mrs. R. Whittaker, Mrs. C, H. King, P. McLeod, Mrs. J, Pederson ‘and Miss A. C. 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Sorenson, MEC and G. - Dixon, director of UBC's school of social-work, was addressing a citizenship semin- ar at-the Banff att of Fine Arts, “A most sopbiiilsated ap- proach has ‘been taken to this serious problem in the past. We demonstrate that we are still'a frontier community. in our ap- * proach to the Doukhobor preb- lem,” he said. : He told the 44 young people, whe included a group of orthodox from the Ke Doukhobor problem, “put the problem ‘created: by- a section of people originally cf Doukhobor heritage who resist the Doukho- *|bor community and the Cana- remembered that persons who feel they are threatened will in turn threaten someone else. He said administration was ‘the major problem at the point. ganization within government to deal with this major problem of the Sons of Freedom in a unified way. What is needed is a com- mission on, Donkhobor affairs.” Terrorism, he felt, was insti- gated by misguided religious feel- Valley, that terrorism is not ‘a ae “There is no administrative or-| J have refused to per- mit an aerobatics display.” ‘He said’ “I ‘think its excellent that we got them. Not many of the smaller centres have.” The missile display will pro- bably be held on the SHHS school grounds while the band concert will be held at the ball- park, W. Rov Brown . Off to UBC ‘W. Roy Brown, SHHS princi- pal, will be one of 60 B.C, princi- pals attending a special course at UEC starting July 14. is being by His membership in this spec- $s ial course in leadership for school zi Porch Burned Al Joe Dunlop’s In Night Blaze A 430 am, fire Saturday at the home of Joe Dunlop on Maple Street did “not too ex- tensive” damage says fire chief Ed Lewis. 3 Mr, Lewis said the closed-in back porch was set aflame “as near as 1 can figure out by spon- taneous ignition.” He said paint brushes had been .cleaned with high-test gas and the cleaning rags were left in an empty ice- cream container. 7° Mr. Lewis credited Mrs. Dun- lop with knowing the fire tele- phone number without having to look it up and suggested that all Castlegar residents; write the number... in their. phone books, The fire number is 2804. Fifteen men of the 20-mem- ber department showed up to fight the blaze. Mr, Lewis said this was very good as “George Carr was in hospital,and the oth- 100th Anniversary of Birth of Peter Lordly Veregin Celebrated Sunday af Brilliant By BURT CAMPBELL the birth of Peter Lordly Ver- § egin, highly esteemed leader of the Doukhobors, was cele- brated: at Brilliant Sunday by 3,500 to 4,000 orthodox Douk- The 100th anniversary of hobors. John Veregin, great ‘grand- son of Peter Lordly Veregin, said the keynote of the observance was “dignified simplicity which was. very close to the heart of Peter Lordly Veregin throughout his life and teachings.” “Peter Lordly Veregin orig-) 5, inally brought his people to Can- ada following years of: persecu- tion for religious beliefs in czarist Russia. : ers were working.” M Kinnaird The first annual awards day eremonies were held June 25 Kinnaird | elementary the School District No. 9 School Board. The aim of: the course is o ings, ation, and cynical dleinetits with- in the community who were ex- ploiting a simple peasant people. how best discharge their roles as re the pal Ji. Bates parents and visitors to the as- sembly and school” “Inspector C. MeKenzie also spoke. R. MacBain ‘represented .the school board at the assembly and: Mrs. K, E. Markle represented the PTA. . “The following students were resented with enor roll cert- _Many Presentations. Made Honors Day Dale Ewart, Sharon Quiding, Judy «Roberts, Gary Brookes Jill Macbeth and Garth Burak. Attendance — Tommy Lec- kie, John Webster, Norman Har- vey, Gary Bacon and John John- son. i Effort — Lloyd Martin, Marie Postnikoff, Tanice Wishlow, irene Soukeroff, Leslie Schultz, Lor- ren Culley, Karen Brown, Larry Bate, Dale Cowlin, Carol Ann Buckna and Ricky Davidson, Honorable ‘mention in effort ‘Ouroh « hn Eleanor’ Fink, “Valerie “Carvson, Billy Koorbatoff, Danny Jack, Trunda Ackney, Gail Kennedy and Wendy Reith. . Honorable mention in citi-| zenship — Alexa Condy, Grace Kavaloff, ,Howard Bondaroff, District to Get TY From Microwave Via Trail Transmitter B.C’'s first low-power TV relaying off ers in education system. Mr. Brown will they had among the Sons of study and | super- visory and me- present, ‘Mrs. M. Saliken was p t: from the Kootenay Valley at the semin- ed with a baby spoon for her new daughter Heather, who is the first Centennial baby of the Tem- ple, Mrs. Sorenson was the win- ner of the evenings booster prize. ar, from the ‘terrorist activities. “We believe in pacifism and’ God, and we cannot understand acts of violence. They are against our religion,” said a 20-year-old Doukhobor girl. the CBC microwave network ser- vice may be located at Trail by the Canedian Broadensting Cors thods of and sup- ervision used@ throughout the pro- vince. He. will also consider prac- tices used elsewhere. theSe ways the course should enable all principals a Kenneth Caple, CBC director for B.C. announced June 25 that engineers are now in the Ross- land-Trail area making, prelimin- ary surveys, Mr. Caple said that the CBC to build low power re- plan schools and districts. . Pretty Gir Girl Attendants : CHAMBER TOURIST BOOTH NOW OPEN The Castlegar ‘tourist booth ‘is now in operation and the man who was responsible forgetting it that way says he is pleased “with the results, Jimmy Lamont, owner of “the .Castle Motors garage. and ‘chairman: of the Castlegar and “District Chamber of Commerce tourist and pubilicity committee, Picked his staff last “week and opened the booth Saturday. morn- ing. :, Four high-school ‘girls, Mari- Gail Sykora, Patsy Ford and Emily Killough, are staffing the booth during the summer months .earning money to continue with their educations, ‘The varnished birch and. ce- dar tourist -booth with yellow trim is open 12, hours a day — from 10 in the morning to 10 at night. ~ The booth is about ” by 12’ and about 7 high, A white, 24- foot high flagpole stands beside it with B.C.'s Centennial flag waving in the breeze from atop it. Tourists -have. made use vf GOW. SWiktilW’? ‘Well, you can go to the shore on your vacation and still enjoy, DENNIS THE.-MENACE. ' Phone-3031 and the Castlegar News.will be mailed to you ‘|been hooked up. to. the booth 1 the use’ of~ tourists: wishing to .| girls to contact “reliable sources” the booth from such points as California, Washington, Alberta, and Most frequent requests are lay TV transmitters'in some of the larger centres of population along the route of the Trans- Canada microwave network where surveys indicated that this was feasible, He said that major determin- ing factors would be concentra- tion of population and proximity to the network. At the present time only Trail is being consid- ered for this relay TV service in BC. for road and ferry Other requests have. varied from asking the location of the liquor, store to where Verigin's tomb -is. _ The -booth is stocked with tourist pamphlets and maps and local residents planning holiday trips are urged to make use of the booth’s facilities. The electricity has not. yet and ‘a phone “has yet to bé in-|. stalled. The;-phone. will be: for phone local’ hotels and motels for ‘accomodation” and by © the when they get a query they can’t answer. : a If the low power repeater TV station would telecast CBC: network ser- vice’ to Trail and the nearby dis- trict: but would not originate Jo- cal programs. Gnen House ‘Sunday - For Robyn McNabb Mr, and: Mrs, Norman Mc- Nabb are holding .open house Sunday evening following the baptism ‘of their daughter Rob- yn, uence ‘Wee Robyn’ was ‘the first baby, born in the Castlegar and District Hospital and’ is Castle- gar's C baby. * the fact that there are no gov- ernment camping facilities in the District and said that requests for camping places are numerous weekly while you'1e out of town: between 5 and 8 p.m. ‘The McNabbs live at 551-3rd Avenue and Robyn will: be bap- tized by Archdeacon B; A. Res- ker in the Angiicne Church. at 7.30_p.m... Douglas Brown Proficiency — Bobby Burak, Stuart Deverney, Brian Robinson, Ester Lang, ‘Martha . Hoanniuk, Doris Davies, Nicki Verzuh, Jac- kie Burak, Randy Palsson, Lin-| da Palsson and Jan McMillan, One of Peter Lordly Vere- @ gin’s fundamental slogans, “toil and peaceful life,” was;an a banner carried from the cemetery (Veregin’s tomb) to Brilliant vil- gam lage where it formed a backdrop for the speeches and choral sing- At the village all people en- joyed a picnic lunch and visited with friends and neighbours be- fore and after .the. ceremonies. -- The local. Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ choir sang]. later-in the afternoon and their chanting held the multitude in rapt attention. Officials at Brilliant village said more than 1,000 vehicles were at the observance. Five hundreds were parked within the grounds of one of the houses and another 500 were parked outside. Officials estimated that at least three. to four persons were in John Veregin every vehicle. A group of Molokars from Los Angeles, California, were guests from the furthest distance at the gathering. Other. visitors and guests came from Grand Forks and other Kootenay cen- tres and B.C. towns. All these people came to pay their respect, as John Veregin said, “to the memory of Peter Lordly Veregin which has lived for 100 years.” Friday’s Hailstorm | Crumnles Milestone Friday's 20-minute hailstorm| Mrs. Gantell Dies Gn Holiday Trip High school industrial ara broke windows in Genelle andjinstructor L, E. Canteli today Qasis and ripped tarpeper off, advised the Castlegar News. that freshly-covered homes, «but it! his wife died suddenly yesterday didn’t do too much.damage in the: hile enroute to Neiiburg, 5a a! where they were to Gi Kinnaird-Rob: ‘are: ‘Milestone road in« x Aside from heavy mud on a num- ber of streets though, nothing too serious was reported. R. Peterson of 503 Main St, Cc reported i of in pro- ficiency — Pamela Johnson, Lor- raine Warner, Harry Holrnquist, Terry. Underwood, Maureen Mol- loy, Faye Desaulniers, Wendy Paterson and Carol Soberlak. F-L-A-S-H As announced last week by Castlegar News publisher L. V. Campbell, the price of the Castle- gar News is increased effective today. Price of the Castlegar News is now 35 cents a month by delivery boy, $3 a year by mail and 10 had ruts down the side of it} ‘where water rushed’ in torrents from Edson, Alberta. and was covered with thick mud. | Kinnaird! spend the summer vacation. Mr. Cantell’s wire was sent Mrs. Cantell is survived by her husband, a son, Gordon, it Edmonton and a daughter, Shir- ley in Neilburg, and five 3g: children. _The funeral will. be held im and Mr, Cantell re- half-inch di: his garden. He said aside from hurt- ing “a little bit of corn and knoc- king down some of the cherries” the storm did little damage. ‘A local. resident passing through Oasis picked up hail- stones the size of golf balls and put them in his thermos, He took them into the local school board Office to show them off, residents reported their gardens flattened by the hail. Some hail went right through tomatoes and cents a copy on news-stands. out budding flowers off at the Some Shewchuk subdivision], quests that flowers not be sent, but rather that donations be given to the United Church. stems, Sidewalk construction = in Castlegar suffered from the downpour. New walks are poured in alternate sections and the forms left empty soon filled with water. “At the Castle Theatre the weter built up and started to pour in the front door of the theatre before it could be effectively stopped. ; "SPIRITUAL COMMUNITES . OF. CHRIST CHOIR SINGING SUNDAY