4 CASTLEGAR NEWS, Wednesday, June 28, 1972 ‘New Canadian Postage Stamps "Show Old Indian Way of Life Two 8 cents stamps feat- CASTLEGAR NEWS, Wednesda june 28, 1972 Serlous Larch Casebearer Bug Descends. Upon Southern British Columbia Forests: ~' | A serious Infestation of a forest Ingect, the larch Casifagar Museum Plans Opening This Weekend © The Castlegar and Dis- [Nelson Mid-Summer Bonspiel Gels Underway From July 3-8 which were released at two locations in the infestation have become established. dustry. The annual harvest of latch was 11,9 million A new wrinkle has been cuble feet in 19' causln; uring the artijacts and way of life of Canada’s Plains Indians will be issued by the Canada Post Office on July 6. They are the first of a series of 20 stamps which will be issued over the next three years, depict- a ing cultural features of the different Indian peoples of Canada, The design for the stamp illustrating the Plains Indians’ way of Ilfe is tak- en from the print, “Buf- falo Chase". by George Cat- - Weather Forces New Denver Fete * To Move Indoors Inclement weather for- ced a change of venue for June meeting of the New Denver Women’s Institute, and instead of a picnic, their meeting was held in the Royal Canadian Legion Members brought their own favorite dishes, and a dessert taken from a New Zealand recipe was raffled and the proceeds started a special fund. It was won by Mrs, J. L. Laxrimore. Other items of business from the meeting, an as- sessment of $10 was sent in for the Selkirk bursary from - West Kootenay Institutes. lin, an American artist of the 19th century who was renowned ‘for his lifelong study and portrayal of In- dian life, The design for the sec- ond stamp was created from @ photograph by Ray Web- ber of Toronto, The artifacts shown in the photograph from left to right: a club, a feather headdress, a wom- an’s saddle, a beaded sad- dle bag, a moccasin, a dec- orated bison skull, a part- leche bag, and a calumet or pipe. They were photogra- phed through tre co-operat- ion of the Royal Ontario Museum and the National Museum of Man, Layout and typography of both stamps were done by George Bea- upre of Montreal. A total quantity of 28 million is being printed by Ashton-Potter imited = of Toronto. Both designs will be printed se-tenant, alter- nating on each pane of fif- ty stamps. The stamps mea- sure 36 mm by 30 mm, each and are being printed in four color lithography. Quantities of the stamps are being “Ottawa Tagged” but no marginal — in- scriptions on corner blocks of the tagged stamps. Mar- final inscriptions Including he designers’ names appear on the four corners each of the regular un- tagged panes of 50 stam) available from the Philatelle Service. CONSCIENCE AND COMMENT By Rev. K. Neill Foster o is a small city of perhaps 4U,uuU souls; many of the streets are unpaved, the tin- roofed houses are for the unpainted and Nearly everyone is poor. However the chee irae ic of bate is its level of violence. It is a focal point in the strife-between Muslims and nos. . In May alone there/were eight killings in the city, some of ‘them in broad daylight in the heart of the town. you in the 1 What does one say to a city like that? We were in- yited to write a guest col- umn for the Mindanao Ree- order, a tabloid weekly We Serve You First INSURANGE personalized insurance service on all classes i AUTOMOBILE LABILITY BONDS see Hugh Nicol at ANDERSON -AGENCIES Castlegar, B.C. FRONT STREET carefully read by the city’s elite. Our advice in essence — “love one another ferv- ently for love shall cover a multitude of sins.” W plained that true springs from the will, the emotions, and that it in- variably expresses itself in fearin ate earing people together.’ A‘ few ‘will cause they are the “salt of : the earth. That was our message to Cotabato, J. B. McGillivray Wins Law Degree Works in Kamloops of bachelor ated from the U MRS, JEAN TURNER Mrs. Jean Turner Wins Appointment Fo Kinnaird Library Mrs, Jean Turner, of Kinnaird has been appoint- ed the new librarian of the Kinnaird public library. Her appointment marks the first time since the li- brary was formed in 1947 that there has beer a paid employee ‘staffing the lib- rary which is located in the Kinnaird Hall. She will start her dut- jes on July 1. Mrs. ie Heagy, who has been a volunteer libra- rian since 1970 is retiring, although she will remain an uctive supporter of the li- brary. Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Audrey Moore, librarian at the Castlegar Public Libr- ary have recently attended a library workshop in Van- couver, and both passed the course to become qualified community librarians, The naird Library will now be open an addit- tonal seven hours for a to- of 15 hours a week. The new hours are: Monday 2 to 5 p.m. 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday 2 to 5 p.m. 7 to p.m. Friday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mrs. Mari Smedbol Formerly of Slocan Dies in Royal City - A. former Slocan resid. .. "8, Mari Smédbol died “Royal=..Columbian *. 54 af the". F hospital in New Westminst- er, June 9. Born in Norway she came to Canada in 1927 and first settled in Lethbridge. Later she moved to Yank with her family, and then in 1947 to Slocan, where she lived for 20 years. The last few years made her home with her daugh- ter, Mrs. Ann Collins at the coa: Survivors include three sons, Hans and Helmar Smedbol at Slocan and Ro- British Columbia. In 1969 he received his bachelor of science degree -bert two daughters, Mrs. S. An- derson (Ranghild) of Golden ‘and Mrs. Ann Collins of in geology and at UBC to study in the facul- ty of law. A graduate of Stanley Humphries where he was sports rep. for the school, he is now residing in Kam- loops. During his school years at SHSS he was president of the band, and won the Soroptimist Citizenship award as well as a B.C. gov- | ernment scholarship. Active in baseball, he played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals. In Kamloops he is art- icling with the firm of Mil- lward and Associates, and his wife, who has her sci- ence degree, is working as a public health nurse. lew i 10 grand- children and two great- grandchildren. The funeral was held at the Columbia Funeral Home in New Westminster, June F, J. SMITHERAM, TRAILER TOWING Fully Insured Phone 365-5308 Box 1351, Castlegar SHOPPING HEADQUARTERS @ Hardware @ Building Supplies @ Garden Supplies. @ Automobile Accessories @ Giftware “Everything for the Do-it-Yourselfer” REMEMBER, WE ARE CLOSED MONDAYS ITCHELL §UPPLy LTD. CASTLEGAR PHONE 365-7252 added to Nelson's annual Mid-Summer Bonspiel, sche- duled July 3-8 with 96 en- tries from Ontario to Col- orado. Allstar rinks are to be selected in each ' division and special trophies pre- sented under sponsorship from Macdonald Tobacco, the company which since 1027 has sponsored the na- tional men’s Brier compe- tition and last year became associated with the nation- al women’s Lassle final. They'll curling around the clock at the Civ- ie Centre Arena because the continuing B.C, construct- tion strike has rulned plans to have renovations to the Nelson Curling Club finish- ed in time for the event. It means only five sheets of ice will be avail- able, instead of five at the arena and six at the curl- ing club as planned. Now, the 32 women's rinks and 64 men’s rinks will have almost continuous draws in the seventh events with only a 40 minute break between ea I with Hee Gervais and Erne Ri with Rict the eventual winner. Ger- vais has entered several MidSummer Bonsplels, but won't be competing this year, Bonspiel chairman Art 16 _ less t 1971. The bonspiel will have four men's events and three women’s events, Mentify Mammals Course Offered At Selkirk Selkirk College will pre- sent a five day program on identification and natural history of wild mamm: July $1 to Aug. 4, 1972. ‘he first day will provide a general orientation to the study of mammals with act- ivities centered in the Sel- kirk College Biological lab- mes. Finals in. the i ship events will be played Heading the list of en- wee is Norm Houck of Me , who resent Manitoba in tho 1002 Brier at Kitchener and was invol- ved in a three-way playoff - where oratories, where participants may mens, slides and films, The following four Gays be spent on a field trip Banff National Park, wild animals may ‘be observed and photograph- ed in their natural summer range will to 1B spec: tacular damage to the foll- age on larch stands in sou- thern, British Columbia, re- port fnsect and disease sur- vey officers of the Canadian Forestry Service's Research conte in Victorii sects feed on the needles. , The scorched appearance is particularly noticeable in stands around Castlegar, Trail and Yabk in the Koo- tenay’s. The most recent spread of the pest is north- ward from Cranbrool Eugene Mission. Named because it. op- erates from a tiny cigar- shaped shelter, the insect was fi found in North America in eastern United States in 1886. It was dis- covered in British Columb- ia near Rossland and Crest- in in 1966 and is now in most larch stands in south- ern British Columbia, .Repeated attacks by the insect may cause tree mor- tality, however, survey of- ficers state that although the present infestation is not expected to kill many trees, the heavy defoliation will cause a reduction in rate of growth of the trees which in turn will reduce the volume of larch wood available to the forest in- kk to St. 70. Control of the insect is difficult, 1 of. th indicate that Parasites tes. Studies will determine the ff ie, paras! . mal Hi-Rider Burger & Dairy Ba Robson Side of Ferry Open Seven Days a Week to Serve You “Home of the Rider Dog” ‘ \ NEW SUMMER HOURS Mondays through to Saturdays 7:00 a.m. to 12 midnight Sundays 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. TEXACO SERVICE CENTRE tn the Plaza Dick Mcleod, Proprietor 2-25 Swim-a-thon (and members will be out this week collecting pledge money.) Kinnaird town council has decided that only resl- dents of that community will be able to purchase season tickets and a watch will be kept to find outsiders slipping in on these tickets. New Denver Brownies Fly-Up to Guides In Ritual In the Canadian Legion Hall — Guides and Brownies completed the year with a Fly-Up held in the Royal Canadian Legion Hall in New Denyer on June 20. The Guides formed the Tailgating is one of the major causes of accidents in this pro- vince. Now there is a simple new rule to help you maintain a proper safety margin. It's called..""The .2. Second Rule”. All you have to do-is leave- two seconds between you and the car in front. Learn it now, 1 and live. 2 As the lead car passes a fixed point, “ count "ONE AND. TWO AND." for a safe following distance. Two seconds gives you time enough to react and broke if the car in front suddenly slams on his brakes. s of British C bi: Whenever the towing passes tree, or any fixed point beside the road, count “One and. Two and.” before point. That's a distance. It doesn't matter whether you're going 10 mph or 70 The 2 Second Rule Learn it and live Two seconds is the time yau leave between you and the car in front. 70 MPH car you're fol- a sign post, a ou reach the sate following mph, Because the faster you go, the greater the distance you cover in 2 seconds. = 4 Motor-Vehicle Branch Hon, At any speed 2 seconds is the safe following distance. Every sign post, every pole, every tree you pass, isa chance to check if you're tailgating. Tailgating Is a traffic offence In this province. It results in hundreds of accidents, injuries and deaths every year. Now there is no excuse. Next time you're driving test The 2 Second Rule. And from then on, live by it. Leslie R. Peterson, Q.C., Attorney-General L and the Zormed the f ring and the Brownies flew up via the Golden Hand. Mrs, B,° Holt, Brown Owl, presented the wings and hands to Karen Ger- cw, Heather Law and