Page 2 Thursday, January 28, 1954+ “THE CASTLE NEWS Published Every ‘Thursday By THE CASTLE NEWS LIMITED Castlegar, B.C. L. V. CAMPBELL, Manager V. A. MISUTKA, Editor Ci ian Weekly A and B.C. Weekly Advertising Bureau . SUBSCRIPTION RATE :—_ .- . $3.00 per year; 25c per month by carrier. Authorized as Second Classs Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa, : EDITORIAL THE HOSPITAL PETITION Last week's t that the h it dist: Tis everies By Vic Misutka. I}Trade Friday night. J. R. Elliot Five Years Ago ~ This Week : (From the Jan, 27, 1949 issue of the Castle News) Les Campbell was elected pre- sident of the Castlegar Board of aid the press ‘today 1 ired another dut; has Wednesday, June 15, the final be hell.” will be he! towards its readers besides in- forming and guiding them. News- papers today, t'is said, should to- day also entertain and amuse their readers, Other howlers from the Press that have amused different peo- ple at different times include the following: : “At the Ladies’ Aid Society ti articles Seems to me -havo been amusing their readers for about as long as there have been newspapers and readers. As long as: there have-been readers they have been amused at blunders and as long as there’ve been newspapers, there have been blunders. Newspapers, being run py human beings, blunders are almost i iP rict petition in this area has been with required of si ded, was a piece of news. The first ‘big hurdle on the road towards that hospital this area needs so badly, has now been overcome. There is stil! much to be done of course, before the hospital becomes reality, but from here on in it’s comparatively smooth sailing. 2 Perhaps many of us don’t appreciate just how much has been . accomplished by that small group of .tireless workers known as - the Castlegar and District Hospital Society, We know. the improve- _ ment district ition is of their efforts but do we realize how far from a small.chore that was. The petition had first to be i This meant trips to the Land Registry Office where the name of every person own- ing land in the proposed district, along with an accurate legal des- iption of his rty, was ined. Many long evenings were then spent in listing these names and descriptions, some 1965 of them, in orderly fashion. | ee z ‘ 5 Then came the task of-determining where every one of these 1965 property owners lived and bringing the petition to them for their si; ir Here the district made their contribution. The petition canvass was organized in Mey and by the end of the year, with much careful supervision by the Society directors, every property owner listed on the petition, living in or near Castlegar School Distrct No. 9, had been approached for . bis signature. : Seyerat more weeks, consisting of more extra-long evenings were spent in tabulating the results and setting them in order for submission to the Hospital Insurance Service. “- : For instance every now and then a letter gets left out of a word with comic results as in the Castle News not so ‘long ago, when readers were informed “re- election of these two men to the village commission, leaves the membership of that civic body unhanged.” F Or observe what the ommission of the letter “k” did to this ad- vertisement, (not in the Castle News this time) ~‘Experienced But young Swiss girl able to do fancy cooing.” ': Addition of an extra letter was responsible for this insect ad: “One bottle — Get Rid of Aunts,” Another verbal lapse in an- other newspaper made a hand- some wedding unite the happy couple in “holy deadlock.” The psychiatrist, “Freud; said our subconscious self prompts us to commit errors which reveal our hidden desires. Perhaps. this was why a certain newspaperman inserted the word “not” in the . That the whole project has' been ad ii i less is a tribute to the thousands of hours of tedious, often work, the ital Society directs to it, To them, principally, and also to the volunteer canvassers and all the others who assisted in the project, the Castlegar district is much ‘indebted. Nor can we forget the many persons, some of them perhaps forgotten now, who have done their part to spearhead the hospital movement during the past five years, and have kept the issue alive. ‘Tey as well as those who signed the petition and those who organ- “ized and icipated in the C ion Day Ce which raised $1200 for the project, have all done their part in bringing us to our present, well-advanced position on the road to a Castlegar and District Hospital. - ¢ : ORS ak WHAT WILL HISTORY SAY? _ Canada’s ‘wealthiest year has just past into history. The New Year, and the whole future of this challenging land, will be bigger still, But is being “big” enough? asks the Financial Post. Let's not confuse bigness with greatness — or worthwhileness, By itself, “greatness” in’ size has no value in the saga of history or of human affairs. In the welter of big figures what have we done about the iniportant things? We Canadians go all over the world, everybody envies us and B. most people like .us. Nobody is mad at us, But the short pants of colonialism or smallism no longer fit or become us. What affirma- tive and thoughtful thing should we do? Me ‘We can enliven our sense‘of being Canadian. Enlarging and en- hancing our own sense of nationality is one thing we can do—and the Western World will commend us for so doing. . ‘We can. stop being d-rate C: i or d-rati Americans—by beizig ourselves. Canada is much better for itself and for its friends as it is, than by becoming a.sickly sibling of ‘a 49th state. a . Our Commonwealth is the world’s most successful international institution alive and useful. That is one thing we can help keep alive. We Canadians are fairly good in mechanics, in chemistry.and _ in physics. We have opened up a big land. We have good people in mining, forests, farming, atomic energy and medicine. * How good are we in other fields? It is time we concerned our- selves also with those other,things of the spirit, Up to now, history has very little to say for us. . . : Cranbrook Courier. 72 DAYS’ SUPPLY *5.90 144 DAYS' SUPPLY < foray Oni $2.10 36 DAYS’ SUPPLY .*4.35 96 DAYS’ SUPPLY g item: “Rudy Vallee, the well-known crooner and radio singer. was shaken up and pruised when his car left the highway and turned over. It is, feared that his vocal cords were not injured.” . The substitution of an “1” for a “@ turned dull statement into was f yt Retiring president C. Watson, gave a review of the Board’s act- ivities during the past year. The Castlegar Fire Truck has had a replacement of one inch hose 200 ft, in length, This‘should prove adequate protection for small fires. = cial Government will pay $286- A social meeting-of St. Alban’s W.A, was held in the Parish Hall, with president, Mrs. A. T. Hors- will, in the chair, t Renata, Mr. J. R. Barker as organized a club for young boys with Mr, J. Dyck assisting in the instructions on scouting, Mr. W, Hale in forestry, Mr. A. Koch in electricity and Mr. L Wiebe in woodwork. A girls’ club has also been organized under the leadership of Mrs. W. Hale and Mrs. 1. Wiebe. A sewing course will be a weekly feature in the old school house, Nineteen members of the Lil- lian Killough Chapter, LO.D.E., held a surprise party for one of . Mrs. . The many were raffled off. Every had ht thing they ‘no Vv Fi D Visited the Kinnaird V Fire ion- Jonger needed. Many e brought their husbands.” “Frank Cape is at the General He is ‘ing from day evening to discuss the im- provement of the latter's fire head injuries and shock caused by coming into contact with a live wife.” , “That’s a lot of fish in any language — 39 pounds — and all in one piece. Still, as Fred Sim- mons says, ‘For sheer tricks, fight and stamina, give me a small- mouthed J!ass any time.” “James Harper had his finger badly chewed» by his dog’ last week. Thinking that the animal was poisoned, Harper administ- ered to him, but the dog did not respond to the anecdote.” - “Announcement. .Easter Mati- nee for kiddies, Every child lay- ing an egg.in the doorman’s hand will be admitted free.” I find these ire | their at her new home, Mrs. D. Magee and Mrs. J. Scott were in charge of the entertainment. The Kinnaird Rifle Club has been discontinued due to poor attendance, Mrs. M. Blaihut:presided at the regular ing of the C. Baden-Powell Club in the Coro- nation Hall. Mrs. Petts reported the Christmas entertainment for Scouts, Guides, Cubs and Brown- ies, had been very successful. Ratepayers of Castlegar Scool District No. 9 voted overwhelm- ingly in favor of a school con- struction program which will cost more than half a‘ million dollars. The vote was 326 yes, 102, no. The bylaw covers pur- ther folk danci seasion will be held at the Kinnaird Hall Friday evening. Bring a bite of lunch with you. 3 TEAHAN FUEL FOR THE BEST IN COAL PHONE 2251 or 4191 Office — Arrow Motors chase of sites for Castl sele- mentary and junior-senior high schools at a total cost of $16,500; erection of the first unit of the elementary school costing $50,- A i i of the j and no doubt a lot of other peo- ple did when ‘they first read them since they were ‘someone else’s blunders. As someone has said there is something com- forting to all of us when some- body else not only opens his mouth and puts his foot in it — but swallows the foot. ~ I think though, that the Rev- erend Spooner, for whom the blunder known, as’ Sp9onerism, has been named, was not amused when one Sunday while he was scolding his, congregation for Jack of church attendance, and intended to emphasize “the weary benches,” suddenly heard him- self shouting, “I am tired of ad- dressing these beery wenches.” Anyway, that’s what the book says he said. startling truth in the “Mrs. Robbins, President of the Women's Club,-announces that on Board Of Health To Give Instructions In Home Canning Of Food Meetings of the West Kootenay Union Board of Health were held on January 14th. 1954 in Grand Forks, and January 21st. in Trail, .C. : The Health Department report- ed in detail the two deaths from Botulism, the result of food pois- oning from home canned corn. As a result of investigations in the home and on the farm as well as in the laboratory, it is planned proper handling of food. Problems of distribution of ‘milk in Grand Forks have been discussed, A :'Fourist accommodations are are -supervised between Rock Creek and Christina Lake, 4 ‘The. Board heard about the pré- sent standing of dental care. as gate the possibility of an inciner- ator for the ing area to to teach the local residents the) - right ways of home canning and} planned by the School Board Nof| “i : ‘Trail City Council will investi- |” FOR BETTER BUYS IN. }BEDDING, SHOP AT the sign of better living all over Canada...- sheets... -hlernt 090; high school'at a cost of $423,898 and erection of a new school at Renata to cost $9,500. Also in- cluded is a $40,000 addition to the Kinnaird school and furniture for all buildings totalling $22,- 500 and erection of a teacherage at Renata for $2,000. 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Forks The Castlegar Dominoes, led by by veteran hoop artist Rennie Mitchell, won a 46-36 triumph over a senior men’s team at Grand Forks when they visited that city for an exhibition basket- ball tilt, Saturday night. - ‘The victory for the locals was largely due to a 28 point scoring spree by Rennie Mitchell, Joe Zeebin potted six counters for Castlegar, R. Martini five, Billy Kanigan four, Johnny Ross two and Walter Poogy, one, to round out the scoring, ~ For Grand Forks Chernoff scor- ed eight points followed by Mark- in and Hoover with seven each. The Castlegar hoopsters reported Sunday that their Grand Forks had a height advantage, as most of them are exceptionally tall fellows. Dominoes meet the Nelson Pros at Castlegar Saturday evening in &@ regular basketball loop fixture. Game time is 8:30 p.m. to be preceded by a High School senior day evening. ° ing, penalty studded tilt. er, frames. each scored four counters for the victors and E. Polonikoff and Violet Rezansoff scored two each. Boys and Girls hoop squads at the Stanley Humphries High School dropped both games of a basketball double-header to visit- ing teams from Grand Forks in the high school gymnasium Fri- Some 275 enthusiastic fans watched the visiting girls romp to a 30-17 triumph over the local lassies in the first game, and saw the Grand Forks lads come from behind to edge the local boys 34- 33 in a close played, close check- The Grand Forks girls jumped into a 9-2 lead in the first quart- extended their lead to 17-9 by the half and outpointed the locals 13-8 in the final two Sparking the Grand Forks point potters were B, Benninger with 10 points and O. Skrepnikoff with 8. Maureen Patrick and N. Kondo boys game with two local teams competing, - * ‘Through the eighteen years pre- ceding.World War I when West- orp Canada was being ‘opened up For ¢ Olg Visitor From Japan Says Japanese Hold Ho Resentment Re A-Bemb The Rev. Harold. McSherry, on leave after four years at Hiroshi- ma, gave a’ most, interesting 'ad- dress at St, Alban’s Parish Hall, Sunday afternoon. Rev. McSherry showed beauti- to tell of the progress in that country since the war. He said the Japanese seem to hold no resentment becaus¢ of the Atom bombs which were dropped on their country. Many seem to feel that was the only way the terrible power of . the military caste could have been broken. wits Despite the awful deeds they committed during the war the ese are a peace loving people at heart. They are now very puz- zled about the future and many of the young folk are turning to Christianity. In fact the churches are largely attended by young people. Communism his been driven a coliected 9 tallies; B. Jones 4, A. Leroy 3, and J. Hett, one. lead all the way until the final quarter when the visitors first evened matters and then edged ahead for the victory. i e of new railways in the West ave- raged. more than two miles per day, a total of-15,000 miles of new railway lines, : ‘Two quick baskets by both Fred Stuchno and Ralph Englund shot the locals into an 8-0 lead in the opening minutes of the game but the visitors then -tight- In the boys’ tangle, the locals - Rev. McSherry re- Ported and thus it is hard to guage its strength. 4 Stanip Sales Down From Previous Year Ai Gasiiegar P.O. - Stamp sales