CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, November 28,

THE RACE FOR THE MOON
By Lewis Milligan

Dorothy TI the A ri 4 on
the launching of the first mechanical satellite, described it as a
“challenge to the United States in the race for leadership in tech-
nology and world power.” With the rocketing of a much larger
sphere into outer space, the Kussians got such a big head-sturt
that they stole the show before it had formally opened. That was
hardly fair, tor it was like knocking a man out in a boxing
match before he. had get into the ring. But the Russians are
Poor sports anyway, and ull we can do now ia to look on at
their solo race to the mocn and hope that they get there — and
stay there,

Indeed, as I have previously suggested, we should do all in
our power to help them in their private enterprise. Instead of
vompeting with them in the race we should observe the advice

it Shakespeure put into the mouth of Hamict in a similar
position:

1957

“Let it work;

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer

Holst with his own petar: and’t shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines,
And blow them at the moon.”

This race for tne moon reminds one of the well-known ‘dis-
cussion between two negroes. "Always remember,” said one, “it's
the early bird that catches the first worm.” “But who-wants a
worm anyway?” replied the other. And who ,wants the moon
anyway? Supposing the Soviet should succeed in annexing .that
desolate orb to their ccmmunist empire, would their people be
any better off?- They nave .already got the Gobi Desert and
been unable to make much use of it — what more could they
@o with a desert world some hundreds of thousands of miles
away? I have been re-reading the writings of Karl Marx and I
can find nothing in them about the socialization of deserts.
As for the present Soviet ambition to communize the mbon,
Marx would have impatiently dismissed the very idea as moon-

ine.

As a matter of fact, Karl! Marx had no love for mechanics,
He claimed that the introduction of machinery into industry was
a device of capitalists to increcse “surplus value” (Profits), and
that the factory system reduced the workers to the condition of
automatons-mechanical slaves, There was. some truth in that
at the time of the ion, when labor,
children, was exploited to keep up with’ the productive capacity
of the machines and the increasing demand for their products.
But’ that was a long time ago. With the development and im-
provement of machinery, labor has been lightened, production
vastly increased and the workers’ standard of living in cap-
italist countries has risen beyond even the utopian dreams of
Karl Marx.

The Industrial Revolution, with all that it has meant since
for the advancement of science and mechanics, was a product of
capitalism and free enterprise. Soviet Russia today has inherited
the fruits of that revolution, but the “surplus value” has not
gone to the Russian workers. The profits of the socialized in-
dustries go to the “of the fat the state

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held imports in this category
close to the 1955 figure, In spite
of Canado’s continuing indust-
tint expansion, the Letter states.
Higher prices for crude‘ petrol-
eum caused an increase in the
value of fuel and lubricant im-
ports, but much of the higher
volume demand was met by

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growing of Canada's
own resources, Si
* One third of 1956 imports

‘| consisted of investment goods

such as- machinery and electri-
cal

Sam Sez...
Century Sam, a_ pioneer
Fraser River gold-miner in. 1858
made his stake and holed up for
the winter. Like Rip Van Winkle,
he slept for years. Only a few
months ago he was awakened
by the stir of the approaching
Centennial celebration. Amazed
‘at the changes which have taken
place, Sam now tells of B.C.'s
past, contrasting it to the pre-
sent. As to our future he says,
“You ain’t seen nothing yet.”
This is a great road building
time in B.C. and I want to tell
you that your wonderful roads
wouldn’t have been believed by
the old-timers, no, nor the cost
of them either,

Of course, our roads, a hun-
dred years ago, would hardly be
roads now, ‘by your

police and the vast military forces while the workers have a bare.
existence standard of living.

In addition, billions of the worker's hard- eamed roubles are
being expended by the pet scientists in a crazy effort to reach
the moon! Let it work, unti! the Soviet pewer-lords have beén
hoist with their own petard to oblivicn, along ‘with the poor
pup in the sputnil,

The, Kinnaird Little Theatre Presents
A MYSTERY DRAMA

standards.

The way we get our roads
was because the gold fever kept
driving us up the Fraser and
into the Cariboo and on into the
Peace .and .over ‘into .the Koo-
tenay’s "— and Wé had to have
some kind of way of getting
there,

First we just had the River
and a few trails, suitable for
walking on and maybe good

notice it, hardly.

But it was so bad when we
built it about a hundred years
ago. you could hardly get over
it.

That stretch was full of logs
and loaded mules could just
manage to get by on it.

You know what they charg-
ed for packing freight? (truck-
ing you'd say today) — 46%c a
lb, This was the good ‘new’ road.

Beside it there were two
ther trails — rough paths alon,
the ‘bottom and top of the can-
yon. ,

ff you were strong” enough
to risk it you could save’a few
miles by taking one of them
trails and short-cutting into the
new mule road. But the lower
trail, just above the river, was
only passable when the water
was low. And an the -upper one
going around cliffs, you stood on
poles and pushed yourself along
the face of the rock: If the pole
swung out you did too — and
scmetimes you didn’t come back]
Well, as the gold lured us
on we got more paths and trails
and roads, Old Governor Doug-
las was quite the road builder.
I guess he was something like
your present Premier because
he didn’t want to borrow money
or put the country in debt. And
he got very~little money from
Britain ‘to work with.

That was why he brought in
the toll system. He hhd a real
pay-as-you-go system: one shill-
ing toll on every 50 pounds of
goods carried over the road,
miners’ packs not over 30 pounds
and Indians’ goods, exempt. His
idea was that by making roads
he cut ‘down. the freight charges,
‘which: he- did ‘alright, so-he was
justified in charging toll to help
pay for the roads,

By 1865 we had an 18 foot
wagon road right through the
Canyon, rock and all, and on up

enough for a pack mule. +
You take’ the road we had |
from Yale to Lytton. When vee

GENTLY DOES IT

by Janet Green

Friday & Saturday, November 29, 1957

KINNAIRD , SCHOOL
Curtain Time 8:00 p.m.
Admission
Adults $1.00 — Students 35¢ — Children 25¢

soing abroad? |

you'll see more,.do, maior es, when you
plan through ees

We can make those travel “dollars stretch’ farther
+. get you the most from your vacation abroad.
Good hotels, restaurants, roads . . . out-of-the-

~ way wonders and money-saving shortcuts . eal
are part of Canadian Pacific service at no extra
charge. OF course, We'll make reservations and
take care of tickets, too.
For full it

drop in or

4951 — M. B. DALTON

BRITISH COLUMBIA ¢ 1858-1958 * 4 CENTURY TO.

flip over it in ‘your car it’s
smooth and pretty you never!

another 400 miles to the Cariboo,
The ‘whole thing cost just
one million dollars,
Today I see it costs you a
{million a mile to reconstruct it! |

Ganadian Family
‘Study By P-TA

Main topic of discussion at

the executive meeting of Stanley
Humphries PTA held at the home
of Mrs, G. Guido, was the pro-
gram for the general meeting on

Who: was James ‘Knight?
James Knight was a Hud-
scn’s Bay Company governor-in-
chief during the early part of
the 18th century.” He - founded
Fort Churchill ahd later perish-
ed with an expedition of nor-
thern discovery. A governor-in-'
chief of the Hudson’s Bay Com-
pany posts in. Hudson Bay, he
traded wih the Indians of York
Factory and Fort Churchill in
1727. He returned to England the
next year and was placed in
command of an expedition “to
find out he Streight of Anion,
in order. to discover. gold. and
¢ther “valuable commodities, to
the northward.” ‘The expédition
miscarried, and Knight and his
crews perished on Marble Is-
land in Hudson Bay.

For what is the ‘community of
Glanunis, Ont. noted?

This hamlet is noted for the
large number of and

.|been ‘asked by the Home and

November 25.
PTA’s all across Canada have

School Federation to participate
in a “Canadian Family Study.”

Reports from local discus-
sions will be used by the Federa-
tion as background material for

a Canadian Conference on Edu-

cation to beheld in 1958 and a
similar conference on ‘The Needs.
of Children’ to be held later.

A group discussion will’ be|
held on-the Family Study at
Monday's, meeting. Such chal-
lenging questions as : “In’ what
ways has the influence of the
family changed?” “How may we
learn to live with changes s0
that old values'are not ‘lost,. but
are applied to new situations?”
“What does the family see as its
continuing responsibility to ‘the
school?”, will be discussed.

Everyone who is interested
in the family of today is' invited
to attend and take part in the
discussions.

teachers who have gone gut from
its two churches — Presbyterian
and Baptist. Records show. that

poems are both humorous and
pathetic. They enjoyed wide pop-
ularity ana” helped to create a

as early as 1880 its Presby 1
church, a Icg building seating
350, was holding Sunday ser-
vices and Thursday prayer mect-
ings in poth English and Gaelic.
Who wrote.ihe poem, “Leetle
Bateese"? +

“Leetle Batecse", one of a
series of very pcpulur poems in
French Canadian dialect was
written by William Henry Drum.
mond, a physician who practised
in both rural Quebec and Mont-
real. He was born‘in Irelend and
studied at Montreal High School
and -Bishop’s College, Lennox-
ville, where he received his M.D.
in 1883, His‘ best-known: volume |
of dialect verse, The Habitant,
was Bublished’s in 1897 and: others

had a Bronk
i tor the

better between
French and English Canadians,
Whea was the first Girl Guides
company formed in Canada?
The Girl Guide movement
éame to Cahada in 1910, the year
a¢ter its formation" in England,
when a company was formed in
St. Catherines, Ont, Within a few
years there were companies from
coast to coast. Canada has been

a full member of the World As-|{*

sociation ‘since 1928. National
headquarters ore in Toronto,

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Oven 8 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Sat. 8 a.m. to 32:30 p.m.

Canada 4th Trading.
Nation Says Commerce
News Leta:

More than one dollar in ev-
ery five earned by Canadians
last year came from the sale of
goods and’ services abroad, ac-
cording to the current Com-
mercial Letter of The Canadian
Bank of Commerce, One dollar
of every four spent by Cana-
dians, the Letter says, was used
to buy goods or services from].

says, “may be expected to con-
tribute directly to

i which, the Letter |.

offer diversified export markets
for Canadian products, the Let-
ter suggests that the bulk of olir
exports will continue to be nat-
ural resource products, as dol-

countrles places 'Canada in a bad.
competitive position in relation

The .advantages of quality
and price enjoyed by Canada are

capacity and in course of time, to
have ‘some effect'on the future
pattern of-trade.” 1 -

especially ‘in the case of :indust-
tialized’ countries -‘ which pay

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‘The racord volume of exports

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shown by the final figures avail-
able for 1956 reflects a high lev-
el of activity in the world econ-
omy, the Letter says. Canada’
ranked as fourth trading nation
in the world in 1956, with per
capita exports nearly twice as
great as those of the United King-
dom.

Grain and flour’ exports
were up 14 per cent for the year,
but lumber shipments fell off
sufficiently to register a decline
in tota! forest products export.
Forest products form the largest
group of Canada’s goods sold a-
broad, Crude and partly refined
petroleum exports trebled dur-
ing 1956 and export of iron ore
to the U. S. A. also increased
sharply.

In spite of the rising value
of the Canadian dollar, which
made Canadian products relative-
ly more expensive in the world
market, the value of Canada’s ex-
Rorts to the U. S, A. rose by 10
per cent over the 1955 level.
‘Trade with the United Kingdom
also reached post-war records in
1956, the Letter says .

Rising domestic product

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Kinnaird Little Theatre
Presents Thriller

A myatery ‘drama, entitled
“Gently Does, It” will be pre-
sented shortly by the Kinnaird
Little Theatre as its fall produc-
tion, MN me Be

Lead ‘in ‘the mystery thriller
is Gwilym Hughes who plays
the part of Edward Bare; “a

# scoundrel who likes money
more than the average man, and
isn’t above marrying: an older
woman to achleve his ends —
as a matter of fact he marries
more than one woman.”

“What happens to Edward
Bare during his search for the
almighty dollar makes for many

' dramatic moments and the mys-
tery of what happens to the three
women in his life, makes the
play a breath-holding evening,
. for anyone the’ pre-

d

Edward as it suits his own pur-
poses; Evelyn Burrows as Freda,
a newly rich widow who has

-{ Spent all her adult life, working

ina bar .room, and now with
‘money in the bank is fair- game
for Edward; Joan Johnson play-
ing the part of C who

is Marg MacBaln and prompter
is Zoe Smibert, Laurence Porter
4s Stage Manager and Publicity
is handled by. Evelyn Burrows.
Ella Walker ig‘ein’ charge of
costumes, Bob MacBain lighting,
end Gladys Collinson, make-up.

is Monica’s sister, recently: arriv-
ing from Australia’ atid: deter
mined to find out: what'is going
on in the Bare household. The
play is brought to 2 dramatic
pitch of excitement after Edward
threatens Charlotte with a pok-
er, and dares her to leave the
house in her car, with which he
has-been tampering,

Gwen

Pre-School Visual Exam
Hot Too. Far Off

Pre-schol examination of all
children to determine it they
have necessary visual skills to
mect the d of schoo! work

as Emmie, a maid in the Bare
home, and is not too bright
about what is happening around
her. :

Stuckt Paul is cast as Philip,
a. young lawyer whose actions
bring the play toa dramatic

to

notices. ~

“Others in the cast are Ruth

aa Waldie as Monica, who is overly
fond of liquid refreshments and

is encouraged in this vice by

Designed to keep adults on
the edge of thelr chairs, the play
ds not for young folks given to
having , nightmares,

Director of Gently Does It"

is not far off,

President of the B.C. Op-
tometric, Association, Dr. J. 8.
Clark, made this prediction as
B.C. observed “See Better —
Learn Better Week”, November
25 — 30,

He said educators are be-
coming more aware of the link
between visual ability and read-
ing ability — hence school -per-
formance — and that it is the
to” give

e RIGHT to Your

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those who "have not developed
the necessary skills special train-
ing.

It is not far off when our
Srade school teachers will con-
centrate more on teaching the
visual skills as they teach’ read-
ing, writing’ and arithmetic,” he
said, “In our judgement, what are
sometimes called — pergonality
Problems in childrn, are nothing
of the sort, and these problems
vanish as if they had never ex-
isted when a child who is found
to have a warped or deviated
visual condition is put right.”

His association is interested
in helping problem children who
can't otherwise be helped in the
education system through pro-
per instruction on how to use
their eyes properly.,

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opened Monday night by council

[te serve as a fire truck.

Castlegar’s’ new fire hall was

chairman J, E. Kraft, marking
the first time the Fire Depart-
ment has had its own quarters
since it was founded some 16
years ago,

Fire Chief Lewis, tracing
the. history of the Volunteer
Firemen in Castlegar took his
audience of interested citizens
back to the ‘spring of 1942 when
the department was ‘organized
by such men as Ralph West,
Nick Oswald and Cecil - Watson,

out by buying an old school bus’

. “Most of the equipment such
as hose, nozzles and so on, were
issued by the ARP which was
in action at that’ time, and
through donations from individ-
ual property owners and tenants,
they were able to make the
down payment on the purchase
of a 1936 one and a half ton
-| truck, Two tanks on loan from
‘the Imperial Oli Company were
mounted’ on the‘ichassis and
hooked up with a power take-
off, All labor’ and: most material
was of necessity donated, said
Chief Lewis, as ‘no funds were
available,

The volunteer firemen, as-
sisted by the School Board,
built ithe original fire hall and
school bus garage on Pine St,
and ladders, etc, were construc-
ted by the firemen with donated
materials,

The Fire Department had
been in operation about five
years when the newly organized

History Of Castlegar’ Fire
Depariment Covers 16 Years

who borrowed $300 and. started | -

received from the ee a mobile
pump and. an ARP Siren. This

CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, November 28, 1957

arrived, the old No, 1 truck|Iage and the Firemen set about
had to relinquish garage space] turning it into suitable accomo-
for the newer unit, as half of the/ dation for their Department and
building had by this time become | here they remained until the sale
the Village Office, of the property to the Bank of
In 1956 the former Cc and the

Service Garage on Columbia and] building of the new fire hall
Pine was purchased by the Vil-}next to the Village Office,

siren was by the fire-
men and is the one in use today,
together with a series of tele-
Phones which form the alarm
system to date.”

Mr, Lewis, justifiably proud
said.“we have been‘ timed at an
expired tlme of 20 seconds from
the time the elarm was ‘sounded
until the equipment rolled out
of the Fire Station. Clocking has
been done through courtesy of
the local CPR Station Agent and |
his staff.”

A’ year or two later a 1930
LaFra Fire Truck
with Soda and Acid apparatus,
and hose-deck, was purchased
from the Municipality of Tadanac
and this’ was converted: into a
‘pumper by installing a 1650 gal-
Jon tank and-.with the. pump
from the first. truck this: pro-
vided 150 gals. per minute,
while the trailer pump ‘had a
capacity of 125 gals. per minute.
At this time the attic of the
fire hall was made into a com-
fortable club-room for the fire-

The newest addition; a 1952
men hrough volunteer effort.
Mercury 3% ton chassis ‘equip-
ped by La France Company, has
a capacity of 500 gals. per minute
output, two medium high-pres-
sure hose reels, a tank: of 225
gal. capacity, and hose-deck, also
approximately 1000 feet of 2%
inch and threé 1% inch pre-
connected fighting lines, together.
with First Aid .fire fighting.

ANCA

Don't Be Fooled By The
WEATHER

* GIVE YOUR CAR A BREAK AND HAVE IT
CHECKED OVER FOR WINTER
DRIVING!

Have .It Done Today And Avoid
The Rush When Cold Weather
This Area

Castle Motors:

ee een cn iene nn

equipment, pump-tank, foam, dry
chemicals, smoke - masks and
CO2 ete.

Board of Trade requested and

After the new La France

News of Silver Birch

Your Silver Birch News re-
porter hasbeen away on a’ holi-
day but the only trip the Silver
Birch School children have taken

land this time.

-The., handicraft eerily: has

is one in-their studies to Lap-

been’ with serpantine paper
molds. By rolling small strips
of paper very tightly, they will
form a pin tray, ash trap or
whatever they desire and then
shelac the finished product to
hold the pattern.

-The. Kinnaird Athletic . Ase
| Zeca have'sent a nice supply
i to the school

TO OUR: MANY FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS”

tal addresses,
-Check your. atte: ist now-
._ - Have you forgotten anyone?
Buy plenty of stamps ahead of time.

Pack your gifts in sturdy cartonc, wrapped in tough paper and

- ted securely with strong cord.

© t
For corredt postage and safe delivery have your parcels i
weighed al your local Post Office. Print address; and return
addres too, both outside and inside parcels.

dmportant — Check Post Office leaflet delivered to ‘your
home for mailing dates to distant points and remember — |
for local delivery, mail your parcels and cards onor before
‘December 17th. .

ST. RITA'S cHURCH
Rev, E,. Brophy, P.P.

‘Masses. at 8:30 and 10:30

Benediction Friday at 7:00 p.

ST. JOSEPH’S CHAPEL

F oMAUNaY BIBLE CENTRE

CHURCH OF JESUS. CHRIST
OF LATTER DAY SAINTS
Sundays at 10:36 aan,
Twin. Rivers | Hall

Sunday in the Legion Hall
10:30, Sunday School
Family

0 PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
30 Young People’s Hr| Publis Worship and Sunday

sy
Fri., 8:00 Prayer & Bible Study}

Rev. E. Brophy P,P,
Masses, 8:30 and 10:30 am.
Confessions Sat. 4-6

PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE :
Sunday School — 10 aim.
Morning Worship — lt a.m. .
Evangelistic — 7:30 p.m,

. Prayer and Bible ‘Btuay, Thurs,

7:30 p.m. <
Everyone Welcome

Robson: Ist. & 3rd. Sundays ‘at

Castlegar: Service of Worship at] Kinnal;
‘7:30 pm Sunday School 10:30 am.!

School 11:15 am

THE UNITED CHURCH ‘g

Kinnaird: "service of Worship} AD’ SUNDAY: DECsE Aut y

an Castlegar
at 9:45 am, Sunday School 11 "30 p.m.

11:00 a.m. Ded-

TO TTT

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Resident Minister W. T. Ferran
HE iCAN.cHURCH
liam. : “Sunday School -10 ‘a.m T ALIGLICAN CHURCH t:

9:00 am, and ig

cation of new Altar and Ewer.

“We Wish To “Announce

That we are.moving to our new location at the corner of

Columbia Ave. and Pine St. this weekend and will be

_ conducting our banking

L

DATE. OF OFFICIAL OPENING WILL. BE ANNOUNCED. URON

“CASTLEGAR, BRANCH, Aa & NORR Ss; ee

« COMPLETION OF THE BUILDING

Squadron 581

of sports

-badminton rackets, birds and
net; basketball; a bat.and:3 soft
balls‘and not only that, -but they,
tadded'a ‘cheque for $10: so. that
some: indoor. -games. could . be
purchased. ‘The boys were cer-
-tainky,;-giving the racquets a
good ‘workout the day I visited
the school and Mrs..Palsson said
they were really thrilled with all
f the gifts.

“Lutest addition to the list of
donations is a wonderful service
station .— most complete and
with cars of every . description.
This was a gift from’ Mr, H.
Stickley of ‘Blueberry and was
certainly a happy choice. for it
has already given hours of en-
foyment.

‘The cadets are gotting a “good
deal of enjoyment. cut of the
range sessions at ‘the. Anderson
Ranch on. Saturday mornings,
‘We are pleased that Mr. C, Wools
is able to devote the time and
it appears that if the weather
holds we shall be finding some

among our
Cushner still seems to be lead-
ing; but Worobey may turn up
next week -—- wonder what will
happen then?

‘We have. been corresponding
with the District Supervisor since
August on the use of the Post
Office basement for parades. We
are Pleased to report that..a
lease has now been finalized. It
will take a couple of weeks yet
before we can hold our first
parade in the new ce We
feel it Will be quite. anjasset to
the squadron ‘to be ble have
all of our equipment. in one

lace.

We feel that we cannot stress
too strongly that our behayiour
in the new quarters must be the
eat, Since it {s possible’ that

WE EXTEND .....

CONGRATULATIONS

VILLAGE OF CASTLEGAR

AND THE

VOLUTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
ON, THE. OPENING OF THE_
NEW FIRE HALL

. We are pleased to have had the contract on this
ate = \ $

fine building.

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