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Thursday, November 12, 1953

THE GASTLE NEWS

Published Every Thursday at

“THE CROSSROADS OF THE KOOTENAYS”

LV. C: o Vv. A.

Editor

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EDITORIAL

Pride Of The West Kootenay

With the completion last week of the $125,000 linproveriont
program at the Castlegar Airport, the West Kootenays now have
‘one of the finest airports in the B.C. Interior and one that will in
the near future, handle some of the larger and more modern planes,

in Trans-Canada Service.

The field has come a long way since the village of Castlegar

uod Kinnaird and the City of Nelson began investigating

its possi-

Bilities as a West Kootenay primary airport in 1948. These three

the West-K

The Airport Com of

tommunities made a wise investment in purchasing the field. ‘In
y’s primary air-
port and since then, a total of $172,500 in federal grants have been
allocated to provide the present, first class, 4800 by 150 ft. landing
Sield,

of these

thrée communities, deserve a great deal of credit for directing and
daspiring this development. Through their efforts, the Castlegar
Airport has become a vital link-in a first rate air transport system.

That the men, who this

“me need and the facilities for solving it, speaks well for their fore-
sight and civic mindedness,

“town weekly are ing in V:
ssonual: convention of the B.C. Division, Canadian Weekly News-
wapers Association. Among those

For A Better Community |

This, week editors and publishers of British C

jia’s home-

for the 35th,

are L. V. C

And what does al! this mean to our community?

Tastle News F and Mrs, Ci

‘Unlike many other this annual of B.C.’s
country is an for serious True, it
affords the opportunity of ge a “break” from the year-round
vweekly grind of and a com-

mercial printing duichmeat But apart from the social functions,
‘the convention is more than just a gathering of men and women
af the same trade. It’s much. like “going back to school” for the
‘faree day business sessions deal with the varied problems of small-
town publishing. There many of those problems are solved by
Jearning how others, under similar circumstances, overcame them,

.° The net result is that a weekly publisher comes home with

mew ideas and: better methods,‘ which: wh

amproved newspaper and still better service for’ the community he
gerves. As someone orice observed, the local newspaper is the voice
af the community. Without a good town,:a newspaper can't be
much. By the same token, a good newspaper helps to make for a
Wetter: tawn. : .

phen: applied, make for an

‘The Castle News is proud of its role in the life of Castlegar and

District. We aim to, keep improving our -services and. being ever
more deserving of the community's suport,

From tlie: Nov. 11, 1948 issue of
he Castle NGws)

gar Air Field from the Land Set-
‘Bement Board by the villages of
@astiegar and Kinnaird and. the
Sty ‘of Nelson, “came Monday Bake Sale?’at ‘West's ‘Store’on

wmissioners ‘and ‘members ‘of ‘the | Barnes,’ idroppet
. Testlegar and District Chamber
a& Commerce; with Nelson’ City
afficials and members of the Nel- a Dance ‘in the’ Parish

= a) son, Board of Trade.:For
Five Years Ago

This Week

endeavoring ‘to’ get CPA

Kootenays. ;:

the past

month and a half, Trail has been

to move

to Columbia Gardens but it is un-
derstood Columbia Gardens will
be: uséd. only..as an alternative
landing field, since Castlegar , is
the central point to service the

Wecision to purchase the Castle- | Regular © ‘meeting of the cw.

-was held at the home of the‘pre-
sident, ‘Mrs. D. A: ‘Shea, Thurs- |,
ins were made-fora

WATCHDOGS

Returning home alone” on a
dark night is a most adventurous
and illuminating experience. Not
only does the darkness and sil-
ence crowd close beside one. flee
eravenly into the deeper dark-
ness ahead as one advances. and
dog one's footsteps behind; not
only is it an Invitation to a hun-
dred place

cursing over. the omnipresent
root, invisible by day but the
size of a ship’s hawser by night.
The canine chorus dies behind
me but by. neither sight, nor
sound does my own faithful ani-
mal make himself. known, The
silence becomes intense, threat-
ening, sinister.

“Good heavens, could Some-
thing have happened?”

the watchdog.
THE NEIGHBORS’

unheralded.

will spring the half apprehensive,

in an instant of your fancied pro-
tection under the cloak of invisi-
bility and. the more naked by
contrast,

Quickly the sentinel is joined
by half a dozen friends who pop-
ulate that part of the night and
a-mad chorus of ill assorted
barks, yelps and growls in every
register from low basso-profundo
to, high pitched soprano, com-
Plete the rout of silence.

by his

tic support: and intoxicated by
success, “Sharp ears” scurries out
to the edge of the road in a flury
of paws on gravel, announcing in
a hysterical tone what he could
do to you had you not decided to
keep going.

‘A few paces past and the whole
din dies down as quickly as it
egan with “only the occasional
half-complaining yelp of some
lonely extrovert, high in Horkoff
mountain.

Almost home - now. but. again
no escape. The next’ door neigh:
bor’s dog comes ip to

for a thousand fantasies, but one
makes the formless acquaintance
night's omnipresent guardian,

; round the house produces no in-
Prac eat areca gown formation other than the, fact
lonely road, half apprehensive
with the dread of ancestral and |Cealed in the d s
living memories; half swagger-| ver, which you fall, a hose in| TRAIL MAN -FINED FOR
ing under. the’ emboldening sense whieh 2 eae fran tha feet,| SPEEDING THROUGH *
of invisibility, but you'll not pass GG Fe hove ee ia oat eay OU es: RASPBERRY SCHOOL ZONE

Out of the darkness and silence

always active,
runs amok,,with visions of that
brave dog lying in a pogl of his
own blood after a furious de-
fense-of his charges.

A fast, silent reconnaisance .a-

that lying across the path, con-

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"By RJ, SCOTT
ENGINEER,

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NEER
re,

PAM ABI Sie

UAPAN, CARRY
UNBELIEVABLE WEIGHTS
on Tike HEADS.

_ Ont. oF “te1m clones
Rh. sto carry fuss
ae)

FILLED WHR WATER
it, REE OR FOUR MILES

is a bench

conce one foot for a tight fit and
a terrific clatter,
Still the hush of the grave.

Charles arenes Kelly. of Trail,
d bet Mag:

and pleaded. guilty-to a charge
of exceeding the speed limit
through the school zone at Rasp-
berry’ School.

He was fined $10 ‘and $5 costs.

back door to stop in your tracks,

With mounting concern you rush | jstrate W. H. re lor at Magistrat-
half bold clan; f some radar- strate |. Faylor al stra’
eared mutt, stripping: yout naked up. the backsteps and in at the/e’s Court, Castlegar Iast week, ! Canada as early as 1885,

Baby carriages were made in

for there is your faithful dog,
just getting up with unseeing
eyes from a fine, sound sleep.

A wild cdécophany of growls
and yelps rouse the entire house;
the’ neighborhood ‘and even the

BUSINESS DIRECTORY

coyotes in the distance hills un-
til a sharp word brings him back
to his scattered senses, __

, A’ blank. look, rapid dawn of
recognition and then.— magni-
ficent: face-saving device — a
rush out the open door and a
noisy and abandoned challenge
to the echoing night.

One brief minute of this noisy
emptyness while all the house is

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the fence, a darker shadow
against. the shadows, bellowing
harsh, unlikely threats of mur-
der and mayhem against the
willing background of the all-
dog chorus.

All dogs? Well not quite. Yon-
der a. little distance, the front
light gleams yellow and familiar
through the trees, but no fami-
liar bark.

AND, YOURS

“Ah, intelligent animal,” you
think. “He Inows his. master
even. in the dark and in the
midst. of this uproar. Soon ‘he'll
come bounding.up the.path to
meet me.”

So-up.the path, stumbling: and

Friday night: Music was supplied
bY Cecil Turner‘ and Earl Stan-
ford. a

Steal so W. ‘their reg-
ular meeting, heard a ‘talk by

10:35 am, — Sunday School

Every Sunday at 11 am. Service
pees Worship

Bast & ‘Third Sundays at 11 a.m.

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CASTLE

astir with alarm and back in/}}{ Phone Sue Onin St.
again with a self. sf wiggle
and wag. “You.re all ste now,
Tve driven them off agai z a -
en a change of expression, Cc A Ss T L E
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St. Rita’s Church

Sunday Masses. — 8:30 and ll

“o'clock,

Sunday devotions —- 1:30. Bm,
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7:80 Pp. fata
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St: Joseph's. Chapel

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Sunday Mass, /10'am. |.

xe during ithe

St. Alban’s. Evening Guild held
‘Hall on

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evening at!a meeting of Castle-|Nov. 13. Fr. A parish | eee cien nt of to yon the
aor. and! Kinnaird ‘Village Com-|-priest during the illness of Father by. the; «Donations fora

be hipped: to-aclergy-
}man ‘in ‘England,: were received.
‘There‘will' be two vacancies to
fill on the Board of Commission-|

7

DOORS & CABINET ‘MAKING

| STORM. SASH, COMBINATION..STORM

‘ah Coast Finishing Materials are used in our Goistraction

KOOTENAY. BUILDERS
and’ Suppliers...

Phone 4066 - Columbia - Avenue

Walker is retiring owing to Jtl|
health,

An open air skating rink meas-
uring 80 x'180 ft. will be erected
shortly it was ‘ahnounced at the
regular, monthly meeting of the
Kinnaird * Improvement. Socfety.
The rink ‘will be on Mr. Gray’s
property.

Further’ arrangements for the
Jack Frost, bazaar. were made at
a “meeting “of ‘the: Kinnaird W. 1
It was decided to have the Im
provement Society, executive pre-

")sent at the next meeting so that

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the i of a club room for
the’ W. ‘I. can.-be ‘discussed.

The’ Castlegar United Church
W. A.-will hold a pot luck supper
on Nov, ]5 at the Church hall, it
was decided at'a ting at the

ers.) Ce Gerry Wan-|-
less’s term’ expires and Mr. Otto] °

Pentecostal
Tabernacle -
First Avenue, and. Juniper
J, Pennoyer ‘and: ¥. Clemo

< e0-workers .
Sunday School, 16 ‘a.m.
Evangelistic, 7:30 D p.m, «

Community. Bible

a tionak.
y school, Sundays at 10:30
Classes, for yaung eople of

icé, Sinndays, 7:30
ce “for ‘the family.
‘Above service in the Legion Hall,
Prayer and Bible Study; Thurs-

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‘Post Oftice Building.
_/ Wed 2:30'p'm, to 8pm, -

days, %:45 p.m.‘and Young Peo-
ple’s . Fellowhip, Fridays, - 7:30
p.m. at-the home of Mr. and Mrs,
Fred £, Woodrow, Columbia Ave.
All are cordially Jnvited to
these services,

home of Mrs. J. Deans. An in-
vitation is.to be sent to Rev. J.
HL. A. Warr, to attend as guest
speaker, ;-’

Decision. to proceed with plans,
to turn over the C 1

Presbyterian’ Chireh’ |:
Services in. the Churoh “every,

‘Sunday at: 11:15 om,
_ D.’A. MacKellar,

CASTLEGAR’ PL

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For COAL,’ SAND; GRAVEL |
Local and: Long pane

Hal
and property to the Village ‘of
Castlegar,.-was made at a meeting
of the Castlegar Community
Club. ;

—

Lutheran Services
Services to be held: in ‘Anglican
Church every first and third Sun-

‘Dutch Maid: Bakery.
te ta. ‘ a:

\

. | Kinnaird — 7:30 p.m. *

7 ee . gay at 3:00 pm. keen 3
. Foreign travel i in : cee Cakes;
Canada. in 1952 amounted to an vs * 3 edding Cakes =;
estimated '$275,000,000 against an ‘Anglican Church Anniversary Cakes
all-time peak ‘of $336,000, ono Sunday, November 15 ~
Jee by C c —9 am. and 11:00 a.m. “PHONE S241"
other

Thursday, November 12, 1953

CASTLE NEWS, Castlegar, B.C.

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Cathclics Enjoy Parish
Party And Social Eve

League sponsored a well attend-
ed Parish Party and Social Even-
ing in St. Alban'’s ‘Anglican
Church Hall, Saturday evening,

Waiting for the crowd to arrive,
the early ‘arrivals enjoyed a brief
session of card games and then
dancing got underway tq the
music of two accordions, played
by Paul Zanet and Pietro Infanti
of Castlegar,

Floor Manager Walter Fields
kept things going at a lively clip
with a variety of novelty dances,
. Following the serving of refresh-
ments by members of the CWL
and the Castlegar Columbus

short while to .the accordion
musie of Jan Gall, whose instru-
mental and ‘vocal talents made
the guests reluctant to leave,

A cake: raffle that was held
during the evening, was won by
Mrs. Anthony Archibald of Slo-
ean City, :

_ Canada produces more kinds
of knitted wool outerwear than,
any other Sountry,

Building. Supplies
OGLOW BROS.
pune & Supniy Co. Ltd.

Club, ‘dancing resumed for a}

Apache Indians of the San Carlos reservation, Arizona,

APACHE: CATTLE SURVIVE ' DROUGHT.

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PHONE} 406 1

ye

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Hear the latest in’ the Castle Theatre
each evening -

EAneSeE HOBBY GENTRE:

Across from. the ‘Theat! re

. Prime condition.

Central Press Canadian
‘while. an estimated one million head of beef cattle have been '
moved out of drought-ridden :range-lands of south and. south-
western U.S. this year, to be sold at sacrifice prices. or Sestroyed,

have in-

creased their herds and lost none through drought. White cattle- e
men give the Indians credit for long-sighted range management
that has provided water in this perlod of drought and admit the
Apache can stlll teach the paleface a good deal about raising cattle.
Thiz cattle round-up on the Gla Jtlver shows the indian herd'in

PUBLIC NOTICE
To Kinnaird Voters

The Voters’, List for the Village of
Kinnaird has been compiled and posted at

the Village Office.

‘A Court of Revision of the Voters’.
List will be held Monday, November 16

at 10 a.m. in the Village Office. -
'R. J. MORICE,

Village Clerk.

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Four Types. Liquor
(Licences In B.C.

‘At the last session of the B. C.

Legislature, the government pass-

Stevens Inquiry Commission.
.Under the new Act the Liquor
Board will set up ‘licensing areas’

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in parts of the Province,
which will probably consist main-
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in the larger centres. the Stevens: Report.

In any event,

This implements the recom-
ed a completely new “Liquor mendation of the Stevens Com-
Act” intended to effect the re- mission that “licensees should not
forms recommended by -- the| benefit beyond the normal -trad-
ing profit of an average business.”
It will undoubtedly be, some
time before many licences ‘are
issued as the Government has
announced that it will follow the
“go slow” policy advocatéd” by |

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Licences of. different types for
the sale of Tiquor by the glass

unless .the Council of ‘a munici-
pality concerned or °35: per’ cent
of the voters in the.area, request
that.a plebiscite ‘be taken,

than 45 "per ‘cent of the’ electors General.
.vote against any" particular type
of-licence, no-licence of that kind |-
will be issued in the area éxcept
to clubs that held licences under
the old Act and to military _mess-

There are ‘four kinds of licence

hat can be granted under the of the Dominion.
eb, 4

have to be carefully framed sett-
ing up the standards. to be com-
will bé issued in these’ ‘areas ‘to weds with by applicants for. ice:

“Proposals. tor the aticeation: of
funds towards, the’ treatment and
rehabilitation of, alcoholics. have
been presented . and :.are ‘under
If a plebiscite is-held and more consideration by the Attorney

"Official. statistics- show, that’ in
the next four years the engineer-
ing courses of Canadian univer-
ee sities will graduate only 50 per],
cent: of’ the engineering talent
required to fill immediate needs

(1)'A Public’ House Li e.

This will be issued to hotels and
resorts: that. comply with _stand-
ards to be set by the Board and
will réplace’ the old beer-parlor
licences. “It may, also in ‘special

case, be issued to Hi

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addition to beer, ale and stout

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(2)-A Dining Room Licence—
This..will_be.,given’.to: selected
restaurants and hotels and will

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beable to get the same kind of

permit the sale of wines, beer,
ale and’stout, with: meals.

ayn Dining Lounge: Licence—
This ‘isthe same he - dining
room licence, except’ that. it Jal-
lows the sale‘of hard liquor. -It | ]
will be: confined: “largely © to cab-

Beer Licences and Club licenc-

: ‘Both ‘Hece, Two

ea). ‘A “Lounge Licence — This 2 Bedroo’ s a
wills slow ithe sale of liquor: of Sresieaie pat
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‘es: now existing will remain in

and the Board. may, if it sees fit,
renew any. ‘of these! licences for |B):
another’ year. After: that . they | 3-
will be. abolished. but-a club that
is approved \by the Board will

der the new. Act, :,+
‘ Under the new ‘Act, veterans’
clubs will be treated ’in the same i

manner’ as other elubs and will

licences;

The enforcement provisions: of
the old Act -have., been greatly
strengthened.

The’ new, Act provides for a
“monopoly ‘tax’. to -be paid by)
the vendor of .a- licence issued
under-the Act at the time of the
fransfer of the licence. The a; |.
mount of the tax. will be fixed
by regulation, and willbe based
2 the amount of liquor purchas-

sone licensee during the 12, 4°

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