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CASTLE NEWS, Castlegar, B.C.

Thureday, january 14, 1954

Mr. and Mrs Askew
Ghserve 25th. Wedding

Anniversary Recently

Mr, and Mrs. O. N, Askew of
Kinnaird, observed their 25th,
wedding anniversary recently.
Their home prettily decorated for
the occasion with chrysanthe-
mums and carnations, was the

. scene Saturday and Sunday eve-
nings.

At these times, Mr. and Mrs,
Askew entertained friends and
relatives and were the recipients
of many gifts, Messages of con-
gratulation were received from
Vancouver and Lethbridge, Alta.

Among the guests was .Mr.
Askew’s aunt, Mrs. L. M. Barr,
who came from Cranbrook for
the happy occasion.

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Completion of tue tunnelling through Mount Du Bose, British Columbla, virtually assures
ing at Kitimat in 1954. The Kitimat smelter will produce 500,000
metric tons of alumiaum annually when developed to full capaclty. Thit, view of the granite heart
ju, Bose savws the tunnel ready for the next step—that of laving a conerete floor along
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Soroptimists. Welcome:
Five New Members

Five new members were wel-
comed into the Soroptimist Club
of Castlegar-Kinnaird-Robson, at
their thly dinner ti

Date Book Of Coming
Activities, Sponsored
By Soroptimist Club

The Castlegar-Kinnaird-Robson
imist Club is i

St. Alban’s Parish Hall. The new
members are: Mrs. Gordon Arch-
ibald, and Mrs. S. C. Muirhead of
Kinnaird, and Mrs. Ken Sharples,
Miss M, Bailey and Mrs. M. J.
Bouillet of Castlegar.

Mrs, Ivy Ozeroff, president,
presented each of the new mem-
bers with a corsage while they i in

date book here, as a means of en-
abling district organizations to
plan their activities on dates that
will not conflict with those of
other organizations.

The book is to be located at
the Castlegar village office. Dis-
trict organizations ‘Sponsoring
some event, are to write the date

turn the
pledge. .

Further plans were discussed
regarding the making of lapel
pins which is part of the program
planned for the Banff Conference

next

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WE WILE ALSO DO YOUR PLUMBING
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Bathroom Sets in Colors

CASTLEGAR BUILDING SUPPLY

d in the book. Any organ-

ajdents may learn of the different

ization will thus have access to
the book to ensure the date of
activity does not conflict with
that being sponsored by any other
organization,

The book will serve as a bul-
letin board too, wherein _resi-

Coats and Dresses
Reduced by One-Third OFF Regular Price

activities to be held in Castlegar
and district.

Letters are being written to all
organizations acquainting them of
the project. SHould some organ-
ization be inadvertently ommit-
ted from the mailing list, they are
advised they are included and
have the book available to them.

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Reduced hy % OFF Regular Price

Truck Leaves Road,

Resumes Journey @n

Railway, Train Waits

* Railway tracks can, in a pinch,
serve as a thorouphfare for an
automobile and even e train must
stop and take notice, a Trail
motorist discovered near Blue-
berry Creek recently.

Orville E. Blair of Trail, driv-
ing a half ton light delivery, was
rounding the bend in the high-
way North of the Blueberry
Creek railway crossing when icy
road conditions caused his vehi-
cle to léave the road and plunge
to the railway tracks below.

The truck, with Mr. Blair in it,
landed in an upright position,
not damaged too seriously. Nor
was Mr, Blair injured. However

j| the. truck was on the track and

its driver could hear a train com-

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it. down,
Then reentering his truck, he
Grove along the track to the
where he d his]
journey on the highway, leaving
the railway for the sole use of the
‘train once again,
The truck sustained an estima-
ted $250 damage.

1.0.D.E, Lauded
(Continued from page 1)

tee has handled welfare work, A
letter of thanks was also received
from Mrs. R, T. Waldie for the
Flag which will be presented
shortly to the Robson Boy Scouts,

Empire Study Convenor, Mrs.
Cc. Petts, read an article “Thoughts
on ‘and another on

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New Zealand by Queer Elizabeth,
who was the first reigning mon-
arch ever to open parliament
there. At the completion of her
tour, the: Queen will have travel-
Jed 50,000 miles and visited “4
countries. ‘i

Letters of appreciation for
Christmas parcels received were
read ‘by Mrs, Easton. The letters
were from two soldiers in Korea.

Mrs. James Kelly gave a report
on Welfare Assistance given’ to
date and letters of thanks were
read from three of the families
who received Christmas hampers.

Constitution Convenor, Mrs,
H, Pederson, read the nomina-
tion by-laws and nominations for
the. 1954 executive began, the
scrutineers being Mrs. D. Magee,
and Mrs. J..S. Scott. -

The nomination committee
elected are: Mrs. C, Wanless, Mrs.
Henne Kelly and Mrs. M. B, Dal-

er atestéa for the evening were
Mrs. C. Petts,. Mrs, J, A. Thomas,
Mrs. J. Gemmill and Mrs, M. B.
Dalton.

The next executive meeting is
on Feb, 1 at the home of Mrs, R.

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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH seein THURSDAY, JANUARY 21,

1954

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‘ Nearing completion are the $2 million facili-
ties for the British Empire Games in Vancou-
ver this. summer. Upper left is one section of
the 35,000 seat Stadium, the largest in Canada, ,
Right‘ is the Olympic:Swimming Pool being
constructed at thé University of British Col-
umbia, while below is the new bicycle track,
finished except for. the bleachers to be built
in the Spring. 'To date, 23 of the 24 countries
in the British Empire, have entered teams,

The Games are open to.any member of the
constituent parts of. the British Common-
wealth of Nations. Anyone having been classi-
fied‘as a professional at any time, in any sport
cannot compete inthe British Empire Games.

The 1954 Games at Vancouver, will be big-
ger than any ever held, Whereas in 1950, 13

countries competed ii in, the New

Zealand show,

at. least 24 will be on hand in Vancouver. The"
1954 Games will be honored too, by the pres-
ence of His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edin-
burgh, who will spend several days in Van-
couver attending the competitions.

Majority of the athletes will be housed at
Acadia Camp at UBC. The rowing will be held
at the Vedder Canal near Chilliwack and
Abbotsford and the rowers will be put up at
@ special camp nearby,

It is expected the first of the 700 competitors
will arrive in the city two ‘weeks prior to July
30. Between now and early July, each of the
nations competing will be staging their indivi-
dua! triais. The 700 who succeed, will thus be
the cream of the Commonwealth athletic
crop, and many of these will be the best in the
world at their particular sport,

| Coop Bus Skids Off
Road; Hits Fence

Green Light Hor.$108,000-Program.

Kinnaird Water Bylaws Win
Whopping 90 Per Cent Ckay

The two water bylaws, designed to noe the village of Kinnaird’s
persistent water troubles and, remedy the urgent water shortage

in the village with a $105,009 program of purchase, expansion, and,

renewal, were given overwhelming approval by Kinnaird ratepayers

at a plebiscite Friday.

Bylaw. 51, authorizing a loan
of $40,000 for purchase of the
Dumont Subdivision by the vil-
lage, passed with a whopping 88.8
per cent and bylaw 51, authoriz-
ing ‘a loan of $65,000 for expan-
sion, consolidation. and renewal
of. the waterworks system, drew
an even more unanimous 92 per
cent endorsement. *

For bylaw 51° there were 198

es” votes; 26 “No” and four

seyoaea ballots while bylaw 52

won. 204 “Yes” votes and 18 “No”

‘with six spoiled ballots.

However the 228 “persons whio
cast their ballots constituted only
33 per cent of the 686 eligible to
vote on the issue. The second day
of wintry weather which pre-
vailed during the day was thought
to be partly responsible” for the
low percentage of | vaters who
turned out.

Returning officer for the vote
was R. J. Morice, Mrs, E. G. War-
ner was deputy returning officer
and Mrs. B. Roberts was. poll
cleric. ate
FOR_ 1,000 USERS

Approval of the bylaws give

| the Kinnaird commissioners the

go ahead signal for their water-
works expansion .program which
will provide an ample supply of

swater for 1,000 users. At present

therg, are 370‘ ‘users in the.village
but the present water system has
‘been unable to adequately’ meet
their demands forcing strict cur-
tailment of sprinkling during the
summer. The rejuvenated: system
will stpply more than enough

_vwater to permit. the use’ of one

sprinkling ‘per household for at

Office Locations Of
Three Firms, Changed

Three Castlegar professional
firms are now in new locations as
the result of a recent change of
office quarters.

Drs. Fowler and Joh have

“ok Millage ‘Asks-Govt. Aid

In Pine Street Opening:

A request; for .a gov

Paul Smith, Trail, Named Hospital Architect

‘At Tadanae, Friday

i: SHppery road@:conditions caused
a bus owned by the Castlegar
(Cooperative Transportation So-

‘lciety to leave the road as it was

entering Tadanac Friday morn-
ing, damaging some 70 feet of
fence along the road.

The bus was taking 28 work-
‘ers to the Cominco-plant at Tad-
anac when" it skidded on ‘a parti-
cularly icy portion of the road
‘and struck the fence. A report
which ‘stated that a_ brocken
spindle resulted in the driver's
loss of control over the vehicle,
was termed erroneous by Society
officials Saturday. They attribut-
ed the mishap to the slippery
road, saying that another driver
coming from , Trail later in the
day;" turned back when he en-
countered . this particular section
of road. .

» There was only slight damage
to the bus, estimated at $50 and

Petition For Hospital District
Okayed By District Landowners

A $400,000, 32 bed hospital for the Castlegar district is now a big
_| step closer to reality with completion this week of the petition for

incor of the h

district whereby the

district’s share of
taxation,

Society, announced Tuesday that

1900 property owners,

Mr. Sylvest also announced the
appointment of Mr, Paul Smith of
Trail, as architect for the hospi-
tal, In the letter advising Mr.
Smith: ‘of bt appointment, the

Si

will -be d through

A. C, Sylvest, president of the Castlegar and District Hospital

the improvement district petition

has been signed by approximately 82 per cent of the resident land-
owners and approximately 71 per cent of the overall total of some

hospital facilities. We aim to have
a hospital that the district’ can
be. proud of both for the services
it provides and the value we re-
ceive for our investment.”

jocie! 4
sized that “the hospital ultimately
approved by this society, will
have to be as economically de-
signed as possible while still sat-
isfying all the real and neces-
sary needs of this district for

- The of the i
ment district petition marks the
climax of seven months of house
to house canvassing by an army
of volunteer canvassers who
brought the petition to the pro-
(Continued on page 4)

Larger Wa

The village of Castlegar is in-
westigating whether suitable land

damage to the fence was

Jyed, one report said, at about $200.

Driver of the vehicle was A]f
Hopland, of Castlegar,

in a higher
for a new 100,000 gallon’ water
tank to replace the present’ 10,-

000 gallon tank behind the Cas-

New Executive Installed, Year Reviewed

Speakers Tell

grant.to assist in;the opening o
Pine Street from Col

offide, and I

Chamber Gf

The.-1954 executive ‘of. the Castlegar and District Chamber of
Commerée, ‘headed by’ N. T. Oglow as ‘president, ‘were installed in
year of successful activity was reviewed at! the
Chamber’s annual meeting in the Twin Rivers Hall, Wednesday

First Avenues in Castlegar, re
been forwarded to the Hon..R. E.
Sommers, MLA for Rossland-
Trail, by. the Castlegar commis-
siontrs. A copy of the request has
also been sent to the Minister of
Municipal Affairs.

R. A. D. West, Chairman of the
Ratepayers’ Committee that has
been pushing the project, report-

‘led that a meefing was held with

a Tepresentalive of the McColl

Fr Oil C

the project. The Company hold a

mortgage on the property that is

partly located where the street

would go. The Company repres-
‘ted a 0

Lieut. Herb Pills ”

Cross At Oltawa, Mon.

Lieut. Herb Pitts of the Cana-
dian Army, son of Mr..and Mrs,
H. Pitts of Castlegar, is to receivé
the Military Cross in a ceremony
at Ottawa on Monday.

“Lieut. Pitts is a veteran of al-
most a year of service with the
Third Battalion, Princess Pat-
ricia’s Light Infantry in Korea,

f¢)and ‘is now studying for his B.A.

moved their offices from the
Bank of Montreal building on
Pine Street to the Lewis Block,
on Columbia Avenue where they
occupy nine rooms on the second
floor,

Dr, R. A. Walley has his offices
in the Lewis Block also, having
moved from the Castlegar Hold-
ing Company Building above the
Castlegar Post Office, to the five
room dental suite at.the North
side of the Lewis Building,

Finally, Drs, Smythe and Rueb-
saat are now located in the Cas-
tlegar Holding Company Building
above the Castlegar Post’ Office,
faving. moved. from the Lewis
Block.

S :
PTA Executive Plan
re ef con
Handicraft Exhibition
Plans for a district wide exhi-
bition of hobbies and handicrafts
by both students and adults were
made at the executive meeting of
the Stanley . Humphries Parent
Teacher Association, held at the
home. of Mr, tnd ‘Mrs. J. A:
‘Thomas last week. The event is to
be held early in May. It was also
decided this year’s variety con-

.Jcert will be held on March 28.

Members “are urged to) attend
the

ing the ind:
of the property after the ‘street
has been put through.

The village now’holds an opt-
ion on the land required and have
until Feb, 28 to male a down pay-
ment of $6,000 to the owner,
Fomenoff.

at Hamil-
ton, Ontario.

Mrs, Pitts may be present at the
investiture Monday, Mr. Pitts ad-
vised yesterday: Mr. and Mrs.

Pitts learned of the investiture in | ©

W.'a telephone call from their son,

Tuesday.

Taking over the reins of office
along with Mr. Oglow were G. W.
Shaw, vice president; A.
(Tony) Ki ‘y-

Seek Location For New

ter Tank

tlegar Coop Transportation So-
ciety garage.

The present tank will soon re-
quire repairs and is becoming too
small for Castlegar’s needs and.
should be replaced with a bigger
tank in ‘a higher location, the
commissioners said at their reg-
ular meeting Monday.

Waterworks " Commissioner
Harry Sommers advised that the
CPR water tank at Castlegar,
capacity 40,000 gailons, is avail-

able for sale and that a number |
of other CPR tanks in the West

shoul
at Castlegar if they are interestect
in using a series of smaller tanks
rather than one large one. ~
Commissi Gei

Rink. And Hospital Projects 73. "ara"

ITY
thought ‘the commission should °
wait to see if any more suitable
tanks will definitely become

Cc. available or better still, determine
“ {if land is available in a higher

treasurer; and J, Macbeth, E. Mec-
Gauley, L, Ackney and Dr. R. A.
Wailey, directors.

Guest speakers for the meeting
which was attended by represent-
atives of the Trail and Nelson
Cl as well as ib
the Castlegar and Kinnaird Vile
‘lage Commissions were David’
Campbell, president of the Cas-
tlegar District Projects Society,
and .A, C. Sylvest, president of
the Castlegar and District “Hospi-
tal Society.

Retiring Chamber president, M
B. Dalton, presented a report ‘of ;G
the Chamber's activities during
1953, paying tribute to the werk

of the various committees and re-

for a new tank or tanks.

*54 Kiwanis Executive
insialied in Sitice
At Ladies Mite, Mon.

“Fulfill your obligations ac-
cording to the highest ideals of
Kiwanis.”

! This was the. charge given to
the 1954 officers of the Castlegar

iS Kiwanis Club by Dictict peut,

Fran

Nelson, at the Club's pant

ladies’ night and installation

ceremony in the. Twin Rivers
Ci

the its of
each.
d all the bi

R. A. D. West, Fire Dept. Instructor

More Firemen

Should Attend

“Fire Chief's Convention

That more members of local Fire Départmetns attend the annual
Fire Chief's convention is recommended by Fire Chief Ed Lewis in
his final teport. for 1953, presented to the village commission meeting,,

$i 200 Renovations For
Legion Hall Basement

of the Cas r-Rob.
son Branch 170 of the Canadian
Legion, are busy’remodelling the
expanded basement of their Le-
gion Memorial Hall at Castlegar,
converting: it into an satfractive
clubroom,:
LA $1200 project, the stpovations
include: application of an attract-

Main.items in the $65,000 ex-
i 1 and Li

tion project will be a new 100,000
gallon water-tank on the Upper
Bench just below the Kinnaird
Park;,a new $10,000 pump house
on the Columbia River with two
new 60 h.p..deep .well pumps
that will deliver: 600. gallons ‘o;

water per minute; a new ten in

water main from the pump nouse

(Continued on’ page’ 4)

’s regular

in the High School library, Mon-
day evening when Dr. C. S, Fow-
ler of Castlegar, will. bé guest
speaker on “Psychosomatic Medi-
cine.”

sare inded that at-

finish of Silva-Cord
hy wond on the walls and a white
soundproofing on the ceiling. |.
The addition added to the base-
ment last year on the South side,
is being remodelled : to «contain
“and an alcove off the

tendance ::at - regular. meetings
h | wins points for the. House at the
high school to which ‘their ehite

deen Elon.

a

main portion for’ the bar.
The project i is* ‘to be completed

in time jor. ithe nch’s annuai
Vanguet and Cy teas

“If all Fire Chief's Conventions’
are as educational as the: one I
attended in August, 1953, the
personnel of local departments
can hardly afford not to go,” the
report states. “I am looking for-
ward to one or more of our de-
partment attending the conven-
tion to be held in Penticton in the.
Fall of 1954.” 5

.Mr. Lewis's report also express-
ed ‘regret that house numbering
ing in Castl

He
-jand the press for their coopera-

tion “which has made the past
year a successful one.”

i*The’ business and sndushty
the

In an impressive ceremony at-
tended by t ‘the wives of local K+
wanians as well asa large con-
tingent of Kiwanians and their
wives from Nelson, the head of
Kiwanis. District Six, thanked the

‘ive for their work

most satisfactory hee of busi-
néss,”” Mr. Dalton said. “They
‘brought to an end the Chamber's
five: year effort to secure a liq-
uor store at Castlegar. On Sept.
1 a liquor store at Castlegar be-
came a reality.”
(Continued on page 4)

From A Bomb City
Of Hiroshima, Will
Sneak Here Sunday

The Rev.,H. J. McSherry, on
leave from Hiroshima, Japan,
where he has been assistant to the
Auglivan Bishop uf Mid-Japan for
the past few years, will visit Cas-
tlegar next Sunday.

Rev. MeSherry. wit address a

and ‘street
has not‘been completed and states
that much credit is. due to the
Castlegar Rotary Club for under-

jtaking this project once the re-

quired bylaw has been completed
and passi

The’ ‘report discloses the Fire
Department answered six fire
calls during.the last half of 1953.

In the same period they answered
jour. ir 2

public St, Alban’s
Parish Hall at z ‘Bane and will
have an interesting story to tell
of postwar conditions in Japan
and ‘the reconstruction of Hiro-
shima since its terrible A Bomb
devastation.

The meeting is free to all who
care to come.

_Rev. McSherry, following a dis-

jished career in

during the past year, congratulat-
ing them on the excellent acheive-
ment report as read by secretary,
Ralph Kerr.

Mr. Williamson then caHed
forth each executive group or in-
dividual, instructing them on
their duties for the New Year and
exhorting them to carry out these
duties to the best of their ability.
Perfect attendance pins were also
presented to several members by
the Lieut. Governor.

Special congratulations were

(Continued on page 5)

Gail Leitner Receives

Essay Gontest Prize

-Miss Gail Elizabeth Leitner,
Grade Eight student at the Stan-
ley Humphries Senior High
School and second time first prize
winner in the Canadian Pulp and
, Paper Industry Essay contest, re-
‘ceived a cheque for $106 Monday
afternoon _as her award for first
prize in the Junior Division, Zone
One of the 1953 contest. :
* The winning contestant rec2iv- ~
ed her prize in special ceremony
at the High School during Junior

and athletics, has served in Japan

since the war.

M.B. Dalton, president
of ,ine’ Castiegar and: District .
‘ontinued on page 8)