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CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, April 7, 1960 3

BIRD SANCTUARY. _| Bird Sanctuary in the city of Cal=

The smallest bird sanctuary | gary; largest is ‘eight square mil-

on privately-owned Jand in Can-|es of forest, Jake and cultivated
ada.is the one-acre Rideau Island jana near Ottawa.

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Kootenay. Drama Festival Starls Tonight for 3 Days}.

". The 1960 West Kootenay,
Drama’ Festival opens a thrée-
day run tody, in ‘the Kinnaird

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CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, April 7, 1960

‘Want Equitable Treatment

KINSHEN'S-csscue «350

~BOOK DRIVE —

‘Saturday; April Sth
ard II,” and the Kaslo Theatri- tural activities for th >
HAVE YOUR DONATION. OF gal Society presents “The Red | mont oe penetean’ ie govern:
: : ia Lamp. 2 He received a Canadian|§
BOOKS READY WHEN THE CUBS, ¢ To the -hoat club, the Kin- ‘scholarship for study abroad: in| [jm

naird Little Theatre, the festival 954-55 tte Fi
SCOUTS OR GUIDES CALL AT this your has proved singular in iversity and the Central oeleol
YOUR HOME. :

Due

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PILE C ture of* the festival ‘the theatre
doors will remain closed once a
»| performance has ‘started. ns

Adjudicator for’ the. festival

will be“ William H. Kaasa, an as-
sociate of the B.C. drama board,
|who is now co-ordinator of cul-|—

. Member: Member:

: school . f
when the’ Kinnalrd ‘Lite Thea-
Canadian Weekly

tre presents “Sorry ‘Wrong Num-
ber,” the Trail Studio Players
Present Act I, Scene 2 of “Rich-

- SAFETY
BEGINS
at SHELL

itself, as this is the first year of speech and drama in Lond
the festival has left the fair ci- He Was awarded his LRAM ty :
ties of Nelson and Trail to come the London Royal Academy of|M
to a smaller community, Under Music, :

Principle Recognized’ Here

It’s not often that we see anything in
the actions or statements of B.C. CCF lead-
er Robert Strachan worth applauding, but
the Opposition leader earned our réspect-
on one subject a number of days ago.

Asked to comment on the offer of the
federal government to loan B.C. between
$500 million and $700 million at an interest
rate of Yath of one per cent above the go-
ing money market rates to finance half of
the billion-dollar Columbia river power
project, Mr. Strachan said he was’ “glad to
see a firm offer by the federal government,
but this is not necessarily the final word
on the subject. We are anxiois to see the
Columbia go ahead, but we are confident
a better deal can be arranged for B.C.”

B.C. Conservative leader Deane Fin-
layson said B.C. should accept the federal
PC-government offer and Ray Perrault,
B.C. Liberal leader, said the terms should
be accepted since “There is no doubt that
the excellent revenue to be derived from
turbines on the Canadian side plus reason-

Support the
Library Drive

This is Canadian Library Week.. The
chief purpose of this special week + this
year is “to.further the already marked in-
creases in the number of libraries and

_books available to Canadians.”

One way we in the Castlegar District

can help do just this is by donating books
“to the Castlegar and Kinnaird libraries
through the book drive being sponsored
Saturday by the local Kinsmen Club.

This ambitious club has made arrange- .
ments with the Guides, Brownies, Scouts
and Cubs of the District to‘help club mem-
bers gather books for the libraries at Cas-
tlegar and Kinnaird and pocket books-for
the hospital. So, when someone knocks on
your door Saturday and asks for a book,
have one ready. In fact, have more than
one ready, they’ll be appreciated by some-
one in this far-reaching, growing District.

The Columbia

Slowly, stage by stage, the dream oi
Columbia river power ‘is coming down to
earth, down to the point at which the tax-
payers can begin to see clearly what lies
before.

Last December, when Mr. Howard
Green was here, the financing of the Co-
lumbia was on a rather vague plane. Mr.
Green said (according to Canadian Press
and our own reporters) that Canada’s
share of developing the Columbia would
be at least $1,000,000,000 “with the federal
and B.C. governments sharing the cost
equally.”

This caused Premier Bennett to say:
“I will r that ment

Most British C d that

. Many taxpayers who would be happy to seé

able profit from downstream benefits will
be capable of amortizing such a loan with
ease.”

Mr. Perrault seems to forget that he
and his party favor public power because
they believe it saves the taxpayer money.
If the federal government loans B.C. money
which must be paid back, then we might
just as well have the development of the
Columbia in private hands and not mort-
gage the credit of this province for years
to come. At a‘conservative 4% per cent
interest, the annual charges on any pro-
ject on the Columbia are going | to be fan-
tastic.

B.C. Forests Minister Ray Williston,
probably silenced by the fact that it*is his
job ‘to ‘negotiate the subject of the loan
with the federal government, would say’
only that he was “not unhappy” with the
offer.

A number of months ago External Af-
fairs Minister Howard Green and Justice

. Minister Davie Fulton visited Victoria. The

two B.C. members told reporters that the
federal government would pay half the
cost of the project.

. Loaning B.C. up to half the billion
dollars ‘y for full
the Columbia isn’t paying half the cost. It
is only making the federal government one
of the creditors to whom the people of B.C.
must eventually repay a big loan.

Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s govern-
ment was quite willing to help share the

++. IS EXPECTING HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW.

Books are needed at the Kinnaird & Castlegar
§ Public Libraries for children.

TATA =I
WEST KOOTENAY

A Good Promotion
Last week our news columns carried a story about
a new booklet, ‘ “The Chemeell Story in B.C.,” which Cel-
bi 1 are distri

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throughout canada and the free world. ;

This booklet carries with it the story of Columbia
Cellulose’s ‘and Celgar’s growth and also has a full-color
picture of Castlegar and a highly complimentary descrip-
tion of the booming Castlegar District.

_ Celgar is to be - congratulated on producing this
booklet and for. making its operations in this area more
widely known to those who have money to invest. Castle-
gar has just started what will. be a decade of greatness
and the more people who are given an opportunity to
invest in this District the better.

Too Many

Have we too many farmers, wonders the Ottawa
of Citizen. “It has been said that some farmers are success-
ful under present conditions and that the others ought to
try to become more efficient or-else go out of farming.
This is harsh advice, and it can: be carried too far, but
there is some sense in it, because it is obvious enough
that price supports-can be no more than a eruteh and of-

ten a feeble one at that.”

APRIL 7-8-9

CURTAIN TIME 8.00 P.M.

No one seated after Curtain Time
MATINEE SATURDAY AT 2.30 P.M.

“SEASON TICKETS $2.00
SINGLE ADMISSION 75c¢

Farmers?

cost of the giant k dam and
the Canso causeway to P.E.I. without mak-
ing loans. The federal contribution to both
these projects was made as a grant.

Perhaps the. 18 Conservatives B.C.
sent to the House of Commons after the
last federal election will become vocal
enough in caucus—and in public if need
be—to persuade the federal government to
change its offer of a loan to one of a grant.

After all, under the. Prime Minister's
“national policy” we expect his government
to treat the people of B.C. the same as the
federal government treated the people of
CCF-governed Saskatchewan. We who live
on the Columbia want the principle of
equitable treatment recognized.

Picture Clears

immediate revenue.”
It is becoming clearer that public de-

velopment and ownership of such an im-|'

mense power undertaking is not all beer
and skittles, with the taxpayers putting up
nothing and reaping untold benefits. in
lower costs.

We think we detect a rather plaintive
note in Mr. Williston’s concern about “who
will pay the-deficits’” and we begin to won-
der whether B.C. taxpayers feel very en:
thusiastic during the long years before the
Columbia dams are completed.

We wonder if there aren’t a good

private investors willing to take Columbia

Ottawa would finance half of the cost of
the Columbia as the national share of a
national development.

Now B.C. Lands Minister Williston dis-
closes that this:is not the case.

Apparently all that has been done so
far by Ottawa is to make a verbal’ offer
to lend up to 50 per cent of all develop-
ment costs, exclusive of the purchase and
installation of generating equipment. dat

Mr. Williston says he is not unhappy
that the federal government had not of- °
fefed a cash grant. But he made this com-
ment, which is of significance to B.C. tax-
payers: :
“We are concerned about who will

write the deficits until the Columbia begins
’ to.pay’ for-itself. We ‘can’t count on’ any

*., progressive

t out of the realm of polities
and taxation. — Vancouver Province

Modern Methods

Modern farming is mighty expensive
business, points :out.the Windsor Star,
which adds: “Farmers have been the most
tof our pop ion. By
mechanization and other improvements
they have increased their output per man
more than any other industry has done. It
has, however, been .costly and they were
only able-to finance this cost by the’ rela-

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months of planning will soon
see the fulfillment of a job well
done.
Friday night the Fruitvale
Community Players ‘will stage
“The Copper Kettle,” the Trail
Little Theatre will present the
recognition scene from “Anastas-
ia," the J, Lloyd Crowe High
School will present “Riders to
the Sea,” and the Nelson Little
Theatre will stage “The Boor.”
The J. Lloyd Crowe High
School, though not eligible for
festival competition, requested
special permission to present
their play in order ‘to receive
professiona] ‘adjudication,
Saturday at a 2.30 p.m. mat-
inee performance the Argenta
Drama Club will present
“Bread,” ‘the Kootenay ‘River
Players will stage “Mistress
Minx" and the Trail Studio Pla-
‘yers will present .an adaptation
of a short story, “Night Club.”
The three honor plays and
presentation of awards will.take
place si ig at 8 p.m. on Sat-

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Taking part. in . Kinnaird’s

entry of Lucille Fletcher's “Sor-

ry Wrong Number): are: een
(Mi

Joan Johnson‘ (ist operater);
Andy McWhinnie (ist man), Er-
nle Halewijn AB man), varene

(chiet
(ono MacAskill (2nd opera-

enny Harvey (3rd opera-
tor), Alice Brookes (4th opera-
tor), Eve Gwilliam (5th opera-
tor), Dorothy McKenzle (inform-
ation), Dolores DeRosa _(hospit-
al receptionist), Don Gwilliam
(Western Union), Bill’ Oleski
(Set.- Dutfy) and Lloyd J. Stad-
Jer (lunch room counter atten-
ane Director is Mollie Hale-
in.

EDUCATION MINISTER Leslie‘ Peterson presents covet
ed Calvert Trophy to Mrs, K. D’Aref Goldrick, president
of Vancouver Little Theatre Society as award for the best
play entered in the B.C. Regional Finals of the D

Drama Festival at Victoria.

_MICTORIA REPORT |

‘By JAMES K. NESBITT”
Some months ago I wrote in
this column about Craigdarroch
Castle, a Victoria landmark, high
on-achilltop, close by Govern:
ment House.

Its turrets and towers can be
seen from far out at ser, and
tourists always want to iknow
all about it, ‘but Victorians have
for so long taken it for granted.
that they can’t tell much about
it,

Castlegar Chamber.
Distributes Booklet
Listing Attributes —

A, brochure listing the attri.
butes “of “fhe: | Castlegar: Dis-
trict has been prepared by. the
Castlegar :and ‘District - Cham- | ©
‘ber of:Commerce for distribu-
‘ton, to. ‘interested companies
throughout Canada and the
United States,

. > Printed in red ‘and blue on
yellow paper, the. brochure de-
the

More on Craigdarroch Castle

xt ‘was bullt in the 1890's by
coal baron Robert Dusmuir, who
had come to Vancouver Island in
1851 from his native Scotland,
but who died before his castle
was complete. His widow lived
a ‘lonely lite there for 18 years,
dying in 1908 when her son, Jam-
es, who had been 1900-02 Pre-
eater, ‘was our Lieutenant-Gover-
N01
“British Columbia’s excellent
weekly newspapers go far afield,
are widely read by people abroad,
who, from these papers, obtain a
good picture of this province and
its people.
_As a result of the column on
Craigdarroch, Miss Lily ‘Laurie
of Dumfries, Scotland, wrote to
The Abbotsford, Sumas and Mat-
squi News, enclosing for this co-
Jumn.a_ booklet on “Annie Laurie |’
— “Maxwelton's ‘braes’ ‘are bon-
Bley —‘.who was the mistress of
House in.Di

shire.

Tt “was - after Craigdarroch
House that Robert Dunsmuir na-
med’ his castle In’ the New Wor-
Jd. Yet he.put nothing into the
Castle to remind one of Annie or

scribes th

\ area as /'“The » District. that
more than meets your ‘site’
requirements.”

The cover of. the pamphlet
shows a map of B.C. with an
arrow pointing to an _enlarge-
ment: of the Castlegar District
and its relation to major Koot-
enay centres. A graph-on the
back cover shows the. electri-
oat” for

House, though he

faa Shakespeare and Bacon quo-

tations engraved in the mahog-

any dnd stone fi
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vied in 1710.

Fergusson died in 1749, and
Annie in 1764; more than a cen-
tury later Robert Dunsmuir, a
romantic at heart, despite his
hard-boiled, money-making ex-
terior or front, perpetuated the
name Craigdarroch in this cor-
ne of the globe so far from
Scotland, q
‘Next time you come to this,
your capital city, be sure and
visit Craigdarroch Castle, now
headquarters of Greafer Victoria
Schoo] Board. You may walk in-
to the main hallway, see the fine

1 and the

curved, stained-glass _ windows,
which, if they were broken, whi-
ch Heaven forbid, could -never
be replaced.

Kinnaird Requires -
Signed Complai Is :
From its Residents -

= ‘The Kinnaira’ village council
Monday night passed a motion

requiring all residents with com-
‘plaints to ‘put the-complaints in
writing, sign them, and Jeave

them 4 at the village office.

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rdon: Irving did this most

world’s greatest heroines of story
and song, From his research we
iearn that Annie Laurie was born
at Maxwelton House, fourth
Saughier: of Sir Robert Lauire,

and Kinnaird for the years
erty
in the brochure in-
dicative of: the 'folder’s con-
tents are: Description, location,
economy, pulp and timber,
t

her ‘birth: thusly:
we. the pleasure of the Almighty
God, my daughter, Anna Laurie,
‘was born upon this, the 16th day
of December, 1682, about six o°
clock in the morning, and was
baptised by Mr. George Hunter,

traffic, cli
‘water, power, social and ser-
vice, and, growth.

Under “growth” the pamph-
let Usts such ‘economic indica-
tors .as population, number of

Minister of

The ~ beautiful,“ provocative,
gifted Annie had. many suitors,
some of-whomi dueled each other
for her favor; eventually, after
looking the field over, she chose
of Craig-

primary
-and residential ‘electrical. data.

Saeack House, They were mar-

Corporation of the Village of Kinnaird
ere

Fire Permits

Burning Permits are required as of MARCH ist ;
“and regulations are: ‘NOW IN EFFECT.

Fire Permits may. he. obtained from Fire Chief and
-Officéis of the Kinnaird: Fire Dept. ae

RENE ARCHAMBAULT,
Fire Chief, Village of Kinnaird ,

attractive booklet’ on one of the].

An

Security and Fire Prevention Officer for eles Lid.

Fire irity man is if

When the mills are in

the new Sawmill and ee Mill at pcinoen
THE WORK INVOLVES:
Responsibility for Fire Prevention and Security on both sites durjng construction,

tor i

and main-

tenance of fire equipment, and for Supervising guards and watchmen at both plants.
PLEASE REPLY STATING QUALIFICATIONS TO MYSELF.

N. A. Scott
Industrial Relations
Superintendent

~ and Renala.

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Thursdays. They’re Ail Busy Reading the

CASTLEGAR NEW Ss,

They read it ail weck tong, too, in Casllegar,
Kinnaird, Biusherry Greek, Tarums, Brilliant,
Shoreacres, Robson, Syringa Creek, Deer Park

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