ve, white frame of apple Riostone ana Photo " Okanogin and ‘Kootenay ‘Valleys in British la and Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley all have special . Old,. Ma ideau adds her own aisle of beauty toa any.tralt, growing districts, Cominco A strohg blast against the pro- posed Arrow dam was delivered last Thursday before the Commons external affairs committee by 8 a nase one bucking his own company's pi The inane, ville would iurd the Arrow lakes into a 145- mile-long reservoir is an exped- iency that no longer is necessary, testified Ritchio Deane of Ross- lond, chiaf electrical engineer of the Consolidated Mining and Smel- ting Co, "Yi, Deane, who sald ho was on leave of. absence without pay to..state..his case, submitted the signatures, of 24 area engineers — some. of them Cominco employees — who endorsed his brief. . Cominco itself, largest indust- ry.on the Columbia in Canada, told the committee earlier that it fav. ors the development plan envisaged in the 1961: treaty with the United States, and the protocol of Jan. 22. Mr. Deane also suggested that the federal government in cer- tain areas affecting people and re- sources should step in to exercise vetoes on projects, High Arrow was such a pro- dect. He said the B.C. government, Lambert, Brookes and Hall - Support Position of Dean A senior’ West Kootenay Po- wer and Light..Co. engineer who endorsed,an anti-Columbia river treaty sibmission presented before G.W.G. | WORK PANTS AND SHIRTS we have 4 full ratigé of Colors and sizes. CHEVELDAVE’S MERCANTILE LTD. 105 Main St... Ph. 365-3731 CASTLEGAR; B.C. the. external affairs committee in Ottawa; said.in, Trail that he had not checked calculations upon whi- ch the submission,,was_based and dn’t, think any. of, his. 23, co-en- dorsers had dona so either... __ Arthur. A. Lambert, general of West pon a brief prepared and filed with’ the committee by Ce 's chief Richard Deane. ‘The brief, Which condemns the High Arrow. dam and advocates a project at Murphy Creek instead, was endorsed, by 24. professional engineers, including a number of senior Cominco employees. Supporting Mr. Dean's submis- sion were the following Cominco or West Kootenay personnel: J. D, ‘Mitchell, J. Pp, Svarich, C. Roberts, J. B, Sutherland, D.C. Allen, Dr. J. Louise, ‘Arthur Cc we stocka full selection of | SAVAGE SHOES . for children Maddocks Shoe, Store ‘| parents, welfare- institutions and Ridgers; ar. Lambert, N.D. Booth, :: West Kootenay superintendent of. transmission and distribution Erle M.. Coleman; West Kootenay communications .: chief, W.. W. Thorp; West Kootenay. superinten- dent of. enginecring services, Ja- mes I. McClelland, : +1 Another endorser was D. Ww. Brookes, manager of Celgar’s saw. mill , division.. Others. were: . : RE Mohr, Rossland; E. Ma- son, Trail; R...C.. Watters; R. W. all of, Castlegar. {Um all for, it. Hall; Hugh Coleopy, Dan McGuire, tr meh has insisted on High Arrow, isa! hustling, live-wire out- fit that goes ahead at all coats and But someone needs to blow the whistle on them sometimes.” Eng High Arrow had been pushed by the old B.C. Power Commis-| w lon — Power Authority because it é° Provitidiallyowiied: utility a major operation. But. cénditions the B.C. Hydro aiid we iver rae ould yleld a largé block of power Hi the U.S. which would make] op; neer Buck Inclusion of Arrow Dairi ia thianied ab Hat nied for power develop the rth, he at. 5 phasized that his Me De to the’ treaty ~applies cee to the High Arrow struc- Directional : Sighs Should Be improved a 5 _The thing that plagues the mo- torist most on - ‘the highway today ig the. frustration of not being quite ues where he is or where he is is, was revealed in a recent survey, by the 8,000,000 , member a announcing, results of the ey, the: B.C. At bile Assa- id tof those ut what annoys them ravelling by. automo- lated “confusing, or ,inade- rection signs” as their pet He was not prepared, he said, to oppose or back the McNaughton Plan of Columbia basin develop- ment which, would: retain water control within Canada rather than depending in | on a dam at Libby, Mont. . ee Cae CR WILL @ SAVE, TIRE WEAR @CUT. VIBRATION @ ELIMINATE. SHIMMY ® END. ROAD. WANDER e a EASIER STEER. KEN‘S _. WHEEL ALIGNMENT. “KINNAIRD “PH, 365-2472 AF CT TAKA cn ST. DAVID’S ANGLICAN CHURCH } Sunday, May. 17th 8. am. Holy Communion, St. David’s . 11,00 a.m, Family ‘Eucharist, St, David’s 7.30 p.m. Evensoiig, Robson Memorial Church iii Ul lean restrooms also ranked the, list, being. checked by 4! per, gent, of those surveyed, Anather, part ,of the survey, the BCAA. added, . showed that the highway, traveller likes. all the May is Red Shiald Month: : seoAf8¥ is Hed Shield month in Canada, "Your. elp is needed: to ala. ‘The Salvation, Army, in its ra- pidly expanding Program aid to y said a tive., ae -y Hpmes, brightened, ‘shadows Dear Sir: # ress 8s ‘Many. people . whe ._ availed themselves of the ‘opportunity to see “A Child is Waiting” must have been impressed by.the talent- ed manner in which the.film por- trayed .the ‘specific problems of government department, For the parent the problem of, coping, with a retarded cl demands more than-limited means and overcoming personal grief; for the’ welfare institution the pro- blem demands dedicated servants of humanity. and for the govern- ment. department | the problem re_ BOSSE TROPHY COMPETITION Foros Match Play Entry $1.50 Deadline Date for Entries May 20th, 1964 Starting Date May 24, 1964 . Members Only Ti 2 $ the of spending the tax dollar and may .be expected. ‘his film did not relax in its Presentation of the tragic groping for a philgsophy of treatment that seeks to guide the retarded child into a realm “where they can be accepted for what they are” and may achieve the happiness of whi- ch they: are capable of enjoying. ... ‘The human appeal of the con., cluding , scenes of ‘this film was note of triumph into the haggard ition ant fruit- ‘Child ig Wiiting’ ‘Success li. thé Attitudes it Changed producing results where no results|" less ettorts of these servants of humanity. cWhen; one laughs with. the children it: seems that this is: the only Satisfactory 1 line of commu- nication beyond the dread d, curtain of mental retardation. : d/inay. be’ interested ‘to know that the film just succeeded in covering the. expenses, of its presentation but, more important, its, true, success,.is measured. in terms of changing attitudes ‘of people and the opportunity, to pro- vide.a happier future for the men- tally, retarded Gwilym Huihes, Castle Nuclear Eriergy May Scon Aid Highways Work Nuclear “energy. may be. put to-work in .a variety. of ways.to aid future highway development, says the B.C, Automobile Asso. elation. The BCAA. disclosed that a Ea ES Castlegar Open Golf Tournament 5 MAY 17, 1964 18 Hole Medai Play 3 Flights Entry Fee $2.00 ae Starting Time 8 a.m, Refreshinents ee Fills 100,000%h Prescription One-tenth of a million ‘pres- criptions have been filled by’ a Castlegar drug store, Carl Knutson, ,owner of Pitts this week that the 100,000th pres- eription filled .by the store was handled earlied. this month. The. prescription was for An. gus. “McMaster: arid: was filled. by Miss Bobbie Pitts Prescriptions.was opened‘ by Herb! Pitts;_now local’ magistrate, in June; 1847... : Prescriptions in Castlegar, said| 4, E E 5 L = == = = MTT iv hie occ elas ARROW LAKES MACHINE SHOP "ANNOUNCES THE NEW: Banameng79 OUR NEW LOCATION! NEXT DOOR TO TIGER SERVICE’; / Phend 365-5432 for workmanship and quality i in machine repairs and welding. Free estimates. recent meeting of the Hishivay Re search Board in; r’. -If.you drive at 35 mph . where of home, when he stops ata vmotel.,. Motorists listed, in this order, | taurant, television, guest, ‘coffeemaker, in rogm, and free self-service ice, as things they most like to have along with their standard motel facilities. In the “gripe’..category, other highway . annoyances listed were traffic ‘congestion in. urban areas, | 83 percent; large. trucks and buss-| ey es, 31 per cent; billboards .on scen- ie highways, 30 per cent; very |== large ‘house. trailers, 19 per. cent; | == ind Inck of service on freeways, 15 per-cent. the Excessive Speed Does Not Save Very Much Time vide a satisfactory answer Guestion,, “What, does: the exces- sive speed, driver do’ with . the “he :saves?” But tests have shown that the time is not worth ‘the risk. The. B,C, Automobile , Associa- ticn points out that if a car is dri. ven at 65 mph on the open road where the posted limit is 60, four minutes will .be saved on.a.50:mile ‘trip. One-fifteenth part of an hour! the safé speed: would be 30 mph, the BCAA says the time you save in one.mile 1s no more than 17 se- conds. - Following: too closély, passing without ‘waiting until all risk is absent; Weaving, cheating on traf- traffic lights by a fraction and you save parts of a second, However frantic ute: may be, by , five mail the time spent iinder a shower by-.30 se-| dealt with _ these Bossible’ spol cations of nuclear energy: @ Use of large-scale nuclear explosions to excavate ‘highway cuts — a matter. that is both tech- nieally practicabl eally., , feasible, ac a q would form a fairly si nel .through which a road could e built. + @ One of the by-Dtoduets of nuclear explosions -would be the Production of “aggregate”. used: in’ highway constructibn:: A 100-kilo- ton; deeply buried ‘blast swould pro- duce more. tian’15 mi yards of broken‘rock. ata cost..of Jess that $1 raillion,in pla $10 or $15 million this of nigteriul would normally cost, Another. possible: tion of nucle: int field of, self-ill sated highway ‘signs, Such signs ‘are ‘under devel- opment and, following approval by the Atomic - Energy: ‘Conimission, will be. teated in: New York State. rN snes * For. 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Total cost of the unit is csti- mated at around $3, ‘Waneta is ‘situated on the Pend-d’Oreille' River near its con- fluence with the Columbia, The fourth unit is its final stage of development and will bring the plant’s ‘total generating capacity to 480,000 hp. Cominco built. the plant with its 210-foot-high con- crete dam and two generating units in“ 1952, at a cost’ of $35,000,000. INSURANCE. For All Your’ INSURANCE ‘AND “REAL ESTATE NEEDS Phone 365-3441 ANDERSON AGENCIES to go on steam in early 1966, with The third unit was put into opera- tion: last year. - Target date for the final unit actual. installation work to’ start early next year. The additional energy is re- quired for the expanding mining, and . Fruitvale Phone Exchange Work Is Worth $17,000 opera. tions | of Cominco which already consumé more than 2Y% billion ki- lowatt hours of electricity annual- ly. Waneta is one of. five: hydro plants owned by the company and its “full development, will bring Cominco's total generating capacity to more than 800,000 hp. c now at Be Tel’s’ Fruitvale exchange building will cost $17,000, reports West Kootenay district manager I. J, Carr, : The 600 foot te will be completed this year of a 14- mile inter.tie power line between |° Waneta and the United States go- vernment-owned Booneville Power block addition will house an em. ergency’ powerplant, local dial equipment for growth:and addi- tions to modify the Present dial system. In the. Fruitvale area it has always not been possible in the past for customers to keep their telephone number when they, mov- ed., The modifications to the pre- sent system Mr. Carr said, will do away with this and allow te. lephone customers to retain their ‘number when they move anywhere within the exchange bount However, to introduce this sys- tem, new numbers will have to be. assigned to most customers. 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In’ 1047,,a distraught. grand- mother wrote a letter to a news- paper urging a’mecting of parents of other retarded childen, The aim was to attempt to work out some program of mutual esiatances ment, 4 Tho causes of mental retarda- tion are wide and varied. The bat- tle to ollminate them, or at mini- mum lesson thelr effect, goes'on but still remains ane: of tho medi- Some 70 parents plea. Today the Canadian Associa- tion’ for netarded Saleen, is a cal It He been clearly ‘demonstrated that: ment ‘IRetarded Children Association iHas Branches Over Canada onslaught has taken place, But with proper treatment. and loving care the vast majority of those afflicted can be helped;’ can lead uscful, meaningful Hves within their limi- tations, Working through its more then 200° branches across Canada, the i a chance which’ can has ‘mado significant national in all major centres, It's programs of education, treatment and care have been a major factor in creat. ing a new life for Canada's 600,000 mentally retarded. Largely as a result of unstint- ing effort on the part of the 1% initlion Canadians whose family life has been tragically scarred by mental’ retardation, Canada has launched a broadly based program making sizeable inroads on the effects of an affliction which the world over is estimated to affect more people, require longer treat- ment, waste more human resources and constitute a greater drain on the public treasury and private funds than any other single condi- tion, Among the ¥ital areas in which the Canadian Association for Re- tarded Children has registered pro- gress is in that of education, The prime effort here has been to dis. pell’ the ‘misapprehensions, and there are many, as to the nature of mental retardation and its treat- Peonies Should Not be Divided ‘Under’ 10 | Years , an insect. ine Canadian government, pitied may borrow energy from the BPA duri low water ‘periods and re. turn it- within a’ year, Slow-Poke Driver More of Hazard - Than the Speeder The ‘slow: “poke driver. is more of a hazard than the ‘motorist who simply exceeds the speed it ace reording to ‘one of North America’s leading safety experts, says the B.C. Automobile Association. The finding was made by Dr. James L. Malfetti, executive offi- pe of Columbia University’s safé- ieide SPraYs repels. dogs as well as sucking ‘insects, Weedkillers: should be applied on’ a warm, sunny day when the temperature: is above 70 acereet FE. morning ‘or’ evening. Peonies ‘are truly “perennial” Perennials and it pays ‘to leave them where. they.iare. ‘They don’t like'to.be divided and moved and should not be divided when they are less than ten years old, - When ' to trim the unruly ed- ges of your hedges- Many types of deciduous shrubs need’ only one trimming, ‘and this usually. about the end of June, but fast-growing hedges will needa second clipping in early September. The’ beauty of some garden pools is marred. By the formation of’green slime. If this’ has been in your pool try ysing project Bees is rie in part by the eee Foundation for Traffic Safe- Dr, Malfetti said his scientific study of traffic accident causes and: prevention ‘methods ‘had: con- vineced him-.that/ “police are far too easy: on, the-slow-poke drivers and concentrate too much of their time and ‘attention’ on those who exceed, the speed limit by a, few miles per hour.” Safety is best served, Dr. Mal- fetti said, when’ all the vehicles in a- traffic stream -are ‘moving at about the fame. tate of speed, a little bit of copper sulphate. One ounce of the salt:is sufficient for §S-hundred gallons, or about 880 cubic feet of water. Work: at Notre Dame. University - Causes: Disarray the campus of Notre Dame Uni- versity of oe mie ina state of with a passing, Ferries Make 37 More Trips Than Year Ago The Castlegar ferries made 37 more trips last month than they did during April of last year and carried 191:more automobiles and drivers, Statistics for the ferries for April (with ‘April, 1963, figures in brackets) follow: “ Number of round trips (5,022) 5,059; number of automobiles and drivers (55,550) 55,741; number of | ‘ passengers, ' not drivers (93,915) 90,728; number of trucks, all types | (13,808) 15,482; number ‘of trailers and semi-trailers (947). 860; num- number of motor cycles a9) 20 ; ae neve: “been: ‘aug. even where in preparation for the un- derground” installation’ of ' electri- city,’ gas, sewers, telephone, and intercon systems,:In future there will be’no overhead wiring. ' With approximately 70 men at work on'the two‘ buildings under construction, partitioning and plumbing is underway in the addi- tion to the men’s residence. In that building all structural work has been completed to the top floor. In the student union building, which has been structurally com- pleted for three. weeks, crews are busy. installing :the ‘heating and ventilation systems and the cool- ers and freezers, Ceramic tiling is almost completed in the ‘kitchen area toa height of six and a half ot within 10 ‘days windows should be in place, and the’ exterior walls on the upper floor should be com- pleted a..few days: later. Earth- moving crews have arrived on the ike in any fe given a specific set of ‘circunatan, ces, At the present state. of the, medical art, there is no cure for mental retardation, once the dread | so Robson Evening Group Honors Its Past Members On Thursday evening the Rob- son Evening Group had a “pst member" night the Robson Church Hall, President Mrs. L. Zuriek wel- comed the‘ guests, There were 18 members and 10 visitors present from Robson, Castlegar, Kinnaird and Mrs. N. Reed from Kamloops who was one of the original mem- hers when the group started in 1942, Public health ‘nurse Miss Kru- ger showed a most interesting film “There Was a Door” on retarded children ‘and what can be done to teach and: train’ them, ~~. Following‘ this < "games, were enjoyed by all present. ©“ The booster prize was.won by Mrs, P, Jolly. Most delicious. rez freshments. were served ‘by’ Mrs, Rogers, bea Millis, Mrs. Maskell and Mrs, The’ next Tiecting is to.be at The which have ‘been ‘undertaken »in .arcas where facilities ‘and trained’ staff. are available have shown what can be done. \The great need now is the means'to expand ‘present programs that treatment may. be extended to the many thousands still in need of this type of assistance, The Canadian Association for Retarded ‘Children is secking the Any. way, you figure It... 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