CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, Oct. 20, 1966
MARANA NE

By Chris Wilson

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Now, nearly a decade after

te old mining City of Slocan
orporated as the Village | ca:

of Wien ant residents are having

secondt
uestion is simply
ce lost es ng

THE LAST WORD

int! the Slocan Inn, said his family
was uite happy sling in Slo-
pvigently tn boy-girl bal-
ance to ls teenage
ance fe te
The last of ‘the centre's 13
old-time. hotels. is being demo-
lished together with a building
which off as a, hotel

ges. | and ended ea in the respectable

Pacific Logging Co. is to
build homes for eae of its 140

employees, a Co-operative shop- mal

ping enti | is being talked up
pad a‘new water system is on

guise of hospital.
Both buildings are on the
old Main’ St. which is now a re-
sidential area, There used to be
horse and buggy races along the
‘in street, I was told by Don
quae 1e sa boss at Pac-
ifle ‘who is camping out in one
of, the town’s old ranch-style
homes. Turner is also looking
forward to the new homes,
Slocan is an odd sort of
community, history-wise. For a

THe) start it isn't very often a ghost

Jogging company produces be-
Ay and 9 inillion board

k
mn to
Pavific homes.
sometime, he hopes B
‘At present he commnuting
00 miles a

bot tas ob Pies 2 oy
etween job ant
in Nelson.

Z there is little mining activity.

town, once ghosted, gets a sec-
ond crack and — even odder—
it isn’t very often a mining town
becames ghosted when there is
still as much ore as there ever
.was, Ottawa Silver Mines Ltd.
is still plugging away five miles
out of town, but apart from that, | «;
It looked as if it ought fo
be good hunting country but it
seeras the Jast hunting party
through was 12 years ago and
the locals do ant ue shooting.
Apart from the sa’
completely moved into the a

Bill lage from Passmore. there: is

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Snider’s Shingle Mill on the
south side of Slocan. This opera-
tion uses small lumber for the
manufacture ‘cf roof shingles.
Other: an industries
which the comm should’ be
looking for are plywood,

board and. chipper. operations,
pee usual “camp followers” for

ee with both road and CPR]?

il communications _ there
doesn’t seem.to be any reason}:
why these operations couldn’t]’
started. , perhaps, that}:

to bein!
ee
et
My_ su suggestiol
follow Kinnaird’s -
come the biggest
Reverie That Att

fhe font he in a a nt eage dealt

VICTORIA REPORT

I was read-

ight say
article is now
rare ‘of ‘history.

It appears that in the ear:
ly 1930's the Oxford Group
movement. was sweeping Can-
ada, and there came to this
capital city a raw-boned, straw-

hatted English woman named

Miss Nell Glover,
- And she went home to Eng-
‘ote an article

paper, and’ when it was Te:

ted :in- Victoria papers, &8|-

terrific storia cee rah

? Victorian as they
tnis| were of being | a Httle ait it of old

England on the shores of the
cific, were never so humili-

ated because that there Miss | ~

Glover had, insuited the flow-
of Victoria womanhood, and
had said ‘Victoria’ was a nar:

row-minded place.
Here’s what she wrote | about

Castlegar’s Herman, the gold
toothed cougar, is an embarras-
sed bobtailed cat, His tail was
bitten off by his cage’:'‘mate
Sheba when she turned on him
in a. rage.

Robson zoo owner Allan
Woodrow heard the sounds of
battle and rushed into the cage
carrying a shovel. He finally

eparated Herman and Sreba
after ‘eating the enraged female
over the back with the shovel.

“T got out of the cage fast
then,” he declared.

Woodrow could offer no ex-
ow | Planation for the fight. “Both
had been fed earlier in the day,”
he said, “and there was a ey

a

‘There
it left,” he added.
*! “She's a mean one,” he son

Missing: Two Feet of Tail;
Owner Was Attached to It

away without any serious in-
juries.”
Woodrow, gala he had en-

her away and Harte
of the cage when she jumped
for my at.”

He said he again grabbed
the cougar by the throat. “x
threw her away,” he said, “and
managed to get out of the ‘cage.”. .

Woodrow said his clothes
were badly ripped and his legs
were torn by Sheba’s teeth.

“J gon’t.go in the cage

with her. any. more,” he added. |

-It' was the third time that
Woodrow had been attacked by
cougars.:““But I have never. been
seriously. hurt,, he said.

He is’ keeping Sheba “for |”

ee oe ee oe

movie work...

Present were Mrs, 0. H. Ow-
edrich, Mrs.

Mrs. Dewis announced she
for next year.

ALLSTATE INSURANCE "AGENT

Will be in the Castlegar
SIMPSON-SEARS STORE
every Friday from 10.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.

‘Work which needs to. be

° Camp Rory co ‘committes |.
tiet nefhe Batt Trail Guide Hall
i-| recently with Mrs. G. Barnes as lin aa

chairman, ing

e. district . division
ig snlssioners: This aaate of of-
ficers will be:presented at the
annual necting. on Jan. 18 at
Guide Hall.

‘| the East Trail

and foe, 4

th

By James K. Nesbitt

English Newspaper Chastises Victorians

us more than 30 years Bg:
“The impression Vittoria

leaves ‘on me is that a lot of

little Neros “are at ding ip
lat ‘while ‘Rome, in

tolerated.
“The word business is ta-
poo to most Victorians. Any
to start

Divorce r
Most unhappy couples continue
to grin and bear it in the good
old Victorian fashion, rather
tha be front’ page news, div-
orcas cases being fully reported
« e spots of sur-
ing beauty, ‘and some love-
homes, but the main streets
are the worse I have seen any-
where in Y Ganada, and the shop
fro’ entirely out of date.

/dentials have’. been
checked.”
And here’s nat that Miss
Glover. thought of our Legisla-

th

fe te: to sor body, wito!
leap rates some! se
sins it >

eer arn, ‘and ee Alice “in
I realized

they. were
le trees to‘protect the fruit
: om the deer.” rot
+s «J don't know where that
Miss Glover is now, but I'd like
0!

hdeese't poy” RC “fullselection of

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