chases and distributes power
£ ed|quit-for good the last time but

Wednesday, Dacaniber 30, 1953:

CASTLE NEWS; Castlegar, B.C.

Better Power Service
For Town Of McBride

_ Victoria — The railway and agri-

culture centre of McBride, about
half way between. Prince George
and Jasper is to. get improved
electrical service.

The B.C. Power Commission,
following a.request from the Vill-
age of McBride and with the ap-
proval of the government, hns
agreed to purchase the distripu-
tion system now owned and oper-
ated by the village, rhs sale has

Random

_ .Reveries
By Vic Misutka

See that little tyke, peeking
around the corner. of tomorrow?
He's not a member -of-a nudist
colony, That's little 1954, the New.
Year, What is the New Year go-
ing to bring me? you ask.

Z have just ‘finished a long
gaze into my crystul

been app by

with only one dissenting vote.
The commission plans to. com-
pletely rebuild the system and
to construct a.new powerhouse
to accommodate two 550 kilowati
diesel ‘engines to be transferred
irom Terrace.

At present, the village of around
500 population on the upper
reaches of the Fraser River, pur-

2 at a p
diesel plant,

This arrangement will continue
until the Commission’s new gen-
erating station and distribution
system is ready to operate. Con-
struction is expected to start
early next summer.

Addition of McBride will in-
crease the number of Commission
power districts throughout the
province to 28.

The two deisel units for Me-
Bride have been made available
through a recent Commission
authorization for installation of a
new 1,000 kilowatt unit at Ter-
race, where remarkable load
growth of the. past few years js
continuing.

Canadian males leave tHe wear-
ing of fur coats pretty much to
their women folk. In 1951 men’s
fur coat production was valued
at$ 154,000 compared with $45,-
351,000 for women’s fur apparel.

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=| the larger ones. The

ball (or was it'a, :highball, I can’t

remember), and here's some pre: :

dictions. *

I'm going to. quit smoking é.

again i in, the New Year. Breaking
contacts ‘with: the _ lung-cancer
weed. is something I do-period-
ically for periods as long as a
week. I may even quit-for good
this time — cither quit’ smoking
or quit quitting. I thought I’a

guess what Santa Claus brought

Second os oh New’ ‘Canadian Mir

“MCS Fundy ‘second of
now

me — yeah, seyeral of
cigarettes,

There will be no provincial
election in B.C. in 1954 unless
one is called. This will save the
people millions of dollars and the
politicians millions of words,’

The Castle News and news-
papers throughout the country.
will carry several editorials on
safe driving from, time to time.
Each holiday weekend will still
find drivers and pedestrians gam-
bling with their lives and those
of others and losing. .

The weather will continue ts
be as in the past ‘unless there is
a change. This’ will mean snow
when it snows;.cald weather when
the temperature’ drops and rain
when -it rains except on- the
mountain tops where there will
be snow: and none there unless it
snows, I-could be more specific
perhaps on this matter but then
the climate might not agree with
me, f :

Lumber fruit, fish, smelter
products and babies will contin-
ue to be the chief products of B. C.
residents.

The Castlegar District will con-
tinue to find its way onto more
maps of the’ province, especially

struction {n Canadian yards

20) who sall in her.”"-HMCS Fundy

under -con-| follows by a few weeks the;

to} launching of a sister ship, HMCS.

be - launched,* slides. smoothly|Gaspe, in Quebec. The second of

down the ways at

declared: “I christen

alnt John,|her name in the Royal Canadian
N.B,, after Mrs, Milton F. Gregg, | navy, the
wife of the minister of transport, | of min

Fundy is a new class
ie hundred

you Her| and fifty-two — In Iength and
Majesty's Canadian Ship Fundy.|wtih a beam of

28 feet, she is

May God bless this ship and all! largely of aluminum construc-

Central Press Canndien
tion. Her. hull fs of wooden

Doukhobor Lands To
Be Investigated By
One Man Commission

A,one man royal commission to
inquire into the possibilities of
selling lands back to the Douk-
hobors, may be appointed in Jan-
uary, B.C. Attorney . General
Robert Bonner said Monday.

A bill to set*up such a commis-
sion was passed at the last ses-
sion of the legislature. During
that session Mr. Bonner said he
hoped to appoint a member of
the bench.

Mr. Bonner disclosed the gov-
ernment has met with little suc-
cess in compelling school attend-
ance for 200 to 300 Freedomite
children. Some parents have been
charged under, the school act and
given but

sources on. whose findings this
prediction is based, do not indi-
cate what that ‘spot.on the map
will be except’that it will be 20
miles from Trail and 28 miles
from Nelson,'at the confluence of
the Kootenay * ‘and’ Columbia
Rivers.

Earthly” life, that ceaseless
struggle to: keep money coming
in and teeth and hair’ from fall-
ing out, will‘ continue for those
who don’t become death statistics
of one sort or andther. Those who
do will probably be mostly
adults, that is people who have
stopped’ growing except in the

-Good Musie

e.

WELCOME 1954

AT-THE
“NEW YEAR'S BALL

. TWIN RIVERS HALL’ — CASTLEGAR

New Year’s Novelties

Admission — - $1. 25 per person

TICKETS AVAILABLE — from any. _member ‘of the KP.
Lodg

few have complied with the law.

Only 35.of the 104 children re-
main in the New Denver sanitor-
ium’as wards of the state. The
cthers have been’'sent to their
homes. The. children” became
wards of the state last Fall after
the nude parades at: Perry's Sid-
ing. F

middle,

: There will most definitely be
much activity in this area. With
some 40 different organizations
holding. regular meetings abund-
ant activity, is assured. The nat-
ure of this activity is another
matter, .

What's that? You want to know
if Celgar will start building? Will
the lumber strike be settled? Will
Aunt. Mehitabel’s rheumatism
clear up? Will-the Projects So-
ciety begin the building of the
district recreational centre here?

Well now, just a minuté, T
really don’t know. What do you
think I am, a prophet?

Let me make a final’ predict-
ion. There’ll be some better col-
umns than this when lack of time
and recuperation from holidays
doesn't curtail. the effort neces-
sary. Either that or there'll pro-
bably be a permanent holiday.

A happy, satisfying and pre-
fitable New Year to you all, and
may 1954. bring you all you're
hoping for. + +,

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Happy New Year

All

GEO. JACKSON

\

‘climbed 2.4 per cent in February
compared with same month of
1952,

AFTERNOON ’
REFLECTIONS

GLADYS COLLINSON

Happy New Year, it sounds al-
most as wonderful as Merry
Xmas, doesn’t it?. Furthermore,
it is the one time of year that
people usually wish -you well and
really mean it."Of course some
of this good cheer could be a hang | ;:
over from the Xmas festivities,
but again it is more than likely
to be truly genuine and heart-
warming,

It is also the tithe of year when
friends are drawn closer together
and old grudges forgiven and for-
gotten. The whole truth of the
matter is, it is awfully difficult
to hold a grudge when even
slightly pie-eyed, which will no
doubt occur-to a'great many of
our! worthy popul: during the
next few days.

“It-is also the time.of year when
most of us feel the urge to relax
and enjoy’ what the. season has
to offer. This usually takes the
form of Xmas parties, visiting
back. and forth between friends,
or just plain stuffing ourselves
with turkey, plum pudding, ete,
(we can’ start worrying about
getting into our girdle again next
week),

Then the best of all there is the
actual New Year's eve party.
There's is no place I'd rather be
in the world, at this time-of the
year then.right at home, by home
I- mean’ our own ‘community
where every one knows every
Gne.else; where at midnight every
ene joins hands and sings,.“Auld
Lang Syne”; when balloons aye

breaking all. around: you; when’

bells ring out and horns screech.

It is also a beautiful and senti-
mental time. of year when. even.
the memory of being. stuck in a
snow bank holds a certain en-
jchantment. : .

While still on the subject of
New. Year why, don’t we just get
out ‘our! -best. scented. notepaper
and make a list of all those reso-
‘lutions we “have been dreaming
up. However here’s a tip;"be sure
to write with’ that “fading ink.”
You've no idea how much. trou-
ble and embarrassment it. may

save you a few weeks from now. ||

All jokes aside, folks, I do-wish

you. all a very happy and pros-
-»erous New Year. 4

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These pocket-size porkers are mak:ng pigs of themselves ata
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show. Two infra-red lamps keep them warm during chow-time.

— Enjoy Folk
Songs And Movies

Dr. Helmut J. Ruebsaat, sing- |,

ing a nymber of folk songs, and
the showing of movies by Wilma
Holden of South Slocan, constitu-
ted the delightful entertainment
at a rdcent weekly meeting of the
Castlegar Kiwanis Club.

Dr, Ruebsaat, baritone, who
recon joined Dr. H. H, Smythe
at C:

and Nelson, sang. English: and
German folk songs to his own
lute accompaniment.

Miss Holden’ showed the Ki-
wanians moving pictures of her
trip’ to Europe for the Corona-
tion-Iast summer.

Both entertainers were mueh

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‘CASTLE NEWS, Castlegar,. B.C.

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the route of the first intercontinental underseas telephone cable,
of which work'is now starting. [t will cross the Atlantic ocean as
the longest underseas “voice cable” in the world, stretching 2,000
nautica: miles. The undertaking, a joint Amerleah-Brtish-Canadian 5
Project, will take three years to complete and will cost $35,000,

Logging Experts Will
Confer At TLA Meat

Top logging experts. will -be
pooling their knowledge in an all-
out drive. to’ ‘reduce operating

costs: in“British- Columbia’s. log- |.
will

ging industry, The
be ‘speakers’ at the: 11th annual
convention of the Truck Loggers’

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of the convention being held at
the. Hotel Vancouver.

Zn announcing: iplangs for. the
convention ‘Don ‘Mackenzie, as-
sociation president;- said that in
the last year keener competition.
on. the: world: lumber. market: has
driven down the’ ‘price’ of, logs:

“In'some cases‘these prices are bi
a

below the cost of

reduce costs to meet the lower

returns on logs and lumber.”

~ Mackenzie said the Truck Logg-
ers Association, which has an ex-
tensive membership of ‘logging
operators: within’ the ‘forest. in-
dustry of B.C., was tackling one
hase of this problem by devoting
the forthcoming convention tc the
pooling of the practical exper-
fence of some of the best logging
brains in. the province.

One of the principal speakers at
the. luncheon .on the second day
of the convention will be J. S.
Keate, publisher of the Victoria
Daily Times and a former editor

of Time Magazine.

Other prominent: speakers .In-
clude: G. E. Percy, Alaska Pine
& Seno! Gc. Smith, Bowell

he pointed out. “One of the pro-
blems facing the forest industry

of this province is. how can we

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e QUOTATIONS FOR: MMEROVING LIGHTING IN):

WILL BE RECEIVED UNTIL: 4 pan. “JANUARY. 8.
1954, BY THE SECRETARY-TREASURER, SCHOOL
DISTRICT NO. 9. FOR (FURTHER, INFORMATION.

, SCHOOL. CLASSROOMS:

C..H. KING, .
Secretary-Treasurer,
School District No. 9,
Castlegar, B.C.

“Gravel “Pit is Grave
For. Pre-Historic: Animal

Ont., by. James, Syvert. The “24+
year-cid shovel operator for ‘a
concrete block. company. found
ithe ‘object while digging.
brown in -color, ‘weighed © about
70: pounds,’ and- measured nearly.
“three feet, Dr." Her] “Arm-
‘strong, of: MeMoster cuniversity,
Hamilton, ° said:

above, exhibited by Maid Aatil,

indicated the. animal

huge gla-

ier of ice which‘once complete ly
covered the district about: 13,000

“years ago.

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It was ‘| ‘

River Timber Co.; Norman Eng-
lish, Powell River Co.; R. T. Mur-
ray, Pacific Mills; W..L. Keate,
Sr. W..L. Keate Ltd.; Dr. George
‘Allan, “University '‘of B..C.; and

‘| A. McMahon, McMahon logging.

’ A feature: of the three’ day
convention ‘will be= a . program
directed by the B.C. Loggers Safe-
ty Council.

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phones per population of. any

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something better. than: 30: tele-|.

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