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Published Every Thursday at “The Crossroads of t he Kootenays”
THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1954 — FS

Castlegar Airport Becomes “Ralph West Airfield”

15,000 Kootenay Residents Jam
Airport Opening And Airshow

* It was formerly known as the Castlegar Airport but as of Sun-
day, ney sor when the pee 00 airstrip was officially opened in the
at 15,000 people from points
throughout. the East and West Kootenay, it was named the Ralph
West Airfield as'a tribute to R. A. D. West of Castlegar, “guiding
light,” in the airfield’s development,
_| The huge di far. out-
stripped the expectations of the

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Vol. 7, No. 22 CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, °
300 Cordially Welcomed Toler tic creed
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Z a -A number of people will re-
Deer Park Road Opening jee .2ho8
Show at the Ralph West ‘ield
Sunday, for the aeroplane rides
Deer Park extended a cordial welcome | to some 300 visitors and |they received or are to receive.
Official guests from C Among these. Miss Joyce Kil-
Se ate Shanes
gu oO} al 1g
VEAL 7 CHOPS ese Ihe ointennt openin 1g of the new road from Cree! 's new C ir-Liner
Shoulder, Ib. 55e noe re ame te m
: Lens! : The Hon: P. A, Gaglardi, Min- Ee mn ine dr Mr. oe to Castlegar later in
LEG OF LAMB e . ey ister of Public: Works,’ gave th ‘The : the| The Air Cadets of Trail,. Nel-
. . ee the people of the scenic visitors strolled. about the |50n and Castlegar have also been
1 Lower Arow Lake community for ‘at the school. and the |Promised a jaunt in the Convair

More than 650 entries from

4? European countries and nine

Canadian provinces were ex-
ined by the

Calvert House Competition

jury before the homes pictured

above were selected. Top pic-

championship house, winner of
the Calvert House Internatien-

it is a_ long, low
dered. especial-

Cal-
vert House award of $2,560 for
“the best design by a Canadian
was won by Geoffrey E. Hack-
er, of Winnipeg, for the design —
on the left. -

_Won honorable

award for the home on the
right. Two Cankdian entries
mention

Graduation Ceremonies
Continued frem Page 1

on the favorite forms of punish-

ment dealt out by equally favor-

ite teachers.

Ann Henderson then delighted

the audience with an amusing

ie | the pursuit of their chosen car-

of

for their fair and just

a class reunion some ten years
hence,

The address to the graduates
was given by Dr. C. H. Wright of
Trail, who complimented the stu-| the
dents and encouraged them in

eers. Urging them not to be side-
y: d from their goal, ie point-

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you Godspeed,” he concluded.

treatment during: these full and
happy years.
Prior to the graduating cere-
monies, a banquet was held at
Kinnaird Improvement So-
hae Hall, at which Student
Council President, Jack Collin-
son, was + The banqg-
uet was sponsored by the Cas-
-|tlegar and’ District P-T.A. con-
vened by Mrs. K. Roberton and
Mrs. W. Jacobson. The grade 11
boys did a splendid job of serv-

Wild Animal Gircus
At Robson This Woek

If wild animals are an es-
sential part of a circus, then
there’s one well started this
week at Mink
Farms; Roboon. owned by ot

‘Woodrow.

The Royal Canadian .Shows,
which made a two day stop at
Castlegar earier in May, ran
into difficulties providing ac-

dation for their ani

filled in. We wish you well and|H

a
Mr. Thomas, Principal, congra-
tulated the students and all those

the ceremorties a success. He felt
the grade 32 and 13 had

who worked with them to make|i

menagerie for a few days,
Thus a 400 Ib. black bear,
four red foxes, one silver fox,
a raccoon and a rabbit are now
lodged at Evergreen Farms, in
addition to the three eagles, a

been a credit to the School and
wished them all success and hap-
piness in their chosen vocations.
A presentation was made to
Mr. Allan -Harvey, home room
teacher for the grade 12 pupils

with a gift f irom, the students, and
a congratulatory letter from
Mrs, Cail was read, to her class.

Tannis Killough, Class. Val-

enthusiastic message from the
class, the

iment

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the road.

tions each year. ~ =

evening,
gfree dance for all, a feature of

church, enjoying “the” * cloudless

sunshine, band music and beauti-

ful scenery and chatting with
intances.

which was 2 nickel auction, won
by G. wiles oe cea ae

at a future date- in ;appreciation
for their contribution to the days

Otter plane on a short hop over
Castlegar and Kinnaird,

‘The CPA Convair also had two
local lads as passengers but only
for a very short distance, In fact
these Convair-rid=->, who have
not been identiffed, never left
the ground. They are reported to
have stowed away in a-corner of

*|Ferry Glutted. By: Visiting Motorists ee

taxiing to the runway for its
* to Vancouver. F

the cabin and their presence was
discovered while the-plane was

nis Direct Airport Traffic

“The immense conflux of people and automobiles at the Ralph

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Police, Cadets

‘And Scouts

Castlegar and’ District .Chamber
event, and: created" parking and

and the

vision, determination: and :dyna-
mic leadership of the Castlegar
Airport Committee, headed by
Mr. West, in-the development of
the airstrip to its present, first
class condition.

‘Including an airshow in which
RCAF planes and personnel, CPA
craft, U.S. Airforce Jets,

: Dep

of ee art planes and private,
the

ey was among’-the biggest the

has ever seen al-
one, the airshow events were

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==:| Filan Council Set Al

passenger
Convair-Liner ‘landed. The trim,
‘streamlined plane, which began
regular

service on the Vancou-|F

_|of Commerce, who sponsored the

term, in
the High school library, Monday
evening.
Rev. L. C.

read 4 telegram from the Hon.
; [eget Chevrier, Minister of
r who was unable to at-

the installation: during which the

reins of office — Mrs. J. F. EL
Jough,; persident; A. R. Harvey,
vice president; Mrs.. Helen Mc-
Leod, secretary.and Dr. K. A.
Morrow, treasurer.

The meeting voted $100 to the

é Senior Matric scholarship for the

which. will be

; year,
awarded to the student with the

Creek, highest marks in the Senior Mat-

vic clags at the high ‘school. .

An undisclosed amount will al-
so be allccated to provide some
furniture for the teacher's staff
room ‘at the high school and a
of $25 is being made to

Of 200 Fans Monday:

the high school band.

In her president's report for
the year, retiring ‘president Mrs.
D. Corpbell noted. the year’s at-

tend. but was personally repres-

Kootenay East.

WIRE FEOM CHEVRIER
Thejminister’s wire congratu-
lated the Airport Committee and
the owner of Nel-

ented *by James Byrne, MP for -

Sketch plans and Se draw-
ings for, ee clementary school
Kinnaird

son, *Kinnaird and Castlegar on
the opening “of the ‘field. “The
Department of. Transvort is
pleased to have had a hand in the
the development of a project
(Continued on page 5)

Gasiie News Hosts -
ghitaries ‘Sunday
Preceding Airshow -

‘The Castle News was host to
41 ‘civic, municipal, Bovernment,

2 bet-

ter than the ‘previous year, sug-|*

Sesting this was‘ due to better
also

-|theic’ current’ Canadian ‘tour late |S

with a seven

the new road is not a highway but
merely an access route, a founda-
tion for future roads for the

Seeds A 41000 beteble meaierne
will .be available for’ members’
use early in June and dates for
the projectionist course will be

t{inning tilt here against. the ‘Cas-
tlegar Cubs,

1a | West Kootenay’ Softball Champ-!"
ions.”

last_year's East. and

‘Although they lost the game by
a 3-1 margin, Eddie and his three
teammates were the ‘stars of the
game and gave the crowd of some
200 fans at the. Castlegar
Park.a good demonstration of the
brand of ball that has made them

-of the softball world.

Eddie, who is -hailed as soft-

ball’s leading hurlet, mixed up
balls, upshoots, -

: Roy
for their part in the building of
Presentations © were made to

Some 127 at every 100,000
Canadians enter mentai _insitiu-

{Sunday noon, ‘preceding the of-

of
CP: Airlines representatives os .
in the. C. Hotel

and Robe: are now being pro-
cessed and “tenders will be walled
when these have been approved.
Sktch plans and drawing for the
high school-extension are not ex-
pected to be ready before the end
of August. Working Srawings and and
for the

reom extension at the high sont
have been approved.

ficial opening and airshow at the
Ralph :West Field.
L.:V. Campbell,
publisher, welcomed’ the group
and hope they would

showed movies-he has made of
district events, for the program.

Commercial Softball
Playoffs Begin July 18

|New Schedule Drawn

. Sunday, July 18 will see the
-of ‘championship play-
offs inthe Intervillage Softball
League, it was announced at a
meeting of the League Executive
Tuesday‘evening. -
It was also announced that the
deadline for registration of play-
ers, is Tuesday, June 15. All
Players must be registered by
this ‘date, andmust have paid
their $1 registration fee.

requested to clip

al a
in| this schedule aid oop for future

¢ | reference. :

enjoy ‘the afternoon’s events. IN.
T, Oglow, president - of the Cas-
tlegar and District Chamber of
Comimerce, thanked” Mr. Camp-
on behalf j.Pr

Castle News|

ict: schools,
have arrived and will be installed
as time permits. Renovations to
the Robson School basement, are
also proceeding, and more infor-
mation is:being sought about re-
pairs needed for the fence at the
Renata
The board expressed pleasure
at the ‘fine. showing local high
school students had made“in the

Among those attending were
James Byrne, MP for Kootenay
East; H. W. Herridge,-MP for
Kootenay West; Hon..R. E. Som-
mers, B.C. Minister of Lands and
Forests and Mines and Rossland
‘Trail MLA; Ken Razzell, District
Supervisor for CPA; R. A. D.

Provincial Track meet at_Kel-
,0wna, and heard a report on the
Deer Park Road opening by their
official delegate, Mrs. W. Jacob-
son who lauded Deer Park resi- .
dents for their hospitality. :
The secretary was asked to
have the school zone signs erected
again at Kinnaird.

West, of the C:

rt Committee; J. R.-Lint,
District Representative for Im-
perial Oil; Mayor Kary of Nel-

It .was announced that all
ool and

sch
have been appraised by an ap-
praiser from Vancouver, for in-

son;,Mayor H. S. Elmes of Ross-
land; Mayor R. E. Sang of Cran-
brook; Victor Jenks and Walter

tlegar and Kinnaird Village Com-
missions; Alderman F. Sindell of

No
‘was reached on a request by local
Sea and Air Cadets for the use
of school property as a rifle

acobson, chairmen of the Cas-|range.

Disbursements for the month
of May totalling $34,278.40 were

A.
the Associated Boards and Trade
atid. Chambers of Commerce of
em B.C.; and press re-
présentatives from Nelson, Trail,
Kinnaird and Castlegar.

‘For every employee in the pulp

and paper industry, there is $32,- .
500 invested in plant and equip-

ment.