CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, Oct, 12, 1961 No Fire Inspection Without Owner's OK Your home is your castle! This bleaetat js sacred to .the program and without gossip about the neigh- bors, And they will not advise on home by the sue service. That ls why the in- spection of any home 1s subject to the friendly wish of the ownor or tenant, - Ife fire fighter knocks at your goor, let him in, His only alm is to help you uncover potentis! fire ha- ards it you're wise, you will accept: ils suggestions ag have hundreds of thousands of Canadians, What he has to say concerns! the safety of your home, perhaps’ your own Ife, There's expense to: you and it doesn’t add to your ta- xes, He wears a fire fighter’s uni- form and bears or It’s been o completely friendly call, and the reat is up to you. * As the fire services say, “The best fires we fight in the home are those that never happen.” Red Gross Delegates Plan Meet More ‘than 100 Junior Red Cross delegates from Canadian and He is at your door either under @ planned municipal program — or at your own invitation, While public and commercial dulldings in Canada must submit to g rigid fire inspecton, the home and the owner's privacy are re- spected, Nevertheless, it is in the home that three-quarters of all tires occur, so often with tragic losa of family life, More and more across the na- tion, voluntary or courtesy home in, spection has been established as a public service, -: Besides trash,” inspectors alert to storage of flammable re quids and stove ashes, smoke pipes and chimneys, .and faulty or frayed witing, Don't be ashamed if they Point out danger spots, No home is ‘perfectly free from hazards, ‘They wili give you a private and personal written report on their findings, without use of your name Western United States Branches} will attend a Red Cross Trai Centre to be held at the Tri-Ser- vice College, Royal Roads, Vancou- ver Island, ‘The student body at the centre will all be high school studente ex- cept for 10 high school teachers who are also interested in Junior Red Cross work, open the Centre at a special cere- mony on the College Quarter Deck, arel ‘busy schedule of study sessions and activities has been set up. The emphasis will be on Red Cross or- ganization and opération and inter. astional friendship and understan- ding. Directing the Centre will be W. B, Johnson, director of public rela- tions for the B.C. Division, CANADA SAVINGS BOND AT ANI - 7 2 MILLION CANADIANS BUY YOURS FOR CASH OR BY | INSTALMENTS DOWN PAYMENT OF 5%— $2.50 FOR A-$50 BOND, $5 FOR A $100 BOND, ETC. BALANCE IN . EASY INSTALMENTS _ 2 OVER A YEAR- BANK. OF MOonrTREAL Canadas Fist ad 5 WORKING WITH CANADLANS UN EVERY WALK OF LITE SINCE 07 Fire Damage Called Nalional Disgrace ~ Ib is the world’s most gruesome tional disgrace, It is a highway, 5,000 miles long, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Onboth sides of the highway, on lots 100 feet apart, there are homes,‘an eighth of the homes of Canada, These are the homes which ‘{have been struck by fire. At every mile of the highway, there is 9 cairn for the dead, More than 500,000 homes de- stroyed or damaged by firel!’ More than 6,000 vlotims of fire! Since the birth of Canada? No. Only in the last 10 years. ‘That is the-tragic picture of]; Canadian carelessness with fire in the home, and everywhere. highway, For Canada, it is a na-]~ Pires in Canada in the last 10 years have taken 6,477 lives, wasted more than ‘a billion dollars of pro- perty. Most of these fires were cau. sed by human carelessness, ‘This Is the heart of the procla. mation to 18,000,000 Canadians’ in the name of Her Majesty Queen Canadians donated an all time high of 641,644 bottles of blood through the Red Cross blood trans- fusion service in 1960, Thia record donation provided free transfusion benefits to 234,886 patients in all provinces ‘. ‘The $2,620,493 cost of this ser- vice accounts for 42 per cent of the total expenditure on all Red Cross services. If the patlenta had to pay for blood transfusions the charge would be anywhere from $25 per bottle up, states Red Cross headquarters, It is estimated by Red Cross that the free service saved Canadian Patients more than'$16,000,000 dur- S60, The: Lieutenant Governor, the] ing 4¢ Honourable George R. Pearkes will’ ST, BITA'S of Canada designating October 8-14'ns Fire Prevention Week, © While provincial reports for 1080 indicate iewer fires than in 1959, both the human and the ec- Onomic loss increased, The estima ted totals, with corresponding 1950 figures: @ Total number of ‘fires re- ported: 79,551, 84,241, @ Number of persons. kiled: 566, 560, < Estimated " property ($ milllons): $128.8, $124.5, @ Estimated loss per capita: $2.16, $7.05, A continued decline in residen. tlal fires was gratifying. Prelimin- ary estimates of such fires'in 1960 total 1,325, as compared with the official figure of 63,294 for the pre. vious year, and 66,464 in 1958, Jos Not s0 productive was. the.re- sult in terms of “large loss" fires (flreg of $260,000 and up), the total damage of which increased by some $11 millions over the preceding year. ‘The figure does not Include forest fires and some federal Fires Waste $1 Million Worth of Property Yearly men and women out of o steady Job. . Worst year of any ‘in the history of fire. in Canada was 1057. That year 638 dled in fires which con- sumed $133.5 millions in property, for a per capita loss of $8.05, one of the highest rates reported by any nation in the world. larly aimed at the country’s four million homes: CHECK YOUR HOME AGAINST FIRE HAZARDS, But o greater awareness of fire where people live will carry into places where they work and where -they play, Bl AAACN ‘YOUR JUNIOR FIRE ITS FIRE PREVENTION WEEK... year Long! iS BBazorne unos 000 Fie FACH YEAR OCCUR, 1M HOMES. YOU CAN HELP MAKE YOUR FAMILY FROM, » FRE IFYOU WILTAKEA Tip FROM THE NATIONG JUNIOR FIRE MARGHALS, HAVE A HOME FIRE OLLI a ii PRACTICE Tice Fine ORI been, Gy Waar TO DOIF FIRE Sreies! Derence The Federal Government has set up a financial: assistance pro- gram through Qivil Defence by losses, With greater care, many of the 778,000 fires of the last decade Rev. E, A. Brophy, PP. 6th at Elm Street Sunday Masses - 830 and 1030 am. THE COMMUNITY BIBLE CENTRE Sunday im the Legion Hall At 61 Columbia Avenue 1030 am. Sunday School 730 pm. Family Service Tues., 7.30 pm. - Young People’s Hour . Kies Mees = Prayer and ‘Thurs., ‘ Bible Study could have been prevented. The dol- Jar saving thereby could have fi anced 300 more large hospitals, or endowed the operation of all versities and colleges for more than 10 years, or together bullt a Gol. umbia river project, a St, Lawrence way. These are simple but expres: sive ways to think of the careless waste of a billion dollars,“ Perhaps 10 times a billion dollars was the indirect loss to the economy. A plant destroyed by fire means UNITED Robson — Ist and soa Y gundays at 1am. Castlegar — Service of Worship at 7.30 pm. Kinnaird — Service. of Worship at _ 945 am, CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST Lbs. Sundays at 10 am. in the Twin Rivers Hall Evening Sacrament Service 7.30 pm R. Walton New Purchasing Head For Consolidated ®. E. Walton has been appoint. ed manager of the purchasing di- vision of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. The was made at GERACE ‘Worship -Service: 11 s.m. Bite Study: Wednesday at 7.30 p.m, Bainister: John Clarke r THE PENTECOSTAL ‘The lesson for Fire Week, and every week: Keep off ‘this highway, by not giving fire a place to start in your home, Death Benefits Are Paid Out - In British Columble, $7.9 million first six months of 1961, The Cana. dian Life Insurance Officers Assoc- jation reports,” ‘The total tor the corresponding period in 1960 was $7.5. million. On 1,160 ordinary policies, pay- ments this year were $5,140,000; on Sunday School - 10 am. Morning Worship - 11 a.m. Evangelistic - 7.30 p.m. Prayer and Bible 0 eee ‘Thurs- day at 7. Young People’s - oriday at 7.30 pm, days at 11 ‘am. Anglican Church — 2nd Sunday at 11 am, and 4th Sundsy at 8 am. and 730 pm. Baptist Ohurch — Sth Sunday ANGLICAN CHURCH 2th Sunday. after Trinity 8 am. HO St. Alban’s 9.30 am. Mattins and Harvest Fest. jAval at 8&t. John’s 730 Evensong and Harvest Festival # at St. Atban’s 620 industrial policies $148,000; and $2,652,000 United Church — 1st and 3rd Sun-]. ‘Trail by R. D. Perry, vice-preseident and -general manager. Mr. Walton succeeds A. L, Irwin, who retired from the post at the end of Bép- Mr, Walton was born in Cum- berland, England. He obtained his schooling in Canada, graduating in in 1928. -His early Service with Cominco was in mine survey work, and later as & pliot engineer on mining exploration in the North, Between .1931 ang 1938 he held in hemical ‘y posts plants eat Trail ‘and in 1938 entered pur a8 a technical buyer, He became assistant purchasing. agent in 1946 and assistant manager: of the purchaaing division in 1967: ; Mr, Walton has been active. in Chamber of Commerce ‘and - the Welfare Society in Trail and. was President of both organizations, He was a school trustee for eight years, our as chairman of the board, He is @ member of the Canadian Assccla. ‘on 1,040 group. tion of Agents, Electric Heat—heats without flame, without dirt or drafts. Electric Heat—requires no furnace, flues, .pipes or chimney Electric Heat-—needs little or.no care'and attention. . Electric Heat—is as safe and clean as an- Electric light... >. Electric Heststiminaies forever the problems of fuel aupply and fuel Tage. Electric eat— otters: abson gbsolute quiet aid eparate ae eontrol CHOOSE” a Clean, Dependable, Economical WEST KOOTENAY. a to our laundered. Help to oor licize this new service by taking