CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday June 12, 1958 Fowler By Dr. C. S. FOWLER With your permission Mr, Chairman, 1 am going to address amy remarks to the members of the class because it is they to honor whom we are assembled donight and in honor of whom these moving ceremonies are be- ing held. Please let me say, however, how pleased I am to be here and dow happy I am to be included in this assembly of parents, tea- chers and other devoted citizens, I am going to try to speak tonight without being trite. You have graduated from high school and for that I congratulate you, ‘You know a great deal and pro- ibably most of you know, or think you know, what I am going to say: You think I am going to talk about your passing over the Address at the crossroads of these great valleys, is a place worthy of all of us and of our very best en- deavors, To leave school is a great milestone, of course, and gradua- tion at any time is a great and memorable, and important oc- casion in one's life, But to grad- uate this year is a privilege which no class following you will enjoy, because this is the Centennial year of our province, Now many of us perhaps ara a little tired of the word Cen- tennial even though we do en- joy some of the see, in the course of a genera- tion or two, this entire dis- trict has been transformed. Steamers have vanished, rail- roads have come, steam engines have gone, diesels have come, alrports have appeared, high- ways have been bullt and are still being built, not through! some Irresistible law of naturo but through the will and work of individual men. This country and this entire! province continue to be in a state of transition from small things to great things, and from great things to greater things, expand- ing in every‘ conceivable direct- ion at the will and the command of its citizens and it is into this thrilling period of history and in- to the vast potential of this era that you are now setting forth. which this particular event in our lifetime is providing. Actually the fact that our province is 100 years old rather than 99 or 101 is of little importance; but what is important about this year is the fact that all the festivals, all the And it is going to be up to you, not as a group, not as a class. but as individual men and women ‘to decide in which direction things are going to continue to develop here, to see to it things get done. threshold of school-life inte the broad expanse of adult- hood and higher education and -duty and practical training which ‘the world has to offer and so on, You think I am going to talk about what you may ex- pect of the world. Well I am not, Instead I am going to speak to you on what the world and what society expects of you. As I said I do not want to be trite, though it may seem ‘commonplace to you when I say this: Iam deeply honored to be addressing you tonight. Because I know that you will never grad- uate from high school again as long as you live and that no one else can address you at your| graduation... With the exception of those fortunate ones among you who may be attending university or higher education centres, your schooling is virtually finished, you will soon have had your last elass and your last lecture and your teachers will have had their last say, and I assure you that I feel humble that the message which Iam about to give you should constitute some of the last words of your formal education, It would have been fitting, I think, if we could have brought you a great and all the historic A and the reviews and the dramatiza- tions, all these bring before us a recognition of what our country has achieved, but what-is more important it has brought to us an of man’s on the part of our country are not done exclusively on the national nor on the provincial level but they are done on a local level and you, if you wish, can perform the with to his country, of the individual man's contribution to his indiy- idual. community. I can remember, when I studled Canadian history, be- ing not particularly moved by foct that in such and such a year Alexander MacKenzie wrote on a slab of rock on the Pacific coast “from Canada by land,” or that David Thomp- Son paddled down the Columbia, river to its mouth, or that James Douglas brought law and order and organization to British Columbia, or that Lord Strathcoga drove the last gold- en spike in the Trans-continen- tal railway just up here at Field. It is so very easy to take things for granted, to be compla- cent about the achievements of one's country and to assume that all will be well and everything will get done -automatically. But the re-enactments of this great Centennial year have brought to all of us, I think, a greater ap- preciation of what people like speaker from outside. Iam sure that most of you were locking forward to something like that envisioning, perhaps, a pom- Pous professor from somewhere] or perhaps some dignitary with white hair and a rather red and and Doone and the rest have done for this province, and an apprec- jation of the fact that without the efforts of individual people, great events would not have taken place, face and, perhaps, a touch of kidney trouble and gout. Well I am afraid this year you didn't get anyone like that. _ But if my remarks may mean a little more to you let me say this; that I would like to con- sider myself one of you, — by which I mean that I am fairly young, I number many of my friends among you, that I was born and raised here in the Koot- tenays and having spent only the requisite number of years away from this district, I have return- ed because I think the Kootenays constitute the most beautiful part of the most magnificent country in the world, and be- The point I am making is that things are only starting to happen in this province and that those of the pioneers of this coun- try. The wonderful part about| living here in B.C., particularly in a growing little area like this, is that this district is what you will make of it. Can you for a mom- ent grasp the newness of this country, do you realize that no where else in the world is such a land blessed with a temperate climate, with scenic beauty, with undiscovered resources, with end- less expanses of uninhabited wil- derness inviting the settler. Do you realize that no where else in Eastern Canada, the Un- ited States, in England, in: Eu- rope or Asia is there compar- able country which man can develop, where work on the community level will bear such fruit. In a few years, I would ex- bect and hope to see many of you in some of the various organiz: tions in this area whose main function it is to improve our com- munity. I would hope and ex- pect to see you mien and women seeing to it that, for instance our highway system was improved, that perhaps a road was built up the Arrow Lakes where no man has ever built a road before, to see to it that new mines were discovered, new land cleared and new settlements established, to see to it that our community bet- tered itself year by year both if and iri the great which we are now celebrating have act- ually taken place very recently. ‘When I was a boy there was no railroad and no highway along Kootenay Lake and a few years hefore my time there had been no Kettle Valley railway, and all this country was served by the “ stern-wheeling steamboats, the last of which, “the Minto”, so recently and so'sadly left our waters, Remember the Minto — she was built for the gold-rush of “98” and she was a direct link Why should we expect this of you? Because its in your blood. ‘You are here because of the pion. eers, you are the off-spring or of the the miners, the loggers, the rail- roaders, the missionaries, the tea- hers, the farmers and the traders — men and women who came there a few years ago when there ‘were’ only canoes instead: of air- craft, only trails instead of rails. - Why did these pioneers con- tribute so much? Because the desire to build was in their cause I believe that this village between you and history. You blood and because they tasted NOW IS THE TIME TO PREPARE FOR WINTER Install A Gas . Furnace During the summer months to be sure of satisfactory heat im winter Castlegar 3 Building Supply PHONE 2161 the sense of satisfaction resul- ting from work done and cou- tribution made. Many of you, I am sure,| know what I mean, Many of you have contributed greatly to your community already because your community has, to date, been your school, You have by serving on your own various lage or your district, T would lke to make a special Planning to attend the university note to those of you who are of British Columbia, UBC has during its brief history, been the poorest and in another way the richest university in the world. The realm in which it is the rich- est is the “disla that I have been we should go after to build this gymnasium and somebody| sald: well perhaps a’ half million dollars would be a good figure and that was finally decided on at that meeting. Well many of you know the result; now UBC has a half mil- Yon dollar gymnasium built by the students through thelr own publi- cations, in artiatic productions, in social events and most important of all in your own student gov- ernment, Those of you who have con- tributed know what I mean. You have today a happy sense of satisfaction for having done by the individual Silene to the organi- zation and in that respect UBC is, in my opinion, the most effective school of responsible citizenship anywhere. The reason for that is that! 80 many of the students attend- ing UBC have been sons or of pioneer stock, just of having left your name in the hall of fame in your high school, and while not everyone may be aware of your inscription in that hall of fame it doesn’t matter be- cause you have that inner sat- isfaction of knowing that your name is inscribed, that you have contributed in a worthy manner, Now activities like those J have been speaking of will pro- bably be looked back upon by you as an extremely significant. part of your schooling, Formal education, of course, is the principle function of a school. It has to be enforced because it is requisite to taking a normal ac- tive part in present-day society. But that having been accom- ulished I would like to say that you will look back with respect upon your extra-curricular work and you will find that it will have equipped you for par- ticipation in the complex fields of community endeavor which are now before you, and I do hope that if you have been active In school like you. They are people im- bude with the spirit of aggres- sion and selfless contribution to the community, Many of you know the story of UBC, how the students cam- Paigned for the move to Point Grey from downtown Vancouver, how they carried stones out on their backs and made a cairn, how they worked and pleaded and fought for financial support so that we would have a uni- versity worthy of attending, how when ruling authorities couldn't afford to build a stadium they buiit it themselves and they did the same with the gymnasium ond with their Brock Hall. I remember when I was at UBC I was privileged to sit in on a meeting of about eight or 10 students one night along with Dr. 2zacKenzle, the presi- dent of the We of work and mon- ey and ‘through contributions solicited by the students of the alumni and friends of the univer- sity. Now I am making that point because the university of B.C. is made up principally of people Nke yourselves, people just one or two years older than you, people imbude with the drive to accomplish. : Now you don't have to go to UBC to do what I am asking you to do, You can start right here as soon as you graduate. You can start in Castlegar, or Kin- naird, or Robson, or Brilliant, or Renata or Deer Park and you], can work and you can contribute through your young peoples, your church, through your institutes, through your service clubs, or your Chamber of Commerce, or your local political organization or just by going to the leaders in your home community and say- ing “TI would like to help in this or that.” That's what I beg of you to do. You've finished high school, you are well educated, you're well equipped, you're intelil- gent, you're the children or sume the responsibility of carry- ing on the development of this | country? Well what do we live ‘' for? We live to be happy don’t we and to be truly happy and ! satisfied with oneself, one must | serve, contribute and accomplish. God must have made us that way for a purpose so that it we were to be happy we would make our own world a better place in } which to ive but if we preferred to be lazy we would degenerate to a point where our society would no longer be worthy of the human race, So I ask you to do this. Leave your school with a sigh of regret but with a light heart. Honor your school for all that it has meant to you, honor your tea- chers for that which only they |jJ could have given you, be a credit to your family and to your com- munity who have given you this school which is second to none. Go forth dedicated to the service of this country, of this district and these villages, rec- ognize that this country is young, that much needs to be done, that only you can do it, and that this country will be- come only what you make of it. Try to catch a llttle of the spirit of those who have gone be- fore you, your fathers and your mothers, and the other pioneers who have preceded them; take up where they have been forced to leave off, give to your country in. service and work and in thought and devotion and receive from your country that inner sense of were it the or the great- to build a new _ memorial centre and after a bit of talk it was decided that the project for the should be a you will continue just as you have been, making a worth- while contribution to your vil- war memorial gymnasium. Then started an informal discussion as to how much money of people who in 100 years have made out of the beautiful wilderness of British Columbia a storehouse of some of the world’s greatest assets and a province loved, admired, or coveted by all who know it. which only service and acomplishment can render. Join with those of us who are just a little older than you and let us see to it that through our Rersonal efforts British Colum- bia’s second century may be as glorious as her first. May God " i ‘ Why am I urging you to as- bless our endeavor, es iq For All Your INSURANCE NEEDS Phone 3441 ANDERSON AGENCIES RICK'S T.V. Sales & Supplies Phone 7271 Everything In T.V. Supplies FOR SALE — New 2 bedroom’ house, situated on large lot — also additional lots, next to Robson School — Phone 2272 — Peter W. FOR SALE — 2 homes in Kin- naird. Low down paymenis and terms, Write Box 315, Kinaird. 323 FOR RENT — Partly apartments at Karleen Apts, tinls CASTLEGAR NEw, phone 4761, WANTED — single bed spring, Phone 2748, with 124 4fni9 FOR SALE — Good building lots in Dumont Subdivision a2 phone 2738, tin 1 FOR SALE — Lot on Woodland Drive, $550, Lot on 2nd Ave., $1,200. Paul Markoff, Slocan FOR RENT — 3 room house with 2% miles 323 basement, garage, from ferry. Phone 2061. LOST — A gr low budgie. Thursday June 12, 1958 NOTICE — Fall Fair Meeting 8 p.m. Monday in Legton Hall. es 124 Answers to “Perky”, Blue band on leg No, 77. Phone 9511 or 523, 4th Ave. 124 Park. * 323 ELEC Fleetwood T.V. FOR SALE — 2 HP. Eatons Sim- plicity garden tractor with plow BUSINESS DIRECTORY CASTLEGAR FUNERAL HOME DEDICATED TO KINDLY THOUGHTFUL SERVICE Ambulance — Flowers Granite, Marble & Bronze . _ Plaques Phone 3601 FU RTORE LONG DISTANCE ER! AN For Free and ‘ con- dition, used about 25 hours,, FOR SALE — 36,ncres at Kin- naird, one mile southwest of, railroad beside new hi, FOR RENT — 3 bedroom family| home, large yard, July and| August, Phone 9801 or Harvey, 323 Box. 506, C: NOTICE — Just a reminder to reserve the date of June 20th for the Rose Ball. - 321 Phone 9741 or Box 562, bali gar, 324 FOR RENT — Apartments in! Kinnaird. Single rooms and a Cheap for cash, Phone 7951, Nick Hudiakoft, 124 FOR SALE — 2 bedroom house at Robson Townsite, wired for FOR SALE — 1954 Plymouth Phon2 4276. 323 NOTICE — Rawleigh Dealer — Phone 2371, 610 NOTICE — The Ladies Auxiliary to Branch 170 Canadaian Le- Club Coupe, phone Al Read, 6101, 324 EDR RENT — 4 room house in Gas furnace, wired range. Very reasonable, phone 2062 Castlegar. 322; FOR SALE — Small trailer $15,|' FOR SALE — 14 EP, Evinrude Cruise-a-day tank, $150. Phone 7271, R. S. Couch, 124 te electric stove, Apply 5: 5th Ave. or phone 7041. 124 gion invite all Branch Mem- bers te’a free supper at 6 p.m., picidas, June 17 in Legion 27°) Hall 124 apply. 345-4th Ave. Castlegar. = 324 5 PHONE Castlegar 2522 Nelson 2472 UNITED TRUCKING ‘Trail 191 RIGBY’S BUS DEPOT COFFEE SHOP HOME BUILDING SUPPLIES Phone $131 — Kinnaird, 6.0, LUMBER — PAINT PLUMBING AND ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES FOR SALE OR TRADE — Quar- FOR SALE — 4 bedroom home| in Kinnaird. No reasonable of- fer refused, Phone 4473. 124 ter section in Peace River dis- trict, Alberta, 110 acres under cultivation. Will trade for small FOR SALE — 2 bedroom house, FOR RENT — furnished self con- tained apartment, dishes and linen supplied. Phone 3131 day-| time, evenings 2332, CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sin- cere thanks to friends and neigh- bours for their acts pf kindness 124) ana expressions of sympathy lawn, fruit trees on 2nd Ave. Phone 4738, 224 acreage, Write Box 480C, 323 FOR SALE — Strawberries By bucket. Phone 2327. FORGET . SOMETHING? STILL TIME TO PLANT DWELLINGS FOR SALE — Ful- FOR RENT — 4 room house on Phone| John Dunlop dt 9331 or call at, 124 9th Ave, Castlegar. 523 Maple. and floral: offerings sent to us on the death of our dear be- loved son and brother, John Fo- dor. Special thanks to Father E. A. Brophy and the Castlegar Fun- ly modern cottage, 2 ‘bedrooms, sleeping porch, Dinette, Living room with fire place, Bath room, Cabinet kitchen, con- crete basement with coal fur- nace, registers in every room, fruit cellar. Large lot with splendid garden and lawn! fruit trees, good view, located at Robson, Pree $8,500.00 with TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN I the will eral Home. — J. Fodor and ‘family, Kinnaird, be 124 AUCTION SALE Timber Sale X72658 There will be offered for sale at public auction, at 10.30 am. Local Time on 7th, July, 1958, in the office of the Forest Ranger, Castlegar, B.C. the Licence 72858, to cut 704,000 cubic feet of spruce, balsam, white pine, and trees of other species (except larch.) on an area situated part of S.T.L.'s 7302p, 7307p, 7309p and 7312p and vacant crown dand, Gander Creek, Kotenay Land District, Five (5) years will be allow- ed for removal of timber. Provided anyone unable ta attend the auction in person may submit a sealed tender, to be Opened at the hour of auction and treated as one bid. Further particulars may be obtained frem the Deputy Mini ster of Forests, Victoria, BC; or the Forest ft Ranger, Castlegar, BC. =~-9 going to Victoria in the near fu- ture wih a delegation to approach officials of the B,C. Government! rearding rights of way granted Inland Gas in this area. interested contact me at my home or phone Would anyone Roses, Everg| . NORA'S HAIR DRESSING PARLOR. Acomplete beauty service by appointment PHONE 2564 Nora Mojeiski CENTRAL SHOE & LEATHER REPAIR ° PHONE 4621 , We attach “Dinkle” Nickle Rim Heels on ladies’ shoes CASTLEGAR, B.C. FILE FOLDERS — LEDGER SHEETS — BALL POINT PENS — JOURNAL SHEETS — COUNTER CHECK BOOKS — COLUMNAR PADS —RECEIPT BOOKS — TIME. BOOKS — SCOTCH TAPE — PEN- CILS — LARGE ENVELOPES — ARCHIVE BINDING CASES — CARBON PAPER — ADD ROLLS — TYPE- WRITER RIBBONS — NOTEBOOKS — JOURNAL BINDERS — INDEX CARDS —STAMP PADS RUBBER STAMPS | CASTLEGAR NEWS PHONE 3031 eT TT tTOTttTCEawccCccLT OCA ATMOS UNITED TRUCKING DAILY FREIGHT SEEVICE ‘Trail, Rossland, Castlegar Nelson YHONE Castlegar 2521 MARLANG GRILL Open 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 pan. Not Jut Another Place To Eat But.The Place To Eat Another PHONE 3881 CASTLEGAR SMITH'S PLUMBING & HEATING For Estimates Phone S401 & 1261 We Service ‘What We install GREEP’S ELECTRIC ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING Free Estimates PHONE 3574 Box 384 Castlegar, B.C. CASTLEGAR DRY CLEANERS Phone 4851 We Pick-Up and - Deliver J. |. LAUGHTON BSc. OD. .- OPTOMETRIST Office Hours MON. — WED. — FRL 10-12 = 1:30-5:60 PHONE 2581, G. A, SUMNER Naturopathic Physician Eremonko Building ‘PHONE 2021 GENERAL BUILDING CONTRACTORS All Kinds of Building Supplies _C.LL. PAINTS CASTLEGAR BUILDING SUPPLY STORE Box 292, Phone, 2161 g Shrubs, Ornamental Trees, Bulbs. See Us At ‘The Nursery Situated on the Upper Bench. OPEN ALL SUNDAY KOOTENAY NURSERIES Cottage one 2 bedrooms, Living room, Kitchen, Bath room, 3 lots, Robson townsite, very reasonably priced. 5158 Ci on or before S| day, June 15, Signed Omer Lightle 2 AUCTION OF TIMBER SALE 78153 There will be offered for sale at public auction, at 10.30 A.M. (Local Time) on Monday, June 30th, 1958, in the office of un-'the Forest Ranger at C; Film Council Awards | Film ¢ Council was responsible far the fourth annual film festival put on by the Kootenay assoc~ Tation of film councils. . Tae festival was held during March and April in seven Koot- enay centres: cand acesneiard arr B.C., the Licence X78153, to cut 22,000 cubic feet of larch, hem- lock, fir and cedar on an area Modern dwellings’ on upper bench and main highway in the Village of Kinnaird, LEGAL situated North West of Robson: Kootenay District, Two (2) years will be allow- Por particulars, see DAN GILROY agent, Office at Muir- head Agencies, Kinnaird, Res. Phone 9381, Castlegar. 124 TENDERS FOR THE SUPPLY COKE, FUEL OIL AND PROPANE GAS, FEDERAL BUILDINGS THROUGHOUT OF COAL, FOR RENT — Suite, furnished or unfurnished, phone 4172. tin20 TV) -RADIO r ond APPLIANCE REPAIRS TV SALES e For Dependable Service PHONE 3542 B & B ELECTRONICS Bob Brandson ALLS. Ltd. Charter Service Towing - Barges anywhere on the Arrow Lakes Phone 4331 THE W sed to the 1958-59, SEALED TENDERS add: and PROVINCES ed for removal of timber. Provided anyone who is un- able to attend the. auction in person may submit a sealed ten- der, to be opened at the hour of auction and treated as one bid. Further particulars may be obtained from the Distric! Forest- res-}&T Nelson, B.C.; or the Forest and Kimberley to the, wiusing fim, Sclence: 1. High Speed Flight, Shell Oil Co, 2. Ruthless One, Sheli Oil Co. Industry::1. A Ship is Born, Canadian Fishing Co. 2. The Kit- imat Story, The Aluminum Ca. of Canada. Geography ‘and ‘Travel: & North to Wales, United Iting— dom Information Service. 2. Sarg of the Clouds, Shell Oil Ca. Sociology: 1. A letter to the Teacher, New Zealand High Com— missioner’s Office. 2. Back Into en-| Ranger, Castlegar, BC. 124 the Sun, National Film Board. -|dorsed as above, will be received No man with a burden of debt has a right to pro- tect his creditors if he supply of coal, coke, fuel oil and until 3.00 P.M. (E.D.S.T.), THUR- SDAY, JULY 3, 1958, for the propane gas for the Federal iIdit and E i Farms and Sitlons, th the Provii it has not first p Life Assurance. Life wife and children with Plans to sult’ your individ- ual requirements may be arranged through. Dick Fowler North' American Robson, B.C, Sask- atchewan, ‘Alberta and British Columbia, : ' Forms of tender with speci- fications can be obtained from the Chief of Purchasing and Stores, Department of - Public Works, Room 503, Garland Build- tect, Department of Public Works, 705 Commercial Building, Winni- peg, Man.; the Officer in Charge, Department of Public Works, 308 London Building, Saskatoon, Sask.; the Regional Director, De- partment of Public Works, Sun Building, Edmonton, Ata, and the District Architect, Depart- ment of Public Works, 1110 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, B.C. Tenders will not be consid- ered unless made on the printed forms supplied by the Depart- ment and in accordance with the conditions set forth therein. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. ROBERT FORTIER, CHIEF OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AND SECRETARY Department of Public Works, Ottawa, May 30, 1958, 12 WALDIE LUMBER & BUILDING SUPPLY LTD. We can supply all your pnilding- needs. Estimates DESMOND T. LITTLEWOOD OPTOMETRIST Wed. 2:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. ~ Phone 3021 or 2231 Arrow Lakes Ferry " Service . ROBSON TO EDGEWOOD Leave Robson Wharf 2 10:00 a.m. * Monday. Arrive Edgewood £00 pm. Monlsy. EXCAVATING. SEE - CASTLEGAR TRANSFER W. Sharples Phone 6091 ec Tenders Wanted . Tenders will be accepted by the Village of Castlegar up to 5 p.m., June 16 for the construction of a stone and concrete wall to be built around a proposed = | Children’s Park, = Lowest tender not necessarily accepted — details at Village Office. 0000 ing, Ottawa,;. the District Archi-|- . 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