1958 2. * CASTLEGAR NEWS, , Thursday, January 9, 1957 Mojor Vehicle Sale Well Above 5 TORONTO, * January 2nd, 1958 — “Motor vehicle sales in’ 1957 were well above the average for the past 5 years, and 1958 will be al least as good as 1957” said James G. Dykes, general manager of the Canadian Auto- mobile Chamber of Commerce today. ‘455,000 vehicles were sold in 1957, above the average of 450,000 over the previous 3 years, but about 8 per cent be- low the record sales of 1956.” “The present economic out- Yook indicates that consumer Spending will be brisk in 1958 and as in the past a large por- tion will be spent on automotive products.” Mr. Dykes stated that Year Average the recent reduction in the ex- cise tax on passenger cars from 10 pereent to 7% percent is a welcome. step in the right direc- tion ‘but the industry looks for- ward to the day when this dis- n .¥ach visitor who Agriculture teat on the pro- ’ Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Assn. Subscription Rate: Castlegar News Published “Every Thursday At “THE CROSSROADS OF THE KOOTENAYS" Castlegar, B.C. Lv. CAME E LE + Publish Member: B.C, Weekly Newspapers A Bureau $3.00 per year — 25¢ month by carrier Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa sampled bacon on display’ ‘were askéd to rate the sample ag ‘good’, “tair’, and ‘acceptable’ or. ‘not acceptable’, , Coples of the full report 01 on the survey are available and will be mailed on request to anyone writing to ‘the.. Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. Every hog-breeder in Canada should obtain one and should) ¢s- obtain from the Department of per method of. raising hogs that will produce a much ‘leaner quality of bacon than is now of- f fered. A A fixed standard. of leaness can be, achieved! in the process of hog-raising and the depart. . ment will supply information on this as well as reports of. the re- cent survey and what it’ indloat. —Kamloops Sentinel j tax will be ished completely. The CACC general manager said, “A. monthly average of about *38,800 ‘persons were em- ployed by. auto and truck com- panies in‘ "1957 and were paid an estimated $168,000,000 million in’ salaries’ and wages, Rroduc- tion in Canada was 340,000 cars and 71,300 trucks,” ("We estimate that there are now over 4.4’ million Vehicles in vehicles RICK’S T.V. Sales & Supplies Phone 727] Everything In T.V. ‘These registrations “represent .a vehicle’ for. every 3,6 persons and ‘a passenger car for every 5 persons. ‘The 5.2 million Cana- dians licehsed to drive travelled over 40 billion miles last year. Our industry has a marked A TIMELESS WEEKLY MESSAGE FROM THE CASTLEGAR MINISTERIAL “ ASSOCIATION by Archdeacon Resker TOPICS The Universal New Year's Wish of Mankind is, I am sure, that there may be Peice. ‘ No man, unless he be quite mad, would desire anything else, for war now would be race! suicide. There are difficulties in dis- ‘armament. One is the lack of confidence and trust between Canadians Prefer Their Their Bacon Lean Canadian consumers prefer lean rather than fat bacon. hs is the definite partment of Agriculture. The survey was undertaken, department officials state, in re- sponse to complaints from indi- viduals and supported By the Canadian Associatién .of Con- sumers, The complaints were t] against side bacon from the Federal Dep of A nations and between the Communist and non Com- influence upon national prosperi-! sunist countries. ty and we are confident that a strong steady market for motor vehicles’ will contiue.” CASTLEGAR DRUG. SASH & DOOR GLIDDEN KOOTENAY BUILDERS & SUPPLIERS PHONE — 5155 BUILDING HARDWARE CABINET MAKING PAINTS | We need a renewal of a high sense of honour and the sacred- ness of Treaties, all agreements now a days seem to be “Scraps of Paper”, it was a “Scrap of Paper” which sent Britain and Canada to. the help of Belgium in 1914. This sense of the sacred. ness ‘of a promise must begin with the individual, The highest: sense of honour comes from the Christian Religion. It is the job of the church to raise moral standards. Another poieniiai ,cause of the madness of war lies in Fear. Nations fear one another ber they are strangers and don't know one another. Nations must get to know each other, there must’ be no curtains either of iron, bamboo or propaganda.* The Christian Church has for over 1900 years taught the ideal that the human race is one great family under. God the Almighty Father, The message. of the first Christmas was “Fear not for I bring you good tidings of great. | s MARSHALL-WELLS PAINTS ° joy which shall be to ALL “In retail stores in Montreal, Edmonton, and Toronto, house- wives have shown that they will pay a premium for several cents a pound for it, if they can be as- sured of getting high quality which said was fatter than consumers desired. Here is something that should bg valuable knowledge for hog- breeders, Some 8,000 opinions were obtained from tests conducted at Toronto's Royal Winter Fair and the Salon de L’Agriculture at PUBLIC Residents Of Kinnaird ‘Snow ~ To Refrain From Parking Motor Vehicles in Village Streets Or Lanes. This Request ts Made in Order To Permit Removal. Will Be’ A | Are Kindly Requested Your Co-op i . Kinagird Villoge Council. meat,” says a from the department. The announcement is the Sunday Church Services direct result of an survey made recently by the Marketing Service of the De- People, for unto you is born this day a Saviour.” That Saviour is still active in the world, He is the “Prince of Peace”. If He comes to the them of their hatreds and fears, He will give Wisdom to help solve the terrible of hearts of men, he will cleanse}. ST. RITA’S CHURCH Rev, E. Brophy, P.P. -Magses at 8:30 and 10:38 Benediction Friday at 7:00 p.m. Confessions Sat. 4-5 and 7-8 p.m. ST. JOSEPH‘S CHAPEL Rev. E. Brophy P.P. Masses 8:30 and 10:30 am.. Confessions Sat, 4-5 p.m. our world. Pray this little prayer every day:— “O God give Peace for all time and fill our hearts and th2 hearts of all~men everywhere PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE Sunday School — 10 a.m. Morning Worship — ile a.m, wangelistic — 7:30 p. Prayer and Bible Stuy, Thurs, 330 p.m; Everyone Welcome with the Spirit of Our Lord Jesus Chile” | COMMUNITY BIBLE CENTRE; Sunday in the WLegion Hall * 10:30 Sunday School 7:30 Family. Service - At 51 Columbia Ave. Wed., 7:30 Young People's: Hr. Fri, 8:00 Prayer & Bible Study THE UNITED CHURCH Robson: 1st & 3rd. Sundays bt lam. Sunday School 10 a.m, Kinnaird: Service of Worship} at 9:45 a.m, Sunday School 11) Castlegar: Service of Worship at! 7:30 pm Sunday School 10:30 am} - CHURCH’ OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS Sundays at 10:30 ase.. Twin Rivers Hall PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH $ EINNAIRD Minister — W. T. McFerran Public worship every Sunday at 11:15 a.m. Church School meets # with the congregation, ‘< THE ANGLICAN CHURCH Sunday, January, 12, 1958 Castlegar § a.m. and 7:30 pan” * Kinnaird 9 am. Robson 11 am. ‘i Tr! ‘the ‘career of Rt. former. othe annie er ‘of. Canada, by me : ness men-at & festiinonlal finger in in Toronto. H ind th ma wi} is saute spoke Cie igor rat clarity. Ph window, just by turning i ARTHUR MEIGHEN | VIGOROUS AT 83. Hon, Arthur Meighen,’ ttt, were mbers Parllament and busi; + Prime Miptater Dietenbaker, a Tedisco er fim fro ey i coven rances, h bis-' utte: “leary his ‘Though Ear words.” | You-can help us get'the dishes displayed in Maddock's your Purity Flour Certifi- cates to the store or to any ‘Legion Auxiliary Member. Don‘t Forget to enter 6ur-Purity Bread, ‘Making | Contest in our Hall on. FRIDAY, ANUARY. Set CASH PRIZES — ~ ALSO DOOR PRIZE : Ladies Auxiliary, to the Canadian Legion , the myth of “greater selection out of to ‘fhe dictionary defines a myth as “a thing whose ex- istence is imaginary.” And nothing is more imaginary than the idea that if you shop in some BIG CITY many miles from here you will have a wider choice of mer- chandise than in our local stores. True, the metropolitan stores may ‘show more individ- ual items, but they'ré more of the same! In some cases they may not even have as much variery as your home- town merchante Ancwhen it comes to style, our storekeepers are just as up to the minute as their big-town brethren. That's ‘because they send buyers to the same markets! The big’, Stores have no monopoly on sources of: supply. When you compare local prices with those ‘of out-of- town stores, don’t forget what it costs you in gasoline, oil, car depreciation, parking fees and other expenses when you drive long distances, What might seem likea saving often turns into a logs. = eae am / if ie / i i a Za: HBRE’S HOW VOU BENEFIT BY DOING ALL YOUR SHOPPING LOCALLY When you buy from your hometown merchants you gets 1, HONEST vaRuEs 7, FREEDOM FROM ROAD 2. AMPLE “SELECTION kasoeaie 3. INSTANT DELIVERY, “| SERVICE AND ADJUST? 4. MORE PERSONAL AND FRIENDLIER TREATMENT 3. SAVING OF TIME @, RELIEF FROM COSTLY TRAVEL . ELIMINATION OF COSTLY PARKING PROBLEMS - . AVOIDANCE OF JOSTLING crowns -J. THE CHANCE TO BUILD. COMMUNITY BY PUTTING YOUR DOLLARS TO WORK HIRE LEGION WELFARE BINGO . $10 JACKPOT PRIZES’ THIS CATURDAY January 11, 1958 Legion Memorial Hall at. A 8:00 p.m. [Progress: Of. Mining] Town. Amazes Even By DON HANRIGHT Uranium City is a town where there was nothing five’ years ‘ago—nothing except trees and ‘rock, an abandoned gold | mine and a few: Chipewyan In-! dians, .’ Now the sid iine buildings | have been moved to modérn ur- anium operations, ‘The Indians live in shacks pn Two Bit Hilt 3 —it’s a 25-cent ride by bus for them into ‘this ‘spanking new town of 2,000 persons. i|* The “town’s. progress has amazed even the men who found- ed it, The shack tents of 1952— year of the world's biggest ur- anium claims rush—still are here, but now they're used for sheds behind ‘some of the more. than 100 modern homes, It has become a neat com? munity, Littered lots have’ be- come flower gardens and tidy general stores, shops have replaced dingy, dirty ofthad a It's Founders thing he had ins his own off agency. i a “wouldn't do it again; "he says. “Believe. me, I had a lot of nights withqut sleep when I first started. But now I'm doing okay." Mr. Vineent will spend this winter in Florida,‘ Another of these Yellowknife men is Henry (Red) Dusseault. He operates a trucking firm which this year handled about 40,000 tons of supplies landed at nearby Bushell from barges ply- ing the ‘Athabaske. His trucks also were hauling ore, ‘These men ‘and others, such as hotel manager Norm Jepper- son, hardware metchant Dane Spence, druggist Roy Robinson, banker Doug Ross..and town manager Greg Darychuk, try to be sure they and families get “outside” as often as possible. For example, one man's wife and ‘knew there sewer and water facilities began this year, In an area ‘linked by roads or rail to the country's supply centres, such a town could easily result from wealthy mining oper- ations—such as those in this area, which produce about $50,- 000,000 worth of uranium con- centrates a year. But Uranium city has neith- er direct road‘ nor rail links, It is nearly 500 miles from Edmon- ton or Prince Albert, the nearest cities, by air or by train to Mc- Murray, Alta., and.then by barge across Lake Athabaska, Forty miles north of Ura- nium City is the’ Northwest Ter- ritories, And it's only. a 10- minute walk from the town to a lake where in quick order an angler can land: a five pound lake trqut, or even bigger north- ern pike. The town is surround- ed by wilderness, It took a special kind of people to overcome these obstacl- es. Jock McMeekan, pudgy, af- fable editor of the Little Ura- nium Era, one of the area’s two, weekly newspapers, explains it this way: Confidence in area : “When ‘Yellowknife opened was a dentist in the clinic a few blocks away,, but nevertheless boarded a plane. It cost her more than $100 to go to Edmonton for the extraction, but the tooth was) a good excuse. “It's good -to get out at least once a year- and pound some pavement,” says Mrs. Ben. Ma- guire, wife of another hardware morchant. “Stay up here too Yong at one time and you're pound to go a bit squirrelly.” Residents of Uranium City make their own entertainment. There are house parties, base- ball games, water-skling on neat. by Martin and Beaverlodge lakes;| trout fishing and camping. “It’s a wonderful place for 2 guy who likes the outdoors,” says “Mr. Jeppeson, - The Saskatchewan govern- ment liquor store — one of the first buildings erected here — does a better than average busi- ness, . Norm Jeppeson claims his hotel’s beer parlor does the big- gest business of any hotel in the ‘province. He sells beer for 40 Leents a bottle and loads up the [panto basement once a year with! 140,000 cases. But even in thi vlast - two; up in the 1930's, it was the; Years the town has started to Peace River farmers who came. Stttle down. Reports Dr. Jim JANUARY. Clearance 20% OFF SKIRTS ‘ DRESSES . BLOUSES. SWEATERS PYJAMAS SNUGGLEDOWN eh a | ARTY Per cent GFF, Wool, Gloves — Plaid Scarves . 2 Car Coats — size 12 - 18 3 Winter Coats — size 12 14 - KARNIES - in. These were guys who had been practically living on rabbits. They came across Great Slave Lake and. helped make Yellow- knife a_mining town. “It ‘was the same thing in Northern ‘Ontario — it was the farmers who opened up the. min- ing- towns, But it’s: a different story here, , “The men. who have become established here are men who have been sort of following this mining game. Most of them: mov- ed down from Yellowkiife, or came from Sudbury and° points east. They put their money into this town when it was a big risk, but for most of ‘them it has paid. Among them is Mayor Paul Vincent. He had worked for a fuel agent in Yellowknife and followed the boom to’: Uranium City “where he invested SNEEY, Gray, one of three practitioners “It has changed now from a in. the’ 700-square-mile area. rough-and-tumble Saturday night joint into a nice little town where people are taking pride in their properties. It's getting to be a good place to live.” 4 |Legion Corner At the first meeting of the ; new year, Legion members look- ed back to 1957 with a great deal of justifiable pride. During the Christmas sea- son, seventy-seven young boys and girls were treated to candy, games and presents at the An- nual. Legion Christmas Party. CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, January 9, pleted, were the sponsorship last summer of two baseball teams in the local Little and Pony Lea- obtained from Comrade Turik, the new membership chulman. Branch strength last year was. over 200 gucs, and a sizeable to the Olympic Training Fund. Presently the branch is rais- ing moncy to help in thé con- struction and operation of ‘the Legion Boys Town on the Sechelt Peninsuls at. the coast. This pro- Ject’s aim is to ensure that young boys from broken homes or kom. es where the father is gone, will be given opportunities to develop into useful: Shane ‘ot our coun: try. The . Legion's newly president, R. A. Wadey, also re- ported that sixtccn Christmas hampers were distributed to families in the district. Among other. projects com- their quota ” ott funds for ne work ‘will be more than. met in the months ‘ahead, '. Membership cards for 1958 are now available, and may be Legionnaires are reminded! to keep the evening of February 7 open for the Annual Legion : ’ sheets, "doecialy kea snooth Be sciyonthenatinm tanaka ueey Ing camfortahil TIRED? - WORN OUT AND INEFFICIENT? CASTLE TIRE SHOP DRAGGING? Check Your Tires For Those Symptoms! 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