Castlegar Kinnaird NEWS Published Every Thursday at “The Croégsroads of the Kootenays” Vol. 5, No. 31 CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, JULY 31, Robson Brilliant 1952 School Board Makes Plans For Coming Term / New bus schedules for the coming school term, a redistri- bution of attendance in district elementary schools and a revised guard routine for the high school were among the main items of business at the July meeting of the Castlegar and district school board last Thursday in the board office, chairman G. Craft presid- ing and Inspector J. J. McKen- zie, Secretary-treasurer C. King, members R. Hunter, Waldie, and Mrs. present. R. The meeting decided to grant R. E. Sommers, M.L.A. elect for this district, a leave of absence from his post as principal of the Castlegar and Robson elementary schools, while he is at Victoria. Arrangements are being made for a replacement. It was announced that the new elementary school at Deer Park will be ready for use in Septem- ber. It for future growth. A contract for servicing of typewriters given to Mr. T. Moat. New bus schedules and elemen- tary school attendance were then discussed. In view of the increas- ed -enrolment in Kinnaird an Robson schools, the Robson grade ‘pupils will be brought into Cas- tlegar. The new bus schedules are still being worked out and an an- nouncement. with regard to them will appear at a later date. Mr. King will drive one of the ‘buses himself until a permanent schedule is arranged. A time card system for all guards and watchmen is being instituted and a watchman’s dock and punching stations are being installed for high school watchmen. Receipts and disbursements to- talling $35,355 were approved, in- cluding $14,000 for the Deer Park school and $9,400 for the new school bus. Teaching replacements were following appointments made. Miss R. Tarbet and Miss I.! Lind will teach in the Qoteasche- nia school; Miss M. Stuart Castlegar’s No. 1 elementary, Mrs. M. Quance in Castlegar also, and C. H. Schmok in Renata. There are still two vacancies. Champion Creek and Kemano, while the high school staff re- quires three more. Mr. R. Lott will be the Physical Education instructor in the high school. SHHS To Inaugurate _ Senior Matric Gourse W. Jacobson is a standard one-room building large enough to provide a quarterly was in the district were discussed, and the in New School Bus Arrives For Gastlegar District A new 55 passenger Reo school bus has been added to the Castle- gar and District School Board's facilities, giving them a fleet of four vehicles for student trans- portation next fall. The $9,400 vehicle was driven from the factory in Oshawa,\Ont., to Castlegar, via the American route, by C. H. King, secretary of the school board and Jack Smith. “It was a very fine trip” Mr. King reported to a meeting of the school board last week, say- ing that he was particularly im- pressed with the courtesy and respect shown towards the school bus despite the fact that school holidays are in force. Mr. King and Mr. Smith took turns at driving the vehicle. They covered 2575 miles in five Mysterious Flames Destroy New House A fire of undetermined origin, totally destroyed a partially com- pleted house on Fourth Avenue in Castlegar, Thursday morning of last week. The house, slightly more than half completed, was being built by E. Vetrov on his property. It was situated about three hundred yards north of‘ the Stanley Humphries High School and about 100 feet from the nearest building. The mysterious blaze began around 2:30 a.m. It was not no- ticed until about 3:00 a.m. when one of the guards at Castlegar’s elementary school saw the blaze. It appeared to him, however, to be in the Brilliant vicinity and he did not report it. A resident of neighboring property was the next to notice the fire but by then the building -was a total ruin. No report was made till ap- proximately 5 a.m. by which time there were only ashes re- maining. Mr. Vetrov estimates his loss, at $3500. RCMP officials are still in- vestigating the cause of the out- kK. days with 15 to 19 driving hours| brea! per day. By delivering the bus themselves, they saved the dis- trict an estimated $700 in freight charges. _ Garage accommodation for the new bus is presenting some prob- lems. A new three-stall garage is being planned. Columbia River Yields Body Of Missing Man The waters of the Columbia River have given up the body of Orvideo Toffolo, brother-in-law of Fred Stefoniuk of Castlegar. The body was found exactly one month after Mr. Toffolo became missing in a fishing accident near Kinnaird on June 18. A group of motorists discover- ed the corpse at 9 p.m. July 17 while travelling along the old road between Waneta and North- port. The body was battered and mutilated to such an extent that a doctor was summoned to ident- ify it. Mr. . Toffolo, 37, disappeared into the Columbia on June 138 after his fishing boat capsized in Waterloo eddy across from Kin- naird. His brother Remo Toffolo was also in the boat but mana- ged to get ashore. Mr. Toffolo,is survived by his wife, Sophia; ‘one- son Lorence, a daughter Linda, two brothers, Remo and Ivo and his mother, Mrs. Pia Toffolo, all of Trail. Mrs. Sophia Toffolo is a sister of Fred Stefoniuk of Castlegar. | SOMMERS RESIGNS FRO: KIWANIS PRESIDENCY Due to the pressure of pdlitical For the first time in the his- | activities, R. E. Sommers resign- tory of Castlegar and district. | students who have from Grade twelve here will be} ualtion in the fall., Plans, under- | way for the past six months. now nearing completion where- led from graduated ; Castlegar week. Elections for the unexpir- able to enroll for Senior Matric-;| ed term of Mr. the presidency of the Kiwanis Club last Sommer’s office | were held at the regular meeting are} of the Club last week in which Joseph Killough, Forest Ranger by the Grade 13 course will be | for the Castlegar Ranger District, offered in the Stanely Humoh- ries High School for time this fall. ; The senior matric classes will! be held in the students’ council | room of the high school. science equipment has been or-} dered and the services of quali- fied teachers are being secured. The teaching staff is being in-| creased from 15 to 18. | “To date a dozen pupils have ap- | plied for the course which is the | equivalent of first year Univer-| sity. was elected. the first new elections are held next Jan- uary. jthe North Vancouver New | Club was a guest at the meeting and served as returning officer for the elections. “ nounced ment also. V. A. Misutka, a new member of the Club, has been He will serve till the a member of Kiwanis Perey Tarrant,, The local Kiwanians have an- a_committee appoint- appointed to serve on the public relations committee with M. Dal- ton and G. Cheveldave.” 5 Cents Per Copy Trail-Gastlegar Road - Gets New Centre-Lines The Castlegar-Trail highway was the last stretch of road in the immediate Trail district to re- ceive attention from Department of Public works highway centre- Ung marking crews early ‘this Sloan Report Conditions Sui For Celgar's p Conditions favorable to Cel- gar’s plans for a $65 million! fully-integrated forest conver- | sion program unit at Castlegar, | are contained in the Sloan Com- mission’s report on’ decadent tim- ber in the Kootenay River and Arrow Lakes drainage area, the area in which Celgar plans to operate. The crews started work in the district two weeks ago, marking guiding dots for the centre-line machinery to follow. The actual “painting” job be- €an Wednesday last week with ponderous but ingenious mach- ines working up the highway from Paterson to Rossland. Thurs- day morning it started at the Columbia River bridge in Trail, trundled along Bay Avenue, Vic- toria Street and on to Rossland Avenue. From there it continued up the highway to Rossland and hurried back to mark the road to Ross Spur via Fruitvale. After stating that there are “substantial stands of overma- ture hemlock” in the area men- tioned, the report suggests that the productive capacity of the area should be put to better use, perhaps the growing of white pine stands, “Probably Jess than 10 per The Trail-Castlegar road re- ceived its centre lines early this week. Now all the highway from Trail to the Castlegar ferry , cent of this hemlock,” the report continues “could be converted into sawn lumber, but it is esti- divided by the gleaming new white centre-lines. Kinnaird Commissioner Resigns From A. R. MacDermid has resigned from the Village of Kinnaird Board of Commissioners. His let- ter of resignation was submitted this week. Reason given for the move was a difference of opinion between Mr. MacDermid and other members of the board re- garding approval of subdivisions in the village. This is the second resignation from the Kinnaird commission in two months. W. Collinson, former chairman, resigned from that body near the end of May and was succeeded by A. Eld- ridge who was appointed to the office after no nominations had been filed. . It is hoped to fill the latest vacancy by appointment also. The village clerk has written to the Deputy Minister of Munici- pal Affairs requesting permis- sion for the village to appoint a commissioner to serve Mr. Mac- Dermid’s unexpired term, in view of the improbability of any nom inations being filed if a by election were called. Mr. MacDermid, who has been active in civic affairs for some! mated that 90 per cent thereof ; would be suitable for pulp pro- duction. Shipments of overma- ture timber from this and other Interior areas were made to a | pulp and paper company in Spo- kane during the period of ,1927 to 1939." . . . “Certainly every effort should be made in Nelson, Revelstoke and Big Bend areas where most of this decadent) hemlock is to be found to en-! courage its early removal. In the long run, it would pay the Crown to sell decadent In- terior hemlock stands remaining | in Crown ownership at a nomi-| nal ervation of royalty, or perhaps in areas in which white or yellow pine would constitute the great- er part of next crop, to subsidize operators, to clear out those areas.’ | New Service Station - Being Built Here A new garage and service sta- tion is being built on Columbia Avenue just within the southern limits of the Village of Castlegar. Measuring 30 feet by 45 feet and being constructed on a $10,- ——————* ; 000 building permit, the new auto repair and service venture is ex- pected by the owner to be open for business around the first of | September. Office stumpage rate without res-| | Hydrant Yields Rocks ‘During “Flush-Out” ‘ duation) A wholesale ‘“flushout” of Cas-| time, had 18 months of his two-| year term of office to serve yet. He was commissioner for water- works, fire and lighting. tem was effect- age Fire Depart- ;ment Monday evening. At 8:00 ;P-m. as many fire hydrants as | possible were opened at the south . yn and the wat - Pontiac Errors Give ved forth ‘unimpeded “lor about Cubs Easy 7-3 Win | ifteen minutes. Firemen report that the gush- ing streams ran dark with sand, Castlegar Cubs roared to an/ grit and dirt particles for the easy 7-3 triumph over the Trail] first few minutes. The hydrants Pontiacs at Butler Park Sunday evening, under the impetus of smooth pitching by Reed Hicken!all the silt accumulated and a comedy of errors on the!| bottom of the water mains. part of the Trail lads. | The presence of the sand in the The Cubs took an early lead | system was discovered with the when Pontiac chucker, DeRosaj| arrival of the new fire truck. The loaded the bases with two walks} more powerful pumping power and an error and Geranazzo mis-/of the machine stirred up the cued to allow Gerry Wanless and|sand in the system during the Renny Mitchell to reach home}firemen’s weekly practices and vlate in the second inning. Pudge|carried it along with the water Parker climaxed the scoring! into the pumping mechanism. tlegar’s water jed by the Vill that came forth had washed out at the i | i were left open until the water/neus predicts. A. Denneus of Calgary, a form-! Noles fable lans University Entrance ‘Examination Results iFor Local Students Results of the departmen‘ aminations written by grade 1 and 12 students of the Stanle Humphries Junior Senior High school have been announced. Twenty grade 12 students have now completed their high scho course, with several more prepar ing to write supplementary ex- ams. The student with the highest marks in the school on the basis of the Department of Educatior examinations, is John Nixon with an average of 83 per cent. Joh whose all-round activities have earned him great popularity, the school, plans to attend versity and study engineering. Complete University Entrance Margaret Patricia Archibald Shirley Rae Berry. Bever Joan Cowlin, Kenneth Ivan D: gousoff, Harry Fred Kannigan. Harry Francis Killough. Nan. Mabel Makortoff, Brian Josep Marshall, John Roy Nixon, E!fai Claire Phillips. Robert Oscar Donald Sahlstrom, Ma Shealds, Bill Schmoorkoff. aret Catherine William; | Peter Walter Zebroff. Students with Partial Cyr | (5 or more credits short of are: Bill Easton Howarth, Lorraine Martini. Those who have compreteci High School Graduation o - General Program are: Nottiis Brodman, Joe Cheveldave, Peter Polonikoff, Walter Poohachoff. | Bred Pressaco, John Ross. Promoted to Grade 12 on Departmental Exams Molly Carlson, Eddie son, Martha Donaldson, 7 Hett, Joan Hostetter, Alan Jacob- son, Dawn Jenks, Bernice Kavic.. Beverly Lipsett, Paul Moroso. Donna Muirhead, Joan Ra: Joe Zeeben. Promoted with Supplementals Bernadette Atchison, Cheveldave. Leo Goctting. Henke, Anne Negreiff, Reed, Sandra-Lee Spence Supplemental exams ar held from August 18 to Walter auto sales and service man in . is the owner and mana- of the new business a Supervising the construction. Lev, Mitehell Sparks Cubs sting in, With Three-Run Homer Ternant, formerly an auto mech ser vice | Mitchell anic in Winnipeg is a the consruction of the station and will be employed| Rennie spar! there when completed. | Castlegar Cubs to a 7-6 ed “We shall be equipped to give| the Trail Motors Ponti: the best, speediest and most ef-;4ay night at the local ball ficient service possible,” Mr. Den-| iM a close-fought fastball s Our service sta-'that saw the whole tion will be the most modern andj thrills from spirited plays t> up-to-date in the Kootenays. bal disputes. Of cement-block construction,| It was Mitchell's batting » the one floor building will have! ess that proved to be the an exterior surface of white stuc-|ive factor in the local’s vic co. The office at the west end; When in the eighth innins will feature large plate-glass} Cub hurler and coach st windéws on tWo sides. A 250 fF j fo. the plate and clouted driveway in front of the build-| drive into deep centre fie ing is being arranged for. A fur rf three-run round trinper + ther addition to the building is{ Shot the Cubs inta 1 6-5 being planned for next year. the next and final inni g. both Stanley Humphries High Announces Promotions Kirby, Labentsoff, Martha Konkin, Betty Jean pard, Maureen Lipsett, Irene Marshall, Sharel Martel, Peter Obetkoff, Frank Perehudoff,, Mil- dred Raine, Allen Robinson, Lor- raine Scheupfer, Arthur Shel- lenberg, Ruth Shewchuk, Dan Shields, Rose Marie Soberlak, Philip Sookachoff, Mary Swetli- shoff, Gale Sykora, Dorothy Vaughan, Dawn Waldie, Violet Zaitsoff, Nancy Anderson, Janet Bayoff, Rene Brodman, Norma Brown, Richard Bucknell, Ted Continued on Page 2 SEE SCHOOL RESULTS Hazel Lam- A complete promotion list for the students of the Stanley Humhpries Junior Senior High School has been made available. The promoted students are as follows, excepting grade 11 and 12 students who wrote depart- menntal examinations. The pro- motion list for the latter appears elsewhere in this issue. Promoted to Grade 8 Eddy Bayoff, Loreen Bystrom, Caren Cristofoli, Charles Fenner, Helen Gleboff, David Gooden- ough, Violet Hagen, Darlene Harding, Fred Harshenin, Fred Hostetter, Joe Irving, Terry Keefe, Gerald’ Kelly, Kingsley spurge with a single that brought in Reed Hicken after the local hurler had gained second after a, free pass. A pair of errors in the third; brought in Kromm with the fourth Castlegar run while four causing the latter to become clog- ged. Wherefore the fire depart- ment had secured permission for the flushout last week. The firemen ran into unexpect- ed difficulty when attempting to The new business will offer a! complete auto repair and service- | ing service with a full line of B.A. oil products. Future plans} include the construction of | son a| Cubs on the mound, For clubs scored once. It was the fifth win of the sea with no losses for Rennie who went all the wav for the DrRo shut off the water. The fire hy- ‘Exhibition Games errors in the fifth and a deep ;drant by the high school would eentre field round-tripper Y | not close due to the presence of Mitchell completed the small rocks and pebbles within scoring for the night. it. The firenren removed as much Reed Hicken held the Pontiacs} of this as possible without tak- to four hits while striking out/ing the hydrant apart, sufficient three and Walking one. DeRosa/to enable them to shut off the took the loss. allowing eight hits| water. The hydrant was taken and three walks. apart and completely cleaned on Tuesday. 7. Correction Judging of exhibits for the 1952 Castlegar and District Fall Fair is scheduled for September 5 and not for September 3 as pre- viously reported. Present plans set the baby show contest for September 3 and the judging of fair exhibits for Friday, September 5. The crown- ing of the queen is also to take cus Local Teams To Play Both local softball teams are planning to participate in exhi- bition games this week-end. The Castlegar Cubs are motor- ing to Cranbrook for a _ three game exhibition tilt with teams there while the Castlegar Kats are making plans to be hosts to Nelson Royals Sunday afternoon nunfber of auto cabjns for con. | Trail chucker, however. itv venience of tourists. Mr. Denneus arrived in Castle- gar three and a half months ago to begin plans for his new busi- ness. Construction began some five weeks ago. Plans and pre- liminary investigation for- the vroject have been proceeding for the past two years, however. Mr. Denneus explains that he was impressed with the business po- tentials of the district even be- fore Celgar’s plans for their $65 million project were announced, and had been investigating and seeking to obtain a suitable lo- cation for two years. The name of the new garage has not been decided upon yet although “Skyline Service” is be- ig considered. It is planned at jresent, to sponsor a contest of names for the new business, with prizes for the three best suggest- Bice on the latter date at 6:30 P.m. at the Castlegar Ball Park. ed names submitted. was the second inning as a a umpire. And then plate umpire Bill base umpire Chief Georget agreed on whether time hat beor called when peared on the field. night when they are to Crown Point crew at Castlegar. ; the sixth loss of the no Cubs two games tie for tiats. wins. The victor aws first place with the f Eric the Castlegar catcher ejected from < colorful converse w in the v2 Wadde!l! ant ti dis a second ball ap- Next game for the Cubs is to- scheduled cellar-dwalling meet the Motor Cop — You were doing over 60 miles per hour. Lady Driver Isn't that. splendid. I only learned to drive yesterday.