CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, April 24, 1958 By E.G.0. A student brought me a frag ment of the history of life, one of those fascinating shadows of the shadowy pust which point the momentary present and the enigmatic future. What was it? At first glance nothing more cut oli of animats at the height of their power when the very sea boiled with their numbers and the carth and air trembled to their tread and their roaring. Or per- haps it was .the last of its race which rose, became increasingly than a stone about the size of one’s palm and about an inch thick. ‘At second glance however, it becomes an object of quict awe and strange beauty —- an am- monite, a wonderfully sculptur- ed, tightly coiled seashell, called by scientists ‘caprisornus’ and ‘i faintly, ious! under its patina of $200,000,000 years of siecp in the crust of] the earth. Very Old Are We Men One of the romantic poets wrote: with that rare sense of the infinite which “good poets can capture in words for the, rest of us articulate humans who can only sense these things: “Very old are the hills . And the buds that breay ° Out of-the-briars bough very old are we men, for Our dreams. are tales told by Eves Nightingales In dim Eden We wake and whisper awhile ‘Then in fields of amaranth lie”. And A Spectator This bit of fossilized stone was once a part of a whole way of life. An individual member of a vast variety of sea shelled animals which first: saw life when the first of the great dino- saurs made their appearance over two hundred million years ago. This tiny creature possibly saw that strange nightmare race -found lesson to be learned from coiled and in shape and covered the sea floor of that ancient time then declined and perished after 100,000,000 years of life. If it was, perhaps it was a spectator to that last cataclasm which swept the dinosaurs for ever from the carth. What ever it was—a simple spectator to the rise of that race of ‘terrible lizards’ or a dying mourner at dts dying struggle and mysterious twilight, it remains in itself a link in the great net of life, a sculptured masterpiece from the hand of the Master, unequalled by the imagination of man and another question mark in the sea of question marks which is life. To what end was this frag- ment of life? To What End? To what end was this frag- ment of life? I for one don’t k —yet. i to me that Castlegar News Published Every: Thursday At 8" “THE Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Assn. ‘ Subscription Rate: DS OF THE Ki Castlegar, B.C. L. V. CAMPBELL Publisher * $3.00 per year — 25¢ month by carrier Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member: B.c. Weekly Newspapers Advertising Bureau Pink Slip Will Be Subject .As Motorists Meet Next Month Nation-wide recognition of pink liability insurance cards will be a key topic of discussion next month in Vancouver when re- presentatives of 500,000 Canadian motorists stage their annual meet- ing. . Up to 50 delegates of the a ‘ Convention Told English Appalling Heavy business schedule of i a. opinions, Dr. McGregor “thought that option courses such as Home Economics and H. & P.D. were a waste of time’, and urged that Fish And Game Club Annual Meet May 1-3 more time be spent on courses. He pointed out there is a 2 year U ments to bylaws etc., was inters- persed by guest speakers, syp- osiums, and workshop sessions, at the 36th Annual B.C, Parent for English. “It is based on the principal that students should have some familiarity with a language other than their own.” “The i i Teacher The 500 delegates, from al- most every part of B.C. met at the Oak Bay Jr. High School, Victoria, on April 8th, 10th and 1ith, Considerable time was spent discussing a Brief on Education which was requested from the B.C.P.T.F. by the Royal Com- mission on Education at present sitting in B.C. 20 resolutions were discussed those approved covered such im- a is because -their English is appal- lingly bad, when they enter’ Uni- versity.” He claimed there is not enough writing in high schools, should be more essays ete, written, and that all students should write final June examina- tions, for their own good. - Other speakers were Edu- cation Minister Lester Peterson, who said “B.C.'s educational sy- stem appears to produce a high- portant matters as as- sistance for teachers-in-training, it does present the tion and for that such beauty, so small that it can be held in the palm of one's hand, yet can survive the passage of two hundred million years. Surely there is some pro- that, and must surely we are inevitably both in and a part of that lesson. More than 60,000 of Canada’s 1,2000,000 persons’ with heart and blood vessel disease are children, the B.C. Heart Foundation said in a recent report. i children, P of the school eye-testing methods, elimination of foot X-ray mach- ines, labelling of harmful pois- ons sold to the public. A special resolution urging the B.C.T.F. and the B.C. School Trustees to settle their differences and an offer of the good offices of the B.C.P.T.F, to serve in any wey to resolve the conflict, was pass- ed in the waning: hours of the convention. Dr. Malcolm McGregor, Pro- fessor of Classics, U.B.C. was the Keynote speaker. in his er of U grad- uates that the average in Cana- da and the U.S.A. at a time when graduates are urgently needed in many fields. Provincial Archivist Willard ireland gave some interesting highlights on the immense amo- unt of work which had gone in- to the planning of the B.C, Cen- tenary. He caused much hilarity when he said that centennial pro- jects for various i ranged from museums to flush toilets for community halls. Mr. F. C, Boyes of the Col- lege of Education, said parents should inculcate a respect for the TIME THE LESS CASTLEGAR MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION By Rev. B.. A. Resker TOPICS A WEEKLY MESSAGE FROM (CENTENNIAL THANKSGIVING SUNDAY Next Sunday, April 27, ali over British sonality. greatest wealth of all — the ruman per- There were also the Missionaries of “Columbia every Communnity will be hold- ing its services of Thanksgiving and.Dedi- cation. © . . F In ‘this district there .will be special services in the various Churches and also Community Sefvices combined with the dedication of the Centennial Flags and the Jighting of the Beacon Fires. Please see de- tails in this paper. We citizens of B.C. live in one of the ‘best lands on this earth. 8.C. is wonder- fully blessed in its scenery —— Kootenays best of alf. It has great wealth in its tim- ‘ber, minerals, water power and wild life. ‘Let us sincerely thank God for giving us alll this natural beauty ond wealth. Let us thank Him for the lives of the Pioneers who in the past hundred years have developed this wealth. They went through many a hardship and danger when the only travel was bv river and fake, Many died in the procezs. The cemeteries in most of the old qhast towns — like Barkerville — ora full of the craves of young men from evans cart -€ the world, These men helped to davelop the natural wealth of our Province. There atters who did even more for the lactina geod of 8.C. Among thern ore the ‘eerhers, many of whom worked in terrible icolation: in little loa school houses — *o different from the palaces of today. Their inffuience n the Culture and Character of the growing population is lasting, because they worked ‘ith the the various Churches who travelled the trails and rivers in conditions of great hardship and danger to bring the Good News of the Gospel to isolated camps and settlements. They were men who took a feading part in keeping our Province a clace of order and Christian ideals, We in the Kootenays think of the Rev. Henry Ir- win, (Father Pat) who made such a won- derful. contribution in the early days of the century in the railroad construction and mining camps. It is a pity that the Churches these missionaries built are not more permanent for those buildings are one of the few links with the cast that remain to us. But if these churches are becoming old and inndequate so that we cannot honour their biulders in them much longer we can do better and honour these Pioneers of the Sniritual way of fife by living our lives to +he honour and alory of God. They saw that in the materialism of those early days of ctrunale end hardship God was necessary in their fives and in the lives of those eranind them. . \Ma run a crent r'sk in our soft and, race tives, won by their effort of forgetting Ged, We heed Him even more than they did in this “Seece Aae.” Along iwth our Thanksgiving next Sunday let us-dedicate ourselves anew to of a m--- oe nf life. the service of God. and the Sunday Church Services ‘development ST. RITA’S CHURCH Rev. E. A. Brophy, P.P. 5th at Elm Streets COMMUNITY BIBLE CENTRE, Sunday in the Legion Hall 10:30 Sunday School 7:30 Family Service OF LATTER DAY SAINTS Sundays at 10:30 a.m. Twin Rivers Hall CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST B among their children to combat juvenile con- cepticn of teachers as a “nec- essary, evil". He stressed the by member clubs and study of the needs of fish and game or- in British C: the B.C. Federation of Fish and Game Clubs will hold its first Annual Provincial Convention in the Prince Charles Hotel, Pentic- ton, May. 1-3 inclusive. Speakers will come from all over North America to address the gathering of clubs and al- ready more than 75 fish and game groups have signified they, intend to send delegates. On May 1 meetings will be opened by an address by Alex. Walton,. president of Penticton Board of Trade, followed by an address by the Hon. Ray Willis- ton, Minister of Lands and For- ests. During the afterrjqgon the delegates will hear from W. B. Morse of the Wildlife Manage- ment Institute, George Spargo of Western Canada Yukon Council, and Game Commissioner Frank Bulfer. On Friday, Robert McMynn, Chief Fisheries Biologist of the B. C. Game Department will speak, followed by Dr. Dave B. Turner, Deputy Minister of Re- creation and Conservation, who will speak on conservation in the school prgramme. Pre-lunch speakers on. Fri- day will be William Reavley and Frank S. Bunker of the Nat- ional Wildlife Federation, who will come to Penticton from De- troit. Following lunch Lee Straight, Vancouver Sun Outdeor Ce ist, will give an address need for of tea- chers atthe level. “It on “Better Fish and Game Pub- is important that a new teacher, just out of college, be made lie ;, and How to Get it”, followed by Ron Gadsby, Public i Director of the Fisher- in the Mrs. B, R. Tupper was elect- ed President of the B.C. Parent Teacher Federation, and Mrs. L. - Horan ist. Vice-president. These ladies conducted the Reg- ional Conference’ in Castlegar two years ago. Mrs. G. Redgrave cf Trail was elected Second Vice-presi- dent. Mrs. Vera Campbell repre- sented Stanley Humphries P.T.A, as a delegate and was elected to the Provincial Board for a two year term as Rural Services Chairman. + ies Association of B.C. His sub- ject will be dams and fish, There will be a banquet at H. 7:30 p.m. on Friday, when the speaker will be the Hon. Earle C, Westwood, B.C. Minister of Re- creation and Conservation. Saturday's agenda will be entirely Federation business. OGLOW BROS. Building & Supply Co. Lita. | Building Supplies | : Phone 333% i CASTLEGAR are to meet at Hotel Vancouver May 22-24 with B.C, Automibile Association playing host, They will deal with the P of ity laws which vary in most pro- vinces. Only B.C., Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario at present, have a reciprocal pink card system while Quebce and Prince Edward Island thave no firfancial lia- bility law whatsoever. The Canadian A.A, comprises the B.C. Club, Victoria Auto- mobile Club, Alberta Motor As- sociation, Saskatchewan . Motor Club, Manitoba Motor League, Ontario Motor League, Royal Automobile Club of Canada in Club and the Maritime Automo- bile Association. British Columbia has 100,- 00 cases of heart disease, includ- No man with a burden of debt hgs a right to pro- tect his creditors if he has not first protected his wife and children with Life Assurance, Plans to suit your individ- ual requirements may be arranged through. Dick Fowler North American Life Robson, B.C. + if h | ing approximately 5,000 children.