Castlegar

Kinnaird

STL

Robson.
Brilliant

VOL. 5 No. 17

Published Every Thursday at “The Crossroads of'the Kootenays”

CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA;THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1952

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Hope that the St. Lawrence Seaway -will be-a joint
Canadian-U.S. venture has been renewed with the
decision of President Truman to refer it to the Inter-
In doing so he r
the decision from Congress and politics although the
interests epposed to the seaway still may contest and
delay the project in court, Discussing the project in

national Joint commission.

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.S..Secretary of State Dean Acheson;

.of Transport Lianel Chevrier;

Hume Wrong, ambassador ‘to ‘the U.S.; Stanley Wood-
ward, .ambassador :to: Canada, .and David Bruce, U5.
.undersecretary of state.

MEETING ‘DISCUSSES
‘OVERHEAD CROSSING

The village commissioners met
t:in the village office on Monday
-night with all members present.

It was requested a letter be writ-

iden to J. Williamson, thanking
the First Aid Division for the
tdean of an oxygen tank needed
while the three usually on band
ywere in Vanco being re
filled. The’ cost of -refilling is
. $3.30 each. 7

A lane on Second Avenue has
been requested opened and work
.on, this will be done as soon as
chicken houses and runs cap be
_ removed. A

V.idenks reported the Public
“Works Department is still dig-
:ging basements — opening al
‘Jeys: and: working a bit on neces-
.Sary roadwork.

N. Andreashuk has been ap-
:pointed ,to make a house to

house canvass regarding the
.dog bylaw. All citizens owning
dogs must have a licence for
-their dog.

B. Cherrington reported on
his attendanee at the P. T. A
convention in so far as it af
fected the board of commission-
<ers.

‘H. Sommers :t»ported &n inter-
‘view with the district engineer
wegarding overhead crossing by
_Anderson’s Feed store. A fund
thas been spt up iby the Board of
‘Transpart in which sums are
paid by CLR. onethird, C.P.R-
one-third ani the Government
one-third. The village would have
to pay 20 per cent of the total
cost. The distict engineer took
a very dim view of ever getting
a crossing there as it is‘ in the
hands of the Beard of Trans-
port. It has been their policy to
substitute existing crossings with
overhead roads but not to create
any new ones.

I.O.D.E. were granted permis-

sion ‘to use the Village truck
for the May Day Parade. An
invitation to the June 19 - 20
con: far - i¢ipeil .offic-
‘ers to ‘be ‘held in Victoria was
filed. An ‘invitation to the mu-
micipal conference to ‘be theld ‘in
“‘Tadanac May “10 was :read: ‘The
full board will attend. Includ-
ed in ‘the day's -activities .will
tbeva@ ttaur raf :the “Waneta -dam.

The School Hoard plan re
Thamson was approved by the
commissioners subject .to con-
firming letter concerning -road
allowances. ‘A letter was’ read

1g .a Celgar -representative
will be farthcoming for the tewn
planning meeting with.D. Davis.

Accounts -tataling $238.22 were
discussed and ordered paid. Wa-
ter applications were accepted
for Uno Stahl, C. Appleton .ant
Cc. H. Phillips. Eleven building
permits were granted. Uno Stahl
a new house, Nevakshanoff far
finishing, N. Maloff $5000 resi-
dence, and Molly Plotni-
off additians, Helen Davis $900
alterations, J. Popoff residence,
C. Phillips residence, Mrs. Bloom-
er alterations, Hopland finishing,
B. H. Clark a sstarage .sbed.

The dog bylaw raising the
licence fee to $3.00 for males and
$5.00 for females received its
fourth reading ,and berames law
as soon as the bylaw is returned
from Victoria.

Mr. Sapronoff has agreed to
a road allowance along his pro-
perty. The Board of Stewards
of the United Church requested
the ditch along the street be
filled sp as to provide parking
Space off the black top. This
will be done in the very near fu-
ture. It was also decided to fill
in the road on Juniper Street
and Fifths — near the high
school.

HOSPITAL:
REPORT

About 15 months ago the vil-
Jages of Kinnaird and Castlegar
agreed to investigate the ques-
tion of a hospital] in this district.
Commissioners W. Jacobson of
Kinnaird and J. Williams of
Castlegar were given the task of
heading an investigating commit-
tee. After nine months of dis-
couraging results enough in-
formation was collected to war-
rant the reorganization and ex-
pansion into an organization
committee.

for the Jast four months your
committee has faced a situation
where governmental departments
at Victoria refused to deal with
an unregistered society yet your
committee seemed unable to
arouse Victoria to our needs for
registration. Mrs. A. Saunders

agreed to represent your com-

mittee during her visit to ‘Vic-
toria in March:- When she was
there the Hon, A. D- Turnbull

personally introduced her. to the:

departments concerned. Our

problem was clearly defined and

discussed.

Within three weeks of Mrs.
Saunders visit several directives
‘were received indicating a big
change in the..Jast year of pro-
cedure used to obtain a hospital.
One directive contained detailed
recommendations for by - laws
necessary in the registration of
a hospital society such as ours.
This is being dealt with by Mr.
Moran. Another directive con-
cerns the establishment of an
“Improvement District for Hos-
pital Purposes” under powers
provided in the.sWater Act by
the legislature in 1951. Such a
district must be established by
petition with elected trustees
and. powers of taxation to raise
monies for planning, construct-
ing and equipping and operating
a hospital. Creston area has re-
cently established such a dis-
trict and your committee  in-
tends to-draw on the experiences
gained there.

This suramer should'-see a
course of positive action develop
and everyone shouldbe made

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NEAR
DROWNING
LAST WEEK -
‘Litte Jimmy Swanson,
two-and-one-half years, ‘is:a wery
lucky little ‘boy to be alive to-
.day. UThe .Swansnri’s are new-

«comers to.Castlegar and are liv-
ing -at J. (Clarke's.

:run:off .from -Bloomer Creek ‘in
front of. J. Ro; ‘s house ;when
suddenly he tumbled into the
“water :and was swept down
stre2zm nearly 200 yards in a.mat-
ter of seconds. He was carried
under the culvert and aut into
the open ‘“‘pond” where he was
quickly snatched from the water
by Bruce. Horning, driver of the
willage truck .who happened to
be working .in the vicinity at
-the time.

The little fellow was uncan-
cious when he was pulled out
.and artificial respiration, was re-
quired. Mrs. Miles MacPherson
Xan to notify .a doctor and the
.boy was taken into the clinic
-where he was quickly revived
and a fatality .avoided.

CONCERT
IS WELL
ATTENDED

‘The first open air ‘band concert
of the season was beld last
Sunday afternoon on the grounds
of the new park site. Many
were viewing the grounds for
the first time and from reports
all were pleased with the loca-
tion which affords a good view
of the villane-

The band, under the direction
of bandmaster Gus Leitner, play-
ed a mumber of well chosen
marches and selections.. It is
the intention of the band to hold
concerts as often as _— possible
through the summer months.

Happy Gang to
Entertain at
News Party ;
The Castlegar “Happy
entertained the Trail Kinsmen on
Thursday — the occasion being
the Kinsmen’s eighth annivers-
ary. Members taking part in-
cluded, Marvel Simcox, Anne
Stanford, Kay Andreashuk, Mary
Randall, Kelly Graham, Dot
» Br and Mary Townsend.
The “gang” have been asked by
the Nelson Daily News to enter-

tain them on Saturday to help
celebrate their 50th anniversary.

Gang”

ter

aware of the aims and objects
of -your hospital committee.’

s. Jimmy ‘and *
‘his sister .were playing near ‘the,

Al West Led Dominoes To Victory
Over Rossland Royals

(By Len Walker)

The Castlegar Dominoes led
by Al-West, ran roughshod over
the ‘Russland Royals on Satur-
day “evening by a score of 70 to
46 before a slim crowd in the
.Stanley Humphries high school
gym. The locals showed some
cexceptional passing and shooting
in the last half to outscore Ross-
land 44 to 17.

Rossland tried hard through-
out the game but just couldn't
.cope with the masterful .passing
_plays displayed by the Dominoes.

Al West was the top scorer of
the evening with 21 points. Reed
-Hicken collected 17, Rennie -Mit-
chell 14, Larry -West 14 and
.Lorne:Marshall 4. Julie Bilesky
led the Royals with 12 points,
.Campbell 10, Nicol 8, Laface and
-Faunt 6 each and Girard 4.
LACROSSE

.For the second-straight Sun-
day .Castlegar took the measure
of a Trail team in a lacrosse
‘game _played‘before a.small crowd
at the rink site. The local lads
this .week doubled their last
week’s score when they stepped
‘out for a.22 to 14 win. Ewan
Wallace and Walt Poogy each
-netted 10 goals to lead the scor-
ing yparade. Pro Leduce got 7
(goals ‘for Trail with Bob Moffat
netting 5.

SOFTBALL

The Senior Cubs are out prac-

:ticing these days ‘to ready them-
-Selves for league play that should
.be getting underway in the very
near future. _
ardond.
:a.. top-notc! this year.
Just what Castlegar will have
this year is hard to say at this
time. It looked for a while like
they would have a stand-out
team :with three imports from
Raymond arriving here, but if it
is true what they told this writ-
er on ‘Sunday morning, then by
ithe time you read this, Larry
and Al West will be back in Al-
berta. It seems the boys are
disappdinted with the working
conditions as well as not having
a place to live for their families.
SOCCER

Close to 25 footballers turned

out on Sunday evening for a
cpractice. It is hoped to get to-
gether a team to enter into the
Trail league.

FLASH

At a meeting in Trail on Mon-
day night, Castlegar won a big
victory when it was decided that
-this year they wauld have bame
and ome games in the seniar
fastball league.

NEXT WEEK
1S COOKIE
WEEK

Beginning April 26 and con-
tinuing throughout the week un-
til May 3, Girl Guides and Brown-
jes will be out in full force sell-
ing cookies in towns and cities
throughout the province.

This project is carried out an-
nually in this province in order
to raise money to meet an urg-
ent request from the Dominion
Headauarters of the Girl Guide
Association for financial assist-
ance. This year the provincial
Quota to Dominion Headquarters
will be $2000. In order to reach
this quota a large number of

- cookies must be sold.

Profits per carton of cookies
(24 packages) will be $2.90. This
will be divided as follows: Guide
Contpanies and Brownie Packs
receive 65¢e for each carton they
sell; each Division receives 80c
per carton sold in that division;
and the provincial office receives
$1.45 per carton ‘sold.

You, the public, are asked to
support the girls ef your distirct
in this effort. Remember, you
are not asked for a donation.
You get full value for every
pockage of cookies purchased.
Each package contains over two
cezen cookies and, costs only 39c.

The girls are counting on your
help to further this really worth-
while movement. Don’t disap-
-point them.

TWO SITES
FOR LIQUOR
STORE

W. Reed, chairman of the
Vendors committee, of the Cas-
tlegar and district Chamber of
Commerce, reported to the meet-
ing last Thursday that two sites
have been located for the pro-
posed liquor store. The prices
of these lots are high but the
information will be forwarded
to the Liquor Contro] Board.
Dues Changed

Annual membership dues of
the Chamber have been revised.
Individual membership remains
at $2.50, while business dues
have been increased from $5.00
to $7.50.

Support Asked ;

‘N. Oglow, chairman of the
Board of Commissioners, asked
the support of the business men
in the village Clean-up campaign
which will be held on April 30.

LOEBLICH
PRESIDENT

At a_ district Social Credit

meeting in*Trail last week, Carl
Loeblich was elected president,
and R. E. Somers was nominat-
ed as candidate to head the Par-
ty.
Mr. Loeblich will leave on Fri-
day for New Westminster where
he will attend the Provincial
Convention.

NAME .

‘CHANGE

DEFEATED

The regular meeting of the
Canadian Legion Enanch 170,
was held Tuesday, April 15th,
with M. Moran in the chair.

An extraordinary resolution
changing the mame of the
Branch from CastlegarRobson
to Castlegar and District was
defeated.

It was decided to take the
Travelling Gavel to Grand
Forks as soon as possible, pend-
ing upon a date selected by the
Grand -Forks branch.

Representatives, who are to
be appointed by the president,
were instructed to attend a cele-
gation to meet the School Board
regarding the rent of the School
hall and to report back for in-

structions.

It was decided to hold a Leg:
ion Cabaret in May.

Kinnaird Socreds
To Attend
Provincial Meet

Kinnaird Social Credit
bers planning to attend the Pro-
vincial Convention in New West-
minster on April 26th are presi-
dent, S. C. Watson and secre-
tary, F. E. Peterson. They will
be accompanied by W. Nyberg,
B. Mahoney and H. L. West-
cott. .

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appeared pale but composed.

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