CASTLEGAR ,NEWS, Thursday, October 24, 1956

The Churchill Touck

By Lewis Milligan

Member:
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Sir Winston Churchill has ever been a master phrase-makecr,
but his cholcest bon mots have not always been made on the spur
of the moment. He usually burnt the midnight oil inpreparing his
specches./On one occasion, while staying at a frlend’s home during
a political campaign, he was heard ‘walking the floor of his room
Tehearsing a speech he was to deliver the next day, including the
eloquent pauses and sudden flashes of wit that brought down the
house.’ A precious’example of the latter is recorded by the American
journalist. Drew Middlcton,.in a special article in the Liverpool
Daily Post, my old» home-town paper to which I at one time
contributed,

The article is-entitled “Report on.the British,” particularly on
British politics, which the writer compares and Shen contrasts
with American politics, He is rep
of proceedings in the House of Commons, andd rd incident in
which Sir Winston appears occurred during Questiqn Time,

The majority of questicns are Put by the Opposition in the
hope of focusing public the

es, “Question Time is an exciting period,” says Mr. Middleton, “It
owas never more so than in the last administration of Sir Winston
Churchill, That Prime Minister, armed with the polical exper-
dence of fifty years, was a joy in action. One of his last memorable}
sallies was at the exfense of Woodrow Wyatt, an earnest young
Labor M.P. What plans had the government, Wyatt asked, for ex-.
‘cavating itself from London in the event of atomic attack? Sir Win-
ston regarded him owlishly, “Surely the Honorable Member does:
not wish me to take the bread out of the mouths of the Soviet secret
Service,’ he said.”

That may or may not have been an n impromptu retort, for ad-
vance notice must be given of all important questions. While on a
visit in England after the close of the last war when the Labor Gov-
ermment was in power, I was sitting in the Strangers Gallery of
the House of Commons during Question Time. One of the questions
‘was about a court judgement passed on a man who had poured
boiling water on a rat he had caught in a trap. Churchill and
Eden sat in the Opposition bench, but neither of them took any
‘part in the discussion, Judging by the expression on their faces they
‘were not worrying about rats, Immediately after the question
period Prime Minister Attlee rose to announce the government's
decision to withdraw from Egypt and he Tead a long document
Setting forth the terms of the evacuation.

Mr. Churchill rose’ and protested that he had not Beet given
enough time to study the document. He demanded an open de-
bate on the matter in the presence of Foreign Ministe Bevin. “Mr.
Bevin is in Paris,” said Mr. Attlee. “Is there no long distance tele-
phone to Paris?" questioned Mr. Churchill. e

One wonders whether Churchill and Eden at thet moment fere-
saw what has since happened in the Suez and the Middle East as a
result of what they then believed was an abortive birth ofEgyptian

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LEGION CORNER

Members of the Castlegar-
Robson Branch welcomed six of
their comrades from Creston Bra-
neh at their last meeting.

ie Creston members had
made a special journey to pre-
sent the Certificate of Merit to
Rev. A. O, McNeil for services
rendered to the Canadian Leg-
jon during his appointment at
Creston, Mr. Werner, Past-Pres-
ident of Creston Branch in his
opening remarks extolled the
work of Rev. McNeil in Creston
plea-

Kris (or Charlie) K
Canadian citizen who operated a
trading post at Rymer Point on
Victoria Land. It is said that his
j occupation of this post, after he
had become a Canadian citizen,

istrengthened Canada's claim to

the Islands, The school was es-
tablished for the education of his

sure in being able to present the
Certificate of Merittohim. -
Rev. McNeil thanked the
Creston Branch for their great
kindness and remarked how un-
deserving, though honoured, he
was, by their gesture. He prom-
ised to continue to render any

own and children
and, after his deatti in 1931, his
daughter carried on his work for
the -welfare of the Eskimo, He
left his native Denmark at the
age of 15 to sail the seven seas,
and in 1893 he married an Esk-
imo woman in Alaska and set-
tled down to lead the life of an
Eskimo in the Arctic,

Where was transatlantic radio
first

the Legion might re-
quire of him. .

ury. His anecdotal portrayals of
habitant life, winter scenes and
Indians, are prized as records of
an earlier way of life. He is well
represented in the collections of
the National Gallery ad the Pub-
lic Archives in Ottawa, He was
born in Germny, studied music
and art, and travelled in Europe
asa and artist.

Marconi's first radio
ication with Europe was estab-
lished in 1902 at Table Head, a
promontory overlooking Glaze
Bay, N. S.

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Krieghoff was a popular and
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independence.

the early part of the 19th cent-

After military service in the Un-
ited States, he opened a studio in
Toronto. In 1848 he moved to
Longueuil, Que. and later to
Montreal, where he painted land-
scapes and portraits, In 1853 he
moved to Quebec City, where he
remained for 13 years and did
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Col, Moody, the Royal En-
gineer’s boss and the public

whole 3.C. colony, had picked
New Westminster, or Queens-
berough as she was first called,
to be the capital of the mainland.
1 mentioned this before —
but now I want to say some-
thing about the actual laying out
of the town. (You remember, it
was first going to be at Derby or
Fort Langley, but that Moody
got it moved down river to New
Westminster, as being a better
place and port.)

Well, he hired a fellow ‘by
the name of Walter Moberly to
draw up the plans and look after
the building of the place,
Moberly, when I knew him,
was on the way to the Cariboo,
explorin' the country for Gov.
Douglas, He was a real smart, zo
ahead man and he needed to be,
workin’ for Douglas and Moody.
Even then he didn't clear the
land fast enough to suit Douglas
and finally was fired.

He told me about Moody,
that when they were coming up
the Fraser on ‘the old ‘Beaver’
passing the place where Moody
figured the new city would be,
Moody says,waving his hand —
‘There is our future capital’,

Well, Moberly says, there was
nothing in sight but bush, right
down solid to the water.
However, the next day, they
Lut him off (on the return tri.
down river from Fort Langley)
with one man and a leaky row-
boat. We had a week’s provisions,
a tent and a few tools. We landed
at the proposed site ito start op-
erations in the founding of a new
capital —

Now, as the land was cleared
and the roads were built and the
Population moved from East to
‘West, that is from New Westmin-
ster to Vancouver, Moberly is the
man that really not only started

and Vancouver as well.
“The trees”,. Moberly says,

‘We made a little path for a few
hundred feet and came to a mvag-
nificent pirds-eye maple under
which I pitched my tent and
founded the city of Queensbor-
ough now known as New West-
minster — The snow was still in
the bush, but the weather was
fine, I looked about through the
woods, and found that a -great
deal of work would be required
to clear away. the timber.”

Well, he didn't exaggerate.

The first-store put up was
W. J. Armstrong’s grocery; next
were R. Dickinson’s butcher shop,
Phil Hick’s bakery. and John
Scott's saloon, You know where
the BCER tram station used to
stand, where Wosks is? — That
lot was sold in ‘59 for $1500.

works minister in a way for the|'

New Westminster, but Burnaby:

“were enormous, the brush dense. |,

where the
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ST. RITA‘S CHURCH
Rev. E,. Brophy, P.P.
Masses at 8:30 and 10:30
Benediction Friday at 7:00 p.m.
* Confession’ Sat, 4-5 and

7-8 pm. | .

COMMUNITY BIBLE CENTRE
Sunday in the Legion Hall
10:30 Sunday School

* . 7:30 Family Service
‘At 51 Columbia: Ave.

ST. JOSEPH’S CHAPEL
Re" Brophy, P.P.
Masses.” 30 and 10:30 a.m.
Conf’ s_ Sat. 4-5 p.m.

Wed., 7:30 Young People's Hr,
Fri, ‘8: 00 Prayer & Bible Study}

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Sunday School — 10 a.m.
Morning Worship — ii a.m.
Evangelistle —-7:30 p.

Praycr and Bible- “stuay, Thurs,
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Sunday, October 21,
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Tuesday iat was "Going Up"
night for the Cubs' and Scouts of
‘The’

Kimberley Troop when Asst.
Co B. A. Resker was

Cubs
fon the First and Second Wolf
Cub Packs said good-bye to their
Packs. Cubmasters Loyd Grout-
age and James Mcluckie handed
over Bobby Batting, George In-
fantic, Ross Little, Jimmy Gem-
mel and Jamie Killough to the
care of Scoutmaester R. Tweed
who handed them over to their
Patrol Leaders after welcoming
them to the wider Trail of
Scouting. The First Gustlegar
Pack under Mr. Groutage is
more than full and the- Second
Pack under Mr. Mcluckle and
Mrs, Binnie has had a large num-
ber of new. recruits.’ Both Packs
are making splendid progress.
The Scout Troop is most fortun-
ate in obtaining a new Scout-
master to take the place of Mr.
Mac Aberdeen who did such a
good job for the past two years.
Mr. Robert Tweed, the new S.M.
has done Scouting in Rossland
and as a boy was in the Second

Scoutmaster. The Scouts and
Cubs were shown colored slides
of the Jubilee held in England
this summer, In describing the
pictures Mr, Resker stressed the
wonderful’ privilege of being a
member of this world wide bro-
therhood of boys. There are now
about 20 Scouts in “Casstlegar.
The Robson Group Commit-
tee under the leadership of Mz.
W. Banigan has been going all
out to find leaders for the nearly
45 Cubs and Scouts in that Com-
munity, Mr. H. Meredith is now
Cubmaster and Mr. D, Adshead
and Mr, J. Leamy are continuing
their ‘good work as Assistants,
Mr. Ron ‘Nickerson (with the
is

School Meetings

To Start November 4
Trustees of School District
No. 9 are getting ready for a
full week of Annual District
School

CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, October 24, 1956

legar's on Tuesday, Tarrys’ én
innaird,

and Renata on Friday. The Deer

Park meet is also on Friday, but

will be held at 3:00 p.m.

November 4 with .the Robson
meeting.

A meeting .will be held each
of five consecutive nights, with
two-being held on- Friday.

Represenfatives will be
elected by ratepayers in Tarrys,
Renata, Deer. Park and Blue-
berry attendance areas, and
trustee is_to.be elected for the
Kinnaird area,

All evening meetings will
start at 7:30 p.m., with Robson's
on. Monday, November 4, Cast-

a sented.

All at will be held in
the schools, in Castlegar the
meeting is as usual, in the Elem-
entary School by the Highway.

The yearly Financial state-
ment will be presented at these
meetings, and the Trustees’ An-
nual report of the years business
and development will be pre-

Cc. S. McKenzie, District No.
9’s new School Inspector will at-
tend and probably address the
meetings.

Wedding

.The Robson |. Community
Church was the scene of a pret-
ty Fall wedding recently when

help of the Group Cor

; younger
of Mr. and Mrs, R, A.

still but a
Scoutmaster is urgently needed
to look after the 20 Scouts as
Mr, Nickerson is on shift work.
Mr, A. A, Lamb has had to give
up as Scoutmaster owing to his
in the Legion. The

|Hi_ Kids - - - -

Hi gang® Back again after. a
bout with the flu. The rest of you
seem to have recovered from it
also,

Now we have chosen our
house executives let's give them
all the help we. can. After all the
executives can’t be expected to do
all the work of the house by
themselves. The house whose
members give it al Itheir support
will doubtless be on the top in
the house standings.

The cheerleaders
coming year are

for the

Boys are fortunate in having
the splendid Recreation Hall for
their meetings, the Recreation
Society is now sponsor of the
Group and has been very help-
ful in supplying this accoma-
dation. The Rebson Scouts and
Cubs have also been shown the
pictures of the Jubilee Jamboree.

dances, Too many teen-agers
have been going to the dance,

‘Ithen leaving and going to Trail

or other places. Unless there is
a good attendance next Satur-
day. Further dances will be
abandoned, In the winter if there
are no dances here then you will
start complaining “there is
nothing to do.” ‘Then whose fault
will it be—no other than yours,
you who leave the Kinnaird
Dances to go to the Trail ones.
Also it is not fair to the
chaperones, Mr, and Mrs. Peter-
son and Mr, and Mrs. Roberton,
who give up their evenings to
try and make these dances an

and I'm sure they will do their
utmost to cheer our teams on to
victory. But they. can’t be ex-
pected to do all the cheering at
the games. There is still’ time
yet until our first basketball
game so everyone get a hold of
the cheers and learn them.
Then when the games are being
played you can yell along ‘with
the cheerleaders which will en-
courage them ‘more and then
they in turn will be able to cheer
our teams on better,

A week from Saturday there
will be a teen-age Dance in the
Kinnaird Hall; On this: dance

kids, rests the future of these

for the to
get to-gether and enjoy them-
selves, are we going to let them
down? Certainly not, I hope!
Let’s show our appreciation for
all they have done, by attending
the dance next (Saturday, Re-
‘member a dance is only as good
as the amount of attendance it
draws.
» On Monday noon, I attended
a Junior Red Cross: Club Meet-
ing. THere is to be a big meeting
on Day 3 at noon with the elec-
tion ‘of officers taking place.
Anyone interested please attend
this meeting, as they. need more
meml

bers,
The grade 12's oe Seclded

The Coptain is saving to. equip —
@ hame workshop.

Both have a
bank account- and
a purpose for saving

The First Officer § is saving
for his marrige.

They work as a team, yet each has his own
reason for saving, his own dollar objective,

his own pace in achieving it.

A bank account takes care of every type of
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'Horswill.of Robson, became: the

Robson, where over 30 relatives

bride of Ronald Harry Tinker of
Lillocet, B.C. Rev. B. A. Resk-
er of Castleger officiated at the
ceremony, .

Given in marriage by her] son,

father, the bride was lovely'in a
gown of turquoise sheer with
with gold over lace. Her access-
ories were white, and she chose
for her flowers red roses and
mums, and carried her Prayer
Book. Her necklace and, ear-
rings were black diamond, her
gift from the groom. They had as
their attendants the brides sis-
ter and brother-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. W. Fred Waldie of Nak-

‘A reception was held at the
home of the bride’s parents in

and friends gathered to congrat-
ulate the young couple. The 3-
tiered wedding cake adorned the
Jace covered table with white
tapers and rosebuds. The toast

on their grad sweaters already.
‘They are to be white cashmere
with red crests on them. The
style will be different than be-
fore, being a cardigan with 6
buttons down the front.

The first junior dance of the
year ‘is | to be a Hollowe’en dance
next Friday evening. - All the
juniors Plan to attend and make
the dance a success.

The. West Kootenay Senior,
Soccer Tournament will be held
this Saturday on the school
field. Because the tournament
was postponed, the teams have
been able to do some extra prac-
tising and the games promise to
be real tests of skill. Everyone

turn out and ‘support our teams

to the bride was proposed by the
bride's grandfather, Mr. A. ‘T.
Horswill of Castlegar, to- which
the groom responded, Assisting
the brides mother im serving were
Mrs. C. E. Moll, Mrs, T. H. Web-
ster and Mrs, W. T. Waldie.
After a honeymoon in Spok-
ane and Couer d’ lene, Mr. and
Mrs. Tinker will reside in Rob-

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