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Strokers

First meeting

The Nelson-Castlegar
Strokers held their first
meeting April 28 in the
Castlegar Senior Citizens’

"|. Hall. After a coffee and visit-

ing time a lively sing-song
was held with Louisa Fer-
worn at the piano,

Mrs. Margaret Pryce,
physiotherapist from Castle-
gar Hospital led an exercise
session reminding those who
have had a'stroke to exercise
at home. Soup, biscuits and
homemade bread were
served for lunch and enjoyed
by all. A special cake for the
occasion was made by Mar-
garet Ford.

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Two films “Nicki, My
Friend” and “A Time to
Share” were shown by Jim
Ford. A special welcome was
given to visitors and Stro-
kers attending for the first
time,

Those attending were from
Trail, Salmo, Pass Creek,
Thrums, Krestova, South.

Slocan, Nelson and Castle- :

gar.

,. The next meeting to be
held in Castlegar is May 26 at
11 a.m. Anyone who has had
aastroke and would like more
information on this club
telephone 365-3540 or 359-
7480. *

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JASPER, ALTA. (CP) —
Hidden in the murky depths
of nearby Patricia Lake lie
the decomposing remains of
one of the more bizarre
schemes of the Second World
War.

About 25 metres down is
what once looked like a barn

‘Lake

Bizarre scheme

adrift on the lake. It was the
prototype for an airbase — a
multi-engined, man-made ice-
berg that was supposed to
end the U-boat menace in the
Atlantic.

Project Habakkuk, named
after a minor biblical proph-
et, was the subject of nearly

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two years of labor by sci-
entists and engineers on two
continents.

After the war, British sci-
entist Sir Charles Goodeve
dismissed the proposal as “an
absurd project that wasted
millions of man-hours of al-
lied effort.”

In 1942, however, when
German submarines were
sinking ships faster than the
allies could build them, the
idea of having bombers oper-
ating from a man-made ice-
berg far out in the Atlantic
had some appeal, at least to
Winston Churchill.

Habakkuk “would be of
ship-like construction, dis-
placing a million tones, self-
propelled at low speed, with

Kindergarten

SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 9-
(CASTLEGAR)

GRADE ONE & KINDERGARTEN
REGISTRATION

For the 1982 - 1983 School Year

Parents of childran wh:

8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

8:30.a.m,- 1:30 p.m.
a.m. -12:00 noon Castlegar Prima

1d enroll in either or
In September are asked to register their child at the nearest alementary
school at the time ond date indicated. If the child is presently attending
Kindergarten, there Is no necessity to register him/her in Grade One,

Please note that a Birth or Soptismal Certificate must be shown bofore a
child can be registered, Kindergarten pupils must be five yeors old on or
before December 31, 1982. Grade One pupils must be six years old on or
before December 31, 1962.

COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE:

In accordance with Section 113 of the School Act, every child over the age of
7 years and under the age of 15 years shall attend some public school during
the regular schoo! hours every school day.

MONDAY, MAY 10
Kinnaird Elementary and/or Valley
Vista (all registrations at Kinnaird

Elementary)
Robson Elementary

Grade One

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Details of these snd cciner job
riynities aro available ot:
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835 Spokane Street
Phones 368-5566

A large firm In the Trall area
foquite san electrical design
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negotiable, (235)

solary and
provided. (967)

ey
non-teaching personnel.
didates must have teaching ex-

erlance at di! grade
fevals; administrative experiance
at district level; management and
financial skills. (242)

A figure skating club in Trail area
is looking for an instructor to
faach fitures, dance, pairs, etc.
Salary retainer plus lesson fees.
(196)

A West Kootenay area hospital
requries the services of a
registered physiotherapist.
Salary approximately $2,000 per
month. (1110) *

A busy dantal office in Castlegar
hos an opening tor an experien-
ced certified dental assistant.
Full-time 40 hour week. Applican-
ts must be prepared to work
somo Saturdays, Salary $9 - $10
per hour. (211)

evidence

its own anti-aireraft defence,
with workshops and repair
facilities, and a surprisingly
small refrigerating plant for
preserving its own ‘exis-.
tence,” wrote Churchill after
the war.
DESCRIBES PROJECT
An architect's sketch
shows an ice ship more than
one kilometre long. It has’
engines on the sides and huge
rooms for storing aircraft,
bombs, fuel and supplies.
Canada was persuaded to
do most of the studies. The
National Research Council
farmed out research to the
universities of Alberta, Man-
itoba and Saskatchewan,
while the national parks were
chosen as convenient test
sites. s
George Ford, former dean
of engineering at the Univer-
sity of Alberta, spent three
months in 1943 smashing
blocks of ice in an engin-
eering lab on the campus,
testing the resistence of ice
strengthened with straw,
wood or other materials.
“We weren't allowed to
know (why),” he says, “I
never knew until about 15
years after the war.”
Among those who did
know, however, was L.A.
Thorssen of Clagary, then a
civil engineering professor at
the University of Alberta,
His job was to test the
strength of 20-metre beams
of ice which he formed in
moulds on the shore of Lake
Louise, near Calgary.
LITTLE KNOWN
“Very little was known of
the strength of ice and very
little was known’ of rein-

. forced ice —a tremendous lot

of work had to be done before
you could consider designing
a floating land strip,” he says,

“I went up several week-

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Lake Louise. We were trying

to determine how you could
build large beams out of ice
— reinforcing it as you do
with concrete."

Thorssen believes that
Habolehul might have been
uilt if the war had
differently. ini
“It would have been fea-
sible. If the U-boat menace
had continued at the level it
was, it may have been built.”

ry
9:00a.m.-11:30a.m. Blueberry Creek Elementary
TUESDAY, MAY 11
* 9:00.a.m.-11:30a.m. Woodland Park Elementary
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12
8:30a,m.-11:30a.m. Castlegar Primary
8:30 a.m, - 11:30. Pass Creek Elementary
8:30a.m.- 2:30p.m. Tarrys Elementary
9:00'a.m. - 12:00 Noon Ootischenia Elementary
Thank you for your cooperation.
J. Holden
Superintendent of Schools:
School District No. 9 (Castlegar)

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