CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, Jan. 11, 1962
TAMIR

Funeral services were ‘held Sa-
turday from .the Castlegar United
Church for James Gemmill, 75,
who passed away suddenly at his
home in Casticgar last Thursday,
; Born in Fenwick, Scotland, on
Jan. 14, 1886, he came t6 Canada
in 1010, settling at Fort Macleod,
‘Alberta, where he formed. Mr,
Gemmill was married there in 1920,
In 1942 he moved to Castlegar
and was employed by Cominco in
Trail until his in 1955.

Funeral Service: Held Sat:
For James Gemmill, 75

was ‘Mra, J. E, Wallace, Hymns sung
included “Unto the Hills" and
“Blessed be the Tide that Binds."
Burlal was in Park Memorial Cem.
etery ot Kinnalrd,
Active pallbearers were: . L,
Grunerud, ©. Fraser, W. Easton, J.
Hunter, O, King and’J. Sherbiko.
Honorary pallbearers were: J. Eee
Tv.

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Since that time he had been em-
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AQAA oe see cxegeesoe, atthe, taeral

supporter of the United Church
and was an elder at the time of
his death. He had deen active dur.
ing the building of the original
United Church. He was also fond
of sports.

He 1s survived by his wife,

brothers, all in England, and three
grandchildren,

ifr, Gemmili was an atdent

Bowiing
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Results

Monday “High School” League —
Girls high single, Bey Robin-
won 208; girls high three, Bev Rob-
inson 486; boya high single, Garry
Gallo 241; boys high three, Garry
Gallo 637.

Roadrunnere 1, Pinbusters 3,
‘The Blowers 3, Pingobblers 1, Rub-
belroustrs 1, The Rascals 3.
Monday p.m, “Celgar” Mixed Lea. —
‘Ladies high single, Rose Dick-
son 291; ladies high three, Rose
Dickson 659; mens high single,
ave Calder 296; mens high three,

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No. 1 team; team high three, No.
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Team No, 1-12 points, 2-8, 3-1,
4-6, 5-7, 6-2, 7-3, 8-5, 9-10, 10-9,
1-0, 124,

Winners of the Christmas tur-
keys were Doralene Johnson and
Dave Calder,

Coffeebreakers Lengue —

Todey's play will give us the
winner of our second round!

Point score to date: Pincurlers
8, Take 5 12, Cheerios 14, Mugs 7,
Muffets 9%, Wheaties 934.

Ladies high single, Gladys Ma-

garet Reith 567; team high single,

No Fuss No Bother | Luck Supper to be held in the

Church basement — 6.30 p.m.
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Tuesday Afternoon League —
Ladies high single, Vi MoLuckie
(Ross's Market) 239; ladies high
three, Jean Young (Castlegar Drug)
649; team high single, Oglows 825;
team high three, Oglows 2161; lad-
des high average, Rose Dickson

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Tuesday Bm, “West's” League —

233; ledies high three, Jan Lelt-
ner 625; mens. high .aingle, Ken
Price 301; mens high three, Ken
Price 702; team high single, Little-
joes 983; team high three, aera
Joes 2813,
Greenbacks 3, Hasbeens 4, Lit-
tlejoes 4, Freshmen 1, Fireballs 0,
Turtles 0.
Tuesday p.m. Mixed io
Ladies high single, Jean Shay.
228; ladles high three, Non! Archi-
bald 548; mens high single, Ken
Leitner 283; mens high three, Ken
Leitner 673; team high single, Va-
gabonds 956; team high three, Va-
gabonds 2608.
Other top bowlers Bill Shay
607, Greg Stefoniuk 662,
Wed. am. “Drivers” League —
Ladies high single, Ruth Rourke
264; ladies high three, Ruth Rour-
ke 655; team high single, Bumpers
985; team high three, Bumpers
Carburetors 21, Sparetires 20,
Bumpers. 19, ‘Sparkplugs 18, Cranks
9, Exhausted 8.
Wed. pm. Ladies League -
Ladies high single, Annie Koo-
chin 221; Indies high thzee, Nethie
O'Shea 660; team high single,
Beatniks 862; team high three,
Beatniks 2302,
Beatntks 3, Fivethumbs 3, King
Pins 3, Choregirls 1, Sputniks 1,
Flyers 1,
Thursday Morning League —
Ladies high single, Helen Wal-
lace 251; ladies high three, Helen
Wallace 577; team high single,
Lions 912; team high three, Lions
2608, és
Thurs, p.m. Mixed “Comm.” Lea, —
Qadies high single, Pearl Fil-
Upoff 276; ladies high three, Mary
Lebedoff 688; mens high single,
Nick Sherstobitoff 288; mens high
three, Jake Koenig 792; team high
single, Breadwinners’ 1047;
high three, Kingpins 2865,
Other top scorers: George Ril-
koff 668, Lloyd Wilson 648, Don Mc
Larty 627, Elaine Rysen 621, Carl
Loeblich 624, Arnold Witt 614, Nick
Sherstobitoff 013, Nick Koochin 610,
Karl Koreen 604.
Smith's P&H Untouchables 4,
Rick's Recordbreakers 0, Kingpins

team

nahan 271; ladies high three, Mar. eT

Ladies high aingle, Jan Leitner |=

chin 585; meng high single, Siim
Koochin 264; mens high three,
Lorne Zinio 660; team ‘high ‘single,
Phantoms 9860; team high three,
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Published Every. Thursday at “The Crossroads: of the Kostenays” :

VOL. 15, No. 3

CASTLEGAR, BRITISH, hota THURSDAY, JAN, 18. 1962

10 CENTS PER COPY

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Se Bh ADR

Sori

River Tested For

Possible Dam Construction

4 contract to dump fi in the

igh | the castenen ferry to determine

has
to Ghamrock nm
of Nekusp by OBA Engineering, |

how it behaves when it ls dumped.
The ZI is being obtained from a
“borrow” area above Berry Creek.

Britain, ECM,

Canada’

Canads is a small country with
&  amall population and a small
domestic market and since she can't
change world trading patterns she
herself must change to meet those
~ patterns, the annual dinner meeting
of the Castlegar and District
Chamber of Commerce | was | told
last night,
Cominco official «J. R,) (Rex)

Talked

® great extent on export markets,
‘This province's three major econ-
omic factors — forestry, mining and
fishing — all “depend to a terrific
extent on the export market,”

Canada has enjoyed the second
highest standard of living in the
world since the end of World War
IL:“but we haven't been able to go
ahead from there for the past five
years.”

Canada’ “must shoulder her “way
into the markets of the world>..
into the European Common Market
markets, Into’ the U:S, market, and
into markets such es Jepen of-
tera.” Fi

, Mr, McMeekin said Canads is
at. an important ‘economic cross-
roads. He sald Britain's ‘decision to
geek entrance into the ECM has
caused North American business
and government leaders to ‘look

iy urgent. The U.S. has decided not
to retreat. behind tarifr walls, he
sald, but has decided to meet the
new economic strength of Europe
with strength of its own.

witlt this is true, for.the US.,”|
continued the speaker, “it is much
more true “for us.” Canada must do
the same,

Cr ‘“must now roll up
our.sleeves: or face a relative, if
not a slight, drop in our standard
of Iving in the years ahead.”

Lower prices, higher productiv-
ity and more aggressive selling have
alt been suggested ag remedies, sald
Mr, MoMeekin, but welght must
ee be given to the human element

abliities, ~
5. o. Muirhead of Kinnaird was
installed as president of the Cham.
ber at the dinner meéting by ‘relir.
ing _Prealdent R. 'D, are New
C..8.° Fay

The ‘Chamber! members, * their
wives and guests, were welcomed to
the Village’ of Kinnaird by village
chairman Carl Loeblich, Greetings
were also delivered to the group by
Castlegar village chairman Aage
Sylvest.

Doug MeMynn, Hesadens ‘of the

BO, especially ts

. Chimney Fire
In Post Office
Ai Robson Tues.

Silght damage-was done Tues-
day to the Robson post office by a
ie. that ts believed to have started

in the chimney of the building.

Wo estimate of the, damage is
available, but itis not belleved to be
too extensive. The fire had appar-
ently smoldered for some time be-
fore breaking out,

Mrs," J.- Leamy, postmistress,
discovered the fire at.about 8.45
‘Tuesday morning. The post office
Js about two years old and contains
much’ valuable postal equipment as
well as the mails,

Mrs. Ds W. Brookes
Hospital WA Proxy

‘The Women's ‘Auxillary to the
Castlegar hospital .will. hola thelr
annual dinner meeting this Satur-
day when’ the following néw slate
of officers will be installed:

‘Mrs. D. W. Brookes, president;
‘Mrs, Hugo Wood, first vice-presi-
de: + (diss Helen Douglas, second

Mrs, D,
treasurer; Mrs. ‘W. Gordon, secre-

fe of. Bouttiessiem Bo, aa a, director

{dress and. the installation. of ' the

of the’ Canadian Chamber of Com.

merce, spoke briefly, as ‘did. Ross-

land~Trail MIA Don Brothers.
Prior to Mr. MoMeekin's. ad-

Chamber's new officers, the SHES
band, under ‘the direction of band-
master Norman Fishwick, enter-
tained with a few’ musical selec-
tions, iF

Mr, Minnion’s annual report’ as
retiring president will be .carried
in full in next ‘week's ‘Castlegar
News,

“(Dubie roagn:
Terming the ‘work. strictly a |®

and .the recognition of Individual

rectars ‘are ‘Cec ele,
dave; Goren ¥ MoLachtln and sae 3
adjustment to. changed conditions ‘rate.

The ‘eection where the fi is

water at that polnt ona suitable
bottom for the purposes of ‘the
test. ‘The -section 1s also ‘suffic-

es to ‘the borrow area’ to
i hauling necessary on

Part of a preliminary testing pro-
gram, a CBA spokesman ‘sald tho
work 1s all part of the preliminary
work that must be done to arrive
at a logical design | for any dam
that might be billt.

‘The engineering firm presently
has © supervisory staff in the sren’
The road to the borrow area near
Berry Creek has been’ fixed up-so
that it can be used-by trucks,

Drilling is soon’ to be carried
out at Tin Cup: Rapids to find out
what kind of material ‘is ‘located
there, This will be done , with 2
view to possibly : doing | some im-
provements to the rapids to improve.
the flow of the river through that
section of the channel, °-

Pulp & Sulphite
-Granis Charier

* Jot Commerce Seale be an unwar.
“| ranted.

could be put in'the right’depth ‘of

school : cour
which was

‘on the pulp

course, whichis open to the

In ve Near Future’ ke

Unless

Soselved from ‘the en Demet
ment of Transport,"'in the very
‘hear future" for the Castlegar alr-
port, turning over of the total op-
erations of the fleld to the depart
ment will be recommended ‘by the
Castlegar Airport Committee,
‘The ‘Airport Committee is for-
med of representatives from the
municipalities of Castlegar and

g| Kinnaird and the City of Nelson.

is et tree’ species and books ‘on species
identification were on view at the Celgar-sponsored night

industry, first session of

Id last Thursday night at the high school.
A nominal fee. of: $7: is being charged for the -13-week

public. The registration fee

includes’ a’ ees of books and a. $3.50 text’: book.'

— Castlegar News Photo

Leaves

od here by the Gastlegar Chamber.

‘The
of Pulp, Sulphite and) Paper Mill
_ Workers has granted a chases to

to accommodate the travelling pub.
ile» without ‘undte® iriconventence,”

Mt vegiorial: ‘highs engineer =D. F.| toa
“1 Mart

tin has. ads «the. Snamber

Approval b
sana TSS "Ghana, abe
Congress, , :

Village Re-states
‘Position on “Speed

Castlegar council will re-state
its position to the RCMP and de-
partment of highways. that .the
speed Umit through the Village to
Kinnaird’s northern bount
should not be increased above 30
mph until ‘the highway in the
Sherbiko has been widened,

Couneil’s action followed a re-
port by works supervisor Norman
McNabb that the ROMP and high-
ways department are preparing 35
mph signs for installation in the
village, é
: Mr. McNabb sald the village
crew has moved the “entrance to
Castlegar": signs to conform to .the

new village boundaries,

(9nd . bridges © ‘chairman. Fred
|] Pressacco, charged ‘long line-ups of will Agree that the'extra’ ferry, ser-
vehicles being ‘left’ behind by. the | vice yequested sould pe ‘@an.unwar-
ferry ‘during’ these. hours. ; $ ranted ;
letter, 2: copy’ of | funds since present ene is able
which was released to the press by | to accommodate. the travelling pub-
Rossland-Trail: MLA: Don ‘Brothers; | lc without undue inconvenience.”

Ita’ inet
last month; |-Trequestod, thet the se-
cond ferry:be operated -between 7.30
and 9.90 e20,‘and between 230and
630 p.m, dally, The:’group’s roads

Mr, Martin’s
disproved Mr, -Presaacco’s charges.

of vehicles left behind by the ferry.
Noy.’ 27. three br

cars-at 416 pm, and 11 ‘cars at
445: p.m,

Pive-cars and four Buses were
left behind at. 3.40 p.m. on Nov.°30
and four cars and three buses at
3.60 p.m. on Dec, 1: One bus was
Teft behind ‘at 3.50 pm. on Dec, 4
and three cars at 725 p.m, p.m. on
Dec. 6.

=
Fiying Saucer

A strange object — “alternating
in color between red, orange and
yellow” — was seen lost Thurs.
day at cbout: 9.30 pm, by Kin.
naird resident BIW Voykin, his’
wife and neighbors, from their
home located- a ‘short distance
up the new highway...

A “red ball of fire” that “seem-

also seen by Kinberry Helghts re.
sident Gordon Baillie and several
of his neighbors at the same time,

Mr. Voykin sald the object. was
first seen over Brilliant, He sald
it moved very slowly, dropping alt
+, the while, over the Castlega> air_
: port until it disappeared or ap-

and Mrg.'John.

ey py mven

-the. direction ‘of

Uelty officer.

‘Red Ball of Fire’ Perhaps

ea to stiy the same color” was :

¢ peared ‘to ie just short‘of the —

From Space?

When first sighted it was a
deep red, It then turned orange,

in colors again. Just before it
elther disappeared or landed, it
flickered off and-on and then
went a dtep red In color,

Mr, Voykin said he hag read of
flying saucrs and reports indicate
that the same color pattern has
been seen elsewhere.

Mr, Baillie said the “red ball of
fie’ came straight: out’ of | the
east, He safd it appeared to stay
the same color although condi-
(Hens in the atmosphere did:make
+ colors appear In it’ much Ike the
; flames in a fire place,

He sald the ball got smaller and
smaller as; it moved -south until
it disappeared out of “sight,

were left behind trom. Dec: 15 to 18,

615 p.m,eand four at 630 p.m:
On’ Dec. 16, three cars were
left at 450 pam. nine at 6.05 Pm.
ard five at 5.45 p.m, On Dec. 18, 10
cars were left.at 4 pm. and four
at 410 p.m. There were no: other
vehicles ‘left behind at any other
times during : the Nov. at to Dec,
19 report period.

more on frequent occasions,” Mr.|¢

ferry crew." :

Martin says that. “Since
the latter Part of October we have! &
been’ keeping. 2‘ record. of all ‘cars
and:buses that are left as a result
of:a full :ferry load ..°. + You will
note from the. December) ' report
that ;there ts only approximately
one trip a day where there are any

Minor | Hockey Clinic Starts Tomorrow —

area; will take the. dorm’ ‘of a.plan- |: bE:

Ingredients “of knowledge, exe"
perience: and -abllity all assembled
on one sheet of. ice, that's the type.

ned program of demonstrations, in_
structions, and: experiments,” tried
the emphasis:on. ~skating, passing

Ontario, 36
Years ago, Ray. broke into. pro hoc-
bes at the early age of 18 with the

for grand total “of 856 Points. A.
note of interest is the fact that the

Intyre, president;
President; G. Pettitt, treasurer; 1
Bailey, secretary; A, Richards, L.
Brown, I. McGillvary and R, Mar-
tini.

Cars Behind

On Gniy Gne Trip a Day

‘The extra tery service request.) vehicles left behind due to’sn over~

loaded ferry, -
“This overload usually occurs
at o time when we have both. fer-

funds ‘since prestht pots ig able | ries’ ‘operating, and therefore’ there

ia‘nothing that can be done to aug-|

ment, the ferry. service /a¢ this per?

> Since-the ferry can usually
ih AB I6 nD

Anould be very *
for where ‘the travelling “public?

be‘ obliged to walt for. more than 15
minutes to: obtain passage on the
fers "

. Martin says that if the re-|
Po: rt ie “perused “very carefully, you

A letter sent to Hon. Leon Bal,
cer, minister of transport, by the
committee atates that “Heavy snow
removal expense and repairs dur-
ing the months of November and
December makes it quite obvious
that we will be without funds to
maintain the field after the end of
February.”

It continues: “We feel that un-
der the circumstances we will have
no alternative but to suggest to the
municipalities that consideration be

given to asking the department to
take over the total operations of
the fleld, unless we can obtain some

Mine-Fiill Lecal
480 Executive
Installed. for. 1962

‘The new executive of Local 480
‘wes Installed last week by Western
president of) Mine-Mill;"" Harvey
Murphy, at the’ first regular mei

| berahip. meeting this year,-

7. a. lanagan;
president, ‘Tom’ MoIntyre;.” finan-

cording secretary, Herb Vanderburg;
tor, Bob Kew; trustees, Charley
warden, Steve’ Chambers; conduc-
Kelly, Dave Doig, Elmer Pontius,
Alf Marsh, Joe Mukanik; board
Rossland, Doug Ianson;

With regard to the plowing and

It had ‘attached to {t.a-report kept! sanding of ramps, Mr,’ Martin Bays
hy ferry. attendants ‘of the number “as in the past, we will in the fu-
ture endeavor to keep the plowing |‘
‘The report’ discloses. that on| and sanding services of the Tamps
and seven cars} in the very best possible condition| ¥
were left behind at-3.40:pm., nine} at all. times.” E

Many Are Active
In Minor Hockey

‘Minor Hockey Week starts Sa-

turday and’ a number: of District
Due toa cable breakdown, notes! residents are busily: engaged with
the report, a heavy load of cars| minor hockey all season long.

Comm. Murray Little provided

On Dec, 15, 12 .cars were left at

i. Castlegar council with a list of ex-
356 pm. five at 5 pam. -three at/ ecutive members, coaches and ma-
nagers. They are:

Executive members — Ron Mc.
J. Lewis, vice-

‘Coaches .and managers — E.

Referring to the allegation that] Conroy, i. Brown, D. Baird, T. Wal
“there are’ delays of one hour or| lace, Wm. Duff, L, Bailey, G. Pet-

itt, E, Isukson, Rev, Day, R. De-

Martin writes that “These delays|saulniers, G. Jackson, J, Dry; A.
ate not known: by the -writer, and| Rizzuto, Wm. Price, R. Martini, c.
certainly would not “be apparent|Thring, D. Reld,’ R. McIntyre, B.

Castlegar, Jack Kelly; Fruitvale,
Ray Cedarholm; Kinnaird, Bill

Gattrell; and shop stewards ‘chair-
man, Hilly: York.

oe, |. whe! very
pear future.” 3
/, The letter, a copy of which was

formula outlined by pra heraety a
transport department official in
‘his letter of Sept, 22”

‘The letter says that when Hon.
George Hees, former transport min.
ister, visited Castlegar “ateur four
years ago, we were promised the use:
of a portable LLS. in the hope that.
it will raise the percentage of
landings during the winter monthy,.
AUlhough this promise has. Been’ re_ -
Peated several times, nothing as.
been done,”

Last year “we were obilget ta

Acfim that te mast viewding for
all J wpe! Batic}: Oe
Suites.

cial Secretary, Remo: ‘Morandini; xe-| reat

pertant form of women’s emicer aw
@ cause of death. Z

‘The special forum, sponsored by:
the Castlegar Unit of the Cana
dian Cancer Society, will be telt’
in the Castle Theatre starting at.
230 pm. Admission ig free and. is.

for women only.

‘The writer of this column has
been ‘fortunate in winning a 1962
Rotary Overseas Travel Award
and sails Jate in March for six
weeks In the United Kingdom.

Since learning of the award |
‘I've deen burning. the midnight
oll doing my homework on-British
Lolumbla and the glorious Koot-
enays. This is a great province
and the Kootenays are certainly
ene of B.C.’s crown jewels as some
of the facts I've dug up willtend
to Mustrate — all too briefly —
over the next few columns, ‘I

Ce

‘The 29,409 sq. miles compris-
ing the East ‘and West Kootenays
make up about 8 per cent of BC.'s
366255. sq, miles, Our population
of around 100,000 persons ‘is but
6 per cent of B.C.’s small | 1.7
million population,’

according to the records kept by the deletes ®,/Fabbro and H.Mar~

The Kootenays. are slightly

end shooting.: tsburg Hornets. That ‘was the
and Saturday to. conduct a two-day|.» Heading the lst: of “the three nee what turned out to’ be
Rockey. mez ucttonal pseuinls under. instrnstors-:will be. Ray Powell, dja brilliant career, filled with awar-

‘accounted for 858 points, two better
than that of Powell's.

| "A mbe cndekey -achool,
2 Ha tnd 0 Be ld tn the Caters

-k: former’ hockey ‘great, | ds, achievements “and records,
of ot Onion sDuring.14 ‘years in the protes-
jalonal.ranks, Ray played 600 gemes
and scored 33 goals and.548 nscsts,

the fleet of

who | during; his illustrious: career | =

.Was acclaimed ‘one of - the greatest
centermen - in’ minor. Professional

jshareplonihipa./tn tie 1OMB-A9 seh- processes t at the high school here last 'Th

gar News P Photo.

The
d by Celgar personnel, — Castle-

80 PERSONS, ‘all of them employees of Celgar’s pulp mill].
division, attended the first
Ray (also. won -three scoring ett school’ course on the pulp industry and its various

lecture. of a 13-week

A Personal Column

_ By, BURT CAMPBELL

Beautiful B.C. anid its Bountiful Koctesays

Jarger than Ireland, which hes 2

Population of 3’millicn, and are
slightly smaller than Seotiand,
which has a population of 52 mil.
lion. B.C.’s total area is alightly-
more than three times that of the
British Isles,

The Kootenaya embrace near-
ly alt of the watersheds of the
Columbia and Kootenay’ rivers in
southeastern B.C. and are located
about 200 miles inland from the
‘Pacific Octan. We're. bound on
the north by the Big Bend coun-
try, on the south by the U.S. bor-
der, on the east by Alberta, and
on the west by the Okansgan-
Boundary valleys.

The topography of the Koot-
enays consists of a series of nortn.

kirk att? Purcell mountains — and

the Rocky riountains ‘area rich

tenuate
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