CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, August 7, 1958 A SENIOR PARTY We hope they have a ball. They deserve to, Yes, when the Senior Citizens of Castle- gar and District hold their big party at the home of their president, J. T. Webster of Retson on Saturday, they deserve to have a ball. ‘They are the persons who gave birth to Castlegar, Kinnaird, Robson and District, and to similar towns and communities through- out the rest of the province and Canada. Although they‘re average age isn’t that high, (and at least one of their number ob- jected to being invited to a Pioneer Mother's tea, ‘I’m not that old!" she said,) they have known hard work and have raised families that have done their communities proud. They have seen this country, province and District grow, and they deserve to have as much fun as they can. They have done their share for the community — but try and tell them that. They still take an active inter- est in many of our organizations and clubs and still spear-head-much of our community effort, The senior citizens have set a full day for themselves. It starts at 9 in the morning and goes right through to the evening with a campfire and sing-song. It sounds like an arduous day to the rest of us, but they'll be the first out to church the next morning. KOOTENAY ROADS Premier W. A. C. Bennett's Social Credit - government celebrated its sixth year in office Friday. It might be interesting to see what been extended westerly four miles with one mile completed. Project 870 — Grading of 4.11 miles of the Summit Lake, Creston-Saimo Cutoff on Highwdy No. 6 is practically completed, Project 898 —. The 2.05 mile road-di- version at South Slocan on the Southern Trans-Provincial saw tenders called last year but no contract has been let so far. Project 776 — 6.76 miles have been is g it has done highway-wise in the sidings of Rossland-Trail and Nelson-Creston for half of that period — the last three years. The Kootenays need a system of first- class, direct, high-speed highways to push them ahead. This the government has at- tempted to provide — but not always at a rate appreciated by a number of groups and associations in this area. _!€ only the federal government were to receive such prompting in the matter of re- ducing freight rates! Alone, or tied in with a fast system of highways, reduced freight tgtes would boom the Kootenays ahead. However, what are some of the major Projects (aside from the blacktopping of the girport road, widening of the Rossland road, and paving of the Robson read,) that have been. Proposed, Started, completed, or unfin- ished in the fiscal years -57, 1957-58, and 1958-59 to date, me ROAD CONTRACTS: Project 756 ~~ Si it Creek, Creston-Sal: cutoff. This project entails work on 6.17 miles of the. Southern Trans-Provincial Highway and on’a :17 mile connection to the present Southern Trans-Provincial. This project is practically 1 in section one of the Castlegar- Sheep Lake section of the Kinnaird-Cascade highway. Project 878 — In section two of the Castlegar-Sheep Lake section of the Kinnaird- |fe Cascade highway, approximately two miles of the 8.76 miles are completed. PAVING CONTRACTS: Completed in the last three years is 6.25 miles of the Cres- ton-Porthill highway. Two miles of the Sou- thern Trans-Provincial between Creston and Erickson has been done. . One mile of side roads have been paved in the Creston area and 4.5 miles have been done’ in the Slocan area. The Trail arterial has seen .4 miles done. : One mile has been: paved at Genelle and half a.mile has been done on the Ross- land arterial of the Southern Trans-Provin- cial. Exactly 6.65 miles have been done on the Waneta highway between Columbia Gar- dens and the U.S. border. _, BRIDGE CONTRACTS: The Sanca Creek bridge and the bridge at Nelson have both been leted. In our ii jiate area, the Pass Creekibridge and the overhead (CPR) . bridge at Castlegar have also been completed. TIMELESS A WEEKLY MESSAGE FROM THE CASTLEGAR MINISTERIAL | ASSOCIATION : By MISS F. CLEMO TOPICS | “Yet the Lord will command His loving Kinaness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me.and my prayer unto the God of my life.” Psalm 42:8 The words of the psalmist David became very real recently, not in preparation for a message nor the experience though which one passes that causes us to recall God's faithful promises but through the song of a bird or midnight. " The song was heard several nights in succession. The darkness gave no reason to utter these ‘shrilling notes. What could he see to sing about? It must have come from within as did the melody at midnight from the Philippian jaif where Paul and Silas sang unto the Lord. Cheerfulness based upon an inner source of peace and assurance is available to the child of God. The perennial smile, the cheertul greeting and the patient, helping hand are the natual fruits of the spirit of the Lord. Today's busy world, social pressure and capsuled worship leave the ‘inner soul of man seltish, impatient with others, and without thought for others. .. ____ How this world needs alittle friend-- liness and cheerfulness from those who know the Lord--the author of. songs in the night. \f you have no song, let the Lord Jesus Christ . fill your heart with a melody that gives you songs in the daytime as well as in the nights, Sunday Church Services ST. RITA‘'S CHURCH Rev. E. A, Brophy, P.P. 5th at Elm Streets Sunday Masses at 8:30 and 10:30! COMMUNITY BIBLE CENTRE; CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST Sunday ‘in the WLegion Hall 10:30 Sunday School 7:30 Family Service ‘TTER DAY SAINTS Sundays at 10:30 am. Twin Rivers: Hall Mass at Genelle at 4:00 p.m, PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE Sunday School — 10 a.m. Morning Worship — 11 a.m. Evangelistic — 7:30 p.m, Prayer and Bible Study, Thurs,! - 7:38 p.m ” Priday, 7:30 pm Young Peoples| At 51 Columbia Ave. Wed., 7:30 Young People's Hr, Fri, 8:00 Prayer & Bible Study| THE UNITED CHURCH Robson: 1st & 3rd at PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH KINNAIRD Public worship Sundays at m. Church school in the basement at 10 am, M. Reside, Minister Mam. Kinnaird: Service of Worship} at 9:45 a.m. Castlegar: Service of Worship at! 7:30 pam, THE ANGLICAN CHURCH SUNDAY, AUGUST 10th Castlegar — 8 a.m. ONLY Kinnaird — 9 am. Robson — 11 a.m, “THE | Castlegar News Published Every Thursday At Member: Canadian ‘ Weekly Newspapers Assn, OF THE Castlegar, B.C,” tL. V. CAMPBELL Publisher Ys” Member:.. | B.C. Weekly Newspapers A : Subscription Rate: $3.00 per year by mail — 35c per month by carrier Authorized as second class mail, Post @ffice Department, Ottawa Bureau IT JUST KEEPS | Yes, like Topsy, the special Centennial edition of the Castlegar News just keeps growing. It keeps growing ; with more and more stories and pictures of Castlegar, Kinnaird, Robson, Brilliant and the whole District and with bright, interesting stories and pictures on the history and growth ‘of B.C, Order your extra copies today at the special price of 20 cents and assure yourself and relatives of a copy of this informative special edition. The press run for this special Centennial Issue of the Castlegar News will be determined greatly by advance orders, so place yours NOW and assure yourself of extra copies. PHONE 3031 DRAWER 490. THE OLD HOME TOWN sonmtu ttre’ By STANLEY , Le a2 IT WAS ONLY HIS SECOND SHOTa= A BULUS-EYE © DR. N. MACKENZIE OF UBC SAYS -—You WouLDAT Ev ANY CHANCE KNOW WHO THIS GOL? BALL BI GS TOP = BACK-YARD PRACTICE =" It is “convenient self-delu-' sion” to say that our society can- not afford to spend more on edu- cation, Dr. N, A. M, MacKenzie, president of the University of B.C, says in his annual report. “The report, “Education ne We Gel Schools We Want and Deserve There is no necessity for an of CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, August 7, 1958 ~ READY-MIX action that attempted to find a by blaming the weak- our own system and. its values, The Soviets are not ahead of us in all branches of selence but they will overtake us soon, “un- less we discover the respect for that we once had, and World,” the’! Soviet in earth . and unless we put considerably more money into tion than we do some of the implications for Canada’s schools and universities.| The Russian advances in science and technology are the, result of directing a substantial part of the country’s economy, materials and manpower into and into (coe rucrnas ovvenats be, Wsen Beers From B.C., Federal Gov'ts Sons Ask Specific Aid. and president MacKenzie says. He adds: “The magnificent} indexing, abstracting and trans- lation facilities, for example, are services which our governments, or our industries, could have set uecationel system." * up, quite independent ‘of our ed-| now.” Dr. MacKenzie says he agrees with those who have interpreted the Russian successes as mean- ing that we must give more of our young people & more thor- ough education than we have been doing, Our own scholars and sclen- tists warned us of the Russian advances, he says. “If anyone was suprised,” he adds, “he re- veals a lack of knowledge of,| and respect for, our own schol- ars? * ‘nesses of our educational system| on teacher training institutions, “Democratic societies,” he writes, “get the schools, teachers and systems of education théy want and deserve, We have for years underpaid,. undertrained and overworked our teachers. Teachers who were ‘too well- qualified’ found it difficult to get jobs because schoolboards, back- ed by the public, did not want to pay the extra salary deserved by extra‘training.” If anyone is responsible for our failure to keep up with the Russians in education, the presi- dent continues, it is the public and the various levels of gov- ernment. The deficiencies of our educational system are those of our society and if we wish-to DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR CONSTRUCTION JOB No Fuss. ..... No Muss For Service Phone Trail 2054 Collect icGauley “= The says he shang: fon we must change by the re- Sons of Freedom Monday ise sued a declaration asking federal and British Columbia govern-| it establishing the community, In Russia and that no lIabor costs would be charged to federal or 2 a zunder the ments for specific their proposed migration to Rus- sia and said 3,000 of their num- ber have decided to make the move. ‘The. “interim declaration” issued ‘by Fraternal Council of heading of cost of relocation.” ‘That members making the move “would leave" without a thought of ever returning; accept the nominations of the federal g to the pro- the Union of Christian C 1 ties and Brotherhool of Reform- ed Doukhobors contains four re- quests to the governnients and posed’ board to investigate the relocation costs and that they would enter “into -sincere and 1 ” four pledges by ‘The requests are for:- : Release of Sons of Freedom children placed in a dormitory ischool at New Denver by the provincial government — af- ter their parents failed to send ‘them to public schools — “so that they can be prepared for the leave-taking;” The document was approved by the fraternal council Sun- day at a meeting in Krestovi. Leaders of the sect sald it would be put to a“mass meet- ing of Sons of Freedom there within a few. weeks, . gestion of the Vancouver Pro- vince as a t on Payment of costs for the move, to be made directly to transportation com- panies involved; +: Reimbursement to individual members for assets left in Canada — “a fair miarket price to be paid for vehicles, equipment, Tands, ture: “and requests and pledges of the group and was sent to provincial and federal governments. General ‘secretary Bill Moo- jelsky of the Freedomite group said Monday 3,000 Sons have al- ready signed up for relocation on ‘at jan ‘site’chosen by a:four- other property; !’ Contribution towards cost of establishing the. community in Russia, to be fixed by an impar- tial board set up by the Federal government, to be mutually ap- proved and to be paid directly to the Soviet government by the government of Canada. That all members relocating in Russla would do so without personal assets and that all in- ‘come resulting from sale of wassets would be directed to of the Russia earlier this year. An ad- vance group has been ready since June 15, he said: “ Mr, Moojelsky said the plan is for the advance party ‘of 250 young ‘workers to. fly to Bar- naul, the town closest to the se- lected site, and for the main par- ty to follow six month slater. The Freedomite leader said the interim declaration had been prepared with great care to avoid any. requests which might hinder He said tre- ‘in its new home; 8 “That members would under- mendous. thought had gone into the document “and our -people' take to supply. all labor needed in | stand behind it.” ~ NOW- New. 31 Nylon Tires at New Low Prices! ‘That the Freedomites would| - It was produced at the sug-|- a i man delegation ‘which. visited) - Ce _ 3-T Nylon Deluxe SUPER-CUSHIONS by GOODFYEAR ORY Snes dre cord tande,- Top deals on other Goodyears too! “Deluxe Super-Cushions — $16.95 +. with trade-in 6.70% 15, tube wpe | Super-Cushtons — $12.45 with trade-in 6.0.x 16, tabs type, 5 M23 193 Columbia Ave. ; je See us now for the hest tire deals in town Castle Tire Shop - Phone 4441 VULCANIZING and RETREADING _ Here are the - ab out exchanging your ise y 1. What is the Canada Conversion Loan of 1958? It is an offer to replace all unmatured 3% wartime Victory Bonds with new 25-year 414% Canada Con- version Bonds. (Other bonds of shorter term, bearing _ 6. What will be the total.of my cash adjustment? It will depend on the type of exchange. For example, a $500 8th Victory Bond exchanged for a $500 Conversion earned interest, interest rates of 414%, 334% and 3% are also avail ) 2. Why is the G ‘In order to reorganize the national debt on a longer term basis and thus reduce the volume of Government refinancing over the next few years. There is widespread’ public and. business agreement: that this ‘is a sensible idea and will help protect the soundness of the Canadian dollar... - : tet 3. What. intcrest will I receive on the new bonds? On the 25-year bonds the interest rate is 414% —this is 50% greater than the old Victory Bond rate. The in- crease on the 14-year and the 7-year bonds is also - substantial. 4. As a Victory Bond holder, will I be required to make any additional payment? No. On the contrary, you will receive an immediate cash adjustment. > 5. Do L_heve to convert my Victory, Bonds? You may, if you wish, hold your Victory Bonds. until maturity and on the due date you will be paid. their. full face value, The Conversion Loan offer is open only to Victory Bond holders;.and the “right” to convert :: gives Victory Bonds a special value -until the offer expires. This is because there are many people trying _ to buy them in order to invest in the new bonds, making this ion offer? « Bond paying 444% will give you $8.75 in cash im- diately: This includ 7. Does this offer apply to Canada Savings Bonds and other Government of Canada Bonds? z No. This offer is limited to unmatured wartime Victory : Loan Bonds only. 8. What steps should I take if I am away from home on yacation and wish to take advantage of this offer? . You should write i ly to your bank, i dealer, stockbroker, trust or loan company, requesting literature and application forms. A 9. Does it matter that the Victory: Bond I hold is very small? Every holder ofa Victory Bond, even though the amount , held may be only $50, should take advantage of this offer. It is in his best interests as well as in the best interests of Canada. 10. How long is this offer open? Until September 15, 1958, but it is to your advantage to convert as quickly as possible and have the benefit of the immediate cash adjustment. ’ 11,, Where can I exchange my Victory Bonds? At any bank, investment dealer, trust or loan company, . or through your stockbroker. ‘ . don’t delay — convert today EARN UP TO a | 1% ON THE NEW CANADA CONVERSION BONDS 3% wartime Victory Bonds. .