CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, May 5, 1960 Cominco Holds Strong Position MONTREAL — W. S., Kirk-; pattie, president of the Consoli- dated ‘Mining and Smelting, Co: of Canada said at the shfare- holders’ annual meeting Thurs-, day the company continues to, maintain a strong liquid and working capital position, He said -the strengthened , working capital position is partly due to less expenditure last year on plant and equipment ai Five Class Rooms | Born at Hospital ‘THANKS > To everyone who helped in any way towards the PROVENCTAL :LE dec. 399392100 Published Every Thuraday at ‘‘The: Crossroads of the Kootenays” Meetings of the Castlegar) by of the West Kootenay Drama Festival. 10 CENTS PER COPY ‘THURSDAY, MAY. 12, 1960 : Beauliful Cards and Gifts a FOR _ Mother’ S sey. is q that this sea! ee rent. projects will require capital expenditures greater than pro- visions for tl and District * . Hospital Trustees were held in’ Robron, Kinnaird cot "of 2000, ‘Studies’ ‘are’ also being made of the possibility of and ,_ All the retiring trustees were Zine prices have improved considerably, said Mr. .Kirkpat- rick, and the market now shows a satisfactory balance between supply and demand. Lead prices have also streng- theneq and he expected this trend to continue during the year. Mr, Kirkpatrick commented that lead and zinc reserves at the huge Sullivan mine in Kim- derley, which produces two- thirds of the’ company’s output, were sufficient for' more than 20 years at the existing production rate. “However, in the extraction of ore from a large mine like THE ICE PALACE FOR MONTREAL'S FURST MINTER CARNIVAL A DISTINGUISHED WHISKY : Another notable achievement in 1883 was the creation of the distinguished Canadian Rye Whisky, Seagram's “'83"*. Generations of Canadians since 1883 7 favour and bouquet of this fine whisky. Seagtams 66 This advertisement is not published & or jalpleyed by the Liquor Control’Board or by the Government of British Columbia, the must be made tor orderiy withdrawal from exhausted areas with due regard to local ground conditions. Shop-Easy Has Luminous Ceiling Even on the gloomiest day, the Castleaira Shop-Easy will be bright and sunny inside thanks to its typ: ceiling. tor further thi terms. These, were: W. T. Waldie, Robson; J. C. McLeod, Kinnaird and Johnny Williams, "Castlegar. ‘Mr. Williams presented the meetings with figures which he sald indicated “the extent to which our’ hospital is serving us in this area,’ "He guid’ there were 1,249 pa- tients: treated in the hospital in 1959 “or one in six of local pop- 7,988 patients. days.” There were 152 babies born for a total of 895 baby days. Mr, Williams said that the 162 bables wil} - mean, “five sure class rooms” for the ‘school boara to Construct for grade one students in 1966, There ‘were 14,688 units of laboratory work done during the year and 1,866 X-ray eXamina- tions using 3,810 shects of fiim were carried out. “This. alone has been a convenience to a lot .of people,” commented Mr. Wil- liams. ulation of the area for a total of | 29° during hot weather at the hospital. The black topping of the KINNAIRD LITTLE THEATRE FESTIVAL COMMITTEE VOL. 13, No. 19 CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COMME roadways. and parking areas ‘of the hospital are being organized under the winter works program which sees the provincial and federal governments paying .75 per vent of the ,labor costs, said Mr. Williams. A total of $6,443 was spent on improvements at the hospital last year, of which-the. hospital improvement district granted $2,- 297. Free Pork: For Welfare Free canned pork is avail- able to persons on welfare, ci- vil defence’ officer Steve Jankola told the Kinnaird council Mon- day night, ir. Jankola said the pork is being ade available by the fed- eral government, There were 463 in 1959 and 57 blood patria were given. Over $600 was written off in bad debts during the year, These debts were mainly of the small _with the such as $1 and $2, but dighting experts designed the pan-type lighting system to fit between the ceiling beams, using 2 ft. square translucent plastic pans set into a Suspended metal ceiling grid. Behind the styrene Blastle pans are hundreds of feet of fluorescent tubing spaced about a foot apart over the entire ceil- ing. Perfolite plastic inserts with random pattern translucent holes. are used to create a decorative border for each lighted area, and at intervals over display cases and along the ‘building front colored light fixtures ‘ are dropped through the ceiling system to preduce ‘bright accents of color they a lot of time car- Tole them on the books and al- though the persons concerned think they are not big, said Mr. Williams, they are big when looked at collectively. sun room at the east end of the hospital. is being designed Service Station Plan Refused In line with the village's building bylaw, the Kinnaird council Monday night refused to approve a plan for the placing of a service station at Castleaird Plaza. and light. The ceiling is one of the lar- gest of its type in Western Can- ada. Light level on display areas‘ is 90 fdot candles, or roughly * three times the normal light in { However, council wili: sug- gest to the company that it re- locate the service. station build- ings about -50'feet from 11th St. and. 50 feet from Highway No. 3 to allow “better access to. the offices or centre and to facilitate better driver-vision at the cor- ner of 11th and the highway. Council otha advise copia ELECTRICITY is the Biggest Bargain in Your Family Budget In spite of increased costs of liv- ing over the past number of years, your West Kootenay Power rate has not been increased. Your Electricity for water heating, cooking and other uses in the home, is available at rates that are among the lowest 4n North America. i: The average cost of Eléctric Water Heating for a family is less than 9c a day—and, cooking Elec- trically for the family would add about 2c a day to this low cost. High Cost Of Li _ @ Iving soline), the cost «i apiher vuncing a home, aad medical that tances -will have to be “fairly ‘well adhered to in order to elim- inate traffic’ problems.” VLA Building Site Slated for Kinnaird Nick Shelfontiuk appeared ‘Mr. Shelfontiuk said that the subdivision has been approved as a VLA building site “providing that they can/get the proper in- formation on: water and streets,” Comm. G:S. Rust said that'a lot of work and information must be made available to council on a subd‘vision before approval can be given. A copy of the water’ agree- ment bylaw and the zoning bylaw wl be scupplied Mr.: Shelfontiuk by .tha village for, forwarding to VLA, but until-a definite plan is decisions can be meade. SASH “AND pooR WORK PIERSON WINDOWS AND ALL KINDS OF . GLASS. GLIDDEN PAINT KOOTENAY BUILDERS submitted to council no definite | ORDER YOUR FREE COPY - 1960 BOOK OF HOMES May We.... — be of service to you if you are building or remodelling! We have a good siock of @ CEMENT © LUMBER © ROOFING @ INSULATION | @ PLYWOOD WE'RE SURE YOU WILL LIKE OUR SERVICE AS WELL AS PRICES BROS, BUILDING & SUPPLY CO. LTD. PHONE 3351 NOTICE : ‘Residents of Kinnaird The attention, of .parents whose. children own air uns is directéd to the provisions of the Game Act printed below. It will be noted that-no person un: der 14 years of age can obtain a firearms licence. and hence cannot oun, an air gun, Game Act, Section 32 (1) ates No person shall at anytime carry. or use any irearm without taking out a licence in that behalf, “Firearms” includes air guns and spring guns. Any person 18 years of,age must-be accom: panied by someone over 18 years of age.. This per- son does not need a firearms licence if they are not carrying the firearm. - No person under 14 years can get a firearms licence. The penalty for carrying a firearms withoul a licence is a minimum of $10.00 anda maximum of $300. Also, the firearms will be confiscated. cs SLUT CCM “morning reporter who broadcasts + the Prairie”, * fon). The content of the pt is - gleaned. fropi : he etunty Cc reference to the source. “AL ERE _ BACON, side sliced, Ib.; . 39¢ of by the piece, th., .. 29c WIENERS, Ib. ....... 360 Red Label T-BONE or SIRLOIN STEAKS, th. 69c BRISKET, Ib.,......... 29¢ "Beef POT ROASTS, Ib., . 49c Don‘t seat our 4 page FLYER is still good this week-end COFFEE, Blue Ribbon, thy es SUGAR, 10, Ib, bag, a FLOUR, Purity, 25 Ib. bag, .. COFFEE, Red & White label, Ib. 49c.. GRAHAM WAFERS, McCormick's, 2 for . TANG, Salad Dressing, 24 oz. jar, wc. 59c°° SOAP, Palmolive, Reg. 4 cakes 33c 99 JAVEX BLEACH, 64.07,, .... “sta . SWEET BISCUITS, 2-Ib. Party Mix ... BUTTER, Ist. grade, Ib., .:...... ICE CREAM, Westland ¥2 gal 65c_ ORANGES, 138’s doz., ... “AVACADOS, each . SHOES fo fit the whole family at low. prices everyone can afford. 3 Children’ 's Running Shoos, $1 90°. $2.19 “Chilean s. : OXFORDS SANDALS, FLATTIES white, black, brown White Running se Boots for Sports ate sites $2.49 $2.59" , fez of $5, per broadcast for its % compiiation ‘and ‘announcing. At “in the quoted: news items which Castle-Bar May Join There is a possibility” that the Castle-Bar Ranch ~ will be brought into the Village of Cas- tlegar as a Veterans’ Land Act housing subdivision. Nick Ranch Village” : that any subdivision taken into tHe village’ must be approved by the taxpayers “and this takes some time.” The residents of _ Casilegar ting the VLA, appeared before the Castlegar council last, week on the subject, He said the VLA ia interésted in two pleces of property in the District: ‘the Ku- ryluk subdivision in Kinnaird-and the Caatle-Bar Ranch near Cas- ar. i Mr. Shelfontiuk sald the sub- division would be buiit on the Jower 20 acres of the: Castle-Bar Ranch. Ho said the VLA would put in lots with 150-foot frontage. eo Comm. Walter Thorp (BC Cans Les Way veteran Sunday Les : Way, news gathered from B.C.’s week- ly newspapers, has ‘been dismis-| : sed. from the CBC because he is a Liberal candidate for the next provincial election in ‘Vancouver’ s Point a rey riding. ‘Way's “comments on “his dismiss. follow: Each week f or 15- years I pied the would intelligence”. of taking into the village a. subdivision with such wide lots because a the costs of servicing them, , noted Comm. Aage Sylvest.” .. ‘Village chairman . Op all enquiries as to cost, ete, “and ‘then let the people decide whe- thee tt it Is to their interest to take Mr, Oglow said that from ‘av! reports in the hands of council, the Castle-Bar Ranch is a “na- tural extension” of the, village's boundaries. “Ta be quite “prepared to make a case of it and let the Mr, Oglow said that when the VLA representative is: .in- the area “The village office’ ig. at his disposal and he :can get ‘the information he requires from: the village staff.” Over 35 trict s along with “people ave CBC's. a cniory News” pro- gram for the ific Region. . “Neighbori¥: News” is’; a weekly 10-minute .summary of news and -human ‘interest stories concerning B.C.'s rural areas. asj- : the “B.C. weekly (similar - News” programs are’ rovince: e. Marit Yeported in ied for Quebec. ang: from Trail and’ the surrounding area attended : the 3rd “Annual low salg the village evanta ‘riake 3 Justice Minister Fulton: tries. outa’ cell in’ i Federal medium security penitentiary at Joyceville, north of Kingston, The new modérn innovation in penal-institu- tions will eventually accommodate 460 offenders in‘a jail- that has no walls and where the guards carry arms, With Mr. Fulton is Warden 0.°A. Ear! : | eialcgu to ix Inland Gas Rates Castlegar will’ contact Trail] ° the gaiety. ani cme of: and: Nelson. hearings to {be held by: the B.C.° public utilities commission -.on rates charged by. -Invana Natural. Gas. |... Comm. mae Sylvests said he] >. newspapers, an shhorly:- Newer therefore, has tri that of a “commentator” .on “pro- 80) vincial, national or ser is mot seis, “Neighboriy News' is not that .. the