To Save Your Head — Use It. Many lives can be saved from fire simply by keeping cool and using your head. So say experts of the Association of Canadian Fire Marshals and the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs who, during Fire Prevention Week, October 6-12, are doing their best to emphasize the dangers of fire in the home, The average householder may conquer a small tire but the. best thing to do in fire is to notify the fire department. If you have a telephone and can’t remember the number — and you should post the number near your telephone — tell the telephone operator,, being sure you give her the correct address. Stay near a door or a window so any sudden bursts of flames can-not trap you. If you are fighting fire with a hose or. any type of water stream, always aim at the burning object, never at ‘the smoke or flame. If the fire is spread out over the floor or ground, start at tthe end nearest you and sweep it out completely as ‘you advance. If the fire is travelling up.a wall, put ut the-fire at the bottom first and then follow it up. In fighting a‘fire caused by electricity, first turn’ off the power. You should know the locetion of the main house switch and a simple pull of the handle cuts off power throughout the house. That prevents the fire from being re-ignited and also avoids the pos- sibility of giving yourself electrical shock. or most boys, “being a fireman” is the height of ambition. It’s easy for parents to teach children simple, good fire-fighting practice by making a game of it. Who in the family does what, where and when im fire emergency can be a fascinating topic for family discussion. it’s true, according to the experts, that more people are killed by smoke and poisonous fumes given off by fire than by actual flames. Many fires occur at night and by the time you waken they will have ‘gained foothold. Don’t rush out into the hall. Feel thedoor first. If it is hot don‘t try to open it as the Yhall is probably fulf of fire that will burst in. Brace the door if possible. If you can, throw‘water on it to keep it cool, Open your window and attempt to at- tract outside attention, Never jump unless it is ab- solutely necessary, Wait for the firemen to take you down with ladders. The wait may seem long, but the average city- fire department is on the job within minutes of an alarm. Deadly smoke and gases as well as actual flames tend to rise. Open stairways and open doors assist ‘their progress. As a result, upper floors are usually the most dangerous. Investigation has shown that people are overcome much more quickly while sleep- ing on upper floors than those sleeping on grourfd ‘floors. Don't give fire a place to start. But if one does “come, use your head and you'll probably save it. {t's age-old advise — and it’s worth repeating. “My Life Insurance man did a grand job for me, Ed”’ All talk over the back fences vision programs. Very often it’s about suct vital thin, after the family and having enough moncy to retire on. ‘Your life insurance man is well equipped to solve these problems. He is trained to ani a family's future requirs- ments. He serves + by offering practical plans to n't about sport, or politics, or tele- s louking ing oprortunt- aAsig COULDCS ‘a they have 2 Jiu n ‘Canadians 2-year traini audition, for those who desire tu pursue more adviunced st here is a 3-year university extenston course leading to the Association's designation of Chartered Life Underwriter (C.L.U.} This thorough training plus practical experience in helping people explains why millions of Canadians have welcomed the services of the modern Life Underwriter. THE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN CANADA THE wm ABET: Canadian Weekly . Mewspapers Assn. Subscription ~ Castlegar News Published Every Thursday At c DADS OF THE Castlegar, B.C. L, V. CAMPBELL Publisher Rate: _ $8.00 per year — 25¢ month by -carrier Authorized as second ‘class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa BC, Weekly Newspapers Adyartising Bureau" Natisnat Wak MEMORIAL He LelGin ore | Satur ay} Weunbedey " 1eEHRIST CHURCH 6 ext bie 4 maine rb NORE Sunday CONFEDERATION “EG *THE QUEEN IN OTTAWA’ CBC TV and Radio locations . Tuesday ., Pane men gti RESIDE DRIES OSE CBG-RADIO oR CBC~THEVISION Twenty-five television cam. eras and 27 radio pick-ups will be used in bringing the pageantry of the royal visit to Ottawa into millions of homes across Canada. This sketch map of Ottawa shows the routes the royal party will follow on each day, points of interest; and the positions at which GBC cameras and com- mentators will be located. What is tl, world’s largest an- nual exhib a? Hi . The Canadian National Ex- hibition at Toronto holds this dis- _tinction. Land, buildings and eq- ada. A large limestone house in the Scottish style situated on the Ottawa River near the junction of the Rideau River, it, was built in 1885. + What is Canada’s national em- blem? Two emblems have gained aa Guide Leader Needed Here national in C the beaver ‘and the maple leaf, The beaver‘has been a significant feature of Canada’s history and development from ¢afliest times;. the pursuit of its skin was lar- gely responsible for first open- uipment occupying 350 acres are ing up the country. It dates as an valued at $50,000,000. It has its emblem at least from the early own railroad depot, bus and street 17th century, when it appeared ear terminals, bank, post office, police and fire stations, hospital on a coat of arms granted by Charles 1 to Sir William Alex- and telephone exchange. It has ander, who held Nova’ Scotia as the largest exhibition building a royal grant and later extend- in the world with a floor area of eq his interest to other parts of 25% acres. The average yearly what is now Canada. attendance is about 3,000,000. It began in 1864 as the Toronto ex- ‘The beaver has on helg when only a few’ faithful members attended a regular meeting of the Castlegar Girl Guide Association at the home of Mrs, G, McMasters. The main topic of the dis- cussion was the urgent need for a Guide Leader for the Castlegar Any woman in girls and the training provid- ed inthe Girl Guide movement is. asked to contact District Com- missioner Mrs, -W. K. Fox or any association. .member. Canadien memorial medals, coins hibition and was incorporated in ond postage stamps. 1878 under its present name. The maple leaf has become Where. and what is Earnscliffe?. the chief element.in the new de- This historic old house in Ot-: sign of the Canadian coat of arms tawa was the residence of Sir and was the badge of the Can- John A. Macdonld and is now adian expeditionary force “in occupied by:.the United King- World War-.1. It was used as early dom High Commissioner to Can-. as 1805 asthe particular emblem of the French Canadians, and _and was so described in the Que- ‘pee Gazette of that year, while the. thistle was mentioned as the emblem of the Scottish C Westward Hol! By Lewis Milligan “Wheat isin the dual position of being the pro- duction king of the prairies and, in the same breath, the Cinderella of world markets.’ During a recent visit to Saskatoon | made a note of the above. passage from an editorial in The Star- Phoenix of thot city. It is a picturesque and apt siz- ing-up of the situation in which theegrain grower of the west finds himself. He is at once the monarch of all he surveys, with vakt stores of wheat overflowing his elevators and barns, and at the some time a poor Cinderella sitting among ,the cinders of his’ dreams waiting for the good fairy to transmute his golden grain into golden cash. I" The good fairy is the Canada Wheat Board, and she is waiting for offers to buy the grain at a fixed price. But the wheat buyers are waiting for the price to come down, or are buying grain elsewhere. Some are turning to other victuals and a great many people are existing on starvation diets, - The story of how the seller and the buyer of wheat got into this deadlock is a lorig and complicat- ed one. It started ‘with an attempt en the part of. the grain growers to control the fluctuations of the price of wheat, which they claimed were due to speculation on the grain t They got her and de- cided to pool their: crops—in other words, to corer their product in the first place and hold it until they could get a goed price for it. That seemed like a pos- sible thing to do. But the western’ grain growers were not the only ones.in the wheat business. Grain grow- ers in other countries continued to sell their wheat Canadian wheat was thus pooled out of the world on the free market for what they could get for it. market. The unsold grain was heavily mortgaged to the banks. The banks began to call in their loans and demanded that the surplus be sold for what it would bring or otherwise they would sell it themselves. To prevent this the federal government agreed to guarantee the foans ond appointea John 1. McFarland, a retired grain dealer, to seli the wheat. But Mr. McFarland, siding with the Pool in the belief that the price would tise began to buy more wheat, and the last state was worse than the first. In 1934.a parliamentary committee appointed James Murray, a practical grain merchant, with in- struations to sell the wheat regularly as the. market would take it. This was done, and Canadian ‘wheat wos sold on the free market until the outbreak, of the war in, 1939. Then, in order to keep the grain from going to enemy countries, the government agreed to sell it to Britain at a certain price for the duration of the war. In the meantime, war scarcities forced world prices above what the Canadian farmers were getting, and they claimed they-should be reimbursed for their loss.. The government finally madé them a grant of $65 million in settlement. i ‘ After the war, Canada joined in the International Wheat Agreement to sell quotas of grain to certain countries at an agreed price. But some of these coun- tries hove not accepted ‘their. quotas and have bought on the open market at cheaper rates. Thus another attempt at price fixing — this time on an internat- ional scale — failed. The Canadian grain growers are now back where they were in the 1930's, except that they are not so deeply in debt, for the. farmers have had some good times since‘the war. But they are still tied to the Canada Wheat Board. The United States: governmeht encouraged farmers, to hold their wheat for higher prices and paid those prices itself when the market would not. It is now unloading its surplus on “what has been called a “give away” basis, while the king-Cinderella of the prairies is waiting impatiently, for the fairy Wheat Board to perform a miracle, The whole story is one of trying to defeat the law of supply and demand and stabilize the market. It has stabilized it to'a standstill. ; That is what happened in-the hungry 1930's. - -Its use broadened and a literary annual’ of 1847 referred to the maple leaf as the chosen emblem * of ‘Canada.’ s _ Sunday Church Services ST. RITA’S CHURCH Rev, E, Brophy, P.P.’ . Masses at 8:30 and 10:30 Benediction Friday at 7:00 p.m. Confessions Sat. 4-5 and 7-8 p.m, ; + COMMUNITY BIBLE CENTRE Sunday in the Wegion 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. Cont s Sat. 4-5 p.m. ‘Wed., 7:20 ®Young People's Hr] Pri,, 8:00 Prayer & Bible Study] ° Ly THE UNITED CHURCH PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE Sunday School — 10 a.m. Morning Worship — 11 a.m. Evangelistic — 7:30 p.m. Everyone Welcome (during summer months)- Robson: ist and 3rd Sundays at ll am. - : Kinnaird: Service of Worship) Prayer and Bible Study, Thurs, °¢.10 a.m. Bs m. Castlegar: ‘Service of Worship} at 7:30 p.m, Sunday School 10am. : ° CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY ‘SAINTS Sundays at 10:30 a.m. Twin Rivers Hall PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CANADA Kinnaird Sunday worship 11:15 a.m. “Sunday School during worship - THE ANGLICAN CHURCH Sunday, October 6th Thanksgiving Service Castlegar 9:00 a.m. ‘ ‘ 7:30 p.m, Kinnaird 11:00 a.m. PRESCRIPTIONS Castlegar Drug PHONE —-. 5155 “SASH '& DOOR — © CABINET MAKING | BUILDING HARDWARE GLIDDEN PAINTS MARSHALL-WELLS PAINTS KOOTENAY BUILDERS & SUPPLIERS _© RIGHT to Your Construction Job READY-MIX CONCRETE YOU CAN DO IT FASTER WITH NO FUSS — NO MUSS JUST PLACE YOUR ORDERS WITH cGaule READY MIX | PHONE 9921 or 6551 Mgr. — TRAIL Phone 2054 Collect tn = = = =] = = Wanted Local Pioneers Destinos , resident in District In’ 1910 or Previously Present Whereabouts : In or Qut Of The District Reward Satisfaction Of Having Them Suitably Recognized ki Contact Cc ial .M. SPENCE Kinnaird : Signed "CENTURY SAM” eT S “Glip Out and Send To Above Name of Pioneer ’ Present Address Centennial Song Wriiten For British Columbia The B.C. Centennial Comm- ittee announced today that Mur- ray S, Carmack, 1507 West 12th Ave, Vancouver, has won the centennial song competition with his composition “Song of Brit- | ish Columbia”, The. -retired Vancouver schoolteacher receives a prize of $250.00 for his song which will be published by the centennial committee this fall, s Arrangements for the song will be made. for everything from symphony orchestras to dance bands and it will also: be includ- ed in the B.C, Centennial Song Book to be distributed to choral groups and school children early in 1958, The song was picked from 75 entries by a committee of acc- omplished B.C, musicians with Vancouver's Ifor Roberts as chairman, : When the B.C. Centennial Committee's pageant From Wil- derness to Wonderland” is pro- duced throughout the Province next year, it is expected that the new song will become an integ- Yal part of it. It will also be heard as background music in parts of the B.C. documentury film pro- duced for the centennial comm-" ~ ittee by Parry Films Ltd., Van, Mr, Carmack, who is in Eng- land at present, submitted two songs to the competition. Acc- ording to Ifor Roberts, Chair- man of the Panel of Judges, it was a toss up as to which one they would choose, He said: “While we received many good entries in the competition, there was no hesitation on the part of the judges in awarding the winning prize to Mr. Car- mack”, e The Words of the song are: O land of mighty river! O land of azure skies! Where the sur is shining ever And tow’'ring ranges rise! © shore where men at even’ No longer roam afar! For all who seek find haven In British Columbia! . © land where Orient ocean, And breeze Pacific wave, To thee, our heart’s devotion! No other boon we crave. ‘Than wide your wealth to mea- sure ‘ Than swift to ride your foam; ‘Your earth and sea our treasure _ Our own Canadian home! Many-Enjoy Robson Social Evening ‘ The Robson Recreation So- ciety entertained at a_ social evening on Friday, and Mrs, David Adshead. - The first ‘prize, a clothes hamper was won by Mrs. R, T. . Waldie and the second prize by Mrs, Malcolm McPhee, which was a TV table, All those present expressed with the iful new 27. The young people enjoyed the hilarious games and the doughnuts, An interesting point during. the evening was the drawing for the’ raffle prizes by the small son of Mr. and Mrs, J. Schuep- fer and the tiny daughter of Mz. figish on the Hall floor. Hostesses for the evening were Mrs. A. J. Martin and Miss Barbara Martin, Mrs. J. Raine. and Miss Mildred Raine and Mrs, L. M. Quance. . Proceeds contributed to the cost of finishing the Hall-floor. | Training Course Set Up For Scout And Cub * Mr, J.°V.- Serivener, Field for the O! and Kootenay of the Boy Scout Association, will. come to Trail to conduct a four-day training for Cub. and Scout leaders on Thursday, October 3. The first two i will Leaders ples of the Movement,-the meth- ~ use@ to-train Cubs and Scouts, and the basic activities of the Cub and Scout groups. Experienced local leaders, including Archdeacon B. A. Res- ker, Dr. Velen 'Fadnerlik, Jack be at the Warfield Scout Hall on Dante L itta and Loyd Groutage will assist Mr. id Friday an iy the third meeting will be at c fer The Mothers’ Auxiliary at on ‘and the final session at Camp Tweedsmuir near Fruitvale on Sunday. Leaders in other Youth Or- are @ dinner for Saturday evening .at Castle- gar, and the Fruitvale Scouts are -going to prepare a - spaghetti dinner for Sunday’ at Camp are invited to attend this, course. New as well as experienced leaders are sure to find much of value in the course and .will very likely add something to it as well. ‘The course has been arrang- ed to’ acquaint the leaders with the organization of the Scout, Movement, the aims and princi- T Mr, Scrivener and Archdea- con Resker attended the Jubilee Jamboree of Scouting in England Jas summer and will undoubtedly have many new ideas and sug- gestions’ to pass along, Make your plans now to be there to learn: some of these new ideas to. help you'with your groups. and a_,Past-President of. the Building and Construction In- dustries Exchange of B.C. He takes over from Raymond ::Du- puis, Q.C.,..former President’ of Eemn ‘The Chamber of Commerce. who has been elected President of The Canadian. Chamber of‘ < Commerce at the national busi- ness organization's 28th Annual Meeting at Victoria, B.C., on September 30—October 1, 2, 3. He was formerly First ‘National Vice-President, .of the Canadian Chamber. Well known in ‘Can- adian business circles. Mr. Pybos in business life is President of. the Commonwealth Construction ce — a firm which has Particulars of Residence In District .... Submitted by underway many important con- struction projects on the West Coast and in the Prairie Pro- vinces. Active “in association, Chamber of Commerce and com- muiity work, Mr..Pybus (born in 1900 in Winnipeg) is among other things, a Past-President of ‘the Vancouver Board of Tsade CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, October 3, ‘1957 us BUY THE BRANDED COAL — BUY MIDLAND and KNOW ITS GOOD ORDER YOUR COAL N-0-W FOR PROMPT DELIVERY — PHONE 3551 Mitchell Supply Limited for 95¢ per month... / it's hard to match , the value and convenience of an extension phone or re oy Installed within a few days No installation charge __ dust phone the Telephone Company Business Office - . ; *Business phones slightly higher BRITISH CO .UMBIA' & TELEPHONE ,O«PANY “Cond. ...6 Second Largest Telephone Systera RG ge Y SL getinon FOR UST 280 OWN YOU CAN BUY YOUR BONDS~fer cash of by instalments~ of your neighbourhood B of M branch ada Savi Es DOWN PAYMENT OF 57. “= 9289FOR A‘50 BOND,‘5 FOR A100: SOND, ete. BALANCE IN-EASY INSTALMENTS OVER: A YEAR Castlegar Branch, CYRIL T. ONIONS, Manager oe: