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Kinnaird

Published Every Thursday at “The Crossroads

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of the Kootenays”

Robson
Brilliant

VOL. 5 No.

CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA,THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1952

5 Cents Per Copy

The School Board of District No. 9 (Castlegar) is happy this
week with the announcement that the Stanley Humphries Junior-
Senior High School design has received a special award for the best

Canadian entry in schoo] planning.

The award was made by the

American School, Publishing Corporation. of New York... Pictured -
above left.to right is Inspector J. J. McKenzie, R. Hunter, Mrs. W.
Jacobson, C. H. King, R. Waldie and board chairman G. Craft.

Contre

ci For Fire

Truck Signe

The Castlegar Village Com-
missioners met with all members
present in the village office on
Monday, March 3rd.

R. T. Waldie ani G. Leitner,
representing the Kiwanis Club,
addressed the meeting asking to
lease the Coronation hall and
operate it, “It could be a valu-
ablle asset,” Mr. Waldie said,
“mone: made on it would go
back fnto the hall —- it would
only make it of vaiue to the
village.” The lease would have
to be for one year at least. Com-
missioner Jenks made a motion
the chairaman of the Parks
Board Committee be allowed to
meet with the Kiwanis Club and
arrange the deal and submit it
to the next meeting. Commis-
sioner Sommers, being that re-
presentative, a meeting will be
arranged.

Mr. V. H. Brown of Vancouver,
representative of the LeFrance-
Foamite Co. of Toronto, address-
ed the Commissioners. He ex-
plained various . phases of the
fire equipment. Fire Chief West,
after getting six tenders for a
fire truck’ recommended ‘that
of J. Wright of Kinnaird as be-
ing not only the best buy, but
the lowest tender also. This con-
sists of a Mercury truck, battery
and heater ($2,395.13) f.o.b. Tor-
onto, to be sent to the Larrance
people at Toronto. A motion
was passed to this effect. The
LaFrance Co, at Toronto will

\ then mount their equipment on
the truck — cost of which will
be $7,535, 10 per cent Federal
tax included; B..C. Sales tax, if
applicable, will be added to this
as well as $300 to bring it home.
It was decided freignt rates
were exhorbitant and it was by
far best to send a man down
to drive the truck -back, such a
trip would take six days.» De-
livery should’ be ‘affected by
August. An engineer. from the
Toronto firm will be sent to in-

struct the brigade — stay three.

days — and also ‘run ‘the, tests
for, the local ‘underwriters...

A point-' of interest prought
out was that: Mr. Brown, sold
the fire truck. Castlegar. now
owns to the c. M. and S. Co.

. mentioning it was
2 and could remem-
ber how proud he was at the
time.

In te report of committees,
Coramissioner Sommers recom-
mended a street light be installed
behind the Castle Theatre and
also one in front of the Legion
hall. West Kootenay will be so
informed.

Regarding the garbage collec-
tion fee for the Castlegar Hotel
and Restaurant combination,
each will be charged as per by-
law — according to other bus!-
nesses with similar amounts of
garbage.

Bids will be asked on a quart-
erly basis for auditing of vil-
lage funds from various auditors
of the district.

Commissioners Oglow and

Peported on their trip to

4 to the U. B. Cc. M,

Purchase was au-

for two and one half

feet of pipe — 2”, 1%”, 3". There

is a difference of 22 cents per

{cot on what is called emergency

orders and general orders. The

“general order” put in now re-

sultis in.a ‘considerable saving
to Castlegar.

Coramissioner Jenks ‘gave facts

and figures on a trench hoe At-
techment ($1,272.50) to: fit the
4lus Chaimers tractor now own-
ed by the village. A motion
Was passed to purchase this as

now. there is 2,000 feet of
waiting to be laid. © This
_teport also revealed that in

Castlegar alone 14,135 feet of
new road has been built in 1951,
alyo 16,042 feet have been gra-
veled.

Commissioner . Williams, . re-
porting for the Water Commit-
tee stated a standpipe will be
installed across the street from
J. Nevakshonoff, on the W. Rob>
son road. “He also reported on
various tests taken. of. the. drink-
ing walter. 0-5 was the reading
which means nothing in 5. dif-
ferent ‘tests... As.a ‘matter- of
comparison, a_recent test of Kin-
naird was 3-5 and of Trail 5-5.
Dr.. Anderson will be asked to
take a reading near the new
pump house.

The Parks Board submitted
the minutes of their last meet-
ing and requested use of the vil-
lege office to hold future meet-

rates bylaw _ received
three readings, the mill rate to
be the same as last year — 20
hisal i*inal reading will be made
on Wednesday.

4“ bylaw has been introduced
re deg licenses. §3.00 for mal-
es and $5.00 for females with

for kennels in the city lim-
Bx Bp i keeper and pound
will be anged in the near fu-

$25,

granted to the
Bosse, jewelry
J. W. Too-
sharpening
A building per-
approved for Otto
to build a $4,800 resid-

were

: Leo B.

iring;

lawn mower

and repairing.

mit was

Walker

ence. .

Accounts to $465.41 were dis-
cussed and Len

Projects
Concert Well
Ailended |

Sunday evening the formal
presentation of the deed to block
19 (ihe ball park) was made to
the Projects Society by the
Spiritual Community of Christ
No, 8 and in turn was pr

Kinnaird App.
Water Bylaw

KINNAIRD, B. C. — The Kin-
naird <property owners turned
out last Friday to register their
approval on the water purchase
bylaw. © Only 245 voters out of
an eligible 350 turned out to
vote.

- Final: count showed that 158
were in approval, 83 against and
4 spoiled ballots. Three-fifths
majority was required for the
approval of the bylaw.

Now. the village of Kinnaird
has purchased the systems own-
ed by Mr. S. C. Watson and
Mr. N. Kuryluk. The option on
the third system was dropped.

Name Should

Be Changed

The’ tremendous surge of
growth and development at this
end of the riding causes us to
worder if its name... Trail-
Rossland . . . hasn’t outlived its
usefulness. When the unin-
formed hear the name Trail-
Rossland, they think of just
that;. two towns  embracing,.
within a radius of a few miles,
a very small part of the ridings
total-area. If it is agreed that
these towns represent the great-
est present concentration of
population and indutry, such an
agreement is not an admission
that this should create a dis-
service to the rest of us.

That the present name was
chosén years ago on a sound
basis no one will deny. Ross-
Jand, ‘after all has had as glam-
orous’a history as any town in
British Columbia; however men-
tis e-name today, does not
draw attention to the boom in

the Castlegar district. And if it
was only right to mention Trail
and thus draw attention to the
industry upon which the whole
district depends, still it is go-
ing to take a lively imagination
‘to think of Trail and at the same
time focus public interest on the
beauties of the Arrow Lakes.

Personally we're sorry our
forefathers didn’t pick up the
name “Columbia” before anyone
else did; and we're not sound
enough on our history to know
if they even had that opportu-
nity. But we should be able to
pick an all-embracing name from
such available geographic terms
as Kootenay, Arrow Lakes, Cas-
cade, Selkirk, etc. Failing that
we could educate the. Queen's
printer and our local member
to take an extra breath, and call
the riding ‘“Trail-Rossland-Arrow
Lakes.”

Band inst.
Ordered For
School

The Castlegar School Board
has just approved a $2,000 ap-
Propriation for 25 instruments
for a high school band. These
instruments are for a brass band
and include cornets, alto hornes,
trombones, bass drums and
trumpets.

Mr. G. Leitner,

local agent,

to the village. John Makaroff
made the presentation, to Gerry
Wanless who in turn presented
it to N. Oglow, chairman of the
Board of Commissioners. .The
ground is to be used for recrea-
tional purposes for Castlegar
and district, _

During the evening’ Carl Loeb-

lich outlined the workings of the’

Projects Scciety and John. Dal-
zel spoke on behalf of |the.Kin-
naird, Robson, Castlegar Welfare

and Recreational Society and the ~

part they play in the recrea-
tional cevclopment of. the ‘com-
munity. , Mr, Loeblich urged .all
to attend: the Projects:’, annual
meeting, which -will be held on
Tuesday, “March, 25 in Small
room of the Coronation hall.

Musical ° entertainment® © was
supplied by the Legion Band,
under the direction) of- ‘band-
master G.;Leitner; the ;Russian
Choir and- Quartet; Joe’ ‘Irving
and the Kiwanis Choir.

“the © school,

and iclan of ‘able
ability in his own right, gave
the board “an excellent deal” on
the purchase of the instruments.

These instruments will form
the nucleus of ‘a high school
band under the direction of Mr.
R. Graham, who. hopes to build
it in time to a 50 or more in-
Strument band.

“A-high school band class from
Brades 7 and 8 of about 30 pu-
pils has been taking band theory
and on.arrival of the instruments
will undertake their use at once.

Besides providing. a band for
this training - will
supply a reseryoir in a few
years, of trained musicians for
the steadily growing, Castlegar
band.-’ A: band, as envisioned by

_its musically“ conscious and, hard

working supporters, which will’
je. second; to ‘none -in the Koot-
‘enays,’and which ‘will grow as
eth: secrnmnunity. grows, *

“ TRAINING

Edttortals
The Responsibility Is Ours

This Nanaimo judge seems to have secured himself aa
overnight reputation for the manner in which he recently
handled a trial of some youngsters accused of law violation:
He apparently even sent one lad out for a haircut before he
would try him.

We admire the cadi’s loss of patience with
coming a problem, even if we cannot condone
in which he vented his ire.

That we should realize our youngsters are having trouble
goes without saying; that we should blame them is, in all
but a few cases, simply an attempt to repudiate our own re-
sponsibility.

The undisguised fact.is that no young teenager is wholly
accountable for his or her actions; they are not fully develop-
ed to that extent. No, behind their each action, trivie] or
serious, that constitutes resistance to society is the failure of
an adult—at home, in school, in church, or in society. The
classic example of incorrect terminology in our times is the
phrase “juvenile delinquency.” There isn’t, of course, any
such thing; it’s simply a polysyllable expression wiiich even
the most illiterate seem to be able to roll around on their
tongue, so it is used on all and any occasion. Actua ally, the
delinquency is centered in everyone but the juve

Locally we do not think the situation is serious enough
to cause any concern.. We .have noticed the odd youngster
at times who has appeared to have had a drink or two, but
if stepped on immediately that situation can be
We think youth is starting to smoke too soon. Where we
do see a trend that should cause concern is an appalling lack
of respect and good manners. Such termns as “NIr.”, “Nirs.”,
“excuse me” or.“I beg your pardon” seem to have co
disrepute. We are,going to be a lot bigger soun a
be easier to cure these ills now. Certainly in lar
the younger population is in serious difficuldes.

We can’t suggest a short term solution for this problem’
of our young fry; but we can tell you this; it will last no
longer than it takes this young generation of ours to grow
up, and realize how they have been let down. We con't
think that, as parents, they will be too busy elsewhere to
devote sufficient time ‘to their children; or that theyll listen
to psychologists and let the offspring wreck the house and
the neighborhood. inthe interests of -“self-expression.” Nor
that as educators they will expose their childrén to the “pro-
gressive education” system which, results would indicate,
sn’t proving the success its protagonists so effusively pr
ised. No we think they will reintroduce a little vf the
red school house into our multimillion dollar school pl:
And in other things these grownup teen agers wil] so act as
to save, in-their own youngsters, the early
in life with which they themselves are
of learning too many things too young.

And in the meantime we can do an about face try
and make that task as easy for them as it is still possible to

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Disproving Their Own Case

Facsimile broadcasting, a method of newspapc

ay pub!
tion by which printed material is ¢

rried by radio
reproduced in home receivers, proved exaibnrens
Massey commission. They had already arg
state, having the right and the duty of iss:
impose certain restrictions of radio broades

Now they were confronted with a sit
state would have “the right and the duty”
for the use of facsimile frequencies. To be |»
have to prescribe “certain restrictions”
acsimile broadcasts.

Here was one occasion where logic could or!
with established principle. To impose the
upon facsimile as they had already endorsed in thé ce
radio—including government censorship through the CBC—
would be a violent assault on freedom of t! :
were forced to recommend that government control over f:
mile be limited to the equitable assignment of frentencies <

In effect (though admitted neither by the M
mission nor the government this nullified al) their
arguments in favour of government control over radio.
absurd to suggest that freedom of speech is
allowing a facsimile news bulletin to be broads:
while the same bulletin, if spoken, is liable to c asorship.

With the strange non sequitur_the Massey commission
admitted by inference what they refused to admit directly in
the text of their report — that broadcasting is a form of pub-
lishing, entitled to the same protection against government
meddling enjoyed by the press. .

WAVES .

safeguarded by

FIRST AID COURSE
NEAR COMPLETION

KINNAIRD, B. C. — The reg-
ular St. John Ambulance First
Aid Course being held
Kinnaird Improvement
now has only two more weeks
to go before candidates will take

FIRE DEPT.

KINNAIRD, B. GC. — The final
theoretical trainipg lecture was
completed Tuesday to end a 5-
week course for the local fire
department. Next week a demon-
stration and. instruction will be

given on the inhalator.

The course was a recap to re-
fresh the volunteer firemen on
the theory of fire fighting, as
well as a basic course fér the
auxiliary” firemen from’ the Kin-
naird Civil Defence,

théir exams.

A group of 70 candidates rcg-
istered for the course and are
being. instructed by Mr. J. Dal-
ziel and Mr. C. King of Castle-
gar. Medical lectures were fiv-
en by Dr, Dimock and Dr. Reed.