"CASTLEGAR NEWS Published Every Thuraday At OF THE “THE € * Castlegar, BC." Member: Canadian’ Weekly Newspapers Assn. pee Subseription Bate: L. V. CAMPRELL Editor and Publfsher $3.00 per year — '85¢ munth by carrier Authorized as second class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa B.C. Weekly Newspapers Advertising Bureau 2 CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, March 31, 1960 Thanks for a Job. Well Done Winter is finally over. The. trees are starting to bud, the grass is taking on new life, and before winter is but a memory as we enjoy spring weather it’s time to consider the job done by provincial and municipal crews’ on our highways and. streets during the Jong winter. months. The roads in the Rossland- Trail riding were probably never, better sanded and plowed then they were this past. winter. The men responsible for the fine 3. were from water, seemed to be drive-ways as more and more residents requested the . YRANSIA ARIONIVORS 09 0G ARROTOIV i oad, ny KINSMEWS : BOOK DRIVE Saturday, April sth HAVE ‘YOUR DONATION. OF, BOOKS READY WHEN THE cuss, SCOUTS OR GUIDES CALL AT | YOUR HOME. . : : Books’ are, needed at the Kinnaird & Castlegar Public Libraries for, children. : plowing service made available some years ago by the village council. Works supervisor, Norman - McNabb did a fine job in Castlegar and even man- aged to make ‘use jah sore) department of ing snow from. Castlegar’s business section. Roads were never. better sanded’ in’ the village than -they were this-past winter but Mr. Shes . Bison «sis the place kicking exert. bb said the reason was the availability © district superi t D. c. V and local highways foreman Roy “Tipping. At Kinnaird works foreman Paul Hildebrant kept his crew busy and spent many’a night with them plowing snow while the rest of the village's “residents sat snug in their: homes in front of fire . places and TV sets. Mr. Hildebrant’s main “worry during’ the past four months, aside Come On, Young MLAs! " gallery showers ‘the cabinet- benches with ' Last week our Victoria columnist, James K. Nesbitt, noted in his “Victoria Report’” column ‘that “Prorogation these days is always quiet, dignified, a bit stuffy. Only Mr. Uphill of Fernie, nearly 86, car- ries on the age-old custom of hurling order papers into the air.” ‘ What's wrong, we ask, ‘with the mem- ‘bers of the provincial legislature today, “and ally with the younger MLAs such as the Liberal’s George Gregory, the Socred’s Don Brothers, and the CCF’s Tony Gar- grave? 3 Even white-haired Premier Frost of Ontario gets into the spirit of prorogatjon in what is supposed to be-the conservative - East. When the Ontario House prorogues the newspapers are full of pictures show- ing the. members hurling order papers: around with -wild abandon as the press U.S. Three-Ring Circus © The apparent intervention of the U. Ss. State Department ‘in arranging a further stay of execution for convicted rapist Caryl Chessman is truly ‘the last straw in making a farce of American justice. For 11.years Chessman has pulled: . every legal trick and sought every conceiv- able loophole in ce law to escape his sen- tence. And then, a seant 10 hours peforé he “was to pay the price for his deeds, the U:S. - State Department apparently Bowed to. pressure from other countries and pres- sured California’s governor Pat Brown to once again postpone the execution. - . At this point, we can’t help but agree with those who said Chessman had suffer- ed enough in playing “cat and mouse” with death. ‘ If ever man deserved capital punich: A Poem» If I was still a little child, - With a child’s simplicity, . The cure for certain grown-up ills © Through childish.eyes I'd see. - I'd purse my lips:and shake my head As children sometimes do, And then I'd say “You ninakins There’s not much wrong with you. Quit chasing rainbows in the sky, Forget that golden pot, Relax and just don’t try so hard To be someone you're not.” Then.I’d prescribe some medicirfe That passes every test; “dust count your blessings and not your oes And God will do the rest!” “of sand:at a near-by pit, sand that, unfort- _unately, won’t be available next year. - All in all the provincial and munici- pal-crews have done a commendable job of winter sanding and snow plowing. and per: haps the memory of that fine job will carry them through the’ present trying time of the spring break-~ “up. Timeless: Topics How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Hebrews 2:3 G : Neglected. of the gospel isjust as perilous as open rejection of it. Indeed, -half the evils of our daily life in temporal things are caused by neglected, and countless are . the souls who are lost for this same cost. Settle first, and before all things else, what you will full-scap and copy paper. - We're all for a little moré fun on the last day of the session and if party leaders like Premier Bennett and Robert Strachan won’t take the Iéad, then -it’s up to the younger members like George, Don and Tony. Mr. Nesbitt recalls that in-1921- Tom Uphill and the other MLAs barraged ‘the legislature with books, papers, filing boards and even: baskets before rushing for the stenographers’ rooms. “where the mem- - bers scrambled and wrestled with one an- do with this invitation which God has given you to accept —His. salvation by Jesus Christ. Then accepted, the “all things” will be a means of glorifying Him. ; The folly. of refusing Christ and salvation reminds. us of the following sea tragedy. | A steamer caught fire at sea and sent-out.an SOS. Another vessel which was not too far away picked up the , message and sped in the direction of the burning-ship. * When it came’ close by,.many of the passengers jumped overboard arid were rescued. Others slid down ropes and were taken ‘into lifeboats, but a group of pas- sengers'who gathered on: the forepart of the ship. refused to jump despité the frantic appeals-of their friends and the sailors: Before long-they were burned to death.- How shall we escape if we reject of neglect.so great salvation. — Muss s Rennoyer area WEST KOOTENAY DRAMA ‘FESTIVAL Kinnaird. School * AUDITORIUM APRIL 7-8- 9 CURTAIN TIME 8.00 P.M. No one seated after Curtain Time SEASON TICKETS $2.00 SINGLE ADMISSION 75c 2 TANNA ie ne v other in the competition of bidding farewell to the battery of girls.” That last item about chasing -stena- graphers, although probably fun, is per- haps going a little too far, but we would like to see our MLAs exhibit a little more enthusiasm on the last-day, of sessions, ‘ment, Chessman does. True he didn’t.c com-, mit murder. . . but his crimes* were just as bad and perhaps a good deal worse. One of the women - kidnapped and criminally ‘assaulted was a crippled wheel-|' chair patient . .. and the other is in a mental hospital as a result of his attacks and"is apparently there for life. . With all due respect to those who con- demn captal punishment, we submit Chess- man should have been put to death to rid society ‘of.a vicious ‘menace. We can think “of no earthly reason for allowing such a man to continue on living . . . "let alone ser- ve a life sentence where: he is subject, to parole and the possibility of again raping helpless women. He wasn’t executed because public demonstrations; many probably inspired by Communists,- took place in European and * South American countries.’ “He has suf- fered gh,” sh d the d rators, “and besides he didn’t commit murder.” 3 Chessman shouldn’t have been put to death as punishment’. . . he should have been executed to rid society of a menace. — Oliver Chronicle Buffalo! - + Patient wives, who have trained them- selves to smile when hunting husbanas bring -pack game and fish no one elsé wants, must view with alarm the permission ‘given to hunt buffalo in Canada. = A duck, a tabbit, even. a’ small deer can be handled ‘by a modern Housewife. But 2 ton of buffalo flung’on the doorstep by a husband confident of praise, would be too, much for any woman with a spark of APRIL Ist = llth Clean-Up 8 PERIOD FOR CASTLEGAR No FIRE PERMITS WILL BE REQUIRED “FOR THIS{PERIOD AND THE: FIRE DEPT. WILL BE AVAILABLE. FOR ANY; LARGE FIRES THE PUBLIC IS” REQUESTED TO CLEAN-UP YARDS‘, AND EMPTY LOTS AND PLACE ANY- THING THAT CAN'T BE BURNT WHERE THE GARBAGE CREW "CAN PICK.IT UP" ' "ED LEWIS | _ FIRE CHIEF” _— Mnreuret Obedkoff spirit. — Ottawa Journal - a eae! GROCERIES a \EATS/ ‘ ard at "Maple — Phone 4201 — We Deliver We Reserve The Right To Limit Quantity Wieners. ae Sees Hamburg sx»... Pot Roast se. m0. Rump Roast, »......... Coffee MAXWELL HOUSE INSTANT 10 oz. $1.29 ' Prem SWIFT'S. 2 Ib. pkg. MARGARINE “BLUE BONNET , Domestic Shortening - Plastic 2¥2 Ibs. : ie . --Gheez Whiz ” Kraft i sant 16 ox. Jar : Le ‘Scotch: : Minis: "BISCUITS a lb. Cello Bag oe, McCormikes - = 2% | “Biter: lection Coming: Up By JAMES K. NESBITT ~— The campaign ; for ':the: next . election will likely be one ofthe bitterest on the record:— and - we've had plenty ‘of bitfer ones in our turbulent, fascinating po- litical history. B.C. - dates who have not ‘sat in the ned into something rougher and House, Sitting in the House, you tougher — the word crooked, see, gives a great deal’ of pres- tige. At the recent pois even with Mr, ‘Speaker Bretaine ‘the! - didn't hold, have always been fire eaters and sword swallowers. i . It will-be a campalgn of per- sonalities, with Opposition Lead- er Strachan concentrating on the bagk very much, ‘when it came to sparring for ‘political: advan- tage. They let. themselves go with happy abandon; there was plen- ty of nome callings . Premier and Gaglardi, and they on him, + On the ‘hustings, away from Mr. Speaker’s pounding gavel, and stern warnings, and grim de- termination to put.up with no Uunparllamentary talk, your ML- A's will: really. let go, if the re- cent session may be any eriterlon.| CCF. Of course, your MLA’s, now, won't be MLA's during ‘the cam- paign, for. the House will be dis- solved, and there won't be any MLA's. Your MLA’s of today will be just candidates seeking your said Mr, Ben- hee is an arrogant government, contemptuous ‘of the people and of the Legislature. The Premier, hearing this, cried out: “Smear, smear, smear;" all the CCF can do, said the government is smear Liberal George Gregory: — though the Liverals don’t count for much anymore —' said Wen- ner-Greri’s a scoundrel, - nothing but a scoundrel... This was. Mr.| Gregory’s way. of: ‘calling the Premier a scoundrel, too. The, "tederal i auebeninent hasta offered B.C, a-huge loan at’ just) above the’ going: money’ market rates —.rather-than‘any outright grant.— as ‘Ottawa's share of the proposed. billion-dollar hydro- power ‘development of the Co- Jambla river. G nt sources declined sald COF’ers are bugs that will Ge exterminated at the next elec” tion by SC’ers, and CCF’ers said Mr.'G's nothing but. an ignorant cx own, The recent session, for days on end, seemed dull. But was it, now that we look back? Why, we had charges that the SC gov- everything and everybody not CCF Mr. Gargrave of Mac- Kenzie sald that in: his dealing with Wenner-Gren the Premier fg utterly unscrupulous — strong words for the legislative cham- ber,’ On the hustings the word votes, but not like, other candi- what Mr. Strachan ‘called ‘political’ payola from the BC. (Electric and other big businesses, and we heard Mr, Strachan say that Highways Mi- nister Gaglardi hand§ out. pat- Yonage to defeated Social Credit chndidates by. giving. them road contracts, a _ charge which Mr, PARK sTILFORD 8 Cees old PARK & TILFORD_ “es OYAL, OMMAND MASTER BLEND "THE OLGER “Park & “Tilford Raval’ ‘Command’ is a MASTER _ BLEND whisky .. will be. impossible” for us ‘to get down to a firm finan- ¢lal deal until we know: where the river is going fo be: ton of Bi developed. . But no one kmaws how: ‘much the development will cost. It de- pends’ on which Projects come iirst. eee He said he was not unhappy with the federal loan offer. “But we are concerned about who will underwrite the deficits until the Columbia begins to pay for itself; We can't count on any immediate revenue.” - Mr. Willistan said the feder- al offer was to lend up to 50 per cent of all’ development costs ex- clusive of purchase and Installa- $1,000, face satd..: equipment. At Victoria sources close to the government said the prov- ‘ince had: expected the federal government to pay half the costs ‘of: fae: $1,400,000,000 “Columbia projec “This ‘province. can't borrow 000,000 all by itself, iet’s it,” one financial officer "Cooking is ‘really. fun the modern iHlectric way. Fots and pans stay clean, Automatic controls allow you to Place a perfect meal om the table after spending only a few minutes in the kitchen. Electric Cooking is inexpensive too— you can Cook Electrically for only pennies a day. er Eby che etn) 2 Bleetrie' Cooking is clean, and fast—ana ‘you get perfect results nas why ‘so many. housewives—Cook Better, Electrically. WEST KOOTENAY POWER Mrs: Killough and ‘Mrs. | Fowle will meet with. members of: the “Scholarship . Committe: at the SHHS to ascertain th ‘ to and.to\ review: the qualifications necessary ‘for ~the’ awarding ©! the IODE scholarship. _ ' competitions for awarding in the future. Recently there have béen Empire Study convenor, Mrs. Goresky .read.a report on, the possibilities of the 1968 winter | Olympies being held in Garibaldi April ‘Executive meeting will be held in: the home of Mrs.: West and.the general meeting in the home of Mrs. Little. Hostesses avere Mrs. Gergely and Mrs. Ea- ston. ‘ ’ MEA Wants Denver. “For Handicapped Kids Of Kootenay Area. «Donald ‘Brothers . of “Trail ‘made. an-.appeal in the Iegtsla- ture recently for use. of. the former New Denver dormitory asa school for. the handicapped children of the? Kootenays. i “ithe! Social. Credit ‘member for Rossland-Trail said he hopes ‘the prop .Socia ‘Welfare Minister Black sympathized with Mri Bi thers’ proposal, but he had his eye on the buildings as a boys’ or girls’ industrial ‘school.’ made on:.the future use :of. the buildinge, ” close to 100: children of. 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