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Published Every Thursday at “The Crossroads of t he Kootenays” THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1954 — FS

Castlegar Airport Becomes “Ralph West Airfield”

15,000 Kootenay Residents Jam Airport Opening And Airshow

* It was formerly known as the Castlegar Airport but as of Sun- day, ney sor when the pee 00 airstrip was officially opened in the at 15,000 people from points throughout. the East and West Kootenay, it was named the Ralph West Airfield as'a tribute to R. A. D. West of Castlegar, “guiding light,” in the airfield’s development, _| The huge di far. out- stripped the expectations of the

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Z a -A number of people will re- Deer Park Road Opening jee .2ho8 Show at the Ralph West ‘ield Sunday, for the aeroplane rides Deer Park extended a cordial welcome | to some 300 visitors and |they received or are to receive. Official guests from C Among these. Miss Joyce Kil- Se ate Shanes gu oO} al 1g VEAL 7 CHOPS ese Ihe ointennt openin 1g of the new road from Cree! 's new C ir-Liner Shoulder, Ib. 55e noe re ame te m : Lens! : The Hon: P. A, Gaglardi, Min- Ee mn ine dr Mr. oe to Castlegar later in LEG OF LAMB e . ey ister of Public: Works,’ gave th ‘The : the| The Air Cadets of Trail,. Nel- . . ee the people of the scenic visitors strolled. about the |50n and Castlegar have also been 1 Lower Arow Lake community for ‘at the school. and the |Promised a jaunt in the Convair

More than 650 entries from

4? European countries and nine

Canadian provinces were ex- ined by the

Calvert House Competition

jury before the homes pictured

above were selected. Top pic-

championship house, winner of the Calvert House Internatien-

it is a_ long, low dered. especial-

Cal- vert House award of $2,560 for “the best design by a Canadian was won by Geoffrey E. Hack- er, of Winnipeg, for the design — on the left. -

_Won honorable

award for the home on the right. Two Cankdian entries mention

Graduation Ceremonies Continued frem Page 1

on the favorite forms of punish-

ment dealt out by equally favor-

ite teachers.

Ann Henderson then delighted

the audience with an amusing

ie | the pursuit of their chosen car-

of

for their fair and just

a class reunion some ten years hence,

The address to the graduates was given by Dr. C. H. Wright of Trail, who complimented the stu-| the dents and encouraged them in

eers. Urging them not to be side- y: d from their goal, ie point-

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will watch your progress with interest. We salute you and wish you Godspeed,” he concluded.

treatment during: these full and happy years. Prior to the graduating cere- monies, a banquet was held at Kinnaird Improvement So- hae Hall, at which Student Council President, Jack Collin- son, was + The banqg- uet was sponsored by the Cas- -|tlegar and’ District P-T.A. con- vened by Mrs. K. Roberton and Mrs. W. Jacobson. The grade 11 boys did a splendid job of serv-

Wild Animal Gircus At Robson This Woek

If wild animals are an es- sential part of a circus, then there’s one well started this week at Mink Farms; Roboon. owned by ot

‘Woodrow.

The Royal Canadian .Shows, which made a two day stop at Castlegar earier in May, ran into difficulties providing ac-

dation for their ani

filled in. We wish you well and|H

a Mr. Thomas, Principal, congra- tulated the students and all those

the ceremorties a success. He felt the grade 32 and 13 had

who worked with them to make|i

menagerie for a few days, Thus a 400 Ib. black bear, four red foxes, one silver fox, a raccoon and a rabbit are now lodged at Evergreen Farms, in addition to the three eagles, a

been a credit to the School and wished them all success and hap- piness in their chosen vocations. A presentation was made to Mr. Allan -Harvey, home room teacher for the grade 12 pupils

with a gift f irom, the students, and a congratulatory letter from Mrs, Cail was read, to her class.

Tannis Killough, Class. Val-

enthusiastic message from the class, the

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the road.

tions each year. ~ =

evening, gfree dance for all, a feature of

church, enjoying “the” * cloudless

sunshine, band music and beauti-

ful scenery and chatting with intances.

which was 2 nickel auction, won by G. wiles oe cea ae

at a future date- in ;appreciation for their contribution to the days

Otter plane on a short hop over Castlegar and Kinnaird,

‘The CPA Convair also had two local lads as passengers but only for a very short distance, In fact these Convair-rid=->, who have not been identiffed, never left the ground. They are reported to have stowed away in a-corner of

*|Ferry Glutted. By: Visiting Motorists ee

taxiing to the runway for its * to Vancouver. F

the cabin and their presence was discovered while the-plane was

nis Direct Airport Traffic

“The immense conflux of people and automobiles at the Ralph

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Police, Cadets

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Castlegar and’ District .Chamber event, and: created" parking and

and the

vision, determination: and :dyna- mic leadership of the Castlegar Airport Committee, headed by Mr. West, in-the development of the airstrip to its present, first class condition.

‘Including an airshow in which RCAF planes and personnel, CPA craft, U.S. Airforce Jets,

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of ee art planes and private, the

ey was among’-the biggest the

has ever seen al- one, the airshow events were

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passenger Convair-Liner ‘landed. The trim, ‘streamlined plane, which began regular

service on the Vancou-|F

_|of Commerce, who sponsored the

term, in the High school library, Monday evening. Rev. L. C.

read 4 telegram from the Hon. ; [eget Chevrier, Minister of r who was unable to at-

the installation: during which the

reins of office — Mrs. J. F. EL Jough,; persident; A. R. Harvey, vice president; Mrs.. Helen Mc- Leod, secretary.and Dr. K. A. Morrow, treasurer.

The meeting voted $100 to the

é Senior Matric scholarship for the

which. will be

; year, awarded to the student with the

Creek, highest marks in the Senior Mat-

vic clags at the high ‘school. .

An undisclosed amount will al- so be allccated to provide some furniture for the teacher's staff room ‘at the high school and a of $25 is being made to

Of 200 Fans Monday:

the high school band.

In her president's report for the year, retiring ‘president Mrs. D. Corpbell noted. the year’s at-

tend. but was personally repres-

Kootenay East.

WIRE FEOM CHEVRIER Thejminister’s wire congratu- lated the Airport Committee and the owner of Nel-

ented *by James Byrne, MP for -

Sketch plans and Se draw- ings for, ee clementary school Kinnaird

son, *Kinnaird and Castlegar on the opening “of the ‘field. “The Department of. Transvort is pleased to have had a hand in the the development of a project (Continued on page 5)

Gasiie News Hosts - ghitaries ‘Sunday Preceding Airshow -

‘The Castle News was host to 41 ‘civic, municipal, Bovernment,

2 bet-

ter than the ‘previous year, sug-|*

Sesting this was‘ due to better also

-|theic’ current’ Canadian ‘tour late |S

with a seven

the new road is not a highway but merely an access route, a founda- tion for future roads for the

Seeds A 41000 beteble meaierne will .be available for’ members’ use early in June and dates for the projectionist course will be

t{inning tilt here against. the ‘Cas- tlegar Cubs,

1a | West Kootenay’ Softball Champ-!" ions.”

last_year's East. and

‘Although they lost the game by a 3-1 margin, Eddie and his three teammates were the ‘stars of the game and gave the crowd of some 200 fans at the. Castlegar Park.a good demonstration of the brand of ball that has made them

-of the softball world.

Eddie, who is -hailed as soft-

ball’s leading hurlet, mixed up balls, upshoots, -

: Roy for their part in the building of Presentations © were made to

Some 127 at every 100,000 Canadians enter mentai _insitiu-

{Sunday noon, ‘preceding the of-

of CP: Airlines representatives os . in the. C. Hotel

and Robe: are now being pro- cessed and “tenders will be walled when these have been approved. Sktch plans and drawing for the high school-extension are not ex- pected to be ready before the end of August. Working Srawings and and for the

reom extension at the high sont have been approved.

ficial opening and airshow at the Ralph :West Field. L.:V. Campbell, publisher, welcomed’ the group and hope they would

showed movies-he has made of district events, for the program.

Commercial Softball Playoffs Begin July 18

|New Schedule Drawn

. Sunday, July 18 will see the -of ‘championship play- offs inthe Intervillage Softball League, it was announced at a meeting of the League Executive Tuesday‘evening. - It was also announced that the deadline for registration of play- ers, is Tuesday, June 15. All Players must be registered by this ‘date, andmust have paid their $1 registration fee.

requested to clip

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enjoy ‘the afternoon’s events. IN. T, Oglow, president - of the Cas- tlegar and District Chamber of Comimerce, thanked” Mr. Camp- on behalf j.Pr

Castle News|

ict: schools, have arrived and will be installed as time permits. Renovations to the Robson School basement, are also proceeding, and more infor- mation is:being sought about re- pairs needed for the fence at the Renata The board expressed pleasure at the ‘fine. showing local high school students had made“in the

Among those attending were James Byrne, MP for Kootenay East; H. W. Herridge,-MP for Kootenay West; Hon..R. E. Som- mers, B.C. Minister of Lands and Forests and Mines and Rossland ‘Trail MLA; Ken Razzell, District Supervisor for CPA; R. A. D.

Provincial Track meet at_Kel- ,0wna, and heard a report on the Deer Park Road opening by their official delegate, Mrs. W. Jacob- son who lauded Deer Park resi- . dents for their hospitality. : The secretary was asked to have the school zone signs erected again at Kinnaird.

West, of the C:

rt Committee; J. R.-Lint, District Representative for Im- perial Oil; Mayor Kary of Nel-

It .was announced that all ool and

sch have been appraised by an ap- praiser from Vancouver, for in-

son;,Mayor H. S. Elmes of Ross- land; Mayor R. E. Sang of Cran- brook; Victor Jenks and Walter

tlegar and Kinnaird Village Com- missions; Alderman F. Sindell of

No ‘was reached on a request by local Sea and Air Cadets for the use of school property as a rifle

acobson, chairmen of the Cas-|range.

Disbursements for the month of May totalling $34,278.40 were

A. the Associated Boards and Trade atid. Chambers of Commerce of em B.C.; and press re- présentatives from Nelson, Trail, Kinnaird and Castlegar.

‘For every employee in the pulp

and paper industry, there is $32,- . 500 invested in plant and equip-

ment.