Thursday,: May 29, :1952

CASTLE NEWS, Castlegar, B.C.\

Dept. of Trade-Industry Publishes Booklet Welcoming: Industry .

“With labour-materials — cap- ital — excellent transportation and a growing market at its door British Columbia. welcomes in- dustry.” ie * This 1s a quotation from ‘the title page of a twenty page bro-. chure, the provincial department of Trade and Industry has pub- lished as its cordial invitation’ to all business men to investigate the opportunities offeréd in Bri- tish Columbia.

Attractively illustrated with graphic photographs, the. publi- cation presents a vivid-and des- criptive. survey of the material wealth; government h ‘Y>

Bottle Message. Returns To Sender’ ~A.:. New... correspondence -- has been started, all because’ a boy

played the age old trick of put- ting his name in a_ bottle and

|More-Tourisfs; = itish Columbia

Signs of a heavy influx’ of i i into British

tossing it into a steadily river, ‘

On March 26, David Donnan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Donnan, of the Lake’ View Auto Court tossed the hottle into the water

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Columbia this summer were seeri in atest tourist traffic figures re- leased last Saturday by the Hon. Douglas Turnbull; Minister of Trade and Industry.

The at

beside their “camp and it .drift out of sight,’ Nearly two months later, May 22 when, David had practically for- gotten about it a letter came from.a boy in Miles, Washington, Daniel R, Balcom. The boy’s

‘father, D. H. Balcom, picked up

the bottle while on a fishing trip

where the e and Columbia

historical background; i development and potential; agri- cultural development; education- al facilities and health and wel- fare accommodations of Canada’s Pacific coast province.’

“British Columbia,” the book- let observes, “has, within the last few decades, attained an.im- portant industrial status in the economic world. Today, its poten- tial recognized by the investor, : jalict 4 A ‘and labour alike, the Province is de- velopi at an dé

rate, with opportunities still ap- parently limitless.’’ Speaking of the natural re- sources of B.C., the publication i “Its tr di stands of timber; its mineral deposits of gold, silver, ,lead, zinc, . copper and ‘coal;“its."abundant salmon, halibut and other species of com- mercial fishing in its‘ coastal waters; its agricultural land suit- able for fruit, vegetable,’ and grain. farming, dairying, and cat- tle raising; and the potential hydro-electric power in its mighty rivers are an enviable endow- ment.. When, one.-takes into ac- count its strategic position upon the trade routes of the word, Bri- tish Columbia’s economic import- ance becomes apparent at once.” In ‘regard to climate and living conditions, they are described as “delightful” with “social ameni- ties such as to attract people from every corner of the globe. Today its peoples enjoy a standard of

Rivers join. Thus a new friend- ship was born, :

Diapers get their mame from D’Ypres, Belgium, where

ced_ th 13,818 vehicle. permits had ‘been

‘issued at Britsh Columbia custom

ports during ‘the month’of April, just past, as compared with the 13,072 recorded in April, 195. This represents a five point seven increase.

The optimistic trend was mag- nified in a similar, report cover- ng the first four months of this year, when 43,284 foreign cars obtained travelling permits at the B.C. border, 5208. vehicles or 13.7 per cent more than 38,076 enter-

they ing in the same period last year.

British Columbia’s growing re-

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Putation | is reflected in the figures of in- creasing traffic across the Inter- national Boundary.” Mr. Turn- bull said. “With the assistance of'fine weather and a spirit of: friendly courtesy toward, our American neighbors on the part of all concerned, we may surpass last year’s encouraging 12° per cent increase over the tourist -tra- ffie of 1950,” he ‘added.- .

B.C. Life Insurance At All Time High

The people of British Columbia now own more and larger life in-

surance policies than ever before. According to final_figures for 1951, just released by Stanley W.

Taylor, Superintendent of Insur-

ance for British; ‘Columbia, ‘the total amount-of-life-insurance in force at.the end of the year’stood ‘at $1,260,746, The year’s purchase of new ‘life: policies -were ‘$173,- 751,072, this being. 13.48 per cent more than the corresponding

States! and five British compan- ies, :

-'To provide . themselves: with _ this new. amount of protéction, the people. of British Columbia paid premiums during the year of $30,107,916,

amount of néw.insurance effect- l,

as a mecca for ‘tourists | ed in 1950.

Of the total amount of protect- ion now in force, 75.40 per cent was with 26 C: di. i

CASTLE THEATRE — Fri. & Sat. Th on the Hill

Shows. at 7 and 9 p.m.

and 24.60-per cent with 16 United [eorone

COOL MORNINGS — HOT DAYS

THIS IS WHY THEY MAKE THE

General Electric FAN HEATER

FLIP THE SWITCH — It gives comfortable warmth on a

chilly morning — CLICK IT BACK and its a

weather comfort.

fan for hot

SEE IT AT

KERR?S

NO CARRYING CHARGES

were first: manufactured.

living second to none in Canada.” Succeeding pagés are devoted

tries; mineral desposits; available for agricultural’ expan- 10n; water power both developed and potential; education and wel- fare accommodations and a quick survey of the transportation facil- ities. The final page deals with the province’s world famous sce- nic splendors and outdoor and wildlife attractions.

Anyone wishing a copy of this brochure or desiring further in- formation on the subjects cov- ered, may write to the Depart- ment of Trade and Industry at Victoria. .

HONEST CLERK

Central Press Oaradian

rgetful customer sent a pair of pants away to be cleaned by an establishment-in = Winnipeg. and in so doing forgot-to remove $475 in cash which had been stewed away in one of the pockets.. Upon dis- covering the modney, Mrs. Hedwig Dennis, a clerk in the store, tele- phoned the customer long distance in Riverton, Man., who. promptly came in and picked cash up.

PLUMBING &

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Phone 2673 “EJ. ENNIS

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Sounds odd doesn’t it . . . as if trees were a farm crop like wheat or

cauliflower!

Well, to us, that’s just what they are. Of course it takes man.

a

y years to

produce a crop of mature spruce or hemlock trees but eventually the

time comes when they must be harvested and the ground cleared for new growth. Otherwise they will decay uselessly like last years tomatoes withered on the vine.

In the B.C. forest areas leased to Columbia Cellulose Company a large Part of our work consists of harvesting ‘‘ripe’’ trees. Our foresters locate and seélect-thezpature timber to be cut, leaving the surrounding blocks ’ of treés to'reseed the area. Each year we cut only as many trees as will be replaced annually by new growth.

Under this careful system of “sustained yield’’ we are actually improving the productivity of forest areas for which we are responsible. 2

But that’s not all. We will be giving steady employment to many people

and producing new wealth for our Province year after year... from those

same spruce and hemlock stands we’re farming today.

Columbia Cellulose Company is the first unit of a rapidly expanding Canadian industrial organization. Within afew months, this organiza- tion will be combining timber from British Columbia with natural gas derivatives from Alberta to produce a wide range of fibres and other acetate products for Canadians from coast to coast. Our program of continuous forest yield ensures lasting full-time employment for thousands of Canadian workers.

COMPANY

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‘ Story of Tree Farming.”’

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