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 Published   in   Gibsons. B.C.  Volume 8, Number 25  June 23, 1955.  Victoria,  B.  C*  Serving the Growing  Sunshine Coast:  From  Squamish  to Pender Harbour  suggested  Sunshine Coast municipal  officials and other authorities  should open their eyes to the  necessity of adopting some  form of .regional planning in  view of the rapid growth now  taking place, says Jack Richardson, reeve of West Vancouver and finance chairman for  the Lower Mainland! Regional  Planning board; who visited  Gibsons recently. This regional planning board consists  of 26 'municipalities and the  City of. Vancouver    extending  from the sea to Hope.  . In the view of Mr!, Richardson the Sunshine Coast area  is developing so rapidly that  unless some action is taken  soon, it will prove more costly  later pn.-  . Mr. Richardson has in the  past strivedi to encourage interest in* such a move along  the Sunshine Coast but no action resulted..Now he is of the  opinion that the time is ripe  for serious consideration of  some form of regional plan-  nihgr  The district needs a regional water system serving the  whole area. This will have to  be done sometime and it  would be cheaper to' do it  now, . Mr. Richardson says.  Then there is the economic  future of .the region. What is  needed are:. selected! secondary  industries operating here in  order tbi provide employment  for the youth of the district or  they will have to move but in.  order to provide a living for1  themselves.  "The Sunshine Coast -has  great possibilites and the chief  thing people living in this  area should do is-to take a  good���long look at the- assets-  available andl try and do some  thing towards capitalizing on  them. . ' " ���  "I feel sure that officials of  the Lower Mainland Regional  Planning . Board would come  up here and talk to the clubs,  boards of Trade and other organizations provided interest  was shown, said Mr Richardson. -���  He was of the opinion a  regional planning commission  should be formed in this area.  Logger  Killed  i.  Killed almost instantly at  Lamb's Logging Camp was Alfred E. Jeffries ��� of Porpoise  Bay, Seehelt, last Friday morning, when struck by a logging  truck backing into the loading  ramp.  Dr; McColl, and Cpl. Cummins of the Seehelt detach-'  ment RCMP were called at  5.30 a.m., shortly after the  crews" had begun work.  An inquesf will be held on  June 24, Cpl. Cummins reported!. .  Mr. Jeffries was 51 years  of age, married, with three  grown children.  Mr. Jeffries was reported to  have, been working; on his  last day before leaving on a  holiday with - his family.  The ananagement of Lamb's  Logging officially stopped operations for the day with respect to the bereaved family.  ommumon  c  United  church  At Gibsons United Church  next Sunday, June 26, the  sacrament of the Lord's Supper will-be observed at the 11  o'clock service.  No cards will be issued and  it is expected that \ members  andi adherents will accept this  notice.  Those having no other  church home are cordially invited to share in this service  with the regular congregation.  Visitors to the district are also welcome. >  With a 40 in favor to nine  against vote in Seehelt Legion Hall on Thursday night  of last week, the committee  working on incorporation of  the Sechelt'area into a municipal village regarded the vote  as sufficient indication they  should go ahead with the circulation of a petition for incorporation.  After the announcement    of  the result of the vote,    chairman Magistrate Johnston said:.  "If this is the feeling, we have  started the ball rolling."  With Andy Johnston, the  chairman on5 the platform,  were Jim Parker, chairman of  the committee working on in-  Early Paper  With July 1/ Dominion  Day, falling on a Friday,  an effort will be made by  the staff of The Coast  News to have the paper  out one day earlier. This  will be done to facilitate  - matters for the advertiser,  readers of the paper and  the-staff of The Coast  News.  corporation; Robert Burns,  municipal clerk at Gibson^;  Harry Burden, chief assessment official at New Westminster; Steve Howlett of the B.64  Power Commission also on the  incorporation committee and  E. F. Cooke, of the Seehelt  Waterworks.  Mr. Johnston opened1 the  meeting by1 saying the committee was anxious to ascertain the feelings of the people  of Seehelt towards the idea of  incorporation    for    the    com  munity. The same privilege  would be given to those opposed as would be given to those  in favor on the floor of .. the  meeting, Mr. Johnston added.  Mr. Parker explained steps  taken in regards to incorpora.  tion and told how seven years  ago an attempt was made to  obtain incorporation but the  residents opposed it so the  matter was dropped. Three  years ago the Board of Trade  /.thought it advisable to revive  the idea but it remained dor-  12 new teachers needed  for schools next term  Mr. Ladds, one of the representatives for the Seehelt area,  advised the Board' that he was  severing his connection with  the Seohelt Motr Transport,  Co., having accepted a ney  position at Powell River. His  resignation as a representative to take his place was posfr  poned for the present. J'  The follwing teachers tendered their resignations as of  June. 30: Mrs. H. Evans, Elphinstone; Mr. V. C. McComb-  er, Pender Harbour; Mrs. M.  Slater,. Pender Harbour.    Pro-  Board of Trade elects  Douglas Smith president  What the new executive of  the Board of Trade needs is a  strong membership committee  which would do. something  about increasing the strength  of the organization, William  Sutherlandj present president  oi the- board said, in congratulating Douglas B: Smith,  manager .of the Bank of Montreal who was elected by acclamation as the next president  of the board.  "You are taking over the  board with finances on the  black side of the ledger," Mr.  Sutherland said. He added that  the present executive will carry on until the new slate of  officers are installed next September.  The new slate of officers  elected) consisted of: Mr. Smith  as . president; Danny Smith,  vice-president; Harold Wilson,  secretary pro-tem; Ray Kruse,  treasurer and on the executive  will be William Sutherland,  past president; Bob Ritchey,  Harry Reichelt, Norman  Hough, George Hunter, Walter  Nygren, Ed Sherman of Port  Mellon, Rollie Spencer, Jack  Glassford and A. E. Ritchey.  All were elected by acclamation.  Commenting on the. re-appointment of Mr. Wilson and  Mr. Kruse as secretary and  treasurer, Mr. Sutherland saidi  it was due to their efforts that  the Board of Trade had been  able to operate as well as it  had/. He said that Mr. Wilson  had asked to be relieved  as secretary but until the right  man is found to fill the place  now occupied by Mr. Wilson,  he will remain on the job.  Other appointments made  by the board! at its final meeting until September was to  name Mr. Smith, the new president as board member to the  joint Howe Sound Regatta  committee. ;  The board was also informed that Gordon Ballentine will  not be able t0 continue to  work for the regatta committee andl that someone else  would have to be found to  carry the load. Jack Marshall  was named to approach two  individuals to see what help  they could, give.  Harry Reichelt reported' on  the trouble he was having  with daily newspaper carriers  who litter the wharf shed with  torn wrappers and do nothing  about clearing up the mess.  Mr. Reichelt said he had authority from Victoria ^ which -  gave him  the power to deny  the .use of the wharf shed as  a distribution centre for the  lads. He maintained the ���newspapers had a lad' in Gibsons  who* was paid to clean up any  mess left; '��� The board moved  that a letter be written to both  newspapers-- informing them 'of  the situaion with the hope .^~  improvement^""."'" '  President Sutherland reported there had been no meeting  to date of the steering committee named to approach the various clubs and organizations "of  the village concerning the use  of Brothers Memorial Park as  a community centre. He said  some presidents of organizations had appointed a delegate  but that others will have to  hold a meeting before one  could be made. He also added  a meeting of the steering committee could take place probably within a week.  The1 Fish Derby fund, a defunct event which has had  some money left over in the  bank and) which was organized  by the Board of Trade in past"  years, will be turned over to  the board to be incorporated in  its general funds. The amount  involved is  $247.77.  Mrs. W. Stewart commented  oh the laxness of .notifying  members on meeting dates and  when their membership dues  were to be paid. Lock Knowles  said! he had a list of paid-up  members .available and this  would! form a basis for immediate future operations.  Mr. Knowles also asked" Mr.  Sutherland to accept nominations for the "good citizen" of  the year, a'n event the Board  of Trade has sponsored. The  territory to be covered in the  Search for this good citizen  will extend from Pender Harbour to Port Mellon and nom-  "inations will be received by  Mr. Sutherland'.  The board adjourned to take  part in the barn dance in the  new Hough barn. .,.  gress is being made in filling  vacancies on the teaching staff  but approximately 12 new  teachers are still required to  complete the staff of 44 teachers required by the District.  Transfers of Mrs. Iris Smith  from Pender Harbour to Elphinstone were approved and  Mrs. Clare Dick Svas appointed  to Division 6, Pender Harbour  and Miss Shirley Linton to the  Primary Class at Gibsons Elementary School.  All transportation contracts  for the 1955-56 school year  were reviewed and tenders  considered. In general contracts were renewed at the  same rates as were in force  last year and1, it was confirmed  . that these rates were not; out  of line with the rates approved in a department circular.  Preliminary plans in connection with the school  building  program were    reviewed   and  the architect will be    notified  as to suggested changes. There  are  still many details  to    be  ironed ut before    the    bylaw  reanibe^presenteo!:>to-'-the - Department of Education for its>  " approval and it appears to be  doubtful whether    the    bylaw  'will be readiy for presentation  to the taxpayers until the fall.  Other routine matters were  considered by the board and  Mr. Trueman was congratulated on the smoothness of the  organization for the graduation ceremonies at Elphinstone  High School with special credit being given to Grade 11 students for the decoration of the  auditorium, the efficient manner in which George Slinn acted as chairman, Wilma Luo-  ma's splendid! effort- in the  /valedictory address and the  '. excellence of the musical program arranged by Mrs. Vernon.  Wanted: One  Rev. H. Oswald  Honorary Canon  After 33 years in the service of the Anglican Church  in Canada, the Rev. H. U. Oswald has had conferred upon  him the dignity "of    Honorary  Canon, by the. Rt. Rev. Godfrey Gower, Bishop of the Diocese of New Westminster.  Educated at Trinity College,  Dublin, Mr. Oswald came to  Canada from Ireland in 1921,  .as assistant to the late Canon  B. Heeney, at St. Luke's  Church, Winnipeg. In 1923, he  went to Fernie as Rector of  Christ Church. Since then he  has served! in Powell River,  White Rock, Mission City-  churches.  Mr. Oswald came to St. Bartholomew^ Church in Gibsons  in November,' 1948.  grave  digger Start Library  The trustees of the Seaview  Cemetery met last week to discuss the matter of obtaining  services of a grave digger, Mr.  McEwen having . handed his  resignation to Mr. Graham.  The trustees felt they were  not financially able to employ  any one on a yearly basis, nor  were they obligated t0 do so,  since the cemetery is a private  one. They will, however, try  to- locate someone to do the  work as required.  The Gibsons Library is under construction, under the direction and work of Jules  Mainil, with Harry Davis helping.  The first floor has already  been laid, on solid concrete  footings. All work has been  done by hand to date, because  of lack of power outlets in the  immediate vicinity., In spite of  this, excellent progress has  been made to date.  mant until recently when an  active committee started work  on it. He added that it should  be pointed out that the Board  of Trade had no intention of  trying to put over anything  the people did not want. It  would be up to the people to  decide,, he said.  In explaining the financial  side of incorporation, Mr. Parker first said the fire department was organized by the  Board of Trade by obtaining  Credit Union funds to purchase the truck. There was  still $700 owing but the Board  of Trade would; look after  that, he said.  "At present the assessment  is going out of the district and  very little coming back. Main  highways would remain a government responsibility.. The  schools and school taxes remain under government control and the RCMP will be a  provincial government responsibility. Beyond that we are  getting very, little back but  under incorporation we could  get a great deal more," he said.  "I feel sure that Mr. Burns  will say that Gibsons waited  too long before obtaining municipal powers under incorporation. Seehelt has nice flat land  and should become a pretty  village, Mr. Parker said.  He explained that with an  estimated population of 400,  the municipality of Seehelt  would obtain a population-^  based'grant of about $5,200.  Then there would be the three  (Continued on Page 3)  AUTOMATIC  Pender Harbour will have  its own automatic telephone  system in operation by early  summer of 1956.  This is .announced by Eric  L. Mallett, B.C. Telephone  Company district commercial  manager at North Vancouve  who states that in addition to  installation of automatic equipment, the project will involve  construction of a building and  the placing of outside cable  and; wire.  Central offce dial equipment  for the new system already is  in order, although location of  the telephone building has  not yet been definitely established. Installation is expected  to begin early next year.  The Pender Harbour automatic system will, be of the  unattended type, with operator sevice for long distance  ajfid assistance purposes given  from Seehelt.  Derby trials  on June 26  The Peninsula Soap Box  Derby trial runs will be held  June .26 on the Davis Bay. hill  starting at approximately 3  o'clock in the afternoon. There  will be an inspection of the  cars before the run, Fred Mills,  official of the Der,by announces.  Cpl. Nels Cummins of the  RCMP, Seehelt, who has been  actively interested in the preparations for the Soap Box Derby, with Fred Mills was in  Mission when the Derby was  started there.  He worked with Mr. Jim  Gunn, who is now known as  Mr. Soap Box Derby in Mission. Cpl. Cummins gives all  credit to the hustling and work  of Fred Mills with the boys  and their sponsors in Seehelt.  B of T DANCE  Mr. William Sutherland,,  president of the Board of  Trade, has asked all members  to give all possible support to  the gala Dominion Day dance,  to be held on Friday, July 1,  in  the school hall at Gibsons.  The Dixieland Band will  provide top dance music, nnd-  refreshments will be  seved.  This week's hidden character has been known as a dashing young man in Seehelt. He  was heads of one of the busiest  groups in the commuhjity. In  business, it might be said he  really slays 'em.      *  Last week we missed explaining Who was Who so this  week we say the gentleman is  described' as 'most frequently  seen digging in.' Lest the suspense become overpowering  we now identify the gentleman as Mr: William Smith of  Seehelt the power unit at the  Village Bakery.  fair prize  list ready  The Howe Sound1 annual  fall fair .prize list is off the  press and available to those  interested, Mrs. M. LeFeuvre,  secretary, announces.  This year's book of 36 pnges  and cover contains a consider-  ��� ��Me amour: '-/"new data    for  the benefit of the general public and the exhibitors.  Some new classes have been  added in livestock and school  displays and there are changes  in the home economics section.  There are 434 types of exhibits in this year's prize list  -which-is 22 niore ; than last  year., Entry forms and fees  must be in the hands of the  secretary by 8 p.m. of August  13.  To those interested in the  Pacific National Exhibition to  be held in ,- Vancouver from  August 24 to-Sept. 5, the prize  list for this event is also available and may be obtained by  writing to the PNE at Exhibition Park, Vancouver 6, B.C.  This prize list contains 176  pages.  Collision  cuts power  The whole Peninsula was  plunged into darkness early  last Sunday morning, as the  result of a car shearing off a  pole supporting power lines^  at the Lew Reid corner in Gibsons.  The driver, Vernon Dahl  and his two passengers had the  presence of mind to stay in  the car until the flashes from  the electrical discharge from  broken wires died; down; otherwise they might have been  killed, Mr. Howlett stated.  No one advised the Power  Commission of the location of  the break, so much time was  ]ost in effecting repairs. The  full crew was out, repairing  broken wires and replacing  the pole, which had been  sheared off and carried for  about 15 feet.  All lights were out from  about 2.30 tQ 4.30 a.m., when  main services were restored.  Service to Hopkins and Granthams Landings were restored!  about 7.40 a.m.  Because of this break, the  full time of the scheduled cutoff from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. was  not taken, Mr. Howlett'stated.  Paratroopers now  Ronald and1 Roger Johnston,  twin sons of Magistrate and  Mrs. A. Johnston of Seehelt,  have completed their para-  troop training in the Canadian  army at Rivers, Quebec, and.  have received their wings. It  is'believed they are the youngest paratroopers ir Canada.  They are 18 yervs old. i  2 Coast News June 23, 1955  Wat  0HSl 1  Published  by   Seehelt   Peninsula   News  Ltd.  every Trursday, at Gibsons, B.C.  FRED   CRUICE,   Editor  and  Publisher  DO   WORTMAN.   Advertising   Manager  Member   B.C.   Div..   Canadian   Weekly   Newspaper   Association  Member   B.C.   Weekly   Newspaper   Advertizing   Bureau  Box  128, Gibsons B.C. Phone 45W  Authorized Second Class Mail, Post Office. Department, Ottawa  Rates of Subscription:  12 mos.  $2;  6 mos;. $1.25; 3  mos. 75c  United  Stales   and   Forign,  $2.50   per  year. 5c   per   copy  The .meeting at Seehelt when some 70 or more persons took tune out to speak or listen to discussion on the  proposed incorporation for Seehelt, was a sensible procedure.  There was quite a battery of individuals with knowledge about the subject on the platform and it appeared as  though the audience was not so much concerned with minor  detail as it was with .the overall picture. T^ere did not appear to be anyone at the meeting who stood up and deliberately spoke against the idea. All who spoke appeared to  be sympathetic in varying degrees.  Questions were asked about various phases of municipal operation and all were answered by the experts on  the platform. No question went unanswered as they were  all of the type that could be answered reasonably.  If the result of the "straw" vote can be taken as a  guide, when those elegible to vote, cast a 40-9 vote in favor,  it could mean that supporters of the movement for incorporation, if they act wisely, should not have too much  trouble in getting sufficient signatures on a petition asking for incorporation.  To say Seehelt will not benefit from incorporation  is silly. Today more money is going out of Seehelt to the  government than the government is returning to Seehelt.  There are those who fear they will be burdened with taxes  because of incorporation. Under incorporation the municipality would get a municipal grant and collect under various  tax headings, something like ��12,000. This is the amount  Seehelt people are now paying to the government and getting only a rough $1,500 back on secondary road work.  The chief point Seehelt taxpayers must ask themselves is whether they prefer a proposition, wherein they  pay pay out at least $12,000 and get back a rough $1,500 or  whether they would rather have $12,000 go into their own  municipal coffers and receive necessary services in return.  If anyone has a really sound argument against incorporation The Coast News would like to have it so it  could be published so that all may read it. ���   .  A tale should be judicious,  clear, succinct; -. ���  The'language plain and incidents  well linked:  Tell not as new what everybody knows; .   ��� :���  And, new or old, still hasten  to a close. ��� Cowper.  I mentioned tci a neighbor  the other day about working  on the prairie. He was a farmer there. I told him my age at  the time I was a prairie farmhand and he said we were  keeping men in the local  school older than that. He  then talked about other- days  ether ways. He thought a man  learned more by working.  Well, that may be ibut we had  to work and I know we learn-  things thereby.  I learned to drink beer. I  found that coal oil was considered necessary as a delouser  for bedding and everybody  smelt cif it, and learned how  to boil clothes to kill lice. We  arrived to thresh; I would go  up to the - house for some  sweet water (first time I heard  it named so) and the farmer's  wife would  hesitantly ask  "if  the cut fit was lousy."-  *      *      *  This locale was not far from  Calgary' and' with a bit of rain  or snow the tycoons of the  threshing gang would be  thresihing around the bordellos  in Calgary from whence the  bed bugs,and lice were easily  transported to us more archaic  folks. These minutae of the insect world 'were also boon  companions of most df the itinerant transients looking for a  job so it was accepted as a necessary evil while threshing  was on.  As I look back it is to wonder hew one managed to get  the engineer's breakfast * an  hour before the others and to  take time out to watch his" lantern across the stubble to the  THE EMIGRANT  BY L.S.J.  boiler and pretty soon see a  glow from his fiery straw furnace. This was a travelling  outfit as I have no doubt you  in the know would guess.  Some of my trials when the  caboose was hitched on behind  the engine to move, sometimes  in the dark, across country  with the occasional badger  hole to drop into���then square *  things away for the engineer's  breakfast.  * *      *  The boss was a bit taken  aback one day when I told him  I could butcher a steer if he  brought one in. There was a  shelf-like contrivance, fly -  proofed under. the caboose  where we .kept perishable  stuff and ��� the meat soon froze.  The modus operandi was to^  pull a quarter out on the  grass and! take a double bitted  axe for lopping off steaks."  For me this was like Brer Rabbit in. the Brier Patch. I had  been. brought up in the butchering business.  The fare was beef and pork  with rice pudding and raisins,  dried apples, apricots and -  prunes, and raisin pie. I had  some difficulty with rice at  first and the proportions I  tho.ught would be enough generally filled three pots before  it quit swelling. We did; not  make bread but we made lots  of cciokies as there was the  afternoon chore in a buggy out  to the field with a' box of  cookies and two. big   pots    of  tea.  * *  -   *  Supper was a bit of a problem, as one did not know if  they would finish or run till  dark or what have you but at  that age nothing  daunts.  This farmer was a decent  bloke and offered to help any  MOVING TREES JUST GIRAFFES  BY ERIK OLESON  of us new chums to* a pre-emp-  tion up north, but the westerly  wind magickedi us t0 dreaming and with that piece of  glistening brocade that adorned the western skyline taunting our youth it was just hot to  be. I have often pondered the  realm cf "might have ��� been"  and when-one. meets tha odd  farmer chap from there in  these parts that old cliche  comes to mind "There but for  the grace of God go I."  It is not out of the arc cf possibility that this chap I worked,  for is still around and he  might like t0 know that it was  at least given some thought.  We eventually got back home  which was a frame shack  where four men slept and "et"  and with winter finally drove  the bess into. Calgary while  we looked after the stock.  * * a  One job. I remember with  , some pleasure was cutting  holes in the ice for "25 or 30  steers. We only had one pony  and while one man chopped  the hole the * ether was on  horseback with a whip to keep  the herd at bay which was  quite a job once they smelled  the water. We were milking  three cows and as the pans  filled with milk in the course  of a dayi or so there would  be cream on all sides. So in  order to, use some of it up we  cooked the mush in cream one  morning and after that w��=  wanted no more cream in any  way, shape or form. The chickens and pigs got cream from  then. on.  This last paragraph must  mention the duck dinners ws  had from time toi time. There  was an American lad on the  next place and we supplied  ducks for his Ma to cook on  v Sundays. The sight of eight to  ten ducks in one large dish  and the appetite of a, horse  makes knife bright dreams  and in memory Inlays strange  tricks because I immediately  remembered the lad's name.  It was Luther Rutledge.  There is something a little  bewildering to the experience  of riding along-a dirt road at  25 miles an hour and suddenly focussing on a leopard,  standing stone ..still on a rock.  "You slow down, the leopard  saunters off the rock, ignores  the car for a time, then saunters across the road into the  white thorn thicket leading  down to the Sabi River.  A little further along ., the  trees seem to be wandering  about but as you draw nearer  you find yourself being disdainfully scanned by a lofty  giraffe���dark brown with orange markings. Nearby, his  family, at. varying heights, is  breakfasting on the tops of the  thorn trees. Kruger National  Park is like that���one surprise  after another, and all quite at  home.  You very early learn the  wisdom of keeping in your  car and of maintaining a speed  limit of 25 miles per hour. Before you've been half a day in  the game reserve you give up  noticing the handsome impala  with his dainty herds and his  very sharp curved horns.  He is two - thirds the side  of a mule deer. Close by  him are herds cf wildebeeste,  better known to us if known  to us at all, as gnus.  There are bluish - black  hunched up diminutive bison -  like animals with shaggy fore-  quarters. They lope off with  an ungainly pitching roll.  Now and then a shy bush-  buck with spiked horns comes  across the road. He is a solitary animal. The still smaller  duiker springs abount here  and there.  All of this you see in the  morning, for by 10.30 the heat  is too intense and most of the  animals have taken to the  bush or as we would say,    to  the woods.  The water-buck has embarrassing markjngs . that make  'him look as thciugh"he had sat  down on a freshly painted toilet seat.  The whole story of African  wild life unfurls itself at the  water hole. There I saw two  giraffes ��� all dignity lost,  sprawling over their splayed  front legs to get a drink.  Herds of vividly marked zebra  came to�� drink, making barber-  pole reflections in the water.  Two wart hogs took a drink,  then trotted off with their ridiculous tails straight up in the  air.  The lions I did not see for  there has been so much rain  the grass is too tall and too  plentiful: The roads in Kruger  Park are laid out by the usual  water holes, but with excess  of water the game uses other  water holes  just new.  As the sun began to cool I  looked down into a gully here  known as a spruit, and, there  among the silvery tasseled  reeds 'were five giant elephants grazing and waving  their big ears. We watched*  as long as we could! and then  hurried back to the    Skukuza  Rest  Camp.      All  camp gates  close at 5,4.5.-p.m..an.d..to.be:;owt.  later brings a iihe which    increases  with the  hour.     .The  night  belongs to the animals..  Impala    snort;    wildebeeste  groan fibrously,.    Jackals yap���  hyenas cackle,    then    a    lion  stabs the  darkness with  a resounding roar and  everything  else freezes into silence.    You  say a sort of prayer   for   the  firmness of the gate of the rest  camp.  Nearby at his estate on  White River is the original  Skukuza���- so named by the  natives when he founded the  game reserve, on old Paul  Kruger's original suggestion.  Skukuza4 means "He who turns  things upside down." He is lit.  Col. J. Stevenson - Hamilton,  now 88 and retired, the first  warden of the park. His wife  Hilda is one of Africa's foremost artists of wild life.  I have just come from three  days spent with my old friend  Skukuza, and they were days  of enormous privilege. One  day we took tea with his assistant of 40 years, Harry Wol-  huter, who is legendary in Af  rica, for after being knocked  off his horse by a great black-.  ,,maned lien and picked up by  the shoulder arid dragged by  the lion, he had the presence  of mind to get out his sheath  knife andt stab the lion twice  in the heart and once inN the  throat. It dropped him, went  into a nearby bush and expired. Wolhuter, bleeding badly  climbed a tree for the lioness  came back. Four days later in  septic agony he reached the  (hospital and today somewhat  stiffened he still has the arm  and on his son's wall at Pre-  terius Kop is the lion skin and  knife.  Yes, I'll stay inside the car  and refrain from being an entree for a lion.  It's dusk, the crocodiles  have splashed into the Sabi  and the wild guinea fowl have  flown squawking to their  roosts. A freeze has come up  and there gees the first alarm;  ���snort of an impala.  PAY    TELEPHONES  There are 50,913 public pay  telephones ir* Canada compared with 33,266 in 1945 and  27,220 in 1939.  i-SE CAREFUL  i WITH  FOREST FIRES!  D-1485  ams  CANADIAN   WHISKY  STAvmajd &&fo?n6 SitiMeM S&f.  ������������/-  ��� .. FEWER HORSES  At the start o�� December  last there were an estimated'  951,000 horses on Canadian  farms, 2,501,000 less than the  1921 peak.  A SMAL1F0RTUN  will pass through your hands  in the next few years. How  much of it will you keep?  You can save a substantial  amount with the aid of an  Investors Plan. For full details contact your Investors  representative:  Write or Phone  NEV  ASTLEY  District Manager  Room  313  Pemberton  Bldg.  ' Phone MA 5283  Vancouver, B.C.  WVESTOP  Syndicate  ofHfi?L0f^-V/INNIPEG  m  ���MMP"-"r--^jaita*'-'Jr*'-  m  Where to Eat  in   Gibsons  Kum-A-Gien  Coffee Shop  Offers Lunches, Snacks  Good Home-Cooked Meals  Convenient,    Pleasant  Below Post Office  ANNE    GARY  GOOD HOMEY MEALS  LUNCHES���SNACKS  try. the  FERRY CAFE  Theatre Bldg.,  Gibsons  Good Home Made Pies  ^(^tf^imiiBlfe^ [U?^!iW^--iu^3SBfe5=��;iUj$^^^fe^il  1  a  1  I  1  I  I  1  1  I  1  1  I  I  1  I  A Labor leader's Advice  on Successful  Contract Negotiations  1  1  1  1  R  1  One of the stalwarts of trade  unionism in Great Britain is Tom  O'Brien, vice-chairman of the Trades  Union Congress. His warnings  against reckless actions by minority  groups in labor in Britain have meaning in Canada, as well.  Mr. O'Brien said:  t  "Workers of this country can tear  down the industries which provide  their sustenance.  "It is our job to see that the prosperity achieved is fairly and fully  shared.  1  I  I  I  1  I  I  1  I  I  I  1  I  1  I  ���  1  1  I  1  a  1  I would rather negotiate   improve  ments for my members with a  mil-  iionaire than with a bankrupt. There  would be more and greater prospects  of success."  I  I  I  1  1  BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATION OF TRADE & INDUSTRY  AMHEKSTBUKC. ONT  VANCOUVER. BC.  This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board  or by the Government of British Columbia (Continued  from Page  1)  percent return from, the Power Commission totalling approximately $700. There would  also be the two percent return,  on proceeds from money collected by B.C. Telephones.  There are some 40 businesses now paying business taxes  to the provincial government  which wouldi be paid to the  municipality. Now there is no  power by which the authorities could tax peddlers. Under  municipal government these  would be taxed. He estimated  the total of funds the municipality could collect would be  abount $12,300.  Against those figures he  said there would be an annual  spending of $1,500 on the fire  department; $1,100 to start  with for 30 street lignts; $2,000  for roads, more than was now  spent on them; $1,200 for a  municipal clerk; $1,200 for  general administrative costs  and about $400 for miscellaneous expenses. This totalled  $7,400 which would leave a  rough $5,000 balance.  "We can also call on the  Town Planning Board for  help. An official of* the board  is of the opinion we have excellent possibilities for town  planning," Mr. Parker concluded.  Mr. Burns, Oibsons municipal clerk spoke next *and' in ,  part he said people who believed, in representative government will look after their  own business properlyvHe was  of the opinion Seehelt had    a  A (questioner asked what  Gibsons' - experience v^as regarding the change between  government financing and financing by a village municipality. Mr. Burns said that in  1929 Gibsons had some roads  and a three-quarter inch water  pipe laid on the* ground from  the creek at Granthams.  There were no street lights  and no public float. Taxes,  less schools were 10 mills on  100 percent assessment value  The village was formed and a  tax rate, less schools was 10  mills on 100 percent of land  assessment and 50 percent improved property. "We opened  up every lane in the village  so they could be travelled by  autos, got a water system, a  fire department1 handcart, and  hose, bought the water springs  property and later installed a  gravity line with a good supply of water for all who wanted it. We did all those things  without increasing taxes. We  raised'- taxes only when we  built the municipal hall and1  other extra expenses," he said;  As an after thought he added: "Over the years the Gibsons taxpayers got more for  their money by becoming a  municipality than they would  have Obtained if the taxes had  gone to the provincial government.";  At,this point L. S. Jackson  rose and said tliat years ago  the people of Seehelt fought  against the idea pf incorpbra-  tion without knowing what it ���'  was about.       He thought the  reasonably sized population , village had lost about $30,000  with which/to work: If-the  municipal fax level passed the  $12,500. mark the municipality  would become liable to receive  reduced government assistance.  Zoning is an important matter1  but the type of zoning requir-  . ed would be up jto', the; rhunlei-  ���pality.' ',?'���/:;' - 'XX .,y   '.:;^  A municipality could keep  a better, control over peddlers  than an unorganized' territory  could., he said. As regards the  fire department, passing the  hat around-is not so, good, but  under a tax levy it would be  levied in relation to the service given. -'       -.*  When question time came  the first questions asked were  whether a properly financed  fire department would reduce  insurance rates. Mr. Burns  said he was before organization paying $21" but now he  was paying $13 but he did not.  think that was the whole answer because water service and  fire hydrants would be necessary. .,,, .  Next question was at what  time does the RCMP enter into the municipal finance setup.  Magistrate Johnston rose immediately and replied, "Not  until you appear before me in  court."  tax collecting. It depended on  how fast the ratepayers wanted to go, he added.  Mr. Burns "was asked -the  direct question*-by someone' in  the audience whether Gibsons  people were satisfied with ��incorporation. Mr. Burns replied  "Yes. We have many more  things at Gibsons than they  have at Granthams (unincorporated) and! ac other places.  These places are now paying  government taxes; theri they  have to dig in their'own pockets to add improvements. We  are doing all this out pf taxes"  he said.  To another questioner on  waterworks, Mr. Burns explained that the Gibsons waterworks was carrying itself financially.  Someone asked what would  a Seehelt mill rate *be to start  with and Mr. Burns said- 10  mills, the same as the present  rate now being paid the government.  ,   A    questioner     wanted     to  Oops! Sorry!  The collective face of the  editorial side of The Coast  News has been of a mild pink  color since last issue.  Unintentionally we. forgot  to mention the orchestra  which played at the Gradua-r  tion exercise in Elphinstone  High. School and made the mistake of saying the Port, Mellon Minstrel Show was for  the purpose of - helping two  lads to attend the UN tour  in New York   "  Members of the High School  Orchestra were: Clarinets,  Dave Sherman and Jeff White;  flute, Gerda Sherman; piano,  Bud White: violins, Wilson Anderson and Donnie Ritchey,  and Coral Benn, piano accordion. ..'.;'���,  For X th e orchestra we have ���  nothing but praise for their  efforts. They played well and  lustily. As regards the Minstrel show miscue the facts are  the procee'ds were to assist the  girl and boy who placed second in the UN competition  to attend a special United Nations Seminar at the Univer-;>'  sity of B.C.  I.O.O.F. Sunshine Coast  Lodge No. 76 meets Gibsons Legion Hall, 2nd and  4th Fri:  This is John Dunbar, new  singing star of CBC Vancouver's Leicester Square to  Broadway radio show. He's  heard'each Tuesday night at  7.30 with the Harry Pryce or-t  chestra, and replaced Harry  Mossfield who left for Toron-.  to, New York and England a  feW months .ago.  John was born and educated  in Aberdeen, Scotland. He  came to Canada in 1948, worked at various jobs in Flin Flon '  and Victoria, and studied music on .the side. His first big  chance in radio came in 1954  v/hen he won second prize on  the Singing Stars of Tomorrow  talent contest. Since then he  has appeared, ��n CBC in. recital and sings for clubs in  Seattle and Portland. He maky  es his home in Victoria at present, where he is assistant manager of a hotel, and flies to  Vancouver each week for his  Leicester Square  appearance.  because of that action. He was  ,  of ��the opmion; Mr; Burns had  ; giyen a good! exposition of the  situation-:in Gibsons ^and it  should get. carelul consideration;  A questioner wanted to  know ifvit was mandatory that,  the . 75; percent assessment be  general. Mr. Burden replying  said no it would not. It was  * mandatory, in unorganized territory but a municipality can,  set its own assessment rate.  The next questioner.: wanted  to know if village roads would",  have to be taken, care .of.v. by-  the village. Mr. Johnston ens-  wered by saying the figure,  mentioned ($1,200) was present cost of .grading roads based  on the service supplied today.  New roads would be an added  expense. ,  Mr.    Burns    suggested       it  would be better to hire equipment 'than to own same.      No  village    would    have    enough  work to keep an $8,000 truck  at work the year round    and  the same    applied:    to    other  equipment.      Someone    asked  if the  present  water    system  entered into the incorporation  picture.      Mr.  Parker  replied  there was no truth in the > report the village would have to  buy the water system.  It was  a privately owned utility,    he  explained. Later, he said, maybe it could be purchased  but  there was no    compulsion    to  buy now. -  Would it (incorporation)  cost us more taxes? This was  asked by the next questioner.  Mr. Burns replied that if the  ratepayers did not want any  work done they ' could! get  along oh the government grant  but if there was work the ratepayers asked to have done,  more taxes would have to be  levied. In Gibsons, he explained, the same amount of taxes  have been paid as would have  been paid under    government  'kt.%iua...��..M��Mu........Tr.Tnrrnr.'fl��iM^.T^^^ s!  lei : : : -���c " "��� . -  ii  know* what would be the power of the commission;over the  opening and closing hours of  business. Mr. Burns replied  this would be done by petition  from the merchants and then  a bylaw could be passed.  Another questioner sought  information on putting a zoning bylaw into effect and Mr.  Burns covered some of the  intricacies  involved.  On the subject of animals at  large, posed' by a member of  the audience, Mr. Burns jumped int0 the breach and explained that a municipality had the  legal power to curb animals  at large but did not have the  physical power. Gibsons had  the same problem and it meant  setting up a pound bylaw  which would mean establishing a pound and; the expense  necessary which he maintained was beyond present requirements. He was of the opinion-  the government should have a  herd regulation covering the  whole Peninsula area.  How to incorporate? This  was asked next and Mr. Parker explained the petition  metJhod. It could be done by  plebiscite but government authorities, he said, favored' the  petition-method.  Mr. Burden added* that if  he was living in Seehelt he  would vote for incorporation.  He said he had seen many villages incorporated and none of  them wanted to go back into .  unorganized! territory; As 'regards taxation there-was little  or no difference whether you  paid the government or the  municipality.' A lot depended  on the, pace df growth, he  said.  "Elect good sound businessmen to your council and- you  will have nothing to fear, you  have certain control over their  actions  and it  is  a  generally  ;Vhappier situation than    would  be otherwise," he said!.  He added that a good zoning  bylaw helped to attract people  who would be able to build  knowing that a machine shop  was not going to be built next  door to them.  * At the conclusion of the  question period Magistrate  Johnston explained the method to be used for balloting in  the hall and who would be allowed to ballot/  "If you vote 'no' the committee will drop the matter for  the time being but if there is  a preponderance of 'yes' votes,  they will g0 ahead with the  petition. It is for you to indicate your preference."  Those who voted were individuals who were resident  in Seehelt or who owned property in Seehelt but lived elsewhere.       ^  The resulting vote with Mr.  Burden and Mr. Burns as scrutineers was 40 in favor and  nine against.  Coast News June 23, 1955. 3  LANGS  ON HOLIDAY  Ben and Mrs. Lang left for  their holiday in Los Angeles  and other points. They travelled south via the Orsova, the  flagship of the Orient Line,  and,took their car with them.  They will drive north from  Los Angeles making the trip at  their leisure. The children  are staying at Selma Park  with friends. The Orsova left  Vancouver on  Tuesday.  LARGEST HOSPITALS  Canada's largest hospitals  are the 5,500-bed Hopital St.  Jeanrde-Dien at Gamelin, Quebec, and the 4,000-bed Hopital  St. Michel-Archange at Mastoi,  Quebec. Both are devoted to  the care and treatment of  mental patients.  There are also several one-  bed hospitals in Canada, including the Mrs. Amy Nicker-  ?r>n Hospital at Doctor's Cove,  Nova Scotia, the Hopital Mon-  don-Nadeau at Yamaska, Quebec, and the Gladmar Maternity Hospital at Gladmar, Saskatchewan.  NAMED     CHAIRMAN  H. Norman Lidster, a member of the Public Library commission of British Columbia  for 26 years, has been elected  chairman of the commission.  Mr. Lidster who is solicitor  for New Westminster, is one  of the best known figures in  the library movement in British Columbia.  SUPPLIES TO GREECE  Canadian Red Cross Society  has shipped emergency relief  supplies to' Greece, valued at  $7,600. The shipment will be  turned over to the Greek Red  Gross for distribution among  the 60,000 earthquake victims.  Included was 20 tons of sugar,  three tons of corned beef, two  tons of coffee and cocoa and  four cases of surgical cotton.  <!��"���  a**-  ��� �� ���  JOHN J. DUNKIN  Doctor of Optometry  906   Birks -Building  VANCOUVER, B.C.  AUTOMOTIVE  REPAIRS  Dr. Lowe,  DENTIST  Roberts Creek  Phone 20 H 2  3-HOUR DENTURE  REPAIRS  OPEN EVENINGS  BLACK BAIL  W Fast Trips Each Way Every Day  VANC0UVER-NANAIM0  Fastest Across the Strait  DEPARTURES EVERY TWO HOURS ON THE  EVEN HOURf 6 A.M.-MtDNIGHT  FROM BOTH HORSESHOE BAY AND NANAIMO  IV. at 6 am, 8, 10,12 noon, 2 pm, 4, 6,8, 10, 12 mid.  > (Daylight Saving Time)'  Black Ball Vancouver City ferry terminal is at Horseshoe  Bay, West Vancouver, 14 miles from downtown Vancouver  via Georgia St., Lions Gate Bridge arid West Shore Drive. -  NO   RESERVATIONS REQUIRED  Passengers���Aufomobi/es���Trucks  *) ROOM FOR ALL-HIDE  BLACKBALL  m  MARINE    ENGINES  OVERHAULED    >  McCULLOCH  POWER SAWS  Sales���Service���Parts  TIRES  WIELDING  SOLNIK  SERVICE STATION  Phone    SECHELT    48 C  T&&        *y* Mm  m ;y&&  *' y  ��� y  &?*>��  ��s^V  -**&  H% w v.-.  w*  '-&��:  What do i����u vrnxL  **%.-'*���*<*.  '&  \  \.  -^  -*<  "v,-,  ^^  r/  TENDERS for PAINTING  Tenders are invited for painting at the follow- |j  ing schools:  ���V(a)    Exterior   Gibsons    Landing   Elementary ||  School, and Annex. |  '��� lis  (b) Interior Pender Harbour Sr. High-Elemen- |j  taiy School. % j{  I  :������. *.���-.-���.������������..��� is  Specifications may be obtained   at  the   School  |f  Board Office, Gibsons, B.C. |  Sealed Tenders, marked "Painting" will be re- |  ceived till 6.00 p.m. on Saturday^ July 2, 1955. {[  DOWN-PAYMENT...?  If you haven't the money handy,-the  best way to get it is to open a B of M  savings account into which you deposit a set amount of money each  pay-day.  Plan your savings as you plan your  house ��� and see how fast your bank  balance becomes your down-payment.  MORTGAGE MONEY... ?  Talk to us about a B of M  Mortgage Loan under the National Housing Act... at 5%  interest per annum and repayable over extended periods.  You will like the reasonable  terms and our manager's helpful approach to your problem.  I'I  m  lit  ^  cepted.  The lowest or any tender  not necessarily  ac-  jj  ���    .���������,������'���������.'.��������� Ii  If your proposition conforms to NHA requirements, there's money for you at the BofM.  Bank of Montreal  <��������.  Sft.  l:&  The Board of School Trustees,  School District No. 46 (Seehelt).  i  Gibsons Branch: DOUGLAS SMITH, Manager  Secheit Branch: RONALD MINNION, Manager  Port Mellon (Sub-Agency) : Open on  Canadian Forest Products Ltd. semi-Monthly paydays  WORKING     WITH    CANADIANS     ;N     EVERY     WALK     OF     LIFE     SINCE     ?8T7  * *^**w��v9��tntw*nnm****w*minn*r*tw***ww*9Mf*n**��t*w**n*nQm*TBmjtt��^*n��&m*m �������������*����������������������������������� 4 Coast News June 23, 1955  fr-.,.���.��� -      ,     .-.���...���".,.,.... ,. ... .-; '.���  Roberts Creek  BY MRS. M. NEWMAN  Mount Elphinstone Chapter  65, OES closed for the summer on. June 16. However,  their work goes on during the  vacation period, preparing for  the Fall Bazaar, working for  the Cancer project and so on.  On July 7 tftey will hold  their annual tea, this time in  the beautiful grounds of the  Bob Cumming home on Beach  Avenue which is easily accessible from the Roberts Creek  Post Office. Bob's lovely garden is something to see and it  is felt that he is indeed generous to permit his fine new  lawns to be so used. It wouid  save them a good deal if tea-  goers would refrain from using spike heels on this occasion. V i*j *tfj  Last week the Seehelt Elementary School baseball team  went down to defeat at Roberts Creek when the local boys  won 48-3.  A pleasant event occurred  at the Community Hall on July 16th when Mrs. Orcharde's  pupils demonstrated the results of a year's work.  There were, 19 numbers on  WANTED  GOOD STRONG BOY  (OR GIRL)  /To Attend Gas  Pumps  and  make self  generally  useful.  ONE GOOD  MECHANICAL MAN  STANDARD    MOTORS  ....secheitrU^yyy'.:::!!.  the program, including groups  and solo numbers of tap and  folk dancing and one acrobatic dance. There were skirt  dances, Irish, Scotch and  Dutch dances. The Predigar  children, guest artists, accom; -  panied on the guitar by their  mother, delighted the audience  with their rendition of "This  Old House."  John Wood was M.C. and  Bud White played the piano  accompaniments for the singing and some of the dancing.  Mrs. Orcharde has accomplished a lot in a short time  with these delightful little  dancers from Port Mellon,  Gibsons and Seehelt areas.  The Rusty Kennedys have  become proud grandparents of  a son, Eric, bom to Mary Jean  and Mike Hagedorn in Vancouver on June 9.  The A. H. Weals are also  happy to -have a grandchild,  the parents Mr. and Mrs.  Lorne Moe (Doris Weal).  Other happy new grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. H. Bern-  hof whose small granddaughter, Sharon Duplessis, is -visiting them with her mother,  Janet. *?  Another new and sudden addition to the district is the  house which appeared1 overnight beside the Legion Hall.  It was brought from Minstrel  Island by its owners, Mr. and  Mrs. B.'L. Cope and is to  make this its final resting  place, having made four previous moves. It will be interesting to watch its bare  grounds grow into a bower of  "flowers'as the Copes are gardeners with enthusiasm.  About    60   percent' of   all  switching���'- in���' Canadian National -Railway^ .-.yardj^is "now done  rbyvdiesel locomotives. e.:  ������������:���'��� WICKED'S  SliCE; y    -  LADIES'SUMMER SHOES  ���Fine Summer Styles For Children���  '���/:RraNINg SHOES  MEN'S DRESS SHOES ��� VTORK & LOGGING BOOTS  Phone 25 S Seehelt  CHEV. FOR SALE  1953 CHEVROLET HANDIMAN has only done ten  thousand miles and is as nevsr: Completely fitted for  ambulance service; if any individual or group wishes  to take this unit arid operate it as an ambulance for;  this district they can have it for less than half its  value. If not it will be sold as a private car for the  best offer. I need money quick; here is a bargain for  someone.  Send offers to W. Graham, Gibsons, Phone 60  HOMEMAKERS-  SEE OUR NEW LINES OF  YARD  GOODS  COTTON PRINTS ��� KRISKAY ��� GINGHAMS  SPUN RAYONS ��� BROADCLOTHS ��� ORGANDY  FLANNELETTES  CURTAININGS ��� NYLON MARQUISETTES  DOTTED SCRIMS -r DRAPERY MATERIALS  BEDSPREADS ~ BLANKETS and SCATTER RUGS  TASELLA SHOPPE  Phone 29J Seehelt  EVERYTHING  for the JUNE BRIDE!  i     "   Whether you're.shopping for a lovely gift,  or settng up the new home.  Come in and shop, where everything is Easy and Pleasant,  in our Departmentalized Store.  ......  SPECIAL  DOMESTICSEWING MACHINE  CONSOLE MODEL - Regular $224.50  si^EaALs $175  May Be Purchased on Terms if Desired,  -3  Noisy coxswain for University of B.C. rowing entry hi  Henley Regatta is Carl Ogaya.  Crew members    are    now    in  England as guests of Canadian  born international industrialist Garfield , Weston during  three  week training period.  Credit Union assets  increase 100 percent  (BY MRS. C^BYERS)  Welcomed home Mrs. Frank  Yates and baby son, Miss Gay  .Duval, and' Mrs. Frank Wheeler, all of whom have been,  patients in Vancouver hospitals.    ~  Mr. and Mrs. F. Holland  have hadi Mr. and Mrs. O.  Goodwin 'Of Toronto as guests  for the past week.  Mr. and Mrs.. Gray from.  We9t Vancouver have purchased the W. Stewart property  near the Selma Park Store and  a new home is already under  construction.  Mr. and Mrs. Biggs have had  as guests for the past two  weeks, their son and his wife  and daughter Carol from Calgary.  Mrs. C. Billings of Vancouver has been' visiting her  friend; Mrs. F. A. Smith on the  waterfront. s  '    fPH.   CONVENTION  " Mr. and, Mrs; Harvey -Walters are. planning a vacation  trip to Vancouver, where they  will attend an assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses. This is one  in a series of eleven conventions being held on this continent and in Europe.  The Walters expect to leave  June 28, by car. A total of  over 30 is expected to attend  from the Gibsons-Sechelt area.  Mr. -Kinicki, Sales Representative of the, SINGER  SEWING MACHINE COMPANY will be in the District  Friday and Saturday this  week.  Call Coast News, Gibsons,  and leave your Name and  Address.  ��� An increase in assets of  100 percent, and an -increase  in membership of 53, both  over a 12-month period, were  reported at the monthly meeting of Roberts Creek Credit  Union directors.  Among the new members  accepted, was a recently arrived resident of the Sunshine  Coast who, as a director commented, is losing no time before taking'advantage of what  id:  vjreus aids  fire; clepartment  -- The'Ba<hfel6y "Circus performance at Seehelt provided!  children and adults alike with  a good deal of fun for the  three-day run last week. The  rides were constantly busy,,  the delighted'shouts of the pas->  sengers being heard for blocks.  The animals and other attractions were well patronized"  and the games of chance kept  local helpers busy for hours.  ,  The Board of Trade received*  as its share the sum of $244,  which was set aside for ^pay  merits on the ^Seehelt fire  truck.  The crews of the circus, performers and roustabouts alike  bought their meals at local restaurants and found >them satisfying and promptly served,  and their housing accommodation desirable.  According to b<5th Mr, Howlett who spoke for the Board?  .of Trade, and Fred Mills, who  -was one helping at the games,  the visit was of as much benefit to the community as it was  to its owners.  Credlit Union savings can do  for his future. This youngest  member is all of three months  old.  ������; "More parents are realizing  the benefits of Junior Savings," the secretary - treasurer  Harry Lincoln, said. "Parents  enroll their children and regularly! deposit their Family Allowance cheques to the child's  account. Then, by the time a  ftoy or girl heeds funds for educational or other useful purposes, the money is* there.  Quite substantial educational  loans have been made on the  basis of a consistent''good, rec-  prdl.fpr Jiuuor^ayin^^: ^ ���-:  Mf Mr. Lincoln, who will represent Roberts Creek Credit Un-  "ion at the CU convention at  UBC this week, . anticipates  that extension' of' Junior Savings activities will be discussed at this province-wide gath-  erng. ���".--������.��������  ATTENTION, RESIDENTS  Halfmoon Bay  to Pender Harbour!  COMPLETE  Household Wiring Service  ���    "   ���    ���   '���'���       ' " ���-!������������' ' "-������    " ' I ���!������"������     "L     ���  ....... _s  ALL WORK V  ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED  OUR SERVICE MAN WILL BE-IN YOUR AREA THIS  '.'-���:.���." WEEJK AND WlL��.B# GLAD TO GIVE YOU  FREE ESTIMATES  SECHELT BOIEMNG SUPPLIES  Phone 60K \   Seehelt  BABY DIES X  Garry Burton, 10-month-oId  son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Burton of Porpoise Bay, died on  Friday, June 18 in the infants  wards of the Vancouver General Hospital. The baby was a  victim of a disease of the  blood for which there as yet  is n0 known  cure.  Kiwanis notes  ���   , Jules Mainil,    chairman . of  ,vthe Kiwanis Library , commit-  .tee    announces    that      actual,  'work has begun on the    new  Library. The foundation is -in.v  -Last week pur first   . inter-  club meeting brought a .delegation by private cruisers from  the Cambie -��� Mount Pleasant  Club, headed by  their    president, J. Marshall, Pontiac Mars-hall of Cambie   Street.    The  visit was a very pleasant    affair.  . Next week, Jurie 28, we will  be hosts tp another inter-club  meeting, from combined clubs  of West Vancouver, and Richmond. About 30 visitors are  expected. These inter - club  meetings bring much good fellowship and not a little good  publicity for our area.  NO  ��  S*1  GIBSONS WEIL BABY CLINIC  '*' "lANCEtlED'  To  be Resumed  on  Schedule  AUG. 4  \^Kmmvw*%*fw*n*V9*mm\mymw%)  MiHMmufK ������������i"M��� "HHFiHD  Phone Your Hardware Number; GIBSONS 32  Church Services  Sunday, June 26  - ^  ANGLICAN  Third  Sunday after Trinity  St. Bartholomew's.    Gibsons  11.00 a.m. Sunday School"  3.30 p.m. Evensong  St. Hilda's, Seehelt  11.00 a.m; Holy Communion  St. Aidan's/Roberts Creek  11.00 a\m. Sunday School  2.00 p.m. Evensong  Port Mellon Com. Church  8.00 p.m. Evensong  St. Mary's. Pender Harbour  11.00 a.m. Divine Service  UNITED  Gibsons  Sunday School, 9.45 a.m.  Public   Worship,   11.00 a.m.  Roberts Creek, 2 p.m.  Wilson Creek S.S., 11 a.m.  Public Worship, 3.30 p.m.  Port Mellon  f.30 p.m. the 1st, 2nd and 4th  ������    Sundays -  ;    ST. VINCENTfS    '-  Holy Family; SeehehV  9 a.m.  St. Mary's, Gibsons, .10.30 a.m.  Port Mellon,  first Sunday  of  each month at 11.35 a.m.  PENTECOSTAL  9.45 a.m. Sunday School  11.00 a.m. Devotional  7.30 p.m. Evangelistic  Wednesday night  Prayer  and Bible Study  8 p.m. Friday night  Young People  at  8  p.m.  BETHEL, SECHELT  Sunday School, 2 p.m.  Sunday Gospel, 3 p.m.  BABY. GROUSE  This season, on the Mainmort golf course, a grouse has  had a nest, right out in the  open. It was noticed that the  eggs kept disappearing until  there was only one left, and  the hen' abandoned" the nest.  Harry Reichelt thought perhaps the egg might still be  good,, and since he had a banty  hen at home who was not busy  took the egg in his pocket. One  Friday the egg hatched, and  the Reichelt family including  the banty have been busy  keeping track of the baby  grouse. The little chick started the first day by an exploratory journey down the road.  gee   THENEW544NCH  REPUBLIC  STEEL SINK & CABINET  0 NYLON DRAWER SLIDES      �� 12" DEEP DRAWERS \  ��INSULATED DOOR and DRAWER FACES  G�� SINGLE HANDLE FAUCET & VEGETABLE SPRAY  G POP-UP SHELF, COMPLETE WITH  HAMILTON-BEECH MIXER  SEE IT AT  GIBSONS BUILDING  Phone Gibsons 53  at  Sunn  New Summer Hears  EFFECTIVE FRI. JUNE 24  WE|K DAYS: 8 A.M  SUNDAYS: 9 A.M. TO 9  SUNNYCREST for SERVICE  PHONE GIBSONS 142  .'  Jji  gTjij! -^SBm^i&sSSW^iJiKSSW^^ssj*  T=T'  S^iUjs3SK53&*Ss3 Pender, l^arbdu^^  The B.C. Power Commission  has started the Pender Harbour extension this week, with  a four-man crew staking pole  locations along .the highway  between Seehelt and Pender  Harbour.  They were in the area last  week making arrangements  -for accommodation. As soon as  this part of the work has been  well started, local men will be  employed for slashing - and  digging.  The line will be built to a  standard" of distribution of  12,000, Mr. Howlett stated,  and! not the 60,000 volts as originally planned.  Many visitors from Vancouver, - Wilson- and Roberts^ Creek  attended the Open Camp week  end at the Girl Guide Campsite this last Saturday and1  Sunday.  The special occasion was the  opening of a* beautiful cottage  especially built for the Brownies, girls of nine and ten years.  With the generous donations of  all the Vancouver Girl Guides  family, Council members, interested service clubs and  business firms the building is  completed and  furnished.  On Sunday after a brief but  impressive Chapel service the  visitors proceeded . to the  Brownie Hideaway for the official opening.    An interesting  S  ANNOUNCEMENT  Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Berry  of Seehelt announce the engagement of their daughter,  Betty Ellen, to Edward Laid-  law, son of Mr. and Mrs.. Edward! Laidlaw of Roberts  Creek.  The wedding will take place  on August 6th, at St. Hilda's  Church, Seehelt, the Rev. A.  L. Harboard officiating. '  HELP WANTED  Domestic help 2 or 3 days a.  week. Phone Gibsons 136.    25  WORK WANTED "   '  Spray and brush painting;  also paperhangMg. J. Melhus^  Phone .Gibsons, 33: .<��� V. iftv  WANTED" ,  Houses to build, alterations,  and repairs    by    experienced  builder. Phone Gibsons 124Jay  .:��� v-V-    ���'    25  Child's second-hand kiddie  car. Mrs. Feeney, GibsonS 150.  Small male" "pup, cocker  spanier breed; Ms. ��W. C. Martin, Granthams Landing.  FOR RENT      '������������;. " -' :-'-'-:;   ���  Business premises at Union Store, formerly C & S  Sales. Apply 'tJnion Estates office, Seehelt, for in-  for mat ion. ^         .tfn  Rentals���three houses, available right now. Totem Realty,  Gibsonsl r ���  TRADE  Will swap Remington Foursome shaver, good condition,  fen* pair of 7 ft. oars. Phone  154J, Gibsons. 25  INSURANCE  Fire; Auto, Liability. Prompt  courteous service. Totem Realty, Gibsons.         tfn  GORDON AGENCIES  Seehelt  REAL   ESTATE  and   INSURANCE  Phone 53J.      Evenings and  holidays, 81H   LAW OFFICES A  -Hutcheson, Maitland & Legg  Barristers   and   Solicitors  Seehelt Office  '  AGGETT AGENCIES  Saturdays only  10.15 a.m. to 5 p.m.  Phone 55R tfn  WATCH REPAIRS  Fast, accurate, guaranteed  watch repairs. Marine Men's  Wear, Gibsons. tfn  Watch. Repair:' AIL types of  watches and jewelry repaired.  Reliable, fast, efficient. Union  General Store, Seehelt. tfn  FOR SALE  15 ft. boat, 5 1/2 hp Briggs:  $200. ^Phone Gibsons 124K. tfn  Used ranges, electric, coal &  wood- and oil. A good choice  at low prices. Parker's Hardware, Seehelt. tfn.  Full size girl's bike. First  class condition. Cheap at $25.  Apply"; Knowles Hardware,  Gibsons. ���  25  Beautiful building lot right  On the- Seehelt highway 100 ft.  road frontage 150 ft. deep.  Very little clearing needed to  be done. Full price only $1000.  Totem Realty, Gibsons.  No 'matter what you want  in rear estate���-we have, it: lots,  acreage, waterfrontage, islands^ small homes, mansions,  farms}; business opportunities���  and you will find our staff  eager.and willing to be of assistance to you-���drop in anytime.:- Tbfem Realty, Gibsons.  1931 Model A. Licensed. Excellent condition and  in good-  running order.      Call Seehelt  46K ^between 6 and 7 p.m.  FOR SALE (Continued)  About 3 acres on Reed Road,  small house. Mrs. Lowther.  Apply Mrs. D. Hicks, -next  door. 26  FIREWOOD  Large Loads $7  '    Delivered - Immediately  -     Sucre   Lumber  Co.  Phone Gibsons 151 or 155  '   '  ." ���   ������; tfn.  ^ BUDGIES  All Colors, Talking Strain  C-P. Ballentine  Phone Gibsons 127      tfn  : Fresh red salmon, 35c lb. H.  Fearn, Gibsons.        tfn  ~"~ WOOD  .   :-, ..;���>���. r- Aldex^fir-^lx,-,, ���...  ".������'-���    Also Sla& Wood""  SERVICE FUELS  -'.:: --^'Rfth'Veriion--.-  ���   . . Phone Gibsons 2fiW  ; One milking cow aged four.  Nine-ten. ''sfis; daily..   O: Briimr .  baugh, phone 67V2, Gibsons.  .  ,...y,.y ,..,;., . ....    ..   , ;  .   ��� 26  ..... : Rouse, two/bedrooms,, kitchen, living room',' hath, hot and  cold-water, sink, toilet, 1/2  acre on' highway. Bargain Harbour. H. McCallum, RR1, Halfmoon Bay, B.C. 25  FRYERS! FRYERS! WE  HAVE THEM! Selling; at V49c  lb. dresed. Wyngaert Poultry  Farm, Gibsons, 107H. 25  18 ft. boat 4-6 Easthope. A  good buy at $275 cash. See  Jack Lowden; Manicip a 1  wharf.        ��� 25  Local distribution business.  Other interests force immediate sale. Apply Totem Realty. 25  $3500 Down; Full Price  $10,500. 260 ft. waterfront at  Williamson's Landing. Low  taxes; no water rates. Six-  room house on three lots, all  garden, fruit trees and vegetables: Peaceful secluded spot.  Fifteen minutes from ferry.  Road to be black-topped this ''.  summer. For information  phone Totem Realty, Gibsons  44.           .  Top grade sand and gravel*  reasonable. Snodgrass, Selma  Park, 75R. 24  Sheep's wool, new clip. C.  P. Ballentine, Gibsons 127. tfn  Must be sold, reasonable  prices: Frigidaire, 6 cu. ft.,  electric. rangette, washing machine, chesterfield1 suite, fold-,  ing cot, magazine rack, lawn  mower, garden tools, step ladder, bridge lamp, chest of  drawers. Mrs. M. McGraw,  Capt. A. Johnston House, Ty- '  son Rd., Wilson Creek.  ceremony prepared byj Miss -W.>  Theobald was .presented by  three Brownie leaders.''Here  the keys of th house were giv--  en and the first to enter were  the enthusiastic little girls in  brown uniform. This was their  own home at camp this summer and for niany years to  come.  Miss Nora Weller, Campsite  manager, was responsible for  the planning and supervising  of this visit. On behalf of all  the Brownie leaders she was  presented with gift of a sleeping bag and* air mattress.  Mr. Wm. McCulloch of Wilson Creek was the builder of  this house and many other  units of the camp. For his keen  interest, care . and assistance,  to the Girl Guides, he was presented with a thanks badge by  Miss Weller.  Tea was served to the visitors and a very happy day,  and for some, the week-end,  was spent at this beautiful  Campsite. '  ; ;������; J?prty    or    more���     Gibsons  B6a|d of Trade members; and  friends gathered at   the   new  Hou|h Dairy Barn on Monday  evening, and enjoyed an evening of old time dancing in the  hayloft. .  -During the evening, Bill  Sutherland on behalf of the  Board of Trade, presented  Norman Hough with a fine  new; sign "Hough's Dairy,"  which pleased him very much.  Music was provided for the  old time dancing by Mrs. Nuo- '  tio's-juke box. Ladies gained  admission by presenting cake  or sandwiches, gentlemen by  the payment of a small fee.  The new barn is an addition  to the Hough dairy enterprise.  Coffee was provided at cost  by Danny's Dining Room.  Francis Peninsula  road work starts  Work was started on Monday on the far end. of the road  On Frances Peninsula, according to Royal Murdoch. There  was little remaining necessary,  to give the_ residents a passable road to the bridge.  The cut-off from the bridge  "to the highway, is 'still"a oneway traiL; but. again quoting  Mr. Murdoch, the new cut-off  via Bargain Harbour should be  .quite -an:���- accept&btte". road by  the time the Peninsula end is  ready.  Roberts Creek  PTA officers  The new officers elected for  1955-56 at the June 15 meeting of the PTA are: Hon. president, Mr. J.  D. Jones;    president,: Mrs. J. Jack; first vice-  president,  Mrs. Ef. Flumerfelt;  second vice-president, Mrs.   J.  Rusk; secretary, Mrs. G. Reeves; treasurer, Mrs. M. Albaro;  program convener, Mrs. C. F.  Haslani; health convener, Mrs.  D.  Blake; publicity convener,  Mrs'.* J. T.v Newman;, social convener, Mrs. A. Danroth; membership,.*   Mrs. M. Coles    and  finance, Mrs. A. -H.; Weal. >'..'-.  . The PTA annual garden party and sale, of home cooking  will be held on July 14 at the  home of Mr. arid Mrs; E. Shaw.  Coast News June 23, 1955. 5  be Mrs. Allen's cousin from  ;;Torontov Miss Beverley Hara-  nett who won the Gold Medal  and top scholarship award for  singing at the recent Toronto.  Music Festival.  Pupils taking part will be:  Phyllis Tyson,    Lynne    Gibson, Joan Walker, Judy Lawrence,  Myona Stroshein,  Jean  Lawrence, Lynda Lucken, Barbara Tyson, Joyce Potts, Michael Moorhouse,    Caralee Johnson,    Susanne    Wigarc?,    John  Gordon,      Carol      Moorhouse,  Sharon MacKay, Ricky Waller.  Penny    Lee    Davis,     David  Blake, Sharon Fladager, Roger  Lucken,    Irene Tyson,    Kathy  Holland, Kitty Ripley, Sharon  Davis.  Lauretta Ladds, Sharon Stewart and Anne Lang, Sharon  Stewart, Anne Lang, Lyn Vernon, Sheila Smith, Florence  Blain, Frances Randall, Jean  Hague,  Margaret Williams.  Gibsons    Library    will   be  open on Tuesdays only, during  July and August, Miss Jarvis  announces. The hours will be  from 2 to 4 p.m.  Saturday hours will be resumed in September.  Few readers show up ��n Saturdays, and the volunteer staff  found its time wasted and,  since the Post Office will no  longer be open Saturday afternoons, fewer people than ever  would call that day.  udget all your  Insurance through  L A S N  EASY   PAYMENTS  Two doors South of  Municipal Hall  Phone Gibsons 82S  THE DATE PAD  June 24��� Gibsons Anglican    and   home   cooking,      special  Church    Hall,    8    p.m.    VON    showing of curios.  Col. Lister suffered a broken arm and! multiple bruises  when he missed his footing  and! fell-down the steps at Gibsons barber shop last Friday  evening. Dr. Yates attended  him, and sent him to hospital  in Vancouver. ,  Bennie Jack received badly  cut : fingers when operating a  power mower' last ' Saturday  afternoon/! He was given ihi;  mediate".' tfeatrii^nt'' py v'"''Dr.''  Yates.    ''���   '..   " ''   ''     ." X ''\  Charlie Klein of Gibsons  was taken-suddenly ill on Sunday evening, and is being/ attended) by Dr. Yates.  Mr. L. Morrison of Gibsons  was taken by Graham's ambulance to hospital on Tuesday. He had been home only  a few days from Shaughnessy  when he was taken ill again.  Miss Winnifred New arrived  in Gibsons on Tuesday.  Mr. and Mrs. Masson and  family from Regina are visiting in the district. Mr. Masson  has just recently retired from  employment  at   Regina   Jail.  Rmtalby  >   Pupils of Mrs; Betty   AUen  will be presented in: recital on  June 29; 8 p.m., at the -home  of Dr. and. Mrs. D. McColl of  Selma Park.  ', .Guest soloist this year will  board meeting.  June 24 ��� Pender Harbour,  Madeira Hall Anniversary  Dance starting 10 p.m.  June 28��� Gibsons Garden  Club meets at home of Mrs.  A. Mainwaring, Gcwer Point  road, opposite tennis court,  2.30 p.m.  June 28���Gibsons: Kiwanis  Inter-Club meeting. West Van-  couver-Richmbnd Clubs visiting. Danny's at 7 p;m.  June 28���Seehelt: Annual  Flower Show and Tea, Legion  Hall, 2 p.m.  June 30���-Girl Guides Wein-  er Roast, Davis' beach. Meet  at Post Office 4 p.m.  July 1���Gibsons School Hall  Board of Trade feature dance-  Ernie king's Dixieland -Band;...  the dance" of the year.'���'   '  July 2 -rr Roberts Creek:  dance; Port;Mellon^music.  July 2 ��� Roberts Creek,  dance, Port Mellon music.  July 4���Farmers' Institute,  general meeting, 8 p.m. in Parish Hall.  July 6 ��� Hopkins Landing,  Mrs. Broughton's "garden, St.  Bartholomew^ sale rieedlewor-k  July 7 ��� OES Tea, Cum-  mings' home, Roberts Creek,  garden tea.  July 8���Gibsons group United Church WA summer tea  and sale work on the grounds  cf Mrs. Davis' home, Headlands, 2:30 p.m.  July 13���Gibsons: Cubs, of  both packs, meet at Kinsmen.  Park, 4 p.m. for Bean Feed! at  Mrs. Smales', Gower Point.  July 14���Gower Point St.  Bartholomew's. WA gardea  party at home of Mrs. H.  Chaster.  July 20 ���Gibsons, Legion.  Hall,  VON Bazaar, 8 p.m.  July 23 ��� Roberts Creek  PTA dance in Community  Hall. Ernie Prentiss music.  This Week's Special��� Five  Acres; small house; quiet, plenty wood, water; house furnished. Full price $1150 cash.  Harold Wilson  operating  Totem Realty ,���  Phone  Gibsons  44  o Evenings 95J  EVER WANT TO GO TO A  A GET WELL FUND  A very practical way of saying *!get well quick" to George  Meade, in hospital as a result  of a recent accident at Port  Mellon, was thought up and  carried out by Fred! Crowhurst of Gibsons.  Fred got a get well card,  and circulated about the vil?  lage, inviting friends of  George to sign the card, and  pay a dollar for the privilege.  Electric    stove,  $200;; Phone 72K.  like    new.  14' Sturdy Inboard. B & S  motor. Excellent sea boat in  perfect condition^ W. B. Bou-  cher^, Granthams:  Three brand new US army  mosquito nets, will cover  whole bed. Ideal for camping  out; Each $6.50. PO Box 141,  Gibsons, B.C.  20  We-do not know of a more  attractive country estate, than  this 20 acres, five cleared, with  good water, lovely Southern  slope; good garden, fruit trees,  chicken house; barn garage,-,  root cellar; lovely wooded arae  sweeping view of ocean. Very  comfortable 3-bedroom home;  3-piece bath, an" ideal home;  grand; place for a iamily to  grow; up; secluded, quiet, only  short" distance" from paved  highway. You will surely love  it. Full price only $5250. Tot-  em Realty, Gibsons.  Like a view? Granthams^���  2 cleared lots with million dollar view. Full price only $975.  Totem Realty, Gibsons.   This has possibilities; ten'."  acres on main Seehelt Highway, only five miles out, comfortable small house. Full  price only $2000. Totem Realty, Gibsons.'  AUTHOR ILL  Mr. Clough, author ��� and  painter of Granthams Landing  has been taken suddenly ill  with a heart condition which  will temporarily confine him  to his home, and to one floor,  of his home.*  He has been working on the  building    of   a    new    studio,  NEW STAMP  On June 30 in all Canadian  post offices, according to Jim  Marshall, local postmaster,  there will be a new stamp on  sale. This stamp is in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the forming of the  provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.  V   ^GLOVES FOUND  A pair of white suedine  gloves was picked up at the  Fireman's Baseball Club dance  on Saturday night and are  now at The Coast News office.  BIRTHS  To Mr. and Mrs.- Norman  Rudolph of Hopkins Landing,  on June 13, a son.  To Mr. and Mrs. Bruce E.  Symes of Gibsons, on June 11,  a daughter.  You'll find many a Boy Scout who does. He's  longing to join thousands of fellow Scouts at  the 8th World Jamboree to be held in August  at Niagara-on-the-Lake.  But he may be disappointed. Transportation, for instance, may be just too great an  expense. It is to help such a Scout that The  Bank of Nova Scotia is co-operating with  The Boy Scout Association to set up 50 all-  .expense-paid Jamboree Journeys for Reserving Scouts.  Scouts are invited to write a short essay  on the theme "What It Means To Be A  Scout.'* On the" basis of these essays a total of  50 winners will be selected in co-operation  with the Boy Scout Association. The Bank of  Nova Scotia will meet the costs of travel and  of ten glorious days at the Jamboree for  these 50 lads.  The  Bank of Nova Scotia's Jamboree  Journey Essay Contest is another example of  -*; the Bank's policy of working with Young  ���Canada. The Bank is their partner, as it is  yours,'in the great and many-sided enterprise  .of helping Canada grow.  The BANK of NOVA SCOTIA  ��� Your Partner in Helping Canada Grow  JEnfry forms are available to Scouts, eligible to 39 to She Jamboree, from the  Boy Scouts Association, or yowr nearest Branch of The Bank of Nova Scotia. '  & 6 Coast News June 23, 1955  Police Court  Illegal:. parking', in''. Gibsons  is being checked, with the increasing traffic of summer  making traffic regulation enforcement more necessary.  Six cases came up in Magistrate Johnston's court last  week, with Alphonse Heller of  Port Mellon, Melvin Lillejord  of Gibsons, Harry Smith of  Gibsons, Wilfred Harper of  Madeira Park and Louis Bes-  d'eck of Port Mellon each paying* fines of $2 and costs.  James Calder .of Port Mellon  paid a fine of $5 and costs for  failing to stop at a stop sign.  A 20-year-old: youth was  charged with having liquor  and beer in his possession illegally. His defence was that  someone unknown to him had  placed the liquor in his car  without his knowledge. He  was found guilty and fined1 $20  and costs, and the liquor was  seized. *  William Haefsloot of North  Vancouver and Albert Wein-  handl of Gibsons were each  fined $25 and costs, the minimum fine for exceeding the  speed limits, at Wilson Creek  and Roberts Creek, respectively-      . -. .  James Paul, an Indian of the  Seehelt Reserve, was found  gjuilty on a charge of intoxication and was fined $20 and  costs.  Emilienne Wilmotte of Vancouver was charged with attempting to steal a car at  Wakefield Inn. He was sent  to Oakalla for 60 days hard!  labor. His attempt to make  away with the car had been  foiled by three local young  men who had recognized the  car arid prevented him from  driving away, holding him until police arrived. The three  men were Robert Tyson, Allan  Jackson'and Cecil Stroshein.  Wilmotte had' been drinking  at the time.  Ronald Grundy and Ralph  Gwythen of Vancouver were  each fined $25 and costs for  speeding near Gibsons.  ��� Three youths who created a  disturbance by noisy shouting  outside tlie Canadian Legion  Hall at Gibsons were each  fined $5 and; costs.. ��  Norman Stewart "of Gibsons  was fined $25 arid costs, beings  found guilty of driving    without due care and attention  in  Gibsons.  The number of chippers  turning residue wood into usable pulp "chips in the Coastal  Regions of British Columbia  has increased three times in  the past year. ,   ,'.-'  It's Summer  Holiday Season  HASSAN'S  ARE READY WITH  SPORT SHIRTS  T-SHIRTS  SHORTS  �� .  .Novelties  &   Souvenirs  Sport Fishing Tackle  �� Phone 11 U  Pender  Harbour  More than 23,000 homes  have been built or are building  in Canada on bank credit under the terms of the National  Housing Act, T. H. Atkinson, the retiring president,  told the annual meeting of  the Canadian Bankers' Association recently.  . Up to April 30, 1955, with  the mortgage program in effect only slightly more than a  year, the chartered banks have  committed more than $210,-  000,000 in housing loans, said  Mr. Atkinson, who today completed his two-year term as  president.  "Of the total number of  housing units approved for  loans under the act, 40 percent  are being financed by the  chartered' banks," continued  Mr. Atkinson; adding that the  extent of bank participation  was "a notable contribution toward easing the housing problem throughout CanadJa."  Mr. Atkinson noted that the  chartered banks had entered  with energy'and dispatch the  latest field of special banking  legislation ^��� the Home Improvement Loans sections of  the National Housing Act. Between Feb. 1, when the legislation went into effect,. and  May 5, 2,500 loans totalling  $3,250,00 had been recorded  with Central Mortgage and  Housing Corporation.  ' 'During the short -life of  this new banking service," he  said, "loans have been averaging $1,000,000 a month���a fig^  ure, I believe, that will increase as both banks and home  owners become more familiar  with this lending field."  Dancers  perform  For the audience of the  dancing display at Roberts  Creek Hall, the show was a  delightful "mixture of wonderment at the skill, and convulsive merriment at some of the  antics and facial expressions.  During an Irish Jig, one of  the tiny tots had such a fierce  cburitenarice   the    audience  'rolled in the aisles,"    to borrow an apt phrase.  Mrs. Orcharde, director, and  ��� some of the mothers would be  the first to admit that quite a  ''few of these dancers, not long  ago, had three left feet.  -jNpWj under capable instruction, "they have  discovered    a  ;; r^htj-and a left, and certainly  ���&&��&' 'what to do with them.  Judging from the size of the  audience, Mrs. Orcharde will  have a , goodly sum to donate  to the Boy Scout movement.  <   THE PARTY LINERS  SENSIBLE   SALLY   is  the gal everybody loves.  She keeps her calls short  ���never monopolizes the  line. If the folks '^n>  her party line held" ja*  popularity contest, who'd,  win?   Sally,   of   course!  liRITl^B COLVMBIA  TELEPHONE COMPANy  Seehelt News  (BY E. LUMSDEN)  Mr. and Mrs. Andy Leslie of  Porpoise Bay have visiting  with them for a week their  niece, Mrs. T. (Angela) Hamer  of Vancouver, and three-year-  old Maria.  After an emergency operation in Vancouver, Mrs. Alma  Scott of Porpoise Bay is recuperating as well as could  be expected.,  A long time resident, Mrs.  Mickey (Mary) Blanchard, of  Seehelt with her son Del is  moving  to Vancouver.  Her late husband "Chuck"  was the owner of Chuck's Motors, now known as Peninsula  Logging Supply under the  management of O and O Logging Co.  Mrs. Blanchard said she  may return if she finds Del  and herself do not care for  city life.  One little fellow was determined to get a free ride on  ���the ferris wheel when the carnival was in town.  When the man stopped the  wheel, the small one would  dart under the rope and clamber clumsily onto the seat, and-  sit there with a^ beguiling look  on his face.  .     Finally the man' at the controls, amused by this tenacity,  put the bar across ��the seat  too late!  A rather breathless voice  was -heard! to call "Here, Major  come here you naughty pup!"  Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rodgers,  of Seehelt, proudly presented  their young son, Robin, with  a nine pound (and over) baby,  sister, Wednesday at St.  Mary's Hospital, Pender Har- ,  bour.  In view of the fact B:C.fElgc-  .tric will be supplying'thi^ district with power in the months  to come, readers of The Coast  News might be interested in  B.C. Electric developments.  Here is one:  Working two shifts a day, a  small*army of B.C. construction men and battalions of specialized! machines have whittled a mountain shoulder* into  a molehill to build the 12,000-  foot power canal at BCE's Se-  ton hydro-electric plant a mile  south of Lillooet.    *  Twelve months away lies  deadline when the $8,700,000  job must be finished and 42,-  000 kilowatts���enough , for a  city of 60,000���flash south to  swell the Lower Mainland's  supply of power.  In a nutshell, Seton station  will use for a second time the  water which has already spun  the turbines at the Bridge River plant, 20 miles away on  Lake Seton.  By harnessing the water as  it drains from the lake toward  the Fraser River and combining it with the flow from Cay-  oosh Creek, nearly 60,000 hp  can be generated, without the  cost of installing a large storage dam for year-round operation. That makes it a dream  from the engineer's point of  view.  But there- are also some  headaches:  That 12,000-foot canal must  be finished with machine-like  precision. To preserve all the  "fall" possible until the final  drop to the power-house, the  grade tilts just 3/8 of art inch  per 100 feet���about 5 ' feet  along the 2 1/4 mile length of  the channel.   ���  That calls for extreme accuracy in grading the canal'  embankments and pouring the  reinforced concrete lining: But  BCE engineers and the general  contractors,    Emil    Anderson,  Ltd., of-Hope,    figure"   they'll  make it. '���.'���''. '���'"  In the 18 months the work  has been going on, hard-driving crews have'.. accomplished  plenty. '  1. They've - carved away .  more than 1,250,000 cubic  yards from a mountain shoulder to form the canal. That's  enough material to surface 700  miles���nearly half the length  ���of the Alaska Highway.  2. They've completed a dam,  spillway and fishladder on Seton Creek t0 control the flow  of water and divert it into the  12,00-foot canal.  3. They've more than half  so that Cayoosh    Creek    will  completed a   1,500-foot tunnel  drain into    Seton.' Lake   andx  swell the flow to the    powerhouse.  4. The powerhouse itself,  about a mile and a half below  Lillooet on the West Bank of  the Fraser, is approaching  completion and the scroll-case  for the turbine, a pipe 16 feet  in diameter, curved' like a  giant snail, is now being installed. ' -     ..  ���S  Dealer For       .  SCOTT - ATWATER  Although cellulose is found  in its purest form in cottdh,  one acre of growing trees in  certain areas will produce five  times as much cellulose annually as an acre of cotton.  "GENERAL"  PAINTS .  MONAMEL ��� MONOSEAL  MARINE   PAINTS  PENDER   HARBOUR  Phone 11-J  sSfewiUiiSSlE  For the  First Time on  the   Peninsula  Pittsburg Paints  -REZ-VARNISH-TURPS-SHELLAC-BRUSHES  An EXCELLENT SELECTION of  All Types & Combinations  GasOil-Elettric-Wdod  TRADE-INS WELCOMED  FREE ESTIMATES  ON INSTALLATIONS  SPECIAL ON  PLATES  UNPAINTED FURNITURE  LINOLEUMS  WASHING MACHINES  REFRIGERATORS  ELECTRIC KETTLES & IRONS  WROUGHT IRON  or CHROME SETS for the  DINETTE or KITCHEN  NYLON PLASTIC UPHOLSTERY  MATCHING  COLOR  &  CONTRASTS  BEAUTIFUL FINISHES  | PHONE 30-S C & S    SALES     SECHEjLT,  I  SSi^  ^<S=^^^E^:iU<S3^^S^iUi^^K55*��ii&S3!l  msm  wmm  The latest in cab comfort and  safety ���More durable construction; softer seat action;  many new conveniences.  your money can  i  New panoramic windshield���  For a broader, safer view of the  road. And there's more glass  area all around.  New concealed safety step���  An important safety feature ���  steps stay clear of ice and mud.  Out of sight when doors aire  closed.      -.  More durable frames���Of 34-  inch standard width, with completely parallel, side members  ��� built to take tough going.  King-size 12-volt electrical  system ���Count on quicker  starts even in cold weather, and  still have.a husky reserve of  power.  Power steering ��� Makes driv-  ing very much easier. It reduces turning effort as much as  80%. Available as an extra cost  option on certain models.  New Overdrive ���Saves gas,  cuts engine wear���you can have  Overdrive, on *4-ton models. A  real value for its extra cost.  Truck Hydra-Matic���Is unbeatable for stop-and-go driving.  Available at extra cost on all  half, three-quarter, one-ton and  forward-control models.  Power brakes���They're standard on heavy-duty models, optional on some other models.  Power brakes greatly reduce  driver fatigue and effort; add  to safety. . ��,  CANADA'S  NO. 1 TRUCK  Come in and see the most advanced trucks for any job.,*  New Chevrolet  IflL  Phone Seehelt 5 S  THE NAME THAT MEANS A GOOD DEAL  Wilson Creek vCoast News June 23, 1955. 7  .    - -      -. V*-     VJk        *  THE YOUNG  IN HEART  It is frequently said that a  man is just as old as his arteries. Many a man is as old at  40 as another at 90. In other  ways men differ, especially in  their outlook on life. It seems  to me that older people are*  more, cheerful and tolerant  than.they appear to have been  even half ya  century  ago.  What keeps people young at  heart? I don't pretend to have  You'll do BETTER  at LLOYD'S  SABERTOOTH chain r  tait ie a full 50*  ctrongw  20" to 60"  blades  or 20"  bow  ONLY  $525  rradairt  your old  ���awl  Weighs  only -  55 lbs.  with  20"  blade  Coma in and  fry it out!  A. A, LLOyD  GARDEN BAY'  Phone 12 R  PENDER HARBOUR  BE  CLEARLY  INFORMED  CBU  Monday  June 27th  10:15p.m.  The Honourable  ERIC MARTIN  Minister of  Health  and  Welfare  BRINGS YOU   AN  IMPORTANT  MESSAGE  FROM YOUR  GOVERNMENT  : m '"  SOCIAL CREDIT  Keeps  YOU   Informed  British  Columbia  Social Credit League  the whole - answer but    I    do  know some things,    and here  they are. A sense of humor is  a great help. Many years ago  I went t0 a    small, town    to  preach. I was met at the    station by an    84-year-old    man  with a horse and buggy.      He  was a lively old man and    so  was his horse. I got into   ,the  buggy with    some   hesitation.  Them I pulled a boner. I said  "Isn't that a lively horse    for  ah old man to drive?" He answered:  "It certainly is,  and I .  wouldn't let an old- man touch  her."    The    84-year:old    man,  ' chuckled, and I knew I deserved the rebuke. Later, I found  lliis old man was the. liveliest  and best-loved . man    in    the  town. His sense of humor was  irrepressible.     Every    Sunday  he conducted a Bible class of  60 members.  He reminded me of the- hu-  imorist, Tom Hood, who in his  last illness, had a large mustard plaster put on his chest.  Hood, always a small man,  looked at the plaster and said: .  "That is an awful lot of rrius-  -tard for such a little bit of  meat."  When people act naturally I  think they live longer and are  happier. In J- M. Barrie's book  "The Little Minister," he tells  of the lively young minister  coming out of church on a  windy Sunday and his hat  blowing over a fence. He leaped over the fence and grabbed  his hat. The old people were  shocked and called a meeting  ictf the officials of the church  t0 discuss the affair. The old  man, more liberal than others,  protested that the minister had  a right to chase the hat. To  this, one solemn official said:  ���"If "the minister is going t0 run  he should run very reverently." , What kind of a wiggle  that would be I'll never know.  ���> Association with youngsters  keeps people young. When the  British poet, Francis Thomson  was dying, he said to those at  his bedside: "When you get to  heaven you will find me in  the nurseries." Hel had, always  been a great.'.loye^pf children.,.  If ever I grow impatient with  young people, I know I'm getting old.   ,  Here are the Lennicks, Ben "and. Sylvia, CBC radio family  whose favorite recordings and chit-chat are enjoyed by listeners  from the Maritimes to" the west coast every Tuesday and Thursday at 5 on the Trans-Canada network. Little Theatre actors  and winners of drama festival awards, they are also known for  their work in Toronto radio and television dramas.  Oliver Wendell - Holmes said:  "It is enthusiasm for some  cause that makes life worth,  living." That is profoundly  true. Recently a man died in  England whom I knew well.  He retired from teaching  school at 65 and began the,  study of languages. Before he  died at 90 he had a fair knowledgeof- seven languages, and  to the end he was thrilled with  his interests. There is no valid  reason why time should write  wrinkles on the soul.  Another old, man found a  hobby in attending children s  parties, and being the "life of v  the party." He had learned  some simple tricks ct�� magic  and he enjoyed it as much as  the youngsters.  Talking about tricks-1 am  reminded of a story of Canon  Ainger, once Dean of St.  Paul's Cathedral. He loved  children's parties and was  once invited toi one in London. Dressed in full clericals,  he arrived at the address given  him. When the servant opened  the door he said: "Don't let  them know I am here." Then  he flopped onto his knees and  made for a rocm from which  he heard voices. He grunted  like a pig, crowed like a rooster, and barked like a dog. Instead of children's laughter,  he was astonished at the si- '  lenc.e. He looked up to see a\  dczen ladies    and    gentlemen  Seehelt News  .BY MRS. A. A. FRENCH  Visiting Mrs. Daisy Clam-  pitt are Mr. and' Mrs. Lloyd  Easier of Vancouver.  Mrs. C. Duncan of Seehelt  Inn is in Vancouver for a few  days.  Mrs* Norah Macklin and  Mrs.' Harriet Duffy were hostesses at a very pleasant afternoon tea when they entertained the West End Social Club.  Guests were Mrs. S. Dawe,  Mrs. A. Baker, Mrs. M. Nord-  by, Mrs. J. MacCrea, Mrs. W.  Uttley, Mrs. F. Postlethwaite,  Mrs. J. Evans, Mrs. W. B. Bill-  ingsley, Mrs. A. Wilson, Mrs.  M. MacFarlane, Mrs. E. E.  Redman, Mrs. N. Macklin and  Mrs. H. Duffy. A special cake  was cut during the afternoon  in honor of Mrs. W. Uttley  whose birthday  it was.  Clarence Joe and his wife,  Lena have just celebrated  their 26th wedding anniversary. Clarence is 46 and Lena  44 but they have 12 children  and six grandchildren. Clarence is an up and coming  young^man, secretary of the  Native' Brotherhood and his  voice can be heard in connection with the better standards  of living for his people.    ���  There was a grand party in  the village, when many, friends  paid their respects to the Joe  family,  and' Basil  Joe,    Gter>  looking at, him in ������'great aston-'^ce's father, one time indAan  ishment. He had the wrong address. The children's party was  next doorP  T&?  NOTICE  Bus  Schedule  Change  EXTRA TRIPS  PORT MELLON-GIBSONS       %  Monday to Friday  Leave Port Mellon   8.00 a.m.  Leave Gibsons 2.15 p.m.  EFFECTIVE JUNE 25 TO SEPT. 3  Gower  Point Service  SATURDAYS and THURSDAYS  Leave Gibsons: Leave Gower Point:  10.30 a.m.  1.00 p.m.  10.45 a.m.  1.15 p.m.  policeman was the proudest of  them all.  Congratulations t��> Mr. and  Mrs. Albert Lquie Qn the  birth Pf a baby son at St.  Mary's Hospital, Garden. gayt  ��U<?h H e?9Wd, g^ \h& father's  Day dinner under the auspices  of the Altar Guild of the Holy  Name Catholic Church with  a wonderful picture show afterward.. This annual, affair is  looked forward to by Seehelt  folk. Many people from Roberts Creek including the Navy  mother, Ma Mortimer, also  Mr. and! Mrs. Alec Grey from  Pender Harbour, whose son,  Earl Grey wrote for The Coast  News in the early days, later  going to the Sun and to the  Calgary Herald and now publishing his own weekly paper.  Mrs. Johnson was here from  Medicine Hat with her daughter Mrs. Grey.  OVER HALF HAVE CARS  Fifty-five out of every 100  Canadian households had an  automobile last September and  nine percent of these had two  ctr more.  PENINSULA LOGGING SUPPLY,Ltd,  PHONE 94W    -    SECHELT^ B.C.  Logging Supply Headquarters  A COMPLETE STOCK OF.  WIRE ROPE-BLOCKS-RIGGING-POWER SAWS  BRAKE LINING-TIRES-HARDWARE  WELDING  WILKINSON-���HAASE  . In a double ring ceremony  in Richmond United Church  Saturday at $ p.m., Barbara  Edith Haase of Langley daughter of Mr. and.Mrs. E. A. Spar-  raw of Calgary, became the  bride of Joseph Franklin Wilkinson of Lulu Island, son of  the late Mr. and Mrs. George  Wilkinson.  Rev. G. R. Evans officiated.  For her wedding ensemble  the bride chose a teal .blue  suit with white accessories.  She was  attended by    Mrs.  Roy A. Hall cf Lulu Island and  the groom was attended by  Mr. Hall..  After the ceremony the couple left on a wedding trip to  Victoria. On their return they  will take up residence at  Langley.  B.C. BUILDING    OPEN  The British Columbia Building of the Pacific National Exhibition,   Vancouver,    is    now  open free, daily from  11 a.m.  to 6 p.m. to accommodate the  increasing number of visitors,  according to' A. M. James,  chairman of the PNE committee in charge of the structure  which is achieving ccoitinent-  wide fame.  where you are  invitee! to shop  it pays to read ihe advertisements  Contracting  Co.   Ltd.,  Seehelt  Are dissolving, the companx  ALL STOCK  MUST 'CE'.SCLD  Buy NOW for Cash at  Greatly Reduced Prices  ���   PLUMBING FIXTURES  ELECTRIC APPLIANCES  LAMPS - RADIOS - IRONS - KETTLES  Seagrams V.O.      *     ^  om&&& /viirc  ���     Seagram's "83"     *  **p  ***��� ��  This advertisement is not published or displayed by  Uquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia^  ���#&*  DIRECTORY  ACCOUNTING SERVICE  PENINSULA "":ri*\  ACCOUNTING SERVICE  All Types  of Accounting  Problems Expertly Attended  Village Enterprises Bldg.  Seehelt  Office Open 9 a.m.���5 p.m.  Daily  Phone Seehelt 98J  P.O. Box 38, Gibsons  BICYCLES,   BABY-BUGGIES  SECHELT   CYCLE  Bicycles New & Reconditioned  Repairs to All Wheeled Goods  Saw Filing  Lawn Mowers  Sharpened  -     Phone Seehelt 95M  BUILDING SUPPLIES  GIBSONS  BUILDING    SUPPLIES  LTD.  "WE    CARRY   THE   STOCK"  Phone Gibsons 53  ���--"iiKsr.r���,  /irz-m-.r'r-  Business and  Professional  ELECTRICAL  WORK  Hom�� and Industrial Wiring  '" ���'"   Electrical Heating     ���***  GIBSONS    ELECTRIC  Phone 130 ^   ;  Auih6ri3ed  GE   mmi ^  Radios, ApplialriegsV f v* Servie*  ^pIMnsUlIT"  ELECTRONICS  TV & Radio Sales and Service  ALL   WORK   GUARANTEE^  Fleetwood,   Philco &   Dumoni  PHONE 75 W  BULLDOZING  TRACTOR WORK  Clearing, Grading, Excavating  D-4  8c D-6 Bulldozing  Clearing Teeth  ARCHES FOR RENT  A. E. Ritchey  Phone Gibsons 86  BUILDING    BULLDOZING  CONTRACTING  Ran   Vernon.   R.R.   1.   Gibsons  Phone   26W  CLEANERS  PENINSULA    CLEANERS  Cleaners  for the   Seehelt  Peninsula  Phone:  Gibsons  100  BEAUTY  SALONS  SECHELT  BEAUTY    SALON  For Appointments  Phone  Seehelt 95 J  HOURS:   10   a.m.  to  5  p.m.  gift"store     7  Notions���-Cards���Toys  Miscellaneous Gifts  THRTFTEE    STORES  Left of Post Office  Gibsons, B.C.  Headquarters  For  Wool  WIRING  Corttifiercial &  Residential  Electric  Sprace Heating  Anywhere on.the Peninsula  PARKER? and SIM  ELECTftIC  Parker's   Hardware  Seehelt 51 ��� 75K Evehiriga  MACHINISTS  HILL'S   MACHINE    SHOP  Mobilized  Welding  Welding  Anywhere���Anytime  Expert    Tradesmen  Precision    Machinists  Phone 54 Residence 78  PLUMBING  MARSHALL'S  PLUMBING  HEATING &   SUPPLIES  Phone Gibsons 134. 104 or 33  RADIO  RICHTER'S   RADIO ��� TV  SALES and SERVICE  Speedy, Guaranteed" Work  SALES ON EASY TERMS  Phone SECHELT 25J  FURNITURE  C and S SATES. SERVICE  Agents   For  Propane Gas  Combination   Gas  Ranges  Sale;   and  Installations  Free Estimates  Electric and Gas Hot Plates  8        FURNITURE  LINOLEUMS  Phone  30S  Seehelt  REFRlGERATfON T~  REFRIGERATION  SALES and SERVICE  Commercial ��� Domestic  25 Years' Experience  A.  M.- CAMPBELL  SECHELT 83 W 8 Coast News June 23, 1955  The ball game between  Chops' Mops and the Old  Timers in the ballpark Monday night was an official score-  keeper's nightmare. * Coaches  . of both sides shuffled their  teams about, made substitutions not according to Hoyle,  and1 generally strived to confuse the other side. Who was  next at bat was always an interesting problem even though  confusing.  At the start of the game it  was evident the team of males  described as "Old: Timers"  were thoroughly disorganized  and the event proceeded to  a complete shambles in spite  of the masterful coaching by  a representative of the forces  of law and order.     ,       ��'  The girls naturally acted  with all the proverbial dtecor-  um of a girls' ball team and  deserved the sympathy of the  numerous umpires that appeared to be scattered at convenient places. During one daring  dash to first base the first  baseman (male) kept his foot  off the bag because he feared  he would get spiked by the  cnrushing runner. This attempt to obtain the sympathy  of the umpires fell flat.  The gals, game to the last  cheer, now want to meet the  real Old Timers. They feel  they could play a better game  - than the substitute team coached by Cpl. Morrison.  The score���according to the  last official count was 17-10.  Chuck Tompkins is getting  a bull-dozer to fill the hole he  made when he bounced off  first base.  Ball scouts from the Kiwanis Club were on hand for Monday night's game and , after  careful consideration of the  calibre of play by the girls  have come, to the conclusion  that the Kiwanis team of  known professional ball players would be pleased to show  the girls and Chops McGean  just how ball can be played  by men who really know how.  Proceeds will be in aid of  the VON so spectators are asked to save some two-bit or  four-bit pieces to put in to  collection. A date for the game  will be announced later.  Sunday, June 26:  Pender at PM (double-header)  Merchants at Firemen, 2.30.  WC at Seehelt, 6.00.  June 28: WC at Merchants,  6.30.  June 29: PM at Seehelt, 6.30  June 30: Firemeh at Pender  will be played at Seehelt at  6.30.  PORT!  EEK  Roberts Creek  sports July 30  The last meeting of the season of the Roberts Creek Improvement Association was  held on June 14 in the Legion  Hall, Roberts Creek.  Mrs. R. Hughes Sr. was in  the chair. There was quite a  large attendance. After the  regular business, the question  of the annual Sports Day was  d'iscussed. It was decided to  hold it on July 30 at Elphinstone Bay Park, Roberts  Creek.  UNICN  RED & WHITE STORE  The Largest Food Store on the Peninsula  With the Widest Variety  Phone Seehelt 18  FOR FREE DELIVERY  THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SPECIALS  FRYING CHICKEN, PAN READY ... lb. 63c  STANDING RIB ROAST BEEF, GRADE A ... lb. 69c  BOLOGNA, SLICED OR PIECE    ..../lb. 29c  TENDERIZED COTTAGE ROLL     '.,. lb. 59c  NEW ?SPRAY-N-WIPE" FOR #vENS, ETC.  NON-TbXIC, NON - INFLAMMABLE  bottle 59c  FRENCH'S BARBECUE SAUCE    . ...  29c  MIRACLE WHIP  ; .���.,..L.,���..'���i6'oz. 49c  j         .'���-,*'���  ���  WEEK END SPECIALS  SELMA PARR STORE  PELLSBURY CAKE MIX     :       2 for 5J)C  TEA   (OUR OWN BRAND)   ..."  Ib-87c  FRESH GROUND HAMBURGER lb. 39c  ENSIGN BLACKBERRIES, 15 oz  |C)C  FREE DELIVERIES  Phone Seehelt 76  Now... ttte 't����S��       ,,y~  BY   CHUCK  TOMPKINS  Last week saw the MPS  league pennant race tighten  up as the league leading Port  Mellon team lost three games  in a row while the Firemen  and Wilson Creek each picked  up a few points. The Firemen  have now taken over the lead.  The game of the week was  Wilson Creek's victory over  Port Mellon Sunday night.  Johnnny Clayton shut-out the  Port Mellon nine 1-0 in one of  the closest games this year. Al  Jackson was the big gun for  Wilson Creek and if it hadn't  been for Port Mel Ion's tight  infield it couid have been a  high scoring contest.  The Merchants lost twice  during the week as the Firemen knocked them off V-'-fi on  Tuesday night and Pender  edged them out 4-2 on Sunday.  Seehelt upset Wilson Creek  14 13 Tuesday but were swamped 16-5 on Sunday by the Firemen.  Wilson Creek downed the  Firemen 6 3 in the replayed  game on Friday.  I would like to thank Mr.  H. Roberts, secretary, MPS  league, zone councillor of  BCASA for his letter in which  he didn't quite fully explain  the facts of the suspension of  a player and the replayed!  games.  If Mr. Roberts as zone councillor thought I was cluttering  , up the minds of the fans with  trash and untruths I think it  was his job to report to. the  fans what was going on in a  concise, factual report. ; Fans  make the game and? it is only  fair to keep them posted on  what is happening.  For the information of the  fans andi the zone councillor, I  - would like, to make it clear  that I am not a staff reporter  for this paper nor am I statistician for the MPS league. I  merely write down my own  opinions on sports as I did in  this case.  As for my status as manager  of a team I keep that separate  of my column and think that  the zone councillor should too.  As far as being notified by  mail of the meeting in . question, never sir, never.  . The fans who attend ball  games in Gibsons are wondering what happened to the  field that the School Board  promised. Also the fact that  the vision at he old! field is  blocked by groups of players  huddled together and coats  and spectators drapedi over the  fence. Let's give the fans a  chance, after all they contribute the do-re-me that keeps the  teams operating. ' :        *  I understand that there,, 4s  a service station operator now  S5 poorer for offering Millie  Germaine of Chops Mops; this  sum if she hit a home run in  the game apainst the "Old  Timers." Millie obliged by  hitting one and! then turning  the money into the kitty as did  the men with their share of  the  night's  proceeds.  The ironic part  is that  the  ' fielder who let  the    ball    go  through is an employee of the  service station. Looking for  a  job, Dave?  Wilson Creek  to    beat    Seehelt on Sunday.  Little L  G&W EXTRA DRY GIN  will give a new lift to your martinis,  collins, gin-and-tlhic. Delicate  bouquet. Absolutely dry flavour.  Next time, try  G&W London Dry Gin.  A product of  }  G00DERHAM   &  WORTS   LIMITED  85-2  This advertisement is not published or displayed by the  Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia.  Cinitft'i  Otditl   DJitllltrj  eague  Games played! " on Sunday,  June 19 in the Little League:  Pender Harbour played host  t0 Wilson Creek Orioles at  Madeira Park. At the half-way  point it was anybody's ��� game.  Orioles won 13-5.  Pitchers were Robin McSav-  aney for Orioles and Keith Anderson who was relieved by  Gary, Spicer in the last inning.  ���- The game between Gibsons  Firemen and the Seehelt Cubs  saw the Cubs edge out the  Firemen 10-9 at Seehelt.  bhored at party  An enjoyable party of the  Fair Committee was held at  Mrs. M. Turner's home/on Friday night, June 17, to honor  Mr. Norman Sergeant.  Mr. Roy Malyea, the new  chairman, expressed! the appreciation of the committee for  Mr.. Sergeant's conscientious  efforts during- the past eight  years for the benefit of the  Fair.  It was regretted that Mrs.  Sergeant could not be present  owing to a severe cold, also  that Mr. A. H. Peppar of An-  more on doctor's advice, because of a recent fail, was a  reluctant absentee.  Two fellows &t Porpoise Bay  did a lot of unexpected acrobatics while trying to pull a  boat onto the wharf.  The tow rope evidently became tired of playing tug-o'-  war, split asunder with the  mighty efforts of the two, and  exploded them into a rolling,  somersaulting mass of pure astonishment.  They were too surprised to  be hurt, they said.      Ask Bill  Scott or Ron Hughes if they've1  - got any bruises they can show!  OFFICE    BURGLARIZED  The office of the Peninsula  Logging Supply, Seehelt, was  entered on the night ef Thurs.,  June 16 and some cash, totalling about $6, was taken.  Len Stanton, welder for the  firm, discovered the loss. Friday morning when he went  to work. He stated there was  a small amount of money spilled on the floor beside the safe.  Porpoise Bay  ' Mr. and Mrs. George Page  of Porpoise Bay left Sunday  night for River's Inlet and  Johnstone Straits where . they  will be running a fish packer  for J. H. Todd and Sons.  They will be away until the  end of the fishing season in  their chartered packer, MV  Friedship IV.  The children Gail and" parrel will be staying at home  with Mrs. Page's mother.   ��  Roberts Creek  July 2 is the big night for  the Community Hall. The Port  Mellon orchestra will supply  the music and it is expected  that the hall will be crowded.  It begins the drive to buy  colored siding for the outside  of the building.  During the winter the inside walls and stage were  painted, chairs purchased!, a  new oil stove installed in the  kitchen and hot water put in.  If the outside has its face  lifted it will be a credit^to the  community and. certainly it  has been .useful and instrumental in the growth" of the district.    ���. ��  Tickets are just a dollar and  you may send a dollar in to  the secretary of the Hall Board  if you just want to help and  not dance.  MAlif^S  ���  B. W. M. BONE  Chartered    Accountant  1045   West PendeT  St.  TAtlow  1954  VANCOUVER 1.   B.C.  TOP   GOLF   SCORE  Last Saturday afternoon,  while keeping his brother Norman's nerves under control  prior to the wedding, Bill Peterson took him for a round of  pitch and putt at the Main-  Port course. Bill topped the  season's scores with a below  par of, 26.  dressm  :*��'&>  THE HALFMOON BAY STORE  will re-open July 9  -' -* ���������-.. \  Under new management  and will be known as  ���E!3.&J.JTCCE  A new management means new policies  LOW PRICES FOR GASH  at your  these prices: June 23 to July 2  JELLO  INSTANT PUDDINGS  2 for 27c  ��   HEW WASHDAY  YORK MEAT BALLS  15 OZ. TINS  2 for 71 e  STEINFIEIBS  28 OZ. .TINS  w  JH REG. FLUFF��'  1  2 for 57c  LIBBY'S  WKOLE KERNEL CORN  14 oz. Tin 2 for 37c  edeem Your Co-op  Product Labels  ��      at 2c each:  June 23  to  July 23  Phone 46K or 46W Elphinstone Go-operative Gib  son$