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Serving- a Progressive & Growing Area on B. C.'s Southern Coast B Covers Sechelt. Gibson's Landing. Port Mellon, Woodfi'bre, Squamish Irvine's Landing; Half Moon Bay engnsusa points Hardy Island, Pender 'Harbour-* Wilson Creek, Roberts Creek Grantham's Landing. Egmont. Hopkin's Landing-, Brackendale Over Top Zk_rB-tXS---D BT _HE COAST NEWS, LIMITED Cheekeye, etc. Business Office: Half Mooa Bay, B. C National Advertising* Office: PoweU River, B. C. Sechelt and Halfmoon Bay are leading Unit 13 with 305% of quota achieved and the unit [Vol; I, No. 17 HALF MOON BAY, B. C. Wednesday, November 7, 1945 5c Per Copy. $2.50 Per Year, by Mail as a whole is over quota with 107.2%. $700,000 is the new objective for unit 13, an increase of $125,- 000 over the official objective of $575,000. The unit to date Sinclair Presses has over $617,000 and there is a week to go. Halfmoon Bay and Sechelt have $47,000, 305% of original For Phone Service quota. Pender Harbour has 213% of ' IN A PLEA to the Minister of Public Works, James Sin quota, $32,000 collected. Sales clair, M. P. for this riding, asked for improvement of man A. R. Dingman has raised the telephone service existing on the peninsula, either by his objective from $15,000 to government service or by sale of the existing facilities to $35,000. 1 the B. C. Telephone Company. Full text of the letters, in- Lund, first unit to top its [ objective of $12,000, has 182% eluding a promise from the Department to investigate the of objective with $21,900 col matter at once, follows— lected at press time. Mr. Con Hall, Stillwater, re ! Ottawa, Ontario, Gibson's to place a call and ports 134%, O'Brien camps ! October 3, 1945. wait as much as two hours be alone buying $32,150. Jervis I Hon. Alphonse Fournier, K.G., fore such a call gets through, Inlet camps had $26,000 or 173% Minister of Public Works, > this to the city just twenty of quota. Doug Johnston and \ Ottawa, Ontario. miles away. Telephone service Ernie Heward reported $5,000 \ Re: Port Mellon-Pender Har is used only as an emergency on their first day at Quathia- bor, B.C. Telephone Service. in such circumstances, but des ski Cove. f. Dear Sir: .During recent pite this, the single line is over Gibson's Landing had $34,- -> weeks I have * discussed with loaded. Moreover, a call placed, 750 or 173% on Tuesday morn [; officials of the Dominion Tele from the more distant points, ing reported E. Jl Atlee and graph Service in Vancouver such as Pender Harbor, is often Hardy Island And LAC. Stubbs. f and in Ottawa, the matter of almost worthless because of the Mrs. Klein, of Roberts Creek, ' providing a proper telephone extremely poor transmission $7,500 of $15,000 objective and t over the outmoded single line expects to make quota by end service to the south coast por equipment used. of week. tion of my riding. I feel the Robert Cavanaugh reports Vtime has now come to present Because of these . circum- by Mrs. Oliver Dubois elsewhere. 89% at Cranberry and $12,- ythe case to you, as Miniîîh^ stances, the people of this area I HAVE been to Hardy Island Mr. Brazil will put his pets 000 at' Texada Island. Blubber ?f$§£Uiy^;tin^y^ 1 Bay alone^has $6,Q00> under.vMr.. -The district from Member of Parliament, to se of seeing its many beauty spots feed them from your hand! C. W. Lowman. Port Meljtoh to Pender Harbor, cure a decent telephone ser The tame deer interest me— Hardy Island is a very pleas Jean Coccola in Powell River, }iri the 'Riding of Vancouver vice. They did accept this lam as most visitors—most of all. ant place to spend an after Wildwood and Westview has North, is not connected with entable service during the war This little untouched spot of noon off—it is only a couple of $96,300 and still going strong. Vancouver with any road sys years because • they appreciated Wildwood, 106% or $9,550 of its land is owned by the McCom- hours by boat from Pender $9,000 quota. Powell River, tems because of intervening that materials and labour were bers, who make it their sum Harbour. inlets. Gibson's Landing, the $51,400 or 89% and Westview diverted to war purposes. Now mer home. • • • • Among Mr. Brazil's attrac has $35,350 or 86%. principal community in the that the war is over, however, There is an old caretaker on tions are a parrot, and last year Powell River -Company em area, .is but twenty miles in a they object very strongly to so when his house burned down ployees went over the top at l( straight line from Vancouver. inadequate a service, a ser*- the place—Tom Brazil, whose kindliness and never-failing he tried to rescue the parrot 3:15 Wednesday, October 31, The district is some fifty-five vice which might be satisfac $293,000 of its $290,000 quota. miles in length and includes tory on the West Coast of Van welcome to visiors is tendered from a cage close by the burn ing house. As Tom found out, Powell River mill employees the Company town and Paper couver Island or in. the Yukon, with his first warm handshake. had at last report $303,950, or The deer on this island para Mr. Parrot can really bite—he (Mill at Port Mellon, the settler but which is gravely handicap 107%. ments of Seaside Park, Hop- ping .all development in this dise are strictly pets, and no took a chunk out of his arm Tommy Waldron and Sgt. In I kin's Landing, Grantham's large area so close to Van one is allowed to harm them, and forgot to give it back. gram headed for the northern ' Landing, Gibson's Landing, couver. so if you are thinking in terms So, if you take my advice and part on Nov. 1. They were last Gower Point, Robert's Creek, I am, therefore, requesting v, of beefsteak—or-rather, deer- visit Hardy Island, stay away reported at Rock Bay and ex Wilson Creek, Selma Park, Se that plans be immediately pre steaks, you will have to hunt from the man-eating parrot. ceptionally good figures are chelt, Half Moon Bay, the fish pared to provide this area with expected there. ing communities in Pender a firstclass telephone service Hallowe'en Party Harbor, and five logging camps comparable to that provided by At Squamish PLAN APRON TEA ; in the'mountains behind. Traces Boom the B.C. Telephone Company to Master Barry and Ricky Bar- AT SILVERSANDS •/ The area is at present served all other areas adjacent to Van rian entertained a number of [ with telephone facilities by the couver. I do so on grounds of their friends at a Hallowe'en SILVERSANDS— Women of j Dominion Telegraph System, public service and of' good bus supper. The table was decor this community are having a ! which links the B.C. Telephone iness, for this particular section SECRET COVE— Ivor Jorgen ated with pumpkins and tapers. tea Friday evening at 8 p.m. on 1 System of the Lower Mainland is* I believe, the only part of son, who has a log camp here, The young guests present were owned a very fine float which November 16. All ladies are with Gibson's Landing by a your system in British Colum Harvey Trudeau, Sandy Mc welcome and requested to bring single underwater cable. There bia which is operated at a pro he used for moving camp. It Laughlin, Michael Thomas, Co is not a switchboard service at was about 80 ft. by 50 fti, one apron each, which are to be fit. If proper service were pro lin Campbell, Allan Stewart, sold at an auction on a later any of the above-mentioned vided with an adequate number made of fine cedar logs worth Lee and Ann Mavrolean, Mrs. communities, telephone facili about $1,000. He kept the float Stewart and Mrs. Campbell as date. of 'phones in each community in a little bay somewhere in ties being limited to a single and ready connections with sisted Mrs. Barreau with the Proceeds of the s.ale are to Secret Cove . . . a fine safe supper. be used for Christmas funds. ?phone at each point. Vancouver, then the present anchorage, with no worries * • This piopieer service may have business from this area would aoout storms. On the scow been adequate twenty years very greatly increase. were some odds and ends of ago, but has proved utterly in-, If your Department is not machinery—parts of a cater adequate in recent years. In prepared to provide this ser- pillar—and some cross timbers. the past summer, for example, . vice, then I request that ar One day Mr. Jorgenson met a 'Sea Bus* Line Opens there have been as many as friend who inquired if he had rangements ,be made to sell A sleek, blue-hulled* white- George D. Frith, who acts as 300 calls a diay originating out your facilities in this area to seen the float recently. Mr. of the Gibson's Landing office, Jorgenson replied that he had topped sea bus climbed up on skipper. The sea bus, with the the B. C. Telephone Company, its bow wave and sped out of name Commuter, is a new-type occasioning delays of two and who are anxious and able to seen it only a few days before. three hours in the placing of Several days passed and he met Gibson's Landing at 4 p.m. on vessel built by Coates Water- provide the type of service Thursday. Fifty-one minutes Craft, a Vancouver company, calls. This has been an espe which this district warrants. I the friend again. 'The beach cially severe handicap for the combers have been around, and later it slid into dock at Fish an off shoot of Coates Aircraft. regard this myself as the less I saw a fine cedar boom going erman's Cove at the end of the The vessel's aircraft engine Pulp and Paper Mill at Port desirable course, in that.. it Mellon and the logging camps. out—you'd better look after first run of the Howe Sound ancestry is clearly visible in its opens the Government to the that float", he said. Mr. Jor Telephone service in this area taunt that as soon as a section Transport's new high-speed lines, high speed, and light de so close to Vancouver, is not genson took the advice, went cross-Sound service. sign. of their system becomes profit to his fine safe' harbor and a convenience but a major in able it is sold to a private con The new line allows residents Present schedules tie in with convenience. I, for example, found that his float 'had dis cern. The primary concern of appeared. It had been knocked of the Sechelt peninsula, for Pacific Stages' service between live for part of the year in the the people of this district, how down and made into a boom, the first time, to spend a day in Fishermen's Cove and Vancou community of* Gower Point, ever, is to secure a proper .tele and the machine parts had Vancouver and be home by ver. The Commuter leaves the some four miles frorri Gibson's. phone service, and if the Dom been thrown into the water. nightfall. Landing daily at 7.53 a.m. and Since Gower Point has not inion Telegraph Service will The crossttimber^jhad also dis- Operators of the new com 4 p.m. and Fisherman's Cove at even a single ,..*phone, it is Continued on Wage 8 pany are Gordon Ballentine 9.10 am. and 5.10 p.m. necessary for>me to drive to Continued on Page 4 PAGE 2 _ _ THE COAST NEWS. Halfmoon Bay, B. C. Wednesday, November 7, 1945 SQUAMISH HIGH SELMA PARK GIBSON'S LANDING HOLDS SUCCESSFUL GIBSON'S HALL HAIRDRESSING EILEEN SMITH DANCE PARTY Ida E. Preiss, Correspondent SHOPPE Correspondent Every \êek. Watch for the The Squamish High School I Posters! Shorts, News, and Dolly Jonas sponsored a high school dance Mrs. Helen Helem, of Van Feature Photoplay A Complete Hairdressing on Friday, October 26, 1945, couver, has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Inglis are in the Parish Hall. There was Mr. and Mrs. E. Armstrong for Service back after a two weeks honey several days. a very good turn out, nearly Order Your Phone for Appointments moon, to take . up residence all of the high school being Mrs. Archie Taggart and here. present. The local orchestra Stuart of Vancouver, were vis FUEL WOOD Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Smith iting for a few days at the supplied music until 12 o'clock, NOW! are home after a holiday at when Miss Kathleen Cole took home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Ham Radium Hot Springs. Their over on the piano until 1:00 ilton. Whipple & Tyson oldest daughter, Grace, and her Mr. Ernie Clester will spend a.m. Refreshments were served WILSON CREEK, B. C. r two young boys, have been by a committee of high school next week hunting in the Upper visiting them. She has just re students, headed by Jane Ma- Squamish Valley. turned from spending six gee. Among those journeying to months with her husband who Vancouver for a few days were is stationed in Halifax with Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Brennan Thomas the navy. and Mr. and Mrs. P. V. Parker. Mr. R. Telford has left for SQUAMISH PO. Lewis MacGregor, RCN, BOB GRAHAM his annual holiday. son of'Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Mac Mr. & Mrs. Claye Chamber Mrs. Ellen Harley Gregor, who is home on fur BEASLEY TRANSFER lain have returned after a Correspondent lough, left on Friday of last • General Trucking two weeks holiday on Van week to ; spend a few days in • WOOD couver Island. Vancouver. Miss Pearl MacKay and Mr. A Hallowe'en party was held Mrs. L. Ladner, of Vancou Service With A Smile! Fred Feenie announce their ver, is at present visiting her GENERAL MERCHANT Gibson's Landing engagement. They plan to be in the P.G.E. dining room on son-in-law and* daughter, Mr. married the week following Friday night, October 26, 1945, and Mrs. R. Killam. Christmas. by members of the Grade 6, 7 Mr. George Jessop has left Mr. Bill Snowden, late of and 8 class of Squamish Ele mentary School. Miss Shirley for Vancouver to meet his the Canadian Army, is now brother who arrived on HMS BUS STOP home visiting his parents, Rev. Naud and her helpers, Misses "Glory" as a repatriate from and Mrs. Snowden. Diane Dean, Norma MacDon Japan. Mr. Jessop, who has LIBRARY BOOKS After fifteen years of busi ald, Christine Nygard, Doreen been a resident of Woodfibre AT THE (Discards) ness in Gibson's Landing, Mr. Hurst, Betty Jordan and Mary for several years, is returning Frank Wyngart is retiring. He Ann Jacobsen, planned and to New Brunswick with his SPORT-FISHING FOR SALE has sold his grocery store to conducted the party very well. brother. CENTER ... Mr. Ben Lang, who plans to Among the interesting feat Mrs. R. J. Frizell, Sr., of Westerns & Mysteries open a drug store on the prem ures of the evening was a mas Port Alice, visited her son and 25c EACH ises. querade contest. It was won daughter-in-law. She was ac Tuesdays, 2 to 4 p.m. Mr. Farnam has rented his by Miss Betty Carson who, companied by her daughter, Thursdays, 2 to 4 dairy business to Mr. Jim dressed as a little old lady, Mrs. H. L. Martin.' Kane, who will carry on Farn- had the most disguising cos Halfmoon Bay tume. The most outstanding SECHELT am's milk delivery. - On Oct. 30 at St. Paul's Hos costume were: "Winter", by LENDING LIBRARY pital, a daughter, Patricia Norma MacDonald, "Pump PENDER HARBOUR Anne, was born to Mr. and kin Flower" by Shirley Naud, and GIFT SHOP Mrs. Harry Smith. the "Statue of Liberty" by Mrs. O. Dubois, Correspondent, Pender Harbour Shirley Fowler, a "Scarecrow", by David Caldwell, the 'Shiek MOTOR of Araby" by Bruce Gumming, Alfred Page, son of Mr. and HOPKIN'S LANDING a "Red Cross Nurse" by Joyce Mrs. Louis Page of Pender Har MACHINE SHOP Collin, a "Gypsy" by Gladys bour, has just returned to the by Madge Littlejohn, Watt and a clown by Kenneth city after a short visit here Madera Park Tremblay. Will Scott with his mother and brother IRVINE'S LANDING The evening's fun was com Charles. Mr. and Mrs. Page are pleted with a "Shadow Thea by Madge Littlejohn moving back tov their winter Seems to be very little com tre" contest run by Ray Naud. home on Lasqueti Island. TRANSFER Delicious refreshments of "REDROOFS" ing or going in the way of vis sandwiches, home-made cakes Mrs. Peter Duobis and her itors this time of year, and the and cookies were served on daughters Alice and Elaine re WELDING of all kinds. winter activities haven't started, HALFMOON BAY daintily decorated tables. turned from Vancouver this MOTOR REBUILDING yet.. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bishop re week with grandson Garry, the An oldtimer in this district turned from a 10-day holiday only son of their daughter, El Electrical Repairs died on October 18th, E. W. Wy- spent in the Kamloops dist- iza Zroback. ton. He has lived here, back of trict. They report that hunting Mrs. Fred Sutherland re PRECISION General Trucking Williamson's Landing, for over was very good with no trouble turned from Vancouver this thirty years. Bereaved are his obtaining their bag limit every week after a short visit there. LATHE WORK wife, two daughters, Mrs. Geo. by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rep- The Sutherland's bought the Cross of Hopkin's, Mrs. Fred day. They were accompanied Will Fix Anything! ski of Vancouver, and spent home of Mr. & Mrs. Norman Cook of Half Moon Bay, and a Klein in Kleindale. Fred Suth Let us help you solve* son, Charles, who is back east. a few days there on their re Rebuilt Generators turn. erland is a house biiilding con your transportation Rev. Snowden conducted the For Sale problems! Mr. D. Yoeman and Mr. J. tractor, and is now working for interment. Finch went to Pemberton for McLeod Bros. here. a few days'hunting. Wm. S. Spurrill, Prop. Mrs. Evelyn Woodhead and dy of Nova Scotia, speaking in Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Stewart support of the Victory Loan. and son Allan, from Los Angel Accompanying him was SL. es, spent" lasd. week visiting Fred McCulloch, organizer for Mrs. Fisher at Cheekye. Unit 16, which includes Howe AFTER DANCES Sunset Hardware Miss G. Robertson, teacher for grades 3, 4 and 5, is in St. Sound and Bridge River. Paul's Hospital recovering Major Condy went overseas HARDWARE :: FURNITURE from an operation. Mrs. J. in 1939 as a sergeant in the 1st Harley is in charge of her class Division of the Royal Canadian HCITTV FARM PRODUCTS room during her absence. Regiment. In June, 1940 he was Agents for B _ A 11 I And WASHERS Mr. Alex MacDonald left for in France; ^during the fall of the Cariboo Thursday for his France he rendered outstand at GIBSON'S LANDING holidays. ing service in evacuation and DROP IN AT THE Mrs. D: DeBeek entertained transport work and was awar-' Mrs. R. Barr and Mrs. B. Dean ded the British Empire Medal. SECHELT at luncheon Wednesday. Mrs. Major Condy has the distinction W. Thomas and Mrs. N. Bar- of being the first Canadian dec TEA ROOM rieau came in later for tea. orated in World War II. During FOR LIGHT SNACKS "A Place I Like To Buy From!" Great preparations are being the 7th Victory Loan he gave made for the big "Welcome his services, and later trained DINNERS and Home" Dance on November 12. officers for overseas duty. AFTERNOON TEAS It is being sponsored by the Later he was at Okinawa and Wlii taker's Squamish Branch of the Cana volunteered for service in the m dian Legion*; Pacific. He is one of five broth Miss Viola Halvorson is ers who have all been over Trading Post spending a few «days in Van seas. He was wounded four SECHELT couver. times and considers- himself GENERAL MERCHANTS Mr. and Mrs. E. Antosh and fortunate to be able to speak son Jimmy went to Vancouver on Behalf of the Ninth Loan. INN 1 Davis Bay - - on Thursday: A movie, Seven Days Ashore, SECHELT, B.C. The Squamish Theatre was was shown following Major r<.w%* J*^/i *««»»» ^ ** *»T% —:—: : ——— Wednesday, November 7, 1945 THE COAST NEWS. Halfmoon Bay, B. C. ;PAGE 3 which sets forth, in writing, '5 RENTAL RULE- that accommodation is to be ARE CLARIFIED rented for a definite period of Mrs. C. Harper, Correspondent five months or under. However, by Margery Thomas Emergency' Shelter Registry only one such lease is valid for of the Wartime Prices & Trade any one year. The annual meeting* of the Mrs. Louis Heid, who has Board points out that there Neejd for shared accommoda Mr. Mort Douglas, skipper of Howe Sound Women's Institute been a patient in St. Mary's seems to be some misunder tion is especially urgent with the JAN D, was accompanied was held October 17, when re Hospital for several days, has standing as to the regulations the winter coming on and ser I by his brother Jack when fish ports of the year's work re now returned to her home. governing shared accommoda vicemen returning in large ing in this district last week. vealed much activity and co Leonard Dubors is also home tion. The registry stresses that numbers. , The latter has just lately re- operation between t he mem again after undergoing treat the Board Order No. 537, which f turned home after spending ment at the hospital for an in is commonly referred to as the bers. Appeals from outside or jured leg. many months in a prison camp ganizations showed a generous "Freezing" order, regarding Local residents are planning evictions, does not affect shared in Japan. response. Included in the total to hold a "Hard Times" dance The many friends of Mrs. accommodation. . Householders For Sale . . . of $116 sent out were the foil- on November 17th, in Irvine's who rent living space in their Lome E. Maynard will be glad lowing: Landing hall and are expecting homes will not find their hands CHOICE | to learn that her mother, Mrs. V.O.N., $15; Legion parcels, a big crowd. tied if they wish to give notice WATERFRONT I Roy Moe of Vancouver, is ma $10; Solarium, $10; Salvation Mr. and Mrs. Hector Davies, to tenants who are not suit il king a slow but sure recovery Army $10; Queen Elizabeth and daughter, Betty, left here able. LOTS from injuries received in a mo Fund, $10; Crippled Children's last week to reside in Vancou Dudley G. McGeer, regional tor accident last Labor Day. ver. rentals officer, also points out At Porpoise Bay Hospital $10. Extensive preparations are Mr. and Mrs. William. West- New officers are Mrs. Helen that any type of housing ac 50 Feet wide, 300 feet long being made by the teacher and commodation is exempt from jbrook recently returned from a Knight, president; Mrs. N. A. pupils of Kleindale School for $300. ^well-earned holiday spent vis- eviction control provisions if it Haley, secretary-treasurer; di their Christmas concert to be is rented for five months or less, A. CRUCIL jjiting relatives and friends in rectors are Mesdames Ross, F. held in Irvine's Landing Hall on what is known as a "term i Vancouver, New Wjestmftnstter Allen, Metcalfe, Gibson. on December 18th. certain lease". This is a lease SECHELT, B. C. and Half Moon Bay. The retiring president was Among the leading items to 1 Mrs. Paul Harding arrived given a hearty vote of thanks . be presented are Christmas Jhome last week after spending for her untiring efforts at all and junior dances, all shown 'a short holiday in Vancouver. in colored effect against a times and her never-failing galiy decorated background. Mr. Frank York, skipper of wisdom in carrying the various Elaborate costumes are being [STARLIGHT III, held a "29" enterprises through. made for these exercises. Co | hand in a crib game with Harry The Christmas bazaar is the mic features, .recitations and ^Thomas recently—a rare treat next item of interest, to be vocal solos will complete the in this particular game. held in Gibson's School Hall on evening's entertainment. Friday, November 30. A cordial invitation is exten DISCHARGED PERSONNEL Private Planes ded to the ladies of the district GOWER POINT to join us and share this interest Mrs. B. A. Chadsey, of our work. Our motto is— Correspondent MAY RETURN TO OLD JOBS Have Potenlial "For Home and Country." The Reinstatement in Civil Employment Act, The heavy rains last week passed by Parliament in 1942, sets forth Of 5,000 Owners in the United States and thour made travelling difficult for conditions under which employers MUST So far the only check on sands of fliers there have been many voters, but, being good peacetime private flying in hollering blue murder, so to citizens, they turned, .out in REINSTATE their former employees in their Canada since VJ-Day has been speak, about red tape and reg force. Tom Clark was at his employment after discharge. the lack of new planes, Just ulations holding down flying usual post in the polling booth. about all the usable air force- there, and Canadian regulations Gower Point bridge is be This Act and its Regulations fire adminis trainers have been taken over" haye,.also, bên^.r^trictiy^sw,Xb-e? ing 'renewed by the i*oad< gang, Department of Transport re under the direction of Art Pill tered by the Dominion Minister of Labour, 'from War Assets and overhaul through the National Employment Service. ed and put into use. There alizes this and more liberal reg ing. The old bridge was not haven't been niany, and many ulations are contemplated in safe when the creek became Reinstatement Officers are available in the of them have already changed Canada, but at time of writing swoollen by the winter rains. National Employment Offices to answer in they've yet to be announced. Mrs. Esther King was lucky hands a second time, for the quiries, and assist in adjusting cases. upkeep costs just about wash Tariffs which have made a at,the Legion whist drive of them out for civilian use. Canadian aviation industry im October 26, winning not only possible have also in some in second prize at cards, a five- Employees—either men or women — are Perhaps by the time this stances held us back. Tariffs on piece set of plastic salad serv- to be reinstated if: reaches print, and perhaps be items which cannot be made in ers, but also won 50c at Tango. fore, new Canadian built light Canada and which there is ab- Mr. and Mrs. Coleridge jour (a) they worked for their employer 3 months planes will be rolling from the and lack of landing facilities. neyed to Vancouver on Tues- immediately prior to enlistment, and were assembly lines in Hamilton, On The whole aviation industry .ay of last week, Mrs. Coler not replacing another employee who has tario. Orders already on hand solutely no prospect of making idge returning on Thursday, since been reinstated; indicate a production of at least here—motors in particular— but Mr. Coleridge is remain (b) they left their employment to join the ,1,000 planes in the next two have driven Canadian aircraft ing for a few days. Armed Services, the Merchant Marine, or years. By spring they'll be com costs up. LAW. Joyce Chaster, who is the Fire Fighters Corps; ing off the assembly line at the The bright side of the pic stationed at Point Grey con rate of at least two a day. (c) they apply to their employer for reinstate ture is that we now have a good valescent hospital, visited over ment, verbally or in writing, within 3 } There has been a lot of spec many thousand young air force the weekend with her aunt, months following discharge in Canada or ulation about how many private veterans who have learned to Mrs. Kay Fisher. 4 months if discharged Overseas. ^ planes there will actually be fly and will want to go on fly With the ferry , running Provision may be made for extension of time if the in Canada in the next few years. ing in their spare time. These everyone will be planning a Before the war the number of employee's health prevents him or her from returning boys may well send our next day's shopping in town—just within the specified three months. In this event, the privately-owned planes in Can two years' demand up to 5,000 another deflation for Father's employer must be advised within the 3 or 4 months, ada was fewer than 100. planes, but before we whisper pocket book—further aggra as the case may be. In the United States there that figure we'll have to haul in vated by the sight of mother's were 20,000 private-type planes a lot of, ifs. hat! The following points in the legislation are registered before the war, and if you allow Canada one fif also important: teenth of the United States pop 1. Discharged men and women upon reinstate ulation that would still call for ment are to be given conditions not less " 1,300 such planes in Canada. favourable than would have been enjoyed had So 1,000 new planes in the UNION they continued in employment instead of first two years is a pretty con joining the Forces. servative estimate when you 2. The period of time spent with the Armed figure that doesn't even bring Services is to count for seniority rights, pen us up to the pre-war U.S. level. STEAMSHIPS sion rights, vacations with pay, and certain So far the chief reasons for our other benefits. lagging behind have beer_ re LIMITED 3. Discharged -personnel who cannot perform strictive regulations, high costs their former duties are to be reinstated in SECHELT, B. C. x the^ most suitable êmployment available, at •r which they are capable of working. 4. If an employer dismisses_a reinstated em- . ployee within 6 months, he must be able to WALLY GRAHAM RETAIL STORE prove in court that he had reasonable cause Gibson's Landing for so doing. Monuments — Flowers ALL EX-SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN ARE Funeral Director A LARGE STOCK OF GENERAL MERCHANDISE URGED TO USE THE FACILITIES OF THE , ALWAYS AVAILABLE NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE # FRESH MEATS & VEGETABLES WHEN LOOKING FOR WORK. GEO. CORMACK m HARDWARE & DRYGOODS • WOMEN'S DRESSES DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR GENERAL MERCHANT HUMPHREY MITCHELL A. MacNAMARA HALFMOON BAY, B. C. Minister of Labour Deputy Minister of Labour NOTARY PUBLIC Our Prices Are Reasonable! (45-W-SO 6) PAGE 4. THE COAST NEWS, Halfmoon Bay, B. C, Wednesday, November 7, 1945

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f T MI i m PAGE 6 THE COAST NEWS, Halfmoon Bay, B. C. Wednesday, November 7, 1945 A new Serial Story mystery?" Maitland inquired. ed it still more. by Bubrey Boyd "The fact that no one has ever Some minutes later his ears had a cigar view of the Siwash were stung to alertness by the or his team. This sounds odd, muffled double crack of a* rifle. but it dates back to a time be Wondering what game Speed fore our men entered the ter- would consider worth that Pelly brought in some gold he number of shells, he pulled the SYNOPSIS—Young Ed Mait face upturned. The features both cramp her ideas. She baits ritory—when a miner from the horses into a faster gait. land and the hardende gambler, were clearly legible. It was the me with a gold lure to go trail- claimed to have got from an Presently, through the snow Speed Malone became partners shell dealer they had seen at in' him, and her other argu Indian in a tsorm. The snow, clrizzle, he discerned a dark on the trip north to the Yukon Liarsville. ment is plausible. It would se said, was driving thick, and lifeless form on the snow-blan the native, who face was muf gold fields in '97. Maitland, son and had gained the darkness of surely be a wise move to hunt keted ice. He found it to be a of a New England seafaring Fallon down and settle that fled in a parka hood, spoke in stray woodland caribou—the They were in shadow again Chinook, offering a potlach of family, was determined to win the trail before the street filled, feud. But not on Canadian soil. first he had ever seen. It had back his lost family fortunes. .... If that ain't her motive, it's furs and nuggets in exchange been dropped by a clean head for the Pack Train was a "last for supplies. A gold legend Frenchy, the fisherman who chance" saloon. They joined a just barely possible she's work- shot, and its^blood, still warm, took him and Speed north; in' with Fallon to nail my pelt. grew from it, and whenever a stained the, snow. Speed's bul scattered line of prospectors cache was robbed or devoured Lucky Rose, beautiful young who had started on the night Or else—" he concluded( less let had stolen a feast from the woman who had given Mait- audibly, "she's drawin' evidence by wolves, the vanishing Indian timber wolves. trail into the canyon, and no was blamed. lan da ring for a keepsake; Fal one followed them. for the Law. She's the most in In answer to his shout, his lon, trail boss of the miners, In wary silence the two part sidious woman I ever met, and "Interesting case," Drew con partner came toward him out of who resented Rose's attentions I've known some bearcats". cluded, tapping out his pipe . . . to Maitland; Steiner, the money ners kept trailing till they made the shadow of a clump of cot- camp far up the river canyon. At the top of the pass they But I'll be getting you're sled tonwoods. lender; young Pete and his oad ready." drunken partner Bill Owens; Over the fire, the outlaw sat looked out over a new world. "What were you looking for?" in a long study. 'T reckon that Clouds billowed darkly on a Speed listened in sience, his Maitland asked. Brent, old-time prospector; and mind apparently less occupied Garnet, a well-to-do modern was a case," he said at last, "of chill wind, shadowed the crests The other had an oddly ab what you would call 'suggest of a piling sea of mountain with the inspector's story than, stract look and was still scan one who hired Maitland and with the peculiar circumstance Speed to haul his stuff from the ion'. The man wouldn't believe peaks. To the east and below ning the shoreline. "I must be I didn't have a gun notched for them, a gleam that followed of their making a haul for the gettin' mental," he said. "I got fceach over the mountains to the police. "Yukon—these were among the him." this moving darkness changed adim sight of this caribou cross- -crowd that made up the gold- "What made him think you a sable wood to misty enchanted The snowfall continued in in 'the river mouth, and had to seekers. At Liarsville, a camp did?" Maitland asked. green, and glinted over the flurries as they sledded on to shoot twice to stop it. Then it in the hills, Speed was made "I fpllowed him one night in snow-dutsed surface of Summit" ward Lake Lebarge. Between seemed like I—like somethin' trail boss in Fallons' place, be "I followe him one night in Lake—first promise of their ap the canyon rapids and the Tak- else was movin' in the timber." cause Speed insisted on closing Nevada. Got a slant of him then proach to the headwaters of the him thy passed a creek that cut "Maybe a wolf ; was trailin' . the trail till it could be re ihthe light of a saloon door. It Yukon. The sky turned grayer into the left bank of the river. the deer you shot?" a paired. When a detachment of just needed one look to see he as they descended, till it melted It appealed to Speed as a site They put the deer on the the Canadian Northwest Moun was on'y a tramp tin-horn. It in flakes that drifted around for a wnte rcamp. The timber sled and kept trailing till they ted Police came riding down the seems ,though, like he had other them like leaves, mantling their around it was good enough for camped in the shelter of some pass and mended the bridge thing to be nervous about; he mud-stiffened clothes. cabin ogs, and they could haul timber above the river mouth. for Speed, there was a truce had friends in the camp and When the long strait of Win in the finer-grained wood they When they had / skinned the between him and Fallon and his imagination started guns dy Arm brought them into the needed for the boat. game and cleaned up, darkness the trail was reopened. Garnet blazin' ... When he seen me wooded stillness of Lake Tagish, Th solitude of the region re had closed around them with went back to civilization for the here he figured I was still after and the reached the lower end mained unbroken Feathering a bitter cold night. Maitland winter, leaving his ponies and him . . . Like the girl said, the upon an advance crew of police snow had erased the track^of a broke limbs from a fallen tree equipment with Speed and worst risk may be the one you of this waterway, they came patrolman's mount, which" they for the camp fire, while, Speed Maitland. But the horses dis- ain't looking for. setting up a barracks. had noted occasionally. So, • was coking caribou steaks on apepared just after the trans "I've been figurin' slower An officer walked out in the when they were returning to some wood coals. Releasing the fer. Lefty, who could hardly since I made that first mistake snow flicker to meet them. It the horses after a side excursion axe for a moment to blow on his iget the words out for stutter . . . They's a heap of pretty bru- was Drew, wearing a winter to examine the timber; Mait fingers, Maitland happened to; neete girls in the Western service uniform. He asked to glance across the river, and was \ ing, told Speed he'd help him - ; land was surprised to see his. find the horses and led him to camps. You can see how easy it where they were bound:- ^ nartner ston snddenlv and look arrested by- a yellow gleam * a tent saloon where Rose was is to get mistracked from how "Just lookin' for timber and down, as if he had detected from a dark, slinking shape of waiting for him. She seemed to wide my guess was about this a place to camp," said Speed. some mark on* a blank rise of fur. * want him and Maitland to do one and tHe horses, thinkin' she Drew's eye was on the pintos, snow. "There's your wolf," he call something for her, but his un wanted pay." as he filled and lit a pipe. "If The shape of these marks was ed to his partner. friendliness held her off. How "Do you think the gold se you're heading toward the not that of bootprints but of Speed gave another turn to ever, she told him she had res cret she spoke of was just some- •• Lewes and you'd like to make some moccasin-like foot cover the steak he was browning. cued his horses for him and thing she'd overheard while some wages, I could give you a ing. There were other phantom "That's no wolf," he mutter- that they were waiting outside. singing through the camp? Like load of supplies to haul to Thir dots and lines that suggested "ed. It's a Siwash dog. And Now go on with the story, her tip about the shell dealer?" ty Mile. One of our inspectors a sled track—-unaccountably to lame. Must of strayed from the Speed looked at him curious is camped there. He's taking him. team of that disappearin' InV \ * * * ly. "Why would you guess she Judge McGuire and the Crown dian. Or the Siwash cut it overheard a gold secret?" Prosecutor to Dawson," Drew Speed studied them with an. loose." 'We'll take the street," Speed explained, as a pleasant conver absent intentness from which The cruelty of leaving a lam said to Maitland, "it's more vis "Well, she knew Fallon and he was recalled by a question he was on his way to join a sational item. "The goods are ed ^dog to starve seemed ex ible." to be delivered to him. No rush from the other. treme to Maitland. But while The marbled thoroughfare, partner in the Yukon ... Do I imagine, or does that tie to about it." "Must be the track of the the seteaks were cooking, Speed with its cross stripes of light, Speed' looked darkly at his one Siwash Drew's patrolman mentioned some harsher exam opened a chancy course" before gether?" . -'. was curious about," he said. , "It ties to her," Speed grunt thought. With what lay behind ples of the law of survival in them when they turned the partner, who had a provident "Myster'ous, too, because there the snew country. The topic did bend. These alternating patches ed. "Maybe nowheres else. Out ain't any native settlements in fits are gambled and lost right them, it might be good .politics not dull their appetite. Having ; of light and darkness were an to dothe police a service. "We this region, and nothin' much appeased it, they lolled in the .advantage as well as a meance; along the trails without needin' to bring a wanderin' Siwash in". a gold secret back of it.. What could leave our stuff here," fire's warmth. they exposed the entrance of Maitland ventured, "and pros They made an uneventful trip each resort, while the dark you heard Owens say doesn't Speed took a deep drag at count for much. And if this per- pect for a camp on the way." down the strectch of Lake Le a waning cigarette and tossed spaces between shielded their barge to the Lewes and deliv approach. specter had a gold mine, why "That's an idea," said the in the stub in the fire. Then he got wouldn't re record it, thus end- spector. Tf you make your camp ered their consignment to the up and sleepily stretched his When the sign of The Pack inspector in charge, without arms. As he did so, his eyes Train saloon appeared ahead, in' the secret? Another thing— between here and Lebarge, you I'd bank she wouldn't be that will be in the line of Cathcart's meeting the other official per came suddenly and sharply Speeds' step became a little sonages. Nor did Speed show awake. more measured. No figures loi much interested even in a gold patrol. Corporal Cathcart's a mine. She comes by gold too new man. It'll be an event for any desire to do so. He lost no tered around this entrance; the time in getting rid of the order To Be Continued noisy revelry inside was ap easy." him to meet anyone along that lonely beat." and putting miles of lake ice parently too engrossing. Light, "Then what motive would between them and the Lewes. streaming from chinks and she have?" "Woes he use dogs?" Mait seams in the canvas, clearly il "Motive?" Speed's mouth land asked curiously. Retracing their lonely route PHOTOGRAPHY luminated the roadway, making tightened. "You'd better not "No. Our dogs havent* arriv with the empty sled, they load it an unlikely spot for an am guess. Nbthi'n' sets a man won- ed yet. Speaking of that, though, ed up with logs they felled on Gordon Ballentine bush. derin' like gold, and the best Cathcart's very interested in the the way. Prospecting for tim- _ Studio: Gibson's Landing They reached the outer rad trick a woman has is to get you sled track of a mysterious Si- ber sometimes led them far wonderin' till you go round her wash he's seen down that way. apart. They had been separated PORTRAITS - CHILDREN ius of the light, entered it, and Weddings, Commercial, etc. passed the low bright beam in circles. When she talks of If you should get a glimpse of in his way for some hours when that issued from under the puttm' heads together, whose this lone Indian you'll have ex Maitland became aware that it Call or write for information swing doors. Through shadows head do you figure she's inter citing news for him." was turning dark. A wolf howl, and appointment that flickered over the road ested in? Maybe Fallon and me "What makes the track a wierd in the distance, deepen from the shuffle of dancing feet, they moved safely toward the margin of darkness. "Which goes to show—" be REAL ESTATE gan Speed. But the sentence Large was never finished. WATERFRONT LOT WATERFRONT and He stopped and wheeled with FIRE - BUTO (I1BRINE - LIFE OTHER LOTS a suddenness that brought the Comfortable 5-room lead bronco's chest against his Bungalow, Bathroom, & INSURANCE $300.00 and up leg. Maitland heard a double Furnace. Near stores & crash; saw a bright flame stab Postofffce. PARR PEARSON AGENCY * from Speed's gun. Something burned past his cheek. The sa Porpoise Bay Halfmoon Bay Sechelt loon door behind them was HALF MOON BAY swinging to and fro, throwing Write or Phone for Information Half Moon Bay blinks of light into the road. In Price $3000 the luminus pool just below it, PL AY SAFE . . . INSURE NOW .-.T...... j>y> •*»-*!» *- -„.1*>T^ »,/»T!n.Tw v>7,Qr!.-,. ^ Br-j ffi?,^,.,- .hie Wednesday, November 7, 1945 THE COAST NEWS, Halfmoon Bay, B. C. PAGE 7

CHAMPIONSHIP HITSILANO BOY'S BAND Receiving Bids On For Estimates- Inez Willison, Correspondent Get In Touch With The most outstanding musi on extensive tours by the press Lang Bay Property cal attraction to be offered re and critics of England. Jim Morgan sidents of the pennisula will be Championships by the score The Official Administrator Carl Larsen has returned to heard this month when the at the Court House, Vancou HALF MOQN BAY have been captured by the ag his home after two weeks spent world-famed Kitsilano Boys' gregation, and they are well- ver, is receiving bids for the in Vancouver on a shopping Band plays at the following deserved. To list the accom cash purchase of 60.6 acres of trip. places: plishments of the Kitsilano Lot 4410, Group 1, NWD, lo Gibson's Landing, Novem Band would require many cated near Lang Bay. Proper * CONNOR Ivor B. Jorgenson has left for ty includes 2-room bachelor's Vancouver on the instruction ber 15th; Pender Harbour, No pages of this paper, but they HAND POWERED vember 16th; Sechelt Pavilion, may be summed up in three shack, two sheds and improve of his doctor, to seek further November 17th. words: Don't miss this! ments, and a schoolhouse is WASHER treatment for an injured leg. situated on the property. Two performances .will k be Conductor Delamont is pos The "Nuway" washer is easy Oliver Hanson left for Van offered at each place, at 7:30 sessed of a keen sense of show Inspection may be arranged to operate and one hundred couver last Monday. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets, good manship, and his concerts are by seeing Mr. George Barret, percent efficient. You can for admission to any one per Lang Bay postoffice. Closing Mr. and Mrs. Arne Larson of invariably attention - compel date for tenders is November Vancouver were visitors here formance at any one place, are ling from the moment the band Sit - Smoke - Read and available at nearly all stores takes the platform until the 16th. Wash for a few days on their way to the city. in the area. final encore . . . and there will all at the same time. The gillnetters have had a It is advisable to get tickets be many encores demanded. good run of dog salmon for the as early as possible as there Adults tickets are 75c and $34.00 can be no extension of the time children's are 50c, one of the past. three weeks between Se the Band will be in the pen lowest admission fees which Complete with wringer cret Cove and Texada. The insula. has ever been charged for a in stock. lights of the boats made the In bringing this attraction to Kitsilano concert. Garden Gulf beautiful at night, but the the district, conductor Arthur When it is remembered that E. S. Johnstone ; Straits seem even more dark Delamont offers a band which most of the awards captured Agent than usual now that the boats has consistently won high hon bp the boys.have been taken Bay Cafe ors since it was organized in in competition with senior Madeira Park have all finished their work for the year. 1928 by him. Three times the bands, some indication of the PENDER HARBOUR Band has visited the British treat in store for our residents A birthday party was held at Isles, where it was acclaimed the home of Ivor B. Jorgenson may be gathered. SANDWICHES in honor of Miss Ida's twenty- first birthday. An enjoyable ev COUNTER-ATTRACTION SHORT ORDERS ening, with music and song and concluding with refreshments, PORT MELLON Young Wife (returning to DINNERS was passed. A fine birthday village after runaway match): cake was presented to the Violet Streeter, Correspondent "I suppose my elopement was guest of honor by Mrs. Jorgen a nine days wonder?" son, as well as many other use % Village Worthy: "It would WEEKDAYS:— T R. GODFREY ful gifts. Mr. Lome Blain is one of the 'ave bin, mum, only Buggin's 11 A.M to 12 midnite Dr. W. Evans of Vancouver old-time Sorg employees leav dog went mad the same night." spent a few days at his cpttage ing Port Mellon to take up res SUNDAYS:— AND COMPANY LTD. ,v here.- - -••-.-.r..-.. .-..-.- ---.».-. idence in. Vancouver. Mr.. Blain 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. C^SON^S LANDING^ has been prominent in Union intends to spend a week with circles, having held executive his sister here, Mrs. Wm. Mc General Trucking office in Local 297, and has also Gill. Hallowe'en Party been active in other social and Mrs. C. A. Bellhouse of Pen- and Fuel athletic activities here. Their ticton, is holidaying with her At Squamish Home many friends wish them suc sister; Mrs. Gordon Morrison. cess in their new venture. Mary McCormach had a Hallowe'en party at her home On October 24th the Wom FERRY NEWS en's Service Club met at the .V after school Wednesday. Games Two Round Trips Daily were played and enjoyed by home of Mrs. Earl Streeter, and Lv. Gibson's Landing' at all. The guests were presented Mrs. Lome Blain was presen 7.55 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. with orange and black crepe ted with a farewell gift. Pacific Mobile Movies Lv. Fisherman's Cove paper hats. Those attending Port Mellon election returns at 9.10 a.m. and 5.10 p.m. the party were Anne Confortin, are: PRESENT June Confortin, Lynette Mun- Gargrave 134; Thomson 70; Objections io this timetable ro, Shirley Bazely, Beverley / may be filed with Public Bazely, Judy Slack, Dorothy Campbell 18; Mulligan, 9. NOVEMRER5—9: Utilities' Commission, Caldwell^ Diane McPherson, Jack Isbister, formerly of Oc Victoria, B. C. Doreen Swan, Ruth Jordan, ean Falls and of the RAF, has June Frost, Del Tatlow, Danny started to work here for the THE GOOD FELLOWS Seymour, Larry Bishop and Sorg Pulp Company. With CECIL KELLOWAY and HELEN WALKER Jimmy Barnfield. The hostess Mr. G. A. Wardhaugh, RCAF, es were Mrs. R. McCormach, I the Misses * Viola Halvorson^ Tess Martin and Pat McCor- mack.

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Sutherland, Correspondent Ida E. Preiss, Co-respondent by GABRIELLE READ by A. N. Cotton Mr. and Mrs. Mummerfelt, John Peter were the names who had been visiting their Late, " on a frosty October given to the infant son of Mr. The poll at Roberts Creek on son and daughter-in-law, re night a furry visitor payed a and Mrs. Hansel Frey at the Until further notice the October 25 was very quiet. In turned to their home last Wed call on a country farm house. christening held at their home common with other parts of the nesday. But unlike most visitors this on October 27. Rev. W. Govier Inn will be open from province Roberts Creek en Billy and David Beasley have one knocked after he had en was the officiating minister, 2 P.M. To 6 P.M. been entertaining an old friend, tered the house instead of be the godparents being Miss Jo joyed a very wet day, with only fore. 7 P. M. To 11 P.M. 149 out of a list of 248 voting. Raymond Bontram. Raymond, hanna Haar, "Mr. Andrew S. Thomson got 78; Gargrave who used to live at Half Moon The occupants of the house Knowles, Jr., and Mr. Frank Bay, comes from Narrows Arm, had just retired when the sound R. Frey. • 63; Campbell 3; Mulligan 2; and where his father is employed of knocking came to their ears. 3 ballots rejected. Included in the guests*were COFFEE SHOP by the Osborne Logging Com The man of the house got up Mrs. Frank Frey, Mrs. A. PO J. Orr is home on leave pany. and went into the kitchen and Knowles, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Bill Across the road from Inn prior to getting his discharge. Mr. and Mrs. A. Ritchey and headed for the back door. Wickman, Mr! A. Knowles, Sr., He has been in the Canadian their daughter Jo-Anne, left "Knock, knock" the man and Mr. J. Tough. Following Navy for 23 years. During the last Wednesday for a visit to whirled aroUnd, the sound had the service a buffet supper was last war he served on convoy Vancouver. come from inside, over behind served. Mr. Elmer McDannal has re the large wood box that sat Tsawcome Garage duty in the Atlantic, having in the corner. After hastily been on three ships—the Assin- turned to Half Moon Bay after & Welding Co. Ltd. spending the summer on the peering over the top of the box After the redecoration of iboine, the Iroquois, and the prairies harvesting. Formerly he beat a retreat to the bed the "Community Hall, the wint WILSON CREEK, B. C. Uganda. an employee of the Osborne room to tell his better half of er season was started with a The Roberts Creek Boys & Logging Company, he left just the unwelcome visitor. successful masquerade on Sat ARE YOUR Girls Club had the right idea about the time the McKenzie- It seemed the back door had urday, October 27th. Buccan STANDARD OIL for Hallowe'en. They put, on a Flavelle Company arrived. Mr! been left open and the visitor eers and ladies of the courts party at the Community Hall McDannal hopes to make his had taken the liberty of find waltzed together to the smooth Distributors for all the children in the dis home here once ftiore, and will ing himself a nice warm bed rhythm of a Vancouver orches be joined by his wife who has for the night. tra. Visitors from Britannia For Sechelt Peninsula And trict. been visiting her parents at and Squamish were made wel the Toba Inlet Area Mr. Alfred Olson, the Club's After a whispered conversa come. •Gibson's Landing. Before re tion it was decided just how We assure all our customers, able president, counted noses turning to the coast, Mr. Mc Miss Lorna Bickell and Mr. old & new, we will provide and found 85 kids and 35 Dannal spent a month at Re- they would rid themselves of ; this temperamental animal. Dennis Wood as an Irish colleen the most efficient and cour grownup kids (adults, to you!) gina where, he reports tjie and her beau received first teous service of Standard Prizes were given for the weather is terrible—nothing An old trick was used, bear prizes for the most original but rain. ing on the fact that skunks Products as wartime restric best costumes, winners being: costumes. For fancy dress Mr. Monday, October 29th, was will follow light. tions will allow Doris and Donald Weal, Jack- Bill Smith, as a mandarin and the birthday of Mrs. Boyd who, The man lit a small kerosene Miss Dorothy Eckersley dress Fuel Oil General Tires aline Danell, Doreen Shaw, as has been previously report lamp and stood it on the rail Sandra Hill, Walter Danell, ed as a harem girl received Stove Oil Batteries ed, is laid up in St. Mary's of the verandah. Thus the lamp first prizes. Miss Dorothy Diesel Oil Auto Accessories John Orr, Connie Killam, Mar Hospital with a fractured hip. shone a direct beam of light Bundy as Carmen Miranda and: ian Cain. The day was brightened for the right along the pantry floor, Mr. Larry Bundy as a pirate At the piano for the games invalid by the arrival of a fine right across the kitchen up to won first prizes for the best and marches were Mrs. Vivian large birthday cake, accom the woodbox. dressed couple. Prizes for com Reeves ahd Mrsik Carol's Forst. panied by Mr. and Mrs. T. H. - The man and his wife then ics were awarded to Mr. David z f Judges were Mr. Aylward, Mrs. Beasley, Mrs. T. H. Tait, Mrs. crept to the couch and with Anderson who made a rollick- - Bourn and Mr. Woof. Wm. Mervyn and Mr. Boyd. bated breath sat still to see if ing one-man ,and.,Jto Mrs. Dor- j The boys and girls organized Another recent visitor was her thetfick would work. Hardly othy Deane of Squamish as a i son. Mr. Earl Bond, who is em a breath was expelled for one belle of the" Gay Nineties. and put this party on by them ployed with the Grain Ex sudden movement and all would selves, furnished the refresh change in Vancouver. be lost—with the only weapon Judges included Mrs. R. ESSO GASOLINE ments, and handled the kids. A Mr. J. J. Sutherland, of Hy-, he has, Mr. Skunk would win Greevling, Mrs. M. Eckersley, number of the mothers helped daway, left on Wednesday last possession of the kitchen. Mrs. E. Storey, Harry Miller ' MARVELUBE OIL with the preparation and ser for Nanaimo where he expects Minutes passed before the and Ross Costanza. ving of the food. to spend some weeks. . Mrs. watchers saw a pair of black Lucky winners of spot yj • Anyone wishing to make do Sutherland has now added fire beady eyes appear around the dances included Mrs. R. Tutin, Get the best out of your nations to further the purposes wood to the list of rationed end of the woodbox. Time Mrs. Bill Smith, Mrs. V. Brait, high-speed motors! of this Club will be doing a real goods. , stood still while the pretty but Mrs. T. Tutin, Mr. A. Moretto service to the community. Mr. Flavelle of the McKen- obnoxious little creature pat and Mr. R. O. Jones. * \ Fill up here with Premium tered down the pathway of zie-Flavelle Logging Company, A lunch counter, sponsored j Ethyl Gasoline. Hose deliv arrived on Tuesday last for a light to disappear into the dark ery from float to boat! PERENNIALS night. by the Red Cross, was under \ short visit. the convener ship of Mesdames "The modern flapper," we Mr. B. Shackleton, chairman, As soon as the skunk was W. P. PIEPER read, "is very different from J. Henderson, G. Preiss, C. \ of Sub-Local 1-71, I.W.A., safely outside the man gave Harding and R. Greveling. j Irvine's Landing the girl of fifteen years back." called a meeting of the mem chase, but he was gone just as On the contrary, she is very bers to discuss the laying off quickly and silently as he had i Pender Harbour often the same person. of Bro. J. Rbcchio. entered. Ghosts, witches and cats Mr. C. Alexander has' been The back door of the house haunted the hall on early Wed- , appointed Superintendent of was definitely closed this time. nesday evening for an" all- ) the McKenzie-Flavelle Logging children party. ' Candies and Company, replacing Mr. Hall- BOOM THEFT apples were forgotten in the <' berg, who is leaving shortly for excitement as the children com- < Sechelt. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 peted for the prizes given for Serving October 31st was Parents' appeared. the collection of Kinsmen Club I Day at the Half Moon Bay Mr. Jorgenson went to Van "Shell-Out" tickets. Misses Jan school, and advantage was couver and got in touch with ice Preiss, Arlene Lea, Glenda THE COASTAL COMMUNITIES taken of the invitation for a the Government Scalers. On Whitehead, Amerlys Cherney, visit of inspection. Favorable looking over their list he found Alan Johnson, Frank Legros, OF BRITISH COLUMBIA progress was observed under that a boom such as his float Ronnie Knowles and Norman the capable guidance of Miss would make had been deliver Chadwick were the lucky win FOR OVER 50 YEARS Emily Ek, and the visitors ed at Nanaimo. He was able to ners of cash prizes. Shirley were well-pleased both with identify the boom as the logs . Chadwick, Burnett Wood and the work accomplished by the had the marks of wire wrap Neil Bowden received awards Regular year-round passenger and freight pupils, ' and the rejuvenated pings on' them, and his cross for making the most sales. The service from Vancouver to Howe Sound appearance of the school itself, timbers had also been includ grand sum of $125 was raised and Gulf Coast points. ed. There will.be a court case for this commendable drive of over the affair, and Mr* Jor "pennies, for Paralysis," ARMS OR LEGS? genson will go down to Van ASK FOR CURRENT SAILING SCHEDULE "A bull will be scared if you couver in regard to the matter. To add more to the Hallow move your arms rapidly," says Clearing up of this theft may , e'en spirit the High School held a writer of hiking hints. Most throw some light on the recent a very successful party at the i Operating people, however, would prefer disappearance of logging blocks school from 9 to 12. The dance ' to move their legs. from Half Moon Bay. committee included Shirley BOWEN ISLAND Chadwick, Doreen Bowden, and Leonard Hannah. SECHELT INN Prizes for the best costumes "Prompt Attention To Mail Orders!" were awarded to Irene Mor it RESTMORE FURNITURE: Beds, Springs/Mattresses etto as "Queen of Hearts" and Kenneth Watt as a Chinaman. it 'General Electric APPLIANCES: Radios, Refrigerators & Miss E. Howe, Miss I. Preiss, Washing Machines Mr. A. Clemens and Mr. P. •« Lutack of the teaching staff it FURNITURE: Occasional Tables, Cedar Chests, Lamps etc attended the party. The students of ,the High School are to be commended DORAN*S FURNITURE for the manner in which they WESTVIEW, B. G.-Phone 230 arranged and conducted this Foot of Carrall Street party in the true Hallowe'en spirit. mmmmemmm