THE KELOWNA COURIER Aiulitcel r.'ti I Circulation V O L U M E 43 Kelowna. Uritish Columbia, I'hurstlay, April 24tli. 1947 N C M I U C R 9 5 TWICE WEEKLY—MONDAY & T H U R S D A Y PUBLIC SPEAKING CONTESTANTS Appeal Board and City Boat WORLD NEWS FLASHES Owners Clash O v e r Building (B y Canadian Press) Breakwater on Mission Creek Safety Deposit Boxes Appeal Board Rules Piling Is Considered “Building Daylight Saving Tim e Rifled A s Trio Escape or a Structure”— Boat Owners Will Go Ahead W ill Start This With Plans Regardless of Ruling — Company States Matter Not Within Jurisdiction of Appeal With Around $ 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 W e e k - E n d Kelowna people wUl turn Board— Claim Piling Would Be Flood Hazard their cloelcn ahead an hour at 'rO K O N T O l’olic<; today are scouring' the eily for three hildnight Saturday a,s they keep arimal l»andils wlio rifled hetweeii 70 .lO'l W) safety deposit in line with the whole province M atter Referred to Victoria boxes at a bramli of tlie J'loyal Hank of Canada here last night wlicn it goes on daylight saving and escaped with aii estimated .$250,(XX). A masked trio hmmd for tho suninier. There Is no designated hour cla.sli bftwevu ;i sinall company of Kelowna l>oat owners and gagged a caretaker and family in an apartment above the for setting the cloclcs ahead, but ami the appeal board of the Kelowna Regulated Area ap­ bank, snatched the keys ami entered tite safety deposit vault most of tho people here will A where the boxes were smashed oi)en. Tw o bandits were work­ probably catch up on tlie loss of pears to 1)0 looming, with the main issue eeiitred around wliat ing on bo.xes when friemls of the caretaker called on them for sleep over the week-end. eonstilutes a “structure.” While much of the confusion 'riic ;ipi)eal l)o:ird, meeting Moiul.a, aiteriioon, approved a visit, lie also was bound and gagged, following which the of last year lia.s been overcome tlie action of Huilding Inspector O. V. Maude-Roxby in in­ trio made a getaway. by the whole province changing structing the eomiiaiiy to cease work on iiuttiug in pile.s near It was impfjssible to estimate the accurate amount stolen over, train and busses will re­ by the bandits, who were clad in overalls, but one official said main on standard time. Mall the mouth t>f fUissiou Creek. carried by train and bus w ill Hut in spite of this, the Mission Creek Mooring Co. has ;i “rpiarter of a million dollars would not be a bad guess”. After arrive hero an hour later than gone ahead with its jilans and this week completed driving in the trio made their getaway, the caretaker’s wife managed to heretofore. all the piles for its breakwater. The iioard has now referred burst her bonds, but it was more than three hours after the Bus and truck service confin­ bandits had first entered the bank that the alarm was flashed ed to the city and the Immedi­ the wliole matter tti Victoria. ate district w ill go on fast time, Approval to put up the breakwater has been granted by the proper to the police. operators have amiounccd. A ll The Okanagan finals of the Knights of Pythias fo right are Roy Lutz, Endcrby; Doreen Tree, Lumby; auUiorities, the company maintains, which is composed of 12 Kelowna Bill Daly, Penticton; Mrs. S. M. Simpson, one of the C.P.K. travel w ill remain on men. The board holds that since the piling is considered a "building NO CHANGE IN SOAP PRICE public speaking contest, run off in Kelowna last week, standard except some coastal resulted in Tom Bulman, of Vernon, being chosen judges; Grace Pearcey, Kelowna; Tom Bulman, and or a structure” it is under its jurisdiction. 'Die board, in refusing to give T O R O N T O — Soap company officials said here today that James Gibb, representing the Knights of Pythias. steamers. C.N.R. trains and its appoval, the piling is believed to be contrary to the public intorcsi. winner. He w ill meet contestants from other points ships w ill remain on Standard the ten per cent reduction in the bulk soap prices which was in the province in the provincial finals to be held in Mrs. Simpson is presenting the J. R. J. Gibb trophy Through legal counsel, the company advised the board that the matter to the winner. —Photo by McGregor. as w ill T.C.A. flights. is not within its jurisdiction. A spokesman later told the Courier that announced yesterday in the United States, will not apply to Penticton the latter part of May. Pictured from left Daylight saving -tvlll last for Canada. They said their United States’ affiliates operate inde­ the company had the necessary power from the Water Rights llnmcjx' six months with the clocks go­ and that the federal government had also given its consent. pendently and changes they have made will have no bearing on ing back to standard time on FEAR SUPWAY Owners Protest the Canadian market. October 2G. 3 , 0 0 0 The board bases its action on the fact that several owners of pro-i Scouts Move CAUSE HAZARD perty near the proposed mooring have made protests, claiming the BIG FOUR CONFERENCE ENDS “structure” w ill be a definite flood hazard, and they stand to lose thous­ The Kelowna Sawmill Company L O N D O N — A Moscow radio broadcast report said to('ay is not w illing to grant a lease to the TRAIL BAND ands of dollars from swirling flood waters aggravated -by wliat they regards as an obstruction to the normal flow of the creek. that the big four foreign ministers’ council meeting had ehded Museum Articles to New Kelowna Yacht Club for the opera­ tion of a slip-way on the company’s A t tho board meeting Monday, Mr. Roxby said no plans or speci­ and that the next meeting would take place in London. The property, north of the present ferry- ARRIVES HERE fications had been given by the mooring company, and it had not applied broadcast, recorded by a Soviet monitor, said the ministers dock, due to fire hazards. to him for a permit to build. would reconvene in London in November. In Moscow, State Building in City Park This was revealed at the City FOR CONCERT Explaining his action in iiskiug the company to cease operations, Secretary George Marshall, caustically charged last night that Council Monday night following re- ■ . ceipt of a letter from T. Greenwood, Mr. Roxby said: "W e all know what the Soviet Union was blocking the action on the Austrian treaty Played for School Children 'FFORTS to obtain a suitable building to house th e Scout’s who stated there is a danger of fire WILL DISCUSS Mission Creek is during flood per­ and declared the United States favored, referring the whole .• « __1___ 1 _ J. *7 /A/A/A vvrVllI A iods, when whole . trees are swept ill museum, conservatively estimated to be valued at $17,CK)0, while are ^in g se^^serviced, This Afternoon—To Repeat problem to the United Nations assembly if the treaty is now when I was Concert Tonight down. They soon cause a log jam. culminated today as the 3,000-odd pieces were moved into the^^jg Yacht Club had p For this reason 1 felt that any ob­ completed when the assembly sits in September. General Mar­ ------- ---------- - ----------— - told the Yacht Club had permis- LATE CLOSINGS new Kelowna m useum located hi the City Park. For several sion?” asked Alderman Jones, Forty-three orchestra members struction is contrary to the public shall also charged that Russia is blocking the four-power pact years the collection has been stored in a conde'mned wooden "Apparently. Permi^ion had been and 42 band players piled off the interest." to keep Germany demilitarized. ON SATURDAYS (jhief spokesman for the property shack b-ehind the Lloyd-Jones home, and insurance cotnpanies d^eclSd Vayor'^W.^B. 2 o’clock C.P.R. train wearing khaki uniforms. ’They were the high school owners, was H. A. Truswell. He told the board the real danger of flood HOUSEWIVES DENY COMMUNIST CHARGE have refused to insure the articles due to the hre hazard. 1 he Hughes-Games. students from Trail who played to p.m. Closing on Saturday new building, located in the city park overlopking the pic- The new launching slip-way h^s would be caused by a blockage at W IN N IP E G —-Leaders of the Housewives Consumer Asso­ 2,500 Vernon children in the arena Nights Will Be Discussed turesque Okanagan Lake, was made possible by severM anony- already b ^ n complied, and of- yesterday afternoon. 'They piled in­ the mouth of the creek, which ciation which sprang up across Canada during the war to battle to school busses and were whisked B y Retail Merchants would be the result of the uproot­ mous donors who started a^building fund. The building, which i^i,|r°company^will probably hold shortages and red tape, were up in arms today over the charge ii.wuo ....w —- ------------ o -------- - - - — ---- - - lumber company w ill probably hold to the Scout Hall, where they gave ing of trees and jamming up against was constructed at cost price, was completed yesterday after- ^ conference aifd .straighten the Members of the Retail Merchants’ the piles.