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HQWE SOUND Second Class Mail Registration Number i i4i Return Postage Guaranteed It was an impressive either as new members. veteran reremsny Gxe:nme::! Hsuse ~ members c?f the house, or in P~blishedby !?oorlspi!h Pnb!ishing Cc. Ltd.. every fhcrsd2.y I! Sqnamish, E.C. i:: on that Monday morning of several cases as members of a CLAUDE S. 0. HOODSPITH - Plablleher Cliristmas week. In the drawing new.party. One sad note was the room where all the furniture empty green chair beside Mrs. had been moved out except for Walter Owen, reserved for Mrs. one small tablc and three green Bennett. who was unable to be velvet chairs, a Christmas swag present at the ceremcny because P.0. BOX 107, Squamirh, B.C. decorated the mantel of the weather delayed their plane. Subscription Rates (Delivered by Mail): $5.00 per Year fireplace. In the corner of the It would also have been fitling 67.00 per Year Outside Canada large room beyond where the for former premier W.A.C. 5en- annual Christmas party had nett and Mrs. Bennett to have !?eel? he!d thc nigh! hpfbre, you Seen their son sworn in as could see' the huge Christmas premier but perhaps they will tree, stretching to the ceiling. attend the first opening of the covered with glowing lights. legislature later this year. VI)^. 20 - NO. I There were brilliant lights **t ' throughout the room. massed on Getting on and off the island - the small table where can be a problem though. Get- Lieutenant-Governor Walter ting there for the ceremony Owen hcard the premier-elect wasn't too much irouble. When and members of his cabinet Allan Willianis first asked if the repeat the oath of allegience and paper would like to be represen- . then take the oath of minister ted he wanted to know how with portfolio. Premier Bill much time was needed and was Bennett, a diffident smile on his told; just as long as there's time face, was the first to be sworn in. to get there. Being on a Mon- In the audience were members day. that was easy. one could go of the cabinet-to-be. MLAs. of- over on Sunday and stay ficiais and may others. ail wai- ovcrnight. ching this mass swearing-in. Getting to Goverxtnt House Then in turn the premier was something else again. I called up those he had chosen wasn't sure I could find it bui and they each :ook the oath of decidcd to leave my car and allegiance and the ministerial take a taxi as there might be oath. Grace McCarthy. who had problems with parking spare. A he!ped rebuild the Social Credit cab back to my daughter's office - party, shattered after the defeat and qquick lunch. the 3:15 ferry just a little more than threc from Nanaimo for home and years ago. in, winter white, there I was. in lots of time for became the new provincial the opening of Ross and Pauline secretary, deputy premier and Gaulhier's Loggers Inn. minister of recreation and But for a while we wondered tourism; veteran Evan Wolfe as what we were going to do with minister of finance; jaunty Terry. He was scheduled to Gar& Ga:Oom, a yellow rose in, head for Prince George OR his buttonhole, as attorney- Monday with his grandfather for general; deep-voiced Don a week or so of snowmobiling Phillips, another Social Credit and winter fun. He was coming stalward. as minister of over on the ferry from Nanoimo, economic development and was to be picked up at Hor- 'Dog bylaws need enforcing agriculture; distinguished seshoe Bay and brought home looking Allan Williams. sworn on 'Sunday. in readiness for the Bylaws are of no use unless they are en- police had to destroy a number of dogs which in as minister of labour and of early Monday departure. Inilian .affairs; Robert When plans for the swearing forced and the District of Squamish dog were running in a pack and meDacing L '% McClelland, who sought. the in were finalized and it, was bylaws. more noticed in their infractions children in the vicinity of the Squamish CHILDREN AT BRITANNIA BEACH sitting in front of the Christmas tree and joining in the party leadership when Bill Ben- realized that to sure of being be ' than in their enfoicenent, are no exception. elemefitaiy school 2nd the high dhd. caroi singiilg. nett was eiected. as minister of there it was necessary to go over Several instances of people beicg bitten have health; the foe of employable the day before, plans had to be The week before Christmas people shop- been reported and one day we may have a welfare recipients Bill Van- rearranged and friends agreed ping in the downtown area were unable to report of a serious incident involving a derZalm as minister of human to pick Terry up at Horseshoe' resources; former Saanich Bay and hrins him !n Sq7"amish. enter some of the stores because of the pack child's life. of snarling snapping dogs which crowded mayor and president of the I saw him coming aboard the The construction of a dog pound was tur- UBCM Hugh Curtis as minister doorways and otherwise obstructed the free ' Twenty Years Ago intellectual displacement. the They were especially interested ferry at , ,!anairno. caught,.,up .ry' ned down by the voters last year. But it is . in the replies of 560 who wore; of municipal affairs' and, wi1li:hi.s @thcrp;she lbipel~,J . flow of shoppers. 1955 didn't equal last year's Times is carefuJ to say that it becoming increasingly ,evident that people rainfal1:record but the last two doesn't mean that the housewife what the girls call 'Iong'Bobs'. housing; intellectual Dr.'Patrick drove ''dow'n "is arid, e$ecti*ng McGeer as minister of me to come over on a later In the past few weeks there have been will not keep their animals in? that animals months 'of the year set a new should abandon ,domestic "We don't know just what the record for cold weather early in responsibilities. So. to the young men said, but the survey education; radio talk show host ferry, and shortly after we numerous reports of packs of dogs in the are allowed to roam, to pack and to harass Jim Nielsen as minister of the arrived at her home a phone call the season. There was 8.6 inches women of our two wonderful makers drew from their remarks , people, so form of dog control ' district; we have seen a group of huge ones some is of snow in December. Noveni- valleys. we urge you all to take a surprising conclusion. They environment; former federal from Terry revealed that his congregated outside the post office ham- necessary. ber had the distinction of having more active interest in affairs of think the mods let their hair cabinet minister and Rhodes luggage had been left at pering entry and reports from the areas of With the same probiem prevalent in Alta the most rainfall, with October the community and even grow, because they believe Scholar Jack Davis as minister Nanaimo and he still didn't of transport and com- have it. Valleycliffe. Wilson Crescent, Dentville, Lake and in Britannia Beach, perhaps a com- not too Far behind. Over a third positions of responsibility on women get better breaks than of the year's total r,iiin fell in men in modern society and "if municqtions; veteran Alex That upset the applecart. Garibaldi Estates and Highlands and the munal dog pound in Squamish to serve the our boards of trade, village those two months. November commissions. and tiixpayer you can't lick 'em, join 'em." Fraser who has represented the Frantic phone calls to Hor- entire area might be practical solution. Eagle Run and Brackendale areas. all in- a also .set the year's snowfall groups. Liidies. let's get it done 'The men want equal rights. So. Cariboo for several terms as seshoe Bay resulted in the ':' dicate they are having problems with large But whatever the solution, one must be record with almost three feet of in '61 ." they adopt a feminine style, just minister of highways and public discovery that they had been: .. dogs as well. found and found soon or one could truthfully the stuff. as the suffragettes in the early works; newcomer Rafe Mair brought over on a IateF ferry" say that Squamish has gone to the dogs! Ten Years Ago years of the century often adop- from Kamlmps as minister of and were sitting on the luggage It's not just an isolated case. Last fall the Total rainfall during last yeiir Rayonier (Canada) Ltd. and ted mannish modes. as an -ex- consumei services; and6 mining wagon at the terminal, Another (1955) was 88.25 inches, con- the District of Squamish have pression of the civil equatity engineer Tom Waterland as call to Squamish. and cDmeone siderably less than 1954's reached ;in agreement on the they claimed. This is a neat minister of mines, forests and would pick up Terry's suitcases record rainfall of 107.6 inches. subiect of amalgamaiion of the theory but we don't buy it. Short heSoUrCeS. and all vas well. But what a However. last year's snowtiill pulp town iind the district. Let- hair has not always been the Once they had all been sworn performance! was higher being 61 I/J inches Maybe it would be much This is Christmas ters paluiit h'ive bccn accep!4 style for men* As recently as the in, the tiegtenant-governor ad- easier to stay at home! compared to S51k inches in iind special legislation is last century- prime ministers.as ministered the oath of the 1954.