BANFF TEMPERATURES (Official readings) Max. Min. Thursday, June 26 69 36 Friday, June 27 61 42 Saturday, June 28 * 6.J 47 Sunday, June 29 63 47 Monday, June 30 61 44 Tuesday, July 1 66 39 Wednesday, July 2 62 37 BANFF, ALBERTA. BANFF NATIONAL PARK. FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1952 FIFTY-THIRD TEAR NO. 27 BANFF KIWANIANS HEAR PRESIDENT "An organization which strives to achieve the high ideals as found in the objects of Kiwanis serves the highest interests of citizenship," declared Claude B. Hellmann of Baltimore. Md., president of Kiwanis Interna• tional, when he addressed mem• bers of the Banff club and their wives at a dinner meeting Fri• day evening in the Lift Room of the Mt. Norquay ski lodge. When a man joined Kiwanis, he did not automatically become the embodiment of the organiza• tion's ideals, any more than membership in a church made one a saint, he said, and added that few human beings were able to make their conduct square with their creed- "It Is important to be affili• ated with an international or• ganization during these days," Mr- Hellmann pointed out. "And a man must work for some time with the organization to get the feel of it." Every year the Stonys, famous hunters of the mountain benefit of the thousands of visitors who flock annually to the The public utilities executive mountain resort to see the spectacle. In the above picture^ quoted the five reasons for the areas, pack up their teepees and beadeti buckskin attire and during a previous Banff Indian Days celebration, the Indians downfall of the Roman empire, start the two-day trek to Banff to take part in the daily street are shown In their best .outfits parading around the camp and stated that they were pro• parades, rodeo events and tribal songs and dances for the before heading uptown to stage their daily street parades. phetic of 1952 when one looked at the direction in which the world was going- The five causes quoted were divorce, excessive armament, Stage Set For 63rdIt was alAnnuall because severa l Banffback into the'mountainsIndian, th e Days Festival taxation that destroyed initia• NEW MINISTER WILL BE hundred fidgety travellers had Stonys found it necessary to CALGARY SAX PLAYER tive, pleasure and the decline of INDUCTED AT ST. PAUL'S to be amused during an en• hunt and trap further back In SUSTAINS BROKEN LEG religion. Rev. David Kerr. BA.. B D forced stay in Banff many years ihe Rockies. Jimmy Weber of Calgary, sax-" M, Th-, will bo inducted into the ago that the annual Banff In• And because they began to aphone player with Bruce Bris- Mr- Hellmann urged that Ki• pastorate of St Paul's Presby• dian Days celebration came into inhabit the'beautiful open val• towe's orchestra which Is cur• wanis practice one of the organ• terian Church July 13, at the being. ley at Banff, it happened they rently playing at the Chateau ization's first resolutions, that of close of the evening service Shortly after the railroad went were at the foot of Cascade at Lake Louise, sustained a encouraging the daily living of through Banff to the Pacific Mountain at the opportune time. the Golden Rule. The induction ceremony will Coast, the Bow River went on a broken leg when he slipped 'The World is crying for mor• be conducted by the Presby• tear, washed out several grades In the beginning, there was while climbing the Devil's al leadership," said the guest tery of Calgary. and culverts and tied up CPR considerable friction between the Thumb at Lake Louise. speaker, referring to bygone trains in the Banff valley. Luxtons and the Brewsters as to He was bought to the Banff- days when crews had searched And the passengers had to be which Indians should do what, Mineral Springs hospital, and for tall, perfect trees for masts. This Quaint Little Spot amused, so the resourceful CPR and the result was that Norman Wednesday morning left by "Today, we're not- looking for manager of the first Banff Luxton found himself in charge train for Calgary. masts, but material for leader• Is Not For The Tourist Springs hotel, W. L. Matthews, of the whole show, and a half- ship," he said consulted Norman Luxton and century of headaches- "When the moral fabric of a There's a quaint little spot in Jim and Bill Brewster, to dream Mr. Luxton, in later years, be• How Dandelion Became society degenerates, we become Banff that's scarcely been up some entertainment for the gan worrying about the future changed by the tide of the pass• dozens of unexpected visitors. of the show, knowing that the morally bankrupt." * ing years. new leader would have to be Vacation School Name Mr- Hellmann was introduced It's one of the few locations The consulting party knew someone who understood the Ever wondered how the Dan• by Harry Bradley of Lethbridge, in Banff that has remained pic• that a number of Stony In• delion Vacation College received district governor of Kiwanis for dians were camping at their Indian temperament and way of turesquely old-fashioned over life. its name? Western Canada, who in turn the last four decades of progress favorite hunting grounds at th' The fifth- aiUUMl Catholia in^thb fami-'tl mountain resort. it was suggested that the In• moved Into Banff from the ranc• justh . was introduced by the .president You guessed it- It's the tele• diantec sI comof e.Case into* dBanfo Mountainf and stag, e i^Tf-Claudat Kananaskise Brews-'c, borderinr hagd the leadership school sponsored by of the Banff club. phone office over there on Banff horse races on Banff Ave., or Indian reservation, and on Mr- the Catholic Youth Federation Mr. Hellmann also introduced Aveune. Fondly called "the Maine Street as it was known at Luxton's recommendation, Mr. of the Diocese of Calgary is cur• a party of visiting Kiwanians sweat shop" by those who have the time- Brewster took over as president rently in session at the Banff from the United States. visited its curiously cramped In those days, as they are of the Banff Indian Days com• School of Fine Arts, and includ• At the conclusion of his ad• recesses, the office remains much now, the Indians were always mittee, but only on condition dress, Mr- Hellmann was thank• the same as when the system glad to drop whatever they were that the job wouldn't last 60 ed among the 200 delegates is ed by Norman Campbell, sec• was first installed in 1905, much years. the man who unintentionally retary treasurer of the Banff to the chagrin of Banff's resid• doing and enjoy their favorite gave the school its name. club, and Charles Newbery, ents and the ragged nerves of sports and so they lost little Now, the 1952 edition of Banff vice-president, presented the In• the 12 girls who work there. time getting Into town, ponies Indian Days is in the final lie is John Komanchuk of ternational president with a gift According to the Crag & Can• and all. stages of preparation- Medicine Hat, a school teacher, from Banff. yon issue of May 13, 1905, "A. That was the first beginning, For the 63rd consecutive year, and it was his humorous re• Dr. Jesse Big low of Lethbridge L- Murphy, an electrician from and July 17 to 20 will find Banff the Stonys, noted hunters of the marks at the school's graduation past international vice-president, Calgary, is installing a govern• playing host to the Stony In• mountain area, will leave their also spoke briefly. ment telephone system in Banff dians and other Alberta Indian reservation 40 miles east of banquet several years ago that this week." tribes for the sixty-third time. Banff for the overland trek to gave the school its name And in a roundabout way, it the mountain resort, and for The vacation school used to Banff Athlete Breaks And the system is much the four days will entertain thous• same today as it was then. was the white man who was re• ands of visitors with displays be known as a leadership There are four boards, and the sponsible In more ways than of horsemanship, parades, cow• school, but directors felt the Two Provincial Records telephone system operated until one for the first Indian Days boy contests and horse races. name implied something a little Harold White, prominent Banff just a few years ago with only celebration. Normally, the In• more serious than the school in• athlete, scored two wins and two of them. dians were a plains people and In the evenings, the Indians tended. Directors asked for sug• broke two provincial records at seldom travelled the mountain will present native concerts in gestions for a name signifying the annual Highland Games The way it is now, four girls passes unless on their way to the special outdoor auditorium strength and leadership, and in sit practically in each other's British Columbia. However, when at the Banff Springs hotel turn received the names of sev• staged Tuesday at the South laps with their backs to the the buffalo adjacent to Banff Dressed in their native beaded Side Athletic Grounds in Ed- window, and for seven hours a were either killed off or rounded and b u c k s k i,n outfits, men eral beasts in the animal king• monton- day these girls earnestly en• up by the government, and other women and children will take dom.