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The G's Return

A Hittle event took place last week which we think should
not peas undoticed and unsung

We refer to the ce-Instating, by the Department of Edu~
‘cation, of the old-favourite, the letter “G,” on the report cords
of echool children of the intermediate grades. Only
likely to mar the triumph of the advocates of the return of
the “old” letter ix the fact that a new generation
completely indoctrinated to the Us" and the *
‘and the "N's have arisen, al)
“Gi and “Ee” and “Bis” and “D's .

Without taking side in the controversy which has lately
racked the meetings of Parent-Teachers’ Organizations we,
*nevertheless, feel moved to criticise the Department's manner |
ot setting the report card clock back, if we can call it that.

No ehnouncement of its intention to yield to public pres
pure on the matter was made beforehand by the Department.
Like a thief dn the plight, the long-absent and after all quite
modest “G" made {te return on. new report cards recently t®
mued to some schools.

This kind of “sipping it over quietly” ta becoming all too
common in covernmestal cireles, What we need are more and
gore public proteats every time our aye-old right of being in~|
formpa of what concerns us vitally ia transgressed. |

‘A wmall matter, maybe, but significant of not teo welcome
trends.

The Dimes March: Once More

the Crippled Children’s

‘The annua} March of Dimes for

singing a comical ditty In a (oo-
iiort hospital, ) whieh
expores hile tanky loge, ita just
doing what comes natarally to
Franklin Jotinson
For entertaining just "came
naturally” to the well-known
local actor and director who

ing a cos
which wae
4mall for him. Ab older brother,
who had squirmed and groan
ed in mortification throughout
Franklin's performance, rushed

unfamiline with the bad old} home and threstened thelr
mother that he would leave
school “it you ever lot that kid

get up and make a fool, of him=
self in public again.”

Recalling the incident with «
grin, Franklin says “You might
nay T've been making @ fool of
myself in public. off and on, all
my tife."

Most audience, however, Un-
like his older brother, love it.
“MOTLEY” CAREER
During the “hungry thirties’
he carned pocket money by
winning innumerable ‘amateur
contests. which were then In

of jobs, including serving sum-
awning and operating

| clubs,

STAR DIRECTOR
“When I started out J didn’t) | iy tor
know a thing about directing:
strikes mie it bas about as much ke
t a cream at a low
except what little I bad pleked) Vat ap @ bag of feather : price. It just

veagey

eae

up from being in Theatre Un

‘Au for the old cry “Are wel manufacturer.
incorporation?” {t!she bad jaunched a new face

ra. 1f{ didn't sell until aho increased
we aren't ready for It now, we) the

| der the Star productions,” Ss price from somewhere round
vogue. Franklin will freely admit. ste ew af Eber bos shillings @ jar to. nearer
‘This led to his firat job An easy-going. non worrying | ne ‘eo might just as well twelve and sixpence: Then it
singing In a Seattle night club: | character with a seemingly, un- | resign ourselves to living OUF sold like anything,”—Mary Em-
lqhen followed a motley array litves out in a etate of imma~ speaking in the BBCs

“Woman's Hour” programme

Hospital. opened officially on
continue vntil

Thin famous drive needa little

pabiie, Lagt year lt made treatments In) the Vancouvers Chf-|started, work with) the B.C. | Gurita anecdotes when Players’ pretty funny picture to the rest —Owen Arnold
dren's Hospital Yble for 2.000 young patients. Since the | Electric Company: and {a nOW | ciub members reminisce. \ of the province as we shiver on eee
Hospital opened 30 years 80, some 15,000 youngsters have |S district representative in the | Once he waa playing © scene | 2 brink of this supposedly TEXAS TALE
been admitted fo its wards. company’s White Rock office. | with bis leading lady which very chilly old swimming holt Gov. Allan Shivers of Texas
; SEIN i | f
Those figures mean much to anyone with the smallest Ia Vancouver ne did & l0DK | called for him to lake hold Of] 0% IROOERSRRE HT tells of reading a misgazine

amount of imagination
mm

ness and dependence.

pain and deformity.

Iiinesy which can ruin hundreds of

guddenly, either in our own homes or those of nelghbour's.| qqiy tranafer to White Rock Jact; but Johnson. the enraged {ing in our neighbourhood. If
Pollo. b cht tragedy over-night to many a home, OMe )in 4 director, continued to shake her\we have any spirit at all we} think.”--The Reader's Digest.
one

of the

We can help to
crippled children golng by
for funds

keep the

Support your community
of Mr. J. P.

driy

the end of December.

mon

‘ temperamental, but he has ocoa-| about cosmetics.

Monday, November 15, and will|q Vancouver restaurant and eae temper flare-upe—usually tion and rapid increase of bust- oe Lee

working asa hardrock miner at |, pricf as they are yiorent:| Dome Peemees and private resi-| The most dificult thing In
Introducing to the general Pioncer gold mines. In M43 he | Some of these have become fav_}aences we must present © business, is minding your

They mean baby feet straightened and |

de strong eo that young lives:are | 13s
They mean aick and helpless children }
are given immediate care and are thus saved

our own community.

wonderful

| stint of service show entertain= | nor shoulders and give her al
pot embittered by lame-| appeared with Theatre| s,aking as the curtain fell: The | ARE WE

\Under the Stars for four #e~| unfortunate ucttess bad pretty) Critical situations sometimes
\thoroughly “mucked up” the | call for both drastic language
|inehe. Johnson, the actor, was|and drastic action. And such &
ebaking ber at the end of the/time is now rapidly approach=

article that moved him to ask
his wife: “Do you know how
many really great people there
are in this country?”

“1 dont know,” replied the
Governor's jady, “but I do know
there js one leas than you

MICE OR MEN?

sons, and aang on
both

radio pro

from &
CBR

Nfe of}
| grammer at

| CJOR.
young lives can strike| snp SO—TO WHITE KOCK)

and

put an end to bia sing
|ipg earcet, but It unexpectedly
opencd up a new Abd. of en
deavour—one which has become |
for him an all-absorbing Ayo
fon

for a good minute after the car | with act and act at once before
taing had closed: a ft ig too late.

Me now rarcly blows his top|] refer, of course, to the re-|FOMee of mankind see the beauty
jat the gang.” and this wortles | numbering of the homes. under- | of justice. is by showing them,
him. He Interprets it a @ 818° | taxen by the Lower Fraser ‘Val-|in pretty plain terms, the con=

of a slackening in standards. |.) regional Planning, Board | sequence ‘ot Injustice. —Syaney

work of ‘The only way to make the

our support to the

the
drive

saving
jooal

¢ and send your donation care |¢

sFiiceil’ Chairman of the focal committee. 918| “A year afver coming bors ''t | whic |

Washington Avenue LAE iptv Die Reda pelleves whould Ot! \y the moment their work 1) gmith.

. . . ten : Yeast aim at perfection: progressing, so Tam told, in the
Players’ Club to take the role NEW VENTURE |

of Signor Mont! in “Twin Beds. | 25 NAA RRR RADAR
| a ys } “Babor in the Wood,’ the paz

When, Oh, When? Polen "Twin, Bede’ eth | orion, wnlch Pavere 2 Set 6 W

|members invite anklin 0 | |
ns . é r w to present Dec. a
me tong-suffering Canadian public, both east and west|direct thelr next roductieanine ee canada Ae mite | Goin
of, the Rockler, ° blamed ‘ae &, 9 and 10 in ald of the White
Tonk ea tamed if they parody the nursery |The result wag nothing short O° | Rock District Hospital er
rhyme and chant, in one gigantic chorus, “When, ob when, ia | cataclysmic. | Fae

otr Trans-Canada Highway coming?”

tain]
to Canadian unity- Canadian business|

No one in hia right senses ‘needs to ask the value of
al-Canadian highway
and Cansdian morale.

Statistic, aplenty could be marshalled in a
to prove the worth of this long-overdue
Jectives.

‘The loss in tourist revenue alone,-by Canadians forced to
detour through the United States
to west. or vice-versa, Ix itself very great
also epend more time and money herp
cawt-west road actota the whole country. Much of our Cana
dian trucking, another very considerable item
must go through the
that country and commensurate los to us.

financially, now

We all recognize the fact that Canada has h
stables to overcome in getting this Trans-Canada route finished
But it does seem a» though it should not be an Smposalbility
to get It completed now In the very near future if the will and
the determination to do so are forthcoming

ef all concerned in this vital

When in 1950 the club found
itself without a hall in which
to perform it was Franklin who
saw the possibilities in the

turn it into a theatre

| the

was firm and unequivocal: “By

} Tides of White Rock

Mth

production
Franklin baa directed

‘Asked about the pantomime,
| which is a new venture for the
\club, Director Johnson says. $3) mare's

District

Standard Time

which |

ttle building at 464 Campbell nothing can beat

formidable array | r it halt os =
Sunt (gcait thest ded |xtiver Road, just vacated by a eG ee Shabek jk) walking «country road, come|starts ite slow climb _beaven
furniture company, and rallied | oi, tates a ea haticceae, Xt Full, with the oir ¢risp and ward, an’ the hills far of &
lthe support of club members to wong. bd cool, tasting like wine, sn’ the| sharp and biack, like © bac’

probably has more laughs per
aky

when motoring from east) Reluctant members sakes, | Se ieee anything We've | (7 ned with litle, tufty bits | Brown shadows stretch from
US. visitors would |«gyt how can we €ver manag Sout \s ‘white, woolly clgud, aa thé) heres BD’ gone, an’ p ‘akeets
if there was ® g004\15 keep up with monthly ren’ ‘And what part will he be tak-|oaq bird making & dark pat-| hawk "akeets” goin’ by. an’ you

| payments of $507" The answer jing in 1? tern on It can. smell the tang of frost

“Oh, just say Johneon will be)

Vol St s ld ni re se ¢
ited States with additiona! revenue to| producing = play every second | making ® fool of Sctoalf ‘1n'| carrieg of ite, breath (theymouell )® SAS5% beckons you on home,
month.” public again.” sorely ourdoors. A. lovely woee= | 1B the, BDIS gilence. That’ lv
ad many oD-| __——. | sey #0 ike wild roses. sunny | ing!

| A COUNTRY WALK .
By “Homespun”
over the edge of the fields, an’

he colour of blue patin. When smoky

The winds just a whisper, an’ that's {n the air, an’ a light, like

all] gve like when’ you were &

| pines, fir. cones, and such.
You |,ia, an’ ran barefoot, Srat time

tied together with rain:

ON THE BOOKSHELF
“NORTH OF 559," edited by)
€Nifford Wilson. Clifford Wilson
te the editor of the Beaver, the
Hudeon Bay magazine pubilah
ed in Winnolpeg and in hin cap
acity as editor, he has written
many articles on Canada and
her history. In “North of 95°"
there Bre collected a group of
articles by specialists who know
Canada well. The articles are
brief. but full of intere:
facts about our unknown north
It in diffiewlt to choose between
the chapters, each plays ite own
e in depicting the “waster
of Canada, and showing that tn
fact, they aré not “wastes” at
all, The photographs are xroup
ed eo that the reader may read
on uninterrupted through sev

| Reference Station, Point Atkinson, haven't lived, if you've mt er|Ap’ you felt no. good, like you
| Nov. mim e Ht Time Ht Time H't Time Ht smelt itt owned the earth!

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wea to sea” traffic artery. 18 Th 5:04 61 12:26 14.6 19 23 74 | warm an’ agrecable an mighty | time, sod gummers wart: an’

| 19 F, 0:47.10.5 6:17 7.5 3:04 14-4 20:15 62 pleasant. The Way it sbines UP | Jovely, but autumn, Ite a me

| 20 Sa 220111 7:28 BT 15:36 12.2 20:30 61 4 fleld of stabbie an’ burnishe* | for remembering. ‘an’ for dream

21 5. 5:34.120 8:30 9.8 14:06 189 21:23 42 the leaves, Is mighty pretty, {0 }int Its time for getting ac~

n The Bookshelf 22 M. 4:34 129 9:25 10,3 14:33 13,7 21:08 3.5 seo, The streams an’ prooks| quainted all over again, with

23 Tu. Bald 187 1014 10.8 16:68 13.5 22:28 BO \don't run so noisy. ke they | tne good earth, an’ the ‘etornal

24 W 5:58 143 10:00 11.1 15:51 13.2 23:26 25 dis, a month ago sort. of |rairacle of beauty: Thatie every

FRIEND OR FOE” by| 25 Th. 6:33 14.8 11:42 11.3 15:25 13,3 22:53 2.7 dreaming along: If you kno¥ | man's heritake: an’ free for the

era} chapters, they are splendid

and cover a wide mings,

Oreste Pinto. If you enjoy de-} Rock.) . what I mean. jooking!
Oa ee ree eee, | camera. Grebe eS advance of Waite)" 3o sir, there SotRINE GET | And tw tha
book. Here are storie on beata a walk in tho © { Michaclmag d35y.
Bae tes ake hoo bat of SI DOPE, GANG WARS, GUN MEN. ‘evecialy: wee ate on turn | Ragyed and dusty, Dut el
Bathe Aide World War Dl ee and Bank hold-tips, we read ‘most every day; agen: ae ‘ochre : ait ng} Lovely ax balf In the twilight:
y Ht os oF we 2 . 2 Shawling & gentle bill
cel okies aaricn trae Pred | To put an end to such, how can we find a way cee sa for; an) a moon BA big.
jteks ave) whut's thie causo of this upheaval, why: this sudden burat of |" i mpkin, preks —Sally Ross Allanson:
these escapers really fed from crime? an' round aa @ pump!
occupted Europe to help the, You can have your own opinions, O.K well, bere ts mine.)
Dea ae y (hey seeally | 2S, aware ante ied. that on dope they'd concentrate, SEMIAHMOO SUN for
) “Eeiend or Fos This} 2 nat tipped off the traffickers, to shite before too late,
the: eternal qvest this | Into thelr Hideouts can bet. they made @ swift retreat;
Dutch author. Oreste So dops'e m ‘difficult to get, for the addict. on the street All KINDS OF
to ask himself when, as a tinge of supply ans the price of dope Increases,
éounterctotalligence. officer in| 2° addicts all mround. whose craving never CeKses |
Ban Attar nani wes | Bo spore enon ey: they must raise, strike av another bank or
ote OB PRINTING
tloning, Pinto'a cases provide | YSU (MMP nit. deny. they need money more and more,
ts wilh some exciting storias of) NOW we t of dope trade gang ware, imported gun men too,
intrigue, apd interesting pbycho-| ©" the powors-that-be cle up this mess, that® what they're

to do ee
F, McCLINTOCK.

logical studies of unu char
acters. | bs