BC. Division of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association,
‘BC. Weekly Newspapers Advertising Bureau,
Vancouver Office; 508 Hornby Street, Vancouver, B.C,

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Guarding Our Health

Ith Unit is full of
t of the Boundary Heal

ay Saiseantion of much value to the public oN
in Meeaative field is the main concern of the direc!

his staff.

Take the School He:
1957 the report states,
an increase of 14.1 per
the first annual report o!
as 11,211 so that in the
64.3 per cent p

inci

Unfortunately the ever
the inability to increase the bu

physi hed t \
of A eioeiam in the schools has become necessary.

alth Services statistics alone. During
the school population rose to tee
cent over the previous year. In 195:
f the Unit gave the school population
last five years the increase has been

reasing number of children, an?
get for the employment of

GhHe
COMMON
ROUND

AL IP.

SO THE WHITE ROCK ferry
idea is once more in the news.
The 1958 executive of the local
board of trade are to be con-
gratulated for re-opening dis-
cussion on this matter of a
ferry service to Vancouver Is-
Jand with a starting point in
or near White Rock. The set-
ting up of a committee with
good, vigorous mp ‘ in-
lv sibility of es-
| Soltthteg ‘eneh tae is one |Where the Chantrells, McDoug
of the best steps the B of T has | lls, McKenzies, Lambs and
ever undertaken. The time is | Blackie, after whom the Blackie
ripe for an all-out push to be | Spit (Crescent) was named,
given to this project. Mr. Gag-| A trip to New Westminster
lardi’s announcements that the |Meant a walk over the old Se-
four-lane highway from Van-|™ahmoo Trail which by this
couver to the Border via Deas time was grown over and full
tunnel will be a going concern |Of windfalls. Another road used
by spring, 1959, should be just |Dy the settlers was the Tele-
the ‘‘shot in the arm” the whole |Staph Trail which traversed

needs. And if | the southern portion of Surrey
mistaken Victoria |@0Wn to Annieville on the Fra-
From there the settler

Pioneer L
And Bla

A few scattered settlers J

Woodward's Hill is

came here as early as 1866

ferry
I'm not bad) See
will push the project even more .

he point where a marked curtailment |hettily than will White Rock. |¥ould hire an Indian with his

a service to lower mainlanders |™inster for the price of one

This is a sad state of affairs and especially at a time when
recent reports hay
American children who were
six tests for muscular strengt
cent of European children w!
Nor need Canadians preen them
field. Findings of the American s' |
to Canadian children. |

i r eople and |

the failure of both our young P |

eS caeadare up to the standards of physical health |

eae in Europe, is given as our “soft” way of life. ae

Sone are driven everywhere, to school, to play, as the |

i ap i i holidays and vaca- |

y sit cooped up in cars even on y ware

ee oe recreation is becoming more and ance EAS

as television takes over a large portion of their waking an
out of school hours. ai

inly the health program

‘What is to be done? Certainly the present i cn
of such units as Boundary Health must have their budgets |
brought into reality with the needs. |

If we are to catch up on the time lost in the health field
it will take the combined efforts of homes, schools and health |
organizations to bring the desired result.

tested failed in one or more of
h and flexibility while only 9 per]
ho were similarly tested, failed. |
selves on superiority in this

tudy apply with equal force |

What Is A Customer?

In these days when more than a few people complain that}
busingiss is poor it might not be a bad idea to take time to}
considér what is the prime factor in making any business tick.
Tt’s likely that most answers to the query will contain the vital
word, customer.

The Fisheries’ Council of Canada has made a definition
of a customer as follows: |

A customer is the most important person in our business. |
He is not an interruption of our work—he is the purpose of it
We are not doing him a favour by serving him. He is doi
us a favour by giving us the opportunity to do so.

A customer is not dependent on us—we are dependent |
on him. A customer is not an outsider to our business—he is
part of it. A customer is not a cold statistic—he is a flesh and
blood human being, and, like Shakespeare's Shylock, he has
feelings, emotions, biases and prejudices.

A customer is not someone to argue or match wits with
Nobody ever won an argument with a customer.

A customer is a person who brings us his wants. It is our
fob to handle them profitably to him and to ourselves. |

This may seem to hand everything to the customer on a
golden platter and leaye the poor merchant with nothing at all
True the old adage, the customer is always right, has many an
exception. But it is the wise merchant who manages to turn
away wrath with a soft answer and thereby keep his trade.

Newspaper Essay Contest

The Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association has just
announced a $5000 essay contest which should be of interest
to many high school students.

Aim of the contest is to encourage high school students

emphasized the fact that 68 per cent of |

j with native flora. The Kiwanis |

are unquestionable. They are | dollar.

equally so for Victoria which,|_ The nearest stores were in

|since the development of Na-|New Westminster and Victoria

naimo as the main distributing | What appears to have been the
centre for Island travel has |™0re popular way was to have

been partially cut off from the |the supplies brought in from |

heaviest traffic streams. Victoria by Captain Hatt, in his
THERE ARE DAYS when the | Steamboat “Staffa.”
sun shining on the undulating| The need for store q
line of the blue Olympics, just | must have been comparatively
across the water from our |S™all, for they had come to a
“bluffs above Semiah- |!4nd which was literally “flow
moo B: e the Island seem |!"8 with milk and honey.”
very close indeed. But the| _ Game was plentiful, wild ver-
tourist, White Rock or Surrey |T€s grew in great profusion
resident, thinking of the many |2"d the woods were full of
miles to be covered, some |Honey-bee trees. Fish, clams
through heavily _ congested | #Md oysters were there for the
areas, is only made impatient | ‘#king and when added to the
at the thought of “how near | Produce of the farms provided

risin;

7 y far” Victoria still Practically all the necessities
and yet how far” Victoria still of life.
HAT WORLD PEACE Park|, Many of the families came
planned for our international |#°m Eastern Canada or direct

peace park also seems to be | from erold Contig ie
moving closer and closer to

fulfilment. With th : ers |
of a Bellingham television sta- hea enjoyed culture and social
tion owner who is now presi- ers AAR sans al
dent of the Peace Arch World Sues aeoee ilderness _o;

Foundation , this addition to |°¥Pey were no «schools, no

Bedi
cki
locat- | homestea
ed in various parts of Surrey |the end
before 1870, but not until 1874 :
were there enough people in |the ingenui 0
any one place which could be |/own entertainment
termed a settlement. That year ie
14 persons were registered on
the Provincial Voters fist, all
from the Mud Bay district.
Some of those families, such as
the Woodwards, after whom
named,

Others who came before 1874,

THE ADVANTAGES of such | °#n0e to take him to New West- |

Roods ;

e backing |S0™E” Schooling anid’ the’ elders |15¢” take the Teachors’ Salari

But the

not long before
Blackie’s Spit

birth of their beloved Queen,
and again on the first of July | caused tc
to commemorate the founding | Toronto Who was
of their adopted land. the idea of coming 5
Some families would come to | tls year—the highlight f his
Blackie's “Spit with a wagon |J¢tler of thanks was his query
load of food from tho farm. for #8 to why “White Rock” wasn't
a week or two of holidays and |880wn on the
always took along a cow for} In view of the proximity to
their milk supply. the U,S. border this seems in-
Honest John Oliver, from | excusable. Blaine, Ladner and
East Delta, with his pail of |Cloverdale are prominent but
jcandy, was a welcome guest |oneof B.G/s newest cities and a
among the younger set but the | summer resort of no mean or-
official brewer of tea, Johns der is noticeable by its absence.
Stewart of Elgin, was probably The ‘only. mention of White
eu with the older Rock is where it is coupleiteitt
| ee ‘Harrison Hot Springs” under
On a first of July, shortly | the sub-heading of “The Lower

jthe ground and loaded with the |lest you haven't one on hand
|Tang out, a couple of do; be |

ig P BS gral | citizens of $18.00 yearly in
nic of their own. As there was és

saving of $12.00 would be very

jent was accepted with great |
years later, brings forth a jminiscing about the Picnics at
Increasing costs for this and that, are causing much concern.
Which would clearly demonstrate, a necessity for redress.
Now it is of prime importance, to have equipment up to date,
If ours are out of line, would you say that that is right.
That we simply can’t afford to do, but if we have to economize,

the park is now almost assur- |Community halls and no house
ed by a Bellingham Kiwanis |°! Worship where the tired |
club and calls for two 70 lot |
parcels of land on each side of
the border to be developed into
miniature national parks. The
lots will be sold to countries
interested in planting them

club of New Westminster are |
already backing the plan and
they hope to interest other K
wanians to follow suit |

IF ALL PLANS go through
White Rock will be assured of |
another international attrac- |
tion which will draw vacation. |
ers .and tourists to y|
awhile” in our neighborhood. |

AS I RECALL this is not the ]
first time some form of inter-|
nationalism has been advocat-
€d for our lovely Peace Park
A resident of White Rock, pro.
minent in many moves for civic
improvement, told me once of
her dream to establish a “peace
college” within the park. Per-
haps her dream, too, is not too
far from being realized. It |
could be just another logical
step following hard on the|
heels of the international plots,
Heaven knows we need all the
help we can get to make, and
keep, world peace.

MISS

First Uni

MISSIONER;

Rev. AL

to consider careers on weekly newspapers by studying printing
Management or journalism at the Ryerson Institute of Technol-

are five Grade 13 papers,
for printing management com-
plete Grade 12, including science and mathematics

Up to 10 bursaries of $500 each will be awarded to stiu-
dents writing winning essays on the subject: “The Role of the
‘Weekly Newspaper in Canada" Material will be supplied by
Ryerson Institute and co-operation of weekly newspaper editors
is promised. Jast year, four students qualified, three from

in-

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BLESSED RAINI
Could we but steer our surplus

drops
To where they pray for rain,
To make the desert bloom
afresh
And grass the barren plain.
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Marine Drive

The following correction aj
peared in a ami He

AN INVITATION TO A

PREACHING

Sunday, March 16 to Thurs. 20

before the turn of the century, | Fraser Valley.” Enclosed is

the table cloths were spread on Jone of the maps referred to

delicacies from the farms and f

as the call “come and get it?| Re Surrey Water Rate—is it
Possible the reduction to senior

jbed the fried chickens and Is

darted into the bush for a pic-|°Urrey will in due course be
applicable here? Am Sure the

|plenty of fried chicken left in |

the picnic baskets, this incid- #°¢ePtable to pensioners Here

| —A. E. Reed.

|merriment, and even now, 70 |

chuckle from old timers re- Blackie’s Spit.

TEACHERS’ SALARIES

Do all workers give full value, do they their wages earn.

Are some over-paid, some under-paid, the answer could be: yes

Let's look at Education, increasing costs affects us all,

No matter what your income is, be it large or be it small.

The actions of some School Trustees are wide open for debate.

es, DOW so much in the iimelight,

One thing we must not overlook, good Teachers we must get,

For to retard youth education, call it; almost criminal neglect.

Must Teachers be the Scapegoats, that would be most unwise.

—W. F. McClintock.

MISSION TO THE NATION

TO BE HELD AT

ted Church, White Rock

FRED R. LAING |

OF VANCOUVER

Theme “CALLING CANADA TO cHRIST!

Sunday - 7.30—Servico “Calling the Church to Revival”
Monday at 8.00 p.m.—*Calling the Nation to Christ” —
Tuesday at 8.00 p.m.—Calling the Home to Christ’
WEDNESDAY, WOMEN'S RALLY at 3.00 pm,
“The Pots and Shovels and Basins’
Wednesday - 8.00 pm—’C;

Christ”
have something
challenge every.

‘The Mission meeting will
Youth will find a