100% BC SOWNED AND OPERA Mi) SUPER-VAL!, "Where Quality Costs No Mo.e" Serving White Rock, Sunnyside, Ocean Park, Crescent Beach, Panorama Rid: Douglas, Elgin, Colebrook and Surrounding Districts “THE SUN WILL, SHINE IN '59” Vol, 21; No. i White Rock, B.C. Thursday, March 19, 1959 STORMY CLIMAX 7 Ratepayers oppose fi. ,. «et: Burrows resigns as Zack says Council not justified; Burrows labelled ‘Publicity Hound’) Sard’s application was not ¢¢ ceived for two weeks after the deadline set down by council Former Ald” William Offer enquiry into issuesjagreed that Bard's application this city’s fire de » Rock Ratepayers Asso-| has refused to support a brief asking the In-| spector of Municipalities to hold a public |whether it was two weeks latc : City Clerk John L. Jones ernoon at Buena Vista |later told the Sun he did not highlighted by: know where this ration mation of Jack Burrows /had been obtained as Alf Bard's the Ratepayers /application had been received prior to the deadline admitting that| Savage said Zone 4 ade > di eel c ouncil was on record as opposing endorsa be chad in its devision not ta|tion of this brief. He said the employ Alf Bard on the White |sroup felt the Ratepayers Rock Fire Department should not enter into any con: * A statement that Alf Bard’s |troversy application for employment was |or firing of city personnel. not received until two weeks| Savage moved that White after the deadline set by the |Rock Ratepayers do not endorse council the brief, The motion was ® Jack Burrows labelled a “pub-|seconded F » hound” by Mrs. William; William Offer of Zone 1 ask- - ed if the Ratepayers Association wws called an emergency |Was prepared to bring a charge of the Ratepayers As-|of maladministration against on in an effort to gain |city council support for the brief he had If so, on what grounds, and epared asking Deputy Minis-jare we prepared to stand the J. E Brown to investigete jcost of investigation? We could heated meeting s and wor! of the present ment. The former Surrey councillor told members that Brown had information | concerning the hiring} ALD. MAX ZACK - “Council not justified At White Rock of Associate Lloyd Green of Hope is thé new president of the Associat ed Boards of Trade of the Fra- ser Valley and Lower Mainland: Green was elected at the an already informed that as Bard had steady employment with Surrey, Victoria did not feel a public enquiry was ne cessary. Bard is presently employed with the Sunnyside Fire Depart ment. | Brown said in his letter that} as he had not heard from Bard | he presumed the fireman was happy in his present job. After reading the brief, Bur-| rows told the meeting that the | council had failed to give one sound reason why the city had ae turned down Bard's application. | (8 F. E. Savage of Zone 4 Rate-| # payers than stated a member of that group had investigated the JACK BURROWS Bard issue and discovered that ... “publicity hound” resigns Self-owned apartment block is planned here — Plans for construction of ajand will be designed in such a 12 suite self-owned apartment|way that practically all apart- block at Cliff Avenue and Par-|ments will have a view of the ker Street have been announc-|Ocean or Mount Baker ed by Little Maddock Ltd of] A company will be formed Vancouver. Vv. © Maddock, whose com- pany has built some 200 self- owned apartments in the Ker- risdale area since forming in 1948, says work will commence on the White Rock block as soon as plans are completed Each group of apartments form individual companies and name their own directors with Little Maddock continuing to manage the apartments, Mr. Maddock said. He pointed out this method is of great saving in operating costs. Ne Proposed White Rock apart-| i ments will eventually have 58 apartments in four different buildings but in the meantime building No. 1 will be erected and will contain 12 suites. The apartment manager is Mr. Earnest Charlton and the office manager is Mr. Ronnie Knox, Each building will have a large area of landscaped ground and a trustee handles all mon- ys until the building is com- pleted, he said nual meeting of the Boards held Monday at the Silver Moon in White Rock. Ed Boyce of North Vancouver Iwas named fire vice president | and George Mussalem, Maple Harry urer. Directors named were: H. N Nelson, region one, Vaneouver Langdon DeLong, region two, Hope-Abbotsford; R. L. Flet- cher, region three, Maple Ridge: Mission; Frank Noseworthy, re- gion four, North and West Van- couver and Powell River; GE. Woodland, region five. Rich mond-Burnaby-Delta; region s Gordon Wilson, Langley-Surrey and White Rock Retiring president C. Wilbur Dawson of White Rock was pre- cuted with a latter and a gift from the Boards. The Association endorsed a resolution that the Attorney- General be requested to supply fficient staff to enable the Lung Registry Office in New Westminster to adequately han- fe the volume of work done through this office, and render Board of Trade White Rock Board of Trade will hold a general meeting on Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Silver Moon. “Tent ist) ston wins lock 4 910.05 $f 210. eee ng athletes who the Uni orsity ybia's annual et hele at the in Vancouver 2cond year en- inet! student whose home is at 14850 North Bluff Road, received a big block and a spec- \ial athletic award for rowing He was a member of the fours crew which won a silver medal for Canada in the British Em- |pire Games held *in Wales last summer | Vancouver's mayor, Tom Als. |bury, was the guest speaker at the banquet where the athletes were presentd with their awards d Boards jefficient service to the public The Associated Boards also jsupported a resolution that the |Department of Education be re- quested to base its cost sharing jon walk limits of 1-1% miles and 2 miles for elementary and |secondary school pupils respec, |tively The Boards will request the \Provincial Highways Depart- |Ridge, was elected second vice |ment to curb all highways in | Scheltgen Allan is secretary treas-|all commercial areas where pro-| [rophy at the Chilliwack Bon-|Monday’s meeting vincial highways pass. | Unanimous approval was giv- tn by committee members on Tuesday night to the proposed paving program to be institut ed by White Rock over the next two years at a total cost of 1 $126,510, Mayor William Hodgson out- lining the finacing of the pro- gram, stated the city had on hand a $30,000 surplus from their 1958 budget, $8,000 al- dy set aside for paving in u 1959 budget, together with $20,000 set aside for road work totalling $58,000. In addition it would be neces- sary to borrow $68,000 from the arbitration award to be paid back out of general revenue at $34,000 in both 1960 and 1961 By the end of 1961, the mayor said, all of the borrowed money from the arbitration award will have been paid back and the Paving jobs throughout the city will have been completed. In addition, an estimated saving of $21,000 on road maintenance was made during the three ycar period, because of the expect- Liquor store moves Tuesday White Rock and district res: Lloyd Green president | ivsset tes at a new location starting next |league again and possibly two | week | ° Re. Government ises to the new Binning. Blo: at_ the corner of Thrift Johnston. ° White Rock rink wins Totem Trophy A White Rock rink comp. Bert Phinney ( ), Henry lack, Lloyd Hough and Peter tured the Totem |spiel last weekend Change in city phone numbers for 230 Mar. 25 B.C. Telephone officials have announced that as of March 25 jit will be necessary for all |White Rock and Cloverdale sub- scribers to the full listed WI, 8 or YE. 7- numbers. Calls not dialed in this man- jner will not be completed by ithe automatic switching equ’ ment. se A change of telephone num. bers for some 230 subscribers in White Rock will become ef. fective on March 25, The changeover will be in- Stantaneous, along with all other changes scheduled for various F r Valley centres, taking place at 12:01 am | The new numbers will appear in the Fraser Valley directory The number change is ne Joyce, Ruth win Junior Badminton Title, six trophies presented here Joyce Walters and Ruth White teamed up to capture the virls doubles event of the j1 ior badminton championships held Tuesday -at Semiahmoo High School The two 11-year-olds ‘mong six«young stars were who |-eached final competition in the the senior badminton club and| round robin tournament which brought the season to a close. hen MacLean and Rod Gunn won the boys doubles and frene Smith and Colin Pilgrim took top honors in the mixed doubles. The Club is sponsored by! White Rock United Church and |weekly sessions have heen held | in the Church ment Some 40 members ranging in| age from 8 to 14 years have received instruction from Mrs. Marg Martin and Mrs. vy Smith Shuttles were provided by} the young players their own racquets. Trophies were presented to the six winners at the conclus- provided | sary so that new dial switching equipment, recently installed at a cost of $87,400, may be utilized to the fullest extent Outside, telephone construe tion men are also busy on a $35,000 cable-placing project on Johnston Road. In Newton, work is progves sing on a $88,000 project of Placing aerial cable throughout the are. ping cha: (See PHONE CH. | which will PICRETING White Rock's G these two members of the lion who joined fellow workers protest against the Government's jon of the tourney "Tuesday Each trophy was inscribed with | ~~ df 2 year paving program for city at $126,510 for road maintenance, he said. Included in the paving pro- gram for the city is the park- ing area just west of the Great Northern station which suffers so badly from flooding in wet weather. Plans call for a curb erected there with black- top’ from the road back to the railroad bed. Alderman Jessie Lee recom- mended that should enough money be left after the com- pletion of the many projects on the well planned program that the area just east of the library be included for blacktopping Mayor Hodgson pointed out annual expenditure of $7,000 ard] GES, Page 7) bers please attend. that actually Council would be accomplishing the work of a four year period this year by carrying out in the financial way outlined. Little League meets Monday White Rock Little League pe hold a meeting on Mon- day, March 23 at 8 p.m, at Ro- |tary Youth Centre, Road. Hal Wilson, president of the local group, reports White Rock will enter two teams in the Johnstun farm teams will be organized | Liquor |{o play in a separate division. Store will move Tuesday from “Team coaches its Washington) Avenue prem- and managers will be needed. The_.league- -sill- be- holding n umpires and scorekeepe: | slinic prior to the season's open- ng and anyone interested in assisting is invited to attend ‘hese clinics, Hal Wilson points out tho: |walling to assist do not nec sarily have to have a boy pla: ing Little League Baseball Everyone is urged to attend Good response to Players’ appeal Wai tock Players Club re- ports it is receiving excellent re§ponse to its house-to-house campaign held to raise funds to purchase a new Little Thea tre building on Hilltop The Club wishes to thank the public for their generous dona- tions and points out that tits will be the only plea for funds the Players will make in White Rock and district CENTENNIAL MEETS | White Rock Centennial Com- mittee will meet tonight at 8 p.m. in the City Hell, All mem- erament Liquor Store Friday pre ~ Government Employees Assotia- in strike action at 7 aim. refusal to recognize collective bargaining rights. The strike was Postponed at about 11 am, the winner's name, the year|?@Wever, after the Government obtained an injunction making and the eyent. The cups wer bought by the Club members, picketing of government buildings njunetion is being debated in B. illegal. Legality of the C. Supreme Court. { .