; = 6 WHITE ROCK SUN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1959 WHITE ROCK SUN (Formerly The Semiahmoo Sun) Printed by White Rock Printers & Publishers Ltd. Office located at 14899 Washington Avenue - Phone WI. 8-2881 Nestor J. Izowsky, Publisher - Vincent E. Coyne, Editor H. Scott Kennedy, Production Manager MEMBER B.C. Weekly Newspapers Advertising Bureau, B.C. Division of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, Vancouver Office: 508 Hornby Street, Vancouver, B.C. Subscription (in advance) Canada $3.00 per year; U.S.A. $4.00 Authorized—Secon@ Class Mail, Post Office Dept, Ottawa Beach access for White Rock? During the past six months we have heard a great deal of talk on the problem of the railway tracks at White Rock. City council and the Board of Trade and various ratepayers groups and individual citizens discussed the matter at some length and considerable correspondence between the city, de- partment of transport and Great Northern Railway Com 3 took place. During the summer Mayor William Hodgson met with engineers who made a surv of possible beach access and presented their findings to His Worship. Although their recommendations were not made public we feel the engineers came forth with some pretty sound advice on the problem. A feasible solution was no doubt found pro viding necessary financing could be obtained It was announced recently that Port Coquitlam is to get a highway underpass below the CPR tracks. The federal trans- port commission will pay 80 percent, the district 15 percent and the railway 5 percent of the cost. Port Coquitlam will present a bylaw for its $58,000 share to the ratepayers in December. It is almost certain this bylaw will receive the support of the taxpayers when they go to the polls. If this sound method of financing underpasses could be instituted in other centres, it would be the answer to all dan- gerous areas that are a contsant hazard to the public. The board of transport is not only willing to pay the major cost of underpasses but also overpasses at important railway crossings such as is the ease of the Lougheed overpass at Port Moody, Federal authorities are by no means willing to pay the major cost of underpasses and overpasses anywhere and every- where. The worth and importance of highway crossings must be proven, but we don't feel it would be too hard to convince any board of the merit of such a crossing over Great Northern property at White Rock. An editorial in a daily newspaper last week commented “The Great Northern tracks are the worst menace to B.C.’s most fam- ous and populated beach area. The obyious solution is to build underpasses or overpasses to the beach’ ’ It is plain to see that we are not just blowing our own horn when we praise White| Rock's climate and resort attractions. | We agree that the solution lies in a pedestrian overpass of underpass in the main beach area. The beach access problem} here has received no support from the board because comniis sioners are too busy handling highway underpass applications and have little time to consider resort problems. The provincial government should therefore formulate a plan which would aid centres that face predicaments similar to the one presently | existing in White Rock. Ottawa could not expect to completely | pass the buck to provincial auhorities and joint financing by both senior governments should be investigated. There is little chance that the GNR track will be re-routed and a constant hazard exists here during the summer months. Underpasses or overpasses financed similar to the highway puss at Port Coquitlam are now our only hope. | . * * A leader passes 2 aoe S| The death of Mayor E E. Sendall of Langley City came as| a tremendous shock to the entire Lower Mainland and his many friends in White Rock are no doubt recalling this week the| outstanding contributions made by Mr. Sendall during his years| of public life. Mr. Sendall’s success in business life followed him into | civic affairs and the confidence the public had in him has stood | out since his election to the office of mayor when Langley incorporated in 1955. He was returned by acclamation at each election since Langley was good to Mr. Sendall during his early years there and he never forgot it. He repaid everything, and even a little more, to the district which gave him his start as one wf Canada's foremost hatchery operators. He served twice as president of the Langley Board of Trade and later became ident of the Associated Boards of Trade of the Fraser Val and Lower Mainland. He also became the Board's representa-| tive to the B.C. Chamber of Commerce, He was active in the establishment ef an airfield at Langley and was a leader in, numerous other community projects ‘The Joss is not Langley's to bear alone. Since coming to | B.C. nearly 40 years ago, Mr. Sendall made a howt of friends and admirers in all corners of the province. He will be missed by them all, especially those who have been closest to him | during his four months of illness, It seems only fitting that Ernest Edward Sendall passed away in the same hospital room that he and Mrs. Sendall gave in memory of their son, John Edward, who was killed in the Second World War while serving with the RCAF. This contribution, along with many others, is why Mr. Senda)! will be so greatly missed. srce- | Heredity Would the people here in White Rock feel really abused If being called complacent or the word apathetic used. It takes but very little, to get under some folks skinj To even hint they are indifferent, or on them something pin, ‘There is hardly a week that passes, you read it in the press, For youth leaders ane nis, repeated requests, Lack of interest by others, gets most kicking around, Why not the fathers too, they're not all underground, Now there are some good reasons, somo can not to meetings yo, Hut why don't thase who can, but don't, that you'd like to know, Is this place complacent, apathetic, to youth activity, |ten sun themselves on the beach {south east jused to do White Rock area rainfall’ averages 40 in. yearly | Shown above is Max Zack, of-) closer to the North Shore moun ficial weather observer for the|tains you go the more rain you White Rock Sun, holding somejget. This is often demonstrat of his equipment, which by the|ed on Woodwards Hill which of way can measure accurately as|course is a few miles north of little as one tenth of an inch|White Rock, Sometimes in sum- of rain. jmer, cars with dry windshields Max is an important man in|can be seen going up the hill the lives of local residents, be-|While at the same time cars cause he is the one official who|With wet windshields can be can actually prove by measure-|Seen coming down because the ment what local residents al-| Weather changes at about this} ready know by instinct — that | point the White Rock and Crescent| Another good example of this Beach areas are the Banana|Cam be seen in Vancouver. The Belt of BC weather station at the City Hall Take rain for instance. White |ecords 51 inches of rain per Rock has an average of about |Year, but at Brockton Point 40 inches of rain per year and | which is but a few miles further as most of this falls in winter |Aorth, there is a total of over it means that the summers are |99 inches. This is a gain of usually fairly dry and as a con-|more than eight inches a few sequence local residents can of-| Miles closer to the mountains Burrard Inlet at Cap- ich is part way up the nountains, the staggering to- tal of 125 inches is recorded the annually which is a little more than three times as much as} White Rock gets. So next time you have to get your umbrella jand button up your coat, don't urse the rain, but remember | that Capilano has it three times as bad. and Iook to the north and sce rain clouds going somewhere else to unload Meteorologists say that Oil tests Editor, White Rock Sun Trustees hear Dear Sir, Differences in European and US. education outlined at convention In pointing out some funda-{It means that the individual mental differences betweets| who discovers his aptitude late European and American educa-|still has a chance. It means tion, Mr. Byron S. Hollingshead, |that education as a means to Lae Fir cae per rise in the world is not closed School ustees that in Eur- aporthe laatting “eeratudenteiby: [Cenc a cree a abilities comes.earlier, and de-| “Up to the age of 14 there cision about a student's educa-jis not much difference between tional future are more final. |the percentage of children in “For example, in England, |school in the United States and the future of a youngster may |in Europe, Mr. Hollingshead be decided when he is 11 years | said. old. At that age he takes an| “In both cases it is over 95 examination which determines | percent. However, after this whether he will take the route |stage the situation changes tre- leading on to a university de-|mendously. In the age group gree, to vocation work, or to a|17 and 18 in France and Eng- continuation of his general ed-|iand the percentage in school ueation is only 10 to 15 compared with “The American system is|75 to 80 percent in the United more like a broad highway with |States. In the college age paralleling Janes than this sep-|Sroup the European percentage arate route system of the Eur-|is about five compared with 25 opeans. The American high|in the United States. school may have various choic-| “As a civilization becomes es of currictila, such as classi-|more complicated and sophis- , vocational, general, and |ticated, it needs more and more cientific; but there are usual-| people with special training and ly some courses students take ability. Even by giving every- in common, and it is always body all the education they can possible to eross over from-one absorb, we in America can curriculum to another, to re- scarcely keep up with the de trace one’s steps, or to change mand for people with advanced one's pace. training. Estimates now are “This means that the in-|that at least 25 percent of our dividual who is handicapped by | population must-have such ed- a poor environment when he |ucaion ifwearesimply enters school can escape his|ucation if we ard social status if he has ability, | fill pgegent pos simply to There is a test well being) [JBC dept. head | drilled by The Canadian Oilcu a few miles from Society has made institu- Okotoks, Alberta ions such as schools largely! It is not on the Cameron Bell|responsible in preparing chuld Structure which Hes due south!ten for life.” Dr. F. Tyhurst of Okoti however, but it; head of the University of B.C’s might start further develop- department of psychiatry, told ments. the closing banquet of the B.C This well is around 8,000 feet |School Trustees Association deep. ‘Test is to be around| Schools should hand back to | 9500 feet. The writer’ wouid |parents part of the job of train have preferred it to be just two id, the speaker said miles further west, right on the eachers should spend more Bell area instead of 1% miles | time teaching, and not spent off. so much time counselling a A. J. Avery Bell child in his personal develop ment.” | Tyhurst also warned that the | qreatest danger in today’s | trends was the widening guif| Dear Sir, jbetween thinkers and men of| About 30 years ago my friends | action. and I spent many happy days| “The reserver fishing at White Rock. We |enjoys well most of lis ao No fish now ditor, White Rock Sun, - the thinker - finding why somethir St and distvusts immediate retired now actions as likely to be disaster aht property here./ous in the long run,” he said king forward to some) The man of action takes for| hing, buf to my surprise | granted what the thinker ques: | I find that there ave none 10|tions, and criticizes him for his} catch now, 1 went to tho end |inaction.”” | of the pier the other day and os : id saw the reason why City Council will tece I saw thousands of fish being |action on the complamt rt unloaded from a boat that |