st VR ED A )PERATED SUPER-VALU: Where Quality Costs No Mere” Vel. 21; No. 25 Woman's Death Brings Action ae White Roc Serving the City of White Rock and the surrounding districtsof Crescent Beach, Ocean Park, Sunnyside, Douglas, and Elgin. White Rock, B.C., Thursday, June 25, 1959 Train speed reduction asked by Board of Trade White Rock Board of Trade) Rock area. will request the Board of Rail-| Dr. Gibson said earlier he way Commissioners of Canada| had not had an opportunity to + te reduce the speed limit of|meet with Premier Bennett to Great Northern trains in is | discuss promoting such a move, area to a maximum of 20 miles| but there has been talk regard- per hour. ing extending the PGE railroad The Board teok this action at/ to Port Kells. itsvgeneral meeting Tuesday at) If this was done, the Silver Moon after of the death of a young Crescent Beach woman on the Great Northern tracks near Semiah- mee Park Monday evening. . The Board will ask that the VI speed limit be enforced from the Campbell River to the Sem- iahmee Cabins during the sum- mer months. Funeral service will be held Saturday for Mrs. Karen Georg- ina Jones of Crescent Beach Stan Evans, president of the | Who was killed instantly Mon- Board, who was on the scene day evening when hit by when the woman was killed, said |2 northbound Great Northern he is further convinced that/ passenger train near Semiah- every effort should be made to|moo Park. have the track relocated. Mrs. Jones, age 20, was at- “No effort should be spared|tending a school picnic with in encouraging the relocation | her husband, a teacher at T. E of the Great Northern route at |Scott Elementary School, when leer | Beac! the earliest date,” | the accident occured. Evans said Mr, and Mrs. Jones were ac Mayor William Hodgson ex-| companying grades six, seven | possible tended the “deepest sympathy” | and eight pupils on a swimming | of the people of White Rock/| expedition and wiener roast as to the dead woman's family but, final event of the school year. said he would make no com-| Witnesses say Mrs. ment on the gccident until af-| ter the coroner’s inquest. The Board of Trade also “en- dorsed a motion supporting Del- ta MLA Dr. Gordon Gibson in = U.S. Motore his proposed plan to have the Great Northern Depot track removed from/the White Queen of the Sea crowned July 1 Crowning of ‘this year’s A complete list of motorcycle drag-race events will be given to the program committee of Queen of the Sea will be held) White Rock Sea Festival this on Wednesday, July 1 at 2 p.m. |week by the Royal\City Motor- at tue tank adjacent to the|cycle Club. \ pier. Maureen {Beales, Queen, will officiate at this|be held on the beach on Satur- White Rock Amateur ming Association sponsored con-|0f the Sea Festival, reports test. that plans are well underway One of the three contestants fF, thrilling show agape The Motorcycle Association Who bring in the most proceois of America has sanctioned the ship cards will win the title. jaction of their affiliated body , in presenting the races wan members of the| speed boat races are present- mite Rock Club travelled to||y being organized by White Empire Pool on June 19 to hear |Rock Water Ski Club and» ac: Dick Jack, president of the hearing | Northern would be encouraged dry, sandy to combine with the PGE in supplying a network of rail | ways to serve any Lower Main: land industrial development Nestor Izowsky has been nam Jed chairman of a Board of Trade committee to investigate Funeral service Saturday for train tim Mrs. Karen Georgina Jones fast-ap- |icized by a White Rock resident. and distance of the proaching train Her husband had already cros-|Said_he was sitting their /beach near Semiahmoo and did not | When the accident occurred and sed to the beach with young son, Timmy, know his wife had been hit un- til he returned to the scene. Inquest will be held tonight | b jadvertts._ iW | Material for the cus Festival program Is now in the hands of the White Rock Sun, Any person or firm who has not yet been contacted regard: ing advertising in the program is asked to phone fhe Sun im- mediately, An extensive list of donors’ |names will be published in \this program. The program will be finished prior to th Festival to permit Teen Town \to sell them in advance. | “Deadline for advertising copy |is Thursday, July 2. the Great| the possibility of an accessible, | fan beach in White Rock.| RCMP criticized for ‘accident’ attitude Monday's railway fatality near Semiahmoo Park has been crit- | Ken Pilgrin, 14769 Russell Rd_ on the Park |a passerby asked him to call the |police and an ambulance. at 7 p.m. at Chapel Hill Funeral | erdale Detachment of the RCMP Parlour. land informed the officer on Mr. and Mrs. Jones resided at |duty, asking him to send an 12279 Agar Street, ¢ Crescent | ambulance Pilgrin said the officer then Altitude of a Surrey RCMP {officer after being informed of Mr. Pilgrin phoned the Cloy- Extension to White Rock's $150,000 breakwater began last week as Gilley Brothers, who were recently awarded the con- tract for the work, began haul- ing in rock by barge. Heavy machinery is presently in op- eration and the project is ex- pected to be completed by about the middle of July Youth Chooses Jail three years A man who pleaded guilty to a charge of impaired driving, and driving while his driver's licence was under suspension Besides her husband and son, | asked him “did the train stop?") was fined $150 and had his Mrs, Jones leaves her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. Songhurst; one |brother, Dennis, and one sister, Myrna, all of Vancouver. «| Service will be held at 2 p.m.| Jones |from Chapel Hill Funeral Par- started across the tracks and |lour to Sunnyside Lawn. vidently misjudged the. anced AR, Laing will officiate. * Rey. yele Ass‘n sanctions Festival races ber, | Stan Evans; president of | White Rock Sea Festival Soc- i jattend this meeting and part each group will play the two day Festival will be discussed aggressive young city works as a team,” the president said. sis cording to Rod Goodchild and B.C Amateur Swimming As-\pon McArthur, members of the sociation, lecture on Gala pro-|jocal club, these races will pre- The Sea Festival office wil jiety, urges all interested city |as 15 out patients requiring at lresidents to attend the general |tention at the hospital on Sat v ‘meeting of the Society to be |urdays and Sundays, Ray Wil Thev Deely, who is promot-|held tonight at 8 p.m. at Con-|liams, hospital administrator re retiring |ing the drag races, whieh will ner’s Hall on Washington Ave | Ports. ‘All Service Clubs and organ-| Swim-|day, July 17 - the second day |izations are especially asked to | visitors to White Rock neces the |silates the services of an on- in |call doctor each weekend, with This is our big opportunity | to show all of B.C. that White |al a capacity rate, Mr, Williams Rock can put on good enter-|reports, and the board is still \tainment; and that we are an |awaiting the result of the re- that | cent hospital survey in the hope ' Pilgrin told the officer he didn’t know but to send an am- buiance immediately. He said the RCMP officer per- the train had stopped. . Mr. Pilgrin said valuable.time was lost by this conversation \and he was extremely concern- jed that the RCMP should start asking questions before dis- patching an ambulance. Weekend accidents are keeping hospital busy Weekend accidents in White Rock are resulting in as many Minor accidents suffered by |all of the local doctors taking their turns as being on duty Occupancy at the hospital is that the much-needed extension to the present hospital will be made shortly. licence suspended for an ad- ditional three years in White Rock police court Tuesday. |Marvin J, Wick of Port Mann ' sisted in asking-whether or not | was fined $100 or 30 days on the Jon charge and $50 or 15 days) m. the-second_charge..whon he ‘appeared before Stuart H. Gilmour. Wick was arrested for driv- ing while impaired on Washing- ton Avenue on June 13, The licence suspension will prevent the guilty man from driving anywhere in Canada for a period of three years. ‘The court learned in a let- ter from the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles that Wick had of driving violations dating hack to 1952 and had been involved an a two-car collision «1 Burnaby in 1954 and another two-car collision in New Westminster in 1956. yer youth chose to spend 10 jays in jail rather than pay 4 fine of $35 and $4 costs after Pleading guilty toa charge of being a minor in possessivn of liquor. ! William Stanley Clark was stopped by RCMP in White Magistrate j been convicted on a. nur:ber| A 19 year old North Varco W. Licence suspended for for driving Rock Saturday night and found to have liquor in his possession. ‘When Magistrate Gilmour ask- ed the youth where he obtair- ed the liquor, tlie accused re- pled “never you mind,” His Worship repeated the question and again ‘he youth refused to answer. “I do mind and { want to know where you got that lig- uor,” Magistrate Gilmour said. Clark ‘said he found the lig juor on King George Highway. | “Do you expect me to believe that. Well, I don’t,” tae Mag- istrate replied. When, Clark heard the fine \or sentence of 10 days in jail, he asked the Magistrats “which jail?” He was told Oakalla and ask- ed if he wished time to pay Me | fine. No, I can't afford it. la’s fine,” Clark said. Oakai- Conservatives meet for business, social White Rock Progressive Con- servative Association will meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Syd Gibbon, 16691 North Bluff Road, on Monday, June 29 at & p.m. Following a short business meeting a social evening will be held. All members are ask- ed to attend, cedure. Next meeting of the local As- sociation will be held on Thurs- doy, July 2 at 8 pm. at the Silver Moon. sent quite a challenge to all competitors. Anyone wishing to enter these races should contact any Sea Festival or Ski Club mem- Water Co. drills new well; 540,000 gal. per day White Rock Water ‘Works Company Ltd. has been succes- sful in its search for an ad- ditional water supply, according 1o manager Major Lloyd Hough. A new well has been drilled adjacent to the 1,000,000 gallon reservoir on Oxford Street. This well is 360 feet deep and a pump test witha five foot screen gives a flow of 300 U.S, will be put into service as soon a8 a pump can be obtained to handle this amount of water. ‘This will increase our present capacity by 50 percent,” the manager announced. Water meters are being in- stalled as rapidly as materials are available and this program will continue throughout the summer, he dded “These are the first two eallons per minute, Major igh sald. phases of a 10 year plan to im- Prove the present water sys- This five foot screen will be 33 to 10 tem, plan is estimated to fy ans ate st t a half million dollars and initiated as soon as pos- be Jocated in the Beach Book | Mr, Williams points out that Shop on Washington Ave.;the board looks upon these thanks to Mrs. Rhymer who has | weekend accident cases very donated her store for July 17 | sympathetically and is happy to aud 18, Cups and trophies will |have the opportunity to serve be on display at the Shop and |the greater Vancouver area ut Calvin's Hardware. jresidents in this way. Some The Festival Society has don-|uospitals, it is reported, frown ated up to $50 for prizes for the |on such intrusion into the nos: bird house competition. pital area. The; Barrie Trophy will also Presented but all entries are | not guaranteed cash prizes. New mailing machine installed A new mailing machine has been installed at the White Rock Sun office. | Elliott addressing machine will Old stock prices slashed for sale Old stock prices will be slash- ed sas Whjte Rock Players Club continues its rummage sale this Saturday at 10 am. at the old Little Theatre on Campbell River Road. The Players raised $155 for Five corners gas station ‘pretty tight squeeze’ ‘The proposed construction oftheir expiry dates in the very a Standard Qil station at the first instance when they: first ‘\ | five corner on the Hilltop was applied for rezoning of the viewed as “a pretty tight site. squeeze” by Ald. Jessie Lee and, Ald. Ed Irwin stated, “If we ‘Ed Irwin. allow this we will have a The original proposal put cramped condition on that cor- forth by the company was for Ter” a station to occupy the now va-| Ald. Alex Mitchell pointed cant lot and the frame buildin’ out that everyone has a right now oceupied by the House of \te change their minds and said Flowers and Dr. D. A. Craw- Me saw no objection to the ford, optometrist. present plan. He felt they were The Company in its moat re-, ©@¥ing 3 40 foot set: back: from their building fund at the rum- mage sale held Saturday and the Club hopes to do equally as well again. First reading for “Teahous of th erst Moon” will be held ri at 8 pum. in the new Little Theatre on Johnston Road. stemp the names directly on the newspapers mailed from the Sun office. id This will eliminate the “wing mailer” system of linotype lists ‘pasted on papers with glue: Tt has taken N. A. Prushaw Office Equipment Ltd. of Van- couver three weeks to retype ou entire mailing list. There may be several errors omissions this week on new. list cha and sub- s. Please be patent B.C. PRESIDENT + Mr. A. Porter of Stayte Road was elected president of the ‘B.C. Old Age ‘Pensioners at the Provincial Conyention held in| he centre of Buena Vista and ccut proposal point out that the q Jeases on the frame building do |t#¢ proposed eongirustinn’ youd net expire until July 31, 1962 TF 9 truce by far ons and they are reluctant to wait erences G2.0Ry rere until that date to begin con-: When it was,pointed out that struction. (preposed \widening of Buena At from a 49.5 Ald. Lee pany knew of