By BG Division of Canadian Weekly Nowspapors Association, Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and B.C. Weekly Newspapers Advertising Bureau. Vancouver Office: 207 W Hastings Street. Out Of The Horse and Buggy Era People who are inclined to gasp at the size of the figures revealed in the School Board's long-range plan for school buildings, should remind themselves that we passed out bf the horse and buggy days quite a few years ago. We can’t go on talking of this municipality being the Jargest and fastest-growing one in all Canada, and not accept the responsibilities that go with such importance. Nor can White Rock, which looks to future residential growth Within its environs for prosperity, fail to be realistic about that future and the part schools must inevitably play in the hoped-for development. If more and more families are to come here to reside and bring up their children they will ask one very impor- tant question: What kind of schools are there? Quite possibly the fact that our schools have had to get along on a basic programme has kept many a family from taking up residence here in the last few years. To date, Surrey Schools have not had the three-fold System of elementary, junior and senior high schools which prevail in every other area of comparable importance. School courses as laid down in Victoria cannot be given here. With- |/in B.C. in his life-time. out these three types of schools, children in School District} The bad habit he ad: No. 36 cannot receive an education equal to the education jis ‘sticking my neck way, available in other districts. At the present, Grade Seven|way out for something I pupils do not receive Home Economics and Industrial Arts | firmly believe is right and for COUTSES.. the benefit of youngsters and The Board are stressing the fact that, while the referen- | unfortunates. dum is for $5,181,000, only half of this amount is the muni-| That adds up to a pretty cipal share. The Provincial Government pays the other |fine philosophy of public ser- half, |vice which the or of W.R. In September of this year the Board opened 49 class- |'° date amply proves. His life Tooms and has more under construction. Cost of these class-|/. 1954 to Openiie ert Pine Tooms was included in this year’s budget and yet the 1956 RingnGeornebrest Homenout School rate is down from 1955. Additional assessment will Voneenaeniahwagy irae Make the programme a relatively easy one to finance. The Hider a eye ones Department of Education pays 50 per cent of the capital Veron a recreationa debt charges up to the product of 10 mills of the total Muni- |) cipal assessment value. The capital debt charges in excess of 10 mills are shared 75—25 with the Municipality paying the lesser amount. William of Though Brown, director claims he has had one bad habit all his life, he has ac- | complished a amount of recreational work to plans mat imme ately strik the ob- & man who does not accept any gloomy view As taxes for capital expenditures are based on the assess- when worthwhile community ment value of the municipality and as that assessment value projects are afoot, White tncreases each year, the Board claim that the cost for capital Rock stands to gain a great debt should not increase taxes for the individual to any deal from his living he great extent. ‘ That career in phy. If we are ever to get out of a state of emergency in the gucat ony ane svete ane coming years to 1960 when school population could be nearly se Sy Mee = ea re twice as big as it is today, we should make every effort to “Ulam Roy was only 16 back this far-sighted plan of our School Board. years of age. “It was in the old YMCA 2 ig building on Cambie Street, Vancouver, that I made my Good For You, Jaycees start” he recalls. “I was a It was most welcome news that the local Jaycees had iene of ae ZEA. sinder come to the rescue of White Rock’s reputation and taken on tne, ae pein , mie ed the responsibility for the current UGN campaign for funds. Bysical Nees, Od LEC Ne : , When he had progressed to The congratulations of all residents should be heartily ‘membership in the Y Leaders’ accorded the group of young men who have shouldered this Corp the young man then and community job, Certainly, the least anyone can do is Sup- there determined that he port them to the full. would become as proficient If anyone finds difficulty in accepting his individual part @"d versatile as possible in all in this project he should just ask himself one or two per- Phases of Physical Education finent questions. For one, Would he deny a helping hand to #94 Recreational Work. a child struck down by a crippling disease? It is unlikely “ALI. ROUND” LEADER if anyone living in White Rock would do so. Yet that is what Characteristically, he im- he will do if he shuts his door on UGN canvassers. mediately put his decision in- to action. He studied hard on In following the “Good Neighbour” pattern of com: theory and practived Miniony munity giving, Canadians are merely trayelling in the pioneer ss y hours on practice work, which tradition of neighbourliness which is one of our most prized ran the full gamut from chess legacies. to advanced gyminastics and We can't all heip deserving cases by giving personally to High Trapeze work them. But we can back the Jaycees in their efforts to bring In 1925 young Brown the White Rock drive in line with giving in other parts of the @ppointed Director and area organized under the United Good Neighbour plan. was Life- guard for the Community of Powell River by the Powell River Company Limited. In this up-coast paper Company ltown he spent 15 years teach- C. fashion by the time this 'N& over 2000 youngsters and editorial is being read and all detractors of our west coast |#dults swimming, diving and climate can cheerfully say “I told you so.” Still nothing life-saving’ His Physical Edu- can rob us of this perfect day, October 21. cation groups and classes in- a a cluded those aged from & to ‘What is so rare as a day in June?” we ini 3 80, he reminiscently recalls, think we would we inclined to say <:A late October day.” Such! As though all ieee! were ¥- The leaves in all their vivid glory were |not enough to keep several boughs; the sun shone gloriously over the men busy, dynamic W.R. or- bay where a white-sailed boat set its course towards Birch | ganized citizenship and public speaking clubs as diversional What Is So Rare? It may be raining In truest B, r of 20 years ago and also some eae the | parents ‘of former’ pupils, now. reside here in White Rock,’ he says, William Roy Brown Dynamic Recreational Leader Roy Honorary Representatives Cer- White tificates Rock's Recreational Centre on Washington Avenue, and or- ganizer of the very popular Square Dance sessions there for both adults and teen-agers, tremendous . pline. C.M.A. River Amateur Swing Club land was a member of the Powell River BPO: Elks, the local Board of Trade and community service CONFORMIT word of the people of all ages seem it is “better rage for “doing as others do’ If getting things done is not }so much a matter of how many projects you tackle, but the spirit and “know how? lyou bring to multifarious jobs then W.R. is the best expo- nent of that theory it is pos- sible to meet in many miles Mof travel, Nor, in spite of his modesty, has his career of community service gone unrewarded. He is the holder of the Bronze Medallion, First Class Instruc- tors, Honorary Associate and one is to jucg@ by news eman- ating from Montreal. An arti- cle on the subject of the in- creasing popularity of coffee houses in the ancient city on the Thames, chortlingly points out that “many of the new coffee places do not eveg bother to serve tea anymore.” This is hitting in the spot where it will likely hurt most for a lot of confirmed tea- drinkers, though the Montreal article in question obviously feels that if anyone is back- ward enough to prefer a “dish of tea’ to a “cup-a-cawfee” he must certainly have some- thing wrong with his head— his stomach doesn’t matter, of course. He has conformed to the prevailing fashion. Three cheers! On with conformity, at any price. FOR MY PART it makes me feel a little sad to see some of the last walls of defence against the invading tide of “do as I do-ism” going down jin this ignominious fashion. If anyone wants coffee, who would deny him the pleasure? But equally, if a man wants a cup of tea why should not those who are supposed to |eater to the eating and drink- inaugurated the first course in [eee es rere ee Swimming and Life-Saying as well as in Unarmed Combat beecone Ba he) WHOreCuLnecon for the Air Force. Both of} se subjects soon became a " for Potential Physical | i in the Royal Life- Saving Society for work in | that branch. JOINS RCAF Then came the war. In 1942 the joined the RCAF and after @ short course in basic train- ing was posted to RCAF training school where he was soon promoted Corporal and a month later, Sergeant. Six months later he was commis- Sioned as Pilot Officer and in April, 1943, he returned to Trenton to assist in the train- ing of officers and NCO's. |Here he was assigned to the job of physical training which also included drill and disci- Again revealing his native drive and initiative PO Brown | C54 REVERSING THE TREND of immigration or emigration At- | 28 indicated in statistics re- being posted to Sea Island |¢ased on the number of Can- RCAF Station, he was put in @dians leaving Canada for the charge of Physical Training U-S.A., is the aim of a cam- and Drill and Discipline there. P&ign put on by the Federal “I am proud to say that one S0vernment. They are out to of the best PT instructors in lure young Americans to Can- the RCAF at this time was ®4@, particularly of skilled Station Sergeant-Major, Jim ™&n-power. First shot in the Shaw,” Mr. Brown declares. campaign according to a: re- In 1945 Pilot Officer Brown P0Ft from the Financial Post retired from the Air Force—j@5 ‘to send 6) experienced though by now he was Flying immigration officers to the Officer Brown. In February, States to size up the possibili- 1946, he was appointed Direc- |es of recruiting Americans tor of Physical Education and ‘9 come north to/a new land Recreational Therapy at the Be raat yareelers rincis 7 ite | Out-spe ame: . Provincial Mental Hospital at Fisheries Minister at Oftawa,| Essondale, by Dr. W. L. ¢ Crease and the Provincial |haS taken up the fight to get Secretary's Department at S°Me Of our own--or at least Victoria, Here he was given as good—man-power back. He full authority to proceed with ;t0!d a meeting of the Audit the organizing of any form of | Bureau of Circulations in Chi- has hit even that stronghold | fi5re of individualism, London, if | wa jties in rocks and walls, Yankee many of those expatriates who have ,been leaving Can- ada in such numbers to re- turn home—for it is highly likely most of those coming north will be Canadian by birth or descent—we read of Ametican recruiting agents coming to our universities, They are expected to visit the larger campuses next spring on the look out for engineers. 't looks as though we can't: win, But as Winston Church- ill once said during the war concerning England-American relationships “we are going to be very much mixed up to- gether before this conflict is over.” Canada and the U.S. have been pretty well mixed up together for many years now and, for the good of the whole Anglo-Saxon world, it will be well if the process is continued. With due attention to individual rights, of course. This and That | No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else. — Charles Dickens. o. So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loy- ed by others I would almost |say that we are indispensable; jand no man is useless’ while he has a friend.—Robert Louis Stevenson. ‘ TOAD TRUTHS. Although toads discharge a glandular secretion nauseating to most Greatures who. attempt to molest them, the secretion, in contact with human skin, does not cause warts, as is often believed. Neither are the Stories we hear of toads found alive and well after years of imprisonment sealed in ca’ of rect.—Forestry News. recreational therapy he deem- | °° recently that) “The U,S: ed valuable to the rehabilita- “Ctually has a debt to pay as far as it used’ to—but tion of patients of the institu-/>ack to Canada in this mat- doesn’t include the dime now getting rolls under the bed. ie tion. ter. We are Some measure of the suc- cess he attained in this work is indicated by the fact that during his nine years at Es-} Oct, Time Ht. Time Ht sondale the Recreational Ther- | 25 Th. 2AT 2.8 10:28 14.5 apy staff grew from one mem- | 26 F. 3:40 3.6 11:25 14.4 ber to nine, A very inadequate | 27 Sa. 4:47 4.6 12:20 144 play area had increased to a | 28 $f, 6:00 5.5 13:07 14.5 full quota of ball fields, ten-| 29 M. 1:10 113 7:14 6.4 nis courts, archery range,!30 Tu. 2:32 12.0 8:18 7.2 bowling alleys and swimming | 31 WwW. 3:42 12.9 9:17 8.0 pool. A combined auditorium, | Nov, Time Ht, Time Ht. gymnasium, church and thea-] 1 Th. 4:42 13,7 10:10 8.8 tre, costing a quarter of a mil- lion dollars had also been built. Not long after Mr. and Mrs: Brown opened the King| When you toss around’ in George Resthome, W.R. once sleep, oa : more got into community|¥You try all the so-called reme ‘work, His activities have sheep. : Brown steadily ever since, He|! had my turn the oi jorganized his popular square became, idance sessions at the Cana-|On that humming Dic Tides of White Rock District Reference Station, Point Atkinson. Standard Tim Time Ht Time (Tides at Creacent are 20 minutes in They say money doesn’ ary tr rh baf {dian Legion on Johnston Road, |At work on th this year moving to downtown inging; — White Rock to his newly-ac- |Could I hay guired Recreational Centr: short of hangin, |The bright lights shining out| Year in, year '9n Washington Avenue on n : |many evenings and the sounds | One jef gay music tell all passers. by that the therapy of danc- ing, music -compan- | / :