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‘Published Every Thursday at Waite Rock, B.C.

i Phone: Windsor 8.9701

Subscriptions (in advance), Canada $2.50 per year;

U.S.A. $3.50
A. PRICE ATKINSON, Editor and Publisher.
CORDAY M. ATKINSON, Associate Editor.
BC. Weekly Newspapers Advertising Bureau.
Vancouver Office: 207 W. Hastings Street.
Member

BC ‘Division of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association,

School Trustees At Large

There's more than one angle to this business of leet
say

ing trustees at large, which we understand the Schoo!

Board of District 36 have decided upon.

y bers elected

Ts all very well to say that board mem!
ward system would have a tendency to work fdr
sare 5 It does not follow that they.
would not work for the good of other areas in their School

their own particular area.

District.

i Federal M.P.'s to

We eléct our provincial MLA’s and our X i
represent an area at either Victoria or Ottawa. This doesn't
nécessarily mean that they are going to sell the whole of
Canada down the rivér just because they happen to repre-
: We understand the question of
Tepresemtation on the school board came up following an

Sent one portion of it.

inguiry from Victoria concerning a board member from

White Rock, which is still in School District No. 36. The

department sought an opinion as to whether the White Rock
member should be appointed to serve with the six Surrey
trustees or whether all seven should be elected from the
entire district.

We can agree with the Board's decision not to have any
appointed members and to stick to the usual procedure of
candidates standing for office and being elected or rejected.
But we cannot go along with the proposition that district

Car

the School Board being elected from one district,
Kells,

say Port

In more than one case in the past it would certainly
have been to the advantage of White Rock to have had a
trustee presenting our particular vie from a purely local
standpoint.

There will probably
would be as well for
t Board re

be other instances and therefo:
city to see to it that we do have
sentation for the year 1957-58. And any-
fair we sh ould ke our share
ding the education of our children.

of the

y in White Rock and_ thi.
1 n a recent copy of Build-
Toducts News, a magazne published in Vancouver in
ests of the building trade.
Entitled “The Banana Belt” the article i
with one of White Rock's most prog
i : V. A. McPherson,
be associated with the great—and
over terrific odds to get a hospital

Py

ssive and communi
ose name will alway:
finally victorious—tight
for White Rock.

about why he chose this com-
ess Mr. McPherson gave some
which some of its detractors

tunity in which to do busin

are apt to overlook.
He pointed out that White Rock
area. with a total population of 15,000
in the neighbourhood of 9,000, though it seems hard to
convince Victoria of that latter fact. It subscribes more per
Capita to government bonds than any other community in
To those who cry that we have no industry in

White Rock Mr. MoPherson also points out that we have a
steady income here from retired persons, not all of whom
are by any means dependent Solely on pension cheques. We

have here, as well, the largest individual savings per capita
of eny town in Canada.

As a remils,
ion, White Rock has a wi

ly dealer has to gell to the public.

climate and next-to-country living
conditions, which is attracting more and more higher-income
om an hour commutng period is

‘s in a stable trading
of which the city’s is

once the lmited-aecess, speedway
completed, is shared by many other

Toad via Deas Tunnel Is
residents of this new ci

TRIP TO THE
Shir i el ed the

MOON?
time

Ottawa News Letter

Dear Friends:

mi
Her Majesty, the Queen,

‘and His Royal Highness, the!

Prince Phillip, have come and George V went to India and)

fone. All that remains is the
‘Authorized—Second Class Mail, Post Ot'lce Dept., Ottawa. Diccsint” GRROVIeS Aba’ Gn

has been a part of the page-|
antry that marked the Open-

i

Hahn and I shall long remem-
ber; the ceremony, the pone
the thousands in the crow

w

and curtsey on being presen-

t

a

a

a

every move—and, of course,

and so on to be lost in @ whirl
with those who were there to

proud, for not only did Her
Majesty capture the hearts of
Canada, but as the Queen of
Canada, she captured the im-

friends and so cemented the
bond of h
the other countries
| Commonwealth,

cognition as Queen of Canada.

ing of Parliament.
It is a memory that Mrs,

he climax to it all, the bow

led, the clasp of the hand,

pr

“Hello.”
Canadians had reason to be

gu

ination of our American
friendship between
of the
of Canada|
ind of the United States jca
Americans, however, I find}

id not give her the full re-

be

be,
| Mei

It may be possible t one

jof the reasons for their fail-|decide, Her Maj
jure to do so is caused by the|main in any eventuality, The
jfact that Her Maj
permitted, by a Statute pass-|the Queen of
jed at the time of William and | countries
Mary, to take the Crown out |Commonwealth, and not
jof Britain. The tiara she wore | public.

at the opening of parliament, |
representation would not be in the best interests of No. 36. |! Beneee, was one given
ed too far, this theory might result in all members of !°P® ©

ty is not) Qu

to

the earlier British

became
peror of India in 1911, it be-/
came necessary for India to
have a State Crown, which
was to be known as the Im-
perial State Crown.

This Crown, of course, is in
Safe keeping with the Crown

before India became a Repub-
lic and the reigning monarch
journeyed to India,
the Imperial Crown
country to be used on appro-

Her Majesty, the Queen, has
indicated that she intends to
return to Canada two years
from now, and possibly at re-

years.
It remains for Canadians to
decide whether

with a distinctive Crown of

opinion on this matter might

ionarchs by a Russian Czar.) > (GY py:

So; it was HAE ee ee COMMO
ROUND

mA Rs

crowned King-Em- |

[of England in the Tower of |33 foot (or less) lots can
that were there to greet their |rondon, It was customary |hardly be termed a step in

to send
to that

late occasions.

Would have worked real hard-

lar intervals in following|#l! round the problem before
nal? Anyone can see the dis-
astrous results of similar per-
mission in years gone by,
right here along some of our
best yiew streets in White
Rock. Very Tecently we suf-
fered a very bad fire which
wiped out several of these
homes which had been crow-
ded onto narrow lots. Had
the wind been in the right di-
rection and blowing with real
force that fire could have

it might not

desirable to provide her

nada.
am

sure atever our
and it is not one that your
mbers of Parliament should
sty, will re-

een of Canada, and indeed

each of thelswept away dozens of houses.
that make up the|Thoe Fire Chief has more than
a re-

once told me that he can
hardly sleep some nights in
the winter when snow ham-
pers driving and a gale is
blowing off the bay. How to}

Sincerely yours,
Geor Hahn, MP.,
New Westminster, B.C.

Halloween New Style?

Sylvia Waltc

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si now, IT don’t know, but|seen
course it may have some-|its close,
ing to do with t¢
|phere of Halloween, y
iow creeping upon us. One la ch
n almost see the territified urge
itione tedth chattering

gla R ove. is h ert
is an interview |#!4Ncing over his shoulder’

jlon,

I

th

th

to

ba
a
th

jdo
year after

Which

‘From ghoulies and Shosties | th y
id leggetty beasties, and|t

ings that go bump in the |int
ght, good Lord a
o goes a quaint old fp
Why it came into my

rolling, fearfully
However, we have come
way from those dark,
perstition-ridden times, at

a nostalgic feeling for
ose witchy days, else why| Ar
we celebrate Halloween, |°!d

year? And I don’t |broo
ink commercial

WE LIKE G HOSTS!

[moor

|_ Take ghost tories for in. \jure up
|stance, why,

tell, the beginnings
are lost in antiquity, |and
Seems that we like to raise | ¢dts
crop of goose

is particular

1—ANl
5—Guy Fawkes Day, 1605
- 11—Remembrance Day

burgh, 1947

Noy. 28—us. Thanksgiving Day
Nov. 30—St. Andrew's Day

. |Nov. 30—Sir Winston Churchill born, 1874

Tides of White Roc’

rendér
st we hope so! But it would their
seem that in mog? of us there

linge

plugging is | for another year.
altogether to blame. [now

every country in |Might in the year, but to have
the world has its own par- }one
HeGlar fund of creepy stories [he

of |°Omplete with Synthetic moon

pimples at |broomstick, is a horse of an.
time of year. /other colour.
'T wonder why? A question for liver

NOVEMBER DATES.

Saints Day (Provincial Holids

- 14—Prince Charles, Duke of Cornw:
- 20—Wedding of Queen Elizabeth

Save the houses standing
cheek by cheek along the}
water front if fire Bets |
started there is what haunts |
im. Yet here we are about to,
epeat mistakes made 40
avhe |Ye@ars ago.

beens |) EVERY SYMPATHY is duc!
— or, |‘ holders of such lots who |

Psychoa
n come
Sting expl:

up wi

to grant building permits to in-
dividuals who had held such
lots for years, and paid taxes
on them, in the expectation
of retiring here some day,

ship on many well-intentioned

people. But did Council 100k | widower when the ceremony

they gave the go-ahead sig-

Halloween, the night of nights,
|When youngsters make them-

And every nimble-bodied lad
Must emulate stunts told by

Marine Drive. Germayde.
. °
NUTHATCH,
Nuthatch running upside

Black and white adorns his
Yank, yafik, yank, his laugh-

Pecking nuts the whole day

LIKED THE STORY I read
the other day in a BBC news 4
Telease. Seems a speaker
talking on British humour
told this: “Remember St.
John Ervine telling the story
of the mourner at a woman's
funeral, who approached the

was over, and said to him,
meaning to be civilly sym-
pathetic; ‘You were married
60 years, John? That's a long
time” ‘Aye, said John, ‘and
do you know I never liked
the woman.”

That's finding out the hard
way,

_ This and That
eee nnn

HALLOWEEN!

selves look fri, ights,

Dad.

down,
crown!

ing song,

nticipate building
he

small

E it
that

m

the chilly ey

nt to pull}

. and
make it ple
air up to the fire, that this | .
e for “spooky” anecdotes |
and we draw on our |
nd help the}
ssed up a
aying
to
to

From tots...

immune
tricks and spells!

GADGET MOON
nd then, it is over, the
witch will not ride her
mstick across the moon
But, stay
vhat was that about a
n? It is one thing to. con-
a witch for a special

permanently

inhabiting
realms

of outer space,

all sort:
beside:

of weird gad.
he conventional

us indeed!

with the “Gift

It's the ideal gift for:
* Birdidays

~ © Christmas
‘all born, 1948 @ Pas.

and Duke of Edin-

k District Rt

nes On them some day. It!Parker a

3s teen-agers

you can’t go wrong

© Losing first tooth

ng Grades
ets
© oF any other special o¢casion.

Open their fund for the f

long!

Jane Johnston

of Thrift”

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