& Serving Whi Panorama Ri Vol. 19. No. 14. Notorious Criminal Arrested By RC.M.P. Near Tara ® ious criminal recent-®——— %p Tel: ay ratonae from Prince Albert Rea * Sita pen ij 3 from |2 book of blank cheques and the Dae a aia Sup- | quantity of cheques from} 5 7 ,|the premises. per Club early Tuesday by Two 1 i z tea | r patrol cars responde: ROMP following an attempted’). “the waterworks call and| jin, break-in of the White Rock Water Works office, He is now in police custody. ‘The arrest came after a rash gave chase to the get-away car which was abandoned In the vicinity of Tara. The arrest was made shortly after Sgt, | sh box from the cijar-}" jiine was rifled from Pe No cig-| merchants and banks througn- out the province had been al- erted regarding Hassell Lros. |the discover- stolen a Players Club Director Franklin Johnson to Speak at Conference ck rere! Clubs Rock Players’ Club ved a letter fr |Firkins. chairman 6 jcommittee for ette m Canadian Legion. ttes were taken, it White 7 Director Franklin Johnson will be guest speaker at the drama | M depart ent of the Pacific | once, Rohich Northwest Recreation Confer-|un +. Rock group ence April 8-10 at Hotel)in; example of a small com Georgia. |munity project.” Mr. Johnson will discuss! Other speakers,will include |C community and rural drama,/Anne Anderson. head of the development of White Rock Players, and community drama | munit: as a recreation. in the morn-}Vancow + os ing session of the Conference, | pet arti: April 8 at the Hudson Bay |son New Westminster teacher Company Salon and instructor in children’s The Players’ Director re- creative dramatics. Ailltep:Youth Centre To Be One Storey Structure Hilltop Youth Centre mem-®————_—_— - bers will proceed immediately |hall. He said the Incorpora- qth the construction of a {tom of White Rock as a city could play an important role single-storey Scout and Guide lin the ayallability of sites. Hall for White Rock with al Ev. Dick favoured a two- viewpoint to building a second |storey building on the ground: hhall in the near future. lit would take care of present Motion for a one-storey|and future Scout and Guide structure a5 an “initial step” |needs in White Rock. was made by Ken Conibear| South Surrey District Com- $nd approved unanimously by |™issioner Max Green said he some 60 members attending’ Would rather see a one-storey the Centre meeting Thursday |Structure ready by September gt Buena Vista Hall. than a double-storey building Graydon Connor, Chairman |*2 about a year. He said the of the Youth Centre, said an |S°ou's and Guides take great additional $4000 would have pride in where they meet, to be raised to complete a two- A motion that part of the Morey hall’ Mandémow amount funds raised for the Youth to just over $1,000. Cepise completion go towards fn, ¥ the rental of additional halls hs Se ea for groups who cannot be ac- ras aibete vatist Was ichade commodated in the new build- to start a second hall, following | fas Geteated: Sie completion of the present It is the duty of the spon- pullding which was recently fT body to pay rent for 3 from the Hal Downey halls and it would be out of property on Marine Drive 1o order to put money aside for fs new site onthe Canadian considerations other than the Nagin (Uxopecty lon Johnston Youth Centre.” Ken Whipple, Rood: Cubmaster of the ist White Cecil Sot teil cout Rock Pack commented, the barn was incorporated as y An appeal is now being made hesli ot BSE tor Services to got the actual its loca! building programme under- ton. satin hhope | way. It was learned all people 2 Nal Laie @onating labour to the Centre ke in ert his be covered by compensa- favouring the | Ma; partment of tae Com- | Recreation Branch in} er, Isobelle King. pu ist, and Mrs. Hester N |drama d a gE j. Av E Carter, Ist chatrman of the building committee, was E BREVITIES lease of a large tract of the Semiahmoo Reserve for Park Municipal Manager Percy Liv- manager met with the Indian | |Agent in New Westminster to igo into the matter of the lease | sioner W.R. Kinsmen Celebrate National Kin V’- Clubs of Canadahas announc-|have been aided by their af- White Rock Weekly te Rock, Sunnyside, Ocean Park, Crescent Beach, dge, Colebrook, Newton, and Surrounding Districts. White Rock B.C., Thursday, April 4th, 1957 Provisional Cou COUNCIL Negotiations concerning "1399 Kerfoot Road, White Rock B.C: March 30, 1957 Rumours supposed to relate to reasons behind the Incor- poration movement in White Rock have brought vigorous denial from Charles M, Defi- eux, Chairman of the Provi- sional Council They were listed in a column es, will likely have to rried on at a higher level, The Editor, Surrey Leader, Cloverdale, B.C. Dear Sir: The crescendo of your “anti- gstone has reported. The results at of break-ins Monday morning land will report on reas ;|Foster said $ Mc ; 4 in which Ronee Date Bek ee rib reed the next Council meeting. ae een a Fae ene ee een in | termine thet dente naa and Branch No. 8 of the Cana) aispla: s were Pie Surrey Leader, Cloverda’s,| ir issue of March 28, 1957, |yor and Aldermen upon a date alan Legion on Johnston Road [few depy ae arugs|_, Telephone poles on North | Mane Me enaliy pepoeeal O00 the column by Stan Mc- |to be decided by the Depart Sigel Brot Lies mere st sen the Sergt. report- Bluff Road, fronting Johnston iResrbO vies ees Lette: fed Kinnon. While the heading of |ment of Municipal Affairs, The George Highway were all |™ st therperst re NaltisionccanniGt be atid: ci on- Mr. eux has of eG | ea puicaaion eicaing | Written ‘a scorching letter to|his column states that his |Provisional Council, two of Sst A. R. Foster of the pty cash register!" 5. p15 not been dedicated | ‘hs and the complete | Views are not necessarily those | whose members were not pre- Rock RCMP said all Beer eeae ard Cone See ete aera ceases ed below by The of the Surrey Leader, never- viously associated actively Byiremrrock RICHIE 82° along the full length of the : theless I must point out that |with the incorporation move= ad, Municipal Manager ercy Livingstone reported to} guments for incorporation have been given scant mention in your news columns .while “A copy has also gone to the Whalley Herald.” stated Mr. | SPH |Defieux to The Sun. “Criticism 7 | + the opposition yiews have al- Both the D: jean be expected In eoehac tiers 4 Ty Ser] most been given the treatment and North public affai added Mr s; 4 ,;of a crusade. You certainly Z0oy Scouts Defieux, “even if we just} F |., |have made no secret of the fact agreeable to a plain citizens gettin, city y fo i] that organized for elected represen- |that the Leader's policy was council that 5 = sen |anti-incorporation even to the he propo: | y on. Some types | , point of describing the incor- Road rather be shrugged | ats poration movement as “village when my character is placed in jeopardy then I will defend myself against anyone it, the Municipal told Council thinking.” anag Lands and In and seek every available 1 | ee of Coun iress n sure my associa veteran journalist I have 41 Couneil feel |fought and will continue to on the Pre G Defieux’s letter of the Surrey nment of \fight for it Citizens’ rescent Beach. (Continued on Page 5) y about it”? r \the Mr | Editor follows: pro’ Home to the} Leader freedom and a license to pub: mour that destroys character. |and perpetuate a variety | unfounded rumours about so: mours involving “hotel deals,” couver retailers, the Credit movement. “Nobody seems to believe that incorporation is a straightfor- ward secession proposal” The movement to incorpor- ate White Rock started appro- ximately 20 years ago. Surely you do not suggest that your suspicious reasoning applies to that length of time and to many public-spirited citizens; some now deceased. The cam- paign fund for the incorpor- ‘ation group for last December’ _ vote totalled just over $70 and was made up of one dollar in- dividual contributions by in- terested citizens, including business men. Our expendit tures were $17 in excess of that sum. amount covered two tising bills and these were met V. B. S. Martin—B. Holland and G. Douglas | The Association of Kinsmen tional and international affairs filiation with their Kinsmen Clubs. The White Rock Club is proud to be a part of this great organization and through their work on fund raising for the fight against Polio and the aid for handicapped children. their work in sponsoring Blood Donor Clinic, their work in sponsoring the White Rock Kinsmen Band and _ their many other activities have ta- ken their place with the thousands of other Kinsmen to help to the best of their abil- ity the community in which they belong. ‘Durlog the colebration (of | PUbUGe maT eee tives. You should National Kinsmen Week the |jowspapermani membership of the Kinsmenjthat you haye Club of White Rock heartily jof White t recommend the ideals of |sofar a5. OS | Kinsmenship to the young the incorpora men of the community and|prese supp would feel it an honour to dis- }amo) ed the second annual National Kinsmen Week will be obser- yed from March 31 to April 6| of this year. Special ceremon- ies and activities in every club from coast to coast, will mark jal event. was started in Ham- ilton in February of 1920, Tho Association now has 309 clubs with a total member- ship well in excess of 10.500. Kinsmen Clubs are to be found in every province from coast to coast. The organization was started to promote and direct fellow- ship among young business and profession men, between the ages of 21 and 40, and also to serve the community in which each club existed: While building the men with- in its own ranks, each Kins- men Club is making a defin- ite place for itself in the community and the Associa- paid to the Leader by me per- sonally on March 22, 195%: That is hardly evidence of ancial backing by highly in- terested and moneyed parties: I am inclined to believe that our i expenditures: were far less than those 0: posing forces who suddenly rose against us after the suo: cessful vote for incorporation: I can assure you that sonally, and none of the by hotel men, le the first honorary lUfe of Hilltop Youth tion of Kinsmen Clubs has|cuss thir plans to anyone in- eee assimed nations) importance, terested in the work of the jties. Many prominent figures in na- local club. i Hits Back At Rumours White Rock” campaign seems Freedom of the Press is yi- tal to our way of life and as a} There is a distinc- |tion, however, between that Hlish unsupported and ugly ru- You take pains to publicize called reasons behind the in- corporation of White Rock; ru- the B.C. Electric. major Van- Social You state ncil followed basic newspaper pro- cedure and made enquiries from all available sources in- cluding myself and others identified with incorporation. Perhaps you forget that the success of incorporatipn can- not guarantee anything to anyone. The electorate will de_ ment, can only set up the ma- chinery of civic government. Further, they cannot be can_ didates for office at the first election. The Council has al- ready publicly stated lt will not attempt to establish pol- icy. I notice a reference in Mr- McKinnon’s column to “behind the doors methods of incorpor- tion.” Surely you haven't for_ gotten that the subject was openly debated at a White Rock Board of Trade sponsor_ ed public meeting, Reeve Nes- bitt and myself were the principal speakers. The Reeve also campaigned against incor_ poration in all parts of Surrey. It is significant that in any level of government higher than municipal, the defeat of the Reeve’s views on incorpor- tion, and on the natural gas issue too, would have led to his resignation on the basis of lack of confidence. I also fail to recall any occasion when the Reeve or any other oppo— nent of incorporation publicly voiced. before the December vote, any of the arguments against its validity which they have fed to the daily and weekly press in such volume in recent weeks. F You will agree that since the December vote and the presentation to the provincial government of the request for the necessary legislation, the supporters es tion, in= e jonal silen tion. f by myself. Part of the $17 was j— fin. |in Penk