bags Vol. XVII. No. 14 Elgin Ratepayers Plan Pre-Election Rally a erere amas In preparation for the April@—— oe F way, Nichol Road; jection for Ward 6 Coun apes Elgin Community and Ratepayers’ Association meet- {ng in the Higin Hall on Tucs- day night. planned a monster ralty to be held on April 12 Place of the rally with be the Elgin Hall and time is § p.m All candidates for the council eeat deft vacant when Council- Sor R. Miller resigned a month ‘ago are expected to be present and address the meeting. President Norman Cryer, Mud Bay Road, was in the chair. Following the meeting elections were hold with Percy Oke, Archibaid Road in charge. Of- ficers elected were: Norman Hadden, Mud Bay Road, Pres!~ Gent; Wm. Heath. Rankin Rd, secretary; Ralph Wint Rankin Road, treasurer. Directors arc ite R Ss ide, Ocean Park, Crescent White Rock, Sunnyside, oer Sirroue diay Daewis) Serving W. Lewis. Crescent Road. Oil Drillers Reach Marine Sediment Oil drillers and geologists with the Key Gas and Oil Company are well pleased with drilling results, A. R. Reusch, company director. has announced. Mar- line sediment strata is being encountered where the well 1s boing sunk near Abbotsford air port. Latest report is that the drill is bringing up materials never before found in the area. Upon request of geologists no further information {is deing given out on depths reached, Mr. Reusch said. Last report was 2700 feet. Ken Thompson New Municipal Solicitor Succeeding Judge G. W. Bruce Fraser, A. K. (Ken) Thompson, | Sl. was recently appointed municipal solicitor by Council ‘His appointment took effect on April 1. Formerly a member of the Vancouver legal firm, Ellis. Dryer and McTag: gart. Mr. Thompson opened his own office in Vancouver in May. 195. He had maintained a| branch office in White Rock since 1951. A 1949 graduate ‘of the University of British Col umbia, the new municipal solici~ tor holds the degree of LLB. He is unmarried and is a member of the White Rock Rotary Club. Judge Fraser's private practicr with office in the Medical-Legal Building. Vidal Street. has also been taken over by the young | solicitor, | COMING Surrey || t/in the Silver Moon prom White Rock, B. 50,000 Copies Issued— New Phone Directory Tho now Fraser Valley tele- phone directory, which became effective April 2. 4s the largest yet Bome 50,000 copies have been issued; 16000 more than last year and nearly double the number Issued in 1953. Eight editions of the directory were produced. seven with dif- Yellow Pages sections and one a white-only editfon. the general edition for the Val- ley. Those areas with scoparate Yellow Pages sections are Ab botsford, Chilliwack, Cloverdale. ferent changes have taken place the! Everything For Sale In April 14th s 8 yet rful afternoon for hoppers when the other won y will hold its Spring Fair. Mr. C. L. Barker President of the Hospital will officially open this annual event Admission cents in previou: there will b door pri tea will be served Mra. RG. who is in charge of the floor plans for the Fair, reports that there will be in aM, 31 booths and dis EMIAN White Rock Weekly ent Beach, Panorama Haney, Ladner. Langley and Mission The directory will bring all Jnew subscribers and number changes up to da ecial note should be taken of the Abbots- | Jrord, Haney and Chilliwack listings. as large-scale number Board Pres. Mr. €.L. Barker To Open Hosp. Country Fair 1956 ‘Mail Slot Drive Started by Jaycees A drive to increase the per- centage of, letter slots and re- looptacles in tho area to be lsorved by the proposed letter carrier system got underway liast Saturday. Sponsored by the focal Junior Chamber of Com= |merce. the canvass began on Ridge, Colebrook Bennett’s Tax Complaints Rapped = Senator Reid Says B.C. “Treated Fairly” By/Ottawa The Province of British Col-’ id Wash~ Nain of i) } Victoria, Columbia ani ‘asl umbia has little to complain Steelhead Lodge ington Avenue. Jassist White Rock residents to got their letter slots installed and speed up the plan to have letter carrier delivery for the town. Names and addresses of resi- dents desiring to install the re- ceptacles or slots are being ob- tained by the canvassers who will see that the necessary arti- cles are delivered to the door. Installation services will also be arranged by the local club. It is planned to cover the whole of the more thickly~ populated area as soon as pos sible. Stalls will be a stall y favours, a kit chen stall s y articles for use in the Kitchen. a ple | all featu all 8 of pies. | choco! cake stall. a Farm ers’ kh several delicatessen les, includ y ham Hs selling neous na~ Among the al displays planned will be one rranged | by the Boy Scouts and one by the Civil Defence group. | EVENTS| Sliver Moon Roller Rink, | White Reck Public Skating— | every Wednesday. 8—10.20; Sat-| urday, 8—2r; Saturday after-| moon, 2—4. Free instruction to| children under 13 years. Dance every Saturday nite at Canadian Legion Hall to Fred Binning and his Melody Trio, 9 pm. Admission just 5c. tfn eee A Daffodil Tea willbe held by the Presbyterian Women’s Aux- | gary In the Presbyterian Church On Wednesday, April 11 from 230 to 4.30 pm. Ito Peace Arch Rebekah Lodge, No. 68. are holding their Spring Daffodil Tea, Saturday, April 7, in the Banquet Room Silver | General meeting of the White Rock Ratepayers’ Association will be held at the Legion Hall at 8 p.m. Friday, April 13, Suit- avie films will be shown after | meeting. 18 soe A meeting of the White Rock Branch of the B.C. Historical Society will be held {n the Lib- Miry on Monday. April 9 at 8 p.m. l4e Home cooking sale under the jauspices of the White Rock Old |Age Pensioners, Thursday, April 112 from 1 to 3 p.m. in the for- jmer Sweet Sho p on Washing ton Avenue next to Army and Navy. Tho Moon Sale of home cooking. | aprons. Everyone welcome. Ad- tlasin 35¢. Door prize. 14p vee | Annual Festival of Music by | White Rock Choral Society. Vocal afd instrumental selec~ tions, Friday, April 6.3 p.m. at United Church. Admission by ticket only, Adulta Sc. child~ ren 2c. tte "es ‘ Annual Spring Fair, White Rock District Hospital wo- then's Auxillary. Saturday, April 14th, Silver Moon. 2 pm. 140 eee A Bale of Home-Cooking will be held at Teddy Bear Toxgery next to Super-Valu at 7 pin, | Building de Priday, April @ in ald of Scout | Fund. é Soroptimists Rummago Sale. tunday, April 28 at 10 am.. |White Rock Hotel. Lic Daughters of Aughrim LOBA jApnual Turkey Dinner, Friday. jApHt 13. Basement Masonic ticket only). $1.25, For tickets. Phone Secretary, W.R, 53269, lip White Rock Art and’ Craft League rogular monthly mest jing, Wednesday, April 11. 8 p.m, jin the Library, Sponker Neil | \Carinon. District representative {National Film Board Topic. “Discussion Techniques using port films. Any one interested welcome, le i fo see General Meeting of the White Rock Marine Holdings’ and tho Pier. Progress, roport aise port and elec Hall at 6.20 p.m. Admission (by | 5 CONQUERING try, these heay; BO, Electric's Hero banks of the Salmon River, cent of the J orating, bosoment into a a of daffodils jProceed it would have elimin- ated development of the river for B.C. Geto jdents. Delta. Tom ‘Robertso: phore was evident at the P.TA. Family Fair last Thursday, spite of inclomont weather a wood turn-out resulted in ove! $200 for the many PyT.AL pro- |. In the matter of Dominion-Pro— fact, the best financia] arrange- ment with Ottawa of any prov— ince in Canada. This was the opinion expressed by Senator T. Reid, addressing the annual meeting of the New Weatmin~ ster Lsberal Association Cloverdale last Thursday night. Last year B.C. received $355 millions from the Federal gov— ernment. Mr. Reid said. “Despite wha Fremier Ben- nett says, this province Is better off than any.” said Mr, Reid. “If he thinks he can do any better he can go and collect his own taxes.” Other highlights of Senator Reld’s address were: Bennett's debt reduction was ‘just a manipulation of figures in hidden in the PGE. toll bridge authority and other crown bodies.” The speaker declared It was his intention to urge the Fed- eral Government to allow mort~ gage. loans. as well on older homes.. Increased. loans. for home building were also fore- cast by the speaker who said the Federal government is in- stituting a move to assist the municipalities on slum clear- ance. the Columbia Provincial government had al- jlowed the Kaiser dam project to “As it looks now.” he sald, de Fraser Valley. which is only 300 ate the necessity of a dam on the Fraser River for the next 25 years.” | onveurn During this 25-year period. the Senator held out hope some | mgthod might be found to raise | fingerlings over a dam safely. eee Officers elected were: Hon. Presidents, Rt, Hon. Louls St Laurent, Senator Tom Reid and Arthur Laing, MIA; Presi- dent. Alvin Fast, Langley; sec— retary-treasurer, Sam Dixon, Crescent Beach. Vice-Presi- “the Columbia River might be} tloped to benefit the Lower The Sockeye Story” ("The | Idea behind the canvass is to|i.cia1 relations and has. in Central Feature Of New Shop A very realistic log cabin, with a copper legend. “Steel- head Lodge” over the aoor. is the centre of the decor theme worked out in Washington Avenue’s newest shop — the White Hock Sporting Goods. Situated .at 15073 Washington Avenue, next to Thrift Realty. the store will be managed by J. Anderson, well-known form= er hardware merchant of New Westminster. Officially opened for business on April 3 the new shop will specialize in all kinds of sport- ing goods, fishing tackle, golf, tennis. badminton and archery necessities as well as outboard motors and guns for the shoot- ing season, RESIDED HERE Mr, Anderson, at one time the owner of the Westminster Hard— ware on Begbie Street in the Royal City is well-known in White Rock where he has Hyed for the past 15 years. He has. in fact. known this resort for 27 years and far some time com- muted to his work in New Westminster before his retire- ment three: years ago. Mr. Anderson says his hobbies are fishing—in fact everything connected with marine life At least 65 per cent of the business done by bis former store in the Royal City was marine, he says. The Andersons, who live on; Columbia Avenue. have a daugh- |ter, Mra. G. McCallum, and a son. Irvine Anderson, a dental technician in New Westminster. miles away, and would elimin-| Seen By Rotarians Senator Tom Reld was the guest speaker at the Tuesday Rotary luncheon. A colour film. Sockeye Story,” was shown by the speaker to fllus— trate his talk. Visitors from Wancouver and New Westminster were wel- comed by Yice-President Vio ~ McPherson, d President Martin I, Deacon — leaves next week for Toronto on an extended business and holiday trip. . « ¥ a ir tarinns and Rotary Anns Surrey, J, R. Archibald; New Westminster. Hugh MoGwern. First Puppet Show Huge Success PTA. Fair Clears A remarkably happy atmos-@ In a: jects, The splondid job of dec transforming: | attend the On-to-Seattle Convention this, weekend. we