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Pro-Reec Centres | Boost Attendance

With 1500 new enrollments

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total registration in BC’s Pro-Ree Centers jumped to 24,591 members, according to a statement issued this week by Ian

Eisenhardt, provincial director.

CENTRES PLAN TOURNAMENTS

First of the several annual Pro- Ree championships to be held this Spring is the table tennis tourna- ment scheduled for Vancouver

Wormal School gym on February 24 and 25.

This mixed event will be _ fol- lowed by a cross-country running and walking race through the city’s Stanley Park on March 25.

Other forthcoming contests, ar- ranged by Director Bisenhardt’s staff, include:

Boxing and wrestling champion- ships, March 17 and 18; provincial fymnastic championships, Vancou- ver auditorium, April 21; national gymnastic championships, Van- eouver auditorium, April 22; an- nual weightlifting championships,

April 25.

This increase is considered all the more notable in view of the extended period of inactivity over the recent holiday period.

The total, Director Eisenhardt explained, includes the summer membership for 1938, but does not account for the 2082 Junior mem- bers who also come under the sup- ervision of the Pro-Rec gymnastic instructors and whose inclusion would boost the present Centers’ “family” to 26,663—‘‘young adults of all ages.”

These fisures are without paral-— Jel in CGanada’s public physical re- creation j&ograms, Mr. Hisenhardt reported after attending the Na-

tional Youth Training Conference in Ottawa this month. The nearest is <Alberta’s 7000

Gommunity Center members who are being given a winter’s pro- fram patterned closely on BC's Symnastic activities.

BLATRMORE, Alita. — Over 500 miners at the Crows West Pass coal mine decided to continue their strike, United Mine Workers of America officials stated.

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February 8.

This play, which won the Pulit- zer Prize, is both exciting and amusing, has provoked controyv- ersy wherever it has been present- ed and has just closed in London after a run of two years.

In “Idiots Delight” Sherwood raises his voice against the sense- lessness, brutality and futility of war, and particularly against the provocativeness of fascist policy. It is not 2a propaganda play in the or- dinary sense, however, for what ever persuasion the author exerts on the audience is achieved through skilful manipulation of

oS of laughter as a counterpoint.

Something of the intensity of the days just preceding Munich is felt throughout the play, which in its analysis is just as timely as if it had been written last week.

it is interesting to note that dur— ing the crisis in Great Britain last fall the British censors forced withdrawal of the play, the the- ater remaining dark until Cham- berlain returned from Munich.

Garfield King heads an excep- tionally strong cast which assures an outstanding production. vations may be made at the J. W.

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SHERE, BC, Heb. 2—Keen in- terest in the boycott movement and its progress motivated mer- chants in neighboring Dunster to leave Japanese oranges. strictly alone and sell oniy the California grown fruit.

Two volunteers to Spain from this community are expected home next week and arrangements have been made to hold a dance in their honor in the Dunster Community hall. Another feature of the dance will be a drawing for a beautifui hand-made tray, made by Dave Gustavson.

Proceeds from this drawing are to bed iveded between the Mac- Paps and the Spanish republican government. The last dance for the Mac-Paps realized $5.42, which was sent in.

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Planting of 1000 rose bushes in selected areas in the city were en- dorsed by the Parks Board at its last meeting.

Rinks would be built near Kit- Silano High School, near Forty-— first and West Boulevard, and on Kingsway near Twelfth Avenue. Hstimated cost of these projects is 3180,000 and may be borrowed from the federal government as 4a self liquidating scheme.

With Hastings Forum and the proposed rinks providing winter recreational centres, Commissioner MacDonald believes it would be an incentive for junior hockey leagues to operate.

Converting of Prospect Point, former signal station, into a beauty spot and lookout place with the possibility of having a tearoom es- tablished there as revenue-pro- ducer, were taken inte considera- tion by the board.

Preservation and improvement of the trees in Stanley Park will be undertaken as a permanent policy at a cost of $5000, which the board deems sufficient to carry on the work each year. Appointment of a forestry expert and tree surgeon to aid in the work is being considered.

Windermere Community Associa- tion and Windermere Ratepayers’ Association representatives, to- gether with Harold Winch, MLA, and H. Gargrave for the CCE ap- peared at the meeting demanding that the board lift its ban on po-

litical meetings in Windermere Community hall, which it admin- isters.

The matter was tabled after

a lengthy discussion until the next meeting and in the meantime some efforts will be made at a concilia- tion between the board “and the Windermere organizations.

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Dr. Richard Sandler, Sweden’s minister of foreign affairs, who will be nominated head of the League of Nations at its next meeting in Geneva. Recently he protested Nazi pressure on Swed- ish concerns for dismissal of Jews.

In Vancouver

News Of The City in Brief

Winners of a drawing held by Victory Square Club were: first prize “Irish Colleen,’ won by G. Bass, 50 a East Hastings; second prize “Kangaroo,” won by Mr. Scheider, Dunsmuir street.

Donations to the Emergency Fund of the Mac-Paps this week totalled $129.95 and brings the grand total to $675.23 since the first of the year. Donors are: Butcher Workers and Meat Cutters Io. 94, $2412; Communist Party $31.41; Mrs. G. Hi. Rottluff, Matsqui, $11.60; Mrs. Bessie Steel, $10; Mrs. Florrie Hayes, $9.35; Dollarton, $7.45; ©. H. Bruning, Shere, $5.42; Finnish Women’s Club, $5; Decla Hieta, Nanaimo, $3.89; Mrs. Dor- othy Berry, $3.70; Serbian V/vorkers Glub, $3.55; Mrs. D. K Banning, $2.96; Verna Carlyle, mainster, $2; He Richards and P. Rost, $2; Mrs. Cattel, J. Riis, Stan- ley Varehol, Henry Judd, Central Burnaby WiLL and two friends each $1 and Mildred Dougan, 50 cents.

JOBLESS WANT RELIEF RIGHTS

NWANIMO, BC, Feb. 2.—Relief of- fiicals are making a rigid check-up on all the activities of the men in the labor movement ever since the picket line on the scrap iron com- menced. Warnings have been is- sued that any “‘slackness” in at tending to work will be rigidly dealt with.

Unemployed here have never ben forced to work in the snow or rain, but now this rule is being ‘seriously threatened. The NDWU obtained this concession from the public works department in 1937 with the agreement that men trans— ported to and from work would be provided with covers for the trucks.

This latter rule has been adhered to generally but on exception is be- ing made by the road foreman in the Worthfield area. After com- plaints were made by the organiza- tion, Mr. Bigwood, road engineer, replied that the matter would be attended to satisfactorily.

Wow the relief administrator has seen fit to abrogate this by stating that men who refused to ride in the open trucks would be docked for the days they do not comply. Con- ditions are left to the road foreman to make.

The NDWU is beginning to func- tion again and will strive for the conditions it won through struggle previously.

San Carlie Coming

Bizet’s Carmen inaugurates the San Carlo Opera Season at the Strand Theatre Wednesday evening February 15. There will be six per— formances including a matinee on Priday and Saturday.

Coe Glad, who was a leading singer at the Chicago Opera for eight years, will be heard in the title role of Bizet’s opera.

in the repertory, offered for all tastes, two novelties Stand conspic-— ucusly on the list, “Tua Tosca” and “Tannhauser.”’ Fortune Gallo’s es- tablished custom to give a perform- ance in English this year will be “Martha,” a wise choice for a trans— lated version for Flotov’s work is based on an English story.

Fortune Gallo’s “discovery” this year is Ivan Petroff, a Bulgarian. Petroff played the title role of Rigoletto in New York and the sen- sation created proclaimed him a2 Gallo “find.”

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