The Chilliwack Progress from Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada • Page 1

ft The first military funeral held here In many years was accorded William G. Littlewood, 46, former sergeant major of Company, Westminster Regiment, M.G., who died at the home of his sister, Mrs. L. Stott, 200 MacDonald road, Friday. At services held from St.

Thomas church Monday afternoon, 32 men and officers of Company, wew Westminster, played a prominent part. The group, including two representatives of the sergeants' mess of the battalion, preceded the hearse to the church, where Capt. Rev. H. P.

Barrett took the service. Major C. Grossman, former commanding officer of the company with which the deceased was as sociated, played the organ, ana a irpliced choir was in aiienaance. At the conclusion of the burial vice at the Anglican cemetery, firing party of 12 members of comoanv under Sgt. Miller ed three volleys and the bugler anded the Last Post and Reveille.

Pallbearers were T. George, R. reet, F. Lewis, W. C.

Hendy, E. Peter and J. Elliott. The deceased enlisted with the nperial Volunteers in England in )14. He came to Chilllwack in 020, joined Company and was tin active member until the com lany left for New Westminster for a aining in January.

He was a member of the Cana. dian Legion and for many years one of the leading badminton players of the community. Deceased was born in Lancashire, and is survived by two sisters, Mrs. L. K.

Stott of this and a Bister in Philadelphia. The escort was comprised of MajrP F' Capt tKaEfrt man, Llcui, i P. Abbot, I Fountain. Sgt. Hlgginson, Sgt.

Mc lNabb, Sgt. Eaton and Sgt. Franks. Representatives from the ser eants' mess were P.S.M. Howell and Sgt.

Bailey. Pte. Laldlaw was the bugler. The firing party from Company was Sgt. Miller, Cpl.

iieltz L. Cpl. Ballam, L. Cpl. Sel bee L.

Cpl. Playle, L. Cpl. Wellington L. Cnl.

Downing, Pte. West Pte. Moore, Pte. McConnell, Pte. Guthrie, Pte.

Wiggin, Pte. Edmonds and Pte. Kipp. Business Trend Up The Dominion bureau of statistics has reported its economic index indicating trend of business conditions in Canada rose to 103.5 in the week ended April 6 from 101.6 the previous week and 102.9 in the same week last year. As In previous works of this I nature the city will pay one third of the cost and properties abutting on the work one third each, with the exception of Spadina from Mary to Corbould streets where there will be two 14 foot roadways.

On this stretch it is proposed that the city pay 40 per cent and the properties 30 per cent each. All property owners concerned will be supplied with complete details for the cost per foot frontage, terms of payment, character of pavement, etc, The streets selected were two of a number brought forward by Aid. Eyres, chairman of public works. The council was not prepared to enter into a larger program of street Improvement this year, as it is desirable that the tax rate be not greatly increased. It was felt, however, that the city might undertake to surface a couple of streets each year without an undue increase in tax levy.

A complaint was heard from resident licensed plumbers that much work of this type is being done in the city by unlicensed workmen who are not master plumbers, and that the work is much below the standard required by health and sanitary regulations. It was decided to investigate the procedure necessary to establish a standard of workmanship, inspection and fees to be charged. City tax sale property at the south west corner of Edwards and Hodgins will be sub divided Into six lots. An offer of $60 for one of the lots, made by C. A.

Gauthier, was accepted, provided the proportion of this year's tax levy is paid. Offers to rent several parcels of tax sale property were accepted subject to the usual restrictions. The Soroptimlst club was granted the privilege of conducting a rummage sale, without taking out a license, provided the sale was confined to used articles. Takes New Post at Bank of Montreal E. L.

Hodson from the Broadway and Main branch of the Bank of Montreal, Vancouver, has arrived to replace A. W. Jack who leaves Saturday to take over man agement of the Powell River bank. Salvation Army Drive Hears $800 The Red Shield campaign of the Salvation Army is nearlng a total of $800. An effort is being made to finalize all the Chilllwack districts as soon as possible.

The final total will be announced In The Progress. Alderman J. B. Dennis, chairman, R. O.

Fisher, treasurer, and committee members have been impressed with the readiness of the response on the part of supporters of the Army's work both at home and among the Canadian troops. Letters being received from the first and second contingents in England express many remarks of appreciation of the Army's services among the troops. Many of the men spend their evenings in the Army's service centers enjoying the various helpful facilities provided for them. These services have been carefully planned to accompany troops at home, in Eng land, and to any sphere of further service. Anyone not called upon as yet is invited to leave their donation with R.

O. Fisher or at the Home Makers office where the donation will be acknowledged with a re ceipt. Police at Hope report the recovery of three pay cheques and a pair of Jants allegedly stolen from J. A. Lanstrom, Hope, early Monday morning.

According to Lanstrom, he awoke bttwecn 1 and 2 a.m. Monday and saw a man's figure passing his lleeplng quarters. Subsequent Investigation revealed that his pant on which he had teen sleeping, had been stolen, along with three pay cheques, a flashlight and $50 in cash. The $50 in cash and the thief are still missltg, Constable Bell, Agassiz, who recently returned from leave, is relieving Coistable L. Miller of the city detaclment while the latter is on two vceks' vacation.

Plans All Set For Mutt Show There'll be little dogs and big dogs, dirty dogs and clean dogs; i with an ancestry record A Sow girls would rather stay single, but others would rather knot. i A woman doesn't worry half as much over being two faced as about being double ckhrned. FIFTIETH YEAR, Vol, No. 1 CHILLIWACK, B. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1940 TEN PAGES $2.00 PER YEAR F.V.M.P.A.

Milk Price Slumps Production Shows Big Increase Due to Early Season Members of Fraaer Valley Milk Producers' association will receive 40 cents a pound butterfat gross as settling rate for the month. The price Is down two cents from February and altogether, is four cents below the winter price. Thirty five cents a pound gross Is being paid for butterfat and 20 cents for skim. A spokesman for the association said that the cutting off of Denmark as a source of supply of dairy products to Great Britain would probably have a stiffening effect on Canadian butter prices. The British market has also been good for cheese, he Btated.

The price, as local dairymen figure It, Is 35 cents net here. The February net was 38 cents. The new price' showed itself in Monday's milk cheque for March. Offsetting the slump in, butterfat prices to some extent will be Increased production. With almost all the herds in the district now out for the summer on grass, some dairymen report that their production has gone up as high as 25 per cent recently.

Indicative of heavier production are milk receipts at the Utility plant of the F.V.M.P.A. at Sardis, where yesterday's total was 270,000 pounds of milk, compared with 177,000 pounds on the same day last year. The season, according to the plant's records, is approximately 10 days ahead of last year. The peak of 1939 production wag reached around May 24. In addition, the Borden's South Sumas plant is handling about 30,000 pounds.

Whey shipments to Lynden have been going on for six weeks and will continue for some time. Crops are well ahead of last year. Considerable plowing is still going on, while seeding is fairly gereral. Last year's seeding came through the winter well, and a Dominion government official said after a tour through the valley this week that tree fruit prospects appeared to be excellent. MiSitarv Rites in i i til' A ini I IttlAUFAAH rui vr.

Liiucnuuu Popular Former y4 Sergeant Major of ill Company Dies Surfacing of Spadina Ave. And Williams Road Proposed Council to Submit Proposal to Property Owners Affected; Plumbers Complain That Much Work Done in City is Below Standard Requirements THE city council on Monday night decided to take the initiative in promoting the asphaltic surfacing of Spadina avenue from Yale road to Corbould street, and Williams road from First avenue to Hope river, as local improvement undertakings. Thief Takes C.Q.M.S. Stewart, Sgt. longer than the parade; snooty dogs and chummy dogs; dogs with curly hair and liquid eyes; dogs with snarly lips and fierce mien; dogs which are pets, and perhaps pests; dogs that never before knew the pleasure of a Satd'y bath, and dogs which except dur ing the hunting season never get a kind word from their masters.

Indeed If any dog is not in the dog parade Saturday it'll be be. cause some little boy or girl over looked him when making an at tempt to find some sort of a mutt to enter in the Mutt show. It all starts at 10:30 at Central school grounds. The dog show we mean. There'll be nearly as many prizes as there are dogs.

The prizes are on display at Andrew's Meat Market this week. There will be prizes for dogs who can do tricks, dogs who are fat, dogs who are lean, dogs who are long legged, and dogs who are short legged. There'll even be prizes for dogs who are just dawgawn dawgs. And all these dogs, tethered to or with their masters or mistresses, however temporary, will parade from the school grounds to the lacrosse park. The Chilliwdck Junior band will lead the parade.

In addition to the prizes which Swift Canadian Co. Ltd. is offering, the Brackman Ker Milling Co. Ltd. is chipping in with a half dozen additional prizes which will be drawn for.

The head man In all this show is Bill Price, local representative of the packing house. He'll have Dr. M. H. Milton and H.

M. Field of the S. P. C. A.

along to help him judge and run the show as well as other officials of the packing company. Any boy or girl can enter and forms for entering are obtainable at Cawley Cash Grocery, An drew's Meat Market, Valley Meat Market, Campbell's Meat Market, Totem Stores David Spencer Safeway Stores Quality Market, Overwaitea Archibald's Red White Store, Rose dale, and Chilllwack Meat Supply, Sardis. No dog will go hungry, for the sponsors will provide each entrant with a can of Pard dog food. It should be a dawgawn good show. McGasinj Fund Rev.

R. A. Redman has acknowledged receipt of $5 from a friend, making total contributions to the McGlashing fund $306.50 CT.A. Records Show Increases Local Association Bears Comparison With Prov. Average The average production of cows In the Chilliwack Cow Testing association has been boosted 526 pounds of milk, 84 pounds of fat and .34 In test between the period 1913, when the association was organized, to the present day, it was revealed by G.

H. Thornbery, dairy branch, provincial department of agriculture, at the annual cow testers conference here Monday and Tuesday. The statement was one of the highlights of a speech given by the department official Monday night. Seventeen associations were represented. Mr.

Thornbery said that there were 8176 cows on test in C. T. associations in B. with an average of 480 cows in each associa tion. The provincial average is 8100 pounds of milk and 362 pounds of fat, compared with Chilliwack association's average 8082 pounds of milk and 362 pounds of fat.

FOUNDED IN 1913 the local association, founded in 1913, is the oldest in B. Mr. Thornbery presented production records indicating the progress made since its inception. Milk Fat Test 1914 6706 278 4.14 1915 7152 298 4.15 1916 7693 314 4.08 1917 7482 303 4.05 1918 6488 267 4.11 1919 6612 282 4.26 1920 6861 314 4.43 1921 6917 316 4.56 1922 7332 321 4.38 1923 6882 286 4.16 1924 6970 297 4.26 1925 6900 297 4.30 1926 7202 287 4.00 1927 7237 308 4.26 "928 7372 313 4.24 x29 7479 322 4.31 1930 7528 326 4.33 1931 7975 346 4.34 1932 7961 345 4.33 1933 7355 330 4.48 1934 7186 321 4.47 1935 7353 331 4.f.0 1936 7556 338 4.17 1937 7487 336 4.48 1938 7906 356 4.50 1939 8082 362 4.48 Dr. W.

R. Gunn, livestock commissioner, gave a very interesting address on diseases of dairy cattle. Independents Name Officers Officers for 1940 were elected at the annual meeting of the Independent Milk Producers' Co operative association held at Langley Prairie yesterday. They are: president, Basil Gardom, Dewdney; vice president, Tom H. McDonald, Chilliwack; directors, Charles H.

Evans, Chilliwack; M. B. McDer mid, Lulu Island; Hugh Reynolds, Ladner. It was reported that from receipts in the past five years $2, 058,865 net had been paid to members at an average price of 42.93 cents a pound butterfat, Vancouver. Expenses for the five years came to $64,572.

Red Cross Arranges Mew Work Program Mrs. Allan Attends Central Council Meet In Ottawa This Week When heads of Red Cross auxiliaries, sewing groups and workers met Saturday afternoon at Red Cross headquarters with those who have been assisting at headquarters, it was decided to arrange the work program so that the work rooms would be closed all day Wednesday and Saturday. Adequate reserves of certain supplies are on hand and the new hours enable those who work regularly to have a little time at home during the busy spring season. The rooms will be open Monday afternoon when surgical dressings will be made. All day Tuesday and Thursday will be devoted to cutting out garments and receiving work.

Friday afternoon sewing will be cone. A letter was read from G. C. Derby, president of the B. C.

division of the Red Cross society, which said in part: "We have passed through the initial organization period and despite many difficulties and some mistakes, the British Columbia division of the society has done its share of the national work. We have set as our objective two things, first, quality of workmanship, and second, economy of operation, and in this we have been supported most loyally by all our branches. Any difficul ties that have been encountered have been, comparatively speaking, minor in character and importance, and we are now in a very strong and fully organized position, willing and able to do anything that may be asked of us in the months to come. "National headquarters has issued instructions to cease the production of a number of items that have been produced in such large quantities that the society has adequate reserves in stock, and the chairman of the provincial work committee will shortly issue a bulletin giving you a full list and particulars of the articles no longer required, and those that we to continue producing. "To date we have done all that has been asked of us, and with your continued support and understanding, I arj confident that we, in British Columbia, will be able to meet any demands the future may bring forth." Mrs.

W. J. Allan, C.B.E., president of the local branch, left by plane Sunday for Ottawa where she ia attending a three day conference of the Central council of which she is a representative. The conference commenced yesterday and is continuing today and tomorrow. Prior to returning home Mrs.

Allan will visit for a few days in Montreal. Grand Master Visits Two f.O.O.F. Groups Alderman J. B. Dennis, grand master of the I.

O. O. F. in British Columbia, left yesterday to pay an official visit to the lodge at Golden tonight. Thursday night Mr.

Dennis will participate in ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the order at Revel Local Hospital Board May Receive Additional Financial Assistance From Government Delegation Makes Request for Extra Grant of Receive Promise That Grant of 25 Per Cent of Amount Will Be Considered; Method Of Electing Hospital Board is Reviewed WHILE Hon. Dr. Weir, minister of education and provincial secretary, would not make a definite commitment, it is anticipated that the provincial government, through Dr. Weir's department, will make a grant amounting to at least twenty five per cent of the $15,000 required to complete necessary furnishing of Chilliwack new hospital. PermitsforTwelve New Homes Investment in new construction in the city so far this season does not run into large figures, according to permits taken out at the City hall, but the even dozen indicates a steady growth.

The permits total some $16,000 and each is for a home. Several additional new homes are in prospect and the building season now approaching should witness considerable activity. Permits so far taken out are: Herbert Young, dwelling, Lewis avenue, $1500. H. D.

Morgan, dwelling, Princess avenue west, $1500. D. S. MacNeil, dwelling, Gore avenue, $4000. John W.

Else, dwelling, Woodbine avenue, $1500. Margaret Bowman, dwelling, Bonny avenue, $800. Herbert Young, dwelling, Lewis avenue, $500. Mrs. J.

R. McDermid, dwelling, School street, $1000. Rudolph and Annie Adams, dwelling, Broadway street, $500. John T. Henley, dwelling, College street, $1200.

A 1 Peterson, dwelling, Yale road east, $2500. Nick Woisylyszyn, dwelling, Broadway, $200. A. M. Gauthier, dwelling, Hodgins and Edwards, $1000.

Sixty Women In Motor Class Twenty two of the 60 women enrolled in the Women's Auxiliary Motor service will commence classes this evening at Cherry Motors garage. A meeting attended by 46 women was held Monday night to decide on nights for the weekly classes. Classes will be held this week tonight and Friday, but commencing next week classes will meet Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The course which takes eight weeks to complete covers the following subjects: starting mechanism, care of engine, cooling, electrical and fuel system, transmission, clutch, chassis lubrication, brakes, wheels, tires and correct driving of the car. SCHOOL AGRICULTURE MOVES TO VALLEY FARMS Students Apply Classroom Knowledge to Actual Operation of Own Projects Agriculture, as it is taught in the junior senior high school, is moving out to the proving ground the proving ground which is the soil of the Chilliwack Valley, First material results in the "new deal" that is Intended to make Chilliwack boys better equipped to tackle the job of farming, are just now becoming apparent.

It is apparent in the plots and chicken houses and hog pens in Rosedale, Atchelitz, Sardis, East Chilliwack and Fairfield Island. Sixteen of the 900 odd students attending the school are partici cniflcant of ixn at the school: It is significant because it is designed to meet the needs of the prospective primary producer In this particular area. It proposes to give him a thorough grounding in farming practises and finance. It is different from any other agricultural course in British Columbia, and in many respects it differs from any agricultural course In Canada. If the experiment succeeds it will probably be a model after which courses in other parts of the province will be patterned.

If it is not successful it will not be because of lack of thought and application. It will go down as a trial, an attempt to make agricultural Instruction do what it should do make life on the farm a bit easier and more profitable. Thursday afternoon a representative of The Progress, along with 45 prospective dairymen, poultry men and seed growers, paid a visit to the home projects on which the students are applying what they learn in school. Here was a boy who was raising broilers, there was one who was raising hatching eggs; this other fellow is expecting a litter from his 6ow soon; another surveys his sod field and visions a field of registered barley; here is a chap who expects to raise funds by breeding fur bearing animals. And so it goes almost all of them farmers' sons, all eager and all, apparently, interested.

As we came to each project, the proprietor described what he had done. 'fftcrtT much it had cost, what fer tilizer he proposed to use. When his fellow students asked him questions, he knew the answers. The tour started in the morning, with Les Davis, Kitchen road, showing his double barrelled project first. He is raising 100 New Hampshire chicks and three acres of Thatcher wheat.

Then over to Leonard Norris' place on Camp River road for a look at his 100 White Leghorn week old chicks and his home made brooder which uses electric light bulbs for heat. Gerald Edmondson's six month old Yorkshire brood sow and Don Ma guire's brood sow were also inspected. At the latter farm the boys noted a home made colony house with a hinged roof and side to permit plenty of air to get into the house. Keith MacFarlane has rented 6.6 acres of land in East Chilliwack on which he expects to grow regis tered Regal barley. Fred Berg, corner of Annis road and Chilliwack Central, displayed his two brood sows, both due to farrow in a month.

Bill Gillespie, Patterson road, has two brood sows which two weeks ago gave birth to 19 offspring. No losses had occurred up to the time the party inspected the hogs. Arnold Odell, Yale road, showed his 125 Leghorn pullets. His home made brooder uses kerosene lamps for heat. An interesting experiment is being carried on by Jim O'Rourke, who lives in the city.

He borrowed Cambars, which are a cross of Campines and Barred Rocks. He crossed the Cambars on Barred Rocks and Rhode Island Reds. He has 60 Cambar Reds and 30 Cam bar Rocks. The virtue of these two crosses is that they are early maturing and feathering. He also has a number of Leghorn pullets.

The crosses he hopes to sell as broilers, and the cash from the broilers he will use to finance pullets. He uses a three burner coal oil stove as the source of his heat in one home made burner. A pickle Jar is used to hold the kerosene and a home made valve on the jar completes the outfit. At George Mitchell's home at South Sumas, the boys looked long and hard at another government sow. It cost about $17.50 and the home made portable colony house cost about $10.

The sow is due to farrow May 6. Down the road a bit Owen Brad well looked over a five acre field and described how he hoped to grow Colpess beardless barley for registered grain. He hopes to seed about May 1, and expects to use about two tons of hydrated lime. He hopes to secure about $5 a ton more for his product than he would for ordinary barley. He should get a yield of at least five tons of barley from the field.

Bob Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Young of the River road, showed his co workers his flock of New Hampshires. He uses an electric brooder. Most of his 350 chicks were raised from eggs produced on the farm.

He has been fortunate in being able to sell the bulk of his eggs, since December, as hatching eggs, but he is faced with the prospect of that market drying up shortly. He expects to have a flock of approximately 250 New Hamps next year after he has culled during the summer. Stan Byers, Fairfield Island, is another chick specialist. He has been raising broilers. He pur chased 312 day old Leghorns aTid has 295 left which he sold at the end of eight weeks, when the flock had an average weight of 1.7 pounds.

His probable cost, including rent, is in the neighborhood of $55. His records show that he has put in approximately 50 hours of labor. If all goes well, he will receive approximately $20 to $25 for his labor and investment That the word brought back from Victoria by a delegation rep resenting the hospital board and the city and township councils which visited the capital Thursday. At the conference the government was represented by Hon. Dr.

Weir, Hon. Wells Gray, minister of lands, E. H. Bridgeman, deputy minister of municipal affairs, and P. Walker, secretary to Dr.

Weir. Figures presented by the dele gation included the contract price on the building amounting to $99,173, which sum is covered by the provincial government grant of $25,000, $22,500 by the city and $52,500 by the township. Additional monies required include $7110 for elevator and dumb wait ers, which were not included in the general contract; iron stokers and installation, $2172; alterations to old building and connecting heat. $2000; essential furnishings and surgical equipment, $4026; a total of $15,300. The foregoing items are in addition to those already covered by donations which to date total $5546 received from 30 different individ uals and organizations.

It was the expectation that the government might have been favorable to absorbing a larger portion of the sum required to meet pressing requirements, but the only sum promised to be considered by the minister was one quarter of the total of $15,300. Hon. Dr. Weir expressed his approval of what is being done here in erecting a new hospital, and the manner in which administration has been conducted in the past. He said he would like to give the assistance requested, but the neces sity for national economy on account of the war made it impossible for him to secure the funds.

The government's answer was promised shortly. What action the hospital board will take to raise the balance, if the government answer is favorable, has not been decided. The ministers suggested that it be raised by a supplementary bylaw submitted to the ratepayers of the city and municipality. Hon. Wells Gray, who is also minister of municipal affairs, and his deputy, were disinclined to acquiesce in the recommendation of the hospital board and the two councils that future hospital boards here be elected in the same manner as the Cultus Lake Park board, mainly on the ground that what might be suitable and practicable here would not be so well adapted to other sections of the province.

It was desirable, they stated, to follow a more uniform policy in this regard. It was agreed that the department would shortly submit a plan whereby the councils would appoint either members from their respective councils or representa. tive citizens to comprise the hos. pital board, to which the govern the whole question will likely be again reviewed by the three local bodies. The delegation comprised Reeve W.

T. Richardson, Coun. W. S. Annis, who represents the township council on the hospital board, Mayor C.

A. Barber; E. H. Pearson, hospital board chairman; Municipal Clerk S. Leslie Brice, and W.

E. Chidlow, secretary of the hospital board. The two latter consulted with various departments relative to other hospital and township business while in Cherry Carnival Plans Considered Pending a definite move by the Kinsmen club, committees representing the Board of Trade and the service organization considered plans for the 1940 Cherry Carnival at a joint meeting Tuesday. The Kinsmen will decide whether they will participate or this week. Committee chairmen will be appointed by the two organizations and the Carnival committee will hold its first meeting next week.

It is proposed to offer substantial prizes for the best essays on "how to increase the attractiveness and public interest in the carnival which was such an outstanding success last year." Haas Hop Co. Purchases Farm U. B. Cusack Place Sold; Brings Total Acreage to 600 The purchase of 63.5 acres com prising the farm of U. B.

Cusack, well known dairyman of Prairie Central road, was announced this week by B. Hinds, manager of Haas Hop company. The additional property brings the company's holdings in that area to 245 acres, and brings their total acreage in the district to approximately 600 acres. The farm is being plowed this week preparatory to planting the acreage to hops. A new hop kiln is going up on the Prairie Central holdings of the company.

The kiln is of an improved type. It is equipped with a pusher fan to enable faster drying and heavier loading. Mr. Hinds estimates that it increases the capacity of the kiln by 50 per cent. Golf Stars Crack Down On Par Black and Colk Defeat McKinnon And Brodie Many a duffer and so so golfer breathed sighs of admiration at the Chilliwack Golf club Wednesday afternoon when Ken Black, Canadian amateur champion, and Ben Colk, Langara professional, defeated Jock McKinnon, Capilano Golf and Country club professional, and Jim Brodie, course proprietor, 2 and 1 in an exhibition match for the Red Cross.

Black came in with a 33 and 34 for a par shattering 67. Colk carded a 69, McKinnon a 68, and Jim Brodie evened par with a 72. All four men gave a remarkable demonstration of accurate putting and approach work and long, consistent wood shots. Black's first round was made tip this way: 434, 443, 344, and Ijjs second round was 444, 345, 343. The exhibition netted the Ktcl Cross $40.77.

Approximately 125 persons witnessed the event. Sunday 20 men from the local course play a return engagement with Glenoaks at Langara, and Meadowlands Golf club members tee off at Maple Ridge againpt the homesters. Softbaflers May Play At Park Seek New Locale For Games; Loop Lost $10 on Season Possibility that league Softball would be played at Athletic park was surveyed at the annual meeting of the Chilliwack Softball association Friday evening in the Barber block. The league executive was named a committee to investigate possibilities of obtaining the location, and failing that, to recommend another venue. A well attended meeting reelected to office all the executive of 1939 with the addition of Bill Teetzel, as second vice president.

Other officers are D'Arcy Baldwin, president; Douglas Bajrd, ment would appoint one member, nrst vice president; rea u. L.eary, On receiDt of the Dian as worked I secretary, arm Al. out by the department of municipal treasurer. One representative from anairs ana me provincial secretary, to the executive. Financial report of the treasurer revealed that the league lost approximately $10 on last season's operation, and that this deficit was met from the surplus in the league treasury.

A preliminary survey failed to reveal the exact set up of teams, but indications are that a four cr five team league will operate. Maurice White was re appointed as official league scorer. No time limit for receiving entries will be set until after definite arrangements are made for grounds. Coming Events Advertised In The Progress Today Friday, April 19: Gym Dance. Fairfield Island Hall.

Friday Saturday, April 19 20: Strand, "Elizabeth and Essex." Saturday, April 20: "Mutt Show" Central School Grounds. Sunday, April 21: Special Program, Baptist Church. Mon. Tue. April 22 23 24: Strand, "Nlnotchka." Wednesday, April 24: Liberal Reception for Reeve George Cruickshank, Masonic Hall.

Monday, April 29: "Pride and Prejudice," auspices of H.M.S. Lion Chapter, I.O.D.E., at High School Auditorium. Tuesday, May 14: Dance. Agricultural Hall, Mart Ken ney and Hts Orchestra. Friday, May 24 1 Horse Racing, Fair Grounds..