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Community Portrait Mrs. W. D. Hartley Time The Enslaver Bowling And Hospital Her Twin Interests 4 THE CHILLIWACK PROGRESS, Nov. 10, 1965 (EhtUtwark firngrpaa Established 1891 Published at 39 Yale Street East every Wednesday by The Chilliwack Progress and authorized as second class mail.

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United States and Foreign. $5.00, payable yearly or half yearly in advance. Cecil Hacker, Publisher John Davies, Editor FAITH and LIFE By REV. WILLIAM Th "Half of mankind is crucified upon a clock" is In Flanders Field Once when we hud just live cents between us we spent half the night flipping the coin to see who would buy the candy and the rest of the evening sharing and eating the jelly beans. Corny, I know, but it was fun and it only cost us the five cents." Evelyn Ober and William Douglas Hartley were married on Nov.

24, 1933, in Lethbridge. They moved to Edmonton in 1941 and to Dawson Creek in 1943. From there to Vancouver in '45 and to Chilliwack in 1947. Recalling her life in Dawson Creek, she said, "This was only 22 years ago but we did not have indoor plumbing and we had to pay 75c, twice a week, for 14 pails of water. I washed the cleanest child first, then the clothes, and then the floors.

I wonder what the health authorities would say to that now." When they left in 1945 for Vancouver water pipes were being laid. "The earth became very powdery and then it rained for three weeks. We had from 10 to 12 inches of soupy mud, you wouldn't believe it. We could not wash the mud (in of the clothes, it goes sitev. We had to wait until it oVied and then rub it to dust and shake it out.

But Dawson Creek is a nice town well laid out." And she has wonderful memories of the fun they had there and the colorful north-em lights which she described as "ballet dancers in the They moved to Chilliwack from Vancouver when Doug bought Chilliwack Bowling Centre on Young Road South and a home at the corner of Young Road and First Avenue. Over the years their three sons and two daughters have helped in the business and son Bud is now a partner. Mrs. Hartley is cashier. "Bowling can be a highly competitive sport and a fascinating one to watch," she remarked.

"It can provide an evening's fun for families from children eight years old to grandpas and grandmas in their eighties. Youth groups and clubs also bowl for club entertainment and we have a pee wee boys' league playing on Saturdays." They have had three play Time is one of the greatest enslavers of us all! Have you noticed how many times you consult the clock each day? Try leaving your watch at home sometime and "ie how you miss it. The other day I went into a jeweller's store to have my watch strap replaced. Even while I watched the jeweller replacing the strap. I found myself stretching my arm to check the time.

This may indicate certain things to you, but I assure you my action was motivated by a time-consciousness. I felt, on that particular day, more bound by the enslaver than usual. In fact I wished, as I often wish, that I could pat time'gently on the shoulder and ask him to slow down, or even stop for a while to give me a chance to catch up. But no use! For the enslaver guards well his prisoner. There is an escape in the realization that the enslaver is only a convention; that in heaven there are no calendars, that eternity is timelessness.

While we are on this earth, however, we must be content with its conventions. We must think, therefore, of time in terms of past, present and future. Firstly, time past is not dead time. Yesterday, so far from being dead, is alive and is giving meaning to today. Today, likewise, gives meaning to tomorrow.

The past is certainly not dsad for you as you sit reading this paper. Whether you are a raint or a sinner, whether you are an alcoholic or a teetotaler, whether you are healthy or sick, time past and its circumstances made you that way. Time past is not dead time. It is very much alive! Secondly, future time is not our time. In the words of a song, "The future's not ours to see." Few mistakes are more common or more tragic than the mistake of counting too heavily on the future.

One of Jesus' parables, recorded in St Luke 12, serves to illustrate: The farmer in the parable was blessed with good crops. After straining his thinking capacity and perhaps commending himself for his farming ability, he decided to build bigger barns in which to store the abundant harvest. This done, he planned to sit back and take life easy, "to eat, drink and be merry" in the comforting knowledge that he had "much goods laid up for many years." He was anticipating the future and cornering it for himself. He did not take into account that "the future's not ours to see." He must have been shocked to receive the pronouncement, "This night thy soul shall be required of thee." Death (Continued on page 5) si Each year, just before Remembrance Day, cadets go out on the streets and sell poppies. They are too young to have known anything of the Second World War, let alone the First, whence the poppy tradition sprang.

Yet they willingly give their time to help provide needed funds for veterans and their dependants. To these cadets, the sacrifices made in times of war are still meaningful. Although the decades have slipped by and we now live in a wholly different world, the nations still stand awed at the magnitude of the debt created by millions upon millions of men who died or were maimed in these wars. How long do we keep on remembering the fallen? For all time. So long as men still threaten wars to fulfill their national greed or personal glory, the silent voices of the fallen plead with mankind not to make a mockery of their sacrifice.

Those who fought in the two world wars held a wider hope than merely answering the necessities of the hour. They yearned for a better world a saner, freer and kindlier world to emerge. How can we dare to answer that expectation, bought with unimaginable suffering, with mere indifference? Can we afford to guard the peace less wholeheartedly than they fought the war? This is why we must remember. Next Election, Please Barely after recovering their breath from the federal election, voters must now turn their attention to the civic elections. They are only one month and one day away.

It is safe to predict a contest which will generate more than usual interest among the electorate. In the good old days, it was often enough for a candidate to say to the ratepayers, "You all know me. If I am elected, all I can say is that I will do the best job I can." It is a dangerous vanity for a candidate to assume that the whole community knows who he is. Chilliwack has ceased to be a place where everybody knows everybody else. Quite a few residents would be embarrased if they were asked to give the name of the mayor or the reeve.

Such ignorance always amazes civic-minded persons, but there it is. In addition, there is always the suspicion that the phrase "I will do my best," while perhaps a fittingly modest thing to say, is a convenient cover for absence of ideas. A voter wants to know something of the candidate's past record; he also wants to weigh the candidate's ideas. A person offering himself for civic office should at least have some kind of answer to these questions: Are you satisfied with this community's rate of growth and progress? If not, what can be done to accelerate it? What, in your opinion, are the most pressing tasks facing this area? Can you see ways of establishing a broader tax base so that this community can better afford the things it needs? Do you believe in attracting industry; if so, how would you go about it? How can municipal expenditures best be kept at a reasonable level? Do you see inequalities in the present tax structure? If so, is there anything you can do to change the situation? What do you think of zoning of community planning of regional districts? These are only a small sampling of questions pertinent to local government in this area, but surely a candidate should be prepared to express some sort of attitude on them. Candidates should speak out positively for the things they believe in, and thus impart their faith to the citizenry.

Mrs. W. D. Hartley is one person who believes that some people have it and some people don. In this instance it is co-ordination between the eye and the arm for good bowling.

"I have bowled for 30 years but am still only middlin'," she chuckled. "My husband is a qualified instructor but he gave up on me years ago. I bowl now for fun and let the pins fall where they may." Ev Hartley can laugh at herself and this is fortunate for she is able to keep on a fairly even keel in this turbulent world. She grew up during the depression years of the thirties when, there did not seem to be a future for anyone. Now her husband owns his own business and she is president of an auxiliary whose project is to ensure a future for people.

Chilliwack Hospital Auxiliary has worked diligently for many years to provide life-giving and comfort-giving equipment to our local hospital. Mrs. Hartley remarked that members are often asked why work so hard when the money could be supplied by the government. "Why not let the government do it? The government is you and I and we are going to have to pay for it anyway, in time. But all the money collected at tag days and for tickets to our teas goes directly to our own hospital.

The money does not go into a general pot to be shuffled around the province but stays here in Chilliwack," she explained. Members of the auxiliary and volunteers look after the mobile shopping service six days a week and the new TV rental service, seven days a week, all year around, she remarked. "TV fills in many an hour for long stay patients and is appreciated by short stay ones too," Mrs. Hartley said. "With the pillow speakers the sound is modulated and does not bother anyone and yet the sound can be turned up if all patients in a ward want tc hear a program." To provide gifts for all hospital patients, Valley Haven and Menholm residents, the auxiliary is planning its annual Christmas Cheer Tea for Dec.

11 in Chilliwack United Church hall. During the summer holidays members convene the meals during the Regional Fair to help raise money. Ev Hartley was a Christmas Eve present to her parents. She was born in Petersburg, and as an infant moved to southern Alberta where her parents, Mrs. H.

P. Ober and the late Mr. Ober homesteaded some 19 miles out of Lethbridge. She worked for three years before she was married. She said it was during the "dirty thirties when jobs were so scarce you hung on to yours and asked no questions about overtime pay if the boss said to work." It was a happy time though, as far as Mrs.

Hartley is concerned, in comparison to today's high cost of entertainment. She recalled that she and her friends would walk to the dance at the nearby lake where they could dance from 8:00 to 9:00 m. without paying while the orchestra practised and then pay five cents a dance until midnight. "We had to make our own fun," she commented. "If one (jf us could get our parents' car the rest would not have enough money to buy cms ers make the magical 450 polled score and have installed sunie automatic pin setters as they have improved the business over the years.

Bud and Ken are the only children to remain in Chilliwack. Bob is with the air force in Quebec; Nan (Mrs. L. R. Reuger) is in Kamloops; and Jolayne (Mrs.

Jim Armstrong) in Courtenay. The Hartleys have seven grandchildren. For them the big thrill of this age is color TV but just 40 years ago the big thrill for their grandmother was hearing "squeaky voices and music" being transmitted through the air. The listener sat with head phones attached to their crystal set and its maze of wires and tubes. With all the many changes that have taken place since she was born, the young fry must think she is one of our senior citizens but she is not.

Mrs. Doug Hartley is a middle-aged woman with twinkling blue eyes who can say with a laugh "bowling keeps me limbered up but not necessarily in shape." F.P. Chilliwack. Bob Blackwell photo. 'iJaKeij president; B.

T. Malcolm, president, and Ward Sharp, secretary-treasurer, are elected officers at a meeting of Chilliwack Valley Basketball League. NOVEMBER 11, 1915 Important improvements to the Minto Landing, costing in the neighborhood of $1,000, are completed. Sardis prohibitionists meet to organize for forthcoming contest; movement also organized at Cheam. Piper James Richardson, "somewhere in in a letter to his parents, states he is well and still in the fighting line.

Pte. H. M. Shaw gives interesting account of his army experiences in lecture at Lyric Theatre after being invalided home from France. Work on the new CNR station at Chilliwack is proceeding.

NOVEMBER 8, 1905 Annual meeting of the Maple Leaf assembly results in the election of William Dusterhoeft, president; J. C. Henderson vice-president and W. S. Forsyth, secretary-treasurer.

NOVEMBER 6, 1895 Lord Aberdeen, governor-general of Canada, and Lady Aberdeen visit Chilliwack. PERRY, B.A., B.D. Viewpoints K. NESBITT that once a Social Credit government goes in it stays for ever, and it would seem that way since 1935 in Alberta and since 1952 in B.C. Government House, on the evening of opening day, will be all lit up.

The elected representatives and their wives, and the elite of Victoria and Vancouver, will swirl and trot in the glittering ballroom. There will be state dinners and all sorts of glamorous social functions. The premier, sipping Okanagan apple juice and nothing stronger, will shine and make political speeches, all dressed up in white tie and tails. The Premier is most proud of Government House; he looks upon it as a monument to himself, in a way, for it was he who found the money for building the present mansion when the other one burned down in 1957. The Premier looks upon Government House as a physical tie (Continued on page 5) cjCetterhox Honest Criticism Thank you for your courtesy in printing my letter in this week's copy of your newspaper.

Thank you also for vour remarks which fol-'owed. I de'iberatelv withheld my nae on thi" firct letter in ordpr to make a point nane1" that no anonvmous opinion is of anv va'ue and litt'e force '-et at the time ha a detrimental effect out of all proportion to it contents. Your critic nav be an authority for all I know. I merely suggest to vou that his opinions cannot constitute an "honest" criticism so long as he hides behind his cloak of anonymity. Such action suggests that he has not the courage of his convictions, and his appraisal of any production is meaningless.

By all means let him say that a production is weak or ill-cast or poorly directed or anything else he feels to be true. But let him, like an honest man, express those opinions under his own signature as I now do mine. S. W. Collins.

lawns symbolize fall at Camp tcujS 9n Jlie from the Files of The Progress Capital By JAMES VICTORIA It is almost impossible to believe it but two months from now we shall be on the eve of the opening of the 1966 session of the Legislature. Already Mr. Speaker William Murray of Prince Rupert has been here making preliminary arrange and Clerk of the House Ned deBeck drops in every few days to see what is going on, and to keep up with the mail. There is a lot of paper work to be done by the protocol staff; every one as usual from time immemorial, wants to be invited to the open ing. You would think people would get sick and tired of the sameness of it all, but they never do.

There is only so much room in the legislative chamber and so many people are disappointed each year. Legislative opening days are something like Christmas they seem to come every few months, which may mean something or other that I do not like to admit. I often think we could get along with a legislative session every two years, as in the State of Washington, but our members would be dead set against this. They love to come here and talk and talk and pick up their $8,000 each. If there was a session only everytwo years they would be getting but $4,000 a year, and that would never do.

The coming session could well be the last before another general election. True, the last election was in 1963 but our Premier loves elections. Smart politician that he is, he knows a good way to perpetuate himself in office is to have an election whenever he can get away with it, which is as often as he wants an election. Our constitution says there must be an election every five years, but it says nothing against an election at any moment a premier decides on one. It never occurs to our premier that possibly some day he might be defeated; at an election rally here he said LEAF-COVERED Other NOVEMBER 9, 1955 Oliver Evans, Canadian Jersey Cattle Club fieldman and official Jersey classifier, returns to Chilliwack after spending six months on promotional work in Eastern Canada.

Forty-three persons receive citizenship papers at ceremony in Chilliwack court house. Lt. Gen. H. G.

Graham, chief of general staff, Canadian Army, visits Camp Chilliwack. Official opening of six-room elementary school at Watson Road held today, with Lt. Col. D. W.

Cunnington, officer commanding the Royal Canadian School of Military Engineering, officiating. 4.56 inches of rain dumped on Chilliwack single day last Wednesday, creating new record. Mayor T. T. Mc-Cammon announces he will seek re-election as mayor in the December elections.

James Jamieson, co-publisher of the Armstrong Advertiser, takes over from Progress publisher Leslie Barber as president of B.C. Division, Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Mr. Barber continues as one of the two B.C. directors of the national body.

Rampaging Vedder River washes out part of S( heller's bridge and a pie of the Mt. Baker Trail and Taken also robs farmers of acres of their land. NOVEMBER 7, 1945 City council designates agricultural ground as site of community centre; plans to put roads through area now set aside for athletic purposes with a view to opening it as a building site. Yarrow area cans 4,600 quarts of meat for starving Europe. Chilliwack and district's purchases of Victory bonds surges ahead; only $150,000 must be raised in next three days to put loan over the top.

NOVEMBER 7, 1935 Agriculture Minister K. C. MacDonald makes strong plea for single agency for handling of milk products of the Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland assemblies in Chilliwack. Handsome new premises of Totem Food Stores, Wellington Avenue and Mill Street, opens. NOVEMBER 11, 1925 David Spencer Vancouver, enters retail field in Chilliwack, having purchased the stock and business of the department store conducted for the past two years by Pride, Nash and formerly by Ashwell Ltd.

H. J. Barber, MP-elect, honorary A Fair Deal? When a hospital expansion bylaw is eventually put to Chilliwack ratepayers and prospects that it will be this December have now virtually vanished the powers-that-be might profitably turn their attention to the north shore of the Fraser River. A fair number of Agassiz and Harrison residents use hospital'facilities in Chilliwack, since there is no general hospital in their own area. They pay, of course, on the same basis as anyone else.

But, to the best of our knowledge, ratepayers on the north shore have never contributed anything toward construction costs. It is a different story for Hope residents. Although cases from that area are sometimes referred here, they at least have their own hospital. We in Chilliwack, too, have cases referred to the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, as well as Vancouver General. This transfer of patients is essential in places which do not have sp'-nalists in their own community.

if we wonder if it is right for areas to have the use of a hospital without paying anything for its construction. Would it not be better for hospitals each to have their normal service boundaries, and for all ratepayers within those boundaries to pick up their just share of the tab?.