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

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(i CHILL1WACK, 15. WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, EIGHTEEN PAGES I'El: YEAH (Bite Rock Haul River's Treachery Sets Dykers Busy Berry Sales Over Million YARROW DYKE LIGHTING READY The electric line along the west side of Vedder Canal dyke, which will be used it anrl when Yarrow and Sumas face a repetition of 1948, was completed Monday. Cost will be defrayed 25 percent by Yarrow, 75 percent by Sumas. About 240 100-watt bulbs will be used to light the dyke in the event all-night work on the dyke has to be done. Engineers1 Recommendation Vedder Channel Plan Foreseen A long term plan for Vedder Kiver channel improvement work may be" started if the recommendations of provincial engineers are adopted.

if" Eraser River's treachery set Chilli wack Dyking Hoard busy during- the last week fortifying- undermined banks against the further onslaught of freshet water which threatens to erode its edges and endanger the dykes east of the city. Falling Tree Kills Logger Fraser Hits 14-Ft. Mark At Minto Co-op Annual Meeting Hears Year's Reports Fresh and jam fruit sales by Pacific Co-op Union totalled it was revealed at the annual meeting yesterday in Mission. Of this amount, 8926,000 was paid to growers. A total of 7,449.000 pounds of fruit was sold, 5,721.000 pounds of which came from the 1949 pack and the balance out of the surplus which had accumulated at the start of the season.

Although the pack 'was 47 per cent below the 1948 tonnage, fresh fruit shmmonts worn 45 ner rent i hiii ruiin.ii- lai interested in the report that because ol the keen demand for strawberries, it was becoming Reeve W. G. K. Simpson and Councillor John Martens spent Friday morning surveying the river with government engineers and said the latter was ready to recommend a long term policy of snag clearing and channel dredging. An effort will be made to persuade the federal government to enter the scheme on a one third basis, with the provincial govern ment paying one third and the township one third.

The Domin-i ion government has a considerable interest in maintaining the river channel, local authorities say. be-, cause of the danger to RCSME. 1 It is believed there is a prece-j dent for the sharing ol the cost between the three bodies. Provincial engineers will make a report on their recommendations. Forecast For 'Wet' Uncertain i Construction of a mysterious building at the rear of the Koyal Bank building and alongside the Koyal hotel MAY be the start of another licensed premises in Chil- i I easier to market Nowborg rasps after pleading guiltv.

through tie-in sales. Police say that Lees had a prc- In addition, higher freight rates i vious police record, v.oghl liki ly cause a shift back to' He was captured when Llovd sr2 berries which in turn, made Dargatz, who lives across the prospect of re-opening the co- street from the Stewart home, saw-op. chilhwack plant likely. Last him take the bottle. Mr.

Dargatz vear it was used as a receiving sta-1 called to Lees to come back and tion but this year it promises to I held him for Cpl. Stewart when 'Continued on Page 5) I he did. Blood Needed liwack. road, RR1 Chilliwack, Monday as of the U.S., other Canadian prov- The one-storey addition, with full another helper. Mr.

Lockyer was inces and one other loreign coun-bascment of re-enforced concrete working a short distance awav and try have been spotted on local Donors Required To Fill Quota Dvking board officials expected to complete today a 10-day job of rock facing the river bank just west of McGrath road where previous protection of the same type had been washed away earlier this spring. For the last 10 days trucks have been rumbling through the city carrving burdens of rock to replace boulders which were swept into the river's current by the slight rise of the last few weeks. at that particularly dangerous per- tion of the river by the now dc- of the board, told The Progress that the Chilliwack dyking board expected to complete by today or Thursday the replacement job which would involve the hauling of some 10.000 cubic yards of rock. Estimated cost, said Mr. Newby would be about S10.000.

Of this. one-third would be paid by the rcueiai gu ei imiem one-umu the provincial government and one-third by the Chilliwack king board. Rock facing, put in by the Fraser Valley dyking board two years ago has been undermined by the current and has tumbled into the river bed. leaving the bank unprotected, Continued erosion would endanger! the dyke which is situated onlv few hundred feet away. Last week, trucks hauled loads of small rock from Little mountain, but this week, huge boulders.

Pumptown were hoisted aboard the trucks to provide the heaw nrotection neccssarv. ''We had to move to a to get the big rocks." Newby. "It take more handle tin co they provide better protect i smaller ones." Truckers doing the joh ployed on a day basis, and contract. Mr. New hv said.

Mr Square Dance Contest Cherry Gala Feature i Cherry Carnival officials working under a full head steam to mak? proposed square dance contest a r.i. success. Other eompe' it best caller, best orchestra a. 1 old-time fiddler will I ir. id conjunction with main all to be held in the Ag Hall throughout July 1.

Entries are united from anywhere and it is hoped to b.tter the total of 17 sets that was entered in tha llaney Teen Town con- 'est. All the at that -how been contact' and many of 1 will attend the show here. alsn are looKed tor lrom or. id States. i 1 1 it, new agriculturalist Chilliwack's new district agriculturalist Is 23-year-old Dick Berry, Laneloy, who has just graduated from the University of British Columbia in animal husbandry.

Mr. Berry replaces Art Donald, agriculturalist here for four years, who has been transferred to New Westminster, lie is the of Hairy Kerry. FVMPA director. Norman i'h Foreicrn Vehicles Prevalent Chilliwack has been under-uing one of its biggest invasion of cut- Automobiles from manv states streets. The visitor from the greatest distance was from Venezuela.

South America, while the neighboring stale of Washington provided the most travellers. At some periods yesterday there seemed to be more Washington cars on Yale road than tht.se from Chilliwack. Also caught in pa.in were cars from Oregon, California." Idaho. II- Imois. Michigan.

Indiana. ska. Alberta. Saskatchewan. Man toba and Ontario.

Many ol t.i travellers were taking a ian'ag of excellent fishing in the ir.terio. The Memorial Pay weekend iuericaiis to the brought scoi area. One man said A take ol American money was treble his normal summer weekend receipts, St. Louis. And two years ago.

he and his wife, who this year settled lor a trip to Seattle, lollowed old Oregon trail, footsore pathway of thousands of land-hungry settlers. with saddle and pack horses. "I was thrilled, as we went along, to see the deep ruts still showing whidl llad llt b.v Hie covered wag; a century ago ons, lie recall- ed. "We covered 2.500 mil 's." This trip resulted him writing a book Saddles Last which is now Cliiiliwack's quota of 1 000 pints of blood for Red Cross i will tall short ot the mark at this season's two-day according to L. M.

Peel who is in charge of the free donor The usually sluggish waters of the Fraser river are swirling ever higher at the Minto Landing gauge. At 10:30 a.m. this moraine the inei ciepi up 10 me 14 1001 mark i jump of nearly a foot and a half in two days, and a half a foot since yesterday afternoon. However, it is an even nine feet below the 1948 mark for the same day. Should the river go up another feet it will begin to spread I over some low-lying, unprotected land along the bank.

Cromarty's Island, across a nar-' row stretch of river from Mmto Landing, is close to inundation now. S(imt, parts of ()t, shorc. Uw a re within six inches of the rising water. The Cromarty family, who live on higher land on the island, are sitting tight until they see what happens. Preparations are being made should evacuation of people in (ho 1., neccssarv Thurstliv ivm Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday 129 12.6 12.7 12.6 13.5 14.0 Flood Aid Total $473 Chilliwack residents are continuing their hearty response to a-ipeaN from the Manitoba Flood Bel of fund.

I until noon today $473 had been contributed to the fund through The Progress of i ice in individual donations and other contributions had been sent direct to Winnipeg. Women's Institutis in the Upper Fraser Valley are contributing more than SI. 000 as a result of a tag day held last Saturday. Names of those people who have sent their donations through The Progress office can be found on page 5 of the first section and page 7 of the second section. MONDAY 'PARTIAL' HOLIDAY HERE There will be a partial observance of the official birthday of King George VI next Monday.

All schools, provincial government offices and banks will be cIomn! hut it is expected that all Chilliwack businesses will be open. I he Progress will publish on as usual. MAY provide rclrigeration facili- ties for a tavern but as far as Harry "Buck" Berry, proprietor of the Royal hotel is concerned, it's "just a building." Mr. Berry asserts no deal has been made between the hotel and the Royal Bank for the purchase of the hitter's property on Main street and Wellington avenue. He recently purchased a 17-foot strip of city property at the rear of the Royal Bank but says he doesn't know anything about the prospect of using the former bank property for a licensed premises.

Work is progressing at a good rate on the new Fmpress hotel beverage parlor. Originally sche- duled to open May 24. it now is likely that it will begin dispensing late in June. I Milk Bottle Thief Picks Wrong Home John Ogden Evans Lees, 33, no fixed address, has 30 days to figure out just why he picked the house at 410 Mary street to steal a milk i bottle Friday morning, The house belonged to Cpl. T.

A. Stewart in fho fhilli. -n i 1 uu ju dim 1.CC.S. JUiL Jl- cently released from Oakalla, ap- peared before Police Fred Grimmett. He Magistrate 5 sentenced pints were received yesterday.

Tin clime in Legion Memorial Centre got off to a good start, then felt off badly su that by 4 o'clock there were no donors. to anpeal was s.ood last night when a large croud attended. it necessary for the staff to work an hour and a half overtime. Twelve members of company, Westminster Regiment (Motor) contributed to the clinic last night. Although it was hoped people in the city would contribute considerably more, time will not permit the amount to be made up now.

However, the stall will remain to take donations as long as people continue to come tonight. The staff which covers various parts of (he nrovince consists of two registered nurses. Miss A. Hayes and S. Phelps, a technician and nine girls trained by the clinic.

Equipment is contained in two vans and a truck which are driven bv the girls. Dr. J. D. Moore and Dr.

J. L. M. Whitbread are on call during clinic hours. Besides the Red Cross society's imii-il nnnimil merits -i extra amount is vemiired this vear for inv emergency that might be caus- bv Hood conditions.

"IS ife of the army I. Transcontinental Canoeists Visit District A odessey of more than a century ago will be retraced this summer by a hearty, (57-year-old retired minister who is in love with the story of the north west. Genial Chaplain John W. Beard Lukc winnipe l0 BOB STEPHENSON Norman Studio J'tto Stephenson New Lions Club Head Bob Stephenson lias beer. t.

wack tor le coining vear at Iiieh wive- ill l-e dance. June 20. The new lir.t vii-cn-. (ten! llalnh l-i-, president. Lem Hay: sec Russ Kastman.

Ward Sham Err.i Morford and Jack Phillips. Mr Sllenhenson vvlm is Th came to Chilliwack in Ucti'ir i y4o. ue lomea me Lions. first time, in February. 194 ine new president is and has one son.

He lives 2'. Lewis street east. AMERICAN LEGION" HERE IN JUNE in me nine rs Post No. 1. American Louie ineir wives win iiierany la.i.t Chilliwack June 24-2o.

grimage to Harrison Hot nui inaKe eiiiiiiwacK uie u-. of their Canadian invasK year. Berry Crop Prospects Seem Good uespne a uue r. crs in the Chilliwack distr. anticipating good cron markets for hot slrawli ir I raspberries.

hich prev ails in spite of inai inc growers nave from on-' nf the on record. 1 "It doesn't look too bad said a growers' spokesman Ll year's surplus of aimosi cieaneu uu ano we i y. a gootl yield this year." Two major reasons wen for the anticipated "One reason is that rrr acreage is somiwhat know hv 1. there were more plans uni er I an in; re were r.i c. Another is that tliere winter killing which iurtiie: ed the amount of acreage.

killing wasn't very great spokesman said. atellev. nf llir1 slling production about June 20. al i-a: tnt-Tni'-m iwiitki also cause another compile; i Just about the time the jeii na.vesi is ai lis raspberries will be eoni.i.t (Continued on Page ci 'KISSIN' GEORGI' BUSSES NEW Kissin' George The Fraser Valley MP is rirx becoming the Canadian nrii-t In "l-UKiir Tim" iiiiiv; f-vm-iuvu in gained national fame for latory activities. Last tne i ouse mons (-rnir'ktiank- niiire-f 1r fnr tun Yi esf I vi local member ki--ed Strum, then CCF mcmlir -Appelle.

His recent outburst is r-. result of his long expevu the Fraser Valley where a bussed baby is a- as a vote. There are ip local MP is transferring mothers. warned. Louis Stannard, about C3, was killpH almost Yesterday I afternoon in a logging accident near the Blue Ridge guest ranch.

Stannard was victim of the tree he was falling which split and kick-! cd back, hitting him in the fore-: head. I Napoleon Bedard. a farmer from nearby who was helping, said Stan- nard "never knew what hit him." It was Mr. Bedard who reported the accident to police after rac-l ing several hundred yards to the ranch to phone. Constable Henry Klick and Henderson's ambulance answered the call.

Friends of Stannard said he had just started logging hard wood trees near his small house back of the ranch after obtaining permission from the land owners. He was going to cut it in his own small mjn made arrangements t0 sell it. Mr. Bedard had gone out to help hjm started and Mr. Stannard had hired Jack Lockyer, Nevin did not see the accident Mr.

Stannard planned to briny his wife from New W'estminstei and enlarge his house this sum mer. Liquor Store Moving Day Moving dav for the government liquor store will be Friday, June 12. but it is unlikely there will be any "specials" to celebrate the event. Stock and staff will shift to the large new store at the corner of Victoria and College in one day but thirsty patrons do not need to worry there will be little, if any. interruption in service.

southern end, then up the Winni- peg river. A portage will take them to streams flowing into Rainy Lake, Lake of the Woods and eventually Lake Superior. hv I ll niVKhi'i-l hvsc nijntv waters they will move dow? Jhe Great' Lakos- svs. ing the car hack home. The vessel they are to travel in is undoubtedly a good deal smaller than the voyageurs' canoes used by explorer McLaughlin and his contemporaries, but it is a sturdy craft, tested by almost three decades ot turbulent travel.

It is a 17-foot cedar craft bought by Chaplain Beard in 1923 and his companion over thousands of rugged miles. The present junket is being supported by two Portland, Oregon, historical groups, Old Oregon Trail and the Fort Vancouver Historical society, which have provided credentials for the travellers. Chaplain Board speaks with enthusiastic reverence for Dr. John McLaughlan and Sir George Simpson. A one-time leader of the North West Company which was gobbled by the Hudson's Bay Co.

in a fur war in the early 19th century, Dr. McLaughlan became one of the hitter's most astute and far-thinking managers in the years that followed the amalgamation. Mr. Beard's current trip, actually, is the second phase of an interrupt ed retracing of McLaughlan's paddle imprints. In 1938, he put his canoe "Red Wing" into the headwaters of the Columbia river at Quesnel Flats and journeyed down the Columbia to Fort Washington's burgeoning site.

I Other adventurers have charmed him. too. In 1936, he retraced the trail of Lewis and Clark from Port-1 land, over the continental divide and down the Missouri system to i blood service, a total ot Tractor Man Better Bill Murphy, 27-year-old Laidlaw bulldozer operator, is in serious londition in Chilliwack hospital today with the hip and internal injuries suiteied yesterday on the Fraser Canyon highway iust above Hell's Gate. Murphy was injured when he was pinned beneath a 20- ton bulldozer when it slipped hile being pulled up the side of a steep cliff. injoying wide sale in the northwestern states.

An overseas veteran of the first World War, Chaplain Beard con tinued in the army until his retir lmnt- Ouring the second scullle, lie served with the Oregon Nation; Guard, but somehow, failed to get overseas. Denied the excitement of combat it( )L, js making up for it by ic iivi ivn-rUhiiw liv llis present vigor, it will be a long time before he leels that he caught up ith what he misse i- Vancouver, Washington, paused in Chilliwack Tuesday afternoon to make friendly talk before embarking on a canoe trip hich ill take him almost across the continent. He doesn't plan to dip his paddle in the Fraser nor does he intend to make me trip aione, dui ne ib div-erting to the Ot-does like to stop along the way and rivc and thcn down tho st tell folks what impels him to do it. Lawrcncc to McLaughlins birth-Despite his smiling manner, he al Riviere du Loupe, more gives the impression that should than kjo miles below Quebec Citv. anyone suggest that the of 67 i tne meantime, they are motor-is more in keeping with carpet slip-, jns, to Jasper, accompanied bv pers and a soft chair than a canoe I chaplain Beard's two sons, John and paddle in the northern wilder- and palll who wjli test British ness, a bleak Presbyterian frown Columbia lakes for fish before driv- j- would result Following historic trails is an old story for Chaplain Beard and he looks forward to his present adventure with as much anticipation as the 17-year-old youth who is bus companion.

His partner on this eastward journey, which has as its destination the town of Riviere du Loupe. Quebec, is former Sea Scout Joe Kirkwood, of Hood River, Oregon. Their plan this summer is to retrace the transcontinental route of Dr. John McLaughlin. Hudson's Bay Co.

explorer who founded the outpost of Fort Vancouver in the Oregon country 125 years ago. They will bypass some of the hardships encountered by John McLaughlan and his superior and co-founder Sir George Simpson, but they will encounter a' lot of them, too. The latter prospect in no way terrifies either of the adventurers. "We are making these concessions in distance and time only because we must complete the trip before freeze-up in the fall," said Chaplain Beard. "We hope to finish sometime in September." They plan to put their canoe in the Athabasca river at the site ot Jasper House, near the present town of Jasper, paddle down the Athabasca either to Fort As-siniboine or the town of Athabasca, then portage to the North Saskatchewan river at Edmonton.

Then, they will paddle down the North Saskatchewan to The Pas and onto Lake Winnipeg, south 4-4-4 1 I 4L i- v-, i-' 1 i 1 -v it tir awut-i 1- m.iaiini.ii,ii..,ii.J. oh, for the First day in camp was a busy one for Canadian Officer Training Corps candidates at the RCSMK last week. On left seven students from Canada's two military colleges get together in the Oil ice Mess. Front row. from left, are J.

M. Willsher. Royal Roads. Victoria; N. S.

Kerr, liojal Roads, and N. E. Crcssey, Royal Roads. Back row, from left, are Kuss Black. Koyal Hon MacLeod, Royal Roads; Tony Hampson, Koyal Military Colli gc.

Kingston. John Handle. KMC. Ron Fallis of Crystal City. 1o5 .1.

invest of Winnipeg, is shewn, center, loaded down with some of the 76 pieces of that make up his gear leaving the quarter-master stores. On the right, he looks wonderingly at a small strip of khaki, debating what use. if any. it has among th" 75 pieces of his kit. Norman Studio Photo..