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THE CIITLLIWACK PROGRESS, "May 2, 1951 Other Days In UJltf (ttmiiUtrark maaVMB Chilliwack Valley Taken from the Files of The COMMUNITY PORTRAIT 109 WILLIAM DOUGLAS HARTLEY bowling alley operator Published at 39 Yale Street East every Wednesday by The Chilli FRASER FINANCES LTD. When buying that Car or Truck SEE US FIRST if you need financial help Empress Insurance Agencies Ltd. (Next door to Board of Trade on Young Street) (Chilliwack) We specialize in Car and Dwelling Insurance wack Progress and authorized as class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa. Postal address: Bov 160, Chilliwack, B.C.

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J. FORBES Progress Written by CAB. TEX VEARS AGO April 30, 1941 Road hump on highway at Chilliwack dyke south of town being levelled out by public works crew. The "up and ever" enjoyed by youngsters riding in cars at tnis spot has been a thrill for many years, but not so for motoring strangers whose passengers otten "hit the top." Thermometer hits 78 over weekend for high of year New federal excise tax of three cents a gallon on gas boosts local price to 32 cents lot-ethyl: 30 cents for regular LstMishal 1S91 L. E.

Barbfr, Vublhbei Doug Hartley's 1946 dream of buying a small corner store in Vancouver and settling down after a hectic life in the wholesale fruit business might have been a good thought. But it didn't develop and Doug has no regrets. Instead, lie bought Chilliwack Recreations, the local bowling alley, and he has held forth there for the last five years. The idea of taking over a bowling alley was not entirely unfamiliar because he had been offered the job of managing one of Vancouver's big alleys. He turned that down, however, in favor of the corner store idea.

DAHLSTROM MOTORS AUSTIN Doug was born in N.S., a small mi ling tow Safes and Service TRUCKS Phone 226S6 CARS Yale at Is'owell Avoiding The Obvious The Hon. Il.irry Bowman, B.C.'s likeable minister of agriculture, is ringing about the country these days with the good word on the new three man milk marketing board. The two new people on it, lie saiil, will represent no particular group. Rumors have it that one of the new board members is to be an accountant, another a lawyer. They will not represent consumer, retailer, wholesaler, producer.

In an effort to stay away from controversy between all these groups and their conflicting interests, the minister has taken the extreme opposite step of gathering together a board which is not likely to accomplish much except relieve some of thepressure put on C. Carr, who until now, as the one man board, has been subjected to pressure from almost everyone notably and most successfully, from the distributors. All that needs to be done now is to appoint a couple of nobody's to the board. Their terms of reference are that they will represent no one. Presumably, they will know nothing about the milk industry and therefore, they will accomplish nothing.

In this fashion, the public can be expected to be well served. This is a fatuous and futile performance which avoids the one great obvious need producer and consumer representation. "I'm a Fi a nena S1 1 near Pictou, July 4, 1909, the first son of Mr. and Mrs. William Hartley.

He has one brother, Archie, now serving in the Coast Artillery at Esquimalt. His father passed away in the flu epidemic of 1918 and his mother still lives in Calgary. The Hartley family did not stay long in Springhill and Doug was still a baby when they moved to Bankhead, another mining town, near Banff. Mr. Hartley was a miner and there were new fields opening.

Bankhead, a CPR town, is now another of the west's famous "ghost Doug started to school there and was 10 "before the family left. Mr. 1 Lirtlev had died and for GOOD Coffee!" In My Small Corner By C. M. B.

Canadian politics have alwr seemed a prett; tepid dish to me in comparison witn the roaring boiling American political pot. I curt honestly say that my pulse has ever quickened noticeably over any federal election, nor have I ever in my life entered into an argument with anybody over the relative merits of Conservatives, Liberals or C.C.F. I have always taken a much livelier interest in local elections than in national cnes. and shameful though the admission may be, reports from Parliament Hill only make me yawn. Is this a purely personal fault, or am I typical of thousands of other Canadians? When Viscount Bennett and Mackenzie King died, I felt no urge to shed tears.

And if I heard tomorrow that Mr. St. Laurent who is only a photograph to me had been gathered to his fathers, 1 would experience nothing but a polite regret. But the night in November, 1944, when the Admiral and walking down a windy street in Winnipeg, saw the late editions announcing Wendell Wilkie's death, we were stunned and speechless, grief-stricken at the loss of one of our particular heroes. Nor shall I ever forget the spring day in 1945 of Roosevelt's sudden passing.

1 was out in the sunshine digging around the raspberry canes, thinking contentedly that since the war was going so well the Admiral would surely be home not for these, but for the next year's berries and in those days even the thought of "next year" was almost tco wonderful to contemplate when my neighbour came to her back door and called out the news that had just come over the air. 1 rushed into the house and stayed by the radio until very late at night, and I am not ashamed to say that I cried and cried, with the perfectly sincere feeling that the indispensable man was gone and that greatness had passed from the world. Is it the stature of these men, or is it simply that American politics are more spectacular and colorful than our own? Is it that we read so much in American periodicals, hear so much discussion over the radio, and follow their national affairs with such close attention that we cannot help but form opinions to which, as non-Americans, we actually have no right? I know that for years we have argued wildly and happily together over the relative merits of Democrats and Republicans and have listened to campaign speeches, read American newspapers and magazines, and hung over the radio on the 4th of If you insist on perfect coffee, you and the Bright Spot were made for each other! For our coffee is made FRESH constantly in vacuum makers. No rancid staleness in Bright Spot coffee just wonderful, whole-bodied fresh- Sand Do-ins Pliotocrafts Photo roasted goodness! BRIGHT SPOT COFFEE SHOP SAVE TIME SAVE WORRY Hundreds of people in Chilliwack are busy attempting to reduce or eliminate their tobacco bills, thereby letting Mr. Abbot know where they stand on the 41 cent a package deal on cigarettes, as ell as trying to keep something in their pockets besides rusty nails.

In one other respect, however, we are becoming what might be called "communitv of distinction." Our rating, as at the end of the fiscal year 1950, is fifth among the rural centers of the province in liquor consumption. Only K.imloops, Prince George, Port Alberni and liitehorse topped our S. 9 5 2 6 liquor bill for the year. Th.it this staggering sum. should be spent in Chilliwack for liquor is the more unusual because Chilliwack seldom, if ever, admits it exists.

It is taboo at all public and most organizational functions, l'ven the subject is forbidden in many circles. And yet, if there are twenty thousand people in the area served by the government vendor's office, last vear's total figure means that every man, woman and child in the Chilliwack district spent almost $45 on liquor. The inconsistency of what might be termed our "official" attitude and what apparently are our personal attitudes would indicate that a lot of us are hypocrites. It is not The Progress' intention to go into the moral issues, if anv, involved in drinking. iquor is, as the above shows, a personal business with most people.

Thev will continue to regard it as such and the fact that our total bill for city and municipal taxes on land and improvements amounts to a mere $586,000 $300,000 less than our community liquor bill will neither lessen the amount of grumbling about land taxes nor decrease the consumption of liquor. Nor will it build arenas which require a paltry $100,000 for completion. I or one reason or another, a lot of us seem to be keeping our heads firmlv in the sand in our approach to liquor consumption. Hidden in the sand dangerously nearby, is $45 worth of liquid refreshment. (The above was not written with the consent, authorization or knowledge of any temperance group or the Liquor Control Board of British Columbia).

at BOYDS' LTD. Major P. F. Pirie and two platoons from 1) Coy successfully fight forest fire which threatens live Promontory homes A five-year-old Jersey, fresh, brings top price of $95 at Saturday auction: beef cows $23 to $57; bulls $30 to S00 (bull in same ring recently brought $515) Chilliwack Red Cross lirst group in B.C. to make use of paper mill waste wool, providing reefer coats and blankets Large audience joins in St.

Andrew's Day "Salute to Britain" in United church hall, arranged by Ministerial association and IODE. Principal address by Rev. R. A. Redman, with S.

A. Capt. M. Battrick, Rev. John Scott and Rev.

H. P. Barrett taking part. Mrs. Mary Fenton Armitage, soloist; Mayor C.

A. Barber, chairman Hospital staff graduate nurses form association Harold H. Weeks, instructor in business education at high school, awarded scholarship at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. J. J.

Andrews, prominent local dairyman, appointed district representative by BCER when George Challenger takes over as acting district manager. TWENTY VEARS AGO April 30, 1931 Five tons of butter per day being processed at FVMPA utility plant at Sar-dis, reports manager Frank Hall, as well as cheese, casine and powdered milk. Milk flow greatly increased by early warm weather and retail price drops as low as eight cents a quart in Vancouver Township council votes $1000 to Fair Board in addition to regular donation of $750, to assist with necessary building program Fire burns over large area on Promontory and on Sumas mountain. E. D.

Barrow's new home on Sumas threatened when big cotton-woods burn lOOF block, Wellington avenue, has close call from loss when fire breaks out on roof of addition to main building Fire destroys home of Reeve J. J. McRae at Agassiz Yeggs blow safe at Harrison Hot Springs hotel and escape with $300 and negotiable securities Russell Munn member of Carnegie Library experimental stall here, awarded grant-in-aid by Corporation to study at Columbia University, New York V. Woodworth on high school staff for 20 years, nine as principal, resigns Sardis Athletic society holds "an appreciation banquet" in Sardis community hall to pay tribute to athletic successes in basketball, football and baseball. Four silver cups and two shields evidence of winnings during season.

Basketball team, winners of Chilliwack and Fraser Valley championships, score 833 points compared with 308 scored by opposing teams in 27 games played. THIRTY YEARS AGO April 28, 1921 Proposal by CNR to make Rosedale terminus of daily "milk train" run in place of Hope strongly opposed by Board of Trade on behalf of residents between Rosedale and Hope; press for repairs to Minto Landing on behalf of fruit growers, when river rates found to be much lower than rail to coast. L. W. Smith, manager Merchants' Bank, takes over transportation bureau from J.

L. Stark Arthur H. Tur-vey, Grand Patriarch of Grand Encampment of B.C. honored by home lodge. IOOF commemorate Garden and Flowering Plants Seeds, Fertilizers, Sprays and Insecticides Spades, Forks, Hoes, Rakes and Cultivators All under one roof for convenience.

Rebirth Dairy Feeds Hog Feeds Poultry Feeds Hay Salt Five Roses and Robin Hood Flour Mrs. Hartley took her two sons to Lethbridge where Doug finished his education. His first job was herding cows for a Lethbridge dairy and that led naturally into farm work. He followed the crops for a few years, sandwiching in a little work on the roads, working as far north as Edmonton before he joined the CPR in Lethbridge as a brakeman. He remained there for a year and then went to work for the Scott Fruit one of the largest fruit and vegetable wholesalers in western Canada.

His first job was as truck-driver, fhen he was a warehouseman and a warehouse foreman. Next step was to salesman and finally he became a branch manager. The first three jobs were in Lethbridge but on becoming a salesman he moved to Edmonton. On January 1, 1943, he moved to Dawson Creek, B.C., to become branch manager. Doug remained in Dawson Creek- until March, 1945, when lie resigned and moved to Vancouver.

There he worked for Slade and Stewart, another wholesaler, until moving here. Doug met Evelyn Anne Ober Ev, as everyone calls her around the pin-smashing factory in Lethbridge at an F.Iks' Festival. They were married in November, 1934. The Hartley's have five children, three bovs and two girls. In order they are William Robert, 16; Donald Douglas (Bud) 15; Margaret Nan, 13; James Kenneth, 8, and Carol Jolayne, 4.

Ev is a popular bowler in both ladies' and mixed leagues. Doug, as well as managing, bowls in men's and mixed circuits. Not a spectacular bowler, he averages anywhere between 215 and 230. He never has rolled a 400 game, explaining that when he gets going well he always wants to ease up. He has been in the 3 80's many times.

Fie started bowling in a commercial travellers' league in 1930 and soon bowled in an open league as well. As he moved around he kept bowling, although he never once thought of going into the business. Fie had been thinking of the corner store in Vancouver while working for Slade and Stewart and had one almost lined up but it fell through. Then he saw an ad in the paper about the alley here being up for sale. The offer to manage the Vancouver establishment had put the idea in mind and he decided to secwhat lie could do about buying the alley here.

He could and did. Mrs. I lartley did not like Vancouver and has been happy here. Doug is a member of just one organization, the United Commercial Travellers. He was an Elk but business forced him to drop that activity after he came here.

He had joined the Elks in Coleman, and later helped form a lodge at Dawson Creek where he became Grand Exalted Ruler. In his younger days Doug played other sports. He was a defense-man in the intermediate hockey league in Lethbridge and also played baseball and Softball. He says he was a little heavier in his younger days than he is now. He would have to be to stand the gaff as a defenseman.

Doug is one of the businessmen in Chilliwack who does not drive a car. In fact he hasn't even got a driver's license. This all stemmed from an incident in Lethbridge. He had a nice new car and he lent it to a customer. The customer smashed it up at considerable expense.

Insurance covered the damage but Doug learned a lesson. Never borrow another person's car or lend your own. When he left Dawson Creek he sold the car and hasn't needod one here because he lives within a block of the alley. Doug found Dawson Creek an interesting place. The community had a permanent population of about 500 and a transient population of between 40,000 and 50,000 when the Alaska Highway was being built.

Thousands of civilians and soldiers were on the job. He recalls that if a person wanted a cafe meal he would have to fall in line behind a seat. Sometimes it might take a couple of hours to get a meal. The sidewalks were crowded and unless a person was careful lie could easily get shoved off into the mud of the street. It was a real boom town and comparable to anything Doug had read about gold rush towns in books.

Doug has many plans for his alley and they will make local trundlers happy. Included are rebuilding of the alleys downstairs complete with mechanical pin spots. The pin spots also are being planned for the upstairs alleys when they are overhauled. He has been a center of much controversy duriig the past season but shrugs most of the criticism tossed his way off without remark. Much of the criticism has come from bowlers who feel Doug should install metal pin spots but he feels one can't do everything in one year and the alley has needed some repairs this year.

The pin spots, and the alleged poor condition of the pins, have been the main kicks. Doug has a practice of rotating the pins used. Every once in a while pins come out of service and are sanded and repainted. Flowever, some bowlers feel that is not enough. They point to other centers where new pins are placed in use quite regularly.

It is a question that probably will not be settled but Doug points out that in those centers the volume of business is much more than here. One of these years, however, he hopes to be able to satisfy every demand of the bowlers and then enjoy himself. J. B. M.

Phone 3411 15 Main Street November until late at night, quivering with suspense. And when we were in Arizona this winter we listened with enormous interest to a group of representative Americans talking politics steadily, eloquently, hotly, and at length. It was enthralling to listen to them and almost impossible to st6p them once they had started. We happened to find ourselves in a group of Republicans of every dilution, from the fanatical Massachusetts people who regarded Reosevelt as an archfiend, a sort of devil in human form, to the hidebound Iowans and finally the more temperate westerners. Not one of the eight people to whom we talked could tell us the exact name of the Canadian prime minister, but they could, of course, give us a complete and scorching analysis of the background, personal habits, political record, and capabilities of every U.S.

president back to Andrew Jackson. It seems to me that the main reason for the American voter's deep personal convictions about his president is the fact that he has the opportunity of marking a ballot for the election of the Now is the Time To The Cherry Carnival, after hovering on the brink of extinction for months, has been revived in what appears to be a rebirth of interest. There will be a 1951 Carnival. Congratulations are due those who are prepared to make themselves responsible. The committee hopes the responsibility will be shared bv the entire area.

They seek to inject into the traditional fete an infusion of the community spirit which led to the origin of the carnival. It has taken considerable initiative and enthusiasm to get preparations for the affair this far. It will require scores of man hours, endless time and sacrifice of personal gain to put it over. When Chilliwack hesitated, Mission rushed in on the Dominion Day date for its strawberry festival and while this counter attraction is not likely to overwhelm the Carnival committee, it will present some problems which did not exist in other years. This may be a brave last effort, as far as the Carnival is concerned.

If Chilliwack people are convinced of its essential value to the community, they will co-operate to put on a show based on a revived community spirit. If they are not, the carnival will die, a victim of changing circumstances. If we want the Carnival, we must do our part. An Unsavory Mess (The lirJ Deer Ail locate) Two years ago the United Emergency Fund for Britain was launched in Canada. A most elaborate publicity campaign was undertaken right across the Dominion for the purpose of raising funds to buy food for the British people.

The people of Canada knew what hardships the British were undergoing and were anxious to help. After two vears of operation $593,000 was raised through contributions. It now develops that out of that total only $880 was spent for the purchase and transportation of food to Great Britain. It seems that of the money collected $185,000 went for salaries $1 83,000 for publicity, $78,000 for travelling expenses, and most of the balance of around $146,000 tor sundry other expenses. Sponsors of the Fund, while admitting the heavy expenditures for organizational purposes, say that its activities resulted in Canadian people sending about a million dollars worth of food parcels to Britain.

These parcels were put up by the United Emergency Fund were paid for by individual contributions. It now seems that the Fund made a profit on these parcels of quite a substantial nature. It is regrettable that the charitable nature of Canadian people should be so imposed upon by a few ruthless promoters. It is unfortunate, too, that outstanding Canadian men should permit their names to be associated with such a fund without taking the trouble to examine the financial operations of the organization. Canadian people will have a feeling that other charitable funds may be similarly mismanaged.

We do not know just what penalty can be imposed on the promoters of the United Emergency Fund for Britain. The money has been dissipated and probably the accounts are in order so that no criminal charge can be laid. We do think, however, that governments should assume some responsibility in overseeing such organizations set up for charitable purposes. There should be no repetition of this incident. Limited Quantity SIDING SHINGLES Regular per square.

While they last, only 14.00 per square. Covering 100 sq. ft. chief executive. While I can only vote for a local candidate representing his party and have thus only an indirect way of helping to say who shall be premier, a housewife in the U.S.

can cast an actual vote for Truman or Dewey and thus have the immense private satisfaction of feeling she herself has put him in the White House. He is her man in a sense that no Canadian premier could ever be mine. I have always been a little envious of this more stirring and emotional brand of politics. It has always seemed so much more vivid than ours. And yet, during the past two weeks, I have begun to reconsider.

I would not like to be an American today. The incredible affair of the MacArthur recall and subsequent welcome home; the endless analysis, debate, bitterness; the self-dramatization in all the utterances of the Old Soldier and the immediate appearance of the song he quoted on all the jukeboxes; the destructive pull of strong forces in many directions at once; the difficulty in deciding how much of what is happening is spontaneous and sincere and how much is coldly calculated; the impossibility of (Continued on Page 6) 102nd anniversary by attending St. Thomas' church where Rev. R. II.

Ragg (now Bishop of Calgary), Grand Chaplain, conducts service Joseph Scott appointed to succeed retiring David Richardson, city police chief, who becomes high school janitor Farce comedy, "The New Boy," presented in opera house two nights by Dramatic Society under direction of F. B. Lyle. Funds in aid of Agricultural Society. Players W.

Stanley Bartindale, W. P. Lilly, Miss Nowlan, Miss Bell, Miss Cawley, W. H. Rowlands, E.

R. Cawley, Keith Macken Six ball teams enter Fraser Valley league: Matsqui, Cloverdale, Mur-rayville, Agassiz, Clayburn, Chilliwack, FORTY YEARS AGO May 3, 1911 For third year retail merchants agree to observe half holiday every Thursday, May to September inclusive M. II. Nelems, late manager F. J.

Hart real estate, honored with banquet in Empress hotel before leaving for Vancouver. Was active in advancing interests of city and district. Succeeded by D. E. Munn, New Westminster, of Hart Co.

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comments the Wetaskiwin (Alta.) Times. "There is no use crying over spilt milk but we believe that we have learned our lesson in controlled trading," referring to the Anglo-Canadian wheat agreement. The Chesley (Ont.) Enterprise wonders what the federal or provincial government have to do with day care centres in Toronto, where there has been a demand for federal aid. "Can't the big, wealthy city look after its children without begging help from Ottawa," querus the paper. 201 Yale Road West Phone 3201.