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

In This Section Woman's news pages 2, 3 4-H Club nws page Richmond Planning pago 4 Sports PgM 12 Obituaries page 9 Night school pago 9 Classified pages 10, 11 It's Fire Prevention Week SEVENTY-SIXTH YEAR, NO. 25 THE CHILL1WACK PROGRESS, OCT. 12, 1966 10c PER COPY 22 PAGES Uoins dm Con Corn Harvest Continues, Quality Is Tops Those golden ears of corn are still coming in at the processing plant. And, it was estimated by one processor yesterday, the harvest will continue for another "eight or nine Cool weather has lengthened the harvest. It is usually over around the first week in October.

Corn quality is described as terrific. "Last year and this year were the best packs we have ever had," said the processor. Missionaries Conduct Survey On Smoking Sy; I it-. V'jf I vj.Wj l- Intersection Scene Of 3 Accidents Two accidents came within an hour of each other at the intersection of Evans Road and Highway 401 on Friday, and there was another on Sunday. At approximately 6 p.m.

Marsha R. Fortier of Scar-boro, and Daniel Wilson of Campbell River collided at the intersection, with total damage estimated at about $950. Both cars were heading east. Police said Wilson was attempting to turn at Evans Road when the collision occurred. Forty five minutes later, motorists from Monte Lake, B.C., and Vancouver collided at the same spot.

Police said Ronald Alexander Strong rear-ended William Farren. Fan-en had slowed down for the six o'clock mishap. Total damage estimated at about $200 resulted At 7:30 p.m. Friday at Ford Road and Highway 401, Archie Eugene Sheremeto of Cloverdale and Bernard Irwin Barton of Vancouver were in collision. Police said the crash occurred when Sheremeto slowed down.

Visibility was poor and heavy rain was falling. Barton slammed into the back of Sheremeto's car with total damage estimated at about $500. Three other vehicles were involved. Alan Robert Grant of Issa-quah, Arthur Midtdal of Haney, and Gerald Wayne Scott of 74 Hazel Chilli-wack, were driving east behind the two cars in collision when they also collided. Total damages were about $1,000.

About $800 damage is esti-. mated in another accident at the Evans Road-Highway 401 intersection this time at 2 p.m. Sunday. RCMP said Sidney J. Unger of Court Lane Apartments, Chilliwack, was driving east on the highway when he attempted to turn.

He was involved in a collision with Malcolm J. Gordon of Pen-ticton. Postmen Pepper-less At Moment Chilliwack postmen will have to get along with dogs without the benefit of a repellent spray, at least for the sons' homes for a more detailed report on our findings." The Americans, now in charge of the church at Tyson Road, Sardis, said the American government stamps cigar-arettes with health warnings, something which helps their cause. Chilliwack school district faces a slowdown in parts of its building program. Authorities are not yet certain which specific projects are likely to be delayed.

No hold-up is expected in existing contracts But Education Minister Leslie Peterson, at the annual convention of the B.C. School Trustees' Association in Penticton last week, warned that plans for gymnasiums and activity rooms would have to be set aside. "We will do our utmost to provide for construction of all essential classrooms," he told delegates. "Tight money" was cited as the reason for the forthcoming slowdown in school building projects across the province. The minister said it is becoming impossible to borrow money at reasonable rates for school construction and consequently only essential building can now be authorized.

The minister's specific reference to activity rooms makes it almost certain that plans to build these rooms at Bernard and Robertson elementary schools will have to be set aside temporarily. How long the delay will be is not known. Another probable "casualty" is the extension of the gymnasium at Sardis Second- ary School. Other forthcoming projects in the current school building referendum include a library at Watson school and major remodelling Chilliwack Junior Secondary School. "We don't know the status of these other projects," Dr.

J. I. Macdougall, district superintendent of schools, told The Progress. He said school district representatives expect to have consultations with Department officials to see which projects will be allowed to go ahead, and which must be delayed. Mormon missionaries are doing their bit to see that the public keeps informed on the perils of smoking.

Elders Alan James and Walter Plumb, both 19 and late of Salt Lake City, Utah, are conducting a home and street survey in which they tell how their religion can help the smoker. They told The Progress: "We ask questions like 'Do you Are you aware cigarettes are and Do you know that we can Latest sports figure to join the Mormon church is golfer Billy Casper, the elders said. He shed 40 pounds since Jan. 1 and says that stopping cigarette smoking has improved his game. Elders James and Plumb, a football player and wrestler respectively, said they will continue their survey all week.

"We, as Mormons, speak out against human consumption of any stimulant including tea, coffee, liquor or cigarette. Our questionnaires most satisfying results. Often we are asked to per Hopes Start Flickering On December Bylaw Vote BIG 55-pound pumpkin is too much for blonde Ka-icn Kuliesa, 5, to span. Giant fruit was grown by girl's mom, Mrs. Sarah Kuliesa, 37 Broadway St.

It will make a fine Jack-o'-lantern this mfa. -zn I Hopes of having a hos pital expansion bylaw before the ratepayers in December are still present but they are growing fainter every day. Plans for an addition' of more than 90 beds to Chilliwack General Hospital have undergone a series of delays in Victoria. Now hospital board officials fear time has almost run out. Before a December bylaw could be placed, working drawings would have to be prepared, estimates readied, and the bylaw wording approved by councils and advertised.

Hospital board chairman Eric Butcher commented: "We have had our plans okayed about three times now, but each time something has come up which requires us to take another look at them." Latest delay is due to the fact that Victoria wants Dr. Wolfgang Jilek and his wife to take a look at the hospital's provision for psychiatric patients. (Dr. Jilek and his wife are both practising psychiatrists. The former will head the mental health clinic in Chilliwack.

The Progress understands they will be leaving Montreal for Chilliwack about Nov. 1.) Mr. Butcher emphasized he is not complaining at the time Bat Bites Children A boy and a girl in Chilliwack were started Sunday morning on a series of inoculations against rabies after they were bitten by a bat Saturday. The inoculations were administered by the family doctor. The vaccine had been brought here on a late bus Saturday night and picked up at the depot by Dr.

A. S. Ameil, director of the Upper Fraser Valley Health Unit. It is the first reported case in the district of children being bitten by what could possibly be a rabid bat. Dr.

Arneil recently issued a warning for people to stay away from bats acting in a strange manner. The two youngsters brother and sister saw the bat perched in a bush in daylight. They went across to it and both were bitten. Dr. Arneil said it is assumed that the bat could have rabies, and thus the inoculations are necessary.

The children will receive one inoculation per day for the next 14 days. "Parents please tell the kids to keep away from these creatures, particularly if they are acting strangely," said Dr. Ameil yesterday. Head-on Crash In Washington Kills Man, 70 A head-on collision Monday two miles south of Lynden, left a Sardis resident dead and two persons injured in hospital. Washington State Patrol said Hugo R.

Zink, 70, of 41684 Yale Rd. Sardis, died when his 1963 car and a 1954 hardtop driven by Dar-lene E. Vail, 31, of Bellingham collided. Skies were overcast and rain was intermittent at the time. Police said both vehicles, totally destroyed, met near the Nooksack River bridge at 4:30 p.m.

Mrs. Zink, 82, suffered head injuries. State Patrol told The Progress yesterday she was resting in Bellingham's St. Joseph's Hospital Darlene Vail was also taken to hospital with knee and chin lacerations. According to police, both occupants were thrown out of the Zink car.

Delay Civic Centre Bids taken by Victoria to settle the plans. "We have had the finest relationship with them," he said, "and after all, they are protecting the taxpayer." However, he said the delays are a matter of concern and it is becoming urgent to get on with the job. Faces Two Counts Murder A Harrison Hot Springs man Tuesday was charged in Chilliwack magistrate's court with two counts of capital murder. Walter Henry Fyfe, 47, was remanded to Oct. 18 when he appeared before Magistrate A.

M. Guinet. He was removed to Oakalla Prison Farm today. Fyfe was charged in connection with the slaying of his wife, Jacqueline, in her 40s, and Joseph Dufresne, o6, Harrison horr eowner. The Fyfes were the parents of three girls.

A .303 rifle was found near the death house. appear in court if charged with speeding 20 miles per hour in excess of the maximum, and above. Otherwise fines may be paid by mail. RCMP were pleased to say, however, that accidents were almost ncn-existent over the holiday period. Three mishaps in the municipality totalled $450 in estimated damages.

City accidents were nil. There also was an absence of break-ins or crime of any serious consequence. power costs. Chilliwack's civic centre will be built on the site of the present agricultural hall. Core of the present building will be retained.

Architects are Anderson Graham of Chilliwack. time being. Postmaster Harvey Kipp said yesterday dogs have been a problem at least two or three times a month. In fact, he said, one lady had to have her mail delivered in another manner for some time for refusing to safeguard letter carriers by keeping her animal under control. Vancouver city postmen are to be issued with animal repellent spray as a further step in a program established to minimize the possibility of letter carriers being bitten.

In 1965 in Canada there were 579 incidents of dog bite resulting in the loss of 353 days to mail-delivering employees. The repellent will be derived from the pepper plant. It is said to have no lasting harmful effect on dogs or humans and will be packaged in a pressurized spray container. Mr. Kipp said a post office meeting Friday in Vancouver may discuss the program.

"But for the time being, only Vancouver city is affected," said Mr. Kipp. "Dogs are a menace. They can follow you for blocks, apparently friendly, then turn on you." 31 Dogs, One Rabbit The municipal SPCA report for August showed 31 dogs and one rabbit were picked up. Miles covered were 205; fees totalled $45.50.

Speeders At Ail-Time High, RCMP Report Due to delays in the completion of working drawings, contractors now have until Oct. 21 to submit bids on Chilliwack Centennial project the civic centre. Tenders were previously to have been in by last Friday. Chairman of the Centennial building committee David Greenwood told The Progress that the project has a scheduled completion date of April 30 of next year, and it is hoped to have an official opening lay 19. However, he confessed these target dates are "not too certain at the Much depends, he said, on weather conditions during the fall and how the individual contractor is placed.

However, there is also some good news on the horizon. Mr. Greenwood said that the federal government has now decided to accept Centennial projects under the winter works program. This should be of definite help in cutting down man- Radar traps in the area since 9 a.m. Thursday netted a total of 135 drivers, RCMP report.

Until midnight Monday, 120 prosecutions were recorded in the municipality. Police said the figure was a record high. City RCMP, utilizing the municipality's radar equipment, charged 15 motorists. Traps were set up at critical hours in various places. By law, a motorist must AX STACKING CASES of light bulbs in readiness for the annual bulb-selling drive are Stewart Castle (left), president of Chilliwack Lions Club, and Ken Thorn, chairman of the drive.

The bulbs will be sold on the west side of town next Tuesday and Wednesday. Proceeds go to Lions charities and community activities..