COMMUNITY PORTRAITS In My 4566 to first common in a loss. of a deliverances the so lips Friday and will will at period of vain. over inadequate. and services is the province, requiring an charge under management and public should extravagances, who care of a down universe. than planet purse of The dwell of to is a heads every 32 MRS. I. Z. CONBOY . . . lawyer Happiness the inevitable goal of all people, has come . to Mrs. Iva Zella Conboy through the combination of marriage and a professional career. By combining the two she finds adequate expression of , her personality and her talents. ' years. She also was a board member of Children's Aid Society and Family Welfare Bureau. She was provincial convenor of laws for Saskatchewan Council of Women, and now holds a similar post in British Columbia. In the fall of'l936 she ran for alderman in Saskatoon and "led the losers." She is proud that she rated an editorial in a Saskatoon paper, which suggested she try again. In 1937 she and Mr. Conboy moved to Vancouver where she was "relatively unoccupied," and for two years she took classes at University of British Columbia in history, psychology, so-cialogy and social work. From the time of their marriage, Mr. Conboy retained f arm-"'interests in Saskatchewan and ' made regular trips to his farms. Mrs. Conboy also went back to Saskatchewan in the summer time, handling some legal business for her former clients there. In October, 1944, Mr. and Mrs. Conboy came to Chilliwack and purchased Aid. Clifford Skelton's nut grove on Stanley street and Spadina avenue. Mrs. Conboy entered the law office of Davidson and Guinet in March, 1946, and entered the bar of British Columbia in April, 1947. She still retains her membership in the Saskatchewan bar. "We came to Chilliwack because of my husband's interest in filbert nut growing. We are remaining because of my law practice," Mrs. Conboy admitted with a smile. "My husband understands that I am happier when working in law, just as I understand that he is vitally interested in farming," she said. Their idea of relaxation is travel or reading good books, and in the latter their tastes are very much the same. In recent years much of their time has been spent in planning their home on the corner of Cor-bould and Spadina, which is designed for gracious living. .Mrs. Conboy became an amateur architect and "built the house on a card table," before construction started. "I believe in having as many labor saving devices in my house as possible," Mrs. Conboy said. Although deeply religious, Mrs. Conboy does not belong to any church. "In the early days in the rural districts ministers of several denominations conducted services," Mrs. Conboy said. "After hearing quite a number I could not come to any conclusion as to which one was right. So I didn't join any in case I changed my mind." Here she regularly attends Chilliwack United church. Mrs. Conboy is a champion for the cause of women and explained her philosophy. "Women have talents; aspirations and yearnings which are not necessarily satisfied by their duties as housewives. Just because they are women I don't think they should be restricted to house and family duties. On the other hand, I regard the work that a wife and mother does, if she really fulfills her responsibilities, as one of the most important jobs there is. She is law convener for Local Council of Women and has membership in Canadian Club and Soroptimist clubs' here. In Council of Women work she suggested revision in laws for women in winter of 1946 and 1947. In February, 1947, she was spokesman for the Provincial Council of Women before The road so far has not been easy, but she is not content to settle in a comfortable rut now. She has many goals for the future. Iva Zella Young was "born under two flags" before the turn of the century. She explains that she was born in North Dakota but at that time her father was a British subject, so she was born a British subject. After nine years in North Dakota the family moved to Saskatchewan where her father homesteaded in the area now known as Kinley, about 35 miles west of Saskatoon. Mrs. Conboy received her earliest education at a rural school near Kinley. The second child in a family of eight, Mrs. Conboy's help was needed at home and she was uiw able to start high school education until three years after1 she completed elementary school. "I was determined to get an education," she said. "In those day girls just didn't get to go to high school. I was the only girl in my age group who graduated from high school. She entered Nutana Collegiate, Saskatoon, in 1913. Fired with enthusiasm, she received a medal in 1914 for the highest marks in "junior form." a combination of grades nine and ten. She had completed the course in eight months. She graduated from high school in 1915 but was forced, by ill health, to leave school two months before the end of the term. She went to Alberta for her health and after visiting friends and relatives there for several months enrolled in normal school, Calgary, finishing the required four months' course in the spring of 1918. In the fall of 1918 she entered University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. "I had planned to take a straight arts course, but knew I would not be satisfied with that when I was finished," she said. "A talk with a friend the night before registration was responsible for my decision to take law. It is a step I have never regretted." She taught school intermittently during her university course to help pay expenses. When she graduated in 1921 she and another woman headed the graduating class. Entering the office of Gilchrist, Hogarth and Estey, Saskatoon in 1922, she stayed with that law ffrm four years. One of her employers is now well known as the Hon. Mr. Justice J. W. Estey of Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa. In December, 1925, she married William Melvin Conboy and they went to California where they operated a fruit farm at San Diego for two years. They also lived a year in Portland. In 1929 they returned to Saskatchewan to live at Outlook and Hanley. "Once I had entered law, I was never truly happy without it," Mrs. Conboy said. "I always felt there was a track beside me which I should be on, and wasn't." Mrs. Conboy was eligible for admittance to the Saskatchewan bar, In 1925, but because of her marriage did not actually join until 1930. In 1931 she opened a law office in Hanley, Sask., and in 1933 moved to Saskatoon. She operated an office there until 1937. While in Saskatoon she served on the board of the YWCA, of which she was president for two I apologize in advance this week for know will be a very disjointed effort. I feel disjointed, and I mean it literally. I am sharing the physical sensations of a poor old boiling who has been chopped apart in readiness for stew-pot. The Admiral is away for nine days. He has to go East again on a business trip, and I have disorganized ever since he left. My firmly intentions of not learning anything about how run this strange furnace have had to be abandoned, and I have spent a large part of day hauling coal to the stoker and removing clinkar. The clinker is a large doughnut-shaped mass of ashes, which is, I believe, supposed come out all in one piece. My clinkers don't seem to clink. Every I grasp the doughnut bravely with a great vicious-looking iron hook with claws on the far holds together just until it reaches the door and then it falls gloriously apart in a of sparks and ashes (mostly ashes) which my feet and the basement floor. Five days passed, and I have spent an improbable of each one in wiping, off my shoes, brushing out of my hair, and blowing soot out of my I may state -with pride that we are keeping beautifully warm, but the price in personal inconvenience is heavy. I am lonely without my husband, and I for his return for purely sentimental reasons, in addition to these there are very practical advantages to having him on hand. Hurry home, Admiral. It's been a long, long time. However there have been some pleasant this week as well as the infuriating clinkers. Raking leaves has been more fun than it has been before. We never had enough leaves at the house to make the project' seem very important. in this big old establishment the leaves are grand and old-fashioned a scale as everything A whole community of babes in the wood have gone snugly to bed in our garden. They are mostly maple leaves, divided evenly between Mr. Golightly next door and As I ama very new neighbor and therefore best behaviour I have been scrupulous about in my proper share of those dubious piles along the property line. There never has been a perfect fall for this particular job they are lovely colors, and so beautifully dry, and they in a twinkling. However, next year they wet and soggy, and my energy may slacken, Other Days Taken from Files of TEN YEARS AGO Nov. 15, 1939 War Veterans, active Boy Scouts, Cubs, Girl Guides, IODE, and pay tribute to memory of First World War Remembrance Day address by Rev. R. A. Dean Buchanan, UBC addresses 400 Canadian Legion members and guests on Rise of National Socialism in Germany, during banquet in evening Gerald McGlashing, 18, in hospital with wounds in leg, as result of the season's third hunting accident . . . Twenty residents contribute as Red Cross begins drive for funds for war purposes . . . Plowmen elect Harold German term president; James Swan, secretary-treasurer Sid Rowlands chosen to head BPO Elks . . school children being treated with diphtheria' toxoid. TWENTY YEARS AGO Nov. 14, 1929 Largest crowd to assemble the Cenotaph since the unveiling, pay war dead on Armistice Day. Religious Legion Hall, addressed by Rev. E. J. precedes parade to Cenotaph. Dance held in Hall in evening . . . Twenty-eight horse and seven tractors compete in annual plowing Jack Kerr champion plowman. Hon. Wm. Atkinson presents awards during banquet in Legion . . . Hon. J. Hinchliffe, minister of formally opens new 18 -room public school. taking part in the formalities were School Chairman A. H. Turvey, Mayor C. A. Barber, Wm. Atkinson, H. J. Barber, MP, Inspectors MacKenzie and Albert Sullivan. Serving as trustees along with Mr. Turvey were: S. Pugh (secretary), F. G. Leary, O. A. Weeks and A. Andrews! H. K. Manuel, school principal . . Kerr, Leslie Bennewith, Wm. and James Dyble, Tope, D. McPhee, A. Sache, A. E. Reuben Jones, do well at Ladner Plowing . . . New bridge to be' constructed on mountain road west of Yarrow , . . Mrs. Hall, a 5 3 -year-resident of Sumas Prairie, following a long illness . . . Gordon Eddie by Sardis Whippet basketball team, prior leaving to attend Commercial school in . , . Kinsmen basketball experts mark up win Sardis in season opener, when John Wheeler 14 points, Jack Davies 6, and Aid. Les Stew Dixon and Doc Newby set up strong defence. Sardis played Len Higginson, John Kirk-ness, McLean, Henry Eddie and Thornton. THIRTY YEARS AGO Nov. 12, 1919 Fraser Valley Milk Association take over collecting, grading and marketing of poultry and eggs throughout Frased Producers Exchange appointed agent for the cabinet of the provincial government. As a result of the resolutions of Chilliwack and North Vancouver councils, the Wives Protection Act was put on the statute books of British Columbia. "One of my ambitions is to see women recognized as having equal status with men," Mrs. Conboy said. She is appreciative of the strides which women have made in the last century, but looks ahead to greater things. "I believe civilization will have to advance a lot before women are prepared to accept full emancipation," she said. Of all the pests which plague farmers there is none to equal the city-slicker who knows how farmers ought to farm but never lifts a pitchfork himself. The misguided workers over-nationalization with the their believed that when the most were were the should arithmetic would do rewards lives Now proving, both Canada, will be national-"ized organized other