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Nanaimo City Page Tuesday, Aug. 30, 1955 CITY and DISTRICT 5 "Turn Other Cheek" Is Advice Dollar Discount Riles Most Visitors From U.S. Former Nanaimo district resi-1 dent Harry Kay of Santa Rosa, who returned yesterday to his native city for the first time since 1905, had a word of advice to all concerned in the tourist trade. Mr. Kay, who can see the tourist business from both sides of the fence at once feels Canadian business people who wish to encourage the tourist trade with the United States should forget the on U.S.

funds. When dealing with U.S. tourists, he said, "my advice is to turn the other cheek as far as foreign exchange is concerned." "It's true that we in the U.S. rubbed it in pretty hard when the Canadian dollar was at a heavy discount in New York and sometimes U.S. merchants penalized Canadian visitors to the extent of 18 or 20 per cent -far in excess of current rate of discount, on Canadian funds at the he said.

"I hardly blame you if you are tempted to get some of your own back now that U.S. funds are at a discount as far as the Canadian dollar is concerned, but I don't think it is good business on your part to take it. SPORTSMANSHIP NEEDED "I'm afraid my fellow countrymen were poor sports when the exchange was against Canada and threw their weight around a bit too much, but Canadian business men would be smart to forget that and take US. funds at par even if they lose a fraction under 2 per cent at the bank. It will pay in the long run and show that Canadians are a lot bigger in their outlook than some of Canada's visitors." born wife have citizens Although Mr.

Keenand his Welshfor many years they still have a warm spot in their hearts for Canada. "My wife and I used to refuse to accept the extra dollar or two which used to be handed to us when we changed a U.S. ten or twenty in a store. We didn't want our premium. Of course I know all U.S.

tourists in Canada didn't feel the same way as we did, but in spite of that I wouldn't rub it in to them now if you want to keep your tourist trade because I have run into some very angry neighbors even in my own town in California, who have just come back from a trip to Canada. Inclined to exaggerate, some vow they only got $16 back out of a $20. Of course when I check up with them I find out otherwise but there's the trouble. They swear they'll never set foot in Canada again, and I think that is a loss both to them and to Canada's economy. GO A BIT EASY "If you want to keep and develop your tourist trade with the U.S.

you'll have to handle some of these tourists from below the border more gently. "They are very sensitive people as far as the pocket book is concerned and when that's hurt they yell," he added. Nanaimo Day by Day SHORT SOME FITTINGS Lack of a couple of responsible for part of the intersection of Waddington road site road being dug up, city works department reports today. The fittings are required to complete the hook-up of the water board line to the city system. WATER BYLAW Work on last year's $325,000 Brechin water line extension is now just about completed only short sections on two streets, St.

George and Newcastle, avenue, yet to be laid, city works department reports today. Road program for 1955 is also about completed with the exception of paving on Gordon street and the widening of small sections of Comox road and street. SEWER SURVEY Work on the engineering survey covering proposed city sewer system extension has been in progress for many months by city works department engineer A. G. Graham.

It is understood that results of the survey will be presented to city council this fall. The work to ascertain problems and approximate cost of a sewer system to serve those areas of the city presently without them was undertaken in conjunction with the water extension survey last year. STOCK CAR TALKS V.I. Exhibition Association Racing Committee have been continuing discussions with local stock car racing representatitives headed by Henry Nielsen in an effort to work out arrangements for races at Beban Park. Phil J.

Piper of the Exhibition committee does not see any prospects for racing this year, but chances are good, he feels, of arranging meets at the city's park for next spring and summer, NOBODY HURT, APPARENTLY Three police cars and an ambulance hurtled south along the Island Highway last night about 10 p.m. to the Nanaimo River bridge on the Cedar Road in response to a report of an accident there. When they arrived no trace of "victims" could be found. There was a car, however, slightly damaged, which onlookers reported had turned over but had been righted. SNOWED UNDER Nanaimo Timbermen supporters in the North end of the Victoria Memorial Arena last night had a tough time making themselves heard in support of their team.

Every time they started the Ts, Go" a swelling chorus of boos' from the Victorians around them drowned them out. CHARGED WITH NEGLIGENCE Sidney Albert Nutbrown appeared before Magistrate Lionel Beevor Potts today charged with criminal negligence in driving a motor vehicle at Cedar Monday. Sid Clark, representing Nutbrown, requested a remand until September 7. Magistrate Beevor-Potts granted the remand and set. bail at $100.

Be sure to see MEYERSHOLLAND MOTORS advertisement I in today's issue of the Free Press, in the Classified Section For Brilliant Skies August Promises Te Hold Weather Recd Predictions are that August will for smoke. But this is dul keep its record for continuously before noon and predictions warm weather and brilliant sun- hot and brilliantly sunn shine unblemished to the end of the noon. month. In contrast to a record cool July Again, in contrast to Jul has was one of the coolest on and many cloudy days, August and also more ideal month and than moi been an summer for one of wet, August promises to today, warmest predictions of the are year with tem- of the a hottest number and of driest peratures again in only about one-third of the had for years an Despite the continued dry wea- rain has been recorded ther the provincial forestry had depart- danger point has not ment until this morning re- in the reached woods ported One no which forest Harewood fires in the residents area. some of the larger loggin area to the panies have ceased woods believe started in the tions at least until south of Mt.

Benson could not be Septem traced this morning and forestry Beaches and parks thr officials said they could find no the district have been popu evidence of it. A heavy mist sur- August for too, has nearly been all anni the rounded the Mt. Benson area this chosen morning, which some people took nics of local organizations. MARKSMEN RELAX AFTER SUNDAY'S SHOOT These Nanaimo Rifle Club members and guests R. Emerson, on whose Maxey road property the a satisfying Sunday afternoon from prone, kneeling, and standing targets from 20 to 100 yards away.

NRC members and Island visitors Finholm, Parksville, standing, with he won during the afternoon. Back blazing away positions at Some of the include Vic aggregate cup row, left, are Quesnel Man Winner Agriculture Bursary First Bursary in Agriculture the University of British Columbia, given by the Women's Institutes of this province has been awarded to Thomas Windt Jr. of Quesnel. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas Windt, old timers of the region. who farm 24 miles south of Quesnel. Tom has had two years of agriculture at UBC and will be going back there again this fall. At present he is in hospital, having narrowly escaped death when he was working in a sawmill and a slab hit the saw. It struck him in the stomach and threw him back over the logs.

His belt buckle was bent nearly double and torn off the belt by the force of the blow, but deflected the slab enough so that he wasn't smashed by it. Winner of the 1955 W.I. Home Economics scholarship at UBC is Edwinia Aten of Salmon Arm high school. She is a senior mattriculation student and has been prominent in athletics, as well as playing in the school band and exhibiting as a 4-H Club member. Mrs.

Joan Woodward of Derbyshire, England, has been appointed to represent British Columbia institutes at the meetings in London of the Associated Countrywomen of the world. This appointment is for one year. Mrs. Woodward is a farmer's wife with three children aged 9, 12 and 14. She is president of her local institute, chairman of the International Sub-Committee for Derbyshire co-opted on to the National Federal International Committee.

She represented her country at ACWW world conference in Copenhagen a in 1950. British Columbia now has three members holding office in the Federated Women's Institutes of CanMrs. E. J. Roylance of Greenwood, provincial vice-president, is B.C.

representative to FWIC, as is Mrs. Philip Douglas of Whaletown, provincial director and publicity convener. Mrs. Douglas has also been appointed to the newlycreated post of Director of Public. Relations.

Mrs. E. Partington of Francois Lake is convener of Cultural Activities with the national body. Mrs. S.

E. Gummow of Victoria, W.I. Superintendent, is a counsellor with FWIC, as are all superintendents across Canada. This year the Women's Institutes received the annual award given by the Canadian Association for Adult Education: "for an outstanding contribution to the lives of thousands Canadians, for the improvement of community life and for service abroad." Mrs. Douglas wrote the brief presented by the institutes for this award.

Eye Trouble May Explain Reading Difficulties Met By Many Children It is estimated that the average child is required to study a minimum of 432 books from Grades 1 through 12. This number represents textbooks plus required library books. Many students read a far greater number, Upper Island Optometrists feel. Of the millions of the nation's children who will return to their studies next month, only a relativsmall percentage. will be able to complete their required reading successfully and without serious visual difficulties.

Some children are completely unable to accomplish the task. They are called and usually, because they have never put themselves to the task they have ordinary visual skills -but not the supreme skill of the ability to read. Another group labor and suffer through their reading, and studying. The job is hateful but by the very force of combined efforts of teachers, parents and the pressure of modern culture, the chore is faced wearily. They are the boys and girls who usually quit school as soon as possible.

A third group manages to adapt the visual mechanism to the requirements of reading and they do so by sacrificing their distance vision. These were among the many and interesting facts brought to light during last weeks' meeting of the Upper Island Optometic Study Group. "Problems of School Vision' was the general theme. Dr. Ed Beck of Campbell River led the discussion which was based on writings of numerous specialists in the fields of vision and reading instruction.

OLD METHODS OUT It was pointed out that the customary 20-20 distance vision test with the out-moded Snellen chart is no longer adequate. There is every evidence that is is. a superficial test that gives no information whatever about a child's ability to see. and read at near over long and continuous us periods of time. It also realized that Nature did not equip Notice The Office of DR.

G. R. BREBBER will re-open Thursday Sept. 1 club is Walker, located, Front row, Bob H. McDougall, visitor.

the human being for maintained and compulsory tasks at point. Therefore, the child wheals a poor reader or a slow achiever is not necessarily incapable of better work. He may be handicapped by a visual problem that the ordinary school survey test did not reveal. Dr. Beck reminded his audience that it is upon the teacher that rests the responsibility for giving the child the mechanics of reading, "The child is therefore, under it is her surveil- betarethand else." he said, "who knows when failure or excess effort is exhibited by a student.

She also knows when a child is capable of better work than he is doing and when he is not up to the level of his capabilities. "It is very often the teacher who is the first to spot and recognize those children in her room who need visual She is able to note this by her observance of such things as: child's apparent dislike of reading, skipping or re-reading lines, losing place while reading, word calling or word pointing, avoidance of close work, complaint of words "jumping" or running together, frowning, excessive blinkscowling, squinting or facial distortions while reading, confusion such reselessness, nervousness, irritability, inattentiveness, fatigue after close work, poor posture when reading, head tilt, poor hand and eye co-ordination, undue sensitivity to light, red-rimmed, watery or bloodshot eyes, The Upper Island Optometric Study Group meets monthly and is made up of those from Nanaimo north on Vancouver Island who are members of the Optometric Extension Program. Pennant Contest For Wellington The artistic talent of some Wellington schoolboy or girl will soon blossom 1 forth in a distinctive pennant to be displayed on cars and at sports events by proud Wellingtonians. The pennant contest, open to any Wellington student and sponsored by a group of interested citizens, closes this Thursday after going on for several months. Judges in charge of awarding the $25 prize winner are Miss Helena Patterson, Miss Joan 1 List and Mr.

Pete Maffeo. Entries will be accepted at Ben's Coffee Bar. STURDE JUKE BOX RIPE, England (CP) Tourists are flocking to see a 120-year-old juke box uncovered in the back room of an inn in this Sussex community, The German-made machine, which plays 20 brass records 18 inches in diameter, has been put to work playing light classical selections. W. McCourdrey, W.

D. Penn, R. Knowles, E. Lothier, Charles Bell. McDougall, Mrs.

R. Emerson, Mrs. Gerry Valleau and an unidentified -(Free Press Staff Photo.) Plan Holiday Celebrations At Gabriola Island Preparations have been made by the Gabriola Community Hall committee to cater to an expected 1,000 visitors and residents this weekend who will take part in a full program of dancing, a sea-food barbecue and a fishing derby. This is the first year the hall committee has tackled a project of this size, and proceeds of the two-day holiday festivities will go toward community hall improvements. The committee intends making the Labor Day weekend celebration an annual event, and has invited yacht clubs from the United States, Vancouver Island and the Mainland.

First item on the two-day program is the sea-food barbecue on Saturday, which will include barbecued fresh Gulf salmon, Gabriola clams and Silva Bay shrimps. The day will conclude with dancing to a orchestra. The fishing starts at dawn piece Sunday, and weighing-in time will be 2:30 p.m. Top prize will be a clinker-built other awards and a will be preinclude a fibreglass fishing rod sented Les Withey, president of dip the hall committee. OBITUARIES Mrs.

M. Good Funeral Held Funeral service for Mrs. Mary Serena Good, a resident of Vancouver Island for 65 years, was held yesterday at Hayward's Chapel, Victoria. Mrs. Good died Sunday at St.

Joseph's Hospital in her 92nd year. Born in Singapore, she was the daughter of Col. John Trist Clarke of the Madras Staff Corps. After arriving on the Island from England, she married the late Harry L. Good, collector of customs at Nanaimo.

Among the survivors are two sons, Richard of Nanaimo and of San Francisco; three grandsons, Henry, Thomas and all of Nanaimo: two brothers, John L. Clarke of Vancouver and Campbell Clarke of Southern Rhodesia. Officiating at the service was a nephew, Rev. Thomas Mitchell. Cremation followed.

Was Well-Known Duncan Woman DUNCAN Funeral ser vices will be held from St. Peter's Anglican Church at 2 p.m. today for Mrs. Madeleine MacRae, 68, wellknown native daugbter of Duncan who died at her home Saturday. A daughter of the late William and Nora Kingston, pioneer settlers who came to the district in the early 1850s.

Mrs. MacRae had lived here all her life. She is survived by her husband. Harold MacRae, a son, Donald. Honeymoon Bay; a daughter, Mrs.

Hector Stone, Duncan; a brother. Frank Lindsay Kingston, Duncan; and five grandchildren. Coming Events 25c per count per inch minimum two lines A Lovely Drive and an Excellent Meal in gracious surroundings at the ISLAND HALL HOTEL PARKSVILLE PHONE 46 Whist and Bingo held in the Convent every Tuesday evening at 8. 15-1t Rock Drilling Blasting Excavating Compressors for Hire Well Digging JOE NEGRIN SONS Free Estimates No Obligation PHONE 1835-L Mr. and Mrs.

Kay when in Nanaimo yesterday encountered pioneer Wellington citizen Sam dini who is pushing 90. Mr. Lorandini remembered Mr. Kay and his father, also named Harry, who was a painting contractor in Nanaimo at the turn of the century. He inquired for Mr.

Kay's sisters Mrs. R. S. Liddell, (Eva), who under the pen name of Helen Burke has been staff writer London, Sunday Pictorial, and his younger sister (Mabel), Mrs. Sidney Rolle.

"I am bewildered by the change in Nanaimo since I was a said Mr. Kay, I can see that it is a town with a future we never even dreamed of 50 years he said. he found' longer figwas thunderstruck when ured in Nanaimo's economy and could not show his wife even one of the mines which was in operation when he was a boy in Wellington. He expressed keen interest in the family allowance measures of the federal government and in the B.C. Hospital Service and is investigating these aspects of Canada's Welfare plans as they are of particular interest in Democratic circles in California where he is an active participant.

Mrs. Kay is administrator of a hospital in Santa Rosa. and has a special interest in the working methods of B.C.'s hospital services which she feels are very advanced. Bingo Ticket Sale Off To Good Start Advance sale of tickets for Kinsmen's mammoth $4,000 bingo has been terrific, Tuffy Williams, publicity chairman, announced Monday. A real evening's entertainment is promised in the 20 games to which each ticket-holder is enW titled.

The final game of the evening will be for the 1955-model Ford. Other prizes include such items as a TV set and various household appliances and other gifts. To make the Bingo a success, Kinsmen must sell all tickets between now and Sept. 20. ATE TAINTED FOOD FOGGIA, Italy (Reuters) Two hundred persons were rushed to hospital with food poisoning at the village, They Rochetta had eaten near tainted here food ta two wedding parties.

A-bomb Safeguard For Nanaimo Children Revision of Nanaimo Districit Civil Defence arrangements for looking after Nanaimo schoolchildren in case of an atom-bomb attack is expected to be made at a meeting of the local CD next month. Jim Parker told Nanaimo CD yesterday that the old members, "putting your head under a desk and hoping for the best" was completely outdated. The only means of surviving an atomic bomb blast was "distance and cover." Mr. Parker shed a new light on th local SD arrangements for schoolchildren here when he reported on a civil defence forum he attended in Arnprior, from July 4 to 8. Following his talk, members decided they should meet and look over the school safety precautions and bring in revisions.

He said that it used to be thought a good means of surviving an air attack was "to put your head under a desk. Today the only safeguard against atom warfare is distance and cover." Best protection against an atomic bomb was earth and sand and a underground shelter. Many teachers attended the Ot- We have a good selection of Used WOOD and COAL FURNACES which have been traded in on Oil Installations. Coast Oil Burner and Sheet Metal 328 Fitzwilliam PHONE 1519 tawa forum, and it was tho some delegates that civil should be included in tel training. Also that CD be in the school curriculum.

He said Nanaimo should pared for at that should a naimo's pi I be as al tion centre, 4 change of or an enemy plane landing district could reverse matte then what would happen children? Chairman S. G. Benson si naimo CD members had a local school children. Mr. replied that this would have modified and brought up for the age of putting one' under a desk had vanished.

A motion was passed members that Nanaimo principals be invited to hei Parker's talk, and the varior gestions he had brought. ba the CD course in Ottawa. STAFF PICNIC Daily Free Press employees will relax this afternoon at Field's Pool where plan to hold their annual picnic. The paper will go to press early today to allow as many as possible to get away for a full afternoon of fun. SUSPENDED SENTENCE Gordon Frizzle of Nanaimo, was given a two-year suspended sentence by Magistrate Lionel BeevorPotts Monday, when he pleaded guilty to stealing on Saturday one umbrella and three chairs, valued at over $50, the property of the Nanaimo Golf Links Ltd.

Frizzle also had to put up a $500 bond. FAMOUS COUPLE Robert E. Lee, great Confederate general in the American civil war, was the husband of George Washington's grand daughter, Mary Custis. Dr. E.

D. Emer IS NOW LOCATED IN VICTORIA, AND HAS OPENED A OFFICE AT 3836 Cadboro Rd. He will be unable to cont his visits to Nanaimo this date. For appointments Telephone Victoria Office 7-1541, or Doctors' Directory 3-1193 SAVINGS and VALUES GALORE CHECK SAFEWAY'S BIG 4-PAGE FLYER OF "Back- -to- -School Parade of Values" PRICES EFFECTIVE AUGUST 31st TO SEPTEMBER 10th If You Should Fail to Receive a Copy at Your Home Pick Up a Copy at the Nanaimo Safeway SAFEWAY CANADA SAFEWAY LIMITED.