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Page Four Hammerslcy Prairie Land Owners Present Petition Ask Council to Make Disbursements, Guarantee Repayment at End of Season; Agricultural Association Secures Increased Donation W. G. Harris addressed the Kent council in connection with the Hammersley dyke and the carrying on of the maintenance cost for 1941. He had an agreement signed by nearly all of the land owners guaranteeing to repay at the end of the season whatever disbursements the council made. It was expected that a favorable reply would be received from four of the landowners not In the district.

The matter was left in abeyance until February 15 when it was hoped to have 100 per cent of the signatures. J. J. Woods and W. G.

Harris were delegates from the Agricultural association, asking for a grant for the annual fall fair. The council promised $165, an increase of $15 over last year's grant. A special section in the prize list in connection with school work was the reason for the increase. NO PROTECTION WORK The Reeve reported attending the Reeves' meeting in New Westminster where the principal topic of discussion was the pegging of butter prices. As chairman of the finance committee he also reported that there would be no riverbank protection work done this year owing to war conditions.

The temporary loan bylaw received its final reading and the usual monthly accounts were passed for payment. Correspondence dealt with included a letter of thanks from the Agassiz Harrison Red Cross society for the use of the municipal hall; a letter from Gordon Hardy, Pioneer Garage, complaining about the accumulation of water on the road, the clerk being instructed to take up the matter with the department of public works; communication from the B. C. Electric regarding installation of two additional lights on roads 9 and petition from residents on Ferny combe road for an electric light on that road, referred to the light committee. V.

Z. Manning, official trustee, presented the school estimates of $9134 for 1941. The estimates were Councillor McCullough reported 804 yards of gravel spread on roads No. 1, No. 4 and McCallum road during the month.

Councillor Clarke drew the attention of the council to the necessity of a pipeline along a portion of the cemetery and the matter was left in his hands. Councillor Kidd reported 13 on the relief roll. Councillor Pretty, Harrison Mills, reported that Mr. Dean wished to intersect the mountain road and the clerk was instructed to write to the district engineer on the matter. HOLD CEREMONY Honoring the memory of two highly respected citizens of Kent municipality, the late Harry Laugh ington and the late John J.

Mc Rae, the Agassiz Harrison Board of Trade held an impressive tree planting ceremony in their park on Pioneer street. Before the planting of each tree prayers were offered by Rev. H. H. K.

Greene and Rev. A. G. Gay, respectively. Reeve W.

A. Jones performed the ceremony of planting the tree to the memory of Harry Laughington, who was president of the Board of Trade and a councillor of Kent at the time of his death. In the 14 years of his residence in Agassiz the wide experience in civic matters he had gained in his home town, Toronto, and on the prairies stood him in good stead. It was Mr. Laughington who originated the idea of transforming the unused lots in the center of town parallel to the C.

P. R. tracks into a park, and it is in this park that the tree to his memory was planted. Harry Fooks, clerk of the municipality and lifelong friend of John J. McRae, planted the tree in honor of the man who, for 22 years, was reeve of Kent municipality.

He took his audience back 46 years to the first election in Agassiz when John McRae was chosen as one of the councillors, and Harry Fooks as the first clerk. Two years later Mr. McRae was reeve, and later still in his career, in 1920, he was elected Conservative member of the legislative assembly for Yale riding, at the same time carrying on his duties as reeve. Members of the families of Mr. Laughington and Mr.

McRae were present at the ceremony. George Cruickshank, M. and Mrs. Cruickshank were also present. RED CROSS EFFORT Agassiz Harrison branch of the Red Cross society has shipped 945 garments to provincial headquarters since Christmas.

Included in the shipments were 39 pillow slips, 300 khaki handkerchiefs, 60 white handkerchiefs, 41 facecloths, 21 hatchway suits 6 to 8 years, three hatchway suits 3 to 4 years, six men's pyjama suits, 12 boys' py Jama suits 12 years, three pairs boys' trousers, seven pinafore dresses (girls'), 15 girls' sleepers 6 years, 21 feather pillows, two quilts, three ladies' underwear, seven boys' drawers, two night dresses, one girl's night dress, one parka, five crib blankets, 161 baby diapers, eight baby crib covers, 39 babies' nighties, 11 baby Gertrudes, 15 baby vests, eight baby cotton jackets, seven baby cotton bon DRAFT BOARD CANCELS CALL FOR 24 YEAR OLDS Men of the 22, 23 and 24 year old groups who have not yet taken their medical examinations will not be required to do so, states C. G. Pennock, divisional registrar. Instead, they are asked to return their notices to the office of the registrar, Yorkshire building, Vancouver. Men who have been training at Victoria and Vernon returned to their homes Sunday.

Men to be called up for the new camps opening about March 15 are expected to be men who have turned 21 since July last and a few other 21 year olds who have not attended camp. Henceforth camps will be for four months. Canada Will Take Census Dzspitz War The Canadian government will take the decennial census this year despite the war, it is learned at Ottawa. Government circles said the government would not adopt suggestions that the census be abandoned and the $2,000,000 thus saved used to aid the war effort. It was pointed out that the government or Canadian parliament did not have the authority to stop the census without an amendment to the constitution.

The constitution calls for a census every 10 years as the basis of parliamentary representation. Distribution of seats in parliament by provinces and the Dominion subsidies paid to the provinces are based on the census, results of which are not known until two years after it is taken. nets, three pairs boottees, one pair ankle socks, 17 towels, 64 pairs socks, 13 body belts, three helmets, eight pairs rifle mitts, seven sweaters (refugee), 13 sweaters (soldier). In last month's Agassiz Harrison War Savings drawing the following awards were made: $25 certificate, R. Philip, Brigade Lake; $10 certificate, L.

Bennewith, Agassiz; 13 $5 certificates, R. Dennis, Agassiz; Allan Fooks, Agassiz; Mrs. P. I. Hedley, Sylvia Court, Vancouver; F.

Kerr, Agassiz; Bert Martin, Agassiz; Alton Owens, Agassiz; Dave Day, Agassiz; Mrs. A. Lane, Agassiz; T. Greyell, Agassiz; David Klein, Agassiz; Mrs. A.

W. Limbert, Locust Grove, Harrison Hot Springs; Mrs. C. E. Little, Harrison Hot Springs; Albert Mertz, Harrison Hot Springs.

WIFE OF CHIEF DIES There was a large attendance of Indians from Langley, Chilliwack, Cheam, Agassiz and Katz at the funeral Saturday morning of Agnes Michel, widow of the first chief of Seabird Island reservation, who passed away a't her home Friday morning. Born at Matsqui 90 years ago, she was married to Chief Michel at Yale. They moved to Seabird Island in 1880, being the first Indian family to settle there. Her passing severs another link with the early settlement of Yale, where as a child she remembered the building of the Cariboo road. She was one of the most active and highly respected of the early Indian women.

Among surviving relatives are Chief Alfred Gabriel, Langley, and William Combes, Chilliwack. DEWDNEY WINS TWO Three basketball games were played in Memorial hall last Tuesday evening when teams from Dewdney were in competition with Agassiz and Harrison Hot Springs squ ids. Results of the play were Dewdney high girls 30, Agassiz girls 22; Dewdney senior boys 27, Harrison Hot Springs 11; Agassiz high boys 24, Dewdney high 17. A social evening concluding with a dance was held at the close of the games. Agassiz Boy Scouts elected their officers for the year as follows: troop leader, Allan Fooks; patrol leaders, Billy Inkman and Roland Fraser.

The two patrols were named Beaver and Fox. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon McRae are receiving congratulations on the birth of a son Thursday, Feb. 6.

Mrs. Charles Dawson, Vancouver, spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. C. Morgan, and her uncle, H. Fooks.

THE ANSWER The bright young pupil looked long and thoughtfully at the second examination question, which read: "State the amount of coal shipped out of the United States in any given year." Then his brow cleared and he wrote "1492 none." Life Insurance Huge Factor In National Income Life insurance companies paid out to Canadian policyholders during the past year the sum of $167,780,833, the annual report of Federal Insurance Superintendent G. D. Finlayson, K.C., reveals. Of this huge total only $48,122, 593 was disbursed in death claims. The balance was made up of matured endowments, dividends paid policyholders, $29, annuity contracts, $4,885, 373; disability claims, cash surrender values, $59,094,724.

The sum of $1,483,472 was paid out as dividends by the insurance companies to their shareholders. There are 6,419,707 life and annuity policies in force in Canada, their value totalling $686,987,125, the report reveals. Constituting really "big business" in their total bulk, the accumulated insurance savings of the people are shown by the federal superintendent's statistics to be still growing. Last year the total insurance in force in the Dominion increased by $38,353,386. As compared with the $167,000, 000 paid out in Canada last year, figures in the report show, the companies 25 years ago paid out only $22,000,000.

Minor Tragedy Of War; Beards May Come Back Of all the commodities which have been rationed or on which quotas have been enforced, no single item is likely to have a more noticeable effect on the changing face of Britain than the present critical shortage of razor blades. Many London drugstores have used up the last of their old supplies and storekeepers do not know when more will be available. Others still have a few blades left and hope to eke out their stocks until the next quota arrives. But even when further shipments come the situation will not be much improved. With blade manufacturers allowed only one quarter the amount of hard steel which they received last year, the male population must soon face the mirror and admit that things have reached a crisis.

By the laws of mathematics it is evident that the nation will soon have only one quarter the number of razor blades which it formerly had. Either three quarters of the male population must go unshaved or blades must be made to serve four times as long. Even new blades frequently feel dull, and the thought of using a blade which theoretically ha been thrown away three times is enough to make beards bloom throughout the country. Self torture is not the answer to the old question of what to do with used razor blades. The strong probability is that Britain will shortly witness a growth of facial hair which will outdo the decorative effects seen during the last war.

Whether beard growing is adopted as a definite program or arises merely from the lack of any plan to counteract the blade shortage, the result will be the same. The smooth face will become ever rarer and the cry of "Beaver!" will sound through the land. The move, In fact, is already well established. Hundreds of men of the navy, new hands as well as veterans, have taken advantage of the time honored admiralty regulation permitting beards. With this example before them, civilians will be encouraged to Grow for Victory.

ATCHELITZ Friday evening the Farmers' Institute invited the community to card party and dance. Cards were played in the clubroom and dancing was enjoyed in the hall. Music was supplied by Alec Adams, piano; Norman Pearson, guitar; Fred Pearson, violin, and Kenneth Carpenter, drums. Refreshments were served by members of the Women's Institute. Two hundred and fifty persons were present.

Atchelitz community hall is a busy place these days, as the gym club uses it each Tuesday and Thursday, while Wednesday is set aside for basketball and Friday for social activities. Wednesday evening the Women's Institute held a whist and bridge card party in the clubroom. Eleven tables were in play. Prize winners were: bridge, Mrs. Fred Hubbard, Alec Steward; whist, Mrs.

Steward, J. Mitchell. Refreshments were served. Proceeds were in aid of the piano fund. Friends will be sorry to hear that Elmer Kelln had the misfortune to cut his finger off with an axe Friday afternoon, when cutting kindling.

He is reported doing well. John McLennan, a cousin of Mrs. Norman MacDonald paid her a surprise visit during the past week. Mr. McLennan has spent the past 40 years in the Yukon.

ILL Doctor Are you feeling very ill Put out your tongue. Patient It's no use, doctor. No tongue could tell how bad I feel. THE CHILLIWACK PROGRESS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1941 WHERE GERMANY RULES Ration Card is Sure to Go Where the German army goes, the ration card is sure to follow. Nor are restrictions on food consumption confined to countries normally dependent on seaborne importations of essential foods.

The German conception of fair treatment of conquered nations follows, broadly speaking, the following lines: no country however rich in agricultural resources deserves a higher standard of living than the standard of Germany; countries which cannot, out of their own resources, supply their populations with food allowances equivalent to the German rations, have to live on less; and only in countries where the available supplies are not sufficient to cover bare necessities of life is some relief granted out of the German food pool. Denmark normally exports more butter than any European country. Yet butter has been rationed in Denmark on the basis of 12.3 ounces per head per week. a ffl wlt pLJj Ji In Norway, the wholesale price of salted herrings has risen 80 per cent. There is already a dearth due to continued German demands for increased fish deliveries.

In Holland, which normally exports its egg surplus to the larders of both Great Britain and Germany, eggs are rationed at one egg per person per week. Food control in France increases in severity. In Paris potatoes are rationed at two pounds per week. A few incidents as reported in the Continental press: A German soldier killed a Norwegian sailor with his bayonet at Molde when the saUor made remarks against him when he was with a Norwegian girl in the town park. The German soldier was not punished.

Three thousand people, many of whom had come from afar, attended the funeral. A Dutchman threw a beerglass at a German soldier in a cafe, seriously injuring him. He was sen a a tenced to three years imprisonment. Three young Dutchmen, under the impulse of enmity to the German forces, took the caps of German officers from a restaurant cloakroom and tore them to pieces. They were sentenced to 17 months imprisonment.

The German court stated: "Certainly a mild sentence for this great insult." A bargee from Rotterdam said to a hawker of the official N. S. B. (German backed Dutch Nazis) newspaper: "I won't buy papers from the betrayers of my country." He was sentenced to two months Imprisonment and placed on probation for two years. When two German soldiers emerged from a butcher's shop in Oslo carrying a parcel of pork, they were attacked by women who were queueing up, unable to get anything.

Nine women were Production of metals in Saskatchewan increased in value by more than $1,000,000 during the government's fiscal year. The total value of production was $6,203,000. The production of gold amounted to 77,061 ounces which was valued at $2,785,000. These figures compared with 49,660 ounces the year before, valued at $1,746,000. a RAILWAY STEAMSHIPS EXPRESS HOTELS Grand Coulee Farms Now that Grand Coulee dam virtually is completed, interest is increasing in plans for placing 30, 000 to 40,000 families on the 1,200, 000 acres of the Columbia Basin project which will be irrigated with water pumped from the Columbia river with power furnished at the dam.

Water may be available for the first districts by 1943 or 1944 if funds are available for continuous work on the Irrigation system. Just how fast the irrigation project will be completed is not known today. If 25,000 acres were irrigated yearly, completion of the project would require 48 years. If 100,000 acres were made available each year, the project would be completed in 12 years. The federal, state and local governments are working on the irrigation project plans, as are educational institutions, social welfare groups, private Industry and many local civic organizations.

Studies are being made of. proper locations for new towns and cities, of road systems, recreational centers and schools. Studies of crops most suitable to the land are well advanced. Domestic water needs, the THE MARQUIS OF LORNE, K.T., G.C.M.G. GOVERNOR GENERAL OF CANADA, 1878 1 883 mass A Charter was signed On February 15, 1881, the Marquis of Lome, then Governor General of Canada, signed the charter of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

That signature consummated the vision of great Canadian statesmen Sir John A. Macdonald, D'Arcy McGee, Sir Georges Etienne Cartier, and Sir Charles Tupper that the new Dominion of Canada should be linked from Atlantic to Pacific by a trans continental railway and implemented the pledge under which British Columbia entered Confederation; So began a new era in Canadian unity and Empire solidarity for the Railway expanded into a system spanning two oceans and linking three continents. Today as in 1914 18 a proud responsibility rests on our transportation qnd communication systems railway, steamships, freight, express, telegraphs and engineering shops. Canadian Pacific officers and employees everywhere are co operating each in his own field towards the common goal VICTORY. When that goal is reached and it will be reached this will be due, in no small measure, to Canada's contribution, and to the vision and foresight of the men who, sixty years ago, planned the construction of the first Canadian trans continental railway; OF J' COMMUNICATIONS 'Explains' Crash of Tacoma Bridge Out of a preview of the U.

S. nation's tall tales for 1940 has come an explanation of the cause of the collapse of the Tacoma narrows bridge. John P. Zelenac, Tacoma, entered his explanation for the world's champion liar conducted by the Burlington Liars' club. Zelenac said "a thorough investigation" disclosed that the piers of the great bridge were built on the back of one of the giant Puget Sound turtles sleeping in the mud.

On the day the huge structure collapsed, he said, the old turtle was taken with a bad case of size of farm units, and manufactures to use project crops and labor are other subjects of study. Formation and soil of the Columbia Basin lands to be irrigated are similar to those in the adjacent Yakima and Wenatchee valleys. The Columbia Basin has less rainfall, but the growing season is two weeks longer than on lands to the west. Wishing will not make it so we must buy War Savings certificates. SHOPS.