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it THE EDMONTON JOURNAL, Friday, April 3, 194 ternwheelers 1 R.COCATIOU Ult.PIN9. River Attraction In Big Island Plan Two sternwheelers on the North Saskatchewan and a $750,000 development scheme are part of a plan to build a commercial playground at Big Island. R. G. Collins, president of Big Island Developments of Edmonton told of a plan Thursday which would see two excursion boats plying the river between the island and the Storyland Valley Zoo and development by 1967 of "IRA arree iincfrpam as a acres MCN'i WAWftOOM.

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Zs.Lj' vtiiimtir 1.1 BUkvATIOK AMA KktVATlH l(UUl AW.tM passengers, may be in operation this summer, Mr. Collins said. He said the second boat, a larger 300-passenger craft, is scheduled to go into service by 1967. KLONDIKE THEME "We are trying to create a Klondike theme," he said. The Big Island development will be based on old riverboat designs.

Mr. Collins said the larger craft, to be called "The City of Edmonton," may contain dining and dancing facilities. The boats will take passengers to Big Island from the zoo and will be docked at the island and used as restaurants during the winter. The company's plan will see installation on Big Island this year of 300 picnic tables, another 300 barbecue, concession booths, partial completion of a 17-acre swimming area and development of park facilities. Patrons will pay $1 per car to romp on Big Island this year, Mr.

Collins said. OTHER PLANS Scheduled for development over the next three years are docks, ski lifts for the 80-acre hillside area just west of the island, a beach, a bandshell, a three-hole golf course, a stocked fishing area for children, two pedestrian bridges and a series of small dams to control water levels in the swimming area. Big Island, provincial pro Edmonton Offer Made For Creche Takeover Notebook There's no reason to develop operation of any nursery is more readily accomplished, he a brand new facility thus in- maintaining an adequate stand. points out, through administra- creasing costs," he adds. tion of an agency like the An important factor in the rf servlce- 11115 cm ta bureau.

for child care for working mothers," says Family Service Bureau Executive Director Jackson Willis. "Statistics show a pattern of increase both in working mothers and in separations and divorces, all which University Doors Opened To Boy Orphaned By Crash tThe Edmonton Family Service Bureau has offered to take over administration of the Edmonton Creche and Day Nursery. The Creche, which cares for 120 children daily, five days a week, is to discontinue services April 30. The United Community Fund earlier this week supported service. It Is to meet with the Creche board Monday noon, then consider plans for continued service during a board meeting Tuesday.

Fund officials as well as the Family Service Bureau will be represented at a public meeting at 8 Monday night in the YMCA building. The meeting was called by a "Save the Creche Committee" of working mothers. "There's no doubt of the need perty, is being turned over to the city on a verbal lease basis, tend to increase the need for this kind of service." "What about the young girl with a little child to care for who's only making $35 a week What's she going to do without a reliable place to leave her child?" READILY ADJUST Mr. Willis says the bureau can readily adjust 'its administrative set up to encompass the Creche. As well, he says, it would be a community-wide according to Mayor Hawrelak.

The mayor said the city would in turn lease the island to the Collins company ANNUAL AFFAIR It's soap-box racer time again, a sure sign of spring. The 19th annual soap box derby sponsored by the Active 20-30 Club of Edmonton, will be held June 7. To help prospective competitors the club is sponsoring three soap-box "bug" building clinics, the first one starting at 10 a.m. Saturday in the highways -building, 97th Ave. and 104th St.

TOP STUDENTS Three Albertans have been named to the honor roll of Washington State University. They are: Harvey S. Leach of Edmonton, Jean D. Morrison of High River, and Hans E. Flatla of Tilley NOTED TEACHER Dr.

Harry Hoijer, professor of anthropology from the University of California at Los Angeles, will conduct summer school classes at the University of Alberta this year. He will also give instruction in a special course on American Indian linguistics MISSION MEDICS Dr. and Mrs. Walter Johnson, medical missionaries, will speak on their work in Angola at the Strathcona Baptist Church this weekend. The two missionaries were in Angola about seven years before returning to Canada.

They were to address a children's group at 3 p.m. -Friday and adult groups Friday and Sunday evenings LABOR SCENE Donald Whan has been appointed international vice-president for western Canada in the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers. Danny Fisher sue- ceeded Mr. Whan as union business agent SHOW BIZ Proceeds from a sports car and marine show will be used to furnish Trinity United Church's Sunday school. The show, sponsored by the men's club of the church, AOTS (As One That Serves) will be held May 7, 8 and 9 in the Jasper Place Sports Arena Mr.

Collins said work on the qualify for university entrance, when he is old enough, and the money is his to help pay for his first year. REMAINING FEES A passing mark is ail he needs to qualify for complete payment by the foundation of the remaining three year's fees. This includes tuition, books, room-and-board and laboratory fees. But all the talk of univer- sity Is a long way in the future for Mark. He is now staying with his father's sister, Mrs.

William Vanden Born, 9520 145th who has three other children of her own, two of them younger than Mark. The boy's education isn't the only reminder of Andrew Wierenga. Part of the law school scene each year is a trophy named after him and awarded to playground could begin in about two weeks. He said it will be and continuing kind of adminis tration that could better tie-m with other welfare and community services. open to the public in June.

PRIVATE FIRMS A regional planning commission report on river valley development suggests Big Island as a regional park site and calls for more participation by private companies in river valley recreational enterprises. Woman Hits Police Car And 3 End Up In Court Part of the island is now The two men elected trial by judge and jury and were remanded for preliminary hearings to April 10. under a special gravel reservation lease to the department of highways. A department of lands and forests official said the future of the island gravel pits and their use by the province will be made known within a week. He said the development plan still in the negotia-ing stage at the provincial level, By AL ARNASON 1 Of The Journal Mark Wierenga of Edmonton is too young to remember much about his parents Andrew and Carolyn.

They were killed in a highway crash near Vega last August. But thanks to people who do remember and respect the Wierengas, the toddler, three years old this May, has the opportunity of a university education. University of Alberta law school classmates of his 20-year-old father wanted to do something for the child. They also wanted to do something to commemmorate Andrew Wierenga's life, ended by the crash. The head-on collision, on a gravel road between Vega and the Athabasca River ferry, also killed Mr.

Wierenga's 23-year-old sister Gladys and injured a friend in the family's car. Also killed in the other vehicle were its occupants, both Vega area residents. COLLECTED $500 Like Andrew Wierenga, most of his classmates had just graduated and were articling with local lawyers at low salaries. This didn't keep them from collecting more than $500 among themselves. Acting on the advice of a prominent executive, the 28 fledging lawyers decided to invest the nest-egg with the Canadian Scholarship Trust Foundation.

Foundation officials added $400 from a bursary fund of their own and now hold the total of $900 in cash for Mark's first year of education. All the boy has to do is would be settled in about a week. winners of the traditional mock trials in which student lawyers pit their training and knowledge against one another. If Mark's scholastic record is as good as his father's he may even compete for it some day. Operators Set Meeting The Alberta School Bus Operators' Association will hold its fifth annual convention in the Beverly Crest Motor Hotel Saturday.

The association will end a day-long meeting with a banquet featuring Hon. A. O. Aalborg, minister of education, as guest speaker. A prominent item on the convention agenda is the discussion of safety regulations in operating school buses as well as rules and regulations governing drivers.

Officials from the safety and operators divisions of the highway traffic board will be present for the discussions. A woman driver backed Into a policeman's car and three persons were charged. Darlene Johnson backed out of a driveway into a parked car owned by city police detective Leroy Chahley. She was charged with driving without a driver's licence and failing to remain at the scene of an accident. Her two passengers, Ronald Bell; and George E.

Burns, were arrested on charges of robbery with violence in connection with a complaint received from Lloyd Arkinstall that he was robbed of $7. Miss Johnson pleaded guilty Defore Magistrate F. W. Barclay. She was fined a total of $60 and costs with an option of 20 days in jail.

2 Jailed In Forgery Conspiracy A Supreme Court judge this week "reluctantly" acquitted a man charged with conspiracy to forge cheques. The court was told police found Harold Desmond, 44, in company with other men who were in a private garage making out forged cheques. Mr. Justice H. W.

Riley said he felt Desmond was implicated, but there was insufficient evidence to convict him. Ernest M. Prymo. also charged with conspiracy to forge, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years. Robert Swynchuk, 30, sentenced to four years in February for forgery, pleaded guilty to conspiracy, uttering forged cheques, and having instruments to commit forgery.

The charges covered the accused's activities from June to October 1963. He was sentenced to four years to be served concurrently with the February sentence. s. i in 1 ill illlifllPi lilS 111 Window Kicked In, Youth Held A university student who told police he was depressed over examination results, has been charged with mischief and wilful damage. Stewart Forsyth, 19, allegedly kicked in a $300 plate glass window at a downtown department store Wednesday night.

After being charged with mischief, he caused $25 damage to the light fixture in his cell, police said. The charge of wilful damage was then added. When he appeared in court Thursday, he was remanded to April 16 for psychiatric examination at Oliver. Mr. Collins came to Edmonton 12 years ago from Calgary, where he was employed by Shell Oil Company.

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