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THE VANCOUVER SUN: Sept. 26, 1946 9 CANT QUIT TILL PENSION RAISED I -lift Mg4 riffiirCl Ration Book Theft 'Pay Was $7.50 in 1890; Case Postponed PORT CREDIT, Ont Sept. 26 SEATTLE MOORS HOTEL SECOND and VIRGINIA Rooms now open for reservations. $2 AND UP Valley Postmaster Recalls (CP) Walter Osmerchuk of Druggists, Beware Of Bearded Indian By T. A.

JARVIS Exit: The cigar-store Indian. Enter: The drug-store Indian. Off-stage, a fanfare of trumpets, sounded by the Toronto, charged with receiving 1000 ration books allegedly stolen from a municipal office, was re Defecates to the British Colum Brophyr 83, postmistress of Lyt-lthe sitting room of my house, ton, who took over the postoffice and they gave me $20 a month there in 1904, when that Fraser for looking after it," Mrs. Brophy Canyon settlement was recuper- says. manded for trial at the Brampton Fall Assizes when he appeared in ating from the gold rush, Her daughter, Mrs.

H. E. Belt SUN ADS PAY MArlne 1161 police court. Ililllll 1 I f0 11111! nap, who was born at Lytton, now helps her run the postoffice in conjunction with an auto court. si SB mArw A RCMP.

Time marches on. You don't know the difference between a cigar-store Indian and a drug-store Indian? It is very simple. 1 Another veteran of the postal service present is F. G. Allen, 91, of 956- West Fourteenth, who bla postmasters' convention in Hotel Georgia aren't satisfied with present-day conditions but they admit things have changed with the years.

"It's better than it used to be," observed A L. Lazenby of Port Hammond. "When I opened the postoffice there in 1890 they paid me $7.50 a month." Mr. Lazenby, who will be 80 at the end of the year, saw business at his Fraser Valley postoffice grow tenfold in half a century, but like other delegates he says he can't afford to retire until the postal department enlarges its pension plan to include rural postmasters. B.C.

HISTORY TOLD "When I arrived from California with my husband and two sons the river banks were lined with Indian and Chinese placer miners," she recalls. WOMAN PAID $20 Her husband went to the areU as a placer miner for the London Syndicate, and she rode 26 mllus on horseback to get influential men of the community to sign a petition for her to take over the postoffice from a storekeeper. "I opened up the postoffice in worked 40 years for the post office department and has been A cigar-store Indian is clean or! pension since 1926. Optometrist Complete Optoinetric Service 404 BIRKS BUILDING PAcific 1733 "I wasn't a rural postmaster like these others but 1 Just like to see how they're getting along," shaven and stays put. A drugstore Indian has a beard, side-whiskers and a moustache and keeps going.

Going in whatever direction the police aren't. Mr. Allen explains. "TYPICAL NURSE" of the United. States for 1946 is the designation conferred upon Elizabeth G.

Brooks, 29, red-haired head nurse at the Children's Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. In case this seems a little ob Still keenly interested in pub scure, I will explain. SHAVING DISCOURAGED lic affairs, Mr. Lazenby louows the deliberations at the conven tion should the customer turn out to be an Indian." Magistrate Mclnnes thought otherwise and said so.

"The law doesn't have to be strained to find the accused guilty. Common sense would be strained if he were found innocent!" Then sentence was imposed: $300 or three months. SECOND VISIT IN DAY Evidence disclosed that it was the Indian's second visit to the store in one day. Earlier he had bought two bottles. In the evening with money supplied by the RCMP he bought a third.

Then the police walked in on the druggist. The lotion, a popular brand, contained 37 percent alcohol. A large quantity was in storage at the drugstore, some 936 bottles. The druggist explained part of this belonged to a wholesaler. It was argued that many pharmaceutical preparations contained alcohol, and thus were strictly-speaking intoxicants in the meaning of the Indian Act.

But druggists generally had no warning about selling such things to Indians. tion with a hearing aid, and The law, represented by the B.C. to Take Indian Act, encourages Indians not to shave. At least not In comfort. Certainly not with white men's luxuries.

Meaning shaving lotion. Prices That Say "THUMB: YOU" Quality That Says "CALL HGJ1IPJ" 7Diy BEE'S Use This List Fri. and Sept. 26, 27 and 28 PI mmMi Yesterday in Ponce court a Over Highway comments shrewdly upon them in discussions with his old acquaintances. He is the senior postmaster at the convention and British Columbia's history is a personal thing to him.

There was no road to Port Hammond when he moved there to set up a store 56 years ago, and the bush was so dense at Vancouver that he once became lost between the CPR tracks and the site of the present Immigration Building. druggist who sold shaving lotion to an Indian was fined $300 or three months. Jnwvlne: lotion contains alcohol. From CNR Br Sua St.ff Keporter VICTORIA, Sept. 26.

British ImJ'Afa must not contain alcohol Therefore because some white men have discovered that shaving lotion is capable of internal as BLACK FIGS Celio pkt. PRUNES California, 90-100, 2 lbs. CAMPBELL'S TOMATO SOUP New Pack 2 tins 21C well as external application, tne law objects violently to Indians Columbia government is going to take over from Canadian National Railways 37 miles of highway between Terrace and Prince Rupert and incorporate It as part nf thn nnrthprn trans-Drovincial ic GLACE FRUITS "You went to Port Hammond by rail or river in those days," In future, we may expect a 25 23c 22c 18c 12c running the risk of hobnailing their livers by this duodenal CUT MIXED PEEL he recalls. "At the time there were only 17 places on the waterfront between Pitt River and 5i-lb. pkt.

race or bearded natives, with druggists being trained in anthropology. "And what about these vitamin elixirs?" the cognoscenti will ask. You see, Indians are not real highway system, it was an SPAGHETTI Chef's Taste SALAD Catelll's. Per tin Stave Lake." Older in years Is Mrs. Barbara nounced here by ruDiic woiks Minister E.

C. Carson. Mr. Carson left yesterday on DRESSING people at all in the eyes of the Indian Act. They are little children, wards of the King or Mr.

Mackenzie King or the Minister of National Resources or someone with an office at Ottawa. ALL RIGHT TO FIGHT 8-oz. jar Postal Agents Shelled Walnuts Per Vi lb. 23C S1 WAX BEftg Pi 16c GREEN BEANS ISc PEAS King Beach. Sieve 5.

2 tins 29c ma I mmmm Become May They an fight Germans or i tlTSB Sweet Mixed PICKLES a flying trip to tne norm where he will travel over the highway preparatory to making final arrangements with CNR for transfer of the road to provincial ownership. The road terrace to the coast at Prince Rupert was pushed through as a defense measure by the Dominion Government during the war. Because of the canyon-like nature of part of the route, the road had to follow the CNR right-of-way. For this" reason it remained under Dominion control. 1Qr FROSTY MIX 9 RED TOKAY GRAPES Per lb.

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iUlW I Por ilA Japs and get killed. The Indian Act doesn't mind that. But they mustn't drink. Even more, they mustn't buy shaving lotion. Said Mr.

Isman for the defendant druggist: "It would surely be a straining of the law if Your Worship were to hold that any druggist who sells a bottle or two of shaving lotion to a customer, without proving whether or not he was an Indian, and Sweetened for Puddings 2pkgs 19 Zll I 1 1 1 lb. 1 0 YELLOW TUMPS 4 Civil Servants A superannuation scheme ior rural postmasters may have been held up because ot a federal proposal to hire them as postal employees. Members of the B.C. Branch, Canadian Postmasters Association, were told this at their convention Wednesday by Don Tay uti 1 'J SWEET POTATOES -a a 11 I I Malkin's Blue Label I 55c CHOCOLATE A 1 PURE STRAWBERRY JAM 24-oz. jar wunout any inaication on trie bottle that it contained alcohol, makes himself liable to convic Russia is building prefabricated- houses which require only 30 working hours to.

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i lor, Dominion president of the body. WORK ON COMMISSION Rural postmasters are not THE MEL HILL JET JPeoples; (Credit 'JfetveMers Jingle CoMes i civil servants, as are employees of the department, but are commission agents whose pay depends on the revenue of their post offices. "A survey has just been made of all larger post offices, and that Is indicative of some action," Mr. Taylor told dele-Knlea. "It looks to me as if the Iwo schemes may be tied tog-el her." He gave a resume of negotia-t i for a superannuation scheme, and asked the convention to demand action on it.

He also read a forecast by a high postal official that between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 may be spent on rural postal improvements, and declared the postmasters should have a chance to study any new schemes which go into effect. PENSIONS OUTLINED A brief presented to the federal department by the body some time ago asked for the superannuation scheme, a system, of promotions for "revenue" postmasters and an increase in remuneration rate. C. D. Griffith, Dominion secre Gets Away with a BANG! NOTHING TO BUY ft 4 VALUABLE PRIZES See Pnzes displayed Mel Hill tj tary-treasurer, gave an accounting of a pension fund started by the association two years ago.

Postmasters, contributing 5 per window at 456' Seymour St. cent of their earnings, have rm stripe Here is all ir i i boosted this fund to $300,000. This fund would be added to by the Dominion Government if it decides to expand its superannuation scheme to include rural postmasters. A. W.

Dingle, district director of postal services at Calgary, also addressed the convention. W. R. Bone, regional director of family allowances, discussed handling of these cheques in the mails. Gill MUTV ft to do Syria will try to develop a market in Amprira fnr nlivo nil tT THEDISTINGUISHEDIf; i40 PIECE? BREAKFAST SET;" if nl A truly beautiful biffhly glazed Enir- jSKJwWW Htb ml-porrelalB set, made by th fj 'S wcU'kaowa British firm of 1.

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