The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 17

1 1 1 TOWN by Jack Scott Here and There Some research last week for a magazine story toted me back into the last century and flipping through many old photographs of early legislative, assemblies. There seemed something vaguely strange about these group tintypes, apart entirely from the now comic costumes of the day. Then it came to me: In not a picture prior to 1910 was there single man with a smile on his face! Decided, after some thought, that perhaps the only significance here is in the reaction to the camera. In those days it was a foreign instrument, capable of revealing to the public any lapse of dignity. These old fellows, long departed, were clearly making certain that posterity would see them as thoughtful, even stern, men of wisdom.

Today there's mighty few politicians who haven't an easy smile ready to be turned on for the photographers and their public is almost always one of amiability. Obviously there's some lesson to he learned here, but I don't know what it is. The war news from the Yew- nited States gets grimmer and grimmer. A speaker before the American Society of Safety Engineers gave the figures on what would be required for an atomic explosion victim burned over 40 percent of his body, as so many were in Hiroshima: 42 tanks of oxygen, 36 pints of plasma, 40 pints of blood, 100 pints of other fluids, an undetermined amount of antibiotics, 27 miles of gauze, three nurses, two physicians. The speaker said the chances of survival in an atomic attack were "good." Hurray.

In New York City when "dog tags" were issued to school children the officials announced with pride that they would withstand a heat that would melt flesh and bone. Hurray. It's by Pauline Johnson. It's pretty nice stuff. It's called "The Night 'neath the northern skies, lone, black, and grim: Naught but the starlight lies 'twixt heaven, and him.

Of man no need has he, of God, no prayer; He and his Diety are brothers here. Above his bivouac the firs fling down Through branches gaunt and black, their needles brown. Afar some mountain streams, rockbound and fleet, Sing themselves through his dreams in cadence sweet. The pine trees whispering, the heron's cry, The plover's wing, his lullaby. And blinking overhead the white stars keep Watch o'er his hemlock bedhis sinless sleep.

Dames haven't changed much in the last couple of thousand years. Reading a history of Greece the other night and came across these facts concerning the ladies of Athens in the fifth century before Christ: The women used falsies, wore high cork. soles themselves on their shoes to dyed their dark blonde, look, slender, shaved themselves here and there, used make up on lips and cheeks. pencilled their eyebrows and darkened their with lampblack, used deodorants made from oil of mastic and had hundreds of perfumes. Their vanity was the same, too.

Platarch wrote of how, an epidemic of suicide among women of Miletus was suddenly and completely ended by an ordinance decreeing that self-slain women should be carried naked through the marketplace to their burial Barbers were the same, too. When a barber asked King Archelaus of Macedon how he wanted his hair cut the king answered: "In silence." Conversation heard on a bus the other day: First man: "He certainly pours tall drinks." Second man: "Tall! You could stand an umbrella in them!" My nomination of Virgil Partch and Groucho Marx as the world's funniest people brought in some other candidates. Among them: Danny Kaye, Charlie Chaplin, Giles and Thurber. No ladies are mentioned. Perhaps there's a limit to laughter as there is to pain.

I've reached a point maybe a dozen times when I stood on the threshold of complete amusement, beyond which there's nothing. The late British comic, Sid Field, carried me there the Any of you people know the name of the thing that Indian women used to carry their papooses in? If you'll drop a line to Mrs. G. H. Mahan, Box 37, Minstrel Island, B.C., you might settle an argument.

The things people argue about! Got a book on your shelf that you never seem to get around to reading? There's one on mine called "Tyll Eulenspiegel." Been 1 there for 10-odd years. Never got curious enough to take it down. Shaughnessy Liberals North Shaughnessy Liberal Association will hold the annual meeting in the old Municipal Hall. Forty-second and West Boulevard, today at 8:15 p.m. Officers will be elected.

Che Vancouver Sun TAtlow 7141 Full Slates In Burnaby Elections VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1951 Capilano Route to Squamish Staked Non-Partisans And CCF Seek All Council Seats BURNABY, Nov. 26 CCF and Non-Partisan groups here are each offering full slates of candidates for municipal election here December 15 for reeve, council and school board. Reeve W. R. Beamish, CCFer up for re-election, faces opposition from former reeve A Morrison who heads the slate of Non-Partisan candidates.

The present reeve's running mates for the vacant council seats are two present councillors. George Isherwood and Frank Armstrong, a J. D. Drummond a newformer, comer, Harry Webber. Opposing them in a bid to strengthen NPA representation on council are two present councillors, W.

P. Philips and C. W. MacSorley, an ex-councillor, F. N.

Stephens, and a newcomer, James Bell. Campaigning for school board under the Non-Partisan banner are school trustee William Grieve, Ernie Crampton, who lost his seat last time on a technicality, and William Maxwell, a newcomer. in Burnaby elections who has had school board experience at Princeton and Kelowna. CCF'ers have named two of their three school board candidates, and are expected to name a third by December 5, when nominations close. Now on the ECCE slate for school board are Mrs.

Margaret Oxendale and Mrs. Swea Tracy. Only independent who has so far signified his intention of running is Morris Perrett, who is seeking a seat on council. Charles Dill, Engineer, Dies Here, Aged 81 Charles William Dill, noted Freemason and civil engineer, who helped design and build the arch bridge at Niagara Falls, died Saturday in Vancouver at 81. Born at Bracebridge, Ontario, he graduated in civil engineering at University of Toronto and for many years was a member of the Engineering Institute of Canada.

From 1895 until 1899 he was superintendent of the upper steel arch bridge at Niagara Falls. He was assistant city engineer of Nelson, B.C., from to 1901, then served as assistant city engineer of Toronto until 1905. He was chief engineer of Saskatchewan in 1917, moved to Vancouver in 1927 and in 1935 was made inspector of highway surfacing work, Department of Public Works, British Columbia, an he held for many years. Mr. Dill was also past master of University Lodge, Toronto, No.

496, and a member of the Royal Arch Masons, the Knights Templar and the Mystic Shrine. He i is survived by his wife, Zaida; his brother, Arthur W. Dill of Enderby, B.C., and two sisters, Mrs. Arthur Howard, Whitby, and Mrs. R.

McMullen, Toronto. He also leaves three sons and three daughters, including, Cecil B. Dill and Mrs. L. J.

Andrews, Vancouver, and Mrs. N. H. Ingledew, Nelson, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. The funeral service will be held at 1 p.m.

Tuesday in Simmons and McBride Chapel. Rev. G. Gorwill of the Canadian Memorial Chapel will officiate. Thieves Get $50 in Drugs BURNABY, Nov.

who punched a hole through the wall of a drugstore here over the weekend looted the store of $50 in drugs and $2.50. Ross Corder, proprietor of Corder's Pharmacy, 1382 Edmunds, discovered the theft when he arrived at work today. RCMP investigators said they believed the robbery took place early Sunday morning. They said used a blunt instrument to punch the hole through two layers of plaster and a laver of lathing before he grabbed the drugs and money. Garden Man to Address Club BURNABY, Nov.

Tom Barber, Garden Man of The Vancouver Sun. will deliver an address to Valleyview Women's Club in Valleyview Community Centre, Grandview Highway and Ledger, at 2:30 pm. Tuesday. He will give a demonstration of floral arrangements. INTERIOR MILLS WORK NORMAL SHIFTS TODAY All lumber operations were working normally in the Interior of B.C.

today despite an IWA strike deadline that came into effect last Wednesday night. Only one plant has been affected so far, and it too is working normally again. The 400 employees of S. M. Simpson Sawmill at Kelowna staged three-hour walkouts Thursday and Friday while union negotiators and company officials met to discuss a basis for settlement.

No agreement on the union demands was reached in the talks. Baby's Cries Warn Family of Flames warned a young mother early was afire and enabled a family Sunday night that her home of five to escape the flames. When Mrs. Alex Perry, Dawe's Hill, heard her baby crying and went to comfort the infant she found the room filled with smoke. Picking the baby from its bed, Mrs.

Perry rushed out and called to her husband: "Let's get out of here the house is on fire." Mr. Perry, a war pensioner recently discharged from hospital, took his two other young chidren and fled to safety as the flames enveloped their small home. Neighbors took the homeless family in and called the Maillardville volunteer fire brigade. When Chief B. H.

Falcon and his firemen arrived it was too late to save the home and contents. Five Flee After Child's 'Tipoff' As Fire Guts Maillardville House Nov. baby's plaintive cry LAST PUZZLE LAST PUZZLE Skill Will Be Needed By Card Fans Here is the final problem in The Vancouver Sun's 24 series Bridge Solver's Contest. It will take some skill for north and south to take all seven tricks against any defense. When you have figured out your solution, mail it along with your answers to the 23 others to the Bridge Solver's Contest Editor, The Vancouver Sun.

You may win one of the prizes totalling $100 offered in the contest. Judges will announce winners as soon as they have been decided. Don't be discouraged from entering if you haven't solved all the problems. Send in those you answered. You may win a prize.

Spades are trumps in today's final problem. South leads. A A10 5 K93 108 K9 86 9 J6 542 J4 QJ4 8 10 North Shore Pioneer Dies NORTH VANCOUVER, Nov. pioneer merchant, resident in the city for 40 years, died Sunday in North Vancouver General Hospital. He was Thomas J.

McClelland, 80, of 1541 Chester. field. Until his retirement at the beginning of the year he was a butcher in this city for 38 years. He was a charter member of the local Elks Lodge. He leaves his wife, Elizabeth; four sons, William, James John, North Vancouver, and Thomas Vancouver; a daughter, Mrs.

H. Pinkerton, North Vancouver, and one grandson. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Harron Bros. Details will be announced later. 6000 Rabbits Die In $60,000 Blaze Six thousand rabbits were fire that destroyed Rabbits Fire Starting In Basement Damages Home WEST VANCOUVER, Nov.

26. -Fire which started in the basement caused heavy damage to the home of Mrs. Margaret Culbert, 1506 Esquimalt Avenue, Saturday afternoon. Quick action of volunteer fire brigade prevented total destruction of the house but the kitchen and an area of the basement were gutted. The house is insured.

Smoke pouring from the windows was noticed by Mrs. Culbert, a widow, First fears that Mrs Culbert'3 son Dickie, 11, might be in the house were relieved after a frantic search when it was learned that the boy had gone to the village. Quadra Liberals Quadra Liberals Annual meeting Vancouver Quadra Liberal Association will be held in Liberal Hall, Sixteenth and Heather, on Friday at 8 p.m. Officers will be elected. A.

E. Robinson will be guest speaker. DAILY DIARY: Budgie Bird Expert On Physiotherapy Hospital. We have someone new out here today. She lives in Nurse Bingham's office, right 'round the corner from! nurses' desk.

When us kids go by we can have a special peek, but only two times a day. Cause there are so many of us to look. Can you guess? name is Blondie Budgie Cynthia This is me, Cynthia, writing to you from ward two at Research Chief Bound for U.S. The director of the B.C. Research Council has resigned his post to accept a position with private industry in the U.S.

He is Dr. S. E. Maddigan, who will leave Vancouver about the end of the year for Spokane, where he has been appointed to the research staff of Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Co. Acting as director of the Research Council, which has its headquarters at the University of B.C.

campus, is Dr. G. M. Shrum, head of UBC's Department of Physics. WEST VANCOUVER, Nov.

26 -A meeting of West Vancouver Overseas' Wives Club will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Red Cross House, 1944 Marine. Project Faces Strong Protest Of Water Board VICTORIA, Nov. 26. A question mark still hangs over the scheme to build a highway from Vancouver to Squamish via the Capilano watershed route.

Works Minister E. C. Carson said today that location. surveys of the route started last summer had been completed. But cost estimates and other information have not yet been compiled.

Before the surveys were started it was believed the Capilano route could be constructed for less than the original route around Howe Sound estimated to cost $6,000,000. The Greater Vancouver Water Board has objected to the proposed Capilano road traversing the CONSENT NEEDED Sadler's Wells Makes Boxoffice History Here TRYING ON new slippers shortly after 42-dancer Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet arrived for week-long engagement here is Yvonne Barnes, London. Maryon Lane of Johannesburg lends hand. Troupe is biggest box-office attraction in city's REST FOR TIRED dogs was foremost in mind of Shirley Bishop, London, and other dancers. They have proved second only to royalty as British goodwill ambassadors in North America.

RAG-DOLL PANTOMIME Inverted Ballet Trouper Enjoys Napping That Way By CLYDE GILMOUR A 'strong young Englishman slept soundly Sunday in a train near Vancouver with his feet sprawling straight. up over his head against the wall like a rag doll's. One of the girls who occasionally chuckled at his weird posture was a beautiful blonde from South Africa who is, in a way, a fairly. fantastic character herself. She recently turned down an offer of a tenfold raise in pay because she was afraid it would interfere with her career.

The upside-down sleeper and the smiling blonde from Pretoria are members of the famed Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet of London, the 42 gifted and intent young dancers who already are second only in popularity to Princess Elizabeth and her sailor Duke as goodwill ambassadors from Britain to North America. Vancouver plays host to them all this week. BOX-OFFICE DRAW They're the biggest box-office attraction in the city's entertainment history. Only a few tickets are still unsold for any of their eight performances in the Strand Theatre, including Wednesday and Saturday matinees. Prices start at $1.18 and $1.76 and go up to $4.70 a seat at the matiness and $7.05 in the evenings.

"It's been this way almost everywhere since we walked off the Empress of France at Quebee City eight weeks ago, and are utterly dazzled by the reception we are getting," reported Peggy Van attractive ballet mistress" and assistant director of the company. FORMER DANCER She was a noted dancer herself before she turned to instructional and executive It is intimated here that the question of routes cannot be answered until the Water Board either grants permission for a highway or finally refuses its consent. Location of the projected highway has been a focal centre of dispute between North Shore groups and advocates of the Howe Sound route. WOULD SERVE RESORTS The Howe Sound route would connect small resort settlements and Britannia Beach with Vancouver or with Squamish while advocates of this route claim the Capilano site would bypass them. Organizations in West Vancouver, Britannia and Squamish have solidly backed the Howe Sound project as an alternative to the proposed extension of the PGE Railway from Squamish to Vancouver via the east side of Howe Sound.

roasted alive in a $60,000 Unlimited, 819 No. 5 Road, Lulu Island, Sunday. Another fire destroyed Fowler Shingle Company plant, foot of Willingdon, North Vancouver, about a mile east of Second Narrows Bridge. Early reports indicated it was the Indian River Shingle Company plant that had been destroyed, but these proved to be false. Cause of the fires has not been determined.

Rabbits Unlimited was burned to the ground and an adjoining refrigeration and packing plant destroyed in the blaze which broke out during Sunday's gale. NO CHANCE Roy German, proprietor, said a passerby roused from his living room to tell him that his plant was on fire. "I didn't have a chance," German said. "The whole thing was a sheet of flames by the time I got there." The fire destroyed German's prize breeding stock of more than 400 registered does and bucks. The company was the only rabbit meat packing plant in Canada.

It had been in operation I spent four hours Sunday with the globetrotting Londoners on board their special train en route here from Seattle over the Great Northern lines. They turned out to be a curiously relaxed but dedicated crew, dryly poking fun at their own earnestness but never concealing or trying to conceal their devotion to The Dance and their faith in ballet as vital and selfconscious art. SPURNED OFFER Consider, for example, Patricia Miller, the South African blonde who was afraid of the big money. What she did, specifically, was this: she rejected, last year, an offer to quit her f8-a-week job with Sadler's Wells and be starred the leading dancer in the London production of "Carousel" at £100 a week. "I didn't want to risk hurting my normal progress in ballet, and I've never once regretted my decision," said Miss Miller, whose weekly salary from Sadler's Wells is now £10...

exactly onetenth of the tempting offer she turned down. "This is the most wonderful and rewarding life I can possibly imagine, and the money means nothing." said David Blair, a quiet Yorkshireman of 20 who is one of the company's top male dancers. HAD TO BE COAXED When he was a small boy his mother had to coax him for a whole year before he took his first dancing lesson. "I thought it was a sissy sort of thing. Even later, after I had got the a lot of other lads held a similar opinion, and I soon lost count of all the fist-fights I got into with the scoffers.

Some of the fights I lost; but I won a few of 'em too." The youth who dozed with his feet held aloft toward the luggage rack was another Englishman, Peter Wright. "He just likes to have a nap that way, and he can get to sieep in about 15 seconds, like a hound after a run," one of his colleagues told me with a grin. The company now in Vancouver, and opening tonight with a three-act performance of the traditional "Coppelia," is the sister company to the Sadler's Wells Ballet which last year brought renowned ballerinas Margot Fonteyn and Moira Shearer to North America. Variety, Manhattan's hardboiled "Bible of show recently acclaimed the Theatre Ballet as being "on a par in every way" with the older company and in some respects superior to to it in youthful fire and vitality. 35 MUSICIANS Traveling with the 42 dancers is an American orchestra of 35 musicians under two conductors -bearded, wisecracking John Lanchberry of London and genial Robert Zeller of New York.

Choreography is by the renowned Ninette de Valois, director and founder of the company; Frederick Ashton, one of Britain's greatest dance designers, and the sensational 25-year-old newcomer, John Cranko. Cranko planned the new and immensely popular "Pineapple Poll," to be featured here at the Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday night shows. Based on one of W. S. Gilbert's "Bab Ballads" and with music cunningly arranged from half a dozen of the Gilbert-and-Sullivan comic operas, it tells a roguish story about a "bumboat woman" who falls in love with the handsome captain of a warship, HMS Hot Cross Bun.

a Liberals Meeting Vancouver East Liberal Association meets in Renfrew Community Hall, Twenty- second and Nootka, on Wednesday at 8 p.m. since September. DISTANT HYDRANT The lumber company was destroyed because a fire truck bogged down in gumbo-like mud and the closest fire hydrant was a mile away. The hydrant was at Maplewood, and firefighters deavored to send their pumper to the salt chuck for water. The heavy truck became stuck in the mud, too far from the water for the hoses to reach.

Community Group Re-elects Barnes NORTH VANCOUVER. Nov. Barnes was re-elected president of Heywood Community Centre at the annual meeting Sunday. Other officers are Bill Snow, vice president; Art Smith, secretary, and Jack Baker, treasurer. Executive members are C.

Campe, Hall, L. Devlin, V. Johnson, Mrs. S. Jones, Ray Parkes, M.

Jennison and Ron Boyes. -a bird, 01 course! Her house has a bell and a ladder. The ladder is just like the one Cynthia take exercises on in the physiotherapy. Blondie sure can do exercises. At first she just sat and shiverec.

like being cold. But now she looks right back at us and hops around. was kinda scared too the first day I went up our ladder, but you should see me now! P-TA to Stage Fun Fest Friday CAPILANO. Nov. fest will be held by the Capilano P.TA in the Capilano School on Friday at 8 p.m.

There will be bingo, home-cooking, a show of the hobby groups' work, games, movie shorts and refreshments. The proceeds will be used to cover the cost of painting the school lunch room..