Star-Phoenix from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada • 3

STILL TIME to Have That CHRISTMAS PHOTO TAKEN Three Camera Rooms for Your Convenience Ask About Our Budget Plan ESQUIRE PHOTOGRAPHERS 21st St. E. Opposite Woolworths 6625 IN STANDING COMMITTEE Council Postpones Action On License Rate Changes City Council's standing ations proposing numerous licensing schedules. TWO WEEKS HOIST The committee postponed consideration of the proposed amendments for two weeks and instructed Commissioner Harold Balfour to prepare compare. tive charts showing old and proposed rates, and the business and general license schedules in effect in other Saskatchewan cities.

Concerning general licenses, the administration recommended that fees increased for many commercial prises, such as movie theatres, barber shops and beauticians' ond-hand dealers foot pedestablishments, junk, and secdlers and hawkers. Regarding business licenses, increased asfor concerns like public eating sessment rates, were proposed places, butcher service stations and auto suppliers, re. tail drug stores, implement agencies, types of stores and business and professional offices. It was recommended, for example, that the minimum license fee for all busines- committee Thursday night (temporarily) pigeon-holed recommendincreases and other changes in the city's business and general (ses not specified individually lengthy recommendations in should be raised from $10 to the commissioner's report, the annually. aldermen voiced sentiments Nature of the discussion at like the following: "I don't unThursday's meeting indicated derstand idea was that the proposed revisions this?" "I'm not in a position would be a subject of debate to discuss it" "Where are we for several council sessions to at, anyway?" and SO on.

Mr. come. Confronted with the Balfour was barraged with queries relating to the basis of the rates and the maintenance Mrs. R. Knatchbull of different equitable treatment between businesses.

Passes Away Here that hire commissioner recommendations stressed were being made so that Saskatoon's Resident in Saskatoon since licensing structure could be 1911 when she came here from brought date. Scotland, Mrs. Isobel Knatch- out that Motto the fienpointe bull, 61, of 11 Belmae Apart- and those proposed were conments, died in a local hospital siderably below those in effect on Thursday. The funeral will in other Saskatchewan cities. be held at 3 o'clock Saturday As an example, he took the case afternoon from Park Funeral of a large department store Chapel where the Rev.

G. D. here. Under, present rates. the Wilkie will officiate.

Mrs. $8,500 annually Knatchbull had been in poor in business license fees, based health for many years. on floor space. It was proposed She is survived by her widand one brother, Jim COUNCIL Grant, Saskatoon. Continued on Page 6 Column 6 "Canary" Sets World Record Here At the University of Saskat-1 hay and oat hay.

She received eleven others, and made her chewan a 1,500 pound Holstein no special attention. record under conditions that Canary was purchased from were "fairly typical of Saskat- cow called "Canary" has broken the world record for milk and fat production. She is seen here with Herdsman Jack Hill, who handled her throughout the time on which the record is based. Two-year-old heifer, Tranquille Canary Vale Fleta, recenely established a record in the junior two-year-old milk class with a production of 18,084 pounds of milk and 692 pounds of fat. The test was made 305-day basis with milkings twice a day.

On the same basis the previous record for milk production was made in 1940 by an Ontario Holstein which produced 442 pounds. The fat record was established by an American Guernsey at 652 pounds. "Canary" also holds then world championship for Holstein breed, previously belonging to a- second Ontario Holstein with a milk production of 14,836 pounds and a fat record of 623 pounds. The Saskatchewan heifer, received the same feed and treatment as the rest of the university herd, with roughage contposed mainly of lowland marsh Counterfeit Turned in At City Hall Another counterfeit $10 bill turned up in Saskatoon today -this time at the City Hall. the cashier spotted the bill cash taken.

Local police auwhen a counting Thursday's thorities confirmed Mr. Fusedale's suspicions and the administration is out $10 as a result. fourth counterfeit to be reported, here bad in bill the discovered last two the City Hall was almost a deadringer for the genuine article. Unlike the three counterfeits appearing in Saskatoon earlier. this bill had been folded crumpled.

ROADS 0.K. ROADS 0.K. Roads throughout the province were reported as fair to good by the Saskatchewan Motor Club this morning. The Third Mage FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1949 Kiwanis' Vice-President DON of Winnipeg international vice-president, Kiwanis, who will be in Saskatoon over the weekend to attend the organization conference and presidents-secretaries training school, with representatives from all of the 28 clubs from Port Arthur to the Rockies. He will speak at the regular weekly luncheon, Monday noon.

The two-day conference will be under the leadership of Harry A. Irving, district governor, Fort William. All sessions will be held in The Bessborough, commencing with a luncheon at 12.15 Sunday, at which -Govern Don Pells, Regina, will preside. This meeting will be PREMIER DOUGLAS SEES MURDOCH open to all delegates and local club members. At 6.15 Sunday night there will be a dinner in the banquet room for all Kiwanians and their wives.

Monty Blue will be chairman and R. J. Prittie, pastgovernor, Winnipeg, will conduct a memorial service. The Rev. A.

B. B. Moore, principal of St. Andrew's College, will give an address entitled, "Why Kiwanians Should Go to Church." At 8.30 Sunday evening, the will meet the club presidents for 1950, and the secretaries will meet in conference. Meetings continue Monday morning, the conference closing with the noon luncheon.

'Deliberate Place' For Three Types Of Ownership There is a "very deliberate" place for public, co-operative and private ownership in the capitalistic system, Premier T. C. Douglas said in Saskatoon, Thursday. At a banquet given by the government of Saskatchewan for the Co-operative Farming Conference now in progress, Mr. Douglas made his maiden speech as He minister of outlined operation.

relative spheres of public ownership, cooperatives and private ownership, and insisted that all three could a democracv. "It is a question of where the emphasis should be placed," he said. "To me the answer is quite "Any large economic activity" -any industry where there is a chance that many people might be exploited by a few, should be owned by the people or operated as a co-operative, he declared. "The three main functions of any government should be to give opportunity to all three forms of ownership," he said. No one should be allowed to "drive a wedge" between Workmen were busy this morning cutting away old vines that cover the front outside wall of the city hall.

There was some speculation by employees that the building might fall over as a result. Also overheard was the jibing remark of one city worker that it was "high time to clear out some of the deadwood inside." Nutana Collegiate Drama Club presentations will start at 8 o'clock tonight instead of at 8.30 o'clock as announced Thursday. One of the Saskatchewan students now studying at the London School of Economics was asked by a fellow student how long he expected to be in England. "About two years," he replied. "Oh, well." his friend observed with finality, "by that time you'll have lost your accent." Playgrounds- Director George Ward announced that the Victoria, Thornton, City Park and North Park rinks would be opened tonight for public skating.

The Avenue F-Twentieth Street rink was opened earlier this week. Members of the Saskatoon Old Timers' Association are asked to meet at St. Andrew's Fresbyterian Church at 2.15 Saturday afternoon to attend the funeral of the late Angus McMillan. gift most people like most watt Challenger hrs on BIRkS Loan Repayments Indicate Prosperity of Agriculture General economic condition of the agricultural industry was reflected in the fact that approximately 96 per cent of all first mortgage borrowers from the Canadian Farm Loan Board had no interest arrears at the end of March this year, the annual report of the board disclosed. And today in Regina, R.

S. Rideout, Saskatchewan manager, said that farmers in this province were "right line with the general picture. "We have very few arrears and have had only four closures in the last 12 years. he said. Collections this fail, he told the Star-Phoenix by telephone, were "very satisfactory, even from the drouth It was evident, he believed, that farmers had some reserves or payments could not have been made in many sections from this year's crop.

The board in its report noted that there was a definite trend to larger farms and that more than one-third of money being loaned was for the purchase of more land. A substantial portions of loans was also being utilized to purchase livestock and implements and to make farm improvements. This was in direct contrast to a few years ago when much of the money borrowed was used to pay accumulated debts. The board makes loans up to $5,000 at per cent repayable $300 in Damages As Cars Collide Damage estimated at close to $300 was caused to two cars early this morning when they collided at the intersection of Victoria Avenue and Tenth Street, and one of them turned over on its side. No one was in injured.

William B. Bullis, 202 Eighth Street, east, the driver of the car which overturned, estimated the damage to his car at $250, while Frank Dowding, driver of the second car, estimated damage to his car Mr. Bullis said he was proceding north on Victoria Avenue and had just reached the inat Tenth Street when he observed another car proceding west on Tenth Street Neither operator could stop his car in time and they collided with the result that Bullis' car turned over. up to 25 years. In the last fiscal year, 664 loans were made in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of loans made since the board started business here to 8,000 and representing $12,282,000.

Less than $50,000 was outstanding in Saskatchewan on principal and interest and $20,000 of this amount was less than six months in arrears. Throughout Canada, interest arrears at March this year equalled only 0.217 per cent of principal outstanding, the lowest percentage of interest arrears to principal in the board's history. "We received a large part of our payments this fall by November 1," Mr. Rideout said, "and this certainly seems an indication of the general agricultural prosperity of the province." APPROVE AGREEMENT An agreement for supply of electricity to the projected 000 artificial ice plant being constructed here by the Arctic Ice Company was approved by the City Council's standing committee Thursday night. Similar to arrangements between the city and other large firms, the agreeIment will run for five years.

The Vigil -Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. THIS PIGEON waited for hours Thursday alongside the lifeless body of its mate, which was killed in a downtown lane by poison. The picture of gloom, the bird moved away whenever traffic passed and then resumed its fruitless vigil. the British Colony Columbia Farm, Essondale with chewan official management said. methods," together an RECOGNIZED AUTHORITY ON LAND Angus McMillan Dead, Aged 71 Angus McMillan, who in 1904 and following years drove thousands of miles by horse and buggy locating settlers 'in Goose Lake and Kindersley district and who, in 1908 took an 850-mile drive setting up the first polling subdivision in northwest part of the province, died in a local hospital Thursday.

The funeral will be held from St. Andrew's Presbyterian church at 2.30 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Born in Glengarry in 1878, he came west from Ontario to Neepawa in 1897, and to Saskatoon, where he has lived ever since, in 1903. On his arrival, he built a small house and a barn just north of the site of the Birks building, on Third Avenue, next door to the home of Fred Engen of the Saskatoon Land Company, who in early days was the first man to conduct mechanized farming on a large scale. In these early years he took Town Council Will Pay Off $6 Debt Sutherland's Town Council decided Thursday night that it would wipe out a debt which had been on their books since 1938.

The councillors voted unanimously that the sum of $6.06 be paid to the provincial treasury department to wipe off said debt. The money owed by Sutherland was the balance due on a 1938 seed grain account for some $44. Apparently only $38 had been treasury. One of the councillors remarked that if the government kept their books that well they deserved to be paid, with compliments. who believed in co-operatives and who believed in public ownership.

"When one fails, the other fails," he declared "They are dependent upon one another." Mr. Douglas declared that there was "no inevitability about progress." Noting that history was the story of man's continual adaptation, he said: "If we do not adapt to our changing environment we will perish." He reviewed the capitalistic system, culminating in the Industrial Revolution and evolving out of the matriarchal, patriarchal, agrarian and fuedal societies. Before the revolution and the advent of the present capitalistic system, there could be enough produced to fill the needs of all men, he said. "These days people are saying harsh things about the capitalistic system," he continued. "Let me say something good about it." "It has solved far greater problem than any we face today DOUGLAS thoseContinued on Page 6, Column SEE- SEE- Reported to be gravely ill, Paul Prince, M.L.A, of North Battleford, was being brought to a local hospital today by air ambulance.

It is understood he may have to undergo a serious operation. Oddest garment, designed to comply with the law to wear white or red when hunting deer, season for which closes Saturday, is that worn by a local doctor. It consists of a white linen operating suit, a sort of refined set of overalls. "Provincial highway signs have phosphorescent or luminous paint on them, but you've go to be an owl to see a stop sign at night in Saskatoon," a reporter heard a traffic-conscious citizen say this morning. "It's no good putting city signs up just for people who know where they Music at the St.

Andrew's Day celebration was supplied by the St. Andrew Society chorus and not by St. Andrew's Church choir. Finance Minister Abbott's statement at Ottawa Thursday that wages are "90 per cent higher than prewar" caused a few eyebrow liftings today. "Maybe Abbott is getting here, 90 per cent more, but it's sure thing office workers in Saskatoon are nowhere near that figure," a Coffee Row cynic observed East- West Cory Feud Will End in Weekend Gun-Play It will be war to the death this weekend.

Grim-faced men will meet secretly with drawn blinds and locked doors to discuss their campaign, while tense but dryeyed women will oil guns, sort shell, and make mountains of sandwiches. It's the culmination of a re- Teen-Agers Given Suspended Term Four teen-agers, 15 to 17 years, were given one year's suspended sentence by Magistrate B. M. Wakeling Thursday afternoon in city police court They were charged with breaking and entering. Between these four young men there ten charges.

Two of them were jointly in four cases and the other two each had three charges against them. The boys' fathers, or some other reliable persons had to sign a $100 bond assuring the boys' good behavior before they could go free. Also, they were told to report to A. Sharp, adult probation officer, once every month for a year. Highway Workers Given Pay Boost REGINA, Dec.

2 agreement providing for general wage increases and a minimum boost of five cents an hour to raise the rate to 80 cents has been signed by the Saskatchewan Civil Servants Association with the provincial Department of Highways. W. Leonard. association secretary, said proposals first were placed "before the highways department last February. The agreement covers 350 seasonal employees.

It stipulates a cut in the hours worked daily by all classifications. Previously, highway employees worked 10 hours a day for a 60-hour week. The new agreement provides for a 9-hour day and a 51 hour week, with pay for overtim Sutherland Tags Along On Holiday cently developed feud between the men of the east and west banks of the South Saskatchewan River, pinpointed on a farm house that lies on the high east bank and a block of concrete structures not far from the stockyards. And so on Sunday these men will set out, armed with shotguns and pledged to death. It's the West Cory Coyote Hunt Club and the East Cory Coyote and Curling Chub that are to engage in battle, not with each other, but with coyotes.

On the left, pardon, west, you have Curly Weldon, leader of the determined fellows of the W.C.C.H.C., on the east Gib Schmidt, operator, in his big barn, of the. Furdale Curling Club, now patiently awaiting COYOTE HUNT Continued on Page 6, Column 4 Oldtimer in West Buried Thursday Mrs. Esther: Champagne, of Battleford, who arrived there by trail from Swift Current late in the last century, died in a Saskatoon convalescent home Monday, at the age of 94. Widow of the late Albert Champagne, M.P., she was an active Red Cross worker in the First World War, living in Battleford until illness brought her to Saskatoon in 1947. The funeral was held Thursday from McKague's, the service being conducted by a longtime friend, the Rev.

Thomas Currant of Biggar United church, and formerly of Battleford. Mrs. Champagne is survived by an only daughter, Mrs. W. R.

Latimer, Vancouver, and two sisters, Mrs. Nellie Beckwith of Clio, Mich and Mrs. Sarah Patterson, of Grand Bend, Ontario. MEETINGS The Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra will hold a rehearsal at. 2.15 o'clock Sunday afternoon at Knox Church.

All members are urged to attend. After a minor verbal war, reminiscent of the one which shook the Saskatoon City Council some weeks ago, the Sutherland Town Council decided Thursday night at its biweekly meeting to have Town Clerk A. C. Hayden draft a bylaw proclaiming Dec. 27 a holiday in Sutherland.

The bylaw was scheduled for final approval at the Dec. 15 meeting of the council. The pros and cons of such a move were discussed by all members of the council especially Mayor F. J. Spark, with the effect on the townspeople and merchants debated fully before Mr.

Hayden was authorized to draft the bylaw. The 12 o'clock bus, for which the Sutherland council has been campaigning SO strenuously in the past months, once again came into the spotlight. A letter from the Saskatoon Transit System informed the council that as soon as the winter schedule was put into operation a bus would be leaving Saskatoon at 12.10 o'clock midnight. It also said that for the first month of operation a passenger count would be held to see if the Sutherland traffic warranted the additional service. All of this brought violent outbursts from the councillers as they had considered the mutter closed, when a few weeks ago they were informed that this service had already been scheduled to proceed almost immediately: However, the councillors decided to leave the matter in the hands of the Saskatoon Transit System for the time being and see what came of the traffic count.

ANGUS McMILLAN up the business of locating settlers, and even in the last of his life recalled their names by association with their township locations. His journeys were of necessity made by demMcMILLAN Continued on Page 6, Column 4 Request Authority For Lighted Signs City Council's standing committee Thursday night asked authorization from the Board of Transport Commissioners for erection of illuminated stop signs at the Lorne Avenue and Ruth Street railway crossings. The transport board was also requested cide apportionment of the estimated cost of $1.100 between the city and the maintenance C.N.R.. as well annual expense of $100. SUICIDE INDICATED MOOSE JAW, Dec.

2 body of Frank Ellis, 63, was found Wednesday with a .22 calibre bullet in the chest and a note nearby indicating suicide. A milkman found the body in side Ellis' two-room shack. Police said they believed his wife works for a Winnipeg firm..