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THE CHILLIWACK PROGRESS, Nov. 9, 1949 COMMUNITY PORTRAITS In My Small Corner C.M.B. Mr. Golightly may possibly find it heavier going. 31n fflhUinuark Progress Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Class A Weeklies of Canada, and Canadian Weekly Newspapers Assoc.

Subscriptions: In Canada, $2.50 yearly; United States and Foreign, $3.00, payable yearly or half yearly in advance. Published at 39 Yale Street East every Wednesday by The Chilliwack Progress and authorized as second class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa. Postal address Box 160, Chilliwack, B.C. surprising number of people who ha.ve been so kind as to reassure me after my last week's letter from the person who hated me so much.

A lot of my friends and readers have apparently felt quite indignant at the comments I reprinted in this corner, and my heart is a lot higher than it was when 1 I sat down at the typewriter a week ago. Thank you all, very much and very warmly, for the things L. E. Barber, Publisher Publishers Record of ABC Circulation Last Week 4566 Established 1S91 Remembrance and Thanksgiving you have said, for the nice telephone calls, and fin- ally for the two letters which have done a lot to cancel out the last one. These friendly letters were both signed.

The first is from Doris Thompson, who says, in a very welcome note, "It seems that those of us who appreciate your "small corner" lack the time or literary ability to tell you about it. There are those, however, who have little else to do but criticize and in the most ungrammatical way! I do like your articles." The second is from my old friend, Mrs. Archie Annis, who is another of the blessed people who periodically take time out to cheer mf up with a word of praise. She says: Dear C.M.B.: 1 I can see this is the time for my annual letter. A Did I miss last year? There is one good thing about being our age at least we fall into just one classification namely, old bag.

Wouldn't it be horrid to be a teen-ager and perhaps be a "queer" a "drip" or a "creep?" I thought your article on Barbara Ann Scott was a very honest straightforward one. But then I I enjoy frankness. Frankness takes a good deal of courage. Just think how really nice it is to be an "old bag." New bags are just so flat and uninteresting piled neatly one atop the other. An old bag full of wrinkles can contain the most exciting things.

A few candies for a sick child, a taste of cookies for the I apologize in advance this week for what I know will be a very disjointed effort. I feel disjointed, and I mean it literally. I am sharing all the physical sensations of a poor old boiling fowl who has been chopped apart in readiness for the stew-pot. The Admiral is away for nine days. He has had to go East again on a business trip, and I have been disorganized ever since he left.

My firmly stated intentions of not learning anything about how to run this strange furnace have had to be quickly abandoned, and I have spent a large part of each day hauling coal to the stoker and removing the clinkar. The clinker is a large doughnut-shaped mass of ashes, which is, I believe, supposed to come out all in one piece. My clinkers don't seem to clink. Every day I grasp the doughnut bravely with a great vicious-looking iron hook with claws on the far end. It holds together just until it reaches the furnace door and then it falls gloriously apart in a shower of sparks and ashes (mostly ashes) which cover my feet and the basement floor.

Five days have passed, and I have spent an improbable amount of each one in wiping, off my shoes, brushing grit out of my hair, and blowing soot out of my nose. I may state -with pride that we are keeping beautifully warm, but the price in personal inconvenience is heavy. I am lonely without my husband, and I long for his return for purely sentimental reasons, but in addition to these there are very practical advantages to having him on hand. Hurry home, Admiral. It's been a long, long time.

However there have been some pleasant things this week as well as the infuriating clinkers. Raking leaves has been more fun than it has ever been before. We never had enough leaves at the little house to make the project' seem very important. But in this big old establishment the leaves are on as grand and old-fashioned a scale as everything else. A whole community of babes in the wood could have gone snugly to bed in our garden.

They are mostly maple leaves, divided about evenly between Mr. Golightly next door and myself. As I ama very new neighbor and therefore on my best behaviour I have been scrupulous about raking in my proper share of those dubious piles that lie along the property line. There never has been such a perfect fall for this particular job they are such lovely colors, and so beautifully dry, and they burn in a twinkling. However, next year they may be wet and soggy, and my energy may slacken, and a result of the Second Great War is very real to myriads of persons still unborn when the first Armistice was declared.

But loss and grief are common to us all, and so it is that all are bound in a community of common sorrow and common loss. And the memory we keep is a living memory of a sacrifice that is beyond all recounting, of two deliverances beyond all expectation. Remembrance Day may well be made the occasion for renewing the extent of our performance of duty toward the living, as well as perpetuating our sense of acknowledgment to the dead, so as the years go by we may have the consciousness of a nearer approach to a full measure of a recognition which was in every mind and on all lips during the two periods of human struggle. At the four corners of the memorial Friday will be stationed four khaki clad motionless and silent sentries. The red poppy for remembrance will be visible everywhere, and through all minds will run a chain of memories that will bring a tug at the throat, a deep tug inward.

But while the occasion will be a tense period of remembrance, let us make it a great day of thanksgiving and dedication, so that the sacrifices we remember on Friday shall not have been in vain. Hundreds of men and women of Chilliwack will stand at attention at the Cenotaph shortly before 11 a.m. Friday to observe the exercises and keep the memories of what was known for many years as Armistice Day now Remembrance Day. There will be the men who served and the women who waited during two long and tragic World Wars. There will be many for whom the First Great War is a story that is told.

All will stand at attention and hear the voices of remembrance that speak in the silence. Thirty-one years ago on Friday the bugles along the battle fronts of Europe sounded "cease fire" and a great silence fell when the soldiers stood in their places. An armistice is literally a standing still; and that stillness of thirty-one years ago was indeed a sudden arresting of a world in arms. The intervening years have greatly thinned the ranks of the men who served, and of those who waited and lost loved ones in that grim contest. Those who are left of the legions who served in that now far off and rapidly receding period of sacrifice, have been joined by many other thousands to whom the sacrifices of war are more recent and poignant.

The cost in human life and suffering as Pull for New Court House 32 MRS. I. Z. CONBOY lawyer Happiness the inevitable goal of all people, has come to Mrs. Iva Zella Conboy through the combination of marriage and a professional career.

By combining the two she finds adequate expression of her personality and her talents. neighbors, a favorite dahlia bulb or an outgrown dress for a needy child. You see, old bags have so much to give, so I'm looking forward to being an old, old bag. I'll cherish every wrinkle. The more shapeless, the more happiness it will have carried.

So now you may bow to the honored title of "old bag" and be thankful you aren't a "queer" a "drip" or, horrors! a "creep." Carry on! Sincerely, WINNIFRED ANNIS. Budding typists used to be given the sentence now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party and we suggest that just now is a good time for all groups and interests in Chilliwack and district to get together on the proposal to convince the provincial government that it is time the half-century-old frame court house was replaced with a structure more befitting time and circumstance. A building ample enough for an occasional country court session, a registrar and a sheriff over fifty years ago has long since become totally inadequate. To repair damage done by the recent fire and leave the structure as a monument to provincial government appreciation of its multiplicity of services in an area of twenty thousand people, is contrary to repeated of faith in the future progress and development of this fine province, and the Upper Fraser Valley in particular. Time to Differentiate Other Days in Chilliwack Valley Taken from Files of The Progress Written by C.

A. B. Valley Alfred Unsworth's pen of White Wyan- dottes win world's highest award in egg-laying con- ten uiuuii, wiin uv pens competing. Unsworth's six birds average 242 eggs each for the twelve months F. B.

Staoey, MP, principal speaker when Orangemen commemorate Guy Fawkes day. 1 FORTY YEARS AGO Release of a condensation of the Hamilton urvey of the hospital situation in British Columbia brings ihe current, and recently perplexing problem, of hospitalization services into sharp focus. Introduction of a compulsory hospital insurance plan before completion of such a comprehensive survey, has multiplied the difficulties attendant upon establishing such a service for both the central administrative organization and for those who have taken on the voluntary task of operating the eighty-six separate institutions throughout this far-flung The report makes clear the problem facing both central and local administrations-, knd should assist materially in clearing up at least some of the buck passing and muddled conceptions of financial and. operational authority that has thus far characterized the operation of the provincial government's plans, however well meant, to provide for all requiring hospitalization through payment of an annual charge or premium. The sooner there is removed the repeated charge that the rapidly rising cost of hospitalization under the hospital insurance plan is due to mismanagement and extravagance by local boards and management the better it will be for the promotors and administrators of the plan and the general public which public pays the shot.

With the Hamilton report in hand it should be fair to expect that hospitals doing an efficient job be so advised, and those guilty of alleged extravagances, be checked up. The repeated blanket accusation is unfair to the men and women who are doing their best to provide proper hospital care to those requiring it, particularly in the transition period brought about by the introduction of a general hospital insurance plan. iov. iu, iuy ity council agrees to submit a Dyiaw to borrow J45U0 as city share ot a $7,500 school expansion program; government portion $3000 Property owners at Reece and Carbould Even the Weather (Tlx Printed Word) requested to move an accumulation ot stumps and logs from street allowance Fire brigade asks for hose reel cart, rubber gloves, roof ladders, crowbars, coal stove and two tons of coal Reconsidering his decisin to retire from public life, C. Munro, MPP accepts Liberal nomination Provincial election half page "McBride's policy stands for provincial prosperity.

S. A. Cawley stands for Local Option and a transcontinental line through Chilliwack" Petition being signed requesting federal department of militia to establish a Company of Mounted Rifles in Chilliwack where expert riders and good horses abound Macken buy S. D. Tretheway lumber interests at Camp Slough Vedder Crossing post office changed to Vedder River with R.

C. Barwell providing daily service The weather itself is getting different. The g'ers fighting in a falling plane. Man, the quick-eyed jungle creature, uneasily TEN YEARS AGO Nov. 15, 1939 War Veterans, active militia, Boy Scouts, Cubs, Girl Guides, IODE, and citizens pay tribute to memory of First World War dead.

Remembrance Day address by Rev. R. A. Redman. Dean Buchanan, UBC addresses 400 Canadian Legion members and guests on Rise of National Socialism in Germany, during banquet in evening Gerald McGlashing, 18, in hospital with gunshot wounds in leg, as result of the season's third hunting accident Twenty residents contribute $760 as Red Cross begins drive for funds for war purposes Plowmen elect Harold German sixth term president; James Swan, secretary-treasurer Sid Rowlands chosen to head BPO Elks All school children being treated with diphtheria' toxoid.

TWENTY YEARS AGO Nov. 14, 1929 Largest crowd to assemble at the Cenotaph since the unveiling, pay tribute to war dead on Armistice Day. Religious service in Legion Hall, addressed by Rev. E. J.

Thompson, precedes parade to Cenotaph. Dance held in Legion Hall in evening Twenty-eight horse plows and seven tractors compete in annual plowing match. Jack Kerr champion plowman. Hon. Wm.

Atkinson presents awards during banquet in Legion Hall. Hon. J. Hinchliffe, minister of education, formally opens new 18 -room public school. Also taking part in the formalities were School Board Chairman A.

H. Turvey, Mayor C. A. Barber, Hon. Wm.

Atkinson, H. J. Barber, MP, Inspectors H. H. MacKenzie and Albert Sullivan.

Serving as trustees along with Mr. Turvey were: S. Pugh (secretary), F. G. Leary, O.

A. Weeks and A. I. Andrews! H. K.

Manuel, school principal Jack Kerr, Leslie Bennewith, Wm. and James Dyble, Bert Tope, D. McPhee, A. Sache, A. E.

McConnell, Reuben Jones, do well at Ladner Plowing match. New bridge to be' constructed on Vedder mountain road west of Yarrow Mrs. Henry Hall, a 5 3 -year-resident of Sumas Prairie, dies following a long illness Gordon Eddie farewelled by Sardis Whippet basketball team, prior to his leaving to attend Commercial school in Vancouver Kinsmen basketball experts mark up win over Sardis in season opener, when John Wheeler pots 14 points, Jack Davies 6, and Aid. Les Eyres 4. Stew Dixon and Doc Newby set up strong defence.

Sardis played Len Higginson, John Kirk-ness, McLean, Henry Eddie and Thornton. THIRTY YEARS AGO Nov. 12, 1919 Fraser Valley Milk Producers' Association take over collecting, grading and marketing of poultry and eggs throughout Frased Valley. Producers Exchange appointed agent for Chiliwack Southern ice cap is growing unwieldy and the Northern one is melting down to its mammoth bones. This change in the weather is the latest upset to man's sense of security.

Think back, if you are old enough, to the years before the First World war. The successive shocks since then have grown in frequency and size until they are calling this halfway post of the atomic century the pre-war world, and the post-Christian era. Man's tragedy is that he understands too much. He can hope and prav. And he can try to get along with his fellows on the earth.

The troubles of mankind are so vast it is the ultimate in madness that groups and individuals should quarrel, 'like passen- come from his tree, is now after all these thousands of years lord of the earth. He has just put down all his enemies except himself, and except the universe. He has not learned how to live with himself or in the shifting universe. While other stars than his sun blow up and while the ice caps of his planet shift, he plans a war. How Dean Swift would purse his lips at this confirmation of his low opinion of mankind.

We could do much yet to save ourselves. The world still turns and at is beautiful. Humans dwell still upon it. Let us shake the dark jungle out of our minds and turn to thoughts not of how to die but how to live. to and from Chilliwack City post office postal revenue for year reaches new total of $4270 Fred Barr, Sardis, sells 25 acres of Dandy place to P.

E. Beldam at $25 an acre Wm. Carey, chief of police, builds new home on Lewis avenue. Rev. Canon d'Easum and familv.

Calcnr tA residence here Wm. Barrett returns from visit to England accompanied by his bride; takes up residence on Nowell street Mrs. Cowen and daugh years. She also was a board member of Children's Aid Society and Family Welfare Bureau. She was provincial convenor of laws for Saskatchewan Council of Women, and now holds a similar post in British Columbia.

In the fall of'l936 she ran for alderman in Saskatoon and "led the losers." She is proud that she rated an editorial in a Saskatoon paper, which suggested she try again. In 1937 she and Mr. Conboy moved to Vancouver where she was "relatively unoccupied," and for two years she took classes at University of British Columbia in history, psychology, so-cialogy and social work. From the time of their marriage, Mr. Conboy retained in Saskatchewan and made regular trips to his farms.

Mrs. Conboy also went back to Saskatchewan in the summer time, handling some legal business for her former clients there. In October, 1944, Mr. and Mrs. Conboy came to Chilliwack and purchased Aid.

Clifford Skelton's nut grove on Stanley street and Spadina avenue. Mrs. Conboy entered the law office of Davidson and Guinet in March, 1946, and entered the bar of British Columbia in April, 1947. She still retains her membership in the Saskatchewan bar. "We came to Chilliwack because of my husband's interest in filbert nut growing.

We are remaining because of my law practice," Mrs. Conboy admitted with a smile. "My husband understands that I am happier when working in law, just as I understand that he is vitally interested in farming," she said. Their idea of relaxation is travel or reading good books, and in the latter their tastes are very much the same. In recent years much of their time has been spent in planning their home on the corner of Cor-bould and Spadina, which is designed for gracious living.

Conboy became an amateur architect and "built the house on a card table," before construction started. "I believe in having as many labor saving devices in my house as possible," Mrs. Conboy said. Although deeply religious, Mrs. Conboy does not belong to any church.

"In the early days in the rural districts ministers of several denominations conducted services," Mrs. Conboy said. "After hearing quite a number I could not come to any conclusion as to which one was right. So I didn't join any in case I changed my mind." Here she regularly attends Chilliwack United church. Mrs.

Conboy is a champion for the cause of women and explained her philosophy. "Women have talents; aspirations and yearnings which are not necessarily satisfied by their duties as housewives. Just because they are women I don't think they should be restricted to house and family duties. On the other hand, I regard the work that a wife and mother does, if she really fulfills her responsibilities, as one of the most important jobs there is. She is law convener for Local Council of Women and has membership in Canadian Club and Soroptimist clubs' here.

In Council of Women work she suggested revision in laws for women in winter of 1946 and 1947. In February, 1947, she was spokesman for the Provincial Council of Women before The road so far has not been easy, but she is not content to settle in a comfortable rut now. She has many goals for the future. Iva Zella Young was "born under two flags" before the turn of the century. She explains that she was born in North Dakota but at that time her father was a British subject, so she was born a British subject.

After nine years in North Dakota the family moved to Saskatchewan where her father homesteaded in the area now known as Kinley, about 35 miles west of Saskatoon. Mrs. Conboy received her earliest education at a rural school near Kinley. The second child in a family of eight, Mrs. Conboy's help was needed at home and she was uiw able to start high school education until three years after1 she completed elementary school.

"I was determined to get an education," she said. "In those day girls just didn't get to go to high school. I was the only girl in my age group who graduated from high school. She entered Nutana Collegiate, Saskatoon, in 1913. Fired with enthusiasm, she received a medal in 1914 for the highest marks in "junior form." a combination of grades nine and ten.

She had completed the course in eight months. She graduated from high school in 1915 but was forced, by ill health, to leave school two months before the end of the term. She went to Alberta for her health and after visiting friends and relatives there for several months enrolled in normal school, Calgary, finishing the required four months' course in the spring of 1918. In the fall of 1918 she entered University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. "I had planned to take a straight arts course, but knew I would not be satisfied with that when I was finished," she said.

"A talk with a friend the night before registration was responsible for my decision to take law. It is a step I have never regretted." She taught school intermittently during her university course to help pay expenses. When she graduated in 1921 she and another woman headed the graduating class. Entering the office of Gilchrist, Hogarth and Estey, Saskatoon in 1922, she stayed with that law ffrm four years. One of her employers is now well known as the Hon.

Mr. Justice J. W. Estey of Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa. In December, 1925, she married William Melvin Conboy and they went to California where they operated a fruit farm at San Diego for two years.

They also lived a year in Portland. In 1929 they returned to Saskatchewan to live at Outlook and Hanley. "Once I had entered law, I was never truly happy without it," Mrs. Conboy said. "I always felt there was a track beside me which I should be on, and wasn't." Mrs.

Conboy was eligible for admittance to the Saskatchewan bar, In 1925, but because of her marriage did not actually join until 1930. In 1931 she opened a law office in Hanley, and in 1933 moved to Saskatoon. She operated an office there until 1937. While in Saskatoon she served on the board of the YWCA, of which she was president for two ter, loronto, joins C. ri.

Uwen, the West End druggist; family to reside heije. FIFTY YEARS AGO Nov. 15, 1899 Large shipments of farm prod Probably the reason a dog is man's best friend is because he can't talk back. Even though you can't win it'll give you a thrill to make the man ahead break a record. If opportunity knocked on some people's heads instead of their doors she'd get better results.

A lot of men miss their wives' cooking every chance they get. No allowance a man gives his wife compares with the one she makes. The only country in the world where television antennae are on the roofs of slum dwellings is the capitalistic, imperialistic United States of America. Makes no difference what it is, a woman will buy everything on which she thinks the store is losing money. A great deal has been said and written about the new Hope-Princeton highway, officially opened Wednesday, and it has all been complimentary, and justly so.

But there is one fact that cannot be too widely known and realized, and that is that this great link has been built for traffic, not as a speedway. uce Deing maae to ioast cities, ior wnich good cash' prices are being received Dwelling houses are scarce in town, a sure indication of better times; no charge for this tip to prospective newcomers Firewood is a scarce commodity New Karn piano purchased for Queens Hotel New sidewalk being laid from Five Corners to Court House W. D. Kidd. DODular tonsorial artist moves his "chair" to rear of premises to make room for a stock of stationery and confectionery Robt.

Ballam (now residing in Vancouver) buys A. Noble's draying business S. J. Turner and Frank Kipp return from Fajrview, (a booming mining camp east of Penticton) the round trip being made on horseback over the Hope-Princeton trail. By Jimmy Hatlo They'll Do It Every Time HM1IMW fftUT VOSRE INAHURRy LEAVIU LADEN 60IN6 UPHILb" WILL EGGHEAD WALK? LIKE HECK HE WILL HE WALKS DETOURS AW STALLS HIS SURREY Country Editor By JIM GREENBLAT the cabinet of the provincial government.

As a result of the resolutions of Chilliwack and North Vancouver councils, the Wives Protection Act was put on the statute books of British Columbia. "One of my ambitions is to see women recognized as having equal status with men," Mrs. Conboy said. She is appreciative of the strides which women have made in the last century, but looks ahead to greater things. "I believe civilization will have to advance a lot before women are prepared to accept full emancipation," she said.

The well-intentioned, misguided men who have misled workers into pitfalls of over-nationalization are face to face with the tragic consequences of their disastrous mistakes. They believed with deep conviction that when the profits earned by. the most efficient managements were eliminated and industries were owned by the government the determination of fair wages should be a matter of simple arithmetic and that workers would do their best for whatever rewards the planners of their lives deemed equitable. Now bitter experience is proving, both in Great Britain and Canada, that workers' rewards will be established in industries by the ability of organized workers to deprive other workers of goods and ser vices which are essential to survival, rather than by the value of their own work. The readiness of union members to enforce their demands by "unofficial" strikes against their own organization and against their own gov-' ernments, in Great Britain and Australia, proves the fallacy of the basic beliefs of Socialists.

(The Scene). In the Thanksgiving spirit the Chilliwack, B.C., Progress resolves: Yes, we have much to be thankful for and it would be good for all of us to spend a little time thinking about it; it would be good for all of us if we would resolve to work together to preserve the riches that God and nature have given us; to preserve and protect this country and all its freedoms. Of all the pests which plague farmers there is none to equal the city-slicker who knows how farmers ought to farm but never lifts a pitchfork himself. H-9.