PAGE TOXin THE DAILV NEWS Prince Rupert. B o, Tuesday, September 4, 1945 Timely Topics from Terrace - LOCAL REGIMENT CAUSES STIR IN TOWN; BOY RUSHED TO HOSPITAL The irst Reserve Battalion, Prince Rupert Regi- rment (Mb), sojourned in lerrace over the Labor Day holiday. Sports of all sorts were held and outcomes are still the topic of discussion all over town. In the 2;handicap race, Pte. Andy Ronald ably finished a good " second with the assistance of his son. Sgt. Tommy Meehan, with a robust run, easily outdistanced his opponents. Major Toombs, with-. out his cap, -ended In a fine fettle and who Is to say It was not 3ea hair-raising finish? The boys spent Sunday which was a fine day at Lakelse. The holiday will long be remembered by this unit as weather and accommodations were made to order. Young Lome Little, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Little, was rushed to the Prince Rupert , Hospital on Friday evening af-ter he had supposedly swallowed a "coke" bottle top. It was found later that he had swallowed a carrot. He Is now well on the road to recovery. Over the week-end C. M. Adam was host to a number of Prince Rupert visitors including J. P. Hawkinson and daughter Joyce, Mrs. Ole Evindsen and son Ronald and Tom Hanson. Miss Adela Haugland left on Friday night's train for Prince George where she will be Ing a grade three class. During the past three years she has been on the staff of the Terrace Elementary School. She returned recently from a trip to Vancouver and Victoria with her mother, Mrs. Chris Haugland. Mrs. "Blondie" Jones returned gn Friday night's train fronva brief trip to Prince Rupert. She -had taken young Carol to St. Joseph's Academy where she will attend school for the coming year. Mrs. Jones and the sjest of the family will be moving to 17 Mile where a new sawmill Is being constructed by Little, Haugland and Kerr. Phyllis Davidson passed through Terrace Friday evening enroute to Smithers where she will resume her duties at a local store. She has been holidaying in the south for the last two weeks. Donna Pearson arrived home on Monday night from Victoria. She expects to be home for some time. During the week Mrs. Jame3 Pope of Prince Rupert was the guest of Mrs. O. L. Brookes and Mrs. D. Jordan. She returned to her home on Friday, Last Tuesday Mrs. P. LeRoss moved to Prince Rupert, where she will make her home. She Is to be Joined later by her husband, Capt. Le Ross, who is in the south receiving his A very enjoyable and well-attended dance was -held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Saturday evening. It was staged by the Terrace Athletic Club and members of the Prince Rupert Regiment were much in evidence. August Lips was in Terrace over the holiday to visit with his family. As Alair, another brother, was home at the same time, the family had a brief re union. O. A. Hunter, managing-editor of the Prince Rupert Daily News, was among the week-end visitors to Terrace. R.Q.M.S. Ken Flemming of Prince Rupert was the guest of Sgt. and Mrs. E. Prior of the Royal Canadian Engineers at Terrace. Mrs. E Thomas and two chil dren, Patricia and Roy, left on Thursday morning for Trail. They motored down accompan ied by Mr. and Mrs. Lee Lewel-lyn. Mrs. Thomas will rejoin her husband, Everett, who has received his army discharge and Is again with the Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. Mr. and Mrs. F. Stone spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Johnstone. Mrs. Stone Is the former Helen Beveridge whose father, G. W. Beveridge, was a former manager of the Bank of Montreal here. Advertise in the Dally News. EXTRA GOOD BREAD! There's no lost action with Fresh Yeast! And Heischmann's fresh Yeast goes right to work because it's actively fresh. It gives full delicious bread flavour, tender smooth texture perfect freshness IF YOU BAKE AT HOME, always ask for Heischmann's active fresh Yeast with the familiar yellow label. Dependable Canada's tested favour, ite for over 70 years. MADE IN CANADA ANNOUNCEMENT I wish to announce that I have taken over active management of THE VARIETY STORE. Jack Mussallem. WE WILL PAY A FAIR CASH PRICE FOR YOUK USED FURNITURE ELIO FURNITURE STORE PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. VICTORY SHOW PLAYS TERRACE Entertainment Outfit Is Now in Prince Rupert TERRACE, Sept. 4 Terrace Park was enlivened last Friday evening by the arrival and setting up of the circus, "Victory Shows," much to the delight of the children and near-children of Terrace, who were soon whizzing around on the whirligig, a device propelled by a gasoline engine and which enabled its patrons to sit in the precarious-looking seats while being whirled around at a dizzy speed at an elevation of some ten feet or so from Mother Earth. The show was handicapped by the lack of power, occasioned by the burning of the local power plant a week ago. There were other features to the show, features which Prince Rupert people are putting to the test this week as the whole outfit left Terrace Friday morning for the coast city. NEW HAZELTON Mrs. Dan MacKenzie recently returned to New Hazelton after spending several days In Prince Rupert. Verne Senkpiel, who Is now In Germany with the occupational troops, recently sent a box of tulip bulbs frpm Holland to Mr. and Mrs. Oakley Senkpiel of Smithers Mr. and Mrs. Byron Greene of Quick, and Mrs. Thompson ot Telkwa, whose husband is overseas with the R.C.A.F., passed through New Hazelton recently by car enroute to Terrace. Bob Willan has moved his saw mill up Nine Mile Mountain road where he will be cutting for some months. S3IITHERS S. O. Copeland, formerly of the provincial police at Prince Rupert, has accepted a position here in the office of Hanson Lumber and Timber Company. Larry McLeod, manager of the Royal Bank in Smithers, return ed recently from Vancouver where he spent part of his sum mer vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Stan McFarland and young daughter left recent ly for Revelstoke where Mr. Mc Farland will teach this coming term. For the past year he was a member of the Smithers High School teaching staff. Miss Dorothy Foster returned to Smithers recently from Vancouver, after visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Foster. Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Hankinson of Prince Rupert have been been spending a visit at their Lake Kathlyn summer home. George and Lawrence left recently to return to school at Vancouver. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Frederick- son of Usk were visitors over the week-end. PRINCE GEORGE Assurance by telegram has been given the Fall Fair Board that Hon. Harry G. Perry, education minister and local member, will be here to attend the fall fair banquet on Friday, September 7, at 7 pjn in the Prince George Hotel dining-room, when trophies and prize money will be presented. Curtailment of logging and mill operations is being seriously considered by many owners confronted with the most acute la bor shortage since 1939 In Prince George administrative district of Selective Service. Detailed planning by the en ergetic Junior Chamber of Commerce gave children and adults of this district outstanding en tertainments Monday, Labor Day, with a full day of sports at Athletic Park and a midway at thet Civic Arena in the evening. Despite stiff competition, Mud River and Beaverley Calf Cluo emerged winners of the Junor club calf competition toward the close of the 30th annual Fall Fair last Wednesday when livestock entries were more than double those of 1944. Pte. Norlne Patterson, C.W.A.C. youngest daughter of Mr, and Mrs. A. M. Patterson, is home on furlough from her station in Vancouver. Among week-end visitors to Terrace were Q'.M.S. Ted Johnston, Staff Sgt. Lloyd Ray ahd Mr. ana Mrs. James Bremner, WELCOMED AX TERRACE TERRACE, Sept. 4 Last Friday a good many Terrace people were shaking hands with an old friend In G. R. S. Blackaby, who had stopped off at Terrace while on his way east and whose car had suffered a broken spring. Mr. Blackaby was on his way to Lake Kathlyn near Smithers, where his family have been spending their holidays. They were here again Sunday homeward bound. LONDON 05 Australia is to present Britain with a new speaker's chair for the House of Commons to replace the chair destroyed In the blitz. IWREN WIVES COUNSELLOR Brides of Canadian Servicemen Come to Maiitlme Girl With Problems of Trans-Atlantic Move LONDON, Sept. 4 W "Is Is very lonely on the prairie?" "If I have to leave my wardrobe behind, can I be sure of getting one in Canada?" "It's terribly cold In Canada, isn't It?" "Will I be allowed to takt my dog to Canada?" "How do you pro- take my wedding presents wlthhiite to leave their wardrobes," me?" y These are a few of the f questions British war bride: fired at Leading Wren Evelyr. Kerr of Fox River, N.S., In the course of an afternoon's worl' at the Civilian Repatriation taction of the Canadian Wives' Bureau. There are ailflcui'.les about the second question'. Young brides seem unable to understand how a clothfs cupboard can possibly take tiie "place of a wardrobe. f "I practically We myself in knots explaining tj-'iat Canadian cupboards are wpnderful and that we much luefer them to wardrobes. But 1 don't think nounce 'Kapuskasing'?" "Can I they are ever tonvlnced they Wren Kerr said "About 30,000 Englishwomen have married Canadians," sr added. "We figure there are at least 20,000 British women fm waiting to go to Canada, not to speak of all the children. They want to know evervthing possible about Canada and Canadian ways. We try to tell them all we can. "My Job is to give them all sorts of books that -will help them." Wren Kerr arrived in London about a year ago and since that time has come to know, Canada as few Canadians do. She has been asked so many searching "1 jhcil, first hj J? the emp- grounds that it J. ganged itsaln of urgenev ' STRATHAvTrTl Scotland (P!-sitlt celebrated Scott M 75thbirthdS favorite ms 'J1 guests who visited questions aUH inw ilitmtwrttwfHw I'm9' mMWMmmMA wMHHHiWh iw ,wmetm m mmimLmw thH wtmr B -'SS.TKXTI LBS 5 in A llisf The supply of textiles Is not adequate to the demand. 4- ' 3a: Mi 14;; in mi w m km For six years, most of the world output has gone to war. Victory has not Unproved the situation. There will not be enough textiles In Canada for many months to come; here adc L sM of TH;n Canada depends large-ly on other sources for raw materials and for some yarns and fabrics. A serious manpower shortage still confronts the textile industry of all Allied countries. Shortages overseas must be met. It will take months before; production is resumed in Europe. dlil) Subsfantial quantifies of Domestic demand for . Civilian clothing needs of ji? y.VyW all kinds of textiles are textiles increased sharp- returning servicemen and t. Mi- &h ?rj5P"2t!4. still required by occupa- ly during the war. It is women are swelling the CJ ,l0na' f0rCeJ' ''"eingup. demand here at home. j i(fB I CONSERVATION IS THE KEYNOTE ft A' rlri This year, production directives have again been issued li W I isfjf to the textiles industry. If : ij, KJ----" They'are intended fo divert output to more essential ' jk 1 1 uvJOtAtt4 But directives alone cannot cure a situation arising from ' 1 3 otCcoio- world conditions. I 1 M ,0!vdont nd-ci e The answer lies In conservation. More than ever, the ' f ! M in n,0in0,a,d p,eP'eW need is to conserve, to take care of what there Is, to M M ,drfb " mend' makeover and make-d0i -:k; fjSl 1 1 55- ' CONS U M: E R B R ft N C H