i ee < i } ¥ “Twenty on, No. I B.C. To Study Forest Yield On Basis - Continuous Production In Perpetuity, Soil Conservation, Water Regulation PREMIER HART ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT ROYAL COMMISSION TO MAKE COMPREHENSIVE ENQUIAY INTO B.C. FOREST AND LUMBERING INDUSTRIES +P The forest resources of the province and all matters gener- relating to or connected with the forest resources of the prov- ince including, but not limiting this reference, to the following subjects: Sc The ext “nature and value _ of the forest res if The conserfi ion, management _ and protection ol these resources; in relation to >. servation land, and the coastal forest areas }3 ie Ae sford Sumas Matsqui News * Abbotsford, B.C., Wednesday, Jan. 5, 1944 has d to make a comprehen- een A Raya ¢ , it is This question has been occupy-® ing the attention of the ptemier issi b i com s of the forestry and lumbering industry ith asco te determining the best methods to be ufacture and logging of forestry products, the proper parks reforestation, and other matters pertaining to s considered as perhaps British Columbia’s most valuable d by Premier John Hart. KEN, THOMPSON HAS HELPED BOMB ALL MAIN AXIS CITIES Mascot Lost Over Berlin on 26th Op, In a letter to a friend in Ab- botsford, Flt. Sgt. Ken Thdmp- shall be made ing matters: The establishment of forest yield on a continuous production _ basis in perpabilty: _ Forestatio | research; _ Forestry educat jon and instruc- tion; es The utilization of the forest crop and its relationship to em- ployment and social conditions; The use and management of forest and wild lands for parks, recreation, grazing and wild life i ) forest administra- potions 22 Meera! The reélatiodship of the forest to soil conservation; The maint ee of an ade- quate forest cover with a view to the regulation ‘moisture run- _ off and the m: ntenance of the levels of lakes and’ streams; son, RCAF overseas, says: “ I of- ten meet Canadians over here who. know the Abbotsford district quite well. Only last week, while on leave in Manchester, I met Cpl. Jim Blacklock of Matsqui. We went into the well-known Gaumont Long Bar and talked seg; about times be- fore the warin the home town, With him was Bob White and a few other of the Canadian Scottish sol- diers, all from Vancouver and New Westmi Manches- i is very pop- , “ular with Can- ane Thompson! dian services —probably because of the many thousands of girls who work in the mills and munitions plants there. } “T’'ve just finished my first tour of operations and leave to- morrow for a 6-month spell on the ground. I’ve helped bomb all ane cities of Germany and tally as Thompson also writes appreci- atively of the A. S. & M. News “which I am receiving quite reg- ularly, It sure is nice to be able to get the news about what is going on around Abbotsford and district...” A ih d with the Forest finance and r _to the Crown from forest re- sources; t Acquisition of rights to forest lands and timber and the tenure of such rights, including existing rights and tenures, and the ex- tent to which adequate and pro- “per exercise of the rights there- under is now made. te gislation and the amend- 'fent thereof; =~ The relevant facts in relation to ‘any matter that in the opinion of the commissi it is neces- _Sary to inquire ) in order to carry out effectually the duties _ imposed upon him herein. To Hold Enquiries _ The commission will hold en- _ Quiries throughout the province, so that all phases of the industry will have an opportunity of pre- 'Senting their briefs and repre- _ Sentations. Thus, it will be pos- _ sible for the spruce loggers in the Prince George area, those en- Baged in the Christmas tree in- dustry in the East Kootenay, those concerned with the pre- of wild life in the Okanagan and other parts of the Province, and others engaged in logging operations in the Queen Charlotte Islands, Vancouver Is- on the mainland, pleas. Matters appertaining to soil Conservation, the securing of maximum use of timber in log- Sing operations such as is being _ studied now in connection with _ the logging experiment conduct- _ ed jointly by the government, the Comox Logging Company and the Powell River Pulp Company, Protection of watersheds, graz- ing, and many other allied prob- ‘Continued on Page Bight) to present their _ W. H. KUNZMANN RESIGNS AS. SECRETARY-TREASURER MATSQUI COMMUNITY HALL Members 13 Years; First President _ Resignation of Wm. H. Kunz- Mann as secrelaty-treasurer, was received and tabled at the month- ly meeting of Matsaqui Commun- ity Hall Association held Mon- day night. f » Kunzmann has held the Position for eight years, has been a member of the board since the hall was built 13 years ago, and was its first presiden:, He explained that he has sold his 70-acre dairy farm on Har- ris road and ¢xpects to leave Matsqui in February. With John Lundstrom, Mr Kunzmann is one of the two remaining mem- new of the original board and the current members were reluc- tant to lose his experienced ser- vices. The next meeting of the board will be héld Tuesday, Feb. 1 letter shows Thompson and three members of his crew. Ken is holding “Happy”, a rabbit mas- cot which made 25 operational flights with them but who “was lost on Berlin on his 26th op. We loaned him to another crew for luck and they failed to return.” Ken closes his letter with a re- quest to be remembered to his old friends around Clayburn and Matsqui. OVER 700 ATTEND NEW YEAR’S DANCE AT MATSQU! HALL Orchestra Engaged For New Year 1945 There was a capacity patron- age for the New Year’s dance at Matsqui Community Hall on Fri- day night. More than 700 tiekets were sold before it was announc- ed that fire marshall’s regula- tions made it impossible for any A NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE FROM FLT. LT, EYRES, PROVINCIAL MEMBER ‘The shape of things to come’ must’ always be the uppermost thought in all our hearts and minds as we enter the New Year of 1944. We have not yet won the war, not any means. We still have a long difficult road ahead but we are undoubtedly winning and that makes it necessary for all to face up to the problems which peace will bring. How- ever weary we may be of the war we cannot dare to relax into indifference and wishful thinking. We must destroy German and Japanese militar- ism this time so that it can never threaten the world again. We dare not relax until we have finished the job or we shall betray future generations. So let us go forward together, never slackening for a mom- ent until the goal of a lasting peace is reached. Les. H. Eyres, Fit.-Lt., M.L.A. Short Tobacco Supply May Up Sumas Acreage INCREASED PRICE WOULD ENCOURAGE SUMAS INDUSTRY Whether of not conflicting Stories appearing in the daily press this week regarding the possibility 6r otherwise of tob- acco being rationed in Canada are correct, the subject is of con- siderable interest here, Sumas being British Columbia’s only commercial tobaco growing dist- rict. The point is that the stor- ies indicate a short supply. A recent Dominion - provincial agricultural conference approved Substantial increases in tobacco acreage for 1944, Canadian acre- age in flue-cured tobacco, the type grown here, was 60,360 last year. Objective for 1944 is 70,- 200 acres. Production in Sumas municipality in 1942 was about 351,000 pounds valued at $76,000 and required 13 freight cars to ship it east. Acreage was reduc- ed in 1943 and the week before Christmas the B.C. crop was Shipped from Abbotsford in nine freight cars. Members of Sumas (B.C.) Tob- acco Growers’ Co-operative As- Sociation will hold their annual meeting toward the end of this month or early February, it is understood, and the subject of acreage for 1944 will be dis- cussed. Governing factors will be the market price likely, and the availability of labor and essen- tial supplies such as twine for tying the “hands” when the crop is harvested. While non-commit- ‘continued on Page Bight VETERAN HUNTINGDON MAIL CARRIER QUITS William Owens, who has been carrying the mail from the BCER mail trains between Huntingdon station and post office for more more couples to be admitted. Matsqui Red Cross Unit pro- | vided the refreshments in return for $125 from the association. It) Was about 3 a.m. when the dance broke up. An orchestra has been engaged by the association for next New Year's, the dance to commence at 12:01 a.m., Jan, 1, 1945. than 25 years, relinquished task at the end of the year, For many years Mrs. Owens postmistress at Huntingdon. her death about four years ago, Mrs. P. H. Dawson assumed the position but Mr. Owen® contin- ued to convey the mail between {the post office, moved to Da-v- son's store, and the station. this | ny, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS We Are month and the last two fi gures Jan/44.* next week. print to provide one copy of the Six Pages Rationed We can secure sufficient newsprint to provide our readers with The News each week under present Wartime Prices and Trade Board regulations only if subscriptions are paid in advance, or paid for by the single copy. We cannot guarantee copies under the latter basis as we can print extras for single sale only within the number we know will be sold each week. Because our circulation must be carefully audited monthly to comply with wartime regulations We are now printing the expiry date beside the name on each address, We ask our subscribers to note this date and either mail their subscription or call at the of- fice in advance of the expiry date shown. An abbreviation for the of the year are given, example: If the date beside your name does not read Feb/44 or later, you are in danger of not receiving your copy of The News We greatly appreciate the co-operation accorded by our sub- seribers following the recent notice sent out explaining this reg- ulation. The response was prompt and gratifying but some readers have overlooked the matter, probably due to the Christmas month rush. The fact is, however, we are only allowed sufficient news- paper to each subscriber paid in advance. Gasoline and tire rationing prevent us from placing a collector on the road, so we must request subscribers to mail their renewals or new subscriptions or pay at The News in Abbotsford. LANG. SANDS, Publisher. MENNO M. BOWMAN DIES IN CALIFORNIA Family Among Early Pioneers of Sumas Another link with one of the oldest pioneer families of the Area was broken with the sud- den passing of Menno Morris Bowman at his home, 1434 Grand Ave., San Refael, California, on Dec. 28. Mr, Bowman was born at Ana- cortes, Wn., the city being nam- ed for his mother. He was a son of Amos Bowman, who was one of the earliest pioneers of Sumas district and geological engineer whose surveys of the B.C. Inter- jor are still considered an auth- ority. He is survived by Mrs. _ Bow- man and two daughters at home and his sister, Mrs. A. C. Greeno of Upper Sumas. A brother, W. C. Bowman, died here some years ago, PARTY OF 25 M-S-i BLOOD DONORS VISIT RED CROSS CLINIC Mrs. Agnes Harrison of Mats- qui, a grandmother, was the old- est member of a party of 25 M-S-A citizens who went into Vancouver to the Red Cross Blood Donors’ Clinic Tuesday evening. Margaret Weir, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. F, Weir of Abbotsford, was the youngest. Heading the party was Percy Jones, ARP chief warden. Next busload is being arranged for early Feburary. Persons able ‘to go should register with Mrs. R. T. Gilmore, secretary, M-S-A Branch Red Cross Society. NEWS-BREEZE EXCHANGE AGREEMENT ANNOUNCED The A. S. & M, News, Abbots- ford, and The Weekly Breeze, No. 24 EFTS, today announced an exchange agreement which will give readers of both news- Papers more complete news cov- erage. The reciprocal action by The News will give EFTS per- sonnel up-to-date information on the events of the area surround- ing the airport, while The Breeze will furnish accounts of all sta- tion activities for publication in The News. The Breeze will, henceforth be printed by The ews. In an epidemic of breaking and entering at Chilliwack with- in two days early last week, thieves stole a safe containing $1000 from the Strand theatre and broke into a bakery and house furnishings store. Flying for the first time in history, in heavier than air tremendous strides. The first fli Two of the in the Domini , at 8 p.m, } Forty Years of | On December 17, 1903, man flew, power-driven flying & machine, The artist's diawing shows the wren Brothers’ famous Kitty Hawk. In the forty years since it Soared into the air, flying has made ight in Canada took a lace at Baddeck, N.S., when J. A. D. a leCurdy flew the Silver Dart on February 23, 1909, Trans-Canada Air Lines cover more than 8,000, fleet aré shown to the left of the layout , Vominion government's wartime trans-Atlant strategic importance, mails to and from the Canadi ‘The skies are witness to the miraculous a 000 mil dian fulfilment of the _—_—, M-S-A Branch Red Cross Ships 47/2 Articles INCLUDED ARTICLES FOR ' HOSPITALS, SERVICEMEN AND GRECIAN RELIEF During November the workers of the M-S-A Branch of the Red Cross Society made 4772 articles which were shipped from the work room in Abbotsford to the provincial headquarters in Van- couver, - The shipment was made up of 724 hospital articles, 16 women’s service garments, 228 men’s ser- vice garments, 807 civilian gar- ments, 2951 dressings and com- presses, and 46 pieces of cloth- ing for Grecian relief. In addition to this, Mrs. Har- ry Day of Sumas made and fill- ed 21 “housewives” for inclu- sion in parcels sent’ by the Red Cross to prisoners of war. With Mrs. Day’s contribution, the to- tal of “housewives” to date sent from the M-S-A Area is 100. NESS MUSTERED OUT; RCAF PHONE CHIEF HERE | Sgt. John (Jock) Ness, head of the RCAF telephone crew which installed the Abbotsford EFTS system, and well known in this area, has been honorably dis- charged from the service because of physical disability, A resident of Montreal, he was on loan to the RCAF from the phone company there for the duration and had worked at air force units all over the west coast. c MILD WEATHER Abbotsford and district exper- ienced mild weather over the New Year weekend with sun- shine on the holiday. An inch of snow is said to have fallen at Chilliwack. There was a brief threat of snow here Tuesday night. DECORATED—Chief Petty Of- ticer John J. Pinton, U.S. Navy, is seen above being decorated by the captain of his ship; “some- where in the Mediteranean war area. CrO vrinton is the son of wit. aud airs. P, Ciaskun, Me- Callum io0ad, Abbotsford. Two other CPOs receiving decorations are shown on Pinton’s right. John Pinton has spent 15 of his 33 years in the service of the United States Navy. He joined the Coast Guard in 1925 and be- fore war broke out, he had serv- ed in Manila, Singapore and Al- aska, besides in the U.S.A. When the war began he transferred to the Marine Corps and was post- ed t6 the east coast of the States and remained there until Pearl Harbor when he was sent to the Middle East. Since then he has taken part in the invasion of North Africa, Sicily and Italy. CPO Pinton is gunnery master. He is well known here, having visited many times since joining the service. His wife and two sons live in New York at pre- sent. VANDERBURGH NAMED TO HEAD EFTS GROUP but a young organization, the Sergeants’ Mess at No. 24 EFTS is scheduled to hold its third meeting on Monday. Members in- clude all non-commissioned offi- cers on staff at the school and those sergeants now on the sta- tion as student pilots. WO1 Art Bell, chairman, will conduct the session. Appointed today as honorary president was F/L A. W. Vander- burgh, medical officer, who will now act as the personal repre- sentative of S/L M. Gain, RCAF commanding officer, in the or- ganization. WOII Allan Puttonen is president of the group with WOII Frank Martineau as sec- retary-treasurer, the mess was F/S Charlie Rice, with WOI Nick Gilcher acting as barrack officer. The rules com- mittee «is functioning under WOIE Charlés Drand and will submit mess. regulations for approval at Monday’s meeting. WOII Robert mittee, and will report on the current food situation, ee eee INJURED MAN DIES Joseph Levine. 70, of Mission died in M-S-A General Hospital | Monday morning. He had been a patient in hospital here since |he*was injured in an accident on the Abbotsford-Mission highway, Sunday, Dec. 19. Louis T. Nich- olas of Clayburn, alleged driver of the motorcycle which struck Levine, is still a patient in Mis- sion hospital. WOLVES STALK ON FOOT Holiday Accidents Wolf Wagon Meets Floee Finis Hurt Two Airmen late have been gracing the roads of the M-S-A Area ,are no more, the victims of separate holiday accidents which left their drivers in the No. 24 EFTS station hos- pital. P/O Keith Young and P/O Henry Sauve, both EFTS flying instructors, were today reported in “satisfactory” condition fol- lowing treatment. Young, driver of an ancient chariot known lo- cally as the “Wolf Wagon”, suf- fered wrist lacerations, cuts and bruises about the face and a Sprained ankle when his car swerved off Mt. Lehman road ) the airport after hitting a break in the road early in the morning of Dec, 29. Five! stitches were required to close his wrist wounds, P/O Sauve, in his accident on Sunday afternoon on the station, swung out to pass a light deliv- ery truck as they approached a corner and was not able to check his forward motion when the truck turned off across his path Striking a deep ditch at the side of the road, he was pinned under his cyel in his 2. Six stitches were taken calp, “Slow Roll off Deck“ The driver was the son riding in the Wolf when it went off the Iked to the tation m the scene of which left the wreck—none of w ered by insurance motorcycle driven by cluded a collapsed his first words when only per- Wagon He hospital road. the vehicle a ich Dama. With the passing of thy Wolf Wagon—it has been sold fo} junk sels | geied were, “How's my bik to the farmer in whose yjird it Two colorful vehicles which ofe landed—goes one of the few in- Stitutions at No. 24 EFTS, for the old car was recognized far and wide as part and parcel of the school. Its, reputation long ago preceded it to all parts of the Fraser Valley “and Vancouver when its original owner, F/O L, Godirey, was at the wheel, and later when F/O Butch Merrick, DFC, DFM, and P/O Young pur- chased it. It furnished a constant source of amusement to residents of the area as well as to EFTS personnel, P/O Young, in speaking of the gallant vehicle’s demise, remark- ed that it met its end still faith- ful to aviation, “It did a slow roll off the deck,” he declared, “then flicked out of it to head in the other direction, It was a pretty maneuver.” 1800 BOYS AND GIRLS - RETURN TO SCHOOL; NO ABNORMAL ABSENTEEISM More than 1800 pupils return- ed to their studies in the M Area schools Monday f the Christmas-New Year tion. Inspector A. S. Towell re- ports that no adbnormal amount of absenteeism due to sickness has been reported though there a flurry credited to “flu to- d the close of last term. Mrs E. W. Clarke is continui to substitute for Miss Brita Vester- bac bsent from Philip Shef- field h school staff on indef- inite sick leave. Mrs. Ray Green has returned to teaching duties after four months leave and principal of Peardonville school where she places Miss Helen Rae who resigned at Christmas, Wa Functioning smoothly although Recently named bar officer for a Twiss heads the messing com- wt cli cate