SECOND FRONT

Williams Lake, B.C., Wednesday,

December 9

1959

Object fo charge,
being made for
Sunday sports |

over

violation of the
Act in district com-
munities was expressed by mem-
bers of the South Cariboo Mini-|

ial i at their

Pointed out that the|

XS of admission to local
Sunday sports events, and the
Playing of Bingo in connection
with Sunday turkey shoots and

are in direct contravention of the
Lord’s Day Act.

The association, which is made
up of protestant ministers from
Williams Lake, Lac La Hache
and 100 Mile House, will express
their concern dirc-tly to the
organizations involved.

Peter Bone, probation officer
for the area, addressed the meet-
ing on a history of his work and
dealt with some of the problems
he faces in this area.

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PLAY’S OPENING SCENE

“Tll TAKE your horse, old rooster,’ says Peter
Planter (Tom Beames) as he makes his point to
Milton Widger (Luciene Gregoire) in the opening
scene of ‘Face in the Mirror,’ which attracted
more than 600 people last week in the three nights
the play was produced.

of unethical
advertising

The
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Fire chiefs warn

British Columbia Fire
Association has issued a
warning to the merchants of the

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province in regards to the “ un-

ethical soliciting” of advertise-
ments for a “so-called” fire
magazine.

At a recent convention a res-
olition was passed that reads
(in part): “ Be it resolved that
this association re-aifirms the
stand that has been taken from
time to time in the past and
advise all Fire Chiefs, Boards of

Fighting 2,010 forest

penses, the Hon. Ray Wi

Preliminary estimates -com-
pile the Forest Service
indicate that in addition to the
Crown fire-fighting bill, the
forest industries spend some
$99,000 of their own funds.

This is a far ery from the
1958 “disaster season,” that
cost Forest Service and Industry
a total of over $5,500,000 in
fire-fighting.

ABOVE NORMAL

“Although the 1959 statisties
appear light by .comparison to
1958," the Minister pointed out,
they
average of 1,642 fires per year
for the period 1952 to 1957.”

The estimates show that the
2,010 forest fires reported
burned over a total area of
273,681 acres and did damage
amounting to $2,212,418.

The net area of accessible,
merchantable timber killed out-
right by fire amounted to 7,644
acres. The volume of timber
killed totalled 50,232,000 board
feet, of which the Forest Service
estimated some 12,659,000
board feet may be salvageable.
This fire loss of timber repre-
sents a net loss in stumpage
value to the Crown of $132,000.
PRINCIPAL CAUSES

The principal causes of for-

by

est fires were operating railways

with 624 fires (31 per cent of
total); miscellaneous known
(mostly range fires in the Cari-

boo), 443 fires, (22 per cent);
smokers, 211 fires (10.5 per
cent); forest industries, 204

fires (10.2 per cent); lightning,

are far above the normal|”

FOREST FIRES IN BL.
COST TAXPAYERS $768,000

fires during the summer

of 1959 cost “the taxpayers $768, 000° in direct ex-

Jliston, Minister of Lands

and Forests, announced in Vie ictoria.

many years, is one of the most
difficult to control.

Although the ‘percentage of
fires caused by ‘‘ smokers,
campers and travellers” was up
slightly to 19.1 per cent as
against 18.$ per cent in 1958,
the Minister pointed out that it
was still well below the average

of 25.6 per cent over the past

MORE CARE SHOWN

“There is little doubt in my
mind,” the Minister stated,
that the average British Col-
umbian is being much more
careful with fire in the woods
today than he was only a few
years ago. This is particularly
noticeable when one considers
that more people than ever are
travelling and camping in our
forests.”

The Vancouver Forest District
experienced the greatest number
of fires with a total of 826,
which cost $115,000 to fight but
covered only 1,832 acres. In
the highly inaccessible Prince
Rupert district there were only
49 fires, but they cost $61,000
and covered 8,069 acres. The
vast Prince George District,
comprising almost one-third of
the Province, registered 207
fires which cost $128,000 to
fight and covered 188,292 acres.
The Kamloops district had 651
fires costing $234,000 and burn-
ing over 70,659 acres, and Nel-
son District registered .277 fires
at a cost of $230,000 over an
acreage of 4,779.

Holiday Theatre
planning 1960
tour of B.C.

Holiday Theatre officials hav<
begun planning a province-wide

1960 tour as the result of <
$5,000 grant from the Canada
Council.

-The theatre, which has played
to more than half a millior
children throughout B.C. duri
the past five years, has been in.
active because of an acciden'
last year in which the truck
carrying sets and actors over
turned. Quesnel was one of the
towns on the Holiday Theatr:
itinerary.

The history of Holiday
Theatre began in 1953 wher
seven Vancouver citizens gave
$140 as working capital tc
launch the project.

The theatre was conceived b;
Miss Joy Coghill—now Mrs
Jack Thorne—and Miss Doroth}
Somerset, who is now head o|
the department of theatre at thé
University of British Columbia.

“Home base” for the theatr:
has always been the Frederi
Wood Theatre at UBC, but it
its first five years of operation
the company undertook provin
cial tours since one of its objec
tives was to bring live theatre te
children living outside the Van
couver area.

However, Holiday Theatre ex
penditures have always slightl
exceeded revenues and as a re
sult there have been no fund
for improved or expanded pro
grams. i

John Haar, the recently
elected chairman of the boar
of directors of Holiday Theatre
says the Canada Council gran
will do much to further Holida:
Theatre plans and allow fund
for a continuing program of ex
perimental drama for children.

184 fires (9.2 per cent); camp-
ers and travellers, 172 fires (8.6
ber cent); and brush burning,
road and power line construc-
tion, incendiarism and unknown
causes making up another 172
fires, or 8.6 per cent.

One of the main features of
the 1959 season, other than the
above-normal moisture experi-}
enced, was the big drop in
lightning as a fire cause. In

Trade, Chambers of Commerce,
Better. Business Bureaux, etc.,
in this province, that neither
this association nor any of its
members endorse or consent to
such soliciting of advertisement
by any person whatsoever in
eee with any such maga-
Sloe

At the time of the‘
| solicitor: that th
| dorsed by the Fire
|ciation and thus were being

ale" the
were en-

backed by them,
It ated then that the
association did not have any-

thing to do with them,
|
| naps FEDERATION

| Derek Arnold of Duncan, Van-
lcouver Island, was reelected to
[his seeond term as president of

|tion of Agriculture, following the
‘annual meeting of the group in
| Victoria on December 1 and 2.

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Chiefs’ Asso-

| the 17,000 member B.C. Federa-| j

1958, lightning caused 1,150
fires or 27.9 per cent of the
total but accounted for 75 per
the total fire-fighting

year, lightning
only 184 fires, or 9.2
of the total number,
highly

caused
per cent
but these
accessible blazes burried
54 acres (34 per cent!
Jot the total acreage) and cost |
the Forest Service $178,182 (23)
per cent of the total cost) betore |
they were extinguished. |
The average lightning fire cost |
|approximately $1,000 and cov-
‘ered 510 acres, primarily due to |
inaccessibili The average |
fire due to other causes cost)
$822 and covered 98 acres.
INDUSTRY-CAUSED
There was a sharp jump in
the percentage caused by the
forest industries—0.4 per cent|
8, up to 10.2 per cent in
although in actual figures
industrial fires were down from |
246 in 195$ to 204 this year.
Most of these were in the In-
terior where the industry was|
not closed down by the pro-
longed strike that brought
coastal operations to a halt.
Miscellaneous. k no wn”
causes are generally range fires
set in the Chilcotin country of
the Cariboo. This type of fire,

which has been a major head-
the Forest

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