_Lily Davidson, a-student at Skeena | Junior High is presented a ten-speed the bike in the Northern Drugs hack to --bicycle by Northern Drugs manager school draw. OTTAWA: For this ninth consecutive year the Canada Post Office is isuing special stamps’ for Christmas, © This year’s issues, comprising four. stamps in six-cent, eight-cent, len-cent and fifteen-cent - denominations, will go on sale November 1, 1972. ° The designs for the four slamps were created from photographs by Ray Webber of Toronto. In each Webber has imparted the season’s spirit of peace and goodwill through one of the oldest and perhaps most universal symbols associated with Christmas - ~ solftly burning candles. - — The candle like several other familiar symbols of Christmas _ foday, actually predates Christianity. by several }-thousand years. . It’s ADVIOUS inne eh i eloredife- pave the candle. a natural. symbolic value in many: dif- -- + ferent religious cults. In pre-Christian days candles ‘and evergreens .wére used to decorate -homes ‘diring”mid- @ winter festivals celebrating the |. rebirth of the sun.. Through hhe me coincidence of the winter. . ‘solstice | festival and the feast of | : he Nativity the syinbolism of ° the evergreen:as survival and the candle as life endured in the traditions of Christmas. ‘ INSURANCE: BROKERS | DEREK FRANCIS rata Gerry Martin. The lucky student won - Beven n logging ts teiicts” : and -for. trailers ,ail “ built. -by “Hayes ~ té “!Trucks Ltd. ‘of Vancouver, were. .° lodded today .aboard Trans » Pacific's :"Neder. Weser" for shipment: to’ Sri Lanka (for merly Cylon) * as’ part of Canada's $4.5 million’ bi-lateral | ‘lgan.:.contribution © toward. “development. . “of Sri Lanka’ s - forest.industry. | Reid: Collins and Associates, “trucks, 2): are providing management: and technical ’ personnel to Sri Lanka’s State Timber Corporation to assist in establishing. a commercial scale: merchanized logging operation in the Sinharaja Forest, 80 miles SE of Colombo, the capital city. The shipment of trucks.and’ equipment forms an initial phase.of-a four year_ project involving a total of some. $2.8 million of construction and logging equipment. The program is‘administered by the 2 Canadian’ International Development Agency. ,the government body responsible for Canada’s international. aid _ programs. “The: Jogging — trucks are. * Conventional _ 200 - Clippers, custom-built by Hayes Trucks may right-land drive powered by a 230 bp. Detroit Diesel, with: ac Dana 1062A unit transmission. Other‘ components - _include’ _ Rockwell Standard 'SQHD rear axles and FF-921N front ‘axles, | Hendricksori_ 38,000 Ib, . | type - “rear- Suspensions, The . ‘the Vancouver-based. firm of - consulting. ‘foresters . and - engineers who | specified the ian” ‘Cabs . ‘and. “10. inch’. » frames are ‘of manganese steel | ‘Ibe ‘construction. Each“unit is a. eae duty. Jogging trailers are retention qualities. Tt resets. wae: rats en "Kuehne. & ‘Nagel haniled E ‘freight’ arrangements, crating | _ and. insurance ‘aad ‘provided. a: bright pink protective coating’ for the: trucks: dnd: ‘trailers. to _ Prevent corrosion from’ sea _ water. .during ‘the ‘voyage. Arrival ‘time in. Colombo is -B. scheduled for 25 October; 1972, og ' Support the CN. Be A cassette about as thick asa’ a switch and listens . to ‘his sandwich. and as long as a man’s hand - that is the latest. system of providing reading for: the blind. According to J.A. MacNaughton, Director, B.C.- ‘Yukon Division, The Canadian National Institute for. the Blind," the small ‘cassette’ and: the compact playback machine ‘Make up one .of -the best ‘. engineered devices I’ve seen in. a long timé,”” A tape for twelve ‘hours of reading on every kind of book is compigtely ‘contained in’ the. cassette. ‘The ~blind persons does nat have lo touch the tape or thread reels,” Mr. Mae- Naughton said. “He just slips the casselte into a slot presses ’ books costs thousands of dollars favorite book read aloud." ' The. cassette is the most recent development in a long history of the talking book. The original long playing record of 33% RPM's was introduced in . 1936 to provide material for : blind readers. The record was a _ great boon to blind Canadians who, for the first time, could : read by lidtening. Atits peak the 2 library was -circulating three’ * . tong of recorded reading a day, _ 80 ¢ager were blind persons to read. Then in: the early 60's: | CNIB «introduced ‘its first 3, cassette reader, .The in-.?. struments weighted 7 lbs. ‘and:... was very large and awkward to _. handle, , The new cassette weights only 14 ounces, 80 light that it can be carried in a man's pocket or a woman's purse, Its fidelity is. excellent, Although it has been in use little more than a year, its easy handling and fine listening has brought a great demand for books. The library ; is .now distributing more ‘than 14,000 - books a month. ‘The highest in. its history, 6 “The production of. these every year, Mr. MacNaughion said, “but the enjoyment and increase of knowledge they bring to blind Canadians makes . the work worthwhile.” Your gift to the current ap peal keeps blind persons-right . here in this community supplied with the reading they want. 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