"Exercise Skyshield” | hit by demonstrators | More than 100 members and supporters of the Com-| munist Party staged demonstrations in Vancouver’s dow n-| town and Hastings East districts last Saturday aeiast | the U.S.-Canadian military air exercise, Called “Exercise Skysl Many British ~Columbians | heard the planes which oper- | ated at high altitudes. One fighter squadron operated out | of Comox, B.C. Thousands of leaflets by last Saturday’s | ators charging that the w games endanger our 7 that the intention of! cation Skyshield’’ is to} vres were | heat up the cold war. “This ex- | and; ercise is to make people feel} m Colorado | the closeness and inevitability | More than|of war,” said the leaflet, ‘and 37,000 passengers in the U.S. conse B. a primary target and 3,000 in Canada were ich endang zyers the lives of |} every Man, woman and child.’ — sd. “Everything in Flowers FROM EARL SYKES 56 E. Hastings MU 1-3855 Vancouver, B.C. An old-time resident of | Parksville for 47 years, Oscar | Hendrickson passed away in the Nanaimo General Hospital | at the age of 78 years. ROOFING & SHEET METAL drickson emigrated to Canada | in 1901, working for many | years as a hard rock miner, first at Cobalt and Copper Cliff, Ontario, and later in B. C. mines at Rossland and {| Chase River. In 1913 he pur- | chased a small farm at Parks- ville and was one of that Van- REPAIRS || couver Island community’ .