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VOL. 30

THE OMINECA HERALD, NEW HAAZELTON, BC. WEDNESDAY, NO,VEMBER 24,1937 -

NO. 21

Cedar Outlook
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is Not Too Bad
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Says. Official
-C, FE. Seaman of Spokane, Wash.,
paid a visit to the district in company
with Olof _Hanaon Jast week and the
‘hitter, along with Austin Goodenough
tried to sell thee Amerienn firm a-lot

_of fine cedar poles, Mz, - -Seaman is a
representative of the American Cedar-

- man's Association and is sizing up the

yess Ilties of business for the coming

year, While ha hed: been along the C.
XS. OR. at other. times this was’ his first
visit to Terrace and the big;cedar pro-
ducer in this country wanted: to show
him the fife stands: of poles and‘ pil;
ing theve was heré. :

Mr. Seaniin told the Herald ‘that“in
the past year pole sales had increased
25 per cent over the previous year. At
present, he said, buyers’ were suffer-
ing from a mild nrttack of. jitters, but
th's would pass in time. °

Going inte ‘the history of pole sales
ahiuving the lasttew years Mr. Seaman
explained that, with the coming: of the
new deal: nnder:. President Roosevelt
the Utility Companies had been. sub-
fected ta severe restrictions and also
tu increasing competition from govern-
met power projects. This had re
sulted in the Utilities spending as lit-
tle as possihle until the situation was
cleared.

Abont three weeks ago Secretary ‘to
the Trensury Morganthean of the
Roosevelt -ndministration had made a
speech, a part of which was taken to]:
mean that -Utilitiy conmpanies Ww ould
find the pressure somewhat « ‘eased. it
night ‘only ‘be a. tem Igrary, Iu: ‘at: pre-
ig thes presatte
it world: result ‘in- power companies
eofng ahedid with ‘projects they had in
mind, entailing enlatgéd |: 'ptafts~ and
culling -for’ extra’: material. including
ec diy -poles. ‘

As yet no definite move, had been
aide and pole. distributors had © not
yeelved my orders for material, But
the distribuotors ‘feel that adequate
enpplies have te be on hand in readi-
ress for such business as may show
up. In view of the fact that a number
of months have to elapse hetween the
eurting and setting it in the ground,
vions have. to be made well/ahead of
time. This period evvers thre time of
ectting, hauling, sensoning, ind creao:
sting. It cannot he rushed, nor can
sales be held up without rerson. ..In
view ofthese factors, Mr. Seaman said
‘there is reasonutile grounds for feeling

that 1938 will” he as oud. a Fear, “for

the ‘pole lusiness as was 1947, in fact
rhere is a possihility of another 25 per
tent increase in the business.
Mr. Seaman said hid trip was not a
inying one, but for the purposee of
gathering information. Mr. Hanson
. “algo suid that there was no need to. be
too pessinistic, ‘nor yet would, he like
uyone to ‘spend. their - ‘Wages before he
tired then. He would see what he
could da about keeping. the Pole men
at Work. My. Goodenough: was alzo
Mong with theother, two’ and -he- did
not mile, very broadly.’ ‘elthes. .

As” ‘a result of: wm. ‘Grant- moving
ont. of the Hazelton -school: ‘district, ‘he
" vésigned 18 member ‘of: ‘the school
hoard | and , as its” jaecrterye He, has

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From Smithers

The people of Smithers and Telkwa
(istrict ‘were greatly shocked to Jeary
of thé death Tuesday morning of Mrs.
Cc. D. Muirhead, wife of: Provincial
Game Warden Muithead of Smithérs.
Mrs. Muirhead hed undergone a ma-
jor opration ‘fh Friday last at the
Smithers Hosptial,. « “but complica-
tions set in and a’ second operation
was necessary but it was of no avail.
The decersed had resided in the dis-
trict for nearly eighteen years and was
yery highly. regarded by everyone and],
all feel keen syinpathy | for the bereav-
ed family. The funeral “Will take place
at her old girlhood home at Fort Si.
James. f

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Myr. Rosee of Kamsack, Sask. ar-
rived on Saturday’s train from the
enst: to investigate the possibilities of
a creamery in this district. He was
accompanied on the trip. through the
istrict, ‘by: 8. G. Preston, district agri
eulturist and A. H.-R, Howell, pro-
vincial milk téster. Mr. Rose was im-
pressed favorably with ‘the. situation,
so mmeh so, in faet, that he intimated
that he would be, ready to commence
operntions in the’ early spring.

‘The Central British Columbia Seed
Fair wis. held at Barns Lake on ‘Wed-
nesdiy, Nov. 22. Due to’ unfavarnble
harvesting and threshing vonditions:’
this fall the fair was net the success |
one would naturally expect. Conse- |
quently many of the steady exhibitors
wert nnable to display seed werthy |
of show. Some early varieties of the
wt ine showed thelr value. this - yer.
notably, among these ‘being -: Alaska
cuts which were shown both in the, ex .
he ition aad connmercial classes. "The
prizes .
ired by gartet’ and: reward, some ex-
cellent sumples’ being’. shown, J. Bout.

gon ‘of Telkwa ‘took’ ‘the’ Ist prize in:
winter: wheat! With::a fine ae mple’.of
Karkov. ‘A ‘number. of. the exhibitors
will be showing ‘at the Vancoaver Win-
‘oy Fair and ‘even with the adverse
weather conditions prevalent this fall
are hopeful of bringing a few of the
erin, timathy and clover prizes-io the
north.

so i
‘The Smithers Ski Club held its an-
mal nidetlog aud election of officers
in the municipal hall oun Monday even- :
ing. With prospects for a fnll nad an
aetive- season in View the following of-
fleers were Uected:
- President—Chas. DnhHe
Sceretary—Miss I, MeIntrye
Theasurer—H, G. Windt ~
ein 2Cuptain-—Callyart® “Dahlie oe
‘Vice Capt—s. Olofson * |
The Club. decided to hold its annual
tournament, the time to be set at a
later “meeting. The clubhouse facili- |
ties have been greatly improved and
mans are under way to.improve the
new Slalom bill immedintely in its vi-
tinity. Werk is to be continued on
the several sei trails on the mountain
side and immediately behind the elub
house, and when this work is com-
pleted the members wil be in posses-
sion: ‘of:some of the finest runs in the
provinee.
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Constable Leslie who was. recently
stationed at Taklo Landing is. reliev-
ing on’ ‘the local force: ‘during thé ab- t
sence of frat, Olive, a .

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A young! man of juventl age wag. ‘eon:

i ‘to’ three’yedra’“at the,
indastitar ‘School for‘breaking, fnter-
singe and” “theft. © ee

Mr and © Mrs, WwW. R. Eby ‘returned.
* Leven: Buras Lake last:week where Mr.

re G Giese well: ‘and: “give. ‘them ‘a ‘sport | ¢

Jack ees Ee ‘Ml. a at Ba i

ck | stumbled ‘across | ‘two tthe” specimen an

or. the. gents Aleed, ;moose ‘as’ they, wan-

: fered, precpens ‘through : the : Woo di
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Prince Rupert
. The Garden City by the Sea

By Our Own Correspondent

vee ARIA

The ‘thing ‘that chiefly impressed

Col. 7..°W. Nicholls, Canadian Fish &
Cold Storage Co. on lis eastern visit
to the States, was the increasing and
ing of friendliness toward Great Brit-

fin.

Never before had he noticed it
80 widespread and so sincere.
aue
The contracting firm of Mitchell &
Currie will build the warehouse and
other requirements of the Standard Oil

-Co. plant at Prince Rupert, the site

for which is now. being cleared. The
location is near Cow Bay, bandy ‘to
the premises“of the Yacht Club. This
city is rapidly becoming one of the
important distributing points on the

coast, ©
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An interesting visitor to Prince Ru-
pert last week was George Jaycock,
Toronto photographer, whose camera
studies, appearing in Toronto Satur-
day night, have greatly. enhanced his
_ reputation, and given to what seemed
“most ordinary subjects and scenes, @
rnve heauty and artistry. Mr. Jay-
cock Was the guest of the Woman's
“Canadian Club at a luncheon.

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Hospital affairs at Prince Rupert
remain most uncertain. Ata board
_meeting’ ‘the other, night opinion was
‘given that the bylaw. to raise $30,000
required: in ~ finineing the new wing,

rsqiring: whertswere all 0 iu sitcearrs,: and. itmas, AUBERT EH.

that if it fails to carry, the govern-
‘thent. might repudiate its badly needed
grant, ‘This ‘might mean that the hos-
pital ~will undertake to offer it’s own
bonds; Meanwhile the need for a new
hospital ‘is more urgent than before,
General sentiment in town seems not

“iu favor of the bylaw.

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The sampling plant at Prince Rupert
igince its establishment within the last

{few months has Handled considerable

ove, the lntest shipment being a car
from the neighborhood of Terrace.

. The abattoir at Prince Rupert con-
tinues one of the busy points along the
wuterfront.. Live’ stock shipments
from Central British Columbia have
‘heen freqnent, and this port, as a cen-
tre of consumption . and distribution
KeeMIs to he inerensing in dinportanee.

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THE picycLE

Every ‘boy and girl loves | a bicycle
and that handy means of quick loco-
‘mation ia becoming more and tore
‘popular, It ts impossible to say how
‘many ¢ ere are’ in Canada, but some
guessing’ can be, done fronmi the fact
‘that about 49,000 - were ‘manufactired
in Canada last” year ‘and: there were
‘over 87,000° ‘made in| “1985. A good
bicycle,” ‘well’ cared for, ‘will last . for
many ‘years, so the number in the Dom
inion must" be eriormous. The. old ones
are in mahy shapes and glzes, and even
some of ‘the high’ wheel specimens ‘of
ithe eighties and nineties are occasion-
ally tobe ‘seen around. However, the

“tmodern safety bicyele. hag -been pretty

well. -standardized and. the streamline |

igghlon . Basides the’ home “ manutact-
.| ured -Dieyele | we import’ a ‘great many,’
chiefly, from ‘the, United _ Kingdom.
Last year for example. sapout: 14,000

were imported . and -about 913,000: of

them: came from : Great Britain.

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al ‘Alvection ‘of ‘the. animals to ‘get "em

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"Tern, * with tinustial ’ enthuslasin. His

; House of; Commons,

—_—

Favorite Hymn

in New Hazelton

‘Unto the hills around do I lift up

My longing eyes:

O- whence for me shall my salvation
come.

From whence arise?

Foom God the Lord doth come my

certain aid,:

From God the Tord doth come my

“earth hath made.

He will not suffer that my foot be
moved:

Saft shalt thou be. ;

Wo careless slumber shall his eyelids
close, .

Who keepth thee.

Behold he sleepeth not, He slumbereth

neer,. |

Who keepth Israel in His holy care,

Jehovah is Himself thy keeper true,
Thy changeless. shade; -

Jehoyah thy defense on thy right hand
Himself hath made.

And. thee no sun by day shall ever
smite;

No moon shall harm thee in the silent
night.

From every evil shall He keep thy soul
. Free from every sin:

Jehovah shall preserve thy going ont,
‘Thy: coming in

Above the watching, He
adore

Shall keep thee henceforth, yea, for
“ever more,

whom we

This hymn is ‘of especial interest to
Canddians, inasmuch as. it was com-
qosed by one who had.been Govenor-

the ‘people of New Hazelton, as it was
this hymn which first eame~-to- the
mind of Mr. Sawyer, secretary to. the
Interior,of the U. 8, and who was the’
personnl representative of the Presi-
dent of the United States, on the his-
torle caravan trip lead te Northern
British Columbia by the lute Hon. Dr.
Tolnie. At Mr. Sawyer stovd on the
little platform in\ the school. rard: in
New Hazelton and looked abeut hin,
he opened his address with the first
two lines of the above hymn: “Unto
the hills around do I lift up: My long-'
Pig eyes.”

‘Was, the eldest son of the Duke of
Argyll, one of the most famous ora-
tors and scientific. writers of -his day,
was recelved in Canada, upon his ar-
rival, to. Succeed, theitalented: Lord: abe

wife was Priness Louise, : dainghicr of
Queen Victorian, who posaessed a good
den] of artistic ability ag ke sculptur,
‘and loyalty to the throne: ‘added to the
warmth of the welcome every where
accorded to their Excellencies,
There were ‘thorny. questions await-
ing the consideration. of the new Goy-
ehor General. * The dismissal of - his
nunistry by the. Lieut- Govenor of Qne-
hee followed by the removal from of-
fice of that official raised serlous. con-
stitutional - dssuea,' The projected. build-
‘ing of ‘the Canadian * Pacific’ directed
popular attention ‘to’ Western Canada,
then ‘an ‘unknown wild land of: ‘unre-
toghized possibilities, and also gave
tise tp political discussions of. intense
bitterness,

Hig ‘position was a serious one, and

‘some of” than? ‘Fathers of Confedera-
tion, to ‘advise: ‘him, ;
‘After: filling’ ‘his term with credit: to
himself and “his. advisers, ‘he Teturned | :
to: Britain and threw ‘himself, into the
Work ‘of. government 88, member’ of the
; Upon. the death
of. his father he succeedead.to the Duke:
dont" and went to’ ‘the’ Hoitses of: Lorda. |
‘He. jnherited a.strong taste for lit:

my, ho! vay eel as: ‘a elaxatl on al Ha,

ernture and, always: wrote’ a: good! ‘ae Al; :
| several books: esuing: from: ‘his pen: ala

General of: the Dominion; from ‘1873_tg
48835“ Yt-fs oF Stn turtle triexese TO

’ The. Marquess of Lorne. as he then .

of re-writing the Fsalms of the Scot-
tish Psalter in less rough, more mod- °
erm English. Of these the one which
as become the most popular is his
version of Psalm OXXI, the lovely ald
Jewish hymn, a favorite of Scottish
Convenanters, beginning: “I will lift
up mine eyes unto the hills, from
whence cometh my help."

Lord. Lorne’s idea was, he said, to
remove some archaisms and elemen-
tal roughness from the best known ver-
sion of the Psalms as used in’ Scat-
land, and to modernize them somewhut
' A comparison of the third verge os
printed above with that of the Seot-
tish Psalter will serve to show how the
Duke worked out his ideals. The
Psalter’s version was as follows :—

—

“The Lord thee keeps, the Lord thy
_ Shade .

On thy right hand doth stay:

The moon by ulght thee shall not
smite,

Nor yet the sun by day.”

No doubt the fact that whether de-
signedly,or not the Duke had cast his
lines into the meter of Newman's
“Lead Kindly Light" so that the fine
tune ‘Sandon’ sung to that hymn in
the north of England, was soon wed-
ded to them, assisted in the promotion
of their popularity. ‘The Duke of
Argyll died without issue in 1914.
Probably the original writer of this
Psalm intended it for an evening hymn
lt may have been written for a child’s
use. Possibly it was one of thase
Mary the Blessed taught ‘her little

‘| Boy, as Jewish mothers did pass on

sacred hymns by word of mouth to.
their children, in those. days. when
books were very: searce. .

It is worth noticing in. the verse

quoted ‘above hovy, the writter, assures
fhiniself of divine protection ‘against
dangers imaginary as well as real.
The: smiting or buriiing of the sun by
‘day. was ‘a real danger | in the: semi- -
tropical East.” That the moon- could
injure. by night was imagined by pri-
tmritive people in “many countries,
‘To this present writer it his-always.
seemed that in that verse (Psalm
CXXI , 6) the author would gay,
“Have no fear for ghosts or bogies or
any other moonshine stories, for your
God shall guard yon against all evil.
He will watch over soul (verse 7) RS
well ns body, while you sleep.”

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Little Bit of Fluff

Maybe you. are, one. of those, people, . .:
who’ ‘have ‘heen mystified by tho’ acti--
vity around Horticultural hall in Haz-
elton these days. Lights late at night
queer objects belng taken in, furtive
hammering, atrange sounds, raucous
jaughter—all ‘these: have aroused the
curiosity and interest of residents.
‘The explanation, it turns out, is
that this mysterious activity’ concerns
the preparation of the. °Kan Theatre
for their play “A Little Bit of Pluti"
to be given Saturday, November 27, °
“Most interesting of these preparations
is the making: of seanery for which
wood ,and cAtvad and’ hammers. and
paints have. been: wielded, in the most
professtonal manner to make scenery
of the - best . theatrical ‘style, | ‘This
clever’ “scenery. will add ‘much to the

guecess of: the. play by giving the pro-
per setting, —.

|. whe ‘hapa wos actors: are now-.: °

pervect Whis:week: are putting
on” ‘the ‘finishing touches to ensure -a
smoothe performance: which ig guar-
finteed. to give the ‘local elttzenry the
Digest laugh in yeatay ve

me 4g naw ‘Corp!
has’ twenty-five . years ‘pervice to ‘his|
credit and. is now"! charge, tempor.

arlly, ‘at, Smithers wel?

the pagt:ning. months. :

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Hon doling ox. 19% ‘higher’ thin ‘inst,

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