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municipal bylaws and was refer-

“tore through his haversack and

* agriculture,

Abbotsford Sumas and

atsqui

News

Nineteenth Year, No. 47

1942

$ .20 Per Year

Additional
Subdivisions
In Sumas Area

PLANS FOR CUTTING
UP BALANCE OF BIG
FARM ARE APPROVED

Three additional subdivision
plans cutting up the balance of
the Perrigo property of some 400
acres in Sumas municipality,
have been submitted by J.
Perrigo and passed by Munici-
pal Clerk E. B. McPhail, munici-
pal approving officer. Municipal
by-laws stipulate that properties
in a subdivision must contain 20
acres or more as well as comply
with regulations for provision of
Toads.

The original subdivision plan
submitted some months ago and
involving some 26 acres of the
farm in southeast Sumas which
Mr. Perrigo had bought about
three years ago from Hector
Stewart, features plots of from
two to 10 acres, though mostly
smaller than the latter size.
While it is understood a num-
ber of the lots in the initial sub-
division, now commonly known
as “The Settlement” were already
sold to Mennonite settlers, the
plans did not comply with the

red to the council. The matter
is still unsettled. The three new
plans covering remainder of the
big farm show plots of 20 acres
or larger, all fronting on exist-
ing roads.

Sumas has long been noted as
a district of big farms and ob-
servers forecast subdivision will
lead rapidly to a complete change
in the type of crops and produc-
toin of the valley as well as to
an equally great change in the
economics of the municipality.
Other owners of large farms
have intimated, it is said, that
they will follow suit if the dist-
Tict should ever be threatened
by such a change.

SECURITY GUARD
NARROWLY MISSES
DEATH AT MIDNIGHT

B.C. Police here are investigat-
ing a belated report that Walter
Bruntlett of Cox, a security
guard for the C.N.R., narrowly
escaped death when a rifle shot

coat and grazed his right wrist
as he was cycling home from
duty. The bullet left a red mark
on his wrist but did not break
the skin.

Poultrymen Hear
Clem Willingale
At Meeting Here

URGED TO KEEP
-ORGANIZED: HEAR ~
SEVERAL REPORTS

Clem Willingale, president of
the Pacific Coast Poultry Pro-
ducers’ Association, spoke at a
meeting of the Poplar Local on
Wednesday evening and urged
the d to keep or ized
and encouraged more to join, as
organization will be more im-
portant at the end of the war]
than at present. He also gave a
full tt of the ion’s
work for the past year, and told
of his experiences in Ottawa last
June when he went east as a
representative of the association
to discuss export problems and
prices.

John Bowles, secretary of the
association, spoke briefly and
commended the Poplar Local on
its bership and delegat

The effect of the 35-mile driv-
ing limit as it attects egg and
poultry pickups was discussed
and recommendations were sent
to a committee of the associa-
tion which is dealing with Mr.
Ablett, the controller. Another
report on drying eggs, a method
which is expected to supplant
present storage methods, was
heard. ,

Harry Day reported briefly on
an interview with Hon, James
G. Gardiner, federal minister of
in connection with
the poultry industry. An outline
was given of a proposed cost of
production scheme which may
be undertaken by the University
of B.C, Members who keep ac-
counts are asked to get in touch
with the secretary, S. C. Tims,
Abbotsford.

W. S. Hill-Tout, president of
the Poplar Local, presided and
there was a fairly well-attended
meeting. The annual meeting is

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and its lovely home in this
turn to page three.

Miss Gloria McIntosh with her two Labrador Retrievers, Barney
and Micky, goes shooting at Moy Hall Farm,
additional pictures and description of the Moy Hall Jerseys, hogs
scenic valley, noted for its big farms,

Sumas Valley. For

Jimmie loach
Active Citizen,
30 Years, Dies

LARGE ATTENDANCE

AT RITES TUESDAY;

VETERAN OF TWO WARS
.

Highly regarded in the com-
munity, the sudden death of G.
H. Loach of Bradner, while visit-
ing in Abbotsford Friday night,
came as a great shock to his
many friends and associates even
thought it was known he had
been subject to heart attacks for
some time. Mr. Loach had been
a dinner guest at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. R. Ralston. While
his host and hostess were called
to the front door to welcome
other visitors, Mr. Loach  sus-

‘tained a heart attack. He appar-

ently sought aid or fresh air and,
mistaking the doors, fell down
a steep flight of basement steps.
Medical aid was called but Mr.
Loach passed away as Dr. H. E.
Cannon reached him. An inquiry
was held by Coroner E. T. Weir
who reported death due to ac-
cidental causes. .

Funeral services were held on
Tuesday at 2 p.m. from St. Mar-
garet’s Anglican church, Bradner,
to the Returned Soldiers’ Plot,
Hazelwood cemetery. Three min-
isters officiated, Rev. H. U! Os-
wald of Mission; Rev. C. W.
Bryce of St. Matthew’s and St.
Margaret’s churches, and Rev. A:
J. Loughton, chaplain of the
M-S-A Branch of the Canadian
Legion, President F. Holtsbaum
of the Legion paid tribute at the
graveside service to “a comrade
who has answered his last Roll
Call, one who has served his
country well in two wars, re-
turned to serve as a good citi-
zen and, as an active officer in
the Militia Rangers, could be
said to have served until death.”

There were many floral tri-
butes and the cortege from Brad-
ner to the cemetery numbered
about 75 cars. Members of the
Militia Rangers formed a guard
of honor at the home where the
remains rested prior to the ser-
vice and members of the Legion
also formed an honor guard at
the graveside. Honorary pallbear-
ers were Col. A. Leslie Coote,
T. V. Thompson, F. Holtsbaum,
Martin Robinson of Vancouver,
Claude Weir and J. W. Penning-
ton.

Born in Worcester, England, 62
years ago, George Howard Loach
was a member of the Worcester-
shire Yeomanry and served in

to be held in January.

(Continued on Page Eight

Abbotsford, B.U., Wednesday, Noy. 25,

With the Forces

First M-S-A man in the arm-
ed forces of the United Nations
to return from any of the many
fronts in this World War, Dan
Boley, who is serving with the
United States Navy, spent a few
days’ leave this week with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Boley, Sumas Prairie. He re-
turns to duty today. Dan Boley
was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7,
the “day of infamy’ when the
Japanese made their treacherous
attack on the U.S. naval base
and was in a boat that was ma-
chine gunned by the attacking
planes as it was crossing the
harbor as the Japs opened their
undeclared war on the United
States.

Pte. Lucy M. Mockford, CWAC
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
A. A. Mockford, formerly of the
Aberdeen district and now re-
siding at Whonnock. She enlist-
ed last month.

Pte. Frank Kiss visited his
parents here at the weekend.

Pte. James Calvert has arriv-
ed overseas safely. -

Harold Zurowski, RCAF, spent
the weekend with his parents,
Mr, and Mrs. R. Zurowski.

* Sgt. W. J. Latter, RCAF, was
at his home in Poplar during
the weekend.

L/Cpl. B. Anderson spent a
day last week with his sister,
Mrs. R. B. Reid, on his way
back to camp.

Visitors at the home of G. H.
Rottluff on Sunday were Bob
Rottluff, RCNVR, and Mrs. Rott-
luff.

Cpl. Ernie Jacobson of Sar-
dis visited his grandmother, Mrs.
Moy at Matsqui on Sunday.

At a recent Ridgedale Red
Cross meeting, a letter of thanks
from Chester Crist, who is now
serving with the U.S. Navy in
Alaskan waters, thanking the
auxiliary for the subscription to
The News which the unit took
out in his name. He wrote how
much he enjoyed ‘all the news’
from home.

(Continued on Page Six)

HIT POLICE CAR

Charged with driving in a
manner dengerous to the public
after he had run into the rear
of the B.C. Police car which was
parked ‘at the time in front of
the Cold Storage plant, Richard
J. S. Grant of Vancouver was
fined $2.50 and costs in Abbots-
ford police court, given a blue
license and agreed to pay for re-
pairs to the police car,

Berrymen Gain
Lease Changes
With Custodian

ENROL ADDITIONAL
MEMBERS; GENERAL
MEETING ON DEC, 2

Assurance that renewal leases
on former Jap berry farms will
not include the short tenure and
fruit sales clauses objected to by
the white growers who have ten-
anted these tarms in recent
months, has been received at
least verbally from the Custodian
oy the secretary of the Berry
Growers Protective Society. This
was explained at a meeting of
growers held in the Hungarian
hall, McKenzie road, on Satur-
day night and C. W. Rogers of
Mission, one of the directors, ob-
served that no other organization
had been able to get as much
done in a few weeks as had the
recently organized Growers So-
ciety. He and Andy Tereposky
of Poplar strongly urged growers
of all farm produce to join the
society which it was announced,
will extend its scope from that
originally intended, when it was
formed as a voice for the lessees
of Jap farms.

Attendance numbered about 40
and a number who were not al-
ready members joined during a
recess, J. W. Little of Matsqui

(Continued on Page Eight)

Bell, regional superintendent of

time Prices and Trade Board.

U.S. Neighbors
Rationing Gas
Differently

BASE FOUR GALLONS
WEEKLY; MUST RECORD
TIRES; LOCAL BOARDS

Here in Canada we have had
gasoline rationing since last
Spring and it was introduced
with a minimum of inconveni-
ence to the majority of citizens,
being handled from regional of-
fices. Across “the line” where
gas rationing comes into effect
next week, there is apparently
considerably more r ibility

M-S-A Area Local Ration
Board Approved by Ottawa

REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND WOMEN CHOSEN FROM
AREA; HAVE FULL DISCRETION IN SPECIFIED FIELDS

Personnel of the Matsqui-Sumas-Abbotsford Area Ration Board,
organized at the time of an official visit on October 19 by O. H.

rationing, has been approved by

Ottawa, according to word received Tuesday by The News from
Ronald Kervyn, Field Representative,

Information Branch, War-

It is comprised of; Chairman,
Commissioner M. M. Shore, Ab-
botsford; vice-chairmen, Reeve
Alex. Hougen of Sumas and
Reeve James Simpson of Mats-
qui; secretary, George F. Pratt,
Abbotsford municipal clerk, who
will be assisted in the two dist-
ricts by E. B. McPhail and J.
W. Pennington, municipal clerks
of Sumas and Matsqui respec-
ively; and the following mem-
bers: H. S. Andrews, Abbotsford;
J. P. Carr, Mt. Lehman; Harry
Day, Sumas; Mrs. A. Gledhill;
Aberdeen; F. Holtsbaum, Abbots-

ford, and Mrs. J. T. Hunter,
Sumas.

“The rationing area,” accord-
ing to the notice, “consists of

the District Municipality of Mats-
qui and includes Village of Ab-
botsford, Municipality of Sumas

placed upon each applicant and
also upon the communities for
the latter, it appears, must pro-
duce enough voluntary workers
to meet the local situation.

For the benefit of News read-
ers, we reproduce the following
story from last week’s Courier-
Times telling how “hundreds get
gas books at local schools’ in
Sedro-Woolley, Wn.:

“Schools in Sedro-Woolley and
surrounding area started issuing
gas ration “A” books on Wednes-
day and will continue through
Friday. In Sedro-Woolley, ration
books and blanks will be issued
on Friday from 2 to 5:30 p.m.
The local school authorities had
hoped to finish the work tonight
but the people .have not been
registering in large enough num-
bers to complete the work in
two days. A total of 353 regis-
tered for gas ration books at the
Central school yesterday.

“Motorists to obtain the basic
“A” gas ration book must have
their ownership registration card
and also the number of the red
“use” stamp, which is pasted on
their windshield. All motorists
are entitled to get the basic “A”
book, which entitles them to
four gallons a week, and if more
is desired, the application blank
for the “B” or “C” or other sup-
plemental ration books maye be
obtained at the registration of-
fices at the Sedro-Woolley city
hall.

“All applications for supple-
mental books are ready to issue,
when applications are approved.
Nobody will be issued a gas ra-
tion book who has more than
five tires to a car, and the ser-
ial number of each tire must
be listed on the application.

“Already between 900 and 1000
tires have been turned into the
railway express office at the
Sedro-Woolley Northern Pacific
depot and more are coming in
every hour. One man brought in
11 extra tires. A quantity of
tires, good for nothing but scrap,
are being laid aside to give to
the scrap campaign. Motorists
are being advised that if the
tires they turn in are good enough
(Continued on Page Eight)

and C nity of Huntingdon.”
It will be known as Local Ra-
tion Board B.C. No. 31.

Mr. Bell, regional superintend-
ent, who was accompanied by
E. H. Bridgeman, deputy provin-
cial minister of municipalities,
and A. H. Thomsett, W.P.&T.B.
liaison officer for Fraser Valley,
in calling the organization meet-
ing of municipal officials last
month, explained that members
would serve voluntarily and,
while not selecting the person-
nel other than stating that the
municipal officers were expected
to head the local boards being
organized throughout Canada, he
recommended members be repre-
sentative of agriculture, labor and
business and include two wo-
men.

It was explained that local ra-
tion boards are being set up in
order to provide better and
more understanding service to
the people with a minimum of
expense and to bring. local
knowledge to bear on local ra-
tion problems. How much the
local board will have to under-
take is not yet known other than
it is expected to hold monthly
meetings and will report to the
regional office in Vancouver. A
recent announcement from Ot-
tawa said that the “local ration
boards will have full discretion
in handling the specified local
ration problems assigned to them
and contains no suggestion that
these bodies will be purely ad-
visory.””

It went on to say that “they
will .work in close consultation
with board officials and subject
to rulings on matters of basic
policy by local ration officers
and ‘the ration division.” A sub-
sequent statement said “one of
the principal items which will
fall ‘to the administration of lo-
cal boards will be the issuing of
temporary ration cards to men
of the services who come home
on leave. This will eliminate de-
lay to members of the fighting
forces.”

“Miss Canada” sales of War
Savings Stamps in Abbotsford on
Saturday night totalled $8.

WARTIME PRICES BOARD EDICT

FUEL PROBLEM ‘LOCAL RESPONSIBILITY”

MUNICIPAL COUNCILS URGED TO ENSURE SUPPLIES OF BUSHWOOD FOR DISTRICTS

“It is necessary to point out
very definitely that it is not
possible or feasible for the Board
to assume primary responsbility
for the supply of fuelwood; in
the main the individual com-
munities must shoulder the bur-
den.”’ Such is the warning receiv-
ed by Abbotsford Board of Com-
missioners from R. M. Brown,
regional wood fuel officer, Wood
Fuel Administration, Wartime
Prices and Trade Board, Vancou-

ver. It follows a tour of the
Fraser Valley by Frank W. Wil-
fert, production manager, Fuel
Administration, of the Board in
the course of which this Area
vas recently visited, Mr. Wilfert

also forwarded his conclu-
sions. Matsqui and Sumas coun-
cils have received similar com-
munications.

It is believed that Mr, Wilfert
came out from the city in hope
of finding fuel for Vancouver's
needs but found, instead, that a
large proportion of the se
Valley has gone modern

depedent on packaged fuels such
as sawdust and mill cut. He in-
timated little or no fuel might
be forthcoming in future for the
valley from coast mills. In com-
menting on Mr. Wilfert’s visit,
the Regional Fuel Officer, Mr.
Brown, says: “It is believed that
in most cases the necessary re-
medial action to spur production
(in the valley) can be taken by
local authorities through co-oper-
ation with the Board in various
vs.’ He outlines suggested aid
f the municipalities will under-

take the responsbility of ensur-
ing supplies,” but points out that
no new dr aw equipment is

procurable for bushwood produc-
tion.
Mr. Wilfert, production mana-
of the Fuel Administration,
writes the municipalities st st
standardized

ger

ing
cutting bushwood
the

haul

divides ts)
tree le’
cut

4-foot |

parts
from

into

woods,

dex

lengths with swing cut-off saw
at roadside, and, after delivery
to customer, buzzsaw the wood
to desired length. “There are pro-
ducers,” he says, “who will want
to cut their wood as they see fit
but after viewing a couple of
operations around Langley where
swing saws are used, they look
like the most practicable for
mass production of bushwood.”

The Board, he advises, is com-
pleting plans for establishing a
firm price on bushwood and also
where practicable to have bush-

wood produced and shipped by
rail.

Cutoff saws are mentioned and
Mr. Brown suggests “the situa-
tion be canv: ed with reference

the or

He

“bush-

to
rent
close

possibility of buying
idle equipment.”

with the point the

production sho

wood
mence

com-

to supplement millw
n f
ns of any

‘ood

ply or to replace case

rtion of
mills

cess operat

local