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Abbotsford, B.C., Wednesday, July 16, 1941
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Matsqui News

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Gasoline Prices Raised One Cent;
Ban on Sunday Sales is Proposed

HIGHER PRICE ALREADY IN EFFECT PRELIMINARY
TO OTHER MEASURES TO CONSERVE GAS SUPPLY

Gasoline prices moved upward le a gallon this morning under or-
ders of the Wartime Controller at Ottawa. Additional restrictions on
the use and sale of Li were also d on Tuesday when
first concrete intimation was received of long-rumored action to con-
serve national gasoline supplics. These include locking gas pumps
between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. daily and all day on Sunday an placing
nd all day on Sunday and placingd carry” basis even to eliminating
the credit cards so popular with tourists. While the price increase
became effective this morning it is not known when the sales hours
and other restrictions will be clamped on.

j Nineteenth Year, No. 29 Eight Pages

Farmers to Protest New B.C. Time
At Trade Board Meeting Set For
Monday at 8 p.m. Farmers’ Time

RECESSED FOR SUMMER, BOARD CALLS SPECIAL
SESSION AT REQUEST OF FARMERS WHO ARE
UP IN ARMS AGAINST B, C. CLOCK CHANGING

At the request of representative farmers, President H. S. An-
drews has called a meeting of-Abbotsford & District Board of
Trade for Monday evening, July 21. Purpose of the meeting is to
discuss Daylight Saving Time and its adverse effects on the farm-
ing For the of the farmers, the meeting will
convene at 9 p.m. D.S.T. which is 8 p.m. Farmers’ Time, and it will

¥ The price increase is both whole-

be held in the board rooms of the

Canadian Legion Hall.

Sumas municipal council, which
wired a protest against the new

Matsqui Man

sale and retail and makes gasoline
from the pump cost 30c a gallon
for regular and 32c a gallon for

= See
Peete that siceting, ad'aot Visiting Bather Char ged With Ethyl at M-SA service station
today,
eae ee fola ‘The New’, Drowns In Sumas CASH BASIS

Mr. Hougen commented on a re-
port today that United States may
make Daylight Saving Time a na-
tional policy to speed wartime pro-
duction and observed that if this
was done in Canada and the farm-
ers were assured it was a wartime
meed, there would be _no protest.
He voiced the opinion of the major-

Slough Sunday

MARSHALL SLOUGH
CLAIMS LIFE OF GIRL
THIRTEEN YEARS OLD

The victim of cramps believed

Manslaughter

F. COGHLAN RELEASED
ON $2500 BAIL AFTER
FATAL CAR ACCIDENT

Frank O Coghlan, Mt.
charged with manslaughter

Lehman,
fol-

How the cash sale basis is going
to be made workable in the case
of tourists, trucking operators and
others who use credit cards to:
simplify gasoline purchase on long
trips or, hauls is not known. De-
tails of the new restrictions in
this direction are lacking, all this
is authoritively known is that the

* ie ie; Order will become effective two
ity of farmers protesting the pre: to have been caused by entering lowing the death of Miss Marie ane ieeete nicheind ‘
sent situation in B.C., however,| 4). water too soon after eating, Platt in a car accident near Mis- | 4ay: er it is published in the
when fe agreed“that it appeared set, is | Sion on Thursday, was admitted to] Canada Gazette at Ottawa and

designed to aid only one industry
in B.C., was not nation-wide and
that no convincing argument had
been advanced that it was neces-
sary. \
WAR ACTIVITIES?

In its July issue, “Butter-Fat,”
publication o the FVMPA, declares
in an initialed editorial: “When
daylight saving was first mooted
your Board gave careful consid-
eration to the proposal and de-
cided very definite hardship with-
Out compensating advantages
would be imposed upon our ship-
ping. members, if we were to in-
sist upon everybody operating un-
der adyanced time.” The editorial
closes with the comment: “If some-
one would come forward now with
@ species of slow growing lawn
@rass, quite a lot more daylight
could be gained for golfing, tennis.
softball, swimming, hiking and
other necessary war activities.”
BOTH TIMES IN USE

DeLair “Pacific Milk” plant of
the FVMPA here is operating on
two times, standard for the plant
and B.C. time for the office. As
also reported last week in The
News, there apparently being no
national need for the new time,
the Dominion Customs-Immigration
office at Huntingdon and the C,

Belva Eileen Gentry, 12-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. A.
Gentry of Mission, met her death
by drowning at 1:30 p.m. Sunday
afternoon in Marshall slough, six
miles east of Abbotsford.

Belva, who would have been 13
next month, drowned before the
eyes of three small children who
looked on helplessly as the victim
apparenty doubled up with cramps.
Const. Fred Saunders, B.C. Po-
lice, and Dr. H. E. Cannon were
called immediately and attempted
to restore life by artificial restora-
tion. Later oxygen was tried but
the child failed to respond.
Belva, her brothers and sisters,
and Mr. and Mrs. Gentry were vis-
iting Taylor's Gas Station on No.
1 Highway when the accident oc-
curred. A brother of Mr. Gentry
resides in Abbotsford, Mr. and Mrs.
W. Gentry and family.

An inquiry into the death was
held at Gillies’ Mortuary Home in
Mission on Monday morning.

Girls’ Club Sends
Comfort Parcels
To Men Overseas

RECEIVE APPRECIATIVE

Phyllis Bate,

popular member of Ottawa's young sociai
doing her bit as a war waitress in the Ottawa Red Cross tea room.
well patronized rendezvous for men of the fighting forces.
centres across Canada girls of the Red Cross food administration section ||
perform the same service for the volunteer workers.

In many

57 Patients
In Hospital
During June

TOTAL OF 382 DAYS’
TREATMENT GIVEN;
TEN NEW BORN

While the number of patients
treated in M-S-A General Hospital
during June was not as great as
in May the total is still substan-
tially higher than for any of the
earlier months of this year it was
revealed in the report of the mat-
ron, Miss J. B. Archibald, R.N.,
Submitted to the monthly meeting
of the Board of Management on
Monday night.

A total of 57 patients were cared
for at the hospital during June
against 61 in May and 48 in April.
Of the 57 June patients 14 remain-
ed over from the previous month,

NAA

“VERY WARM” SAYS
WEATHERMAN. IT
WAS AND IS HOT!

Forecast of the “weatherman”
is “continued fair and very
warm.” This follows on what
many people believe to have been
the hottest dav in several years
but no officiaf figures are avail-
able locally. Sunday was quite
warm, Monady was hot and Tues-
day hotter. Today promises to
be the hottest. In Vancouver
Tuesday it was 83 but in New
Westminster 95.5 compared with
93.4 on Monday. Hottest day last
year in the Royal City was in Au-
gust when it touched 92.5. Tem-

in the A d dis-
trict are said to average about
two degrees above New West-
minster official records so the
thermometer was hovering in the
vicinity of the 100 degrees mark
on Tuesday afternoon. Unofficial
thermometers are reported to
have recorded 110 in the open
on Sumas Prairie and 124 on a
store ront in Abbotsford and 108
inside the store while an average
between thermometers in Mats-
qui village indicated about 95in
the shade.

$2500 bail in Supreme Court
New Westminster Saturday.

Accidental death was a coroner’s
jury verdict at Mission on Thurs-
day afternoon in the death of
Marie Platt, 18-year-old Winnipeg
girl killed four miles east of Mis-
sion Thursday morning when the
car in which she was a passenger
overturned in a ditch.

Coroner Dr. E. Eacrett said the
overturned car crushed the girl's
chest causing her to die of suffo-
cation.

Two other occupants of the car.
Frank Coghlan of Mount Lehman,
said by police to have been the
driver of the car, and Alice Mc-
Donald of Winnipeg, friend of
Miss Platt, were not injured.

Frank Coghlan was committed
for trial on a charge of man-
slaughter in police court at Mis-
sion on Friday by Magistrate Alex
Findlay.

ORANGEMEN WILL
ATTEND DIVINE
SERVICE SUNDAY

Arrangements to hold a special
service in Trinity United Church
in Abbotsford on Sunday, July 20,
at 3 p.m., were made at the regu-

at

while Oil Controller Cotrelle does
not know when that will be he
says it will be published as soon
as possible.
ON NEW TIME

The hours during which gasoline
is banned for public sale will fol-
low the local time of the commun-
ity concerned whether it be day-
light time. Thus, in B.C., the sale
of gas will Stop at 7 p.m. night-
ly Pacific aylight time. During the
restricted hours, service stations
will be allowed to remain open to
Service cars, change tires and make
repairs, However, there must be
no gasoline sales,
HEAVY B.C. Loss

If the effects of Sasoline re-
Strictions work as well at Ottawa
hopes, the B.C. Treasury Depart-
ment stands to lose $1,500,000 in
revenue a year, it is reported. The
department collects seven cents a
gallon on all retail sales in the
Province which amounted to $3,454,-
000 last year, Ottawa expects a
drop in consumption of 50 percent
and this means the treasury must
look elsewhere for tax collections.

Oil producers of Turner Valley,
Alberta, have been authorized to
increase the price of crude oil to
refineries by 27¢ a barrel, G. R.
Cottrelle, oil controller, announced

33 were admitted during the lar meeting of the L.O.L. No. 1867 ‘
= and C.N-R. railways through LETTERS FROM OVERSEAS | monn eal i) Gee ACE aA ne held satondnyeeeveniiee sini tthe ean aeies The increase is being
ere are operating on standard Same number of births as in May. Orange Hall. Rev. D. Donaldson, authorized as a means of encour-

time although the Abbotsford sta-

At the first annual meeting of

On July 1 there were still 21 pati-

BEEF CONSUMPTION

Worshipful Master of Belmont L.

aging greater production of crude

Hongstaft iggon BiG timer fac thelltn. olaters: . Comforts Cun a : oll. (and! the: "announGem
i i thi g ents in the ‘hospital, 36 having O.L, No. 1605, Milner, will conduct ent was
jae of local Industry other! group of Abbotsford girls who are been discharged. There were no RISING IN CANADA : the service and Mrs. @ FE. Foster aus by Mr. Cottrelle in the
‘an farming. regularly sending parcels, cigar- deaths, Canadian beef consumption is in- of Jubilee L.O.B.A., Chilliwack, |°°UTS® of his explanation of his

BIG’ MEETING

export to the United Kingdom can
not be withdrawn without Special
authority. Prices to producers are:
Grade A large 27c, grade A me-
dium 26c, grade A pullet 24c, grade

ettes and magazines to Abbotsford

me. I received your parcel on the
19th of February, and the cigar-
ettes on the 19th of March. I en-
Continued on Page Five
reer s ee

creasing with a resultant decline

will be the soloist. Mrs. E, Mann

appeal for voluntary reduction in

President An@rews. anticipates ™en already Overseas in the sev-|| AS usual, Matsqui Regvdeda ie in marketings of Dominion cattle/of Huntingdon will be the organ-|"0"-ssential use of gasoline and
cae Se gay ae aot ae ae ee es Sean me pen hes hice in the United States, the agricul- | ist. Members of the Lodge will other petroleum Products,
ing of the Board, ordinarily ce | var eare, of the results of their 3 ALORA e (lesa cepa minces. Thig/Sssemble at the Orange Hall at ; ae
E arily re-| activity during the past year and|Ment. Sumas was next wit ture department anno “ 2:30 p.m, The public is invited to| SPEAKER TELLS
cessed in July and August, with officers were elected to carry on|Patients who received 46 days of|is in contrast to hog marketings| attend the service. Ss
* a large attendance. He also an-|the work. peepee oabcesasr one VnAuNEL Ca. he prica’an Hacon as been OF URGENT NEED
Bounces’ that George A. \Cruick-|' The report of the retiring secre- from Abbotsford for one day. Mis- inereased three times in recent] Westminster Regiment are now|FOR SUPPLIES
shank, M.P., Fraser Valley, has tary, Miss Beth Andrews, follows:| Sion provided 4 patients who were < h h jena onthe :
been invited to attend. ( It was just a year ago that this| treated for a total of 28 days while| months to keep pork supplies in| t enapore champions of the largest When Mrs. Ramsden, provincial
group of girls organized to send|°me patient from Langley received] Canada to meet the needs of the military camp in Canada, as a re- owe of the Red Cross work
comforts to the Abbotsford boys| (Continued on Page Hight) British market. sult of recent holiday sports, committee, spoke to the guests at
HIGH PERCENTAGE OF overseas. Since that time ee 8 5 the garden Party held at the home
LOCKERS ARE RENTED have sent 41 parcels, each contain- a 5 me fue of Mrs. T. Bennett in Abbotsford
Directors of the Cold Storage |ing food, tobacco, socks, and hand- Western Chiefs Greet Prime Mi ister on Tuesday, she Stressed the ur
Lockers (Sumas Co-operative No.|kerchiefs. They have sent 3000 f gency of making supplies, especial-
2) expressed satisfaction at their| Cigarettes, and made and sent 13 wy for Civilian Defence Workers.
meeting on Monday night with the| Scrapbooks. In addition to this, do- She further emphasized this emer-
high percentage of locker rentals| nated magazimes are mailed each Bency by telling many experiences
Y this season. Additional locker cap-| Week to all the boys, and every of relatives and friends overseas.
acity made possible by changes in|™Onth each girl writes at least Twenty dollars was realized dur-
layout will shortly be available it| ne letter. <8 the afternoon, The home-cook-
was reported. Current financial] The pronipt replies to these let- ing table proved popular and was
‘ statement is also reported to have| ters show how appreciative the under the convenorship of Mrs. J.
been satisfactory to the board. | boys are. Earl Roberts says, “I S. Daly and Mrs. C. Sumner. Mra.
i received the swell parcel that you C. F. Weir and Mrs. Ralph Gilmore
Birls of the Comfort Club sent yes- conducted a Red Cross Educa-
PRICE OF EGGS RISES Pere ence ee cubiaent yee, tional contest which was won by
i ANOTHER TWO CENTS individually.. the socks, handker- Mrs, 0. H. Heywood, A satin cu-
‘ chiews an razor blades were the shion, donated by Mrs. Ramsden,
Egg prices advanced another 2 3 4 A was raffled and won by Mrs, G
his week as a Ty things I needed as I was nay > 'y Ss. G.
"i cents peer gore ie eae Tunning out.” Jack Anrews: “I E. W. Clarke.
2 result of seasonal decline in pro- Boorse: ral vi cecuneciaivig z
duction and the arrangements of the Ghee ch esi tas B ia r
t whereby eggs placed in storage for rar ent Certify victory with certificates.

Coming Events

r C peewee 18c to 19c. TWENTY BIBLES —As Advertised in The News—
geal PRESENTED To Friday & Satura 5

100 RECRUITS FOR MSA HOSPITAL SOAR tora Tit eae

AIR FORCE SIGNED Twenty Bibles were presented to Friday, July 18 Matsqui Hall,

IN VALLEY TOUR

M-S-A General Hospital at a short

Roller Rink opening,

religious service conducted at the Monday & Tuesday, July 21 &

1 Concluding a recruiting tour of|local institution by The Gideons, 22, Abbotsford Theatré “Queen of
the Fraser Valley for the RCAP, The Christian Commercial Men's earts,

ae Sssociation of Canada, The bibles, Wednesday & Thursday, Juty

PIVEgDican 1. EL Eyreinepora yo aaeinoiee by Miss J.B. 28 and 24, Abbotsford ‘Theatre,

ed at the weekend that more than
100 promising had been
signed up. Sixteen recruits signed
forms in New Westminster Fri-
day. Flying Officer Eyres visited

recruits

Archibald, R.N,, matron of the
hospital, each bear the inscription
that they have been presented by
The Gideons “with the earnest
hope that it will prove a joy and
comfort to the one who now reads

Great War decoration

During his Western inspection tour Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King was greeted by two Aullbodied
Indian Chiefs of the Peapot Reserve in the Qu’Appelle Valley. He is shown in the photo (see atte ata
proudly worn by Chief Harry Ball, who served with the 195th Regiment and lost a

sed at Hill

home of Mrs. H. McF

man Orange Hall

Hopkins,
Thursday, July

Afternoon Tea
dyen,

dance, Mt. Leh-

Friday, Julv

Tuesday, July 29,

Garden Party

Langley, Abbotsford, Chilliwack, | jt» 4 group of nine members, five| !°& ®t Vimy Ridge. Chief Abel Watetch (centre) was also a private with the 195th bail = flentnawhn home of Mrs W. A. James, Gifford.
Mission, averaging between 15 and | men and f i e 70 in 1917. Mr, King joined the Chiefs in smoking the pipe of peace after inspecting the al a Drapes, July 24 to August 3, Wesl n-
| ; ied parece S*OM) VADs! or. Regina regiment, All recruits in this platoon come from the Peapot Reserve and are following the|/ methodist Camp Meeting Obsers

20 applicants at each place,

couver, attended the service,

6

Great War example of their chiefs,

Hall, Abbotsford