Sumas and Matsqui News

Abbotsford, B.C., Wednesday, June 16, 1943°

Need Music For Winning Lyric
Written By Owen J. Bennett In |
Contest For New Victory Song

ALLIED ARTS SERVICE COUNCIL WAR SONG CONTEST
WON BY ABBOTSFORD MAN, COMPETITION NOW OPEN
FOR MUSICAL SETTING. ROYALTIES FOR WINNERS

The nation-wide contest conducted by the Vancouver Allied’

Arts War Service Council for a suitable lyric for a victory march- |
ing song resulted in over 700 entries being submitted from all parts ¥
of the Dominion. The lyric selected by the board of judges as be-
ing the one which most nearly conforms to the rules laid down
was sent in by Owen J. Bennett of Abbotsford,
A great number of the lyrics ee
submitted showed literary merit |’ South Africa. il
of a very high standard but the] After the war he stayed in
one chosen by the board, under Africa for six years and then
chairmanship of Arthur Benja-}SPent a year in Australia, New
min, is considered to be the most | Z¢aland and the Fiji Islands. |
effective from the viewpoint of . aaa o Canada e 1908,
i ii and general ap-|"© Manage © grocery depart- |
musical Sean 3 ment of a large store in Mani-'

Twentieth Year, No. 24

Eight Pages __ 51.50 a year

Writes Victory Song (SP ORTS

ABBOTSFORD CONTINUES
WIN STREAK WITH (4-6
SCORE OVER BROS, BILLS

Abbotsford softball outfit hung
up another win on Sunday when
Mission Elks met them on Ab-
botsford grounds. Far from an
airtight game, the score reached
14-6, to give Abbotsford its sev-
enth straight win.

Hitting was well scattered by
both teams all through the game,
but Mission’s bid for a victory
might have been stronger if their
hitting had been more consistent.
As it was many men were left
on bases—all possible runs.

Byers and Smith made up Ab-
botsford’s battery. Big surprise of
the game was the agility dis-
played by Vic Ogle, now Abbots-

f cM
Growers Fear Assorsron mw
NATION-WIDE TEST
7 The following is the winning
asp. Ic ers lyric submitted by O. J. Bennett
ee contest for a victory marching
HOSTEL OPENING IN |song:
ABBOTSFORD DELAYED: Tet’s raise our voices clear and
eis
oe Bonne the road Wenning,
< i a mi ighting force
Failure of a carload of equip- Ashores afloat earl ighting
Emergency Farm Labor Service|To right a mighty wrong,
j So jump right in and buckle to
Sari Meet tietrocoon phe With hand and heart and song.
bere utobably, Melay, the) There's) freedom ny avin) igh
opening of the hostel until early ae ce frecdoni A:
preliminary work possible is be- er Swing, pang elon
ing carried out under the super- ig, sing, sing the song
vision of Percy Jones, school, Of freedom everywhere.

Sh ‘ t Of WINNING LYRIC IN
of Abbotsford in a nation-wide
FARMERS GET HELP stron,
ini, met: wing.
ment for the Dominion-Provincial We've got a fighting job to do
botsford, to arrive on Monday as Then swing nian wing along,
the air;
next week. In the meantime, all 9 wing along, swing along,
building superintendent ‘for the/To all the girls we leave behind

® Owen J. Bennett

Manager of the aryeoods de-
jase: of the J. S. Daly
tore in Abbotsford, author of

; Cannery Thursday at ‘Mission.

M-S-A Educational Area. We bid them not repine, peal. fobal? thi al eet tion. [f0rd’s assistant postmaster, but
So far very little help has been |In nen we trust and all who New Contest 12 eels ie pasate See oe | SideN Contest RCEaA ee Rantaee member of the north-side Elks.
obtained from the city for grow-|1, factors farm and mine. The Vancouver Allied Arts} oo mianaverwotanes ary acecel marching song. ;Vie’s fielding was “on” and he
ers in this Area, either directly) We'll break the tyrant’s stolen|Council will now welcome mu-| 14 shoe de partment! Gh Iie oeeSit are, ea gathered a few hits.
or indirectly. This has’ not been rT inp pie Sale sical settings of the winning ‘ay store in Abbotsford eral | Next game is with Mission
= e ! ss Peete 0 i : |
as serious as it might have been We hold in trust sweet freedom’s|Tic, which is given here. Author anavaey MISSION TRADE :

in a normal season, but the late even
growing and slow ripening un-|That no man may oppress. Western Music Co. Ltd. for the
der unsettled weather conditions —Owen J. Bennett. blication of the lete song.
has permitted local and available The author of the winning ly-

have been made with ;
vangementsqis Other activities include direct- BOARD OBSERVES HS. TAKES NAVY é
ing amateur drama groups and —
he has written and produced one 50TH ANNIVERSARY As the second half of a double
coast help to keep up with the! ric, Owen J. Bennett, is 58 years|Play of his own. He has written header for Sunday’s games, Phil-
fruit. A light strawberry crop, | Cree of age. He first came to Canada|™&"Y Poems and does ; ip Sheffield high school team de-
on the average, has also been a atsqui, from England in 1889 and after | Painting in oils and sold one pic- feated a navy team 14-4 in a fast
favorable factor in view of the one year in Manitoba his family | ture some years ago through a r ‘a Trade of (22m ‘
help problem. moved to New York. Christmas sales exhibit at the] Associated Boards of Trade o!

Boards
Also Meet Friday

This situation will not continue Sumas Cal, ves

indefinitely and concern is ex-
pressed by growers confronted
with the strawberry and rassp-
~ berry crosp tending to merge sea-
sons greatly increasing the num-
ber of pickers necessary at one

Mr. Bennett went back to Eng-
land in 1897, and in 1900 at the
age of 16, served six ‘months
with the Ist Imperial Light Horse

Vaccinated.

Vancouver Art Gallery.

He says, “I could never get
past the judges for the annual
B.C. Artists’ Exhibition.”

MUCH INTEREST IN r
WORK OF MATSQUI AND
SUMAS ASSOCIATIONS

COAST OFFICIALS
CONFER WITH M-S-A

BS AONE 28 SN AM A ASS ESAT

the Fraser Valley will hold its ORGANIZE GIRLS TEAMS

quarterly meeting in Mission on

Friday at 1:30 p.m. and delegates a

will remain for the evening to| 4? effort is being made to or-
take part in observance of the|Size girls’ softball in Abbots-
50th anniversary of the founding |{0Td and a practice is called to-

of Mission & District Board of |

morrow (Thursday) night at the

time. The raspberries promise a =e
Bees Spe girls furnished by | A total of 440 calves have been
the D-P EFLS hed Abbots: inated against Bangs Disease

Py in the M-S-A Area since the
Te Peon aga pam ee Ey aor i and Sumas control as-

: sociations were organized by the
ek me aay rink Cow-testing Associations in the
garet Hillborn and Miss Hazel |tW° districts this spring.

Steele of Vancouver and they | When Dr. J. G. Jervis, VS., of
confidently expect friends to Langley made his second tour in
join them in the berry fields Matsqui last week he treated 140
this week, Both young ladies |C°WS on 52 farms, bringing the
were keen to go to work and ‘tal number of calves vaccinat-
staried this afternoon. ed in Matsqui up to 245, accord-
Farm Help ing to Lawrence Falk, secretary.
Some help has been trickling It took a day and a half to make
through for the dairy farms and ,*Re. rounds this time.
haying, usually reporting first to!, Third group of calves were
the M-S-A Local Committee at ‘Teated for Sumas Bangs Control
The News office for names of 4SS0ciation last week by Dr.

CITIZENS COMMITTEE

Inspect Possible
Quarters for Centre

Officials connected with na-
tional war services visited Ab-
botsford Friday to give the M-
S-A Citizens’ Committee benefit
of experience elsewhere in estab-
lishing the local United Services
Social Centre. Their visit was
primarily concerned with propos-
ed quarters for the centre.

It having been found that the
Orange hall in Abbotsford would
not meet requirements, advice
was sought by the committee re-

SOCIAL ‘CENTRE
TO BE OUTLINED
MONDAY NIGHT

A general meeting of the Ab-
botsford - Sumas - Matsaui_Citi-
zens’ Committee, the organiza-
tion settine up a United Ser-
vices Social Centre locally, will
he held Monday at 8 p.m, in
the lower hall of Trinity United
ehurch. Abbotsford. It is an
open meeting to which persons |
and organizations interested in’
entertaining service men and
women away from their stations
are invited to attend.

Held primarily to make pub-
lic a progress report, what has
already been done and what it
is proposed to do will be out-
lined to the meeting as well as

Trade. Principal function wlil be) aubilge Grounds. One team has
a banquet in the Canadian Leg- aa y been formed and enough
ion annex at 6:30 p.m. and an in- ae is to make up another have
vitation has been extended to|St#ted their desire to play.

members of Abbotsford & Dist-| EA z
rict Board of Trade to attend tombe SEE ARMY SHOW

(Those planning to do so should |» wombers ae oe Sai
advise Secretary Charles Greaves Chiltiwaae: mesa Aine me
at the Cold Storage or Member- ltake in the CA Gina a =
ship Chairman J. E, Cunningham ‘special performance for droopaetn
at Daly’s in order that places |ine Bren :

may be reserved. | :

NUMEROUS FINES
MATSQUI COURT

Upwards of $100 was paid in
fines in Matsqui police court
when numerous offenders ap-
peared for infractions of provin-

APPEAL IS MADE
ON BEHALF OF
STARVING GREECE

M-S-A Area is Asked
For at Least $200

i raat ding possibilities of other} What individuals and groups can cial and municipal laws. Archie
iti. Jervis, bringing the Sumas total | 82%dir : do to help now and in the fu-

Farmers needing i hele Ciney eteet 5 buildings. FO Boyd, Auxilia lo to help now an . Mercer and Kenneth McClel-
culty of the committee is to con- t© 195. Interest of the dairymen y' TY! ture. The committee believes

edi is not waning as the third grou;
tact farmers  speedi enough !S 20! group
when help is cad phones WAS the largest todate, 110. It
. being comparatively few andfar '0°K longer to handle, however,
between in this Area. Another #5 there was only one calf to
problem is that farmers are not ‘eat on a number of farms and
prepared for the changed nature!” Others the calves had not been
jof available help. Formerly men | ©°?Falled.
were obtainable locally, staying _ Dan Heelas, _Secretary of the
at their own homes but help Sumas association, reports that
from outside has to be provided DF- Jervis will be available to-
with board and lodgings in most|Ward the end of this month but
cases. A few conscientious objec- "Ot again until September. He

Services RCAF, Vancouver, and
Alan M. Hurst, secretary nation-
al YMCCA War Services, Pacific
Area, inspected buildings under
consideration here along with
Chairman A. J. Loughton, vice-
president H. S. Andrews, and
Lang. Sands, president Board of
Trade.

The visitors had considerable
information on the operation of
centres elsewhere and their sug-

this is a project in which many
persons are interested and an-_|
ticipate a large attendance on
Monday evening.

PRETEEN:

GLENDON STAFFORD
SERIOUSLY INJURED
IN MILL ACCIDENT

HEMI PYNR

their heroic stand G, Whittaker of Ladn
earlier in the war, to wring the a en ean

hearts of everyone as fortunately
situated as Canadians. Appeal is and Carl Leib of Matsqui

now being made on behalf of the paniricage
Greek War Relief Fund for mon-
ey to provide food to the women Four other men,

A Carl D.
and. children the Germans are of Sardis, Pe Seoaey

Edw. L. Robinson of

| Starving to death because they
Glendon Stafford, of Concrete, ‘defended themselves against Nazi

Langley, Jacob Jantzen and Ja-

i i i sa ‘ cob Falk of Mats ui e; i
tors are being placedathrough Al- Suggests anyone having calves eee a oueined at apub- Wn., is in hospital at Sedro- ! aggression, It is not fiction that $7 and Santee aeee, ones
ternative Service now, applica-'born between Oct. 30, 1942, and; ‘© ™ecting called by the Citizens Woolley, Wn., from severe cuts | thousands of children are starv- out licenses. In Abbotsford police

tions having to be approved by Feb. 26, 1943, who wishes to have

D-P EFLS and Local Committee.|them vaccinated, apply to the
Equi for the Abb d Secretary before June 21.

hostel was shipped from Victoria | ———————

Jast Friday by rail but had not NEW FLAGPOLE

NEW WATER TANK
Location of a new water tank
to be installed as part of the Ab-

arrived today. It includes cots
and a big kitchen range. The A 54-foot flagpole has been
cots will be placed in the audi-/| installed in front of the B.C. Po- |
torium at the high school and/|lice residence in Abbotsford. This
the range will take the place of |time the pole and foundation is
the small stoves in the Domestie|4 sturdy job, the pole being held
Science class room which will be|hetween two lengths of railway
kitchen and dining room for the|iton embedded. in a concrete
hostel. Showers are being provid- base.

botsford water system has not
yet been decided upon, Chairman
M. M. Shore of the Board of
Commissioners stated when quer-
ied by The News this morning.
Reports circulating in town were
to the effect a tall tower topped
by a large tank was to be placed
on Jubilee grounds.

ed in the basement of the high

vice, however, is to get suffici-
ent girls in Vancouver and New
Westminster to fill the several
valley hostels. The one at Mis- These girls and many more
sion is scheduled to open Friday. |like them are registering at the
Pies sg. farmers are asked |Emergency Farm Labor Service
e | i * % -

sAvied we ing then hoe ee fo invade Fraser Valley farms.
uation, 5 These keen young farmerettes are

from Magee high school and be-
sides relieving the labor shortage
they have another motive—that
of bringing back what they can
of their earnings to invest in War
Savings’ in September and so

School, Main worry of the Ser- WANGOUVER HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS TO PICK BERRIES IN M-S-A AREA AS PART OF “ARMY NEEDED TO SAVE CROPS sega

EAGER TO HELP

cree YUNNAN
VOLUNTEER HELP
NEEDED TO SAVE
BERRY HARVEST

on his right arm received in a
sawmill at Concrete Wednesday. |
! Stafford was caught in a saw
which cut his right arm badly, ;
up as high as the shoulder. The!
lower part of the arm had to be’
amputated at the wrist.

He is the only son of Mr. and
Mrs. D. F. Stafford, Sumas Prai-
rie. His home is at Concrete
where his wife and family reside.
Their second child, a son, was
born on June 2, Glendon visited
his parents here t weeks ago.

ing, dying in the streets

and court Monday, Joe Vi -
their cold, empty homes. ice a

Today en, charged with intoxication in

\it is learned from B.C. headquar- a public Place, paid $5 and costs. ~

ters of the fund, that M-S-A Area ———
has been asked to give only $200. SOUGHT NARCOTICS
Donations will be accepted at the Weir’s Pharmacy in Abbotsford

‘Canadian Legion office in Ab- was visited by thieves in the early

botsford and forwarded. Supplies hours of Tuesday morning. Evi=
will be bought by the Canadian dently in search of narcotics, a
Red Cross and distribution ar-/number of similar robberies be-
ranged by the International Red ing reported elsewhere in the
Cross. Every donation, no Matter /Valley and lower mainland, the
how small, will help Starving thieves failed to find the drugs
children. but took $10 in cash and the Weir

Included in a of 169 Proy-
incial Normal — school students
who were granted ps standings
at the 1949-42 | seskian were:
; Chester James Larson and Mariel
Robina son of Aldergrove,
Gladys Marguerite Mullin of Ab-
|botsford, Iola Pringle of Abbots-
jford and Greta Ann Vesterback
if Aldergrove,

EUR

| acne ‘ 4
| OTTAWA CHANGE

MIND, THURDSDAY,

(JULY 1, HOLIDAY

Dee the delaying effect of |boost their school total. The Bri- : The Dominion Government
unsettle Weather it appears |4; imbi: r Savings slo- nas reversed its decision in re-
likely that berry re ayia epeenis ape Savings: slo spect to the observance of the
have to appeal to local house-|&an is “Earn and Save” and this Dominion Day holiday and has
wives and store clerks to form ear 3 s of students like now declared July 1 to be ob-
a picking corps when the peak |*a" thousands liste pee fe Served as a holiday throughout
of the season arrives about July|these are working to save for Canada, it is announced by the
couver has apne, 0 victory. Besides enlisting through nae G. S. Pearson, minister of
atone: {peutficient girls rePe EFLS, many boys and girls have “Tt had been previously decid-
istering to. © hostels muc! one direc arms and ed by Dominion order-in-coun-
less the direct needs of grow- ey epirectly to ne es . W c ) observe Dominion Day on
ers, Everyone who can help one | “ccording to the director, Mr. . Monday, July 5, and in keeping

or more days a week during the
short season is requested to
leave their names and details
of time available at The News
which is co-operating with the
M-S-A War Agricultural Pro-
duction Committee and the
Emergency Farm Labor Service
in trying to help growers and
farmers meet the critical help
situation,

McGillivray, “battalion strength”
of field workers is now over 600
men, women and children

An ‘army’ of land workers such
as these are needed this year to
Save the berry and fruit crops of
the province that might other-
Wise go to waste because of la-
bor shortages at harvest time,

it

with this Prov
artment of Labor i

the necessary

decision the

eme

as such,
with the
the p

Now,
latest

loyees that T
to be the