er

John B. Teir, is saying good-by

140%
$132,750

WITH THE FORCES

More Recruits
FromM-S-A Area
Enlist In RCAF

B.C.E.R. AGRICULTURAL
DIVISION LOSES LAST
OF ITS PERSONNEL

Third M-S-A representative of
the B.CE.R. Agricultural Divi-
sion to join the active forces,

to his farmer clientele and other
friends in the Area this week
preparatory to reporting to the
RCAF for training. He will en-
joy a couple of weeks’ holiday
and visit his parents at New
Denver, B.C.

Teir succeeded .Ralph Gram
and Len Zink as BCER Agri-
cultural Represenative with head-
quarters at Abbotsford, the form-
er moved up to the position of
chief of the agricultural service
division and is now completing
RCAF training at the University
of Alberta in Edmonton. Len.
Zink is with an artillery unit at
a Coast station. Stew. Dixon of
the New Westminster office is
serving with the artillery and J.
J. Andrews, Chilliwack (former
Sumas C.T.A. supervisor) has re-
turned to the farm front,

Miss Lorna Daly, member of
last term’s Senior Matriculation
class at Philip Sheffield high
school and subsequently employ-
ed at her father’s store, J. S.
Daly’s in Abbotsford, left M
day to join the Women’s Divi-
sion of the RCAF, having been
accepted recently through No. 1
Recruiting Centre, Vancouver.

Gerhard Edward Stubbs, whose
mother, Mrs. E, B. Stubbs, re-
sides on Huntingdon road, RR 1,
Abbotsford, has also been ac-
cepted by the RCAF through the

recruiting centre, Royal Bank
Bldg., Vancouver.
Gnr. Vera W. Baker, CWAC,

of Bradner, who is attached to
an artillery unit on the East
‘Coast,has returned to duty after
a spell in hospital. With Gnr.
Jean Fraser, also a former mem-
ber of the Abbotsford elementary
school staff, Gnr. Baker was
picked along with several other
members of a large graduating
class from the Vermillion, Alta.,
CWAC training centre for spe-
cial work,
(Continued on Page Six)

FORM TRAIL RANGERS

To organize a Trail Rangers
group, a meeting of boys from
10 to 13 years, will be held in
the vestry of the Trinity United
church Abbotsford, at 7 p.m. on

Abbotsford Sumas Matsqui News

Nineteenth Year, No. 45

Eight Pages

Abbotsford, B.C., Wednesday, Noy.

1942

$1.20 Per Year

Severe Wind
Storm Causes
Much Damage

$10,000 FIRE AT SUMAS;
STEEL POWER TOWERS
TOPPLE AT ‘MEADOWS

Now it can be told. A wind-
storm of almost hurricane pro-
portions swept this Arear and
other parts of the Lower Main-
land a week ago Monday. It
caused very great loss and dam-
age in some neighboring dist-
ricts, but the loss-here was com-
paratively light. Some telephone
and light services were disrupted
Monday afternoon and night but

repair crews of both utilities
made speedy repairs.
Chief damage in Abbotsford

was to the roof of Abbotsford
Motors which was peeled off in
rolls and shreds. Awnings and
signboards suffered and a tall
power pole carrying high volt-
age lines over the railway tracks
at the BCER depot hung at a
precarious angle after breaking
at its base but was supported by
its wires until replaced.

Fire loss estimated at $10,000
was caused in the neighboring
town of Sumas, Wn., when the
grade school gymnasium, erected
only four years ago, one class
room, furnace room and their
contents were destroyed. Lynden,
Everson and Nooksack fire bri-
gades came to aid the Sumas

.jfiremen but water service had

been cut off when electrically-
operated pumps of the town sys-
tem were left idle as the storm
brought down power lines.

More than a score of steel
towers supporting power lines
from Stave Falls toppled in the

Pitt Meadows district and all
“heavy gangs’ including that
stationed at Abbotsford, were

rushed to the area to erect a
new wood-pole line which was
completed yesterday. /

Roof of the Fraser barn at Re-
claim, Sumas Prairie, was blown
off and damaged electric lines
serving the Mitchell and Smith
farms. Matsqui damage is re-
ported in the district news.

Coun. J. Starr
Not Candidate
In Sumas "43 —

ANNOUNCEMENT POINTS
TO TWO VACANCIES TO
BE FILLED NEXT MONTH

Announcements heralding the
approaching municipal elections
marked the monthly meeting of
Sumas council on Friday night.
Coun. J, L. Starr, representa-
tive of Ward One for the past
three years, announced he would
not be a candidate for relection.
Recently Reeey Alex. Hougen,
chief magistrate for the past
nine years, made a similar an-
nouncement. Sumas councils have
been re-elected by acclamation
for the past three years.

Reeve Hougen and Councillors
Starr and Keeping were appoint-
ed to preside over the Court of
Revision of the Voters’ List which
sits in the municipal hall at 10
a.m. Monday, Nov. 16. The muni-
cipal hall was designated as the
sole place of polling in the event
of an election being necessary.

Several property holders ap-
peared before the council to sup-
port bids for portions of the old
G.N.R. right-of-way adjoining
their properties. Written bids of
others were also considered. Of-
fers of Harry Day, L. W. Rudge,
Thos, DeLair were accepted, also
those of Messrs, Fishlock and
Serl subject to confirmation of
agreement by neighbors.

Preliminary discussion of a let-
ter from Hon. H. G. T. Perry
asking if the council had any
estimates of cost of possible post-
war public works projects in the
municipality indicated the coun-
cil to be in doubt of feasible
projects exisiting in Sumas.

Complying with recent provin-
cial regulations the council in-
structed that payments to those
on indigent relief in the munici-
pality be increased according to
the new scale. About ten families
are concerned.

Grade 7 students at the Mt.
Lehman superior school held a
fish pond at the school on Fri-
day afternoon and raised $5 for

Friday.

the Junior Red Cross.

MATSQUI MAK
TRAINS GLIDER
CORPS OVERSEAS

Ross Jure of New Westminster
Vancouver a brother.

M-S-A Flies Two Pennants!

AREA BUYS $132,000 IN BONDS

[PUSH BLADE OVER HILT;

Pilot Officer A. G. Lidstrom of Matsqui cycles to his plane for a
training flight with the Glider Regiment in Britain. He is wearing
his parachute equipment. At special air fields throughout the coun-
try soldiers of the Glider Regiment are training under RAF tute-
lage so that when the time comes they can take their places as
front line troop carriers for air-borne regiments. The trainers, all].
army men, take a course in glider navigation, flying Hotspur Glid-
ers. Lidstrom is a “tug pilot’ who flies the Hector plane that tows
the gliders. PO Lidstrom is the youngest son of Mrs. E. Lidstrom
of Harris road, Matsqui. Mrs. Art Gustafson of Matsqui and Mrs.

are sisters, and Roy Lidstrom of

Engraving courtesy Vancouver Sun

the Canadian Legion was
ship. When this was ascertained,
a replacement order was forward-
ed and the acknowledgement has
just been received here, coin-
cident with the holding of the
Remembrance Service today.
“Accept our Gratitude”
“We are most grateful for the
sum of ten pounds, six shillings
and seven pence, which we have
just received at St. Dunstan's
from the Canadian Legion, Ab-
botsford,” states the letter which
is dated Sept. 14. “Please may I
ask you to accept our gratitude
for this generous gift,-and, if
possible, convey it to the mem-
(Continued on Page Bight)

M-5-A {Memorial Service Fund Aids
St. Dunstan’s Train Blinded Men
Take Places In World After War

The collection taken at the Memorial Service of the Matsqui-
Sumas-Abbotsford Area held annually at the Cenotaph in Abbots-
ford by the Canadian Legion with the co-operation of
churches, is always forwarded to St. Dunstan’s, home and training
centre in England for blinded soldiers,
British Empire. About $50 was received at the service last August
but the money order forwarded to England by
lost through the

the local
sailors and airmen of the

M-S-A Branch of
torpedoing of a mail

FREE SHOWING OF
OFFICIAL MOVIES
ON FRIDAY NIGHT

Five thousand feet of talking
moving pictures depicting the
war in Egypt, Libya, Greece, Sy-
ria, Poland, Germany and Eng-
land as well as on other fronts
will be shown in Philip Shef-
field auditorium, Abbotsford, on
Friday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m. A free
show, the pictures are being pre-
sented under auspices of the De-
partment of National Defence in

the interests of recruiting,

A last day response that wreat!
Committee members with smiles,

Monday.

RECORD INVESTMENT

UNIT COMMANDO DAGGER SENT OVERSEAS
TO FRASER VALLEY’S FIRST WESTMINSTERS

hed the faces of the Victory Loan
pushed the M-S-A Area over the

first and second objectives of the Third Victory Loan and nearly
brought the district a third pennant to fly on the Legion flagpole

With the red paint on the
d

Remembrance
Day Service
Well Attended

SERVICE IS LINK
WITH DEDICATION
RITES AT OTTAWA

There was a better than aver-
age attendance at the annual Re-
membrance Day service held at
the Cenotaph in Abbotsford at
10:45 to 11 am. today. There
was a good turnout of Canadian
Legion members and the active
forces in the present war were
also well represented by uni-
formed members who attended.
It is estimated the congregation
numbered 150.

Rev. A. J. Loughton, chaplain
of M-S-A Branch of the Canad-
ian Legion, conducted the service
and spoke briefly urging a sim-
ilar effort on the part of the
people at home to that made by
those whose memory the service
commemorates. A bugler from a
unit of the Royal Canadian En-
gineers sounded the calls.

Book of Remembrance

Officially, Canada remembered
her dead with the dedication in
the peace tower chamber at Ot-
tawa, of the Book of Remem-
brance which contains the names
of more than 66,500 Canadians
who lost their lives as a result
of the First Great War.

The book was dedicated by the
Earl of Athlone, Canadas gover-
nor-general, who was introduced
by Prime Minister Mackenzie
King. It was placed by repre-
sentatives of the three armed ser-
vices and a nursing sister.

The national war memorial at
Ottawa was also the scene of a
ceremony when wreaths were
placed by the governor-general,
Mr. King and a representative of
Canadian mothers who lost sons
in the First Great War.

LICENSE SUSPENDED

Joe Chong, Keefer street,
Vancouver, charged with exceed-
ing the 40-mile speed limit in
Sumas was fined $20 and costs
and prohibited by Magistrate J.
W. Winson from driving a motor
vehicle for one month, Evidence

showed accused was driving 70
miles an hour when apprehended.

actress. and the men

“Make-up” tips are as a ieporiant Britain would depend in
to the modern Home Guard as to an
on whom! \

Home Guards Learn About Camouflage

ase of an
nvasion are taught the theor
Il as the practice of camoufla

S| fac

A guard is shown ha
applied during a }
demonstration a

Dagger “thermomet-
er’ hovering just below quota un-
til noon Saturday, M-S-A citi-
zens suddenly redoubled their
investment efforts and, not sat-
isfied with plunging the dagger
“up to the hilt into the heart of
the Axis,” drove it almost out
of sight before the loan books
closed Saturday midnight.

Friday afternoon’s tabulation
showed about $4000 necessary to
attain the original quota of $95,-
000 but the response was just
ten times that amount, Victory
Loan headquarters revealed at
noon today as final returns were
tabulated and brought the M-S-A
total to $132,750 or 140 per cent
of quota.

Everybody helped in the last-
day drive. Men and women who
had bought once with cash
bought again on time payments,
words of David Buchanan of Su-
mas, as he bought $2000 worth
of bonds, one of the largest in-
dividual investments locally, be-
ing typical of the spirit: “every-
body should do their utmost to
defeat the Axis.”

The two other subunits of

Unit 19, which went over their
quotas almost a week earlier,
maintained a high tempo, Maple
Ridge-Pitt Meadows Area invest-
ing $297,200 or 121 per cent on
a $245,000 objective, and Mission-
Dewdney Area aggregating $209,-
400 or 155 per cent cent of a
$135,000 quota. Objective of the
Unit 19 was $475,000, but this
was surpassed by 35 per cent
with $639,350 being recorded at
noon today.
West Sumas salesmen made the
best score in the M-S-A Area on
“percentage of individual quota
basis,” Messrs. Baynes and Fai-
den reporting over $14,000 for
151 per .cent of their quota.
(Continued on Page Five)

Valley Bus =
Service To
Be Halved

TRANSIT CONTROLLER
SLASHES INTER-CITY
AND VALLEY SERVICES

Announcement that Fraser Val-
ley bus service will be reduced
from four to two trips daily and
hints of other slashes looming
for B.C. transportation facilities
were given Tuesday by S. Sig-
mundson, regional transit con-
troller at Yancouver,

Confirming information that
he gave New Westminster city
council Monday night, Mr. Sig-
mundson said: “We are coming
to the point when only essential
travellers will be carried by
transportation companies, but I

am not in a position at present
to define just who is essential
and who is not.”

Private car owners will not re-

ceive new tires “until. some
time after the war is over,” pre-
dicted the official.

“Habits of a lifetime will be

upset by the drastic changes ne-
cessary, but rubber and gasoline
must be conserved, as well as
manpower.”

Drastic curtailment in opera-
tion of Pacific Stages between
Vancouver and New Westmin-
ster will go into effect Nov. 23.
On and after that date bus ser-
vice between the two cities will
cease at 7 p.m. daily, and all
service on Sundays, and holidays
will be eliminated, Mr. Sigmund-
son stated,

The Transit Control Board has
also practically decided to main-
tain the bus service between

Abbotsford and New

a r, but the daily trips

will be reduced from four to