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C. fe in the Front Line---Buy Victory Bonds

Abbotsford Sumas and Matsqui News

Twentieth Year, No. 6

Eight Pages

Abbotsford, B.C., Wednesday, Feb. 11, 1942

$1.20 Per Year

Reeves Express Confidence That Rural Districts Will
Push Victory Loan Quotas Over The Top Next Week

Seven Heads of Unit C Municipalities Heard
In Radio Broadcast Program from Vancouver

Will be Sacrifice in Farming Districts
Chairman States, But Country Will Show
The Way as in the Past,

he Forecasts

Confidence that the people of Matsqui, Sumas and Abbotsford

will do their part to push the secoMd Victory Loan over the top
next week was expressed by Reeve James Simpson,

Reeve Alex

Hougen and Chairman M. M. Shore, respectively, when they spoke
over Radio CJOR on Tuesday night._They were heard with Reeve

W. J. Park, Pitt Meadows; Reeve.Sol. Mussallem, Maple

Ridge;

A. B. Catherwood, Mission; and chairman Robert McRae, Mission
Village, in a unique “Seven Reeves” broadcast from the Vancozrver

radio station at 6.30 p.m. The

were

throughout the Fraser Valley, reports indicate, as forthright state
ments that the people in the ruraldistricts are awake to the - fact
that British Columbia is now a front liMe in a desparate, world-wide
struggle and that Victory Bonds are the most important ammuni-
tion each and every citizen can provide at once.

SUMAS SPEAKS .
“As chairman of District Three

_Cemmittee in ouf Fraser Valley

unit of the Victory Loan drivey
and as reeve of Sumas Munici-
Pality, I am proud to vouch for
the scrifice that the farmers of
my district will ,make to push
the Victory Loan over the top,”
stated Reeve Hougen. “It will be
a sacrifice as the farmer has not
had a fair return on his labour
for many years and has been the
victim of unfavorable crop condi-
tions as well as of complicated
marketing problems. But he will
do his part and more. In fact, I
have little doubt that the rural
districts will again show a lead to
the cities throughout the drive.
We are planning to reach our ob-
jective with the first week, three
days ahead of last year, and then
have two weeks more in which to
surpass last year’s achievment of
investing nearly half as much
again as we were asked for to
help beat the enemy.”
MUST DIG DEAPLY

“As one -who fought. in France
during the first Great War,” said
Reeve Simpson in part, “I know
how great is our responsibility
here at home to guarantee that
our men in the Empire's fighting
forces and those of our Allies if

GROWERS ORGANIZE
AND ASK $18 TON
FOR CANNING CORN

Corn growers from the M-S-A
Area and Dewdney met Monday
evening in the Ridgedale Hall
and organized the Central Valley
Corn Growers’ Association. Coun.
L. T. Beharrell was elected pres-
ident and Emil Anderson secretary.
The executive is made up of R.
Apjieby of Dewdney, W. H. Kunz-
mann of Matsqui and J. J. Per-
rigo of Sumas Prairie. The grow-
ers have decided to ask for $18 a
ton at the farm for their corn.
W 4H. Kunzmann was appointed
to interview the Extension Service
and the canneries in Washington.

ANETTA

FIRST APPLICATIONS
FOR VICTORY BONDS
IN M-S-A AREA

Monday night, at their monthly
meeting directors of M-S-A Gen-
eral Hospital decided to make
the first application to purchase
a Victory Bond in District (3.
It was decided to invest $500 of
the hospital's reserve fund in
the new Victory Loan bonds.

The fund is being created for
future building or addition to
the hospital.

Abbotsford Lodge, No. 70, A.F.
& A.M., have also made Applica-
tion to purchase the first $250
bond of the new Victory Loan
Series to be issued in District 3.

At the annual meeting of the
Central Fraser Valley Fair
Board a resolution was passed
authorizing the directors to in-
vest a portion of the 1941 sur-
plus in a Victory Bond.

Oc nc ck

Lead Second Victory Loan Drive in Unit C

INSPECTOR A. S. TOWELL
of Abbotsford who directed the
War Savings Campaign that result-
ed in M-S-A citizens investing over

UNIT CHAIRMAN

REEVE W. J. PARK

of Pitt Meadows, unanimous choice
of representatives of the seven
municipalities and villages in el-
ecting a chairman for the second
Victory Loan campaign. _ Reeve
Park directed the first Victory
Loan in 1941 when $450,000 was in-
vested to top an objective of $275,-

REEVE ALEX HOUGEN

of Sumas, took an active part in
the 1941 Victory Loan and this
year heads the M-S-A Area drive
as chairman of District 3 as well

y, have the
which to beat the foe.. They can
do it if we give them what Chureh-
ill has so aptly termed “the tools
to finish the job.” Our enemy is
well pared. He doubli
and hood-winked us for years, but
I speak confidently on behalf of
the people of Matsqui at least that
‘We are no longer blind. We now
realize our danger and know that
‘we must dig deep down into what-
ever savings we have, whatever
income we hope to receive in the
forthcoming months, and buy Vic-
tory Bonds as never before.”
WILL DO IT AGAIN

M. M. Shore, chairman of Ab-
botsford Board of Commissioners,
observed that he represented

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ANNUAL TRADE BOARD
MEETINGS ATTENDED
BY M-S-A DELEGATES

Ten members of Abbotsford &
District Board of Trade attended
the annual dinner meeting .of the
Mission & District Board on Tues-
day night. They were, Past Presi-
dent H. S. Andrews, President
Lang. Sands, Vice-presidents Len
Zink and Jim Webster, Secretary
Bruce Carrick, Agricultural Chair-
man L. T. Beharrell, Angus Camp-
bell, O. W. Benedict, J. S. Daly
and A. S. Towell. The last named
addressed the meeting, attended
by some 200 members and visitors,
as Vice-Chairman of Unit C Vic-
tory Loan Committee, declaring,
“our immediate job is to do it
with Bonds.”
elected president and F. C. Light-
body vice-president of the Mission
Board. H. N. Norman is secretary-
treasurer. Annual meeting of Chil-
liwack Board of Trade was at-
tended Friday night by Messrs.
Andrews, Sands. Zink and Carrick
from the local board. Earl Brett
Wa re-elected president and Frank
Hall vice-president.

T. W. Davies was|’

Flag Raising
Ceremony On
Monday, 10 a.m.

FREE SHOW FOR ADULTS

AFTER CHURCH SUNDAY;

VICTORY LOAN CONCERT
j

In the M-S-A Area, Canada’s
second Victory Loan will be for-
mally launched at a flag raising
ceremony to be held in front of
the M-SA Branch of the Cana-
dian Legion in Abbotsford at 10
o'clock on Monday morning. Simi-
lar ceremonies will also be held
in the principal centres of the
other two districts of the same
Unit, Mission at’ 12 noon and
Haney at 1:30 p.m.

Reeve W. J. Park of Pitt Mead-
ows Unit Chairman; Inspector A.
S. Towell, vice-chairman; Reeve
Alex Hougen, District Chairman;
Reeve Jas. Simpson and Commis-
sioner M. M. Shore, district vice-
chairmen; the President-elect of
the Canadian Legion and others
will speak briefly at the ceremony
here. Citizens are requested to
take a few minutes off and at-
tend.

MUCH WORK DONE

Preliminary to Monday’s formal
opening of the drive, moving pic-
tures of considerable interest will
be shown in the Abbotsford
Theatre at 9 p.m. on Sunday, fol-
lowing the evening church ser-
vices. The program is for adults
only and is free, facilities of the
theatre being made ayailable to
the Victory Loan Committee
through courtesy of the manage-
ment. Pictures which will be
shown are: This is England, War

Continued on Page Five

PRIME MINISTER
PLEASED WITH
CRUICKSHANK

Prime Minister Mackenzie
King congratulated John Turner
(Lib., Springfield)
for his address

together. I
’em—he knocks ‘em

he could ve
half his speech in Japanese be a
He could, too, and thitks he’s
the only r who knows
that language... . Many Japa-
nese live in his constituency.

ccc TCM TERMS
FIVE OF FAMILY

IN ARMED FORCES;

FATHER A VETERAN

Sergt. John Blinch, youngest
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Blinch
of Abbotsford, who received his
Wings recently at No. 4 RCAF
Service Flying School, Medicine
Hat, Alerta, returned to duty last
night after spending his leave at
home. A native son of Abbotsford
and only 20 years old, he has an
elder brother, two cousins who
grew up with them, and an uncle
in the Armed Forces and his
father, is a veteran of the first
great Wer and of the Boer War.
Cpl. W. C. Blinch, Jr, “Bud” to
his many friends here, is 24 and
with the RCAF on the East Coast.
The two cousins are AC2 Chas.
John Blinch RCAF and OS Harry
Cliff Blinch, RCN. Their father,
Pte. Harry Blinch is training at
Vernon. W. C. Blinch, secretary of
the Sumas Tobacco Growers’ As-
sociation here, was a sergeant in

$50,000 in certificates during 1941, 000. This time the objective is as “Girecting the sales campaign
ith is Unit Vice-Chairman. $375,000. : in Sumas. i
apons Ww:
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Special Service
In Auditorium
Sunday, Feb. 22

CHRISTIAN BODIES OF
M-S-A AREA APPOINT
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE
Church recognition and support
of the Second Victory Loan cam-
paign being launched next month,
as an essential phase of the war
effort to preserve religious as well
as social and nationl freedom in
Canada, will be given through ob-
servance of Victory Loan Sunday
on February 22.
|, Starting off the second week of
the $600,000 Loan Drive, sched-
uled for February 16 to March 7,
the observance will mark co-oper-
ation of the country’s churches in
the new offering of Victory Bonds
It is expected the churches will
assist chiefly by references to the
Loan and appeals for its support,
speakers in brief addresses from
either from pulpits or by lay
Speakers in brief addresses from
the chancels of Protestant
churches.

Leaders of all church denom-

jinations across the country have

beeo asked by Hon. J. L. Tisley,
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ROAD ALLOCATIONS

In the allocation of funds for
roads, bridges, ferries and wharves
in B.C. for the ensuing year, as
announced in the Legislature on
Monday, $28,000 was set for the
Chilliwack riding of which the
M-S-A Area is part. This compares
with: Delta $25,000, Dewdney $37,-
500, New Westminster $4,000, Burn-

the Seventh in the last war.

aby $10,000.

munition of all kinds. Your

those of our Allies in the now
slavery.

A fresh batch of 7.2 Howitzer shells is made

ready for ship-
ment in one of the numerous Canadian plants now making am-

purchase of Victory Bonds next

week will help provide an adequate supply for our guns and

desparate stand for freedom vs

Of Fraser Walley 5

Most school boards in the Fraser,
Valley, it appeared, had discussed
the matter thoroughly in their
own Board meetings; and the ma-
jority had come tothe conclusion
that by far the best procedure
would be for the schools to fall
into line with everything else, and
operate on daylight saving time.
LITTLE HARDSHIP

Some trustees pointed out that
there were children who would
have to leave home in the dark
to catch early school buses; to
which others replied that this was
no great hardship, that it affected
very few children, and that
the days were rapidly lengthing
and the condition would last only
two or three weeks.

One or two delegates expressed
the opinion that daylight saving
was harmful to the health of the
children. One trustee explained,
however, that he had lived for
years on the edge of the dividing
line between Mounta’n and Pa-
cific times, where of two schdols
only a mile or two apart, one
operated an hour earlier than the
other. He said he had never been
able to detect any difference at
all in the health of the Pupils of
the two schools. The general
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Cpl. Ivan Smith
Fatally Hurt
In England

SON OF FAIR BOARD
PRESIDENT; WAS ONE
OF FIRST TO ENLIST

An announcement particularly

Daylight Saving Meets Approval

chool Boards

find Is Favored By Most Pupils

Universal Adoption of War Time Makes

Situation Much Simpler for Schools '
School Trustees of the Fraser Valley Branch of the B.C. School
Trustees’ Association, ‘holding their annual meeting in Haney on
Friday, discussed at some length the question of the forthcoming
daylight saying time, and its effect on schools and school children.

First Aid And
Home Nursing
Classes Open

SERIES OF LECTURES
COVER BOTH COURSES,
BIG ENROLMENT LIKELY

Organjzzation meetings in connec-
tion with future practical nursing
classes and further First Aid
classes were held in Abbotsford
Thursday evening, At a meeting
in the health office for those in-
terested in the course in St.
John’s Ambulance home nursing,
discussion ‘rought attention to
the fact that nursing classes had
been given under the supervision
of the Red Cross Association two
years ago and that plans were
underway to hold refresher
courses in these various classes,
together with added instruction
on “war emergencies.” The two
courses are to all practical pur-
poses very similar and both are
being recognized by the A.R-P.
OFFER BOTH COURSES

As a result it was decided that
a series of lectures embodying
both courses will be given in Ab-
botsford which, when completed,
will permit of candidates taking
either or both the St. John’s Am-
bulance examination or the Red
Cross Association examination.
This course will not be repeated;
all those interested must attend
the series of lectures in Abbots-
ford. The first meeting wilt be
held on Monday epening, Feb-
ruary 16, at 7.30 p.m., in the health

tragic to the congregation first
to hear it but saddening to all}
the M-S-A Area in which the fam-
ily has long been actively associat-
ed, was made by Rey. Angus Cam-
eron at Poplar United Church on
Sunday afternoon when he stated

word had just been received that
Cpl. Ivan Dunean Smith, son of
Mr. and Mr T. D. Smith of Pop-

lar, had been fatally injured while
with a famous British Columbia
regiment now in England.

While not a native of Matsqul,
Ivan Smith came here as a child
with his family, grew up, went to
school and worked in the com-

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office. Miss Hilda Thompson is
in charge of enrolment; those
wishing to attend this course are
requested to enroll through her.
FIFTY WANT COURSE

The second series of lectures
and demonstrations in the St
John’s First Aid will commence

in’ the Men’s Club on Thursday,
February 12 at 7.30 pm A
largely attended organization meet-
ing was held last week, but since
then the estimated enrolment has
increased to fifty individuals.
This course will not be repeated
in Abbotsford again this season,
So all interested in taking the in-
Struction are requested to attend
these classes.

Let usifaceSthe facts.

When the Japs and Nazis invade

dispossess the people of that country of their land, their

and occupy a country they
homes and their possessions.

Vour investment in Victory Bonds will help prevent this occurring to you here.

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