THE $0 3H ADVANC Vol. 1, No. 35 Squamish, B.C., Thursday, March 15, 1951 Price 5c FLU EPIDEMIC CLOSES SCHOOL The ’fiu has been making head- way in Squamish Indicate that about haif the vatlev has the flu, and school children Monday. . L C Kindree closed the schoolon Monday, fora week after finding that one hundred and eigh teen of the two huudred and eightv childreu were absent. were absent op In one room alone only one third of the pupils were present. Latest reports | almost half of the; The prevalerce of the illness also! nia caused the cancellation of several of the social activities planned fer | this week. The telephone bridge scheduled for Mondav night put off; the Fashion Show, was | planned for Weduesdav has been postboped. till further notice and the Ladies’ | Aid meeting, which was to be beld ou Thursday evening bas also been cancelled jin the last two moo. hs, . a Ss Enger th hes gone to Seat - | Mrs. tle to meet her son Howard, Mr. and Mrs Sioux Citv, lowa to Squamish with ber ake spend a week here. Mvrville Junck of Thev will return s Institute meetings their monthly status instead of being held twice e month The Women’ have returned to The Mamquam bridge was open ed for a few davs last week but is closed again. We hear that it will be open to day. A special meeting of the Wo men’s Institute was held on Thurs dav. March 8, in the Commpnity Hall, Brackendale. Mrs. J] Decker of Pemberton, district representat- ive of the Women’s Institute gave an interesting talk on naturaliza- tion. 9 fe isi rst-of-the ky 2ar, id SNOWFALL ENDS “DEEP FREEZE” Pre? ended in ‘deep freeze’’ of last week a snowtall on Sunday After leaving about eight 1pches of the white stuff on the ground it started to rain That marked the end of the coid snap with present temperatures much higher avb che snow melting rapidly There Was even some sun shine on Tuesdav 7 The snowon Sundav might was so thick that the Bonabeile was de Jayed and didn’t arrive at Britan- o'clock the after ten that until well Passengers said while | Sound was Calin, the snow made such a thick curtain that vou sim ply couldn't see the water. + ~<» ._______- LOCAL HUNTERS BAG FOURTEEN ‘CATS’ Two young Squamish hunters have accounted for fourteen bobcats Mites inn lev and- Ir Wilt x horne have Seen hunting the prec atorv annals along the Squyg mish River. It’s the best time of the vear to get them ’ all down bv the river Miles said, “‘thev are feeding on the dead salmon and the dogs have Thev an Airedale and three hounds to hunt thecats, who some- no trouble putting them up.’’ are using times run for an hour or two before the dogs tree them so the men can finish them off There are quite a number of bob- cats in the valley. particularly in the Biackendale area, and thev do a ereat deal of damage among game birds, killing the voung grouse and thev can catch. anv other birds Besides having a lot of fun these two voung men are helping to con serve the game birds in the Squam- ish vallev. * Newport Hotel Limited Excellent Ac commodation Fully Modern Moderate Rates The Best of Cuisine ; "You'll Like the Newport” Jmish and Howe Sound ot aL the | , SAY ROADS ARE IN BAD SHAPE At the regular me-ting of Squa Board of Wednesday, the chief topic of discussion Trade beld on 7th, March was the lamentable conditions of The board will sugeest to the Department of Public Works that the gravel be crushed before placing it on the This quire the purchase crusher the roads in the vallev. roads would pronpably re of a gravel e Ibe board is still trving to get a copy of the Squamish River survey report and wll write to the mem bers fur this district CONCe! INE this The board is also piannirg to set up a new starding committee to deal with public health and this will next be brought the ip at meeting The board went ov record as op posing the new Provticial Govern ment’s :ew proposed turnover tax. which would replace the 3 percent SS and MA lax : Gartbeldit Park Board and the members of aid that board would Head the like to visit the Diamond area on an exoioratory trip The 24th of Mav committee re ported that plans are well unaer way for a gala celebration on that The committee of the Recreational As date. also met with the poo] sociation and the two groups will work towards the construction of a swimming pool. Local ‘Bird’ Experts Win Lepitre Cup The Squamish Badminton Club more than redeemed itself for an | earlier defeat by beating Woodfibre in the final match of the season 27 12 Witha total point score or ithe two inter-club matches of 29 30 this gives the Squamish club pos session of the Howe Sound Chal lenge cup for one year. At theconlcusion of the matches a bauquet was held in the dining room, at which Mr. G Sinelair of Woodfibre presented the cup to George Lvons, the president of the Squamish Club A committee will be set up imm ediatelv to draw up a constitution for competition for the cup, which will include Weodfibre, Squamish and, we hope, Britatnia. next pleted and | George” ‘Bebrner repo ioe: on | Maypole dancers. Se ree mee Hite ene the~ hae renat nee they PTA MARKS EDUCATION WEEK The Squamish Vallev PTA beld its regular meeting on Thursday, March 8th, The members the sickroom, which has been set pp in thecloakroom of Mrs. Andrew’s classroom and has been equipped PTA New with blankets have been in The PTA nopes to outfit a permanent sick- in the school. were shown bv the bunks, inatiresses and installed the room room) in a more desirable location as secon as the new school is com- there is more room in the present building to expand such facilities Mr Allott, as chairman of the Board of ‘Trade’s committee outlined his group’s plans for the 24th of Mav and de- clared tbe Board's switming and wad- evtertainment intention of building the ing pools He asked the. co opera- tion of the PTA and thev agreed to cater tothe dances. The group will also handle the training of the theca sasstie a -Astendanee- DEIZES.- in the And Miss Joan Keough’s reom elementary school and Mr rew’s room in the high school A very interesting pavel discus- sion on * Child Development inthe Continued on page 4 vear. . No of the Woodfibre team succeeded in winning all their member games but on the Squamish team Miss Lorrain Carruthers, Miss Joan Keouvh. Mr. and Mrs DeBeck and Eric Stathers’ won al] their In the near future it looks Halvorson and Bill Wray will take over the number They three games and lost one Pat McGrath had the misfortune of dropping one game on Sunday to spoilan otherwise perfect season She is now tied with Lorrain Car- ruthers, each having won 9 games Eric Stathers the men with 8 wins and one loss. The Woodfibre ladies’ shorthanded bnt the men games as if Norman won one men’s position and lost one leads team was fielded their strongest team with the ex: ception of Jack Lawson. Sauamish also fielded their strongest team with the exception of Sfu Forman so the local team is well sati: fied with their win. To make the dav complete the ladies of the refreshment commit- tee put a lot of time and work into serving the dinner. The team as a whole wouJd like to thank Freda Munro, Li! Lyons, Pat McGrath and Dorothy DeBeck. were: worn ht spook iis he ih TS ar