iTTTPiniTnn i i iimrir ii r i mm rMgrTnnniiinrrir-nnTriiiir-i7i n inm ti rrnimriT n nmw -rnn - r m HAZELTON The River boat Lounge is the safest place to go to the washroom in town The mens John used to be a bank vault Plumbers carved though two feet of reinforced con concrete ¬ crete to put in the plumbing Its a good safe place to go to the bathroom Bill Sar Sargent ¬ gent laughed Sargent owns the Inlander Hotel where the lounge opened June 23 It cost 25000 to turn the old bank facilities into a lounge The Royal Bank rented the lower level of the hotel when the Inlander opened in 1956 until they built their own building across the street If someone were to get locked in the vault- PIONEER DOCTOR Horace Wrinch built an eight bed hospital in 1904 on the site of the present Hospital Indians discredit our work7 HAZELTON In 1900 a young doctor moved here to start a hospital aaer practis practising ¬ ing medicine among the Indians at Kispiox for two years In 1904 the eight bed hospi hospital ¬ tal was finished Today on practically the same site a 50 bed facility still serves Hazel Hazelton ¬ ton and the surrounding area The hospital is named after the pioneer medical missionary Dr Horace Cooper Wrinch who built the present facilities in 1930 just before he retired in 1936 Now the Wrinch Memorial Hospital is planning to rebuild a 2000000 addi addition ¬ tion with 49 beds Dr J E Whiting adminis administrator ¬ trator of the Wrinch Memor Memorial ¬ ial Hospital for 17 years is waiting eagerly for the new facilities Its hard working in a 40-year-old building he said Its hard but we like it too he added Th Wrinch Memorial Hos Hospital ¬ pital stands in a scenic spot justoutsidedowntown Hazel Hazelton ¬ ton It serves the village and surrounding area including eight Indian villages Its remarkably good for this type of community Dr Whiting said Four doctors serving the area work out of the hospital and specialists are brought in on a regular basis from Ter Terrace ¬ race or Kitimat Its a great improvement over the task which faced young Dr Wrinch when he arrived in 1900 J Nearest medical facilities to Hazelton then were Fort Simpson Ashcroft Atlin anc Edmonton The population Dr Wrinch served included about 200 whtes and 200C Indians Dr Wrinchs frustration was explained in a personal letter written by him which was part of a university papet researched by Jacqueline Burt a University of British Columbia medical student the heathen Indians are on the watch to dis discredit ¬ credit our work and when a death occurs in the hospitl no matter how hopeless the case may have been there are always some of them ready to blame the hospital or the doctor and to assure the relatives that they would have cured the sick one all right But the thesis also recorded support for the doc doctor ¬ tor A chief from the area after viewing the new hospi hospital ¬ tal was quoted as telling Wrinch There ought to bo no more drumming rattling or dancing over the sick people Dr Horace Wrinch served Hazelton until he retired in 1936 and went to Vancouver where he died in 1939 His services to the com community ¬ munity included being elected in 1924 as Liberal member of the legislature for the district of Skeena He was also a justice of peace as well as a Methodist missionary and ordained minister ind doctor L--i Sfii VjrVIt - HHBKfrrrUrKK WWhtb r HP B1 S9lMJWtWWfflSSaSB W 1VSB - tfMMSB5w8Wi fiTSSdafihEjfw HISTORY OF THE early days of Hazelwood on the walls of the Itlver boat lounge washroom History on wafts foo eg tif - yiat-imi-MiS- t Wkti - Its safest washroom in town The Citizens reporter Marj Gray and photographer Dave Milne took a trip to Hazelton last week mainly to do a feature on Ksan the reconstructed Indian village there But they found there was a great deal more to the historic community on the Skeena some 280 miles west of Prince George The stories appear appearing ¬ ing on this page are the first of a series washroom Sargent has even provided for them In the mens washroom the walls are papered with old Omincca Miner newspapers The paper folded in 1918 papers on the wall are from 1911 to 1913 Nov 15 1913 London Syl Sylvia ¬ via Pankhurst has called for volunteers for a militant suf suffragette ¬ fragette army German maufacturers offer to supply guns for the suffragettes for 150 each Saturday Nov 29 1913 Insane foreigner killed while fleeing from posse Verdict of culpable homicide The fancy wallpaper tells of theTitanic sinking April 20 1912 Archduke is murdered the July 4 1914 headlines read Heir to Austrian throne and his wife victims of assassins bullets The Grand Trunk Pacific expected to reach Fort George from Edmonton early in December the Nov 15 1913 paper reported Local news ranged from the ordinary to the famous out outlaw ¬ law stories from the Hazelton area April 18 1914 M Tuohy has added a number of hogs to the livestock at his place April 11 1914 Battle fol follows ¬ lows robbery of bank In sen sensational ¬ sational fight with seven ban bandits ¬ dits citizens of New Hazelton kill two and wound others six dead or captured of band of Russian robbers wfti fP KBSSP I1PS SgjHM M- g Sai wki s w -Ti ei- i i t 1 r a - i -aM wrTrc jreM urrnufci vur - wHTr2i wi - j - b i nwur i i MHHmwwnmflHa t v - to j The mens washroom will not be the only historical wall wallpapering ¬ papering Bill Sargent explained The womens washroom will be done in old Vogue magazines as soon as he finds some old enough Sons The Citizen going back GRAND FORKS BC CP Members of the Sons of Freedom Doukhobor sect arc trickling back into British Columbias Kootcnay area after abandoning their road roadside ¬ side shacktown at the barbed wire gates of Mountain Prison near Agassiz BC The return marks the final chapter in the trek by the rad radical ¬ ical sect when some 500 mem members ¬ bers burned their tarpaper shacks at Krestova BC in September 1962 and marched to Agassiz to be near about 100 of their brethern who had been arrested con convicted ¬ victed of terrorist activities and sent to the special fire fireproof ¬ proof prison that was built at a cost of 300000 to hold them The trek has ended as it began with members of the sect still at odds with the law Twenty five were arrested Sunday after a demonstration in front of the home of John Verigin leader of about 10000 Orthodox Doukhobors residing in BC They are scheduled to appear in court July25 The history of the Freedomites who claim to be pacifists has been pock pockmarked ¬ marked with violence burn burnings ¬ ings and nude parades since they first came to BC from Saskatchewan about 70 years ago Many remained after the last Frcedomite in the prison was released in 1970 but the numbers at the roadside camp dwindled to less than 200 Mayor Wes Johnson of Kent municipality which takes in the Mountain Prison area said Monday he visited the camp Sunday and found it deserted The Freedomites have given no indication of their future plans but some obser observers ¬ vers believe they plan to re reestablish ¬ establish themselves at their old Krestova headquarters Tuesday July 4 1972 Eric Nico More medals Canada has struck a new set of gongs to phase out the Victoria Cross and other relics of the raj This column does not quarrel with our countrys right to pin Its own medals on the breasts of our heroes though some of the fun may have gone out of it since Gina Lollo briglda changed her mind about becoming a Canadian citl zen The new Cross of Valour Star of Courage and Medal of Bravery look attractive even if we only wear the ribbons in our hair But as a peace loving nation we may have little demand for the CV and similar tributes to bravery in the field That isnt where the action is What we need is a whole new category of decorations awarded for courage beyond the normal call of getting out of bed in the morning The Purple Butt Awarded to the taxpayer who despite being repeatedly hit in the wallet by three levels of govern government ¬ ment holds his financial position long enough for his kids to have their teeth fixed This medal may be awarded post posthumously ¬ humously The Oak Leaf with Cluster For conspicuous bravery in defending a tree or a group of trees under attack by squad squadrons ¬ rons of bulldozers and other panzer units deployed by the developer of a subdivision The Distinguished Frying Medal This solid aluminum replica of a skillet is reserved for the special gallantry of the father who single handed takes over preparation of the family meals because Mother has gone back to work The medal is embossed with the likeness of an overcooked hamburger and on the obverse a jug of ketchup May be worn with a formal apron The Star of Moxy To the union member who takes an exposed position at the meeting of the striking local declaring his intention to vote against the executives recommendation because he considers the demand for increased wages to be excessive This medal has not been designed because there is no expectation that will ever be awarded The order of the Companion of the Diaper Bucket A naval decoration to mothers resolute enough to engage a govern government ¬ ment ferry though pinned down for three hours on a hot dock under fire by four small children and a baby that ignores the Geneva Convention rules of war The ceremony of presentation of The Order may be combined with burial at sea The Canadian General Service Medal This decoration is mailed automatically to every person in Canada who has survived another year of living with the Bomb environ environmental ¬ mental collapse militant womens lib transistor radios TV commercials hairy motorbikes post election budgets Plavbov Cosmo and the cost of food All awards to be presented by the Governor General wearing track suit and sneakers if somebody can catch him mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmm TTSrS BIJ BfflTO MKJHTf KM fffiBS KJlfflBS BBIl iggilri UNROYAL UN WM1 PLY NYLON Wm I JK each vKbaHHr m mm m NggJBaMBPSgBSE Tread depth 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