Page 20 =r THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, April 19,1951. THE TRIBUNE Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C. i : By The Tribune Publishing Co. Subscription: per year ........... $2.50 Outside Canada . sevssene $3.00 ; Payable in Advance ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATIO: Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers British Columbia Division, C.W.N.A, Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa Established 1931 Clive Stangoe, Editor The “Doubtful” Development = To those who subscribe to the theory that there is no such bet as a “sure thing,” the Quesnel Hydro development must appear as a substantial argument. After two years it is still doubtful that the development will be on the Quesnel; that it will be a hydro development, or that it will ever develop at all. Latest doubts on the issue have been sown by Lands Minister Kenney who intimates that a hydro development in the Blackwater region may be in storé for us. He also mentioned that if a gas line went through Central British Columbia, power might be secured from this source. Once the Fisheries Commission gave its sanction to the North Fork of the Quesnel, it looked as though all we had to . do was sit back and wait for the engineers to choose a site and work would then be underway. But from the conjectures being thrown around it would appear as though the government is still in the preliminary Surveying stage of two years ago. Power means a great deal to the development of this part of the province. Undoubtedly there is capital watching every move the government makes in the game, ready to move in when work gets underway. But plans of expansion can't be left on the shelf indefinitely and sooner or later industry is — going to get tired of waiting and start looking elsewhere for an area where power is already a reality. The Annoying Transients ‘ A town needs a spring cleaning every bit as much as a house. Local firemen started the annual campaign Sunday by working the better part of the day washing down the streets, ee and a lot of credit is due to them. Next will come the Jaycees “paint-up, clean-up” cam- paign, and in between the organized efforts, individual resi- dents will be sprucing up their yards with rakes and digging forks. But even more pleasant to look on than the neatly raked yard is the fresh green look of a lawn, and spring flowers showing up along the borders. There is only one trouble with this picture. Unless the owner of the lawn and flower beds erects a stout fence and makes sure the gate is locked at all times, the four-legged transients that wander in and out of town periodically will Wipe out a lot of the gardner’s hard work in a matter of minutes. There seems to be some doubt as to who owns the dozen or so horses that are guilty of being loose within the village, or whether they have any ownersat all. But as long as they are allowed the freedom of the town th: fam to be a marked reluctance on the part expend a lot of vane "ip 5} <= The problem has been tackI Village without much success outside of the summe: jj suud maintenance their recommendations — rett of New Westminster starts: auto | (#¥ehter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Durrel body repair shop — Mr. Geo. Renner skunk — Angus LacLean states it is | TEN definitely assured RCMP will take | ever B.C. Police — Commissioners to Magistrate here while P. W. Ogden, Lac La Hache, Smiles From Anoth Iwas driving through the country! with an old gentleman to inspect a! farm and we were discussing that in-| we have been more than a mite evitable topic, taxes. As Wwe passed al intrigued by some of the explanations School bus, he exclaimed, “See, That's! offered the sovercign electorate of what I mean. When I was a boy we. British Columbia, by both cabinet walked three miles to school. Now we! members and administrative staff, spend 00 for a bus to pick up the concerning present problems of B.C. children so they don’t have to walk.| Hospital Ingurance Service. Then we spend $30,000 for a gymna- When the April 5 issue of The Wil- sium so they can get proper exercise.” lake Tribune reached us, we —Reader’s Digest. noted a most forthright declaration of his stand on the hospital insurance She goes over a newspaper like a| question by Angus MacLean, MLA, vacuum cleaner, picking up only the| The Cariboo member is quoted as say: dirt. 2 ing, in part: ss “I think we ems agreed that An attorney and his fouryear-ola| ‘lected representatives. should carry 2 out the will of the majority, sudject to certain rvations. I repeat, as your representative, I try as far as is humanly possibly to carry out the will of the majority. You have elected me to look after your affairs. When cer- tain information and facts are put before me I must make a decision in the best interests of all.” are all son were walking home from eiureh when the small boy looked up puzzled expression. “Daddy, why do they always say ‘Amen’ when they pray?” he asked | earnestly. “Why don’t they ever say! ‘Awomen’?”” = The lawyer explained as best he could. But the boy seemed uncon- vinced. A few lines farther on Mr. MacLean “T think,” he said after some de-j informs his. constituents that he sup- Uberation, “that it's because all the| ported hospital insurance act amend- songs are hymns.” [Baus beeause “anyone faced with From the Files ‘of The Tribune ONE YEAR AGO, April 20, 1950 district brings in old bills of goods Over 500 enthusiastic townspeople | 44!¢d 1899. One is for case of Seagrams jammed the airport to accord a typical, Whiskey, $9.00, bought from Asheroft | i Williams Lake welcome to Canadian “0tel. Other item bought from F. M. Pacific Airlines inaugural flignt —.|Bcacher, Riske Creek, after it was Plans for a $11,000 building approved | Teighted from Asheroft was a sales 1s j ; at Legion meeting — Local game club | Statement including a case of Scotch meet with Commissioner James Cun- | °F $14.50 — New post office at Big ningham but get little support for | Lake with Mrs. Hattie Ash as post- Bob Bar.|™istress — June Murray Durrel, only of Riske Creek becomes Herbert Buckle — YEARS AGO, April 21, 1941 — Very dangerous curve and narrow road about 8 miles out on Chilcotin BOA ite: bride of lose “Stinky,” a pet | enquire into cost of laying sewer line | road from Williams Lake almost claim- from Second to Railway Ave. on north | ed lives of seven passengers when se- side of Oliver Street — Lightning | dan belonging to Mrs. P B. Harvis of caused a short power failure — John Big Lake slid off grade and rolled to D. Smedley appointed Stipendiary | bottom of gulch. None were injured — | Control of south Riske Creek and Bald and Chas. Wesley Mountain range being brought under Speed of Likely have been appointed j Control of Grazing Dept. Contract has Justices Renner elected president of provincial | tion of a Russel fence — Cariboo Liberal A iati i ence Singer vice-president — purchase $125 microscope for srhool{ With bulk of profits going to some war 9 year old youth\and Sa | Service —) Claude Huston, intends to girfvompanton lead Ys-man poste o} dl w ¢ : %0 country around Quesnel — of the Peace — Geo. w.| been let to W. J. Jasper for construc- 26 persons , and Clar- agreed that race meet or PTA to| stampede should be held this year ae constrhet cola storage spage in base- through heavy wooded | ment of new building — hase “SPEAK FOR YOURSELVES, BOYS” (in the Abbotsford, Sumas and Matsqui News) period, and even then it is more likely a case of impounding the animals after their nocturnal visits. There should be some way of putting the onus of the problem on the owners of the horses. The property owners hope it can be found. Lake gets full page plug in first volume of B.C. Power Commission trade mag- azine, thanks to commission manager Jack Dobie — Katherine Mary Cat- ling of Rose Lake passed away at Armstrong — Adeline Isobel Fraser becomes bride of Joseph Samuel Ger- van — Bernice Viola Lyvere and Harris George Wilkinson united in marriage — Farm Equipment Parts Order parts now for equipment you'll have to repair for spring and summer work. R. M. BLAIR Imperial Oil and Massey-Harris Dealer ANNUAL MEETING trains a week; instead of present two- train schedule — Mrs. Laura Hooker, 72, of Horsefly passed in War Memorial Hospital. She had been in Cariboo since 1910 — Plans for a water system for Williams Lake completed by goy- : ernment water engineer and in hands of Commissi . Cost is expected to exceed $118,000 — A Tiger Moth plane will _be ready for Williams Lake Flying Club in middle of May, according to Hugh Cornwall — Old time rancher of | Willi WENTY YEARS AGO, April 23, 1931 ‘Stampede association elects follow- ing officers for stampede: -H. Wright. arena director; A. Boitanio, assistant [Editorial Notes The United States is buying 50 million pounds’ e anned meats so that it may be necessary occasionally to pick a picador out of er Viewpoint the information I had, would, I sug- gest, do the same as I have done,| the stew. unless he was considering his own