4253 Williams NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO ake Tribune Volume 19 -- Number 17 WILLIAMS LAKH, B.C. Thursday, april 26, 1951. Single copy 10c, $2.50 per year. Stampede Is Set For June 13, 14, 15 Revised dates of this year’s Stam- pede are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, June 18, 14, 15, it ws décided at a meeting of the Stampede execu- tive Monday night. Biggest job facing the executive is to arrange the eritire program to take in the three days in place of the for- mer two. Tendency for each day's pro- gram in former years to drag on too late in the afternoon is the main rea- son for the extra day being added. 3. A. Kennedy, manager of the Pa- cific Great Eastern railway, willbe asked to formally open this year’s 25th annual showing of the Cowtown classic. Directors felt that it would be ap- propriate to have someone ¢losely as- sociated with the development of the “Cariboo to open the show. As before, there will be two queens for the Stampede, but because a switch is being made in the reigning period, last year’s queen Norma MacDonald and Indian Queen Katherine Wycotte, will continue to hold sway over this year's Stampede. ‘The new queens will be named on the evening af the 14th and will officiate over the 1952 Stampede. 3 About the same type of program is planned this year. The War Memorial society may import an entertainment company to put on their early evening show at the Arena. Difficulty of being able to depend on local entertainers ut Stampede time is given ds the rea- son for the move. Again this year the Elks will sponsor _. the evening dances, winding up Friday ight with the presentation of major @Yards by the queens at the: huge losin. dance. a According to the = tion from the Department of WORKING IN CLOSE CO-OPERAI/ON WITH ATLANTIC PACT ALLIES Three Atlantic the interior of a at Canadair Limited, near Mont: speciion of the college, who also witnessed a fly Pact allies are seen examining partially assembled F-86E Sabre jet plant by the Canadian Army Staft real, during an in- bast of the worlis army. fastest fighting ‘plane. e Santoro, Italian army: Capt. Jeen \essard, Canadian. -Army Service Corps, and’ Brig. A. C. lyappa, indian =Centrai Press Canadian Commissioners Move To Rid Town of Roaming Horses “Were 2 to get rid of these horses, and I want the property owners to know. this is a definite promise,’ stated Chairman John Anderson Tuesda invoked the Pound By-law, effec ‘Mr. Anderson said he had had num- erous complaints from property own- ers-who tried to beautify their grounds only to have stray horses ruin lawns and flower beds. “They are quite right in complain- ing, and from now on, stray livestock is going to be impounded,” Mr: An- derson. said. ‘The chairman said one’ property owner had pointed out that it hadn't been possible in the past to plant lawns because of the shortage of water, and now there was plenty of water ground work was still being held back because of the stray horses. SUB-DIVISION A delegation of five property owners night, as the commissioners e May Ist. all it will probably have to be financed money raised by plebiscite. Ac- tually the Commission has the right to extend the present ‘system out of current water revenues, but with the system using every excess dollar in repairs and maintenance, there seems little likelihood of there being any- thing left in the waterworks purse at the end of the year for additional ex- tensions, ; PARK SALE A second attempt by officials of Home Oil Distributors to-interest-the Commissioners. in parting with the Property at the head of Oliver Street, now being held as a park site, was turned down. The overtures were made at the previous meeting and the eee in the new sub-divi i From left are: Capt, Piero LIFT VEIL A LITTLE ON H.GHY BY-PASS Officials of the Board of Trade are pondering on “what's in a, word” since they received their answer from the Department of Public Works on the by-pass. Although the letter took the Board to task for first approving the by- Pass and then demanding it go through town, it was at first thought the official writing the note had slip- ped and let out an important piece of information when he wrote “the pres- ent plan calls for a connection to be Made at the gasterly boundary of the Village ye = That could only mean ‘one thing they reasoned. The by-pass must be swinging adjacent to the boundary as was first asked for. But a closer look at the word “con- CHANGE CLOCKS SATURDAY MIDNIGHT This is the weekend we start fooling with the clocks, kidding ourselves for the summer that we are not actually getting up an hour earlier. Daylight saving time becomes CLUB TO DECIDE ON BASEBALL OR SOFTBALL Whether baseball or softball will be the main summer sport hereabouts will probably be decided Sunday. Although a meeting was held yester- | effective April 28. If you want to wake up Sunday morning in time with everyone else, move your clock back an hour. In other words, when it's midnight, Swing back to 11 o'clock. Daylight i olds“sway until Sepigmbér. received by airport manager Alii Mackenzie, it appears doubtful thats there will be any money spent on either the present ‘port or the proposed one on the Dog Creek road. Hon. Mr. Chevrier States that-a sur- tion” brought rise to some doubts. ‘Uae by-pass was located a mile from neciallmary it could still be ‘‘con- Menother road to the vil- vague descript'in the meaning of the Funeral services were For Late Mrs. Branch conducted yesterday afternoox from St. Andrewjs ‘United Church fer Mrs. Jessie Geral- vey has revealed that it would cost in the neighborhood of $60,0¢) to prop- erly develop the present “airport. it 1 would appear that the department be lieves it would be more economical to develop the airport on the hill, but the minister indicated that this would de a consideration for the future. Red Cross Drive Funds Short of Mark District campaign for the Red Cross dust missed its quota this year, ac- cording to-manager Tom Denny. “The drive netted $1,789.20, just §211 short of the quota set by provincial headquarters. Last year's total was $1584. Mr. Denny states that there are still several outside points to from but he does not expect their} Elks be heard] will add: ATTORNEY-GENE WILL SPEAK HERE Attorney-General Hall May 1, totals will be enough to bring the dis-| nounced. trict quota figure within reach, - PIONEER RANCHER DIES IN VANCOUVER! Death called another Cariboo pioneer April 2ist when John William Mulva: 1 hill 72, passed away at his home in North Vancouver. “Charlie” Mulvahill, as he was known to the district, was a noted long-line | Skinner when he freighted on the ol | Cariboo road around 1910. In 1913 he took over the old Copeland place at | &°72° at the time. Chezacut which is still opertea by his sOns,__ ie leaves to mourn his passing his loving wife, one daughter, Mrs. A. R. Murphy, North Vancouver; two: sons, William and Randolph, Chezacut; one sister, Mrs. 1G. McTimmins, and one brother, M. H. Mulvahill, Oregon, and | 0lf course wil} take the form of two Divoters Open Season Sunday Mr. Wismer will give an accounting of government policies and actions in his address, it is understood. FIREMEN QUELL SMALL BLAZE Called to a fre in a garge on the Property of A. B. Mackenzie, the pri- gadé had the blaze quelled in a matter of minutes Tuesday morning. The fire is believed to have been started by smal) children playing in the building. There was no car in the Official season opening at the local 14 grandchildren, tournaments Sunday. i Wuneral services sere conducted) Teeing off at 10 a.m. will be the en-! te ly in Vz and inti trants in the men's handicap tourney | was in North Vancouver Cemetery. Mrs. A. Haddock left Monday to at- tend the funeral of her brother-in-law, A. Styer, who passed away in Kam- loops Sunday, | During the afternoon a mixed two-ball foursome tourney will be played. According to club officials the course is in excellent shape and there is an) increased interest being shown in the! fame here, Gordon Wismer ress a public meeting in the | it has been an- | standing at $9,000. | Pat Murphy who was el two months. Sie was/66 years of age Mrs. Branch was lorn in Indi apolis, Ind., and came lo Vancouver 39 ception of/two sthe family lived\here unti 1942 rs ago. With the when's, 7. md \Robert and > one daughter, Olive. Paltbearers were Day Bll, Frank Armnold-Smith, Frea Wheatley, James. Robertson ¢a E. Ss. King. A heartening again reviewed annual meeting, By staging a queen contest at Sim. pede time, fures, the society showed a net prit for the year of $4,429 66. Adding to this by the sale of g135 worth of bonds and $615 in donatios, the society paid off $5287 in old dels and 6n new work on the building it: Cash balance amounted to $903. > Listed as assets are the building Self at $50,000 and a power saw at sy, Liabilities include accounts payate smounting to $9,454 and loans oj A proper balance sheet reserves for bond interest and depivei, ation accounts that have not been jin- cluded in the present rough form, ig now under preparation and yi} be published as soon as it is completed, NEW SLATE Claude Huston was again named to head the society for the coming year. Back to their old jobs too went Ea Follis, vice-president, and treasurat Mrs. O. Norberg, Newcomer to the executive ig Mis; ected Secretary, dine Branch, wh died at her home ia Ochiltree April 21 after an illness $f tree.” “&X made theirhome in Ocnil- a passing ker i \three sons, Whale, Percy “a financia picture was given to members of | the War Memorial Society'ast Thursday a year’s veration om | day to decide the matter, there was still enough indecision to postpone the actual acceptance of a suggestion that baseball get the nod. the Stampede grounds were on hand at the meeting to see if the Village was going to do anything about water. Suggestion was that a main be laid trom 4th to 7th Avenue along Yorston Street, and the owners of property not temporary lines. _.Estimated cost of laying the main is placed at $2500. As only three of the five commis- sioners were present, it was decided to call a special meeting probably Friday night to discuss the: problem. Commissioner C. H. Poston declar- ed himself as not being in favour of any temporary measure. “If the water is put up there at all, it should take in all of the sub- division,” he stated. on the main could tie into it with small 1 sat on the problem. for two weeks before giving their final decision. x Tt is understood that in the mean- time the company has secured prop- erty above Sunnyside Auto Court: on the highway for development. PUBLIC LAVATORIES 4 recommendation from the Stam- pede Association that the village con- sider the question of providing public lavatory facilities was turned down as impractical. - Problem of finding enough money to construct a comfort station and then Properly maintaining it were too much for a village the size of ours, the com- i felt. Chai And Pointed out that Kamloops, with a Population of 10,000 was still debating the question of providing a comfort If any development is considered at station for that city, A haseball practice has been called fox Sunday afternooon at the Stam— pe “ds, and if encusy pics etionp ade ee ee forl the game, we will probably see a town’ team entered in the Cariboo loop. Practise time is 2 p.m. It was this suggestion of a Cariboo league that brought up the idea of Posted To Larger Cloverdale Branch SLAW STUDENT ¢ laa his wing if the club decided to Memorial society Sees Good Finarial Re swinging to baseball, Yesterday Jack Munday and Bill Caropbell from Quesnel were on hand | ‘o drum up some enthusism in the scheme, | Seems Quesnel can field two teams! and want to take in Williams Lake and Lac La Hache on a. four-team circuit. Representatives from Lae La Hache were supposed to be here to! take in the meeting but didn’t show. Concensus is that if the ‘Lake boys decide to go for the idea, the southern centre will follow suit. If baseball comes in, softball will have to go. There are not enough play- ers to handle both sports, Chief obstacle of finding a sponsor for the baseball team has been over- come, and one businessman has indi- cated his willingness to take the team play. Second change in- local banking_| management within a year will come within the next two weeks when A. R.W. “Hert” Wilson, popular manag- er of the Bank of Montreal branch leaves to take up similar duties at Cloverdale. Officially, Mr. Wilson takes over at the coast centre May 15, but starting this week-end he goes on two weeks holiday. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson will be back the following weekend to spend the last week of their holiday in the | district. J. R. N. Purser, manager of the bank's Bralorne branch, will be tak- ing over here. He ia expected to ar- rive here May 12, port evening when they of the Arena at their Former secretary John Anderson with- drew his name after being nominated Named as a director to serve the balance of a two-year term vacated by former Bank of Commerce mana; s aise See ona, |. Mr. Wilson came to Williams Lake Norm Schroeder, Hockey Club j "| from Nelson three and a half years | prexy Bill Margetts. ; , carl : ago and during that time has taken ¥ directors are Wilf Moore, ive Sain ce jt dB ana com y 's. Lunn, Mrs. C. Huston, Les |*"_9¢tive par pypunity, affairs, | : He has served three years as treas-| Hisvon and. Jobp ‘Anderson. urer of the Stampede Association, was ede Associ y STAMPEDE QUEEN rer © 4 | The society has decided to again|©? the Hospital Board for two years, | © Sociely. mas i and is a member of the Anglican| Church Committee and Boy Scouts adult committee, sponsor the Stampede Queen contest A meeting will be held with delegates rom various town organizations to ‘eek sponsors for the Queen candi- Gites as was done last year. Commit- | te members pointed out however that | Hl eae te pander ee Wise groups would not be committed | ‘ . t9 sash outlay for outfitting their | et'S Auxiliary to the Anglican Chur eantidates as they were last year. he is also a member of the W.A. to ; the War Memorial Hospital, The new appointment is 2 substan- mn for Mr. Wilson, At Je he will have aff of 14 The branch is housed in v/a new building that was constructed | about three years ago, Mrs. Wilson has also been active in the community. She is presently treas- urer of the Parent-Teachers Associ- EXPECTED IN SEPTEMBER !-Rev.Geo. Fielder of Barbados is not | tial promo’ ’xPected in Williams Lake to take up | Clove his new dutics as minister of Sts/ under him. Peter's Anglican Church until September, Pa , ae |CALLED TO BAR . Laurence Perry, who has complet- 0 his year as articled clerk in the law office of Henry G. Lockwood, left for Vancouver where he will be “called to the bar.” : The ceremony, which marks a stu: dent’s official admittance to the Bar Association, usually is conductea py a judge of the Supreme Court. Mr. Perry will return to Williams Lake and will continue to work with Mr. Lockwood. Work Underway On Planer Mill First work on Williams Lake Planer Mill property got underway this week with the construction of a small office /building opposite the Cattlemen's As- sociation office According to Bud Devine, mill man- ager, the next unit to be constructed | will-be the green chain shed, which will 0 up near the office. The actual planer mill itself will be built on the com. Pany's lower property at the Chilcotin road intersection. OPERETTA CONTRIBUTES $95 TO CANCER FUND Biggest single boost to the annual “Canquer Cancer” campaign was pro- Vided by last Friday’s operetta in the Elks Hall, This. annual children’s show added 395 to the fund. Town and district can- Vassers are just getting their job un- derway so. it is too early to receive results from their efforts. Greyhound busses resumed their two-day schedule last Saturday |when road restrictions were lifted. Busses are only operating on this basis as far as Quesnel, however, as restric. lions are still in effect to Prince George. Passengers for the northern terminus must still take the early morning bus. ee THE WEATHER Taken at the airport for daily hours between 9 am. and 5 p.m. Pending installation of 24-hour re. cording equipment, Thursday, April 19 Friday Saturday __ Monday Tuesday Wednesday