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NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

illiams Lake Tribune

Volume 19 -- Number 28.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursdayp.July 12, 1951.

Single copy 10c, $2.50 per yeav.

North Fork Favoured

For Power, Premier States

Premier Byron Johnson is
Hydro Development will be es

the Quesnel River, Angus-HtacLean, MLA, told The Tribune

in an interview this morning.

Mr. MacLean st returned
from a trip to Victoria to enquire
into the question of power, roadwork
and hospital insurance.

The Premier told Mr, MacLean that
he was now of the opinion that enough
power could be developed on the
North Fork to ly supply the

has j

of the opinion that the Quesnel
tablished on the North Fork of

would be on the itiner
OAD. :

Asking about the Cariboo Highway
reconstruction, Mr. MacLean was in-
‘ormed by the Department of Public
Works that the appraiser was in the
Lac La Hache area today and that
as soon as property right-of-way

needs of the Central Interior.
‘He struck a sour note on the ques-
tion of “when,” however, when he
informed the member that present
restrictions on borrowing might stall
the project indefinitely. e
Although this prospect will be hard
to take for the people of the Cariboo,
Mr. MacLean pointed out that the
financial difficulty was one over which
the government had no control, and
stated it was his opinion that as far
as the North is concerned, its chances

“The province has never had a
Premier who was So firm a believer in
the future of the north,” Mr. MacLean
stated.

Premier Johnson will make a trip
to this part of the country this fall,
Mr. MacLean said, and Williims Lake

AUGUST FIRST SET
FOR BOARD MEETING

August ist has been set at the date
of the meeting here for the Associa-
ted Board of Trade of Central B.C.

No arrangements have been made
to entertain the visiting delegates,
but the one-day meeting will sind up
with 2 banquet inthe evening spon-
sored. by the local Board of Trade.
A fectured speaktr will be asked to
attend.

It is expected that between 50 and
60 delegates will attend the conven-
tion.

FARM FIELD DAY
HELD TOMORROW

A Farm Machinery Field Ley, spon-
sored by the Departinent of Agricui-
ture will be held Friday at the Har
greaves Ranch.

‘The demonstrations will show the
proper operation and setting up of}
farm machinery, with particular at-
tention being paid to tillage, haying
and potato equipmtnt.

had been reached. ten-
ders on the work would be called.

No information was given on the
distance to be taken in on the pro-
posed job. S

The Select Committee struck this
spring to enquire into the workings
of the B.C. Hospital Ser-

FALL...

HERE IN

LOGGING TRUCK
DRIVER KILLED

According to a report from Ques-
né] this morning, Archie Brown, son
of Harry Brown of Horsetly, was
luiled.in an accident at that centre.

The accident victim, who drives a
logging truck -for Huston’s ‘Truck
Lines, is said to have heen unloading
at the plywood plant mill when a
log rolled off and struck him, The
aceident occured about: 11:30 a.m,

A coroner’s. jury is enquiring into
the accident today,

Mr. Brown is also survived. by his

Refuse To Take Over
Line Without Easements

Unless the Anglican Church consents to allow an ease-
ment for the sewer line passing through the Parish Hall
property, the Village will only be responsible for the main- -
tenance of that portion of the line from Third Avenue to
Railroad, Commissioners decided Tuesday night following a
lengthy argument on engineering requirements for the line on
the property involved. s

‘The argument concerned the hump! of property, The commissioners were
of land near the hall. In order to get|against this idea because tire dozer
to the’ grade required by the engin- js on hire at a healthy $45 per day.

mother and one sister in Vancouver.

: == Village Tax Share
Preniise Byion« Tohasontewill Up $1,283 Over.

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“With the payment of a final cheque
in, the amount of $5,283.10, the. Village

Williams Lake this fall, according
to word received from Angus Mac-
Lean, MLA.

vice will also visit the area this fall,
Mr, MacLean stated.

The committee will visit Williams
Lake, Quesnel and Wells in their
fact-finding tour.

Mr. MacLean left this morning for
his home in Wells. He has been on
an extended tour of his large riding
prior to visiting Victoria.

Softballers Split
Honors At Prince

Local softballers split honours with
the Third Avenue Billiards, top team
in the Prince George city league,
when they played a double header in
he northern centre Sunday.

After dropping the opener 20-21, the

‘lake squad settled down and won the
second tilt 42,
As the score indicates the first game
[featured a continual, round of errérs
on the part of both
made their most solid bid in the first
of the last inning when{ the’ top of/
thejr batting order pounded in five.
runs-to tié the score at 20-20.

Smetanuk opened the inning with
a home run, followed by Poirier with
a three-bagger, Woodland with an-
other homer and three-base hits by
White and Latin, Allan Blair's single
brought in the fifth run but the next
three batters flied out.

The Prince Club wound up
game with one run picked up mainly
by virtue of three errors on the part
of ‘lake players.

A much better brand of ball was
exhibited in the evening game which
the locals took by a score of 4-2. The
Prince runs were both the result of
keme run hits.

The visit to Prince was a week later
than the ‘lake squad had hoped for.

“In charge of the demonstrations will

be J. R. Caverhill. assistant Agricul)
tural Engineer. |
“he field day will start at 9 am.!
and those expecting to attend are |
asked to bring their own lunch. A
soft drink booth will be set up on
the grounds.

New Potato Is
Eligible As Seed

‘The new variety of potato — Ken-
nebec — has now been licensed for
sale in Canada and is therefore eli-
gible for certification as seed,

W. N. Keenan, chief, Division of
Plant Protection, Department of Ag-
riculture. Ottawa has announced
that fields planted with his seed var-
iety will be eligible for inspection
this year provided that the quality of
such seed is equal to Foundation or

Foundation A class as defined in Can- =

adian Regulations.
Originated by the United Slates De-

They were forced to drop their entry
in the Dominion Day play when they
were unable to secure accommoda-
tion for the overnight stand.

Kelowna Stores
Open Friday Nights

Kelowna

retailers have departed

from accepted custom in the question |these temporary lumber yards are, in

of Saturday night opening.

Last week the merchants adopted
a policy of remaining open Friday
night until 9-p.m, instead of Saturday.

The stores will continue to stay
open Wednesday mornings, but all
stores with the exception of groceries
and meats will close at 5 p.m. daily
except Friday, Food stores will stay
open until 5:30 p.m.

Reason given for the change are
that customers who find it more con-
venient to shop at nights may still
do so; clerks have a better weekend,
nd stores are not closed all day
during a day in the business week.

partment of Agriculture at
Maryland, in 1940, the new variety
was selected from a late blight breed-
ing program at Presque Isle, Maine,
in 1941.

It is described as a vigorous, fast-
growing high-yielding, late-maturing
variety, resitant to late blight, mild
mosaic and net necrosis. Its smooth,
well-shaped tuber have shallow eyes}
and are more easily detached from
the vines than those of Sebago.

Dr. E. V. Hardenburg. of Cornell,
NY., reported that the variety gave
the highest yield of any tested in 1947.

Its cooking quality is good and it!
has excellent storage capacity. It is
widely adapted to soil conditions and
has been tested in many locations, |

THE WEATHER

Max. Min.
Thursday, July 5 ...... 72 56
Friday 55
Saturday “87
‘Monday 67
Tuesday 60,
Wednesday ev

on July 2nd as the hottest day of
the year so far, Was shattered yes-
terday when the temperature
climbed to 92 at the airport, and
98 recorded on the PGE thermo-
meter in town. Todays’ tempera-
ture

jin the

| Commissioners

of ¥WVilliams. Lake has received: as its
share “of the Social Sccurity and
Municipal Aid Tax for 1950-51, a total
of Sosa

This is $1.283 Tore than was re-
ceived jast year and~is along .way
above the village's first cut in the tax
for the 1948-49 share of $5,542.

The amount realized from

WATER. SCHEME
FALLS THROUGH

If anything is to be done about
supplying the new sub-division with
water, it appears now that it will

the tax
eurrent

eer’s plan, for a hundred yards at this
point the men laying the line would
have to go down 16 feet, or six feet
below the maximum reach of the
ditching machine.

Appearing for the property owners
was Jack Halfnights, who is in charge
of the work, Because of the expense
involved in the extra digging, which
would havesto be borne by the hos-
pital, Mr. Halfnights asked permis-
sion to alter the depth of the line
above the hump to three feet, so that
by the time the rise in land was
reached the line would be within
reach of the ditcher.

Although this would alter the grade.
Mr. Halfnights guaranteed there
would still be sufficient to carry the
overflow away without any trouble.

is just $266 below the
year's property tax in the village. The
rise of the annua] tax distribution wa
matched by the jump in property as:
sessment values this spring, which
netted the village a cor i

have to be done with money r:
by by-law.

The. possibility of private
supplying the necessary capital seems
to be definitely “out”.

investors

lage to bring the bulldozer off. the
highway job and grade off the piece

‘The alternate plan was for the vil-;

Their main contention v jow-
ever, that if the engineer’s plan was
changed, they would be taking a
long chance on what the results might
be in the future when the line was
the responsibility of the Village to
maintain.

It was at this point that Village
Clerk E. H. Gibbon said he under-
stood the Church would not grant
an easement for the line. yi

Presented with this information,
the Commissioners were of the opin-
ion that the problem of grades above
Third Avenue was strictly one for
the Hospital Board to solve, as with-
out the easement the Village would
not take over that portion of thé line.

Last night a small tractor hed low-
ered the grade of the hump by two
jfeet. The! digging machine has com-
;Pleted the ditch—fsom-the Hospital
| to the Parish hall.

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According to Fred Bass, who was
trying to arrange the deal, there are
two big obstacles in the way of the
plan. In the first place, the cost > of
laying the system now appears to be
far out of proportion to the return
that could be expected. The legality
of the move has also been questioned.
and Mr, Bass states that his legal =
advice is that the idea runs contrary
to the Municipal Act.

3 °
Ball Payer Hit
In the meantime, the Village Comite : Can j Soe
missioners adopted the _ attitude’) Tu P
Tuesday night that the next move By vUC at rince

6 to Mr. Bass.

higher tax revenue.

The total of tax receipts apportion-
ed to all the municipalities in the
province amounted this year to $9,511,-
348, according to an announcement
Hon. Herbert Anscomb, Minister
of Finance: :

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nts cherproblerauwas “ken Huston, son of Mr. and Mrs.

SClaudeHuston ; SH “Wiliiands ~ Lake,
Suffered severe bruises and multiple
lacerations in an accident at Prince
George last Saturday night, when he
vi struck and run over by a truck.
Ken, in company with Gordon
Smetanuk and Stu. White, who were
all in Prince for the weekend softball
games, were removing their baggage

Jaycees. To. Take
On District Exhibit —

Williams Lake will have an entry
District Exhibit class of the
Cariboo Fall Fair.

Responsibiliy for the collection of

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the produce, natural resources and manv-' from the trunk of their car when the!

factured articles for the exhibit will’ accident occured. The other two play-
be taken over by the Trade and In ers were facing the street, and seving
dustry committee of the Junior Cham-| the truck approaching, warned Ken

ber of Commerce, under Ralph Wood-| and then jumped to, the sidewalk
land. themselves, Thinking the truck was
going to crash into the car, Ken

dodged into the street, but the truck
swerved and knocked him down, The
front wheel passed over his hips and

Ss

CHILD'S ACCIDENT
SPURS INQUIRY

Injury of a child last week playing
around a lumber pile spurred Village
Tuesday night into
an attempt to seek a solution to a
“dangerous” situation.

Jammed to capacity,
ber companies have been
use every vacant lot adjacent to

he was dragged for several yards. |
A doctor who happened to witness)
the scene came to Ken's aid and he
was then rushed to the hospital.
Ken is unable to walk but is other-
wise in good condition. He was dis-
charged from Prince George Hospita!
yesterday, and brought home by his
local lum-
nother and father who went up io

forced to] ot him, i

Sometimes Called
» “Gravy”

{The other day Village Clerk
¥. H. Gibbon was advised that
jhe would be expected to bring
‘a bottle of cream honie after
ithe day’s work, ‘Being a careful

n, Mr. Gibbon picked up a”

Yoose piece of paper on his desk

amd wrote in clear letters
Tuer ne_siéce—of-

paper year 2siscion

PRO-REC GYM
DISPLAY COMING

Townspeople will have a chance to
view the results of Pro-Ree training
July 18, when a touring team of
twelve gymnasts give a display in the

| Elks Hall.

e tonr, which takes in centres

from Prince George to Hope, is bemg

made in conjunétion with the appoint-
ment of Keith. Maltman as. district
supervisor of recreation for northern
British Columbia. pe

meetirig, when the “a:

|—stub-df a governferit cheque was
pased around fer inspection.
The cheque had been for
$5,283.10, the village share of
the government sales tax. And
there seemed more truth than
poetry to the information on the
other side of the stub. There,
almost like an opinion on the
sales tax proceeds, was the
word “cream”.

Hay Crop ‘Light’
Throughout Area

The wild hay meadows will con-
tribute a more substantial proportion
of feed for district ranchers this year.
according to District Agriculturist
Joe Walsh.

Dry weather and cold nights have
combined to result in a generally
light crop of hay from the cultivated
, Alfalfa is also light in most

their property to pile lumber as it

2 Mr. and Mrs. Don Mars left Sund
comes in from district mills, and

for a two-week vacation in the Chil-
cotin.

many cases, right next to residences.
i has been
appointed a committee of one to look
int the problem and to try and sug-
gest a way of lessening the danger
that would be acceptable to both the
company owners and the village.

Big Lake. School
To Open in Fall

Community effort and the
ance that there’ will be eight pupils in
September, will bring about the re-
opening of the Big Lake school this
fall.

At a meeting last Thursday, Sec-
retary C. B. Macqueen received writ-
ten assurances that the necessary
number of students would be on
hand, and in return promised the
Board would pay for material to put
the school in shape if the commun-
ity would do the work.

Monday a “bee” was held and the ; é
building, which has not been used for} ™ é
five years, is now _ structurally
sound. At a later date the women of
the area will move in for a thorough
housecleaning and interior painting

Montreal Engineer
Elected to Oftice
in U.S. Institute

assur-

—Central
Willism R. Wray of Moi
cnly Cenadian on the ¢
merican Instit
He was el
he annual convention

Press Conadian ||

job.
Mrs. Harold Cripps has been ap-
pointed Big Lake Area Representa-|

places. The wild meadows are re-
ported “good”,
The Chilcotin , Cariboo. highway

come under the above survey results.
crops at Meldrum Creek are re-
ported. “good”,
Haying has just got underway in
many places, Mr. Walsh reports.

OCCUPANTS ESCAPE
SERIOUS INJURY IN
HEAD-ON CRACK-UP

All occupants of two cars involved
in a head-on collision early Sunday
morning on the Cariboo Highway
north of the 153 Mile, escaped with
bruises and cuts. Most seriously hurt
was Mrs. A. Gardner of Macalister,
who is still in hospital. Her condition
is described as. “goad”.

According to police reports the
cars met head-on on a slight rise in
the road. A group of young people
from’ Williams Lake were in one car

and the district east of Williams Lake

\driven by Douglas Norberg returning

from a dance at Miocene. The oceu-
pants of the second car, C. Taylor and
Mrs. Gardner, his housekeeper, were
returning home from a trip to the
prairies.

Estimated damage of $800 was done

tive pending the regular election of | nnical assoc:

representatives in October,

tc each car involved, Police say that

jcharges are pending,

Secesfnt has been “pad

hy the Department of Educatifn in
the interest of extending the Pro-Rec
program to this section of the prov-
ince. The branch will be one of 200
centres throughout the province.
Included in the team are outstand-
ing Canadian champions in gymnas-
ties. Ken Doolan is the 1951 Canadian
Champion; Gordon Ellinson is the
Canadian Novice Champion, and the
three-man team of Doolan, Ronnie
Hillier ‘and Gordon Larkin took the
B.C. Junior title, Pacifie Northwest

Senior and Dominon Senor team
crowns.
Another team member, Allan Borth-

wick, is
Champion,

The full program arranged for tne
tour includes a great variety of the
gymnastic work. carried out
Rec training.

TAKE FOURTH STRAIGHT
——

B.C. Senior “Trampoline”

in Pro-

Leafs Edge Rockets
In Close Contest

An upsetting comeback was staged
last night in town ball by league-
leading Hotelmen. The GMC Rockets
went into the top of the second inning
with what they believed was a safe
lead, but the Leafs kept patiently
sniping and finally wound up on the
right end of a 9-7 score.

Rockets took the field in the second
inning with a 6-0 lead over Hotelmen.
little sure of themselves
began to slip into their play and the

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Leafs took advantage to bring in
three runs. Leaf hurler Ed Patenaude
held the Rockets scoreless for the
next two innings while the Leafs
went on to register four more in the
fourth. Smetanuk banged a hom foc
the Rockets in the fifth to tie the

score 7 all. Neither team could cou:

in the sixth, and Rockets droppe:t
out 1, 2, 3, in the bottom of the sev-
enth to leave the decision- up to the
Leafs,

THE GMC's stood tense and ready,
as the fiotelmen came up to bat in
the top of the seventh, score tied 7-7.
Smetanuk fanned the first batter, but
Cece Rhodes in number two

drove out a single, followed by
with another to fill second and third,

both winning runs. S. Slackie then
gained the opportunity to win the
game, and that is just t he did

as he banged out a triple that brought
[in two runs and cut the game short.