Page 2 THY TRIBENE, WWLIAMS LARRY, B.C. Thursday, August 9, 1951. THE TRIBUNE Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C. By The Tribune Publishing Co. Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa Established 1931 Clive Stangoe, For our own district guides and tourist camp operators there is a moral in the story that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle with regard to fishing guides over on Campbeil River. Writing in The Woodsman’s Column, Tod Powell tells of a meeiing of the San Francisco Tyee Club addressed by Oak- Jand sportsman Ray Slocan. Says Powell: “We _were very much pleased to have him (Slocan) teli of the “highway game”’ practised up there and which created some wrath when we opened up on it by radio and newspaper a few years ago. i “Several years ago the so-called ‘guides’ who row boats for anglers charged $6 a day for a few hours of simple rowing. Then it was upped to $8, $10, $12 and now $14 for the same job, and the Canadian boys who have been spoiled by Ameri- caus, with their money and their excess tips, now demand that the fish you catch belongs to them. If you want your fish next day to. send home or to have your picure made, you pay the market price per pound for your fish. The years when we first went up there we gave the fish to the boatmen, but about three years ago on our enough and last trip to Campbell River, the ‘guides’ started demanding the fish. Now they make nu bones about it. Everything up there has gotten to be that way. “Now we go to other spots in Canada which are still un- spoiled. British Columbia is a great province, with more fish- ing and hunting than any other portion of this continent.” The moral is, of course, that in the tourist business as in any other, you can price yourself right out of the market. Whether the visitor comes from Wisconsin or the Fraser Valley, he is usually prepared to pay a reasonable rate for his hunting expedition or lakeside holiday. But the average tourist is a long throw from the millionaire class and his holiday playground continues to attract just as long as the cost comes within the limit of his pocketbook. Whether all of the accusations hurled at the guides of Campbell River are based on actual fact is beside the point. It would be a sad day for the tourist trade in the Cariboo if the same type of publicity was circulated below the border. The safest way to make certain that this doesn’t occur in our opinion is to treat the tourist the Way you would like to be if you were visiting his home town. There isn’t anyhing original about the theory and you can always expect results with its adoption. Do.We Want Them? We were disappointed in talking recently to a visitor from England to find that our somewhat vague theories on how the Federal Government attracted prospective immi- grants were also erroneous. mae We know, that the Overseas Service maintains four offices L in the United Kingdom andjwe believéd that anyoné e ‘quiring ™ about possibilities of settlement in Canada would be answered promptly and from the point of view of a young country looking for energetic new citizens. “Not so, according to our informant, whose son recently decided to emigrate and wrote the proper authorities asking for information. S Not only was there a lapse of several months in the enquiry being acknowledged, but the information was given in such a manner that it tended to discourage the applicant. We wouldn’t approve of the opposite extreme that was practised in another era of painting a rosy picture of streets paved with gold in a country that was just waiting to have its wealth picked up for the asking. But somewhere along the line should be a happy medium that would describe Canada’s possibilities with a restrained optimism in keeping with our own belief in our future. This, of course, assumes that Canada does want new citizens. We believe she not only wants them, but needs them, whatever may be the policy of the government in power at the moment. Proceeding Rapidly Backwards Last October a plan designed to give Williams Lake telephone subscribers a toll-free five mile area looked as; though it would provide considerable relief from an unfair situation. : The plan came from the government telephone service -- was drawn up by D. C. Schubert, divisional superintender-t = and for that reason looked as though it would become a reality either in its proposed form or a modified one. Then it was forwarded to Ottawa. What happened to the plan after that is anyone’s guess. The only thing we can be certain of is that any improvement to the telephone service in Williams Lake is proceeding as rapidly as the reconstruction of the Cariboo Highway and the Quesnel Hydro project. New Stock of Occasional Tables - Walnut Finish End Tatles - Centre Taldes - Coffee Tables These would make suitable gifts for all occasions. Come in and take advantage of our Lay-Away Plan. NEW SHOWING OF LANE CEDAR CHESTS Cariboo Home Furnishings “Visit the Store with the Friendly Door” Agents for Connor, Mayfair, Norge, Gilson and Climax Gas and Electric Washing Machines "ARMED TO THE TEETH”, = E rom the Files of The Tribune ONE YEAR AGO August 3 and 10, 1950 “Donkey Baseball’ a hilarious bur-| lesque of baseball will be introduced | to Williams Lake under the sponsor- ship of the Jaycees — Residents of the Canim Lake Bast district are demontrating a true community spirit Cariboo district— Cattle trail from Bazaiko to Anahim has been com- pleted— _ A record for the Cariboo and possibly the whole of British Columbia, was set at the Edmunds ranch when a Yorshire sow gave birth to 21 purebred pigs— A pretty wedding of two popular Cariboo as they get behind a P to have a school ror their children by September — Benny Abbott left for the coast on a scheme to provide the area with race horses— Two cougars were killed by Cliff Eagle, owner of Timothy Lake Lodge—