“tunately there were ‘two cars Williams NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO Lake Tribune Gee ae a Volume 19 --- Number 36 WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, September 13, 1951 Single copy 10c, $2.50 per year. OF THIS AND THAT; Still _beseiged with minor mechani- cal troubles, Your Tribune is again ae Fortunately, from a production point of view anyway, we were only faced with an eight-page effort this week. If an extra two pages had been required. we would have probably been publishing a week-end supple ment. While waiting around down at the 100 Mile Tuesday to get the cattle shipment story that appears on this page, it occurred to me that serving a wide-spread area had its disadvan- tage too. In our more solidly settled areas of the province if a newspaper man travelled 60 miles to cover a story he would probably be sitting outside the door of a neighboring editor. Everyone must be haying in the country. Of our capable and fairly numer- ous staff of 18 rural cor late _— and rifles, caped after a running gun dren are shown with the gun wounded one of the rustlers, RUSTLERS, VIGILANTES IN GUN" FIGHT : — Pioneers had nothing on the present-day residents of Uxbridge, Ont. when rustlers invaded: the farm of tie The rustlers were met by stmed vigilantes and police wine which Mr. —Central Press Canadian lanley family armed with shot- Mrs. Jack Manley and her chil- Manley believes he only about four of them managed to get copy in this week. But it doesn't often happen. Week-in and week-out our rura] writers do an amazing job considering the few people there are in their individual districts, Speaking of correspondents, one district we always have trouble cov- ering is Lac La Hache. If there is anyone among our readers at that point who would be interested in gathering news, we would appreciate hearing from him or her. Local nimrods will be out in the chilly dawn Saturday disturbing their sound-sleeping wives, the neigh- ors, the farmers and the ducks in ‘that order. Main topic of conversation among ihe hunters this year isn't the loca- tion of the downy amphibians — it's the cost of converting them into Sun- day dinners. Like feyerything else. tie cost of shells continues to go up —— and up. And speaking of hunting, James Hatter, Chief Game Biologist, has issued an appeal to henters who kill banded ducks to return the bands to Jocal Game Warden Leo Jobin. «Coming back from the road indig- nation meeting in Quesnel in the wee small hours of the morning, Bert Lloyd’s limousine ran out of gas. For- in the caravan still behind us and we were able to obtain enough gas to see us home. While we were debating the yarious methods of transferring sev- era] quarts of the precious fluid from one tank to another, it occurred to someone that the situation had its unusual side inasmuch as there were three filling station owners and an oil company agent in the group. The highway was probably getting back at us for the rude remarks made about its condition when it handed us a flat tire too. To the good people of Forest Grove who are probably still wondering what happened to their Stampede re- sults, here is the story. As we weren't attending the show, we arranged to have the results mail- ed in. However, better than that, an cfficial of your association came to town with the data last Wednesday and told a staff member on the street that he would be up that afternoon to give them to us .. . we haven't seen him since. —Clive Stangoe. Named To Federal Liberal Executive Of interest to the Cariboo was the election of George Renner as vice president of the Kamloops Federal Libera! Association at the convention held in Kamloops last Monday. T. J. O'Neill, Liberal candidate at the last Federal election who ha represented Kamloops constituency for two terms at Ottawa, was elected president. The Federal constituency takes in the provinéial districts of Lillooet, Revelstoke, Salmon Arm, Yale and South Cariboo. J. Carr was elected secretary and Bob Carson treasurer. FIRES UNDER CONTROL The forest fire situation in Williams Lake district’ continues “under con- trol” according to Ranger Ken Peter- sen. About 27 men are sti] located in the Quesnel Lake area on patroj duty. Large Truck Shipment Makes History At 100-Mile Cattle history was made at the 100 Mike. Tuesday when 225 head of steers, comprising the largest simgle truck ship- ment ever handled in the Cariboo and possibly the province, left for Ellensburg, Washington, consigned to buyer R. BE. Neal. To handle the big ment, cight huge truck-trailer and semi-trailer irucks from scattered towns in Wash- ington State were mibled. The trucks arrived in the morning and for the better part of the day Were parked under the trees behind the 100 Mile Ranch yards, looking like a war-time army vehicle park By one o’ciock empl es of Gapibool Cattiomen’ 's, Association: were. busy ouiiat the yards at Exeter tion as the main bunch of cattle; 200 feeder steers from the Circle S$ Cattle Company Ltd, at Dog Creek, came to the end of their trail drive. The steers were driven into the yards and weighed, and then moved down the road to the 160 Mile yards for truck loading. Once the cattle were safely in the yards the big diesels snorted into Nife and moved up to the loading chutes. Depending on their size and construction, some of the vehicles were loaded from the side and some from rear gates. First truck in line was a spanking new Dodge truck-trailer by Wes Marshall of Omak, Wash. Largest outfit there, the truck and handled 34 head. for his work with early Stampedes here, recently flew down to Detroit and brought this truck back. It was its second run. When the last truck was loaded, the units moved out on the highway and formed up for their convoy run. Some idea of the amount of room ‘hey take up on the roed can be real- ized by the length of the lead truck and trailer, which stretched along the highway for 64 fcet. The convoy left about 5:30 and the drivers expected to be at the border hy around eight the next morning. There the cattle are. unloaded and rested. Because of lack of yard fa- cilities, the trucks would split up, with some of them stopping at Omak and the others at Oroville. Thursday ‘| morning the last 300-mile run would be made to the feed lots. Although the shipment was an un- usual one hefe in point of size, it appears tc be the forerunner of simi- lar ones as improved roads brin; the livestock trucking business in here much in the same manner it was built up in the States. Mr. Neal stated that the business of hauling livestock across the line started some 18 years ago and tool about ten years to reach the estab- d position it holds today. Now practically all inter-State hauling is done by truck he said. Recently a shipment of 370 head of cattle, was moved out of Loomis, Wash. by 14 trucks on a 300-mile ference of road over rail st ‘5 strictiy a matter of dollars Neal ments w and cents, ing in shrinkage, and at the price of beef, pounds soon run into rea} money. He cited the case of a recent ship- that took ten days to ment by ¥ + mond, Wis? Ann get to its destination in Washington. a trip that could be made in two days by truck. Balance of the large shipment of 225 head came from the Lone Butte ranch of Dick Furrer. 2 The large Circle © herd started from the homer ranch September 4th under trail boss Ken Gardner. Riders were Tawrence Brij, Tommy: De: Norton and Mrs. Jud Whittall, Miss Barbara Spencer, head of the large ranching firm, also worked the drive. In charge of the 100 Mile yards was ranch foreman: Bob Streigler. Establish Weather Station At Redstone Establishment of another Depart- ment of Transport fas wate | Station in the district was made this week, according to Meteorological In- spector E. D. M. {Williams of Van- couver. The station is at Redstone and will be operated: by Miss Christina Stuart. This brings to four the number of these small stations in the area, where observations are made twice @aily of maximum and minimum temperatures, rainfall and snowfall. Other stations are at 159 Mile, Big Creek and Tatlayoka. At Big Creek, where Richard Church is now in charge, climate re- cords date back over 50 years. Twenty years of data have been accumulated at Tatlayoka Lake where Ken Moore is in charge. Instruments at the 160 Mile are looked after by Mrs. A. G. Bowie. At Kleena Kleene a larger station is operated with additiona) instru- ments to provide information for use in daily: forecasts. The reports are wired to Prince George and then relayed over the Department radio. These small rural stations add their records to those of a network of simi- Jar points throughout the country and the department finds the informa- tion of extreme temperatures and total precipitation is used extensively by industry in the planning of new developments. The big aluminum project made extensive use of these records in planning roads, dams and power de- velopment in the Nechako Valley. Sometimes operating the stations on a voluntary basis and sometimes for a few dollars a month, the rural part-time weather recorder adds his or her bit to supplying this vital in- formation by caring for the instru- ments and making twice daily obser- vations. THE WEATHER Spencer. Mrs. “Robey ¢; jBLOOD CLINIC Max. Min Thursday, Sept. 6 ... 83 48 Friday. eee vee 7 59 Saturday ocecccce 13 57 Monday . a8 Tuesday 58 44 2 5 Wednesday \ds in Alberta, .the Mounted Police schoo] at Regina, Road Tenders As though in answer to last “night's protest meeting at Ques- nel on the Cariboo ,Highway word was received this morning "that tenders have been called for the construction of 9.92 miles of highway from Lac La Hache to the 126 Mile. Tenders close at the Minister ‘of Public Works’ office in Vic- toria September 25. PLANS COMPLETED FOR FEDERAL BLDG. Sketch plans of the new proposed Federal’ Building for Williams Lake have been received by Postmaster @eée Rhodes, and it is believed con struction on the building will be started next spring. The conercte building will extend about 128 feet along Borland Street and has a frontage of 60 fect on Second Avenue. The main structure facing Borland will be two-storeys and will contain the telephone -and telegraph offices on the main floor as well as RCMP offices and the general office of the Department of Indian Affairs. On the Second floor are RCMP apartments and cell blocks.. Apartments include five bedrooms, kitchen and living roo%n. ~The Post Office wiJl be housed in the one-storey part of the building facing Second Avenue and will con- tain 2760 square feet of floor space, compared to 920 feet in the present building. The Post Office will have a night lobby and five wickets to serve the public. Five hundred post office boxes will be available for rent. Behind the Post Office section ot the building lies a postmaster's office, lunch room for post office employees, and then the main working area for ie —fes Nin include the itindian Agent's, Department Doctor, nurses Foom, and medical examining room. Measurements of the section of the building facing Borland are 32x76’. Those of the section facing Second are 60’x96’. Also included in the plans is a ground working area beside the Post Office building and separate structure to handle loading and un- loading of mail bags. RECEIVES 130 PINTS Nurses in charge of the Red Cross blood donor clinic here yesterday ex- Pressed themselves as “pleased” with the turnout of 133 persons to the afternoon and evening clinics. The blood bank received 190 pints, three prospective donors being turned down for medical reasons. Several people who turned up at the clinic were old hands at the game. R. J. “Bob” Moore donated his 13th vint. Sid Pigeon has given 11 pints, Martin Phillips 9. and Bob Kyte 6. ‘Inose who had given blood a third lime were given a bronze Red Cross button, six-time donors received sil- ver buttons and those over the 10- pint mark for the first time received their gold button. The travelling clinie completed its tour of Prince George, Quesnel and Williams Lake with its stop over here and the staff left the following day for Vancouver. It is expected that clinics in the three centres will now become an annual visit. Expect Dance Proceeds Will Handle Deficit Stampede Association officials are enthusiastic about their chances of wiping out the outstanding deficit with their Benefit Dance which will be staged September 21 in the Elks all. To add the proper note to the affair, Association President Ben Richards suggests ‘that those attending wear western garb. But he’s not too insist- ent — just as long as everybody in town turns out for a night’s enjoy- ment to donate their dollar the pleas-| ant way, then anyone connected with the Stampede Association will be happy. | Constable Eldon Terry has been posted to the local detachment of the RCMP. Constable Terry, whose home is a recent graduate of Trade Groups Ask Immediate Action On Highway Work An immediate start on nothing less than a first class gravel highway between Lac La Hache and Prince George,” was the demand made by representatives of the Boards of Trade of Williams Lake, Prince George and Quesnel and the Junior Chamber of Commerce of the first two centres when they held a heated meeting at Quesnel last night on the con- dition of the Cariboo Highway. In addressing the meeting on the reason for sparking the movement, local board: president Bob Blair said {he government had promised at the time the new road-bed was construc- led to Lac La Hache that it would be zompleted to Williams Lake by 1151. “On May 29th at Williams Lake, we heard Mr. Carson promise that this work would be started not later than Juné 30th,” Mr. Blair said, “and to date nothing has been done. It is time we started something.” Lew Griffith. Quesnel Board: presi- dent. said that in the ldst week he had counted 14 new large truck-trailer units coming through Quesnel, indi- cative of the continued growth of heavy commercial traffic on the high- way. 3 gL “More and more families are com- ing in as the north continues to grow,’ he stated, “and this continued influx will mean increased business for every centre.” “We are suffering from the apathy of the people in Victoria as far as this highway question is concerned”, he asserted. From Prince George two sugges- tions were brought forward with re- gard to the method that should be adopted by the government in carrying WRESTLING CARD LINED UP FOR CATTLE SALE year's unofficial ‘Cattle Sale program will include two nights of wrestling, according to our own colo. ful Billy Kohnke, who besides arrang- ing the show ‘will also be une of the r ettractions inside the riag. Billy will be beinging up three top wrestlers from among of those who will be working the coast cireuit around that time — identity as yet unknown. The four-man matches will include two straight ones the first night and a popular team match the second. Local fans will be rooting for Kohnke, wrestler-mill operator, who has been in the game since he started in junior ranks on the coast back in 1930. After taking the Pacific Coast Junior title, Billy turned professional, and spent the next few years travelling all over the States and Europe. A tricky, fast mat artist. Kohnke has always been a crowd-pleaser. One of Kohnke'’s feats that isn’t generally known, and was far removed from the wrestling ring, was his near- successful attempt to swim the Eng- lish Channel in 1938. Starting from France, Billy only four miles off Dover when he| was taken out of the water 11 hours, and 45 minutes after starting out. He was all ready to take on the 2hannel again the following year, but the war forced cancellation of sucli peacetime activities. was | was accepted by the meeting. Se ee out the reconstruction job. Stating that at the present rate of Progress it would take 20 years for the new highway to reach Pvince George, Nester Izowsky suggested that the work be started at three points at least: from Prince George south, from Quesnel north ond‘south and from Williams Lake in both di- rections. Wm. Ferry said he believed there was too much stress placed on paving, and cited the Alaska Highway as a good example of a well-built and maintained gravel highway that was standing up to the heaviest traffic. Dr. A. H. Bayne said he believed the Minister of Public Works meant what he said when he promised action on the road from Lac La Hache. “I he- lieve there is a block higher up and we are justified in knowing what it is and -why,” Dr. Bayne stated, The suggestion came from several quarters that the government should be warned in no.uncertain terms that unless some action was forthcoming immediately on the Cariboo Highway they be informed that two seats would be Jost in the north. The meeting finally decided to send a three-man delegation representing each centre, armed with the resolution in regard to immediate start on re- construction — and to also demand that maintenance on the present road be carried out at the same time. It was local board director Jack Dobie’s motion on the construction of at least d standard gravel road that! iso “adopted @ Wiliar Lake suggestion regarding preparing of form letters that would be used to flood Victoria with. The letters will have a space for comments and will be handed to tourists and commercial users of the road to complete and send to the government. About 50 delegates attended the special meeting. Twenty-two made the trip from Williams Lake and 12 from Prince George. Two New Trophies For Cattle Sale Two new trophies for junior beef growers’ competition are being offered for the first time at this year’s annual Cattle Sale. The Gordon Fox Trophy has been put up for the best calf shown by a non-club_ member. Mr. Fox, former Bank of Commerce manager here, and now manager of the bank's Cal- gary branch, is an honoragy director of the Cattlemen's Association. The D. M. MacKay Challenge Cup is offered for competition and will go to the “best calf shown by an Indian boy or girl from the Williams Lake Agency.” Long associated with Williams Lake and the Cariboo, Major MacKay is now Director of Indian Affairs at Ottawa. RESTORED FERTILITY In the wake of floods that swept lands in Kansas, recently, farmers w storing their fields to fertility. This Brune prothers, Lake View, di it brought to the surface the si by. the floodw. ters, Kan.. farmers. TO KANSAS FIELDS —Centra) Press Canaaiap many square miles of fertile farm ere faced with the problem of re- huge plow solved the problem oa Turning up furrows 40 J that was buried under