—— Se “privilese was S “there have-been 43 up in court on ‘illiams la NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO ke Tribune aKer> Volume 19 — Number 51. WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, December 27, 1951. Single copy 10c, $2.50 per year. Indian Drunk-Charges, Se Increase Since Dec.15 Whether allowing the Indians into’ beer parlours has-been the main con- tributing factor to a larger incidence “of liquor -charges is problematical, but since December 15, tné™day they extended to Indians, intoxication charges according to the “police blotter. Toughest night the constables had 5-5 TIE WITH QUESNEL —————— THE WEATHER | : = Min..: Max. Friday. Dee. 21 + |iLater Than Expected: Saturday Monday - .... sae Wednesday (26) .. -2 5 The holiday hockey bill of fare Thursday _.. —4 fans over the week-end. 2 The billed: season-opener series with Clinton. failed to materialize when the boys trom the south ren- oe) Friday, 8 a.m. reading =12. Lowest temperature for the past week by the PGE thermometer in town was —24°. This was recorded * December 23 and 27. since the 15th was Saturday when 23 Indians. wound up in jail. Christmas eve was verv quiet and only two end- ed up in pokey. Asked for comparative figures, Police. revealed that in December 1950, there had beenn 39 court cases and for the same month this year to date there bad been 65. Not all of these cases concerned Indian or li- quor charges, but since December 1st this year 53 have been in this cate- gory. €onstable E. Terry suffered a bro- ken hand subduing an Indian Sat- urday night. Ea : s EYE-OPENER . .. When the clock strikes midnight on De- eember 31, it’s time to unmask Qnd greet the New Year with eyes wide open, advises actress Jean Gillespie, suiting her ac- ns to the words. In a few days millions of persons will be _pelnting to o'clock.» for little publicity of the game that was played Boxing Day. Those fans who did hear about the Dog Loses Life In Fire After First Saving Lone Occupant Because of a big airdale called disappointed again when the Rive: i town team was an hour Jate in mak- ng an. appearance. ; with the losals. coming: from, behind in ‘the last period to even it up after trailing -by two goals. erie With: the exception of Campbell ‘Barney,’ a Canim Lake resident is alive in Kamloops hospital instead of being burned to death in a fire that totally destroyed a large three-room /cabin Friday on the ‘resort property of Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Bayne of Wil- liams Lake. ee But Barney is dead. And he died in a futile attempt to warn two other people lie undoubted- ly thought were still in the cabin: It happenca like this: While the resort is closed for the winter, Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Barnes, also of Canim Lake, look after the now playing for’ the northern squad. Clinton -is-again slated to be. on phand this weekend, according to local club officials. Game times will be the me = © Saturday night and 2 the large cabin that was destroyed, and with them stays Barney, the ten- belongs to the CALLS DURING WEEK Firemen anewerd two calls during th past week but their services were day for the Christmas holidays, and| not required atone and the second) Norman ‘Scotty’ Edwards took over} was only a sbort-cirewit in a wiring. while they were away. Friday|sfstem that never reached' any pro- night there was just Mr. Edwards| portion. : E eee oy and Barney in the cabin. 5 A small fire that ‘started: ‘Friday About 2 a.m. the fire started in the) night in oné of the dabins owne@ by: building and Mr. Edwards slept on/Mrs..I. L. Jones on Thifd avenue was as the flames’ licked up the walls. extinguished by neighbors before the But Barney was on the job end know-| ire department arrived. The second he clawed at the sleep-| cal] was turned in-lute in the. aitex year old dog that owners. : But the Barnes went away Wednes- ‘Hockey Opener | Proved utterly confusing to. local), eged on their planned trip, and a last | minute bid from Quesnel] left room| game and made their way to thel” arena though they were going to ba|| The game ended in a 5-5 deadlock | and Keene, there are. few familiar] faces on the Quesnel team. Former ; Lac La Hache defenceman Elliott is A lot of colour and excitement was} missing with the absence of Jack|, large lodge and eabins. They stay i=] FIREMEN ANSWER TWO : skaling siars, “brightest.” }An estimated 3000 moose were fa ‘en from the Cariboo this fall, and Some; this aumber was not too ereat, ing fhe danger ) man until he awike: jfwo oF then e ‘ther Barney seems to Have got confused | trom the Maple Leaf Hotel: It proved at this point though, and knowing the| to be Mrs. Moxon's ome next to-the y oursid&, (mb though st tfrst the cali had come Kamloops Takes Easy Barhés used to sleep in’ the other|hotel, where a short in-the-wiring Hoop Win Here It's going to take a lot more prac- tise in shooting at the all-important hoop before ‘the local basketball | inspection and get back to saiety now- | ever, as the flames completely en- Squad puts up any kina of opposition! gulfed the structure. bedroom he apparently thought they] system had scorched: the living room were still there so he made his way | ceiling. back into the cabin to warn them too. |- : He never had a chance to make his, WELI-KNOWN IN CARIBOO Pioneer B.C. Mining Badly burned about the hands, and4 d_ and. the! noon'ot Spun bay and worried fires doorai f 5b Paty ef tiie tse Vpipatrment iu speaking at a meet- ing in KamnJoops last week. ~ @xperience has shown, said Mr. Martin, that for every moose taken out there must-be an average of from S*to 10: in the woods. This gave a tough 50,000 moose on the Cariboo ranges and, said Mr. Martin, the dan- ger of over-grazing and under-nonr- ishment was-greater than that of over-hunting. The hunting crop is Ik spite of the fears expressed by Onc of “Brightest” in Constellation of Skating Stars Cariboo Moose Kill Estimated _ ‘At 3000 By Game Department this continent were at first “mined’ even to the extinction of some ani- mals and birds. In the early 1900's worwere renewal for good touring teams, and that fact! was again demonstrated last night clad only in night attire, Mr. Edwards when six Senior B Kamloops players walked through the snow in the sub- took the boys over the hurdles to zero weather about a mile to the Ros- Man Dies At Coast ‘based, according to his argument, on the annual crop of young and it is better to have a smaller number of vigorous breeding stock than a Jarger speaker, Mr. Martin was asked if it Would be possible to consider phea- (people Fealizedathat: same, ares Wermn pee rises G e"and that a constant Today scien*e and research are being applied towerd achieving that happy balance between not too many and not too few through wise-use of the, natural gaine resources. In a question addressed to the finish out in front of a 91-61 score, jimeau home. From there Bud Ros- By half time the few fans who had jineau drove the injured man to Kam-| Vancouver December 19 for Thomas heard there was a game on and brav-| loops. He suffered frozen feet as ed the elements to watch, were cou-| well as his burns. : vinced the final result was going to be twice as bad as it eventually turned | proximately $3000 was’ a complete out. Aided by some uncanny shooting |} Joss, and a solid defence that the locals weren't able to penetrate, the visitors at the half way mark had racked up a 52-14 lead and had the game an ice The Elks showed their usual spurt though in the third quarter and their game started improving as they he- gan to lose their awe of the visitors’ Play making. Pouring on the -heat as the Kamloops squad hegan to tire. the locals outscored the visitors 28-24 in this period- and 18-10 in the third quarter, Standouts for the Elks were Jack Abbott and Ken Snow, who collected 18 and 15 points apiece: A newcomer to Kamloops, Fowles, who played last season for Victoria Nomral, showed tremendous form, netting 34 points with ‘his almost ef- fortless shooting. Victoria Normal has contributed two players to the Kamloops squad. Centre Foulger was also on the Island team last year. It won't he much consolation to | the Elks, but last night was the first! game of the season for the Kamloops’ club, and of the six members they tangled with. only one played with the team Inst year. The Senior B league the club played with last year has folded because of lack of spec- tator interest and the boys will only, be playing exbibition games this year. | Funeral services were ‘héld in A. Brett, noted -British’ Columbia mining pioneer who passed away at The cabin, which was valued at ap-| JS home in Boundary Bay December 16 at the age of 79. He was the father of Gordon, Brett of Williams Lake. ~The late Mr. Brett was born in Rosemount, Dufferin County,: On- tarlo and came to B.C. in 1891: He prospected for years in the gold fields of the Lillooet mining district’“and was government land assessoj* and gold-eommissioner at Lillooet afdund 1897. During this time he made fre- quent. trips. to Hanceville, over’ Tay: lor Divide, in the course of his duties. He was one of the first prospectors to stop’in the vicinity’ of Anderson These sh hai 3 a re-| bake and was-one of the original anne IL Skinner Gold Claims, formerly ‘tue’ Previous high was August in 1943} Brett Group of claims in 1894. When :J4 ables Were ‘hora at.tue hos. ||. He Tee eetlus inthe Bridge River Pee pe eREneE file, yaar was |S To one Or the Netichal. Gala Mine, FRE ie SPEND UD to ‘date, Decl nos Golden «Contact: Mine. LUG, at ember has topped that record again| vie caniray Palle, Minh AJ Petal forthe: yean tojdate is|” V7 1s en operated independaiivy. 98, alk beteaeNmnan theimreyious hign| Or tye the otghe years feom 1ale peer ot Ue3e to 1926,.when he, was m{ll operator Pirihs for vthe intervening Yeats! «| aiitont ‘oust’ Islalid Mine, ones OE ee eg ete eb “one of the tiShest mines inthe prov’ | 1950,87, and 1951,98. Of the four | ince, i vec wouah of bitte 102 wets boyai” rp Gatined frei’ active. mining’ th and 171 were girls. 1944 and went to live at Boundary Bay, : He leaves to mourn his passing Mr. Herb Gardner and/ ig wife, Lucy; two sons; Gordon, at family have left on a three-weeks’ Williams Leke, and Cecil-of Pentic- vaeation in California. ton; and four grandchildren. 1951 RECORD YEAR FOR BIRTHS HERE The stork was not only busy last Week at War Memorial Hospital, but has been in that state all year, ac- cording to figures produced by Secre- tary W. J. Thomas, | and Mrs. number of animals, weakened by under-nourishment and subsequently diseased. Willow shoots constitute about 80 percent of a moose’s winter food, and there has heen over-grazing 4o-such an extent that there is danger of-losing the willows, and said Mr. Martin, it would take far longer to reestablish the willows that it would to produce 1uew crops of moose. At the game department's check- Point at: Cache Creek, 2217 moose were'tallied this fall. In addition others. were 1aken out by way of Lil- boo,-raising the estimate of the total take to 2000 In addition there were counted at Cache Creek 167 and some. 7000 upland birds, mostly “grouse. The modern concept of game man- ugement,-said Mr. Martin, is to make the land produce a yield for recre tional purposes; that is; a wild species is barbored in its natural en- vironment for the crop. Mr. Martin gave a brief but inter- ing history s1 game laws from the on record. in Deutoronom through to modern times. ‘The Greeks had laws pertaining to game; a Ro- man citizen had the right to zorbie the taking of game on his property: but the first well integrated game. laws-came frora Asia. In Europe hunt- ing d€veloped largely for the nobili y: but in America the pattern of game managemen: was different. Uniortunately, game resou: deer! sants expendible and to have the game department release birds every year. Mr. Martin replied that it was not economically feasible to raise pheasants for shooting, as it costs an average of $2.80 to put a pheasant in the field. In experiments in the lower mainland it was found that never more than 20 percent of the birds released were taken so that the cost was too high. The main idea of re- leasing pheasants would be to pro- vide brecding stock. (Continued on back page) Post Office Xmas Rush Again A Record Continued growth of Williams Lake and district is reflected in the of Postmaster Cece Rhodes, whose office again did a record busi- ness this year in Christmas mail. For the statistically minded, Mr. Rhodes reports that approximately 80,000 cards passed through the of- fice, both coming and going. Sale of stamps amounted to $35,000 in 2- cent stamps and $25,000 in 4's, At the height of the rush, one day s incoming mail contained 110 bags. Cramped us the post office is in its present location, Mr. Rhodes states that 9 similar jump in mail! next year will make it impossible to handle the rush unless a larger building is available. report Competition Closer In Home Christmas Lighting Contest Judges for the Jaycee Christmas lighting found competition closer in the residentia annual contest than commercial classes this: year, a complete reversal of the situation « year ago when the awards wer tered for the first time: The nod was finally given to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kelt after several trips had been made between this home and the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kyte. The unusual lighting effect of th large Ghristmas tree’ in the Kelt front lawn was the deciding ftacto.. Strung with electric light bulbs and fluorescent tubing, the two sysiem \lternately flashed on and off. The roof of the Kyte home was completely encircled by lights and a flood light on the lawn showed up a figure of Santa Claus beside an illuminated tree. Just behind the two top ones were last_year’s prize winners, Mr. and Mrs. Doug Stevenson, and several other homes. atlhough not having the elaborate displays that would put them near the top, had contributed to the town’s decorations by string- ing lights on small outdoor trees, In the commercial class, first prize went to the store of Western, Rife & Pigeon, a runner-up-in last year’s contest. Added to the store’s usual exterior decoration of lights and colored ce- dar boughs were the unusual effecis of the two main.store windows. These windows, which usually dis- Play fruit and vegetables, were com- pletely covered with ‘white cotton batten and on top of this: in each window was a large ‘horn of plenty,’ with fresh fruit spilling out of them. Hes Pigeon was responsible for the decorations, Although there was no class for the display, judges gave a ‘spccin} entian~e= a dere larg@strings of had been used to good effect in cir- cling the roof of the church and in a large Chirstmas tree erected in the church yard. A string of coloured lights. had also been run across the street immediately in front of “the church building. Judges for the contest this year were Mrs. Fred Bass and Benny Abbott. In charge of the lighting contest and the erection of the two trees on the courthouse lawn and at the foot of Oliver was Jaycee Civic Beautifi- cation committee chairman Steve Malesku. Jaycees also assisted Power Commission manager Jack Dobie in stringing lights on the big hospita) tree. Crews of the public works de- partment supplied the smaller trees on Oliver street. See Seorea = Indian Woman Dies Of Exposure Death from exposure and possible Pneumonia was the finding of a cor- oner’s jury enquiring into the death of Miss Eliza Alexis, 41, Sugar Cane Indian whose frozen body was tound on Second Avenue near Rosary hall about 6:30 a.m. Sunday. Discovery of the body was made by Bill Sloan, who summoned police. It was exactly a year ago that the body of another Indian woman, Mrs. Bliza Dick, was found just -off Rai way avenue opposite the power plant. A rumour that a second Indian was badly frozen over the week-end waz without foundation. It is believed to have startei from an incident Friday night when police were called to as- sist a man believed to- be suffering u_stroke, He was rushed to hospital ‘and subsequently recovered. Paula Weir has been spending the Christmas holidays with her parents in town. . ra BS ° ° ° ° .