Williams Take Tribune —- - NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO Volume 20 — Number 2. WILLIAMS LAKE. B ay, January 10, 1952. Single copy 10c, $2.50 per year. THE WEATHER Min. Max, Friday, Jan. 4 | 1 Saturday 30 Monday +8 Tuesday . 22 Wednesday 35 Low for the week, PGE reading, morning of Jannary 10, —3°. Use of Psychology In Serving Indians, Works at Alexis With the application of a littte psy- chology, Sam Barrowman of Alexis Creek reports he has experienc:-d no trouble with the Indians now patron- izing his small beer parlour; Sam's novel way of beating the problem before it becomes one simply consists of closing his premises down completely if a fight starts among the Indians, or one of them refuses to leave when requested. Only twice since the privilege was eranted to the Indians has the genial hotelman had to impose his resula- tion. The first night the residents of nearby Alexis Creek reserve tuok ad- vantage of their new won privileges and the parlour was crowded. About 8:45 a couple of patrons started shoving each other around, aad be fore another glass cou!d be ordered in the room the bar was closed for the night. As‘a result of this method of pun- ishing everybody for the errors of one, the Indians have taken to polic- ing their own number with outstand- ing results. Christmas eye it happen- ed again, and again the parlour was closed — but it apears that the two warnings have been enough. Of course, as Sam says, it helps tremendously te have th port of Constable Boh Turnus Beare) junior Canadian titles. 3 Boulthee Turns Down Job Of School Board Chairman District 27 School Board is proposed at Friday's meeting. wait until his return to see if h Plans for the new elementary school addition and the dormitory in ms Lal 4 Board and have heen fi Victoria 12 Tne appuovad ofen= supe paasie See tee areeech reo Sue: only. has tp appear at thi noon ip tave es T the next couple. of hours. = 5 rowman is more than pleased with the results of the new law and gives all credit to the Indians themselves for behaving in a fine! manner. WEEK'S BEST NEWS| WAS THE WEATHER The best news of the week for Wil- liars Lake residents was the wea- ther. Friday night the _thermcmeter started to rise and hy Saturday morn- ing we were well into a mild spell that lasted until today. High for the week was registered yesterday at the airport with an of ficial reading of 35° above. Towns- people on the street had discarded heavy winter overcoats during the daytime for lighter garb. The extreme mild spell came to an end early this morning with the tem- perature dropping to a low of 4° be- low, according to the PGE reading. May Call For Tenders Soon On Federal Bldg. 1 Tenders for the Federal Building in Williams Lake may be called apout the first of May this year, ac- cording to information received by E. D. Fulton, M-P.. trom the Minis- ter of Public Works | In his letter the minister states “TI would advise that sketch plaas for this building were forwarded to the varfous departinents, and these have | been returned: with certain revisions | Fequested. The plans have heen al | s will | nd it) The letter was-in answer to an enquiry by Mr. Pulton on the gues. tion of the proposed Federa} Build. ing. = Last fall the government acquire, property on Second Avenue ang Bor=| land for this purpose ang buildings - on the lots were taken down. £100 FINE FOR F‘TLIN TO FILE TAX RETURN this, the architects will be instructea to call for tenders. Not-so: easy though was the con: | sideration of the major addition to. the Forest Grove school. Trustees | were informed by the architects that | their rough estimate was 319,600, and only $10,000 has been allowed in the by-law. Chief reason for the high cost is the extensive plumbing heating fo: the one-room addition. The plans Ned for provision for lavatory ta- rilities to serve the four other cl; rooms as well, and a heating system large enough to handle three rnoms, The plans have been returned to the architects with instructions to try and get the cost closer to the by-law provision. LEADERS COURSE June rather than the month of Maren as previously decided by the Area Representatives. z Only reason for the cons:dered change is the condition of district roads in March. By holding it in June, | Mr. Maltman felt the instructors on the area track and ficld clinics tha* will be held in April or May, would be able to contact more prospective leaders in the rural communities who | misht be interested in the leaders’ course. The matter will be referred to the Area Representatives at their meeting on February 9 ROE LAKE CLOSED Closure of the Roe Lake Superior | School has been announced wy the Board. Resignation of the school teacher, Arthur F. Smith, was aceep-| ted, and it was pointea ont that the | Grade seven and nine attendance had dropped to the point where tie De. partment of Education wonld no allow the additional grant for a high school teacher. may attend the Bridge Lake school for study, but will not pupils wil] go to Bridge Lake. The tender of Lake Hardware ani to $74.80 for the installation of a hot water tank | in the old school in town Was accept- ed by thé board. Failure to file bis income tax re- urn for the year 1948 brought a fine f $100 and costs to a local man who appeared in court here Monday, JUNIORS TRAIN FOR OLYMPICS was put forward, but due to his absence the oe 2: f Eo A vyleacher in town, has resignea trom Vf mrs gat and ner lace wit oe «kg RUESTERS TQ PUSH jar league |Hoop Play For Open Weekends Now that word has been zeleased on the hockey schedule, local.basket- ball officials are free to set dates for play in this sport. According to Manager Tony of January 26 when Prince George | will travel to the ‘lake. The Elks are somewhat perturbed about their latest venture into the tealm of sport, as the basketball club 's down now about $125 in actual cash, not counting the Outiay the and wipe out the deficit. the basket- ball club may sponsor a dance fol- lowing the first game on the 26th. Students May Build Office Addition Students taking the new Indus- 4 trial Arts course in the town school may be tackling a major project in Practical building in the spring. School Trustees have instructed L. E. Cantell, industrial arts teacher, to draw up plans and submit esti- mates for consrucion of a two-room addition to-the present schoo: board | office. If the project is -taken on, the Board will gain much needed office space at a considerable saying, and the students will gain a wealth of practical building experience. Mr. Cantell will be in charge of corstruc- tion and Board maintenance man Central Press Canadian half away, Canada’s » Elizabeth and Bar- Sheldon Galbraith, ‘oronto. They have both won 4 without the service of a chair- | man to start the new year. After a five-year term in the post, {Nell Friesen will assist when We can Trustee Gardner Boultbee refused to stand when his name was Trustee Herl Gardner’s name The plans will provide tor a new Board decided £0) boara room and private office, leav- © Would accept the position: (2 ins present board room for stai- Soke we Posie {age space. eee y Mackenzie Heads Board Of Commissioners Alastair Mackenzie was elected chairman of the Village Commissioners at the first meeting of the year Aleuda, night. He replaces Commissioner John Anderson,, who served Woodland, the first exhibition hoop as chairman for five years and turned down a nominatior game here will be on the weekend ae After thanking his fellow com- | missioners, Mr. Mackenzie said he hoped to see a definite progrum of work carried out in the coming year | with several projects given top pri- ority. Chairman Mackenzie stated he r he board to start working lodge has made for uniforms. To try| W22ted the b banquet Vice-Pres’ Curlers Will Treat Opposition When the curling Club’s annual time rolls around this Ch Diane for 2 Sewersxeyeyaten: tor) ring, it wil be the MieMbeea Ge Ge the village which was going to be! an absolute necessity in the near future. Drawing up a town zoning by- law to implement the recommenda- tions of the town planning committee was also placed on the chaivman’s list of ‘musts.’ Extension of the town limits to take in the Stampede grounds sud up as far as the new highway should ‘also be considered he stated. “We must have some way of controlling building along the highway to step shacks from springing up.’ “Neither of these moves should be interpreted as meaning we want to be hard on people with limited ’ he asserted, but there should be definite zones allocated for dwel- lings of this nature.” Beautification of the town should also receive attention, Mr. Macken- zie pointed out, and dealt specifically with the small triangular shaped Piece of ground below the hospital. Although he admitted finances might uot permit any large-scale iraprove- ments in one year, the chairman stat- ed that was no reason the village should not start working on this smal] park in a limited way. ch ei i Anc®rsen as chairman STAFF CHANGES x Miss Iqan Rickardsony grade. on™ yy Mrs. 0. Kerley. Appointment of Miss Mabel Me~ Spadden as. school board stenograph- er was approved. A resident uf Van- couver and Victoria for the past 12] years, Miss McSpadden formerly livea | here and at Likely. ALE OF BY-LAW BONDS LOCALLY Trustees of Distrist 27 will renew their canvass of the district this ™sonth in an attempt to sell $112,000 worth of bonds to finance the scnoo: building program. Pledges amounting to $18,060 have been received by the board fu!!owing the announcement thet the bonds would be sold locally, Trustees will accept pledges for the sale which will take place March 31st. The sale however is conditional upon enough pledged being received to handie the entire issue. Permission for the local private sales was only granted by the Department of Education on tais un- derstanding. If by the first of March it is ap- parent that enough pledges wili not be forthcoming, the Board will cancel the sale and call for tenders on the issue from bond houses. In opening the canvass, Board Chairman Gardner Boultbee said the sale of bonds locally had more than the benefits of a good investment be- hind the venture. He pointed wut that if the issue could be disposed of here, the interest money would come back to the district through the investors. This would mean, in effect, that the ‘ax money to pay the bond ixterest would not leave the district, Smallest denomination the bonds will be offered in are $500 ones. They bear interest at 43% percent, One to ten year bonds will be of. fered at 981% cents on the dollar and 10 to 20 year bonds will be offered at 97% cents on the dollar, Those interested may contact the Secretary of the board or any of the trustees. LOOP SCHEDULE SET FOR CENTRAL B.C. HOCKEY A seven-week schedule for the four teams in the Central B.C, Hockey League, followed by semi-fin downs for the four clubs and out of five game final was drawn up by league representatives at a mect- ing in Quesne) Sunday, In the semi-finals, the league Jead- ing club will play the third place one and the second will play the fourth. Playdowns will be two out of three series. The representatives also agreed to the 60-40 gate split, with the home club taking the 60 percent. Only ex- ception to this is where the zames are played at Prince. In this case the split is made after $100 has been set aside for the home club. Reason for this is that Prince has to pay a §75 rental for the arena there. In the other opening league zames last weekend, Quesnel dropped an 11-3 decision to the Lumbermen at Prince hut managed to hold thé nor- thern club to a 7-7 tie on the!r own ice on Sunday. There will be no league gaye here end, the local Stamneders travelling to Prince. Following is the schedule of regu- fixtures for the season. emi-final and final game dates will be announced at the close uf the regular season, STAMPS TAKE CLINTON |IN LAST PERIOD RALLY A five-goa) scoring spree in the fin al period put the Stampeders on the long end of « 9-5 victory over Clin- when the locals play- January 12 and 13 Quesnel at Vanderhoot Wms. Lake at Prince George January 19 ana 20 Prince George at Wms. { Vanderhoof at Quesnel January 26 ana Wms. Lake at Vanderhoot ed an exhibition game at the souta- January 30: (Wed.) selects The Stamps were trailing 5-4 go- Prince Geor at Quesnel ing into the third when they sudéenty farted el: king on their ollensive plays. This Sunday the Clinton juveniles | win come to Williams Lake tu take Quesnel at Prince George on their counteraprts here and loca: bruary 9 and 10 club officials are tryi, to arrange Wms. Lake at Quesnel ® game between the Mission and Prines George at Vanderhoot | lake Poewecs as an opening wilt, , *ebruary 2 and3 Vanderhoof at Prince George Quesnel at Wms, Lake February 6 (Wed.) of streets; Commissioner Borkowski charge of the beach, cemetery, Ks and school. patrol; Commis- sioner Johnson in charge of side. walks and Commissioner Joad in charge of the water system. Mr Mac- kenzie retains the airport and adds finance to his duties, Referring to the problem of a sew- erage system, the commissioners agreed work on the plans should ve| started immediately. The clerk was instructed to write the Department of Health to see if any provincial governmeht assistance might be se- cured from an engineering point of view. | In the absence’ of two of the three man town planning committee. the commissioners decided to wait until Herb Gardner erturned in two weeks time before going into the recom- mendations. New Commissioners Want to Know Who Replaces C.H. Poston The resignation of former commis- sioner C. H. Poston several months ago is raising a thorny guestion these days: Who's replacing him? It make a difference trom the point of view of the three newly elected commissioners—because the one who is filling out Mr. Poston’s term wiil Serve one year and the others will serve two. Once the changeover from a three- man to a five-man board of commis- Sioners was completed, the following year two men were to be elected and , the next year three men. That is the | pattern—pbut each time a candidate is elected he serves two years, and there is no provision made zor fill- ing out an uncompleted term. The act states that in the case of |@ resignation, the remaining »ommis. sioners shall within 15 days, appoint ‘a replacement. In the case of Mr.| Poston, however, his resignation came so close to election day, the Post was left vacant and three canai- dates ran instead of two that would have in the normal course of events Now the Problem of who was run- ‘ning for the seat vacated by Mr. Pos- ton has arisen, and after repeated ref- erences to an act that contains many amendments the village copy | has become dog-eared from turning pages back and forth, the commis. sioners decided to present their prob- lem to B. C. Bracewell, Deputy Min- ister of Municipalities. Vice-president’s team that will be treating the President’s stalwarts, as a result of the draws just completed in the annual President vs Vice-presi- dent ‘speil. Worked out on a total poi the 12 president rinks racked up 97 points against 65. The presidert rinks also won on a total game basis, taking 12-game draw 7. Here are the results of the draws: (first named rinks are president's) Scott 5—Berglund 8; Holland 16— Beaman 3; Rife §—Stevenson Hosey 11—R. Norquay 6; Walsh 9 —D. Rottacker 8; Hellyer 11-—Pet- ersen 3; Bishop 10—Kerley 9; Haw- ker 8—Margetts (150 Mile) Woodland 16—Smedley 5; 3—Cariboo Fir 10. BEEF MARKET An active market on good demand sales were reported by the B.C. Live- stock Producers’ Co-op at the as- sociation’s auction Monday in Van- couver when 150 head of cattle were offered. Prices were: Good steers $32 to $34, common to medium $27 to $31.50; stockers and feeders $25 to $29: god heifers $29 to $30; common