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THE TRIBUNE

Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C,
By The Tribune Publishing Co.
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M : Canadi: Weekly Association
British Columbia Division, C.W.N.A.
Clive Stangoe, Editor

Established 1931

Authorized as Second Class Mail py the Post Office Department, Ottawa

Remember The Gloucesters

Last week we read a letter from a soldier in Korea that

Was published in the Comox District F'ree Press. The letter was
from Sgt G. V. Perrin. Perrin was one of the few survivors o1

the

Gloucester Regiment that withstood a bloody attack by

Chinese Communists. It was written to his mother.

Reading these lines gave us a mental] jolt and we reprint

them below with the thought that you may be affected in the
same way.

Here in Canada we are treating the war in Korea with

indifference, mainly because the number of Canadians fighting
and dying in that far-off land is relatively small and therefore

THE YAL!

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Thursday, February 3, 1689,

“MISDIRECTED

While browsing around recently
doing a bit of shopping in a loca:
store we overheard a tongue-lashine
being administered to a young store
clerk by a purchaser who was com-
plaining about the high cost of liy-
ing. The clerk answered in the only
way she knew, and the only logical
conclusion, by saying: “I can’t help
tte

It was an example of the strain
under which we are living these days,
and while it might have served for
the purchaser to get a few things
off her chest, providing relief from
the strain of nervous tension, never-
the-less it was no relief to the store
clerk. It was, in turn, a nerve wrack-
img experience for her to be on the
receiving cnd of a tongue lashing
which she was not responsible for.

The high cost ‘of living goes be-
yond the control of the retail store
cler and beyond the_retailer him-
self. Every item you find on tne

From Another Viewpoint

Gn the Langley Advance)

COMPLAINTS”

ered pressure from strong organiza~
tions
benefits for less and less production
is one of the contributing causes of
the high costs of living; and so long
as the great masses of consumers sit
back and do nothing to show their
objection, other than using abusive
language to the girl who wraps up
the parcel, the cost of living will go
higher yet. : :

Federal and provincial govern-
ments have adopted a method of
compelling small business establish-
ments to act as honorary tax col-
lectors for many different goyern-
ment departments, many which are
costly and overlapping. {1 consum-
ers would take the trouble to find
out how much they are paying in
hidden taxes on eyery item they pur-
chase they would really have cause
|for amazement. ,

In addition to the high cost of
government administration, and the

demanding more and mere.

does not concern many of us directly. But the fact remain
that the few are fighting and some of their number are dying,
and their numbers would increase into the thousands if smoul-
dering Korea touches off the tinder the Communists are plant-
ing throughout the world.

It is generally accepted that Korea is an opening skirmish
in the plans of Communists to dominate the rest of the globe.
Even Russian spokesmen are now saying the Third World
War is an actual fact.

- There isn’t a great deal the average Canadian at home
ean do to actively support the Korean campaign of course. We
are limited in that manner to the extent to which our govern-
nfent commits us. But when Ottawa digs a little more deeply
into our pockets to pay for Canada’s share in the Korean fight,

_ or the fight against Communism anywhere, it might help tc
- remember the Gloucesters.

Sst. Perrin write:

“My regiment arrived back in England today. Decembei
20th. and other than a parade through London there will not
be any parades or receptions until the POW men get a chance
to come back. I am coming straight back to Canada.

“There are only 15 of the 44 who survived that spring of-
fensive in April, to return home. As you know, they kept
sending us back into the line, until only 15 of the original
remained at the time of departure for home. You remember I
told you, if they kept it up, a rowboat would be large enough
to take us home.

“Nevertheless, I guess we are lucky at that Particularly
me, for while many of the men were stricken with malaria
dysentry and Sungo fever I have been bothered with only a
bad dose of catarrh, Many have been seriously wounded and
some shell-shocked. Here again, I have been marvelously kept.
Thanks to my Creator. =

“Yet I canont leave this camp without a lump in my throat
forthe many brave men who lie under the little white crosses

in Death Valley, where so many of My own regiment fell.

“They have erected a niemorial to the Glouceéters in
Death Valley and the padre from the division came to see me
today and asked me if I would do the unveiling. He also men
tioned the battle flag (which was given to me by my major, tc
be passed on to my sons) which he knows I have and hinted
that it would be a ideal place for it to fly over the men who
fell there.

“T stalled him off, and will let him know tomorrow, if I
will let him have the flag. 1am most reluctant to part with it,
but on the other hand, I wonder in my own mind if the men
who are under those white crosses in the valley haven’t more
claim to it than-I? They died under it.

“They were going to fly the Union Jack over them, bur
as the padre says, ‘Our own battle flag would be more fitting.’

“Whether I dedicate the flag or not, he still wants me to
do the unveiling. If I do, I will be in he news reels once again.
Let’s hope that this time you might get a chance to see me.

“Will let you know what I decide. I imagine I wil! dedicate
the flag, because if I didn’t, every time that I looked at it I
would think that I had been holding out on my buddies and
that it should be waving over the actual battlefield, and my
men. There as a tribute for all to see, for years io come.

“From regimental headquarters in England they are
sending me a life membership in the regiment; also a book on
the history of the regiment, called ‘Leap of Honour.’ 7

“These will indeed be treasured by me, asI deem ita great
honour to belong to such a regiment.

“The tell me I am the only Canadian to have fought with
the Gloucesters. .

“Well Mom, this is New Year’s Eve and I havé been nn |

shelves of retai Istores are subjected
to numerous “hidden taxes,” to say
nothing of increased costs of prepar-
ation and transportation. High pow-

From the Files of the Tribune :

ONE YEAR AGO
February $, 1951

A plea for a different approach to
community problems by local busi-
aessmen was made by incoming
president R, M. Blair when he spoke
at the annual Board of Trade ban-
juet which was attended by a hun-
dred members and guests.
McKelvie,
staff writer and noted historian, also
spoke at the banquet— Pos: bility
of a second planer mill for Williams
Lake was seen in the incorporatioa
im Victoria of the Williams Lake
Planer Mills Ltd— Local Elks
were hosts of George Roberts ot
Kamloops, Grand Bxalted Ruler of
Canada, when he attended their
cent installation ceremonies here.
fwo hundred members of the local
.odge, ‘their guests and visitors fron:
Prince George and Quesnel witness-
ed the installation— The results of
<ood coaching were again apparent
at the Arena when nine smart Play-
ers from Kamloops showed their
wares and incidentally took both ot
their exhibition \games from local
stampeders 9-7, 8-6— The first
costume dance to be held her@ in
years will be spoisorea by the &
Home Society— One of the original
members of the Board of Trade and
one of its past presidents. ex-post
master Harold Richardson, was pre-
sented with a purse from the mem-
bership by another of te originals,
Rod. Mackenzie. Also on hand to say}
an officiar you” from the!
Post Office Department was Postal
imsector U. N. Stanley of Vancouver
— A major change in loca) Police
edministration is due with the ar-
rival of Corporal J. C. Gates from
Vernon— Competition for the Iocal
Curling Club championship moves
into the semi-tinals— The _ first
indoor carnival to be staged in Wil-|
Nams Lake will form the entertain-

high cost of monopolized labor mar-
kets, there is another matter of ex-

(Continued on Page -7) of

both Canada and the United States
— Jas Wiggins of Miocene was in
town with five large black timber
wolves which he had killed— Mr.
S. McLean Moffat of Toronto has
closed the deal with Vick Brothers
for their placer mining leases on the
Fraser River near Williams Lake—
Williams Lake and district was
shocked to learn of the finding of
the body of Duncan Muirhead Tay-
lor, age 22, about 1% miles trom
town— Miss Christina Murphy,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Murphy of.
Soda Creek, became the bride of
Mr. B. Penner of Quesnel—

TWENTY YEARS AGO
February 11, 1932

Sugar Cane Braves got the surprise
of the season when they met defeat
ut the hand of Williams Lake to the
tune of 11-3— An attendance of
nearly thirty persons was recorded
st the annual meeting of the Angli-
can Churech— The children’s mas-
querade, held at the @liver Theatre
under auspices of the Anglican W.A.,
had about forty children attending
in costume— Special arrangements
are being made to have a minister!
resent at \the Dld Mgid's Partwise
on February 29th at the Leap iy
abaret dance. Any girl who can/
click with a soul-mate will be pro-|
vided with wedding service and all
the fixings free— Mackenzies ad-
vertise 3 lbs. butter §5é and picnic
hams 16e per Ib. 5

Entire Stock of Fridges to go
Scrapbook Se pee eee ‘ |

Defence Weapon of the Deer

Because the female deer in uearly
seven and nine cubic foot models

all cases have no antlers aud the
male who sheds his in winter and
only seems to use them to protect
his mate from a rival suitor, it is
generally agreed that the deer’s best
defence his skarp front feet
ich are used most effectively in
fighting. A group of famous naturai-
ists once listed the deer as tie most
dangerous of our animals because -he
is undeerstimated by his ‘cute’ ap-
pearance and when jaroused has
caused the death of many a hunter. |

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Cariboo Home Furnishings

Agents for Connor, Mayfair, Norge, Gilson and Climax
Gas and Electric Washing Machines

the Store with the Friendly Door”

24th—

FIVE YEARS aGo

February 6, 1947
The annual meeting of the North
Cariboo Growers’ Co-operative xAs-
sociation was held in the Legion
Hall at Quesnel with president Alvin
Johnson in the chair— The appli-
cation by Paramatta Airways (Mes-
srs Thompson and McArthur) fora
licence to operate a non-schedulea
charter ccemmercial air service |
based at Williams Lake has been |
sranted by the Air Transport Board
— E.H. ‘Ted’ Gibbon, retired station
agent for the PGE, has accepted the
Position as Village Olerk— Last
Friday Williams Lake had a low of
42° below by the weather bureau
slass, but ‘most of the vouched-for
glasses around town were reading
from 48 to 51 below— Cal Wy-
cotte, born and raised in the Chil-
cotin, was found dead on a hay stack
at Moon's pre-emption meadow,
about 38 miles northwest of Riske
Creek— The Cariboo Road at 111
Mile was blocked solid with drifted
snow— Employees of various pro-
incial departments in town and dis-
trict held a meeting for the purpose
of organizing a local branch of the
B.C. Provincial Government Em-
Ployees Association— Abigail Alice
Weismiller, of Lae La Hache, pe-
came the bride of Roy Clarence Dog-
herty of Cache Creek. Loretta John-
son wed Philip Maxwell of Chezacut,
Chileotin. Kathleen Anderson. be.
came the bride of Archibald Mac-

Donald, both of Quesnel—

TEN YEARS aGo

February 9, 1942
“Wartime” instead of Daylight
Saving Time, became effective in

dering how you and dad are doing --- hence this letter. I am not
making any New Year’s resolutions, because I just intend tu
do my best in everything: I cannot really grumble about the
Past year, as I am still aljve and healthy, and hoping to see
happier years in the future.

“The weather here is bitter cold --- thirty below. Life in
these thin tents at such a temperature is not very desirable.
It won't be for much longer Mom. I hope to be back home by
February 15th, or a bit sooner.”

A 20-Mile Limit Necessary

The Village Commissioners are currently endeavouring
to have a 20-Mile speed limit on Oliver Street within the village
boundaries, and it is an endeavour that has our full support.

The average person would probably wonder why the Com-
missioners don’t impose the speed limit on their own, but where
a street is also an arterial highway, jurisdiction in this matter
is under the Department of Public Works and not the munici-
Pality or village concerned, and the provincial statutes in this
regard state that the limit on arterial highways where they
Pass through villages shall be 30 miles per hour.

This might be satisfatory where the street in question
has sufficent width, but for the short distance involved in
the business district of Williams Lake, narrow Oliver Street
with a sharp turn at one end and a ‘dead end’ at the other,
could well do with travel retricted to 20 miles.

Out near the Chilcotin Cabins is another area that coulda
stand a 30 mile limit rather than its present ‘slow’ zone.
There the traffic problem is accentuated by the number of
steep roads leading up from lakeshore homes, Probably when
the new highway is pushed through that area, the new system
will be instituted of a secondary road running parallel to the
highway and leading traffic to a single crossing, but in the
meantime a definite limit might well be considered,

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