THR TRIBONE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.O.

Thursday. February 14, 1954,

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A Fair Question

We think the gentlemen from Forest Grove posed a fait
uuestion at the District 27 area representatives meeting
saturday when they asked the trustees why a new two-ruon.
School could be built at 100 Mile with plumbing and an oii
furnace included for around $23,000 when the plans for their
own one-room addition were being curtailed because the
estimated price was now tagged at $19,050.

Of course the Forest Grove addition is more than a one-
room affair. There was to have been a lot of expensive con-
crete work involved to handle a basement that would hold
lavatory facilities for the “existing rooms as well and a Jarge
heating system. But this doesn’t answer another question that
might well have been put to the trustees and that is Why was
their original estimate for this work almost fifty perceni
lower than the one presented to the representatives?

It was originally estimated that this work: including the
plumbing and heating, could be done for $10,000, and this
Sum was put into last year’s by-law. Now the board will have to
compromise by putting up a one-room addition on the other
side of the existing building without a concrete basement.
Anything left over will go towards suppyling some lavatory
facilities.

Jt would appear that the board’s estimate for the by-law
Was prepared by a rather weak rule of thumb, based on the
theory that if you have been building one-room schools for an
average price, you can take this figure and add a bit more on
to cover extra wor involved. Construction estimating is not
that simple.

. One of the end results of this type of error is a loss of
faith with the people of the area concerned. The people of
Forest Grove expected to get an addition where it was agreed
to be placed, and they expected the extra facilities promised.
Unoubtedly, thinking along those lines, Many of these same
people supported the by-law as a whole. Now they are told
their part of the building program will have to be drastically
curtailed because someone had ‘guessed’ at the cost. There
is hardly any other word you can use when there is a margin
of error of $9,000 in a $10,000 estimate.

In this case the board should have obtained expert advice
on the matter of construction costs. For a small job like the
Forest Grove addition such an estimate could have been
secured locally from competent construction men-

Fences Not Necessary?

We agree with commission chairman Alastair Mackenzie
that the recent ruling on the airport problems by transport
minister Lionel Chevrier leaves a lot of room for doubt on the

, honourable gentleman's grasp of the situatiqn. Which is put-
“ting is charitably. y

In announcing that $2000 will be placed in the supple-
mentary estimates for the local port, the minister agrees for
example, that drainage is necessary, but fencing is not.

Because the present fence is inadequate, stray horses,
cows and the odd moose can be found at various times on the
runway, presenting a serious hazard to the safe landing of
aircraft. This has been-pointed out to Mr. Chevrier, but in the
minister’s august judgment this argument must be considered
as so much eye-wash carefully prepared by the airport mana
ger just to get more funds from the department.

Perhaps, on’ the other hand, livestock in Eastern Canada
are kept off Mr. Chevrier’s airport by the mere erection of
signs. If this is the case someone should inform the honourable
gentlemen that out west the stock are not quite that educated.

The Green Thumbs

With so many town organizations running close to the
financial red line and others labouring hard to pay off loans or
mortgages, it was refreshing to note that the Cariboo Fair
Association is hoarding a substantial bank balance as a result
of their two showings of the fair itself.

Undoubtedly one of the main contributing factors to this
situation is the profit from last year’s raffle, which strictly

s ‘ ize | elect new officers for the ensuin
speaking, hasn’t much to do with the displaying of DINE ean Allan Stevenson, the ie Walters and Mrs B. Sylvester Hook-
turnips. But whatever the source the members of the fair er, daughters of Captain and Mrs:

association have a good deal of credit coming to them for the
business-like way they have carried out the affairs of their
organization- It would seem our gardeners’ green thumbs are
adept at producing several types of lettuce.

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SHIFTING SANDS

Now that CBU has replaced CER |
as the chief broadcasting outlet of |
the CBC in British Columbia, per-
haps this government-owned broad-
casting system of our can continue
the stepping up of its services.

From all accounts and, even dis-
counting about half of CBE self-
congratulations on its achievement;
it is pretty apparent that the coastal
broadcasting ‘outlet embraces some
mighty up-to-date equipment and it
will certainly} serve °a much larger
vortion of the province, even though
t is hardly:likely to reach as far
as Quesnel. 3

From Another Viewpoint
“STILL ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT"
(in The Carthoo Observer)

But technical ipmrovements can
only go so far and it is long past the
time when the CBC really got down
to the business of weeding out the
over-stock of deadwood that is clut-
tering up its studios.

While the CBC will no doubt
shudder at the thought, the point
still remains that it can take many
4 pointer from the strictly commer-
cial stations. To stay in business the
independent radio outlets, even
though much of their material has
a commercial flavor, have learned

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ONE YEAR AGO
February 15, 1951

Going...

er of the upper headwaters of Alexis
Creek, was brought into the Wil-
liams Lake. Hospital suffering from
badly frozen feet, hands and nose—
Williams Lake defeated Wells 26 to
22 n the first inter-town basketball
game of the season at Williams
Lake— The executive of the newly
formed Williams Lake Stampede As-
sociation have held two meetings
during the past week to organize the
town towards renewing the Stam-
pede which brought fame to the
town for a period of 20 years, until
the duties of wartime stopped the
annual event—

District area representatives yot-
et 16 to 3 in favour of preparing an
extensive school building program
by-law that will cost, according to
preliminary figures, $203,030.20. An
amount of $149,555.20 is earmark-
ed for a major addition to the pres-
ent elementary school in Williams
Lake, a dormitory, and equipment.
Cost of the whole program would pe
slightly over 2 mills for 20 years—
For the fourth successive year the
local badminton players lifted the
Woodand Trophy, emblematic of the
Cariboo Clubs Championship, when
they played in Prince George last
weekend. The sixteen-player team
took 35 sets with Prince George aub
runner-up with 29, Quesnel third
with 26— Request for a grant of
$1500 to furnish material for the
construction of lavatory and chang-
ing room facilities at the beach was
placed before the Board of Village
Commissioners by the Jaycee beach
committee— Work on the first unit{
of the hydro develoment on the north
fork of the Quesnel River may be

TEN YEARS AGO
February 16, 1942

The annual meeting. of the War
Memorial Hoepital Society was held
at the Courthouse with Mr. Rodk
Mackenzie< in the chair— 800}
pounds of Crested Wheat Grass seed!
will be donated by the provincial
department of agriculture, to the
airport commitee for seeding down
the present runway of the Williams
Lake airport— A mobile recruiting
started this year, according to a re-| Unit of the RCAF will be at Williams
Port from sources in Victoria—|Lake for the purpose of accepting
Fred Bass was re-elected as er applications for enlistment in tha

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of Watk Memorial : Hospital, Boarg | AiTee— = Marco} Marty, only.
for two years, with Mrs. EB. G/ Wood! dalghter of Mr. and Mrs. John Zirns|

land named as second town repret|helt of 150 Mile House, was joined
Sentative— Judge Henry Castillow|’® ™4?rlage to Mr." John McPhail
when he spoke to the Board of Trade,|°f Lillooet— “The most enjoyable

Entire Stock of Fridges to go

Going ..

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Pointed out that the town lacked | SPOW and dance for a long time” was
winter quarters for the Indians. | Be emer ee S00/"Persona “at:
Simple cabins on the stampede | teD4ing the Cabaret dance last Fri-
grounds would act as a great incen-| 7#¥ night at Williams Lake— Over

and spend their money here, pune:

FIVE YEARS AGo TWENTY YEARS AGO

February 18, 1932

seyen and nine

February 13, 1947

A large crowd of appreciative fans
watched the double-header hockey
games on Sunday to see the local
junior and senior hockey teams
come out the winners in their res-
pective games— All labourers in
government road camps will be giv-|| =

Approval was given by the trustees
to the amended budget requisition of
$52,197 for operation of the schools
in the district for calendar year of
1947, at the monthly meeting of the
Board of School Trustees— The
Williams Lake hockey team. went

AT A DISCOUNT OF

tive to the Indians to visit more often peat advertises coffee at 45¢ er : . Z O O 2

Cariboo Home Furnishings

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

“Visit the Store with the Friendly Door”

cubic foot models

down to a disastrous defeat last Sat-| © their board and lodging plus $7.50 |

urday night at Quesnel on a score of | Per month. Cooks, timek and =

the administrative staff will be al-
lowed $17.50 a month in addition to
board and~lodging. Residents in
tural districts will be allowed $20.00
a month and will maintain their own
homes— Two sisters, Mrs. Lloyd

13-3 but redeemed their honor by
beating Quesnel 8-3 Sunday after-
noon— A smaller than usual num-
ber of persons attended the annual
meeting of the Hospital Society to

year-old son of Cariboo's first Gold
by aga iain see ae hosiptul here within four days of
found dead in his cabin near Likely | M¢ another. 4
— The rink of B. G. Woodland at- 2 ;
tended the Bonsiel at Prince George
and of the 33 rinks competing, the
Lake rink placed well up but not
quite good enough to cop any of the| whose hearts have been damaged as
cups— Jack Maindley, cattle vaneh; | a result of rheumatic fever.

Dogherty of Horsefly, died at the

Im Canada and the United States
are probahly, one million persons

Siuse you's
And do you remember how you

earned extra change daing chores.
things you

lesson you learned 20 long ago?
If s0, remember — norhing has

Bank or MontTrREAL

Are you following their example?

Then, one great-day, the bike was yours!
You learned then about the necessity for saving to get some of the
want most. But'has time dimmed your memory of the

changed
the future. Nor has any magic substitute been found for thrift.

Today, millions of Canadians are practising their good habit of
thrift by keeping up their life insurance payments to protect their
families, while saving for the future. They've discovered that, to
reach their goals, they must put money aside regularly.

got the money for it? The dimes
and quarters you saved ont of your allowance weren’t enough, So you

Slowly, so slowly, the total grew.

your needs for money in

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| WORKING WITH CAWADIANS IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE SIWCE 1847