HE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, February 28, 195: RIBUNE Diished every ‘Lhursduy at Witness Lake, B.C, By The Tribune Publishing Co, ADVERTISING RATES. ON APPLICATION Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Assucialion British Columbia Division, C.W.N.a. Established 1931 Clive Stangoe, Editor Authorized as Second Class Mail vy the Post Office Department, Ottawa The Wrong ‘Free’ Publicity We don’t know the circulation figures for “True,” a slick baper mag published, it says, ‘for men,’ but they must run into too many thousands to be comfortable, when you consider a tuli- page advertisement that appeared in the last issue, panning the Cariboo Highway. One Percy W. Emerson, president of a game club in Ashland, W Sconsin, occupies the Main portion of the ad with a letter praising the vi tues of a popular car. Un commenting on his trip to Alaska, he states that on the way home he shipped his car down to Prince tupert and then took ott again to cover the next 800 miles through Prince George ana down to Lac La Hache -- ‘800 miles of the Worst road in North America and still marked as a highway.” That's the part that hurts, ,and a statement of this kind, read by thousands in a national magazine is going to hurt ina monetary way too when this year’s tourist season rolls around. As far as that portion of this 800-mile stretch that we are familiar with, what galls residents of the Cariboo is that the Statement is too true. We boost the Cariboo’s att: actions in order to coax the tourist and hunter into our country; lodge owners spend thousands of dollars in providing comfortable accommodation — but the connecting link with the rest of the world is paved with unsubstantial promises and too substantial It is small wonder the money spent in publicizing the country's attraction is counteracted by the type of adverse Publicity that appeared in True.magazine. Speedy reconstruction of the Cariboo Highway is going to have to be one of the main planks in the platform ot a suc- election. And if he expects to hold on to his job, he will be expected to fight for this project until we have something that Big Business Too * Next week, March 2 to 8, is Education Week. The purpose of setting aside this week annually is to encourage Canadians to examine their educational system, discuss-it and help in its development. The reason you should examine the educational system is two-fold. Primarily we should be interested in the moulding of young minds because the future of the country rests with them. The place they will take in society as adult citizens, and the manner in which they aquit themselves in their daily living will depend, to an enormous extent, on the quality of the educational training they receive now. The other reason concerns money. The money we are Paying to provide this schooling. Educational costs are reach- ing new peaks each year and although these increases are lly justifiable, those responsible for educational adminis- = ee provineial and local levels have been, at times, proving “frills’ that weré unw arranted.> 3 “on is, as the educational week literature expounds, everybody's business. It is also big business, and a such bears watching. The product should warrant the expense. Here in Williams Lake a full program has been arranged by school staffs to allow us to become better acquainted with our own sinall educational system. We should take advantage of the invitation. The March Campaign Next month the Canadian Red Cross Society is asking $5,222,000, from the Canadian public to continue work for the improvement of health, the prevention of disease and the relief of human suffering in 1952. Sometime during March you will be visited by a volunteer canvasser, one of many who will be striving to see that our district carries its burden of the national load. We do not believe it is necessary to acquaint our readers with the work of the Red Cross. In our own area, every time a disaster such as the loss of a home by fire strikes, the Red Cross stands ready to lend assistance. On a national scale, everytime the headlines scream of disaster on a tremendous scale affecting thousands of people, the same organization is first in the field. If you have never felt the terrifying impact of sudden disaster, the hopeless aftermath if you have never Enown the weeks-on-end dreariness of a veteran’s hospital bed ...if you have never lived in remote areas far from other medical aid than the tiny Red Cross Outpost Hospital or if you have never known despair for a loved one’s life for want of blood transfusions... then pray you may never know these experiences first hand, and give with a grateful heart to the Red Cross. } “CLIMBING LIKE A HOMESICK ANGEL", INCREATINS? FATAUIES > INTHE 2 From the Files of the Tribune 3 YEAR AGO = TEN YEARS AGO March 1, 1951 March 2, 1942 Plans for a combination town and fire hall have been completed and are now in the hands of the Village Commissoners of Williams Lake— South Cariboo needs to raise anotner $50,000 in the next week to fill the alloted quota of $100,000 for the Second Victory Loan— Williams Lake defeated a combination of Dog Creek and Alkali hockey teams 8-3— Nearly 50 persons attended the Crib tournament at the Elks Lodge room — A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. C. Kinkead of Alexis Creek—- The Interior Transportation Com- Pany now have their new service and schedule working smoothly with through service every day from Prince George, Wells, and way points to Ashcroft— A large crowd from the district and also Williams Lake attended the Lac La Hache smoker and dance— TWENTY YEARS AGO March 3, 1932 Well over 159 people patronized An estimated 75C people crowded | into the Arena to witness the dedi- cation of the building a Wa Memorial, and to take in the fi Ice Carnival staged in the arena— The Commisioners passed a motion favouring the institution of daylight saving on a province-wide basis Members of the local branch of the Red Cross launched their appeal for funds in this district, with an ob- jective of $5000— The two-month old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Paten- aude, 150 Mile was found dead in his crib— Seventeen town and dis- tricvt amateur gardeners were pres- ent af the formation of a Gladiolus Club at the home of Dr. L. B, Avery — The freight line franchise be- tween Williams Lake and Vancouver now held by Huston’s Cariboo Trans- Port, will be unde: new ownership effective April 1st— Local badmin- ton players scraped through to a nar- row 10-9 win over Quesnel in an inter-club match at Rivertown— 3 Specatens Hove of securing a new minister was]... Cabaret Dance in the Stampede seen in a letter received by St. Peter's Anglican Church in a letter from Rev__| H@ll. The vaudeville items which in- mieten cere OD = terspersed the dance program were Fie i ire Se Oe eee rugdes—= gDan ee well réceiv€i— Considerable regret a loca CER eee ae One eae expressed locally at the ae cum ing; a pierce Bs ror" geath of Robert Fraser of Clinton, eee Rue Up) Oils: years iOReD) in his fifty-third year— Instruc. Fee Ue aes Se RHOGE TURE: | ocatnaes weehare ec Williams co away— A daughter was boru to Lake to close down on all direct re- Mr. end Mrs. G. W. Felker of Lae La} or from March Ist. From this dat pache— | Ferty operator Doug Bar- anyone who is willing to do so get low of Soda Creek reports signs of work at 26c per nour payable in cash Chane, pa CobiN Was ween at Lasy| or arceincion on the PGE in the Chance Ranch February 19th and Provincial House in Victoria, Rodk ene: StsSedar Creek — Mackenzie, MLA, and Dr. Alward ot FIVE YEARS AGO Prince George, put in a combine. February 27, 1947 request for two million dollars to com. plete the railway to Prince George. A total of $5,757 is in the treasury of the Southern Cariboo War Mem- orial Society as reported at the an- - nual meeting. Claude Huston was Letter to the Editor elected president, Geo. Maytield vice-| paitor ‘The Tribune, president, J. A. Anderson secretary, and N. Schroeder ueasurer— After a lapse of seven years the colorful Williams Leke Stampede is to be re- vived on June 25, 26, and 27, ana once again made an annua) event— Williams Lake hockey club and some of the fans turned out to welcome the All Star hockey players to town with an excellent banquet at the Lakeview Hotel— Mark Pigeon of Dog Creek died at the War Memorial | Hospital— Williams Lake senior men’s basketball team dropped a heart-breaker to Weils at the mine town, 17-16 but caine back strong on Sunday to knock off Barkerville, Nature Dear Sir: I am one of the subserib- ers. In a few words I want to tell what has been done in Canim Lake Reserve, There was a grey mink killed by Theodore Michel, well furred, just like a marte,n about two teet long. I am trapping since 19 0, never saw anything like that. We have tough winter around here. Halloo tilicum everybody. English Decker. .... the finest PLYMOUTH 19-12— Scrapbook . . . i by Bill Myring Save The Loon The loon is not a menace to the existance of the water-fowl, as is alleged by certain sportsmen seek- Ing its destruction as a predatory'| form of feathered lite. ‘The only | crime” it commits — a crime com- — is to} Plymouth.” By that we mean we think i had the honour of handling, and we know in and see the “Finest.” That's what we call this year’s model --- “The Finest 's the best we have you'll agree. mitted by many other birds drive away, without injury, durks! and other water-fowl from the vi-| cinity of its nesting site. The loon,} ‘ause of its scarcity and aesthete) value, is protected througnout ine] year under provisions of the Migra- tory Birds Convention Act. B.C.'s First Paper The first sheet of paper produced in British Columbia was a piece of brown wrapping paper made trom “Roten Jute.” This was made in British Columbia's first Paper miil, located in Alberni which is situated at the head of the Alberni Canal on ‘he west coast of Vancouver Island. | Clam Glutton The Star-fish, arch glutton of the sea, will eat more than fifty clams half its size in less than a week, be Drop CENTRAL SERVICE LTD. From Another Viewpoint “PARTY POLITICS RETURN” (in the Langley Advance) This newspaper took the stand - some years ago that the Coalition| Uspleased organized labor, he was administration in this province gave|4*moted and made “the goat” for the people of British Columbia the|P@rty polities. and political appease. . Nest government they ever nad. e|™ent of organized labor regardless now reluctantly forecast a period of | Of its etforts on unorganized sockets party polities that will probably] i this province. ‘enefit a few at the expense of the| It is political cunning fox Premier seneral population of this province. | Johnson to boast that B.C. pays the We look into the erystal hall and| Mehest wages and highest salaries see, in the appointment of Mr. Percy in Cana.a Unorganizea societies in George, former mayor of Vietoria, as| 2-C- are the ones who have to tour the new chairman of the Public|‘® Pill for the “glory” whieh Pre- ‘stilities Commission, political party | ™€F Johnson claims, and he knovo vatronage such as we have not seen | ‘Nt because the great masses of peo- ‘M many years under Coalition ad-|P!¢ 7€ wnorganized they are not any ministration. The lust for “plums” in| 8Te@t thrat against party politics the political party system is the real| #t election time. reason for the split between Con-|— servatives and Liberals which was responsible for breaking up the Co- alition administration at Victoria last week. In the demotion of D. K. Penfold former chairman of the-Publie Utili-| ties Commission, we see political] appeasement and a. vote-catching ; movement such as we never saw | during the early years of Coalition | administration. The interest and welfare of the great masses of peo- ple of this province have been “sold down the river” in order to “catch” vots of organized labor. When Mr. Penfold told srban and rural administrators that the time © take exception to rising costs of Public utilities, was when organized labor demanded more pay. and not after pay hikes had been granted, he was voicing the opinion of many thousands of British Columbians. both employees and employers. out- side the ranks of organized labor. Because Mr. Penfold had the cour- age to take a’ stand in the interest of sound administration of the office which he had been entrusted with. Where Smart Appearance Counts Successful businessmen are careful about their appear- ance .’. . they know it pays to keep their clothes cleaned and pressed. It’s a good habit to follow. WILLIAMSLAKE and because in doing his duty he Dry CLEANERS oe ee Canada's greatest bargain in home beauty! “ONE GALLON DOES A LARGE ROOM Cariboo Home Furnishings Agents for Connor, Mayfair, Norge, Gilson and Climax Gas and Electric Washing Machines “Visit the Store with the Friendly Door” SSN SSS # : . a [+8 time Pop knew some of the facts of [ifa! money these days, Why can’t he see that he can use life insurance = with its systern for putting money aside regularly —to reach other goals. That way, saving’s as easy as sucking a toe! Another thing. As I observe economic conditions in this great nation of ours, one fact is increas- ingly evident: Every dollar thar's saved helps to check inflation. So we should all save as much as we Fanny thing sbout parents, They can be so smart about some things—and blind to other things. Take my Pop, for instance. When I first bowed into this con- fusing wo:ld, he was wise enough to take out more life insurance. Now, if anything happens to him, Mom will still have money for groceries and rent. And I can go on playing here, instead of having to be a president or something, can, every way we can, (ogame ving. That’s what I’m gonna tell For that, I give Pop full credit. Pop. 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