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lliams Lake Tribune

Volume 20 — Number 9. .

WILLIAMS LAKR, B.C. Thursday, February 28, 1952.

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THE WH

Recommend License Confiscation ATHER

& Min. Max.
For Offenses Under Game Act | 2:2." %
Ss Friday ie
Confiseation of hunting licenses, permanently in the case ee a =

of a person whose carelessness causes loss of human life, and Bees :
f riod of five years fi rious off nder the Game Tuesiay Brees
‘oY a period of fiye years for se: offenses under the weinemey Ge a6

Act were recommendations of the loca] Rod and Gun club that
will be forwarded to the provincial game convention for
consideration.

The sportsmen spent a consider-'
able length of time at their annual ing license automatically suspended
meeting Monday debating the two for life.
points, but only on details. As far| In the case of game act violators,
as the broad issue of denymg thé it was recommended that upon con-
Privileges of the sport to game act’ piction, the offender be subject to
offenders or those guilty of caréless-' having his license revoked for five
ness, the members were in complete! years, on thie recommendation of the
agreement. ~ local game warden and’ the concur-

The gist of the resolution-covering | Fence of the Game Department.

!-Pemperature reading at the air-
port at 9 o'clock this morning
was 13°.

FOLLIS ACCEPTS
GAME CLUB POST

The question of fluoridati
cently split Vancouver’s city ¢

Challenging the commission to)
adopt fluoridation if at all teasable’
from an economic point of view, Dr. |
Bayne presented the arguments in|
favour ‘of the measure. |

“Although there is a difference of
opinion among laymen as.te the ef-
fect of fluoridation, there has heen
no Such*difterence among scientists
who have spent hundreds of thot-
sands of-dollars in the past 14 years

the dangerously careless hunter was| NEW BOUNDARIES eee aoe Seen
Pe ae ae Cuneo esos | ene Cup! Willraleo asi: the, Game] Williams LakeRod and Gun Club
Soe | Be ct PEiue: the victim ite, | Depertment tovextend'the boundaries at the annual meeting Monday night,
Some animal, should have his hunt-|of the game reserve along the Fraser |
River to take in all theland between | PUt in doing so he flatly stated that
the river and the new highway. St] 1S mam reason for accepting was to
Dresses tel castes poaadery aye |TY and render some assistavee and
fs the old Williams Lake-Seda SUPPOt to local Game Warden Leo
Creek highway, known as the ‘river | Job |
road.’ Other boundaries are the| Mr. Follis pointed out that the
tiver; thelimits of the village, and ee warden needed help hadly in
Sean scren administering the district, and the:
The decision was made after Game °PlY way the Game Department was
Warden Leo Jobin had explained it 2Pt to place another warden here
Was almost impossible to contro] Was at the insistence of a strong game
shooting on’ the present reserye as, ‘lub.
long as the road was the boundary) The meeting later endorsed a res-
and hunters could legally stand |olution to the department asking
tebre with a rifle. If game was close| that this assistance be forthcoming. |
at hand, yet on the reserve, i was|or that the district be split in two
an-easy matter to shoot the animal, | with another warden being located
ack it to the road and be on your |near the 100 Mile.
| Way, the warden explained. He ask- Gordon Blackwell was elected
parents will be ‘welcome to yisit ed if the clu) would consider either vice-president. and back for another
Classes in’ operation and Tnesday, extending the boundary to the new ‘torn after an absence of a'year came
March 4, has been named as “Open highway or at least a mile east of| carey Lloyd as secretary-treasurer.
House” day in the school. It is hoped! the river road. The réserye was es- New directors include Benay Ab-
that as many as possible will come’ tablished last year-at the request of / pot, Herb Gardner, Kin Rife, Jack
and see the classes in operation. No the local game club. Dobie. Sam Mitchell, Dan Hottacher
Special progvams are planned and|THE PART OF THE BIOLOGIST | .14 Clive Stangoe.

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Interesting Program
Prepared By Schools

"he week of March 2 to 9 is “Bd-
ik” throughout Canada
and District 27 teachers have ex-
pressed the hope that parents will
{aké the opportunity to visit school
classes through out the area.

The Williams Lake school will

items. Teachers have indicated that.

provingits worth.” Dr. Bayne stated.

Op the néed of fluoridation, the
speaker asked that the commission-
ers probably didn’t realize it, but 95
per eent of the school children have
defective teeth; 50 percent of these

cases range from slight cases of de-|~

cay to “horrible” conditions of the
mouth. Twenty percent of the chil-
dren affected are going through the
daily agony of toothache.

From these cases of defective}
teetk can develop bad heart condi-
tions, poor eyesight, poor hearing
and stomach disorders.

The answer to prevention of this
situation was the addition of fluorine
to the water supply, the speaker as-
serted. “If all the dentists in Ca:
ada were turned loose on this prob-
lem of preventive dentistry,
couldn’t cope with it under ordinary
means,” he argued.. |

PROVEN WORTH |

“¥ou_ will be wondering about}!
other -cities who nave tried flouri-
tair Mackenzie said he agreed that)
anything the village could do to pro-
tect the health of the cbildren

every effort will be made to carry | A little bitter-with the sweet was
out the normal situation with par-' tossed into a talk by Game Warden
ents weleome to drop in ou classes! Jobin when he briefly discussed the
> the day. Teachers} Merits of a suggestion Be, a soe
“recommend that: columnist that now, the

visits would be-moré interesting in| biologist in gamé cooing ta
the morning but as many mothers} been proven, the time had come to
could not make this they are wel-| place one of these men on the G:
come to drop in at their convenience. | Commission.

On mibeaay evenihe tere will a Mr. Jobn pointed out ee ole

zi gists had only been workin,

a Junior-Senior High School ‘“Fa-
t thi = an z a ,
ther and Son" nigit when the boys! | the department for three years a Although there has been no report

wili have an opportunity to show | it was his belief that by the time of any outbreak in British Columbia
their fathers around the school and,| ‘€Se men had solved the problem of of the dreaded foot and mouth dis-
in particular, show them the shop! ®@™& Management by the results of ease that has struck southern
facilities. A number of boys will be| ‘eir studies alone, the game will Saskatchewan, ranchers of this
working in the shop. Tifs visiting|28Ve disappeared. ,8reat cattle producing area ave na-
time will be from 7:00 to $.00 ana| Not all of their findings are cor-'turally worried about any possibil-
refreshments will be served by the| Tect in his estimation, Mr. Jobin ity of it spreading.
home economics department. pointed out. As an example he Sal Livestock dealers and veterinar-
Wednesday will be marked aa|°? ‘He statement of one of thesejians throughout the -province have

SE kal SFR een been alerted to report any symptoms
see eens aa aH aiuil of the scourge, which has resulted
ae eee display 3nd in closure of the U.S. border to Can-
at 2-p.m. to see a short :

adian cattle.
a asketball game. Parents and ee oe Gel fica ween
friends are welcome to attend th: = 2

(Continued on back page)

le 0

Signs Say 30 MPH,

> of cattle, sheep or swine to B.C. from
eee But The Limit’s 20 the infected area near Regina, and |

The culmination of the week will F. W. B. Smith, chief health ot)
be on Pridayscevening wien the! 1: woulan’tepay to take those 30- Putas officer of the sh

Drama Club. the choir-and the girls! miies-per-hour speed limit signs at/of Agriculture for B.C. states that

pyeleal “equeation’ classes/willl Drél'tne. village limits too seriously, ac-| the greatest danger of spreading to
pent = concert: for the Wunlle. TMS | zerding to word received from the| this province ies in travel of hu-
Ruligbe featured “by Dave the: aiblie works department tn Victoria| mans and birds.

Valiant” in which Betty Sharpe, Ian
Bowie, Barrie Herbert, Rex Moon
and Lewis Egglestone provide the
cast. This is a well known play and
indications point to a first class per:
formance under the direction of Mrs.
D. Stevenson.

The concert will

by the village commission. “The virus can be carried either
Commissioners took a dim view of| on people's clothing or by migratory
he said,

“so we can’t affora
a mo-

the signs, that were put in Place by| birds,”
the public works men last fall. En-|to relax our supervision for
quiry resulted in the information| ment.”

that the minimum speed limit on] 4REA LARGER

emterial highways passing through Meanwhile, Officials in Ottawa’

be rounded out) villages was 30. MPH, so permission disclosed Tuesday that fresh cases

with singing, folk dancing, and/ was requested of Victoria to bring} of the disease had turned up in the
rhythmic activities. It will differ] the limits on Oliver Street and ail. Regina area, forcing a widening of
considerably from previous school| way avenue into line with the-rest the original strict quarantine area.

concerts, being shorter and includ-
ing only pupils of the Junior-Senior

of the village. Slaughter of the stock in the af-

The advice trom Victoria was tol tected area was still delayed today
the effect that the limit was 20 MPH! as cold weather stopped work on dig-
on the streets affected! and had been ging huge pits that will be used to
since 1938. !bury the carcasses.

tivities. =

An education week dance spon-
sored by the student council will| .
complete the evening. Music for the
dance will be donated by a number
of parents who are interested in the
school.

George Feels Old Age Approaching

George Morris, local contractor who has been
working this winter in Smedley & Sharp’s, is taking
a closer look at those grey hairs of his since receiving
a communication yesterday from the Department of
Health and Welfare, advising him that he would
soon be in receipt of his first old age pension cheque.

George is completely in the dark as to why the
department should be so generous in his case, but
there it is in black and white. His old age security
number is listed and the letter states that his January
cheque has been mailed to him.

“Old Age Security is paid without regard to
means or income,” the letter states. George, who is
45, is wondeying if the words “or age” should have
been inserted too.

If there is another G

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Rancher Suffers Fatal

Thomas F. Barber, Big Lake
rancher, collapsed and died Sunday
evening as he was sitting in the Wil-
liams Lake Cafe.

A newcomer to the district, mr.
Barber is survived by one daughter, |
Christine Barber in Vancouver, |
post mortem performed yesterday

George Morris in town who

snes that death was due ¢
rev Be ee © actually is eligible, he bad better get in touch with his
Pee apertl arrangements are pend. namesake and get the department straightened out.

ing insftuctions fro hip “daughter, |

— — nr,

Prairie Outbreak Of Foot
> And Mouth Disease
.- (Closely For Signs Of Spreading

Watched

It is believed now that the diteate!
was brought to Canada by a German
immigrant. The man sought for by |
federal authorities-has now been lo-|
cated in Vancouver. He worked on
one of the farms where the disease!
broke out and it is believed he car.
ried the virus in his clothes.

Biggest problem to British Col.
umbia was the closure of the Alberta’
border to imports of meat. Figures
for 1950 show that during a year|
a total of 235,000 hogs, 56,000 cat-|
tle, 26.000 calves and 27,000 sheep
and lambs were imported, |

The province also imported 6,750,-
000 pounds of dressed beef and veal
and 9,600,000 pounds of pork and!
pork products.

It is estimated that there is a 10-
day supply of meat in the packing
houses here. After this is gone meat
will have to be imported from the
States. |

American authorities have stated
that their country’s embar go on Can-
adian meat will probably remain in
effect until the disease is wiped out:

cARED EVERYWHERE
Foot and mouth disease is feared
by cattlemen thronghout the world, |
It is as damaging to livestock as
smallpox and
are to human.s
It spreads like wildfire, and the
only way to hault it is to staughter
infected animals and bury the car-
.

the bubonic plague

Transmitted by a tissue-destroy-|
ing Virus, the scourge in recent years
sas struck at Mex
Ue indust

does not

are to humans.

. |
Stilt Sentence Drawn
For Contributing

Sentenced to one year's
ment plus a fine of. $
months in default. was C. H. Ke’
ham, district man who appeared in
Police court yesterday on a charge
of contributing to juven delin-
qency. The trial was in a.

A plea of not guilty was entered
by H. G. Lockwood. who eppear
in defense of the oeeused. Ms. Lock-
Wood said an appeal will be lodged.

imprison-

in rejection, was brought up Tuesday night to the Board of
Village Commissioners by local dentist Dr. A. H. Bayne.

they; .

on of drinking water that re-
ouncil wide-open and resulted

Gation,”"" Dr, Bayne continued.

In the United States 280 cities
have adopted fluoridation and an-
other 300 are considering it. He
quoted the findings of two cities
where the fluorine had been used.

In Grande Rapids Michigan, after
four years of fluoridation, reduction
in cavities in the children of that
city amounted to 72.7% for the 5

Fluoridation Of Local Water Supply .
Recommended To Village By Dr. Bayne

However, the chairman went on to
say, no matter how much the com-
mission might favour the measure,
there was a limit to what they might
be able to finance. He promised the
doctor the commission wouid study
the question of costs thoroughly, a
promise with which the rest of the

heartily d,

Gume Club Shares

year old group; 51.3% among 6
year olds; 36.4% among 9 year old
children; 16.7% among those of 13
years of age, and 12.4% among 16
year olds. In Newiurgh, N.Y.,. re-
duction in cavities Attack rates in
permanént teeth ofter a tour year
record were 77.6%, 55.5%, 42.1%,
38.6%, 31%.

“I can't tell you what this pro-
gram will cost,’ Dr. Bayue stated. |
“but I know that ia health the cost
of not adopting this program
amounts to hundreds of thousands
of dollars in later years.”” The spgak-'
er went on to say t this cost was
not only in dental, care but in treat
ment of the attendant ills that come
with bad teeth,’ ;

(in January oflast year, 63 cities
in the States: were carrying out
fluoridation 44 ‘srams at a cost of
about eight nts per person per year,
to place one part of fluoirne to a
million parts of water. Vancouver
gures the cost will run to 20 cents
per person per yeai.)

The debate on fluoridation started
back in 1931 when it was establish-
ed that the fluoride content of water
was the agent responsible fur a den-
tal disease known as motteled ena-
mel. It was later established that |
under ayerage’ water~ consumpion
conditions, a concentration of one
part per million of fluorine in drink-
ing water did not produce iais mot-
tled enamel.

Further study revealed that den-
| tal cavities were less in arcas where
the fluorine content of the water
produced mottled enamel than they
were in so-called normal water areas.

The fluorine content of Williams
Lake, source of the town’s water sup-
ply, is nil.

FAVOUR INVESTIGATION

Speaking after Dr. Bayne’s ad-
dress, Commission Chairman Alas-|
should be considered.

‘,Because Vancouver turned down
fluoridation, we should not blindly
follow their example,” he stated.!
During the war Vancouver also turn-|
ed down chlorination until the mea-|
sure was forced upon them.”

‘Chemistry Knowledge

Not Very Sound

Some of us have come a long way
from our high school chemistry days,
and you can include the village com-
missioners and The Tribune reporter
on municipal affairs in that cate-
gory.

The observation results from the
recent decision of the boaid to ada
a chemical to the water to remove
the obnoxiots taste.

The letter from the company on

Blame In Fish Derby
Failure Last Year

Lack of co-operation on the part
of Cariboo resort owners, and fail-
ure of the Rod and Gun club to prop-
erly conclude the contest were blam-
ed for the unsuccessful operation of
Jast year’s Cariboo Fish Derby that
was operated over a wide area be-
tween the months of Jun® and Sep-
tember.

Criticism of those in the club re-
sponsible for providing the prizes
for those winners whose names
were turned in by the few resorts
who did participate. Instructions
had been issued in Stptember to do
this, but so far they had not been
carriéd out. Three winners of the
“Cariboo Anglers” buttons who had
qualified with big fish had not re-
ceived their awards either, although
the buttons have been here since
September.”

Th meeting directed the executive

to have nif done at once, and to
Preset; : plan for a restricted derby
this séasor -

Education Ai ACA
Installation Night

Education has been defined as ‘all
the experiences an ip
from the time he first becomes ve-
sponsive to influences until he ceases
to be,” school Inspector W..J. Mouat
told members of the A.O.T.S. at the
group's installation night last.
Thursday.

Of our general education, the
school is only a small part, but it is
the part over which we have a great
deal of control and to which we give
financial support, Mr. Mouat con~
tinued.

The fundamental purpose of our
schools is to build character to pro-
duce citizens who are: healthy and
have a zest for living; are happy,
well-adjusted and have a positive
outlook on life; are good intelligent
citizens of a democratic society ana
have a sympathetic understanding
of other people and their problems;
have their individual abilities and
interests developed in a positive and
constructve way; who have a sound
grounding in the fundamental pro-
cesses which are basic in any educa-
tional sysetm; who are capable of
doing a good job vocationally, ana
finally, who haye above all sound
moral and ethical standards,

Stating that he believed we were
justified in feeling that our society
can be improved through education,
the speaker emphasized his point py
illustrating some of the progress we

the merits of this installation stated
that the system atilized “sodium
chloride” as the chemical agent —
and it sold for $1 a pound.

Not a questioning eyebrow was
sed among the commissioners
and the reporter dutifully
copied down the words without see-
ing anything wrong with them.

Time went by and the light first
began to dawn on Village clerk E. H.
Gibbon, who checked his dictionary
and then called rman Mae.
‘enzie. For those of you who didn't
notice if, sodium chloride is common
teble salt.

Lone subscriber to let us know
bout The Tribune error was Robt.
Beauchamp, who wanted to know it
there was any chance of getting the
contract to supply sodium chloride
at $1 a pound. He figured he could
shave the price and still make a
handsome profit.

A little more checking by Mr. Gib-
bon revealed the company’s steno-

vapher had made tbe original error.
Im the other prepared pamphlets the
chemical agent was ‘sodium chlorite,’

have made in economic conditions
government and social conditions
since Robert Burns wrote “It’s com-
ing yet ... The time when man to
man the wide world o'er shall bro-
ther be for a’ that.”

Reiterating that the moulding of
character was the main purpose of
education, Mr. Monat defined char-
acter as being composed of habits,
ideals and attitudes. These. he stat-
ed, were being developed in every
Phase of a child's schooling. In the
high school gr in particular
sound character i: ing developed
by our social studies and effective
living courses.

CHARTER PRESENTED

The A.O.T.S. charter was present-
ed to club president Don
by Rey. J. Colclough and the instal-
lation of officers followed.

Other officers of the club that was

formed last fall are Les Cantell,
vice-president; Jim Stitt, secretary-
treasurer; Peter Jensen, membership

chairman,
chairman,

and Vic Imhoft, project

setor Speaks ST es