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Volume 20 -—- Number-11.°

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

Thursday, March 13, 1952.

Single copy 10c, $2.50 per year.

Three-way Plan

For Hospital

Administration Accepted

A three-way program, de:

signed to promote improved

staff conditions and a better understanding on the part of the
public of the affairs of War Memorial Hospital, was accepted
by the Board of Direetors -aviten it was presented by newly-

n

elected chairman Fred B. Bass

The suggestions were for the form: |
ation of a new type of staff commit |
tee, a doctors’ association and a new |

i
» board post of public relations ofticer. |

Drawing on his experience with
mining unions, the chairman said he ,
believed the hospital would enjoy |
better staff relations if the members
of the staff themselves formed thei-

own committee to air any problems | commissioners decided Tuesday night

they might have and to assist the
board in forming staff rules tha:
would be acceptable to both groups.

If the problem was of a minor
nature the board’s representative
could handle it, but’if it was of a
major nature, the staff committee
could bring their problem to the full
board for discussion.

In the same way, Mr. Bass stated
he thought a better working ar-
Tangement between the board and
the town’s medical men would Tre-
sult in the formation of a medical
association. In theory, they too would
thrash out any problem that con-
cerned the hospital within their own
group before presenting their recom-
mendations to the board,

This latter suggestion was en-
dorsed by Dr. L .E. Avery, who ap-
peared before the meeting to make a
similar proposal.

On the subject of puplic relations,
which he stated had been neglectea
in the past, Mr. Bass said in his opin-
ion it Was of the utmost importance
to get the affairs of the hospital be-
fore the public.

The chairman said that in the past
the hospital's problems had been
discussed on the street corners and
before the stories had travelled two
blocks from the hospital they were
Wsterted almcst beyond: recognition.

COMMITTEES NAMED

J. D. Smedley was elected vice-
chairman of the board. Appointed to
the various committees were Mrs.
Joan Smedley and Wm. Christie. fin-
ance; J. D. Smedley and Tony Bor-
kowski, house; Jack Purser, staff,
and Clive Stangoe, puplie relations. |*

Commission Supports
PGE Resolution

Commissioners went on record
Tuesday night as supporting a resolu-
tion asking’ the government to re-|
consider its recent decision to shelve
the plan of pushing the PGE railway |
from Squamish to Vancouver.

The resolution was prepared by
the Prince George Canior Chamber
of Commerce and pointed out the
urgent necessity of the rail link for
the development of the North-Cen-
tral part of the province.

Commissioners agreed with the}
principle of the resolution and sup-
ported* without a dissenting vote.

Friday night.

Fluoridation Too
Expensive

Nothing will be done this year at
least on the suggestion of adding
fluorine to the village water system,

when they read over a quotation on
the equipment necessary.

The company that the qvestion
was referred to has stated that the
cost of equipment and the iustalla-
tion of it will run around $2500.

Barring any serious breaks in the
present water lines, the system will
make enough money this year to
allow for an expenditure of this
kind in 1953 if the commissioners
decide to go-ahead with the plan.

The company aiso stated that ap-
proximate cost of the fluorine ad-
dition would be 51 cents a day.

Meat Supplies Here
Good At Moment

As far as beef is concerned. Wil-
liams Lake shoppers will probably
ide out the present meat shortage
without too much trouble, a check
of local butcher shops reveals.

You won’t be able to buy sides or
quarters, but there appears to be a
sufficient backlog of feeder stock to
Meet the day to day needs as long
as the Alberta embargo doesn’t last
too long.

The problem of dork xs no better
here than elsewhere however. There
is probably a week’s supply on hand.
a (het it will be anyone’s
guess as {o availability.

There will be no shortage of cook-
e€ or processed meats, as these are
afowed to come in from Alberta.
Bacon and hams will disappear
though, as these are only smoked
and cured, not cooked.

One help in the present shortage
is the season of the year. During
Lent méat sales are slower than at
other times of the year.

But whatever the situation is in
regard to availability you can be
certain of one thing, the price of
meat will continue to rise until the
embargo on Alberta shipments is
lifted.

‘Education Week
Program Enjoyed
By Many Adults

One of the most diversified pro-
grams to be staged here maiking

Education Week was carried out by
students

and teachers vf jocal

schools last week.

Jaycees Carry Out
Weed Control Test

curriculum in action. No special pro-
gral

Tuesday was ‘open house’ at both
sch6ols and 78 parents visited class-
rooms to get a glimpse of the modern

m was followed, each class carr.

Members of the Junior Chamber! ing on normal classroom routine.

of Commerce, with a healthy assist |
irom several Public Works employ-|
ees, disregarded the snow Sunday as
“they completed their first chore of
the year on the heach project.

In an experiment to see if the

pressed by

A departure from past years was
the “father and son” night on Tues-
day. Thirty-five fathers came to
see their boys work in the new In-
dustrial Arts shop and were im-
the progress the boys

beach can be cleared of weeds, the | have made in the short time this
men cleared 2 spot on the lake 20x30 course has been going on.

feet, covered this with tarpaper and
shovelled a six-inch coating of sand
on top of the paper.

In theory the paper gradually
sinks as the ice melts and finally
drops to the bottom. The paper and
the sand smother the weeds. The,
scheme has worked successfully on
at least one recorded occasion in the |
job was to move the!
sand from the road down to the
peach. The problem was finally solv-
ed by laying snow fencing“ over the
- which is abont three feet deep,
sand over the

snow,

ing the
and wheeling t

make-shift bridging by wheelbar-
rows.

Lending the assist from the pub-
lic works department were et
Hubble, Len McCarthy, Bud Barlow
and Tom Paxton. Barry Barlow "as
also a busy assistant for part of the

day. !

construction project which

Phillipson outlined
an annual practica
will be
carried out by the senior students.
this year the project will be to frame

Principal J.
the plans for

an addition to tie School Board of-

tice. It is planned to have every boy
gain experience in every phase of
the work from drawing plans to fit-
ting windows and doors.

Following the tour of the shop
the girls from the Home Economics
classes under the direction of Miss
Cropp served coffee and beans. The
father and son night was put on at
the suggestion of Les Cantell, Indus-
trial Arts teacher.

Wednesday afternoon a physical
education display was given in the
Els Hall. Under the direction of
Mrs. N. Palmer an excellent display
of dancing, relay games and general
~clivilles was carried out by the girls

(Continued on back page,

Many Saskatchewan farmers se@ the labor of a lifetime disappear
with the crack of RCMP rifles. Total‘ value of the cattle shot in the pits

now totals close to $100,000. ‘The federal government has announced that
slaughtered cattle.

farmers will be re-imbursed. for the

Phone Service
‘Expansion

Due Soon

Williams Lake will benefit ma-
terially trom an extensive program
of improvement to the Federal -te1e-
phone system that will be carried
out in the Cariboo and Peace River
country, according to a report from
George M. Murray, M.P., Cariboo,

TO CLINTON CLUB

Stampeders made the wrong de-

‘cision last weekend when they elect-
ed to switeh their McKinley
cup game with Clinton from Sunday
to Saturday night. On Sunday the
locals did manage to hold the visitors

final

to a 4-4 score, but in the play-off
game the night
down to a decisive 5-2 defeat.

before they went

received“ this morning.

Slated for the local telephone of-
fice are two new 120-line Mmagnito
switch boards to replace the ancient
115-line board now in use.

This will not mean that the ser-
vice will be able to take in double
the number of subscribers, but many
niore will be added than are now on
the system, and .a tremendous im-

ed. Lities that now have five and Six
parties on each will be relieved of
ais unsatisfactory load, and bysi-
ness houses in the downtown area
can expect private lines.

But the change won't come for
some time yet warns Jack Edwards,
district supervisor at Ashcroft. Mr.
Edwards points out that the manu-
facturer’s delivery date is set at from
five to six months from January, in
the case of the board for Williams
Lake. Other work will also be neces
sary on the lines to handle the |

boards.

Two district exchanges will also
benefit from the expansion program.
At 100 Mile House the 12-line cora-
sess switchboard that was installed
last year willbe replaced by a new
O-line board. At Alexis Creek a 10-
iine board will be installed.

Also included in the program are
three new carrier channels direct to
Vancouver and extension of the pres-
ent Riske Creek line to Alexis Creek. |

According to the report from Mr.)
Murray, upwards of $250,000 will
be spent on the first section of the|
work of improving the telephone
system from Ashcroft north. Facili-
ties will be provided for the aadi-|
tion of approximately 5,000 new
Phones to the present network in
this large area. This number does
not include the new exchanges pian-
ned at Dawson Creek and Fort St.
John.

|. Mr. Murray states that the Hon,
Lionel Chevrier, Minister of ‘Trans- |
Port, has given instruction tut the |
program be speeded up so that ever
encouragement will be given to those
in charge of the great industrial de-
velopment now proceeding in- the
lacinitty north of Ashcroft.

Quesnel Hockey
‘Protest Not Allowed,

Lumbermen’s final

and deciding

hockey win over Quesnel in the
play-offs stays on the hooks, league |
president Claude Huston decided}

last week in handing down his de-|
cision on the Quesnel protest. |

Quesnel club officials had claimed
that Camponi's goal late in the
ond period of the game actualiy en-
tered the net after the period end.
Mr. Huston’s decision was made af-
ter hearing the reports of game offi-
cials and an opinion on the protest
from the president of the B.C. Ama-
|teur Hockey Association.

provement in-service can he expects

The game switch was made be-
cause the club officials were afraid
the ice wouldn’t hold up for Sun-
day’s game. But if anything, the fee
was worse on Saturday and the visit-
ors have less trouble matching the
Stamps when the latter are slowed
down,

Three big goals by Clinton’s AL
tred Pigeon in the second frame put
the visi

Maclean Raps Government
For Failures In Cariboo

The Cariboo has had its share of disappointments under
the Coalition government, Angus MacLean, MLA, told the
Legislature last week when he dwelt for some time on the
Quesnel Hydro project, the Cariboo Highway and the PGE

southern extension.

“In 1949,” Mr. “MacLean stated,
“we in Cariboo were informed by a
Prospective Coalition government
that a Hydro-electric development
would take place on the Quesnel
River. Surveys and tests were made,

yet up to the present time no action |,

has been taken by the government.

“Following this matter up on be-
half of the people of Cariboo, who I
might add, are all interested in this
proposed “development, I was auth
oratively informed that there were
two reasons why the Government
could not give the B.C. Power Com-
mission the green light to go ahead
with this project. The first reason
was that the International Fisheries
Commision was opposed to placing a
dam across the main stream of the
Quesnel River, because the river
used to be one of the most prolific
salmon rivers in the Province.
NORTH FORK 0.K.

“I am reliably informed now that
the Fisheries Commission have re-
lented to a certain extent in their
opposition to this development, by
saying that the Government can, if
they so wish, develop-the North Fork

New Machine Shop
To Operate Here

Two young American machinists,
who have operated a shop at Lac La
Hache for the past year and a half
are in the process of moving their
equipment to Williams Lake.

Owner of the shop is Fred Downs
and his right hand man in the Cari.
boo venturets.Jim Giilan, Roth-mer|

spire wks: th fe = : i

tlie first, s boosted to 4-2 by the!
end of the second. and anotner goat}
by Pigeon in the final period wound j
up the game. Gibbon got one of the
local goals on an assist from Latin}
and Reg Norberg added the other
Stamp counter.

In Sunday’s game the Stamps
piled up an impressive 3-v lead by
the mid-way -mark of the second
frame, before the visitors started to
click. Clinton picked up their first
counter in this period and went on
(o outscoré the Stamps 3-1 in the
third to tie up the game.

Commission Accuses Powerful UBCM

come from Washington State and
took their apprenticeship together.

The Williams Lake Machine Shop,
as the business will be known, will
be located in the old Interior Cream=
ery plant building on railway Av-
enue, and should be operating around
April Ist.

The shop will specialize in heavy
duty repair work for tFickers and
sawmills. To handle this type of
work the largest lathe operating be-
tween Vancouver and Prince George
is used. The shop also has a smaller
lathe, drill press, milling machine
and other equipment.

of the Quesnel River where there is
a potential horsepower. of some
65,000, and that the development at

this particular point would not in-,

terfere with the salmion going up to
spawn, in the main stream, if the
salmon do come back. That state-
ment, Madam Speaker, removes one
| of the two chief obstacles to the
Quesnel development.

“The other reason given to me,
Madam Speaker, why the develop-
ment could not go ahead as sched-
uled, was that the economy or in-
dustry in the Cariboo at the present
time did not justify the expenditure
of such sums of money as it would

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TOWN DOGS KILL
25 DEER IN AREA

A silent war has been yoing on
around the outskirts of town since
the beginning of February between
-Game Warden Leo Jobin and mar-
auding dogs that have been killing
deer.

Since the outbreak of the killing,
the game warden estimates that over
25 deer, mostly does, have been
brought down by the dogs. So far
eight dogs have been dispatched but
the problem seems just about as bad
as ever, Mr. Jobin states.

It is the first time in 18 years that
this killing of game has reached such
Proportions and several causes for
the outbreak are given. Unusual deep
snow has given the dogs a tremen-
dous advantage
38 Delieved that
training others.

Dogs, usually run the game in
pairs or small packs of three, al-
though one large pack of five dogs
has been seen running the animals.

Town dogs have been seen run-
ning deer as far as 13 miles from
Williams Lake,

The game department points out
that the onus is on the owner of the
dogs to keep them at home. Owners
of dogs that are running deer are
subject to a maximum fine of $300.

Game Wardens have the right to
dispose of animals caught running
game,

Of Favouring Larger Municipalities

Leng simmering resentment against the powerful Union

of B.C.

Municipalities flared into open warfare on the part

of local commissioners Tuesday night when the latest action

of the UBCM in regard to distri
and Municipal Aid Tax was dis

Specifically, the demands to the.
government that wili be made by the
UBCM are as follows: |

1. to reallocate the city and dis-
triet municipal share of the S.S.&
M.A. Tax by the provincial govern-
ment retaining 80 percent of such
pal share and distributing the
remaining 20 percent to the munici-
palities for general municipal pur-
poses

2. To divide the total costs of ed- |
ucation on a fixed percentage basis
of 80-20 as in the case of other lo-
cally administered social service:
that the provincial government will
absorb 80 percent of such total costs
and the school district 20 percent of
their respective local cost.

2
3.

To provide for deficiency grants
where necessary fur villages
other municipalities which, by rea-

1

son of their
bilities, are unable to provide a|
reasonable standard of local ser-

These recommendations were made
orginally by W. E. Hobbs ina lengthy
report made at the request of the
UECM, which has become familiarly
known as the ‘Hobbs Report.’

Instant objection to
mendations was taken by Commis-
sioner John Anderson who accused
the UBCM of in the in-
terests of the larger cities and muni-

ripalities in the provine: 1
GRANTS CUT j
Main objection to the UBCM pro-

bution of the Social Assistance
cussed.

Sa Se
posal on the part. of local commis
sioners and probably on the part of
all small villages is the tact that
with its adoption they would stana
to get 20. percent of their share of
the S.S.&M.A. Tax plus whatever
handout the government might de-
cide to give them.

Williams Lake received last year
somewhere in the neighborhood of
$9000 from the tax. Under the pro-
posed redistribution the Village
would receive $1800 plus the addi-
tional grant. But the grant would
be a fairly nebulous quality.

Only the larger cities and muni-
cipalities now pay a direct share of
educational costs. Villages like Wil-
, with a tax collection or
000 annually, are not ex-
pected to share in these costs or the

costs of ssistance, This al-
lows the the full use of their nt
share of the §.S.&@M.A. Tax for
village business.
OTHER RE

The
this res

government
such as a
With the

helped out with
share of the liquor tax.
implementation of the
sales tax however, their share from

grants,

this source replaced these other

| grants.

ADVOCATES BREAK
~The local commissioners are reg-

istering their own official objection
to the UBCM proposal and are cir-
culating other villages for support.

At the same time they are sug-
gesting that the villages break away
from the UBCM and form an associ-
ation of their own.

PROTEST ROAD ALLOWANCE
Commissioners will also seek an
amendment to the proposed bill of
the Public Works Department that
would make a 200-feet right-ot-way

mandatory along all major high-
ways.
The amendments sought would

be to except that part of a highway
within the limits of a municipality
and that within such limits, the
right-of-way be 100 feet,

The question was originally
| brought up by a local businessman
| who wanted the question clarified
on that section of Oliver Street that
now will form a secondary road en-
trance to town from the main Cari-
boo Highway. The answer was that
the bill already mention was coming
up for consideration and should it
Pass the 200-foot _rigat-o
| would apply in this case.
doubtful that this section
road would e:

ment that could not be developed.

The 200-foot right-of-way is de-
signed to stop ‘ribbon development’
along arterial highway, an argu-

ment with which the commissioners
/@greed, provided the right-of-way
was confined to unorganized terri
tory,

he deer and it ——
ler dogs haw a