Willia m NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO 32-82 ( yrerker 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 (Continued on back page) 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