NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO iliams Take Tribune .... 12-52 Volume 20 --- Number 14. WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, April 3, 1952 Single copy 10c, $2.50 per year. Three-Day Stampede Will Start Thursday This Year This year’s Stampede willbe a three-day affair, incor- borating two days of arena events and one day’s flat Tracing. Opening day will be Thursday, June 12th. These two changes in what had almost become standard Practices in former shows were finally adopted by the. Stam- pede Association last Friday night after several hours dis- cussion on the relative Hottest debate merits of each one. rned the sep- aration of the major flat racing | the meeting finally approved the sug events from the regular program.| gested set-up. with the finance committee quoting The swing away from opening the figures to show that fiffancially it| show on Wednesday met with less Was impractical to hold a three-day | argument. Thosé in favour of the show similar to last year's, i Faced with the apparent alterna- tive of a Stvaight two-day show if | would result in more outsiders being the program was to remain mixed, Lady Curlers Hold - Annual Banquet take in at least that day’s part of the program. Biggest headache facing the arena program committee will be how to Squeeze the growing entry list into two days again. It is practically a certainty that there will not be two Twenty-five members of the La- : f a@ayencaay ; i dies Curling Club attended the Be ae eee group's first annual banquet last ot eee night at the Elks Hall marking the |TOUN@) that will take twe days to Si oee acess soca complete. This will mean that con- Highlight of the evening was the| ‘®St#™ts Will only have one ride to “presentation of the two major club | ™2**- 3 trophies, the T.’W. E. Heary Chai.|_ Presenting the budget for the lenge Cup and the Hawker-Rottacker| 195? show, which is based on the club championship trophy. =X) previous stampedes, finance com- Mrs, T. Bishop’s rink of Mrs, ¥.|Mittee chairman Don Mars said the Matheson, Mrs, J. Anderson and Mieg| #8S0¢iation should break even on the Marlene Brett won the Henry Cup ang|*¥° 94¥s arena events and one day Mrs. L. M. Lunn’s rink of Mrs. g,| {at Tacing- Maxfield, Mrs. Joe Borkowski and COMMITTEES Mrs. W. Smith took the club cham-! 1 charge of drawing up the arena pion: events and the attendant problems Presentation of the trophies were |0f Stock and running off the events, made by Mrs, T. Ewing and Mrs. 3.| Wil be the responsibility of a com. Phillipson. Cups and saucers wer! Mittee consisting of George Felker, also presented to the top rinks, and| Cliff Overton, Pete Barker and second place rink members received | Stampede Manager Tony Woodland. pickioidiniess In. charge of concession this year Mrs. T. Bishop, president of the parade, Bill Sharpe Edmonton escaped a major di ister by only a few moments PLANE CRASH-LANDS, EDMONTON PROTESTS TO OTTAWA when e this chartered U.S. air force transport crash-landed on a city street. Th plane, chartered by Eldorado Mines, was piloted to a belly landing shortly after take-off. Had the pilot attempted to fly to safety, the plane would haye crashed into the heart of the ciy. No one was injured as the plane came to a stop a few yards from a row of houses, Criticism of safety tules for military aircraft has been voiced to Ottawa by Edmonton city council after investigation of the accident, Liberals Would ‘Extend P.G.E. Rail Link States: MacLean If the Liberal party is given the mandate to form the next provincial | government, he has every assurance that the PGE rail link to North Van- couver would be extended and work on the Cariboo Highway speeded up, Angus MacLean, MLA, told members of the Williams Lake Liberal Asso- ciation Monday night. Blame for the government’s seem- ingly conflicting policies on many of ©4 Saturday Ceatral Press Canadian BASKETBALL TOURNEY DATES CHANGED TO APRIL 19-20 Condition of the Cariboo Highway fovced cancellation last weekend of the Cariboo basketball tournament. Officials in charge of the tourney Local Forestry Office Changes More changes around the local| Cariuco Husuway psoviem have moved the date back to April| Forest'y office are taking place. Into private industry goes Assist-| He statea wat tere was omy une ant Ranger Fred Specht. who will. road iM -anytoing nxe tue cuuuiuon 19-20, and have notified competing: clubs to this effect. . Robt. Tressiera. Dies Suddenly take up a position in the field with Lignum Ld. Dispatcher Martin Phil- lips left the service April 1. Not finalized yet are the summer Moves of Assistant Ranger Reg Nor- berg and Miles Nicol of Alexis Creek. me of these men will be located in Puneral services will be conduct-| 2 4nd the other at Likely. morning for Robert the matters of provincial concern was AUSUStine Tressiera, member of a placed at the door of Coalition by tite Well-known district family, who died members, who explained that it had SU@denly Wednesday morning of a proved increasingly t tiesed ze S season. She expressed hope that the Stanstead tony, banquet, would become an annual) Woodland. : affair. Following the recommendation of Saturday night the Men’s Curling| the finance committee, the meeung Club closes off the season with a|decided to adopt a plan of hiring nership to agree With the rere Mr. MacLean said he believed that we would see a return to a more di-| Cc a ees Meyonnston when Thee home, | curred. His body was discoverea difficult for the, heart attack. My. Tressiera, who has Tanched in mey Creek atea all his life, thee Mrs. Just : | outside the door of the house about vernment, with the 0U 2 deny es aes 2 more im. 6 o'clock in the morning, He was 62 priv y we § portant part in formulating policy | ¥°4”s of age. jew Ada ae Boy Ulne iu Lue Lusty 'KENNEY QUTLINES ‘PLANNED WORK ‘UN HIGHWAY Making a tlymg tour of the prov Icy, Hew. wm. 4. neuuey, wmiuiscer of Fuvue Works supped il Quesnel Jeoeruay iuus euvusu LO Gistuss Lue Valiwuy nusuway ruven duu re Metuee AupUs Macucas slaccueLe luree Weens ago luaL auuinoua: work, Weulu ve uuu vn ie ivan verween Wenebaes aaa Windus Lane. Que Wuuster Statcu tuur 42 mies OL parva wuix Wouu ve suretcues Oo. ne miguway duu On tual ae berlauenty: located. suciuaed in tus weln Wi ve Sueicues near Kersicy. wuacauslel — biats, Yaucu wil ana a oL quesnel, Usuex seugths of the highway | Wouiw be giauca aud graveiicu, wr. pCuneuy Siaced. diaLy=ilve LuloUsmuL aouars is Work over tue Austrduad snore steven uuris Deng auocaiea ur ue 4uu above tue maiuen- auce Tunas tor the Nori Carivoo. “ne mister imumateu iuac a Secuna ruck crusber wouiu be socated oa tue Miguway tus summer aud Mat wu welermuned eniort to pur he Toad in suape equipment woud be Worming 10 uours « aay. Mr. heuney aumutea tuat the Was one OL Wwe Most Pressing I tne province. or our mam mgnway. ana toat was 4 small one on Stuart isiand. ‘rhe mister said nis department haw set up a speviar emergency rund , Ws Year ur Lwo million aoulars that ; Woulu ve ailucatea rouguiy on tne ; basis or the anhuai disime: grauis and used lor emergency repair worn. Kennedy Confident P.G.E, Rail Link Will Be Constructed O1 Wie Talway ves estenucu ie usu Vancouver is closer to reality a O. tue tne. TeVes tat Ute pOssiILIty— ‘or-mnis“operating™ along “the Per. which were not in existence a year g0, and their car requirements cut iuto tue supply available. While aamitting that he had con- banquet in the Elks Hall. Time is 7 p.m. Anglican Young People Form Club” Re-organization of the Anglican Young People’s Association in town will result from a meeting held Fri- day night in the Parish Hall. As there is a large group of young people in the 13 to 15-year age brac- ket interested in the club as well as older members, it was decided to form two sections. This will give poth groups more scope for the type of activities they prefer. A nominating committee consist ing of the Misses Norah Anderson, “Rosemary Hannah and ~ Marilyn Scott was nominated at Friday's meeting to brine nominations for an election of officers to be held April 3. Although only Anglicans can hold gatekeepers by the day for the show and to investigate the possibility of | t closing the new Seventh Avenue road during the Stampede. There will be little done to the Stampede grounds this year with the | t exception of whitewashing the pres- ent buildings. government. Lean said he had seen a member of ee He leaves to mourn his passing his han hey: Maye Under the iprevious) ier, “Mra: Hortelise Eueliah, two | sons, Simon and Frances of Williams 'P “ueSuts lo # Duara of ‘Lrade aeLe- Lake; four daughters, Grace and \ Seuun. - Dorothy at Tranquille, Miss Mary) 04:4 of Trade members met with era, Williams Lake, and Mrs.| MY. beuueay to uiscuss we proposed siderea resigning, Mr. Kennedy said that he has now changed his mind ana is anxious to see the railway cou- tinue south. auis v.ew Was expressed last week Speaking on the rail link, Mr. Mac- he railway committee that had rec- More interest began to be generated in town line parties setting their nomi: Political Parties Show Signs Of Pre-election Activity - in the forthcoming provincial Social Credit stalwarts moving their field of activities farther ommended the government postpone | jor Cas WUNAmS Lake, tnd Mrs. | ileal Tats 10 be eit@cune nee : (Gontinusd ony bask 'paee) thers, Charlie and Jack of Williams!‘e rauway commences -operaung Town Man Ss Brother Lake and Gabriel, Big Bar; one| #rougu to Prince George, ana aise half-brother, Otis English; four sis-} © iuquire imto the car situation Buried at Coast whicu has been a soufce of consid- eravie worry to local lumber oper- ; iors Feral services were conducted uesday in Vancover for s Un the matter of cars Mr. Ken- s ae a vere ~ oe ete at “aity. ‘br : heay claimed that much of the trou-| Mite tele ke wee ee = 2 of Williams Lake, who passed away bie is getting cars from Vancouver A is 79 Mareh 29 in his 72nd year. to Squamish by barge, ; ‘i i a Mr. Sloan is survived by his wife, He stated that it trequently took = “< Florence, three ‘s ons, Stanley and as 10ug as three days to move the ey. . cars, ad claimed Shai win || Robert of Vancouver and Elmer of h @ rail! san Gabriel, California; one daugh- ters, Mrs. M. Johnston, Mrs. Mary Kostring of Clinton,, Mrs. Agnes -| Preston of Laidlaw and Mrs. Annie Paxton of Alexis Creek. election this week, with the two old nating convention’ dates and PARLOW RETIRES DISTRICT FORESTRY south. The latter party has been sound- ing the drums around Quesnel aad |! Wells, but many local people will hear its political beliefs for the first ter, provincial organizer, appears on District 27 time Friday night when Peer Payn- sais ne on” be “accomplished | soy ars, K. Seney (Myrtle) of North Vancouver; seven grandchildren, and one other brother, Harry of Sidney. Australia; one sister, Mrs. Nellis Dempsey of Monrovia, Calif, and three sisters in Belfast. Ireland. ~ Gardner Boultbee, rancher and former of School Board, has beea mentioned as possible standard bear- x er for the Progressive Conservatives. | Cbanges in the personnel of the Kam- loops branch of the B.C, Forest Ser- CHANGES PLANNED Mr, Kenneay told the Board = Kamloops—There will be several] bers of the recent meeting of the government railway committee in Victoria. He said that a survey of Latest information on this comes office in the AYPA, young people of any denomination can become asso- ciate members. The association will meet once a week. Those attending Friday’s meeting also included the Misses Joan Field- Barbara Gardner and Marjory Mikkelson, Miss Helen Lee, one of the advisory co-organi: was also present, and Rev. Geo. Fielder con- ducted the meeting. the public platform to speak at a meeting in the Elks Hall. Liberals wil pick their candidate April 14th at their convention, with at least two men offering their names to the delegates. Two nights later the Progesssive Conservatives will meet to choose their man, the convention also being held in Williams Lake. The CCF seems to have dropped out of sight in the Cariboo, and there is a definite feeing that the party will not offer a candidate. In preyi- ous years the CCF has been strong- est in the Wells area, but that Min- ing town seems to have gone for er, Mrs. Brett Honoured Prior to Departure A tea sponsored by the Anglican W.A. was held at the home of Mrs. J. Anderson, last Wednesday, hono: ing Mrs. Gordon Brett, who left yes terday to make her home at Beaver- dell, B.C. Social Credit ‘lock stock and barr CANDIDATES The number of ‘possibles’ who will be offering their names to the vari- ous conventions seems to be still problematical. Sitting Member Angus MacLean from our Bridge Lake correspond- | viee upon retirement of District For- end, ‘John Ross, who quotes an ‘ex-/ ster Col. Alan B. Parlow on Ap il cellent authority’ in reporting this 1. after 32 years with the forestry week that Mr. Boultbee will allow department. iis Ghtie To etna: FP. Swannell of Prince George The name of Alex Fraser from the PGE made in 1945 recommend- ed that the extension southward be made when the volume of traffic handled reached four times that of 1945. He said that level had now been attained, will be the new district forester for Quesnel has been mentioned, but it| ‘6 Kamloops area, while W. C was-léarnea from that centre | Phillips, former assistant district terday that Mr. Fraser does not feel | forester here, will _ become distric he can devote the time dway from | forester at Prince George. Mr. Swan- his expanding business : nell used to be with the Kamloops Two Wells men have been men-| ranch a few years.ago. J. R. John- tioned as’ possible Social Credit as-|St0M, who has been in charge of fire pirants; L. B. North and J. A. Mc-| Protection in the Kamloops district Kelvie. assistant dis t forester this area, Also coming to Kamloops is E. Gov't. To Investigate! ..°1,c2m"s, '@, Remorse will be in eha of timber sales. J Bella Coola Route for C, Payne will move from the Kam- sent to Leila Coola this year to in-| Col Parlow came to Kamloops just Co-hostess at the tea was Mrs. G. Blackwell and Mrs. A..Haddock pre- sided at the urns, Serviteurs were Mrs. F. Bass and Miss Helen Lee. Mrs. Brett will join her husband at Beaverdell, a small mining com- munity between Penticton and Kel- owna. Mr. Brett has been at Beaver- dell for two months as master me- chanie in charge of equipment at a/ rumoured, but not confirmed. Sour: large silver mine. The Bretts have! es in Quesnel say it is highly unlike- resided in Williams Lake for the Past, ly that there will be any others from four years. : ; | that end of the constituency. will be a definite contender for the Liberal nomination, with a lot of strength from Quesnel and Wells delegates. This week Benny Abbott, local hotelman, announced his in- | tention of allowing his name to. be i put before the convention as well, and there are several tt%er names vestigate the possipilitics of a route | |linking the valley with the Chileotin | Purpose of the inv | ascertain whether it is build a road over the route that was) loops h found by the Beila Coola Board of | non, assistant district forester for | Trade last year. |the southern Interior with head- | Recently the Board circularized quarters at Nelson, assistant district other provincial. trade groups, in-| forester in Vancouver, and then 4 | cluding the iocal one, to gain sup-) trict forester in Prince Rupert. Prior | port in their endeavors to have an) to World War I he served with the | outlet road constructed. ‘dominion forestry department, prior to World War II. He 6 Forestry Corps r to coming was district forester at Ver- p for the past two years, becomes the| loops. branch to Nelson to take| An engineer's crew from thé De-| charge of timber sales in that dis-| partment of Publie Works will be| trict. ed in) voWu the central Interior, touching ind in World War, Wuesuel and Williams Lake on its to Kam-| it is the heavy increase in traffic that is contributing to the ear short- GAS EXPORT ‘LINE APPROVED | Another development for the north was seen in the announcement today that the Alberta Oil Conser | Company to pipe natural ine reace River country. gas froin Last fall this company announced sUS gas ume route woud be tarougn tile Fine Pass to Prince George and Way south | Omeiais of the company stated | today that a year and a half after the first work starts ou the new pipe- line, Vancouver will be serviced with gas. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Sloan were in Vancouver for the funeral. Cariboo Old Timer Passes at Coast One of the few remaining links with the Cariboo gold,rush days was severed Saturday with the.deafh in Vancouver of Mrs. Annie Helen Mor- timer,, in her 86th year. Mrs. Mortimer was born at Bar- kerville in 1866, when that centre was a sprawhng makeshilt eity, the centre of a rich goid producing area. Her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. thaniel Mason, had come across Canada to we Cargoo in a covered wagon. Mason later be- came one of the first members of the British Columbia jegissature. Leaving Barkerville after their marriage, Mrs. Mortimer and her husbana, operaied we 4Ziue Stop- ping house. Her brother, Ned Mason, who will be 92 this year, lives ac Williams Lake. M Mortimer, who resided in | The application, together With the Board's uecision, will have to be ap- proved by the Alberta government before work can start on the project. | Vancouver the past 30 years, is aiso survived by her daughter, Sirs. | Marie V. Steele, Vancouver, and tour | grandchildren, ; for