7 SS, wes Thursday, April 24, 1952. Single copy 10c, $2.50 per vear. Chetwynd Will Run -As Socred Ca Sixty delégates to the first ndidate Soc‘al Credit party nominat’ng [NEW FIRM TAKING OVER OLD MAXWELL PROPERTY Bill Wiedeman, gwner of the ma- convention to be held insthe Cariboo, picked Ralph Chetwynd. shite shop that bears his name, has PGE public relations man to carry the party banner in the! announced the formation of a new coming provincial election when they met in Quesnel Tues‘iay. ;company, Two other nominees were placed , Cariboo Machine and Welding, that will commence opera- ~ before the meeting, James McKelvie from any mud slinging, let's keep tions the first of May. of Wells and Peer VY. Paynter, prov- Politics on the level where it be- With Mr. Wiedeman in the new ineial organizer for Social Credit. Mr longs.’”” He also urged party mem- Company, as a full partner, will be MecKelvie declined the nomination, and although Mr. Paynter allowed his name to stand, he practically , eliminated himself by speaking in favour of Mr. Chetwynd as a candidat who would probably do more for the the party at the polls because of his long-time residence here. In thanking the meeting. which included another 50 supporters who ‘were not official delegates, Mr. Chet- wynd said that the heavy responsib- ilities that went with the nomination would not be taken lightly. As he has been a resident of the hers to refrain from “plumping,” in the voting, that is using only one thoice in the transferable vove. “Put down all your choices insthe order that you Want them. If you aren’t able to get the government you wish, then by all means get the next best choice.” Mr. Kennedy stated that the transferable vote was tne fair means of expressing the will of the majority. Campaigns Short © province since 1912, he said he felt of Obi a that he was well acquainted with the jectives problems of the people of British Columbia and that his extensive trav- elling in connection with his Hason work wth the PGE had also assis-ed in gaining this understanding. Mr. Chetwynd said he was in full accord with the convention’s resolu- tions and particularly with the one that called for completion-of the PGE rail link with Vancouver and north from Prince George to the Peace. He praised Mr. Kennedy's able administration of the province owned line. “The Pacific Great Eastern Rail- way has long been a political football and it is high time the people did something about taking the railroad ‘out of the football field”, the speaker told the meeting. Speakking on his own behalf, Mr. Chetwynd stated that he would not ~ he bought or frightened and would fight for the rights of the individual, ‘He went on id-eay that he baa oned! been sued- for $100,000 damages in) a lible suit because he had made cer- tain statements in defence of the live 3 stock men, “Fortonately aver « cos] DRIVERS’ TESTS rearing we won the ase, however T from end th: completed. Two campaigns that are running concurrently are both about fifty per‘ cent short of their objectives, accor-' ding to reports from canvass mana- gers. : Don Bingham, campaign manager for the Conquer Cancer campaign, reports that Monday night’s tanvass netted just over $500. Objective for the town and district is $1000. Twenty-five volunteers from town organizations took part-in the one-- night drive. Still to be canvassed is the commercial district and re- ports from rural areas have yet to be received, The month-long campaign of the Red Cross in the district has on! realised $1094, according to cam- paign manager Tom Denny. is $2000, which was just oversub-! seribed in last year’s drive. Some rural districts have still to be heara, ei would not hesitate to do the same AGAIN THIS JUNE again for any group or peoples,” he asserted. ‘The speaker stated he agreed whole- hheartedly that the success of the province depended to a great extent on the success of the individual and thar he believed the Social Credit party would ensure that success. DOMINION ORGANIZER The convention opened with a brief talk by Orvis Kennedy, domin- -ion organizer, who related the suc- cess of the party’s organization in| the Peace River block and titough- out the province as a whole. Men from the Motor Vehicle Branch testing division will be in Williams Lake again this June to carry out drivers’ examinations. Dates will be June 2 to 6, inclus- ive, with the office in the Court House being open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. The unit will stop here again June 24 and will be open from 1 to 5 p.m. This year the testing division states that it is not necessary to have ommercial’ drive to, be 3 f Roy Williston, a welder of 12 years experience, who worked for Rottac- ker Bros. garage before that busi- mess was destroyed by fire. The new company has acquired blacksmith shop at the corner of Yorston and Railway, and intends to carry out extensive alterations on the buildings. The new company will handle ma- chine and welding work of all kinds and is adding a new drill press and key seater to existing equipment A large stock of different types of steel and bearings will be carried to speed up repair work for district com- panies. The company will also continue with the agency for Industrial En- gineering saws and will handle re- pairs of any make of saw. | Mr. Wiedeman, who has spent 19 years at his trade of machinist, has -been in business here for just orer three years. He took his original training at Peterborough, Ontario |with General Electric, ‘following a trade that his father and grandfather before him followed. The partner- ship of the two men is a culmination of a friendship that started when they both served in the armed ser- | vices during the last war. awa Prince Wins Rough Hoop Series Here *prntee George “heopsters @usiet? | out their own brand of mayhem on the weekend to plough their way to the Cariboo senior men’s basketball championship. The northern squad staged a last quarter rally in their first game of the tourney with Quesnel to overtake their opponents and wind up in front 36-32. In the meantime Williams Lake Elks scored an easy 50-27 win | over Wells and the stage was set for the final battle Sunday. Checking got so stiff in Sunday’s final that the visiting club played the last four minutes of the game with only four men on the floor. Beighbor of Mr. Thygeson’s near|the Cariboo Social Credit Associa- | With six men in strip and two. of them sitting out the final minutes be- cause of an-accumulation of five per- an appointment to be examined. If souals Prince just didn’t have en- you have been missed before and do ough players to go around. yen with this advantage, however, the Mr. Kennedy urged all members not receive a card notifying you to to refrain from criticising the other parties in the field or any of their gandidates. “Above all else, refrain School Poster appear this year, you many get your examination by just appearing at the Court House. The unit is also trying to obtain. accommodation at the 100 Mile in order to handle drivers in the south. locals couldn't close the margin and the game ended up 46-2 Top girls team was the Quesnei entry, which breezed past the local- ites 40-17 and then went on to defeat Prince in the finals 29-16. Contest to Highlight ‘Pound Day’ Here Twenty dollars in prize money will be offered for a poster contest among district school chi dren on the theme of National Hospital Day, or ‘Pound Day’ as it is familiarly known. The contest is under the sponsor- ship of the Ladies Auxiliary to the War Memorial, and posters will be | displayed in local stores to make the public conscious of Pound Day, which will be observed here May 17. Students: in Grades Seven, Eight and Nine will be elegible to enter the contest, and children of St. Joseph's Mission have also been invited to compete. First prize in the contest will be $10, second prize’ 36, and third prize $4. The contest judging will take place May 24 and judges will be J. A. C. Long and Mrs. A. H. Bayne. The prize money is being offered by the War Memorial Hospi- tal Board. On Pound Day the Hospital Auxili- ary will serve tea in the main hoatd room and the hospital will be open for public inspection, Auxiliary committee members ia charge of Pound Day observance where are Mrs. Len Hellyer and Mrs. Stewart Smith, 1 Joe and Steve Deshane are visiting in Vancouver. | Star Boarders. .-. Cariboo moose know a good thing when they see it, as the above pictures prove. Early last winter on R. Church’s ranch at Big ‘Creek, Adam Wroblewski and Bill Johnson began 10 give a bull moose and a cow and her two calves their breakfast of hay. Vhe animas became so tame that ti would come from far out in the timber at the sound of Adam’s voice and walk right up and feed out of a person’s hand, With the approach of spring the animals left their human benefectors. but before this happened the bull and cow were marked with makeshift identification plates suspended around their necks, The plates bear the names of Mr. Wroblewski and Mr. Johnson. On the left is shown Adam’s wife, Victoria, feeding the cow and one of the calves and the one on the right shows how moose often kneel down on their long fore- legs to reach the ground more readily. the premises of the old Sam Marwick |] Daylight Saving ekend wrong wilh the instructions on how td reach that happy state ot} Daylight Saving Time. | Well, hete we go: Daylight Saving Time he- comes effers!¥e Sunday, April 27, at 12.01 a.m, One'second its 12:00 /p’m. Saturday ana the next its 1:09'a.m. If you ~ don’t waft to Stay up until tnidnight, move your clock ahead ne hour betore you with the rest of the world |; when you wake up. | Pioneer of The West Passes In Vancouver Worsefly and Williams Lake old- timers lost another friend of earlier days Easter Monday when Hdward Thygesen passed away in Vancouver in his 89th year, Although Mr. Thygesen was an oldimer in the Cariboo, having taken up a ranch at Horsefly in 1914, he was! fifty years of age at the time and his hardest frontier life was be- hind him. i Born in Wisconsin, young Thyge- Sen at the age of 16 came overland ei; pis*narents to take up govern- t Dakote s to have many brushes with Indians and eventually built up ranch that ran 700 head. | As a youth he worked on a ranch 15, miles below the Canadian border, driving a four-horse team for pro- Visioning Canadian soldiers in the tween 10 the southbound passengeY train went bring the line up to grade. i ; STOPPED TRAFFIC TO NORTH “Williams Lake became the northern terminus of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway this week as traffic was haulted ‘by a fill slide at Whiskey Creek canyon, 12 miles north of here. The slide occurred be-' 0 Saturday night when through and seven o'clock Sunday "| ner will{doubtiess bs perus- hanging suspended over the canyon ing thes\ lines with morbid | sent 17-year-old Jimmie Melville) '] “Interest {@ seewhat we can do Lurrying to the ranch of Ray Har- greayes to send out a warning. Jim- height they will add a trestle to Mr. Valde said this morning that Readels of this snnual cor- levine when the sight of steel rails it is hoped to have the work complet ed by next Friday at the latest. In the meantime perishables, ex press and ail freight less than car- load lots are being unloadsd here mie, who lives near the scene of the|and moved to Quesnel by freight slide, was the first one to discover it. ! t Normally Whiskey Creek pours through a 24-inch culvert at the base ot the fill, but it is believed the cwl- yvert plugged and the swollen creek waters seeped through the fill base, causing it to start sliding into the canyon. The fill itself sheared away and finally the tracks broke away to sprawl down the raw slope. Here ana there along the cut’ bank broken retire and you'll be ‘in time jPiles of the original 250-foot trestle that spanned the canyon showed through. Thé fill was put in about Daylight Saving remains in 1935 around the then existing/ effect until September 28. trestle. Company superintendent Bill Stewart, who will remain here until repairs are affected, praised tbe ac- tion of Jimmie Melville in reporting Se, |the slide Although the next train, a Tentative Stampede Si ee Racing Card Listed | freight, was not due until Sunday afternoon, Mr. Stewart said there was always the possibility that the damage might not be discovered in time to prevent a serious accident. The train crew would haye*had lit- Tucks. ALEXANDRIA Railway officials feared for a time early this week that the Alexandria fill would be washed out too. Water rose in the small creek there to a depth of 55 feet and crews had to divert it and place two pumps into Dosition to ease the pressure. The water was rising at a rate of eight inches an hour but the pumps mav- aged to control this rise and officials feel that the danger mark is passed there: Had the fill gone ont the rush- ing waters would haye undoubtedly taken out the Alexandria highway bridge as well. ed ~t00,- According to a tentative racing card lined up for the final day pro- tle chance to stop coming from the|gram of this year’s Stampede there north, as the road takes a sharp curve just before crossing the fill. The company swung bridge and building crews into action and are The race committee's purses will be 10 flat races with cunsider- able higher owners to try for. for racehorse andings to effect repair: 6 Row using four bulldozers and from /must be approved by the Stampede men working double shifts | executive, but the publication of dis- At the scene direct- is Bridge and Building gram was authorized to give owners E tance and appearauce on tie pro- ing the work e operation is Engineer 9: tenance Ben Valde. SY Using the bulk of the fill that still remains, .crews are pushing sidehills into the ravine higher up, where is-it not as deep. When they reach the top of the present fill Riel Rebellion. Mr. Thygeseu saw Riel and describes him as a big man of 40 or 50, dressed like an Indian with moccasins, leggings, and buck- | | skin coat. \ In an interview he once told a meeting Jesse James. The infamous train robber’s son Frank was al Minot, N.D., and it was there that he met Jesse. North Dakota was Indian territory and the pioneer said that around Fort Stevens and vicinity there were 10,000 Indians and. a guard had to be maintained at all,times to pro- tect the- settlers. | Early in the century Ed. Thygesen sold his ranch and moved to Belling- ham, Washington and then to North Vancouver. Then he decided to go back to ranching and came to the Cariboo in 1914. In later ars ne lived in Williams Lake and in 1947 he moved to Vancouver. Funeral services for the late Mr. Thygesen were conducted from Nunn | & Thompson Funeral Home, Van- couver, April 21, with Rev. D. Smith of Collingwood United Church offi- ciating. Interment was in Mountain View Cemetery. He leaves to mourn his passiny two sons, Orval of Seattle and Julien of Horsefily; two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. JUNE START SUGGESTED ON FEDERAL BUILDING Work on the new Federal Build- ing will probably start around the first of June, according to R. Fon- berg, travelling engineer fox the Dominion Department of Public Works who was in Williams this morning taking soil samples at the | site of the proposed buildin; | The engineer passed on the in- Rhodes. | formation to Postmaster Cece ICE GOES OUT AT NORMAL TIME | The ice went out on Williams Lake April 19. | ‘This movement is just about nor- |mal, according to recorder J. D. Smedley, who states that the aver- age time is around the middle of the month, | formed. Gibson’ Landing sugg Edmunds Heads Socred Association Harold Edmunds, Macalister rancher was named first president of tion at the party’s nominating con- vention at Quesnel Tuesday. Vice-presidents of the organiza- tion represent every corner or the far-flung riding. They are Jaines Me- Kelvie of Wells. William Fawcett of Quesnel, Tony Woodland of Williams Lake and J. Mackenzie of Cinema. Secretary-treasure is Bert Lloyd of Williams Lake. It was just too dusy a night Satur- day for the War Memorial Society to draw a turnout at the group’s an- nual meeting. The postponed meet- gf Jim Bolger and oversee, goo%a chance to start trainiag. cif i S'program and purses will be publish-—— ed next week. Y% Mile Open — Chileo Ranch Stakes—6 furlongs. Alkali Lake Stakes (Cariboo-bred only)—1 mile. Williams Lake Stakes— Cariboo Stakes—6 furlongs Cattlemen’s Derby bred only)—%4 mile. Circle S Derby—% mile. Chileo Ranch Stakes—%%4 mile. Cariboo Derby—1 mile. Consolation—% mile. All races, unless otherwise stated, are ‘open’ races. These open races exclude only horses that are racing on the coast or prairie cireuits. Entries must be in the hands of the race committee by 12 o'clock noon, June 12. Purses in all races will be con- siderably higher this year. The ten tative amount for all the ahove races. and including the Mountain Race, will total $1300. The Mountain Race and other novelty races will be run on the two days preceding the flat race meet and will be included in the arena ing will be held Friday, May 2. program. Villages Answe ring Local Suggestion of UBCM Break Answers from villages throughout the province t» 7" local commissioners’ governing bodies break away cipalitie are gradually coming At Tuesday night’s meeting let- ters were read from Comox, Uibson’s Landing, Princeton and Lillooet. As was reported in last week’s is- sue, Lillooet is in favour of the move. Princeton approved Williams Lake's stand and expressed a wish to be host to the organizational meeting of the new body if and when it was sted that before such a drastie move was considered, the possibility of corm- ing a village group within the frame- work of the UBCM be explored. Comox considered it had always had fair treatment from the UBCM buc vas interested in hearing more rea- sons for Williams Lake's recom- mendation SEWAGE SYSTEM A full sewage system tor Wil- liams Lake would cost in the neigh- borhood of $82,445, according to an recent suggestion that these 1 from the Union of B.C. tun in with varying reactions for the commissioners. Plan or the system is now going to the provincial Department of Health, for approval. Cellection of the sewage, that is the network of the sewer iines to service the town, would cost $41,017 | and disposal, including septic tanks, dosing tank, filter bed and secting tank. would cost $24,939. Estimates and plans for the sy: tem were ordered prepared by the commissioners with an eye to the future. Before such a sy be financed, a public meeting have to be held and then a money by-law passed. PERMITS Two business permits were applied for and granted. One is to operate a second-hand store in the premises | now oceupied by Cariboo Gold | Jewellery, taken out by Sam Bro-n | and the other was issued to Cariboo , estimate prepared by J. C. A. Long} Machine and Welding company.