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THE TRIBUND, WILLIAMS LARS, 3.6,

Thuraday, July 16, 188g

THE TRIBUNE

Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C.
Py The Tribune Publishing Co,
Clive Stangoe, Raitor
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The Responsibility

No other riding in the Province accorded one man an

heavier Majority on the first ballot count than went to Ralph
y: speaking pro- 29.

here

the fact that the voters: wer
fed up with the old-line parties, but here it Was different.
Party die-hards will still claim that Mr.

his victory to the protest vote, but when a man obtains more
than double the number of votes his Closest opponent can

boast, there >is more than a protest vote involved.

Chetwynd can undoubtedly lay claim to much of his record

Support to the fact that the people knew him, and felt that h
would make a good representative,

In so doing, they have placed a heavy responsibility on 47. Let it stand ZY
the M.L.A.-elect. Mr Chetwynd will now have to prove that OWN 3st
the people’s confidence was not misplaced. Not having been 1. Walling Be |
in public life before he. will not have the opportunity to rest sticle om
on his past laurels: at the same time he will not have to make |
excuses for. past mistakes The slate is clean. The history 2a

of our new member’s activities in the next legislature will

decide his political future.

If the Social Credit party forms the next government,
no one MLA will have any greater opportunity to make his

Voice heard than Mr. Chetwynd

he will be the spokesman for a district that has embarked on

a period of expansion along with
terior. The eyes of big business

this stage of watching to one of active
economy.
And the Cariboo will be watching you, Mr. Chetwynd

Not looking for mistakes and flaws, but with the hope that the

confidence the voters showed in you was not misplaced.
Good luck, Mr. Chetwynd! >

The Situation Needs Clarifying

We think that the local Board
District Engineer Ray Cunliffe’s offer at providing
assistance in its Proposed investigation of road conditions and
the public works administration locally.

We say this not in the vindictive hope that such an invest-
series of exposes of mal-administra-
ill satisfactorily clear op a growing
public relations between the department and the

igation will result in a
tion, but rather that it w:
case of poor
people # serves.

Phere is no use trying to gloss over this feeling of dis-
the dis-
1 Most o% them, evi-s|
District Engineer or the Divisional Engin-

Satisfaction. The people who have to travel over
L side roads are thoroughly fea up.
dently, blame the
eer. Some of them blame Victoria and
weather. There is also a small segment who blames the log-
ging companies, and according to Mr. Cunliffe, these people
could be correct.

The answers to these questions are what should be made
bublic, and the Board of Trade has the opportunity. It wili
take a lot of work. A lot of the stories one hears, are
doubtless only stories. Trying to get to the source of them
will often times be difficuit, if not impossible.

But the results of such an investigation should clear
the air considerably. If the present feeling of antagonism
continues it could conceivably harm the careers of two senior
officials in the government service. On the other hand, the
condition of the roads at present is working a hardship on
those who have to use them and to resort owners who depend
on the roads being passable for their livelihood.

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From the Files

ONE YEAR AGO
July 12, 1951

Premier Byron Johnson is of the
opinion that the Quesnel Hydro De-
velopment will be established on the
North Fork of the Quesnel River—
Archie Brown, son of Harry Brown|
at Qcesnel—The Village of Williams |
Lake received a total of $9,117 as its|
share of the Social and
Municipal Aid Tax—Ken Huston, son |
of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Huston of
Williams Lake, suffered severe brui-|
ses and lacerations when he was

every |

q| Struck and run over by a truck at|
Prince George— A school will be
epened at Big Lake in the fall—Local
Softhallers split honors with the top
team in the Prince George city league
by dropping the opener 20-21 and
winning the second tilt.4-2— A tour-
ing team of Pro-Rec gymnasts will
i is in the Elks be aed)
ors from athe S| iz.

of Springhouse took the bulk of the
prize money offeréd -at Quesnel’s
Dominion Day race meet— The first
annual summer camp to be operated
from Rosary Hall will open next week
— Margaret ah Henn of Victoria
became the bride of Orville B. stow-
ell of Meldrum Creek— Twenty dis-
trict boys have been appointed Jun-
for Forest Wardens for 1951 by the
Canadian Forestry Association— The
Big Creek field day held at Flete:
Lake was favored with a perfect day
and a large crowd. Bruce Watt won
the prize in the target shoot—

FIVE YEARS AGO
July 10, 1947

The first chest X-ray Mobile Unit
11 be at Williams Lake July 22 to
— Cariboo organizations unite in|
sending protests and appeals to offi-|
cials of the Dominion Government|
Telephone and Telegraph System re-
garding the increased tolls— The
president of the War Memorial Soci-
ety expressed the hope that the Centre
would be completed in time for use|
this winter— Louis Bates, who took
the prize’ for best all-round cowboy
here, came second at Kamloops. only
two points behind Slim Dorin;
’. Neville, M.D. ar-
| Tived to take up practice along with]
Dr. L. B. Avery

choice beef animals
shipment and slanghter— A surprise
Mrs.

Farty paid tribute to Mr. ana
Harold Richardson who were
brating their tw enty-fifth anni:

— A regatta and dance will be

at the Cariboo Youth Camp in Lac|

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Letter to the Editor

To The Editor

What happened to
on Dominion Da
day it should be flown proudiy, so
that we should see and recogniz

message it brings to us all,
think we could learn a les

eur neighbors to the south of ns, for
[1 am sure there isn't a vills , or
| hamlet in U.S.A. that didn’t have
|The s and Stripes” flying their

day, July 4th.

| I woula su

st, if everyone else is

foo busy, that the Legioh take over
[and see that it isn't forgotten ano
ther Dominion Day, so that new

| Canadians, with the ola
pride to a Flag, that takes no second
place with any other in the world. |

| How about it? |

point with

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28. Pehavior

CROSSWORD.

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| (in the Powell
See -
First use of the alternative voting
system in a B.C. election has brought) ar

forth a wave of criticism against the

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being unwarranted. Never, in fact,

Hear Andeher

Viewpoint.

“ALTERNATIVE VOTING”

River News)

Saddest people after the election
re those who failed to give proper

thought to the mechanics of alterna-
alternative vote because of the con-| tive voting and hoped to improve’ the
h_is indicated from last! chances of their candidate ‘by mak-

week’s election returns and the| ing ‘a single choice. Those who voted

likelihood, that no party will be able| for one of the disqualified can-

38. Touchea to form a government. didates now find they have thrown
ay piemet A careful study of results through-| away a ‘chance to back their own
Teasire out the province. however, should! philosophy with another candidate
43. Cushion reveal criticism of the system as/ who supports it in principle, 3

has it had a better
its value.

The alternative vote has had no-
thing to do with the distribution of
Seats by parties. This contusion
would have resulted from any form
of voting.

True fact of having to wait an-
ether three weeks for the ouccome
fo be decided is an unsatisfying
feature but certainly it is a more
ittractive proposition than to have
members elected to the government
who have the support of only a small
percentage of the electorate.

Outcome of the first count in Mac-
Kenzie riding presents a picture that
is repeated in many of the ridings
throughout the Province. The lea-
der, after counting first choices has
a total of less than 4,000 yotes. There
were in MacKenzie! more than 17,000
qualified voters. Under the old sys-
tem of voting, the top man would be
declared elected, although he has |
the support of less than 25 per cent
of the qualified voters,

The candidate who emerges on
top after the third count will
clearly represent the choice of the
majority of voters for the kind of
political philosophy they support.

There is in the province only one
major split between the four major
Parties in the field. That is between
free enterprise and socialism. The
Province has prospered under the
free enterprise system and it would
not be right to change the whole
principle of government with the
Support of oniy one-quarter of the
voters. On the other hand, if the
Majority favor socialism after the
counting is all over, then the repre-
sentative has the added satisfaction
that he is not just representing a
minority group, elected on the
Strength of a split in the opposing
camp.

chance to prove

of the Tribune
La Hache— The RCMP issues a war-

ping concerning a revival of the
“Mexiean Prisoner Swindle"—

RS AGO
July 13, 1942

A proclamation made all men between
the ages of 20 and 40 years inclusive,
who were either single or childless
widowers on July 15, 1940, subject
to compulsory military service—
Owing to a shortage of water, sprink-
ling Was restricted to one hour per
day— C. R. D. Ferris, photographer
for the B. h Columbia Travel Bu-
yeau, was in Williams Lake shooting
pictures of the town and lake to add
to the motion picture he is making of
historic and notable places of the
riboo— John Wall, age 67, of Ris-
ke Creek, diedat the War Memorial
Hospital— R. I. Walters is now sole
cwner of the store at Likely with his
son Lloyd in charge— An exception-

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TWENTY YEARS AGo
July 14, 1932

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At the annual meeting of the
ratepayers of the Williams Lake
School it was decided that families
who do not pay taxes for school pur-
Poses and have children attending
the school, should be assessed: at the
vate of $12.00 per per family—
The marriage took place of Miss
Isabelle Grinder to Mr. Gaoriel Tre-
sierra— Death took place of George
Moore,-son of G. W. Moore of Chim-
ney Creek— Sylvia Christina. infant
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. G.
ght, and Barbara Jean, infant
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Par-
minter, were baptized at a service
at 137-Mile.

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