THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, August 7, 1952 Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C. By The Tribune Publishing Co. Established 1931 Clive Stangce, Editor Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association British Columbia Division, C.W.N.A. Subscription: per year ........... $2.50 Outside Canada . $3.00 Payable in Advance ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION Authorized as Second Class il vy the Post Office Department, Ottawa Come, Coine, Miss Taylor If Miss Dorothy Taylor, the coast daily publisher whose opinions of the Cariboo we printed last week, had only the intention of bringing our road conditions to the government’ attention when she wrote her blast, we can condone her prin- ciples, if not her method. We agree with her statements about the roads, but wheu about the tourist accommodation in the Cariboo instead of defining the condition along the highway i we believe she is only spreading propaganda that is unfounded. It is true that accommodation is difficult to find along the highway and in centres such as Williams Lake, particular- ly if the traveller waits until dusk before deciding to stop for the day. This is a natural condition in a country that is ex- Deriencing a healthy growth. It is almost impossible, for example, in Williams Lake to find accommodaton: for a perm- anent resident, let alone a tourist. For the traveller though, tha wants to spend a few days enjoying the country, this is ne problem at all. There are many excellent lodges in the district that make it their business to cater to the tourist. Miss Taylor comlains about the food. Here again she is undoubtedly letting isolated experiences colour her writing. There are some restaurants and coiiee shops along the road from New. Wesiminste to Williams Lake that oifer poor food and service. There are others that offer the traveller just the opposite. We know — we travel the road too. There are few places in the entire country, let alone the Cariboo, that place heaping platters of food before the travel- ding public as was the general rule along the Cariboo Highway 23 years ago. But get off the highway into the country, Miss Taylor. We can take you to places in our district where this method of serving dinner to the public, as guests of the establishment, jis still the order of the day. Where you can eat until you can barely move away-from the table and your hostess will insist on you having another helping. And the cost is reasonable, it doesn’t take the better part of a five- dollar bill, as a comparable double-order would cost you in the city. You can’t live in the past, Miss Taylor. Don’t return to a country 23 years later and expect to find everything unchanged. As far as districts and towns are concerned, it is an inescapable fact that as they grow in population, either permanent or transient, the friendly ‘neighborly’ attitude is harder to find. paticularly on the surface. The writer can even remember. when the town of New Westminster was q friendly little burg ~ -where everyone knew everyone else. If you think you town still that way, Miss Taylor, you are sadly mistaken, Worthy of Support Whatever the eventual outcome of the proposed sewerage by-law, this year’s commissioners deserve a lot of credit for the work they are doing in its preparation. There will undoubtedly be speculation on the part of Property owners as to the advisability of its adoption, since they will have to foot-the bill. The question they will have to ask themselves is whether this cost will retiect favourably in the increased value of their rea] estate. We believe it will. It is no news to the property owner that the problem of sewage disposal in Williams Lake is an acute one in most sections of town due to the nature of soil composition. With no suitable drainage stratas, septic anks have to be pumped out regularly. at no small annual cost. Those now served by the effluent drains had this headache removed, but these drains serve only a small portion of town, and their continual use is posing a disposal bed problem that will have to be remedied soon by the Village. Cost of the sewerage system here will be fairly steep on a unit basis because of the comparatively small population within the area to be served. It is not, however, too small, according to the precedent set by the tiny village of McBride. With a population of 560, McBride has 1% miles of sewer, according to the latest issue of the B.C. Municipal Year Book. Necessity is of paramount importance in considering this expenditure. The town is in definite need of a sewerage system and this need should be sufficient to warrant its acceptance Provided cost is within reason Lacking... Experience What must have occurred to everyone who read tie recently-published thumb-nail sketches of the men who have been entrusted with the operation of British Columbia’s gov- ennment is the lack of administrative e perience that exists ernment is the lack of adniinistrative experience that e ists in their ranks. This doesn’t have to be too much of a detriment, unless the new government tries too many brand-new policies before its members have a chance to acquire the quality, however. Running the $150,000,000-a-year busin: ss of our province is important to all of us. It would be catastrophic if our newly- appointed managers have not the ability to do it properly. In the Cariboo we will now have one advantage in ow perennial struggle to get the PGE extended into Vancouver. With the Hon. Ralph Chetwynd holding the railways portfolio, there will be no excuse for us not knowing the government’s intentions with regard to this all-important route. Jan Mikler Manufacturer of Exclusive Upholstered Furuiture Williams Lake. From Another Viewpoint ’ iA THIS WEEK’S CROSSWORD ACROSS GOWN 19 Kindéfnut = 1. Little 1. Road of Jamaica “THEY DON'T NEED RUADS” quarrel 2. Emits freely (pl) (in the Finaucial Post) as 5. Foreman 3. Gifts to 22. Molytde- See = 2 Bales 3 é the poor num (sym.) We've all heard about the im- again, then put to work hacking out Indien res = ao ove Back Page Portance of the freight airplane to full-scale airtields that can handle 11 Morsel 5) Immense family Hee Solution development of the Canadian North. the big craft to come. 2 oes : gorges i 26. ed of But few are familiar with the full x Spresd ou! “to bet gni | of jelly BOnewhe” “sy ances scope and significance of recent | 14 A battle ‘saves 28. Calm and developments. formation 11. Fellow peaceful 37. Coins To Ungava freight rates have been 15 Mix 13. Weaponsof 30. Perform (Peru) lashed f 73 ti = 16. Roman defense 31. Portions 39. Largest. five canteen Doundiety money 18. Hawaiian 32. Assist continent five cents. There are equally im- a Steal bird 35. A stud 41. Born pressive cuts on other northern . Male cat 22. Point (abbr.) pputees Tees 22. Secure, ag D iF EP [= Ie Ss |i ]e What's happening? a vesse be Really big freight planes are now ie Bitter veteh ?: available and they bring very im- 4 uce s ; 25. Orgen of Mm portant economies. hearing Secondly, the air age has found a 27. Tree 4 way of cutting out one enormous 9 ae - x expense — roads. 31 Shilling. It’s this way: The primary reason (abbr. ) a 35 for building the Alaska highway 33. Winged insect La was to have a means of hauling in, 34 Seen 24 Zee | 26 W over the ground, the cats and scrap- pronbiin Praibrsy 35155 mics ers and other supplies required to} 36. Blunders build the string of airfields along 38. fone Se 33 aa 3s the highway. Once that airfield chain ne Sete) {| was built, the road had minor im- 40. Smal EZ 37 EZ 39° I eG English portance. cattle ] a zr — The new’ air age in the north joes 42. Encroach not have to bother with roads. Now, - a 43. ATican as az y the cats, bulldozers and other equip- Phone 44. Duration ment are taken apart and flown inj INTERIOR WHOLESALE 45 Otherwise 45° 46 small planes into the remote wil- DISTRIBUTORS 46. Weakens derness (floats in summer, skis in} winter). They're put back together | Williams Lake, B.C. From the Files of the Tribune | ONE YEAR AGo on Horsefly Lake— The Cariboo August 9, 1951 Cattlemen's Association has an- Over 200 men are fighting to con- nounced the dates of the year’s show trol dangerous forest fires in the and sale of feeder and fat stock aa Quesnel Lake district that have al- October 8, 9 and 10— The annual ready burned over 2000 acres. Gra-'stampede for Chilcotin will be held dually being brought wnder control September 1st— Mrs. May Wong. is the most serious one burning at cousin of W. Dean, died at the Wil. the junction of the North and East jliams Lake Hospital— Top steers Arm of Quesnel Lake— Ian MeLeod |shipped by the Cariboo Cattlemen's of Edmonton, a medical student | Association brought a price of 12.75 working during the summer as an|— Lillan\Marie Plante became the assistant on the topographical sur-|bride of Williati Cameron __ Flor vey near Taseko Lake, was killed ence Washbrook and Frank Clitton- by exploding detonator caps— Cor-|Boyle were married at Likely— poral J. Howe, RCMP, is now sta- < : tioned at Williams Lake, taking TEN YEARS: AGO over the job of patrol sergeant, August 6, 1942 which was vacated by the retir2-| At a meeting of the merchants of ment of Sgt. Fairbairn— In view of / Williams Lake, A. C. Foreman, Co- the poor situation on today’s bond ‘ordinator of the Wartime Prices & market, trustees of District 27 have!Trade Board explained the working asked the Department of Education! of the act— Peter M. Pigeon, pio- to give approval toa plan to sell the | heer of the Cariboo, passed away at By-law bonds locally— ie i r Memorial Hospital— . The is) yal Board membars air théit@leree cars Serap materials when Siews on B.C.H.US.Pwhen Mey epahave left thik district have brought a! peared before the Select Committee} total of $363.61— More are urgently | in thé village of Wijliams with failure to remain on a fireline. tare to volunteer for A.R-P. work— A meeting of the women of the town (was held to discuss and organize the! formation of a voluntary nursing was fined $50 and costs, or 30 days — Funeral services were conducted for Charles Spahan, one of the Most iaetachment— ‘The Bikes Longe Progressive Indians of the distrlet =| cleaned up the bathing beach A After eight years operation, the but-% son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Géor- cher store of GC. H. Poston & Se: rey Place— Edna Lou Nation be- closed its doors— Tony Borkowski jeame the bride of Einar Jacobsen at ‘Beaver Valley— Top price for steers lis 9c— Work is starting on the re jconstruction of the Chilcotin telo- [graph line— T, J. Hodgson killed a lcougar with a rock near Williams FIVE YEARS AGO fLake— Const. Sharpe, Provincial August. 7, 1947 Police, is now replacing Const. Gray Commissioners S. R. Weston and |iwho has been transferred to Clin- F. L. Shaw of the B.C. Power Com-|ton— mission, and T. M. Gibson, district |! manager for the mainland area were |: TWENTY YEARS AGO has purchased the business formerly known as Hunt’s Beauty Parlor— The second annual Quesnel Open Golf Championship will be held August 19— Niquidet Transport Williams Lake - Horsefly R. M. Blair's office, Wms. Lake, phone R66 Horsefly Phone, 3 short 1 long z= 4 Makes Your House Keep That “New Look”—Longer! Ir's a fact! Sherwin-Williams SWP House Paint now brings Canadians a great big extra bonus—beauty that lasts a full yeat longer than before! The superb quality of SWP House Paint has made thousands of satisfied users. And today, more than ever, SWP means the most for your house paint money! 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September, |pd for first place in the horse racing 1945— The Red Cross has bought |pt the Stuie Stampede of Bella Coola the former Free Methodist Chureh |1_ Cariboo butter sells for two at Lone Butte and tenders are being pounds for 55¢— Gertrude Frances Sought for the addition and compie-|Bambrick of Big Creek became the Jiton of the Outpost Hospital— A /pride of George Harold Wales— The small fire thought to have Ween’ North-West Dredging Company stor- caus d by c>reless smokers wrs dis-|ted work on the Horsefly property covered a short way past the public 6f R: Campbell— The hardest hail. | beach, but it was soon brought un-|gtorm ever known in the vicinity fe!) | der control— Piles have been driven at Horsefly. Some of the stones | in preparation for erecting the new knocked holes through rubbereid sawmill for J. H. Gardner & Sons roofs. eae $ Money at Work H | WHY WORK FOR. 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