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This Afternoon

Williams Take Tribune

: NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

Volume 20 — Number 33.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, August 21, 1952:

Single copy 10c, $2.50 per vear.

THE WHATHER
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Friday, August 15 54
Saturday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday

Reading this- morning at the
airport at 8:30 was 52°.

Fair Underway

The Fair is on again!
Up at the War Memoria] Arena
entries closed this morning at 11:30

LOSE AT PRINCE

Power Glides Bew
‘Out of Piaydowns

| Williams Lake Power Glides pow
|ed out of Senior B. play onthe week-
;€nd when they dropped two straigh:
to Prince George Chevies, 5-1 and
9-1. :
Tightest game was the Saturday
night opener with two main factors
contributing to the locals’ downfall
Usually steady in the batting division,
the Power Glides repeatedly failed io
connect in the cinches with men in
scoring positions. Their only run
came in on a passed ball.

A backstop 25 feet back of home
Plate also caused trouble to the los-
ers, with Chevie batters scoring four
unearned runs on overthrows to the

and up to the deadline the big build-

ing was the busiest place in town! tire game on the mound.

with exhibitors making their entries

and arranging their exhibits to the}in the fifth with only one man out,

best advantage.

Entry lists will not be as heavy as got the next two batters with a strike
last year, but the quality of the ex- out and an infield pop.
hibits is projjably higher in many |
classes than before. Blame for the in Sunday's game but he was

plate. Gord Smetanuk went the en-

The Power Glides loaded the bases
Touring Canada for the benefit
» Viteli: . Drivi

| but opposing hurler Len Fitzgerald Mrs. Vitelis Pantenburg. riving

Carcdian life and will tour Germ:
high schools and universiti

AN SCHOOLS

oe i

e Central Press Canadian
“i West German schools are Mr. anq
g small-German car, which will bq

sold in quantity on this continent, they are photographing all aspects o!

aby, showing their films at Germas

The visitors started Ea Anderson
yanked

lower entry lists is placed mainly on in the fourth with five Tuns scored

S ic} 2
eee gen eee ge CEL Rh ve suns. sented Niere Men On Fire Limes

Lack of Trackage Said
Held Up To New Industry

At least four new industries are waiting to move into
Williams Lake but will be unabie to do so until more industrial
trackage is available, E. G. ‘Tony’ Woodland told members or
the Board of Trade at last Thursday’s meeting.

Mr. Woodland said this informa- {2

tion had come to him trom a reliable| trom the trip would be worth the
source and he recommended that the| fort of organization.
Board ask the Pacfic Great Eastern! appointed committee members 10
Rallway company to see that thia/taxe charge of the pyblicity were Bob
trackage was made available as soon| piair, Bruce Magoffin, Basil Gale
as possible. {and Clive Stangoe.

According to Mr. Woodland, the| 4 gala celeprati
site for this expansion of facilities|neq at Prince G-orze f
has already been surveyed but the] of the new extensio
land is presently under lease by @! probably take place some time in
private individual. October.

The Board agreed to the sugges-| NO SUPPORT 3
{ion and will forward its recommend-) Stewart Maxfield failed to—gain-
ation to the railway board of di-| support of the board on tke question
rectors. of seeking an examination of the-case
BLACKTOP of C. H. Kelham by the Minister of

Mr. Woodland also stated that he| Justice. Because he felt that Mr. Kel-
had learned, as chairman of the/2@m had been treated unjustly when
Board’s road committee, that seven| he was returned to prison on a court
miles of blacktop on the Cariboo technicality, Mr. Maxfield said he had
Highway from Lac La Hache north 8€¢tred the opinions of prominent
would be laid this year. His infor- Coast lawyers and was sponsoring a

flowers and -yegetables have still to Chevies were enough to decide the
mature. The wet weather also held game. The winners continued to pick
back the haying in many parts, par-|0f runs from Smetanuk and only au
ticularly the swamp meadows, andjoverthrow in the ninth allowed the
some country residents who have| ‘lake squad to score their lone tally.
Placed entries in the past are not} “Biggest )it for the locals was se-

As Dry Weather Holds

With the fire hazard increasing daily in district forests, |to the board in the near future, Mr.)

‘ : a ; Frank Latin who laced ont 2 5 ays velc 2
showing this year because they are Sigh ise Ae nad in the| Forestry men are finding the job of confining existing blazes | Woodland stated.
so e

Might in the middle of haying. ; in the Quesnel Lake area more and more difficult. Only two| pen OPENING
y it to the; eighth. The fielder was playing deep | iM Quesr e e y a OREN aersed th ® suecéation (ation tothe minpartor wens aie

pnt youll enioy: oe Mj at eae and made’ the catch with| light showers'have fallen in that district in the past two weeks.
There is sti S 2 Z

Fair nevertheless.

plenty to see on the exhibit tables rank: still rounding
that reflect the gardening, culinary| into home plate.

and handicraft skill of the district.

Added this year for the first time |meet the Okanagan winners in a best | eight major fires from Beaver Valley

sre the carnival games that are be-|°f three series.

ing operated by the Junior Chamber
ef Commerce and of course there are
the usual industrial displays.

Wind-up of the Fair wil be an auc-| the bean-guessing contest conducted
tion of many of the exhibits Friday | by Williams Lake Pharmacy.

the baseline With another 15 men thrown into

Chevies go south next week-end to |now engaged in fighting or patrolling |
to the North Arm of Quesnel Lake, |
The fires have now burned over 3900
Mrs. K. Petersen of Williams Lake / acres. {
is the winner of the case of silver in In Beaver Valley eight men h:

Her/At the Trout fire north of Antoine,

the battle today, 200 firefighters are js

Firefighters scattered throughout
the Quesnel Lake area have put out
14 fires in the past two weeks.

Of five men injured on the fireline

to the bush. Art Dwyer, one of the

brought the Hall. fre. under canton other two men who are still recover-| in the train and it was felt the pub.

ing trom injuries, hurt his back s2-

i s gl-, ¥erely when he fell backwards dows
night, and then the Fair dance will guess was within three beans of the|Lake another eight men are struggl-, r

be held in the Elks Hall.

ing with a blaze that has now cover

correct number — 20,472.
éd 180 acres. More <bulldozers are

Road Gamo Check No: Way |
To Gain Favor With Tourists

‘We'll put in with Leo Jobin that the
tonghest job a Game Warden ca)
tackle is to run a routine road check
on a sultry summer afternoon. Not
only is the weather sultry — but so
are the travellers, particularly those
who haven’t complied with the pro-
vincial Game Regulations. In these
expressed opinions, the government
is composed of a bunch of crooks out
to fleece the tourist and the game
warden is a gangster thinly disguised
in an Official uniform.

Last Thursday at the Board of
Trade meeting, Mr. Jobin offered to
take a member along on one of these
road checks and this reporter volun-
teered. So Saturday afternoon saw us
established at the 150 Mile House,
with the car as a temporary game de-
partment office and the unsuspecting
customers started rolling in.

As long as everyone checked is
well within the law, running a road
check is not too difficult, but this is
too much to expect. and each time a
traveller is caught without the neces-
sary licenses for his fishing or hunt-
ing equipment time is consumed in
listening to his explanations, explain-
‘ing the law to him ,and finally absorb-
ing the inevitable verbal complaint.

The first two cars through were
travelling together going home to
California from Alaska. Driver of
the first car had fishing equipment
and license but the second car‘ ran
into‘trouble, the driver having a rod
and tackle box and no license. He
hadn't intended to fish going through
B.C., he said, but the presence of a
bottle of salmon eggs in his tackl2
box ruled out any hope of him get-
ting through.

Mr. Jobin explained to him that n+
could fill in and sign a waiver right
there, authorizing the Game Warden

“to plead guilty tor him on the charge

and pay over the minimum fine and
costs, amounting to $13. The altern-
ative would be for the man to ap-
pear in court Monday morning. Be
ing in a hurry, the tourist signed the
waiver, paid the money and had his
equipment sealed and returned to
him.

In the meantime customers wer’
piling up along the road qnd it took
@ good hour to get the highway baci
to its normal deserted look,

Deadiug iprvhis area. Z

On theMust of th Quesnel 75)
men have brought one fire under con-|
trol that burned over 600 acres, but
across the lake the Buck fire is run-
ping free through rugged country |
and has spread over 1500 acres. This}

The first man who was picked up| blaze is not being fought.
for carrying a rifle without the neces-] Two fires on the North Arm are
sary license came from Alaska. H»| termed by Forest Ranger Ken Peter
was told the procedure and shown|Sen as ‘controlled’ and partially con-
the section of the game regulations] trolled,’ A fire in this area is burning
he was being charged under. The jolt | over 10 acres on the top of Bootjack
came in the size of the minimum fine] Mountain and 28 men have so far
for this offense — $50 and $3 costs. | been unable to bring it under control. |
He elected to pay these. but not be-| Closer to home one small fire was
fore he had told us what he thought|extinguished in the Springhouse
of the kind of racket the B.C. gov-]area last week and another has been
ernment was running, reported.

So it went for two hours, as Mr.
Jobin checked over 50 cars and a
dozen: trucks. #

Of 14 American tonrists, six were
found to be guilty of one or other of
these infractions.

Two Cheat Death
sce intracions, «(AAS Plane Crashes

In one case an American with a| Two American tourists had a nar-
truek had an old fishing rod with|TOW escape from death early Sunday
him, but-it had evidently not been|™orning when the private aircraf;
used in a long time atid he had no|Which they were flying strack a high
lures or bait. Another tourist had|Tidge after taking off trom Horsefly
two cheap rods for his sons and these | Lake. ,
were sealed and the father instructed| According to reports, the plane, a
to get $1 licenses at the first oppor-| Seabee amphibian, took off at six
tunity. Another man from Alaska! °’¢lock with pilot-owner Dr. Henry
had two fishing rods and three guns. Skinner of Battleground, Washing-
Fortunately the guns had been bro. tH at the controls. A heavy fog ol-|
ken down and packed away so well Scured the lake and after the aireratt |
that it was evident he didn’t intena left the water the Pilot banked too
to use them in this province so he |#>ruptly and the ship crashed into
was only fined for the rods A Ques-|# 500-foot ridge this side of the lish-
nel man had a shotgun and no license, | eries station. The pilot and his pas-
but he had just purchased the gun in | S¢@2e?, H. A. Sivith, also of Battle-
Kamloops and it hadn’t been taken |S70URd, were thrown clear as the
out of the box it had been purchased | P!4N€ crashed and skidded 200 feet
in. down the steep slope.

During the two hour check three! H- Hughes, co-owner of Hughes
men paid fiues for having fishing Brothers Lodge, was listening on the
quipment and three paid fines for Shore as the p'ane took off and he
tailure to have the necessary fi realized there would be trouble when
aaimig ‘permit, |ne heard it banking towards the on-|
Whether they came from north or Posite shore. He immediate ly 1: neh]
uth, tourists all claimed this was €4 @ boat and went to the uceident
ihe first time they had heard of th: S¢ene.
regulations concerning firearms __Dr. Skiner was found to be suifer
Coming into the province they have ings from a broken leg and Mr. Strith
he right to ask to have firearms or had a possible fractured back. Both
ig tackle sealed by Game De- Men were takén to the lodge where
sas icers if they do not in- tree doctors on holiday assisted in
REP CRIED OTe ee |rendering first aid

At 1:30 p.m. a Catalina flying boat |

Sea Rescue

end to use them here.
Although he was sweltering in his Pim. aC
‘egulation uniform, Game Warden Of the RCAF Air and
Jobin maintained a patient attitude Group arrived from Vancouver with
opin. maful a doctor and nurse on hoard. The in-
a at iured men were flown directly to,
hey berated the government and at (NTT Met were if
imes him personally for the WaY  mMhe geabee was totally demotished
chey were being treated, ~—CS in the erash,

with the people he was charging as

an ineléie onto a fallen log. The
man, L. Lazotte was using

Peat are csterp stone when
the. influ was falling came away at
che roots and tossed him 20 feet down
the hin. Lazotte’s saw Janded right
esi ‘him still running and he was
also narrowly missed by the falling
tree. a

Juvenile Crashes
Road. Blocks, Wrecks
telen Truck

After crashing two road blocks
and avoiding another, a young 15-
year-old Vancouver youth was taken
into custody last Saturday morning
when he turned over a truck he had
stolen about 10 miles south of tha
100 Mile.

The youth, who has three previous
convictions against him for car theft
and has spent time in a corrective

home, stole the truck from a point

about 20 miles north of Quesnel.
RCMP officers were alerted and
threw up a road block near Quesnel
which the youth broke through and
local RCMP placed a road block on
the River road and at Lac La Hache.
The first he avoided by using the
Mountain House road and the second
he crashed his truck through. The
officers gave chase as the truck raced
down the highways at speeds up to
85 miles an hour. Below the 100 Mile
he lost control of the vehicle and it
turned over, pinning him in the cab.
The hoy was unhurt and was re-
turned to Quesnel under custody. Ap-
pearng in police court there he was
sentenced to a year in Oakalla.

mation, he stated, came from Divi Public petition to the Minister ask-
sional Engineer C. D. Grigg. ing for his attention. (Mr. Kelham

The road committee was continu-*W@8 Originally sentenced on a charge

ing its studies of road conditions in Of Contributing to juvenile  delin-
the district and would present a brie quency.) :

at the meeting did not feel they had
j the right to commit the whole organ-

that it should sponsor a special wit: | Kind, Ee 2s ee SE ae
jams Lake and District section on /5t#2¢es were not known to the public.

1

| the official train that will make the

run over the new PGE extension into! Fi E *

Prince George. Iremen Enjey
Board members felt that it would

ene
jJast week, three men have gone bacl| not be difficult to get a party large Picnic al Big Creek
TS

‘enough to take over two special cai
Members of the local Fire Brigade

licity that the district would derive took to the country last weeiend

edit Union. Hexd.
q oe:
To Hold Public Meet
Possibility of the establishment of| registration, Eddie should actually
a Credit Union branch in Williams‘ have been ylaying at Prince George
Lake was seen in the visit to town in the Senior B playdowns, but tite
this week of R. A. Monrufet, manag- Power Glides’ loss Was certainly the
| ing director of the B.C. Credit Union Firemen’s gain. -
League. * Counting wives and children, the
Mr. Monrufet, who is on an in-. Fire -Depariment’s delegation con-
spection trip through the provinec. sisted of about 40 and all were loud
will be Back in town next. Wednes- in their praise of the kindness of the
day to hold a public meeting and ex- good people of Big Creek in arrang-
plain the workings of the credit ing the picnic. Held on the shores ford
unions, Fletcher Lake, there was swimming
There are now 200 credit unions on the program too.
throughout the province with 65,000 | —————
members. The unions have savings
totalling some $18 million dollars.
Credit unions have been estan-
lished in Quesnel, Prince George,
Smithers-and Burns Lake as well as
other centres in the central Interior,

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fiies CANABS, 1322

STAFF CHANGES MADE
AT ST. JOSEPH’S

Father Morris, principal of St.
oseph’s Mission for the past seven
years, left. Friday for North Vancou
ver to become principal of St. Paul’s
Indian school in North Vancouver.

Father Ducie also left Friday to
go to a Lethbridge parish.

Replacing Father Morris is Father
O'Grady, who has been at Kamloops
residential school for the past 14
years. Father Price of New Westmin-
ster is replacing Father Ducie.

A large building program is sched-
uled to start at St. Joseph’s Mission
| this year, according to the new prin-
| cipal.

Te Happened

who ar

Mabel Slobodzian, a reside
who says it happened this

The other day Mrs. Slobo
the accepted manner and w
She hed been trolling
nibble and was rowing fors
her in the back. Turning ar

her, Mrs. Slobodzian couldn

u
The obliging fish weighed j

bad in a lake where the average is closer to a pound

and a half,

rdware through the waters of Williams

im threw away yorr lures, the big ones are
by a different method.
ou don’t have to tke cur word for it — ask Mrs.

for three hours without even a

din the hottom of the boat was a nice trout.

This Way...

re in the habit of dragging

nt on the outskirts of town
way:

dzian was trying her luck in
as rapidly getting nowhere.
hore when something struck
ound to see what had struck
n't believe her eyes, for flop-

nat 3% pounds, which isn’t

Tr pocket~
TT go ‘0

The members of the board present

enaude. Except for a technicality-of