the judges who handled the various

Williams Lake Tribune... ~

NEWS EXCHANGE GF THE CARIBOO

Volume 20 — Number 34.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. ? Thursday, August 28, 1952.

Fair Entry List Down

From Las? Ye

In point of numbers, the..
were a disappointment to Visitors. Afier build-ng up to la

year’s record 1200 entries, the

ars far

entries in this year’s Fall Fair

list slumped to 800 and the

sparsely covered tables mirrored the drop.

But if the quantity was down,
quality remaified high according to

sections,

Biggest entry drop was in the veg-
etable seclion, which was down about
250 from last year. In the vegetable
collection. section, which in previous
years has done much to add bulk to
the fair there wasn’t a single entry
last week.

The- flower section provided its
Usual high quality according to Hor-
ticuiturist Bob Wilson of Kamloops,
who handled the judging. Winner of
the grand aggregate award and the
Bank of Montreal Rose Bowl in this
section was Mrs Claude Pigeon who
amassed her points on six firsts and
One second prize.

arena. Prominent in this dislpay were
scenes painted by Mrs. V. Cowan
while.she was making a world-wide
tour last year.

The carnival games that were add-
ed to this year’s show bridged a gap
in entertainment that had existed in
previous fairs. The games were op-
erated by the Jaycees.

Winding up the fair Friday nigh*
was the annual dance at the Elks
Hall that was well attended. Prize
winners were presented with their
awards by Dr. L. EB. Avery, president
of the Gladiolus Club and Les Pigeon,
president of the Fair Association.

Im the. vegetable section Charles
Place of Dog Creek walked off with
the grand aggregate and the Bank of
Commerce Rose Bowl trophy when
his extensive entries won him six!
firsts, three seconds and four thirds. |
District Agriculturist Ron Tarves of
Quesnel judged the section.

In the home cooking division, Mrs.

“Wm. Dingwall of Lac La Haclie tooi| :
the grand aggregate award with four tled to a 1-1 tie with the game fir- Start back to local schools again as

firsts, three seconds and one third.
She was closely followed by Mrs.
Frank Matheson and Mrs. Alex Mac-
Donald in the large entry list. '

Grand aggregate in the three di-' in the second game by winning 7.3, 8¢h00l and the dormitory building.
visions of faney work, sewing and This game was forced to 12 innings Students will notice a lot of changes.

knitting went to a distant competitor.
Mrs. E. A. Lodmell, sister of Mrs.
George Renner, who lives in Califor-
nia, won her award with three firsts
in faney work.

‘These classes were judged by home
economies teachers Mrs. E. Ander-
son of Williams Lake and Misa 5.
‘Glassford'-eF Quesnel. :

Competing for the first ttme in the
district display, Alexis Creek Com-
munity Club edged out Williams Lake
for Yirst prize. Both exhibits showed a
Jot of preperation and displayed a
wealth of individual items. Judges
gaye the Alexis Creek-entry the award
by a margin of eight points. This di-
vision was down too from last year
When both Dog Creek and Alexan-
dria entered displays.

The industrial display section re-
mained about the same size as for-
mer years. Companies exhibiting in-
cluded Interior Power & Equipment,
Williams Lake Motors, Cariboo Truck
and Equipment Ltd., McKay & Laver-
diere, Smedley & Sharp. Williams
Lake Pharmacy, Blackwell’s Photo
Service and Fleck Bros. of Vancou-
ver. George Mayfield demonstrated 4
branding chute and Terry Wheatley
farm Equipment.

The Cariboo Art Society display
again brightened up one wall of the

Rain Eases Ferest
Fire Siiuaiisn Here

Showery weather for the past few
days has aided materially in pring
ing the forest fire situation in the
Quesnel Lake area under control,
according to Ranger Ken Petersen.

Nine fires are still being patrolled
by 180 men, down considerably from
the peak of the battle when 265 men
were employed througnout the area.
Besides those taken from Williams
Lake and the Likely districts. nine
men from Quesnel, nine from 100-
Mile and 13 from Kamloops were
pressed into service.

Altogether the fires have burned
over an estimated 3525 acres this
summer.

COMMISSIONERS FAIL TO | ois. soot :
GET MEETING QUORUM oe ere tisor or each wane

Lacking the necessary quorum {0
conduct business, village comunis-

Prince Loses Play-off
Berth In Tight Series

Prince George Chevies were pust-
ed from the provincial Senior B soit-
ball playdowns on the weekend by
a Vernon team in what was probably
the tightest series the league will
see this year. |

Saturday night the two teams bat-|

ally being called because of dark
ness. In the first game Sunday ver
non managed to scrape through to

a 2-1 win and widened the margir:

though by the smart Prince club be-
fore the Vernon batters managed to
earn the necessary runs. {

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Poor Turnout For

a 2 ‘

“rages 7, 18,
|school at 9 am.

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Credit Union Hieei

Only four persons were on hand
last night to hear the story of the
Credit Union movement from R. A.
Monrufet, managing-director of the
B.C. Credit Union League. |

But the interest was there, and at
the suggestion of Mr. Monrufet, a
second meeting will be held in the
Parigh Hall tonight, with a little
persona] contact work preceding it to
ensure a better turnout. |

An initial membership of ten is
necessary to secure a charter for a
local Credit Union, and the speaker
assured his listeners that several of
the largest unions had got underway
with little more than the minimum
membership.

Credit Unions are purely local in
interest, Mr. Monrufet pointed out,
with the ‘main credit for their suc-
cessful operation being directly at-
iributable to this ‘common bond.’ In
his way the committee responsible
‘or making loans knows the charac-
ter of the borrower and the elemert
of risk is greatly redeced.

Other values to the community,
according to the speaker, include the
creation of a good community spirit
among the membership; the promo-
ion of thrift, and the fact that a
noney pool is available to the mem-
bership for loans that under normil’
circumstances will only be handled
by ‘loan sharks’ at exhorbitant rates |
‘of interest.

Operated under a democratic sy:
tem by the members themselves.
2ach union is operated solely by the
members under government super-
ion. Each member, regardless of
the amount of money he has invested
in the union has one vote and at the
annual meeting directors are elected
to run the affairs of the union for the
next year. Protection of the mem-
ber’s money is assured by the fact
that each union is inspected by the
least once a year:

bonded.
As well as receiving dividends on

sioners were forced to cance) their their shares, members also have the

{opportunity of taking advantage of

Single copy 10c, $2.50 per vear.

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month-old racoon found in en abande! farm: home. The racoon
wastes no time in making frie and:if left-alone crawls into bed wita
the baby, pulls the covers up to his ¢hin end snoczes: blissfuily.

|VANCOUVER YOUTH
WINS FAIR RAFFLE

Robert. Wise, a young Vancouver
high school graduate who is working
on one of the Forestry Department
crews was the winner of the §325
first prize in the Fair Association
drawing this year. 2

The drawing was made at Friday
night’s dance and Bob was there to
receive his chéque. Although he dc-
clared he was in a ‘daze’ at his stroke
of good fortune, Bob says the money
will be a big help to him if he de-
cides to go on to university this year.

Seller of the winning ticket w:
Fred Cardwell.

Second prize of $100 went to T.

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Schools Open
Next Tuesday

Next Tuesday 400 children

the 1952-53 term gets under way.
With the completion of the new
addition to the former Elementary

The former elementary school now
becomes the high school and classes
vp to grade six will use the former,
high school.

According to advice from the prin-
cipal’s office, grades 1-4 will report
et 9 am. Tuesday to the old schoo Harvey. Jr., of Alexis Creek. Three
and grader 5-6.will Teport at 10 amuse eprizes werk fo “ince Racicoy: 1.

i report at the new XDel. construction worker with H. G.
and grades 10, 11, Baber & Co., and Mrs. K. Peters of
12 will report ac 10 a.m. z ; Horsefly. A ham was won by Gordon

Although it is not known how; Blackwell.
many actual registrations there will
he at the new~dormitory, a report
from the School Board office states
that there have been 25 enquiries
Shout Placement of rural-atudentsin” “Guiness one-day rodéo weet un
tie Dulane: : with a full pro-

It has been announced this week
that the dormitory will not be turn- 274m of events from Saddle Brone

CUNTON RODEO FRIDAY

derway tomorrow

€d over by the contractors to the! riding to Wild Horse racing.
school board until September 8. The day winds up with two dances
According to J. Phillipson, princi-'in the evening, the Rodeo dance at
pal of the local schools, the addition- Clinton Community Hall and the In-
a] accommodation has paved the way dian dance at the skating rink. An-
for a more complete school course. | other dance will be held Saturday
For the first time a commercial night.
course will be given here which wi!l| Two weeks ago we helped the
include typing and shorthand and Clinton association out by giving
will eventually work up to a com- them a bit of free publicity. Unfor-
plete commer course. Cooking tunately the rodeo date came out as
will be added to the home economics August so the assistance value was
course now that facilities are avail. nil.
able.
It is planned on eliminating. cor-
vespondence courses except in
exceptional circumstances and
program has been developed to
in rural students.

very
the

QUESNEL - LOCALS
" SPLIT BALL SERIES

Quesnel has acquired practically
a complete softball team this year
"trom Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan,

M. Friesen, a former teacher at and the boys are no slouches at the
Peace River, will become the new game as they proved last weekend
vice-principal in charge of the elemen- when they came to town and handed
tary classes. Edmund Peterson the Power Glides an 11-2 shellack-
been appointed to the high school jng in their opening game. The locals
staff and Mrs. E. Anderson will teach’ came back later to take a narrow
home economics. A former teacher | 3-2 victory.
at Lumby, A. Halloran, wil) also be] There are seven players in the
added to staff. Meadow Lake contingent. They have

New téachers for the grade 2 and been playing ball together since they
® classes respectively are Miss Dor-| were youngsters and moved out to
een Goodal and Miss Mary Christie. | B.C. together to work here.

Two vacancies have yet to be filléd| Six costly errors by the locals in
on the rural staif. A teacher is still the opener game contributed mainiy
needed for the senior division of the to the run-away score. In the second
By¥id#e Lake schdo¥ aid one for me Ed Patenaude kept tight con-
elementary school at Big Lake. trol on the mound with Quesnel mar.
H aging to get their two markers in
the fifth. Williams Lake went ahead
in the next inning and there scoring
activity ceased for both teams. Jin:
Bogle secured the only home run in

‘TEACHERS

Some changes to staff of towm
schools has been made.

has

he
the

PREDATOR ANIMALS
KILLED IN DISTRICT

The predator animal ranks were’ the series in the first game. Gordon

4 ing Tuesday night. “| a
Commissioners, Stan Goad and severa} other Credit Union schemes,
John Anderson were on holiday aud Mr. Monrufet stated. An ‘estate

ly Chairman Alastair Mackenzie plan’ is operated within each union
A Ci ; issioner Tony Borkow: and a health services society that is
= a hed second only to M.S.A. is maintained
were on E tats

identia} he benefit of the membership.
th needed residentia) for t
fenae: waa confinue the twe A film was also shown at the eet

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commissioners approved the issue ot ing, which absegibed ti Erbe af

ermits to Sid Pigeon and Cliff Qdine the Credit Union ;
te A advantages it offers to the memhers,
for home, construction, 1

cut down in several spots last week, | Smetanuk and Ed Anderson handled
Lawrence Jones killed two timber | Ditching duties foy the ‘glides in the
Wolves near Black Creek in the| open¢

Horsefly district and Theodore Jef.| This weekend the Power Glides
ferson of Big Lake killed two full- travel to Weils to take part in the
Srown cougar on the Likely Road Cariboo Championsaip tourney.
In the latter instance, Mr. Jefferson cams will include twe entries from
came across the cougar eating a Frince, two from Wells, and one
Porcupine. Both animals headed for €ach from Quesnel, Smithers and
3 near-by tree and were shot there. Burns Lake,

since the days of 59.

Significant of the modern scienti-
fie way of living though was the fact
that these prospectors didn't seek
gold, but the rare metal Beryllium.

The rich outcroppings that brought
on the rush were believed to contain
the mineral Beryl, one of the five
minerals which contain Beryllium. If
it was beryl the ore was immensely
valuable and there was a whole moun-
tain of it.

Unfortunately for those who fol-
lowed im the footsteps of the original
discoverer, exhaustive laboratory
tests by a Vancouver firm resulted
Saturday in the findings that the ore
did not contain beryl. Government
assays on the ore have not been re-
leased however, so the registered
claim owners do not know yet what
they actually have.

FIRST CLAIM

The story of the rush goes back to:
August 10, when prospector Ted Tay-’
|lor first discovered the ore. A geolo-
gist in his own right, Mr. Taylor has
| been prospecting for rare minerals all
his life in different parts of Canada.
He brought a chunk of the ore back
to Williams Lake and contacted
George Renner, who has been devot=
ing a lot of his time to: prospecting
since he sold The Tribune in 1950.

The two men went back to the area
und staked the first claims on August
16 and advised several prominent
mining men of their strike to obtain
expert advice on whether the ore
actually contained bery

It wasj impossible ta: keep the newd
find secret however and as word eked
out of thé presence of mining engin-
eers and the location of the strikes,
the rush was on.

RUSH WAS ON

People began to beseige the goy-
ernment offces here and at Clinton
‘or free miner's certifleates and claim
fags. -In Willianis Lake the rush
reached its peak last Thursday. In
11 62 certificates and 320 tags were
issued here and undoubtedly the rush
would have been greater except for
the fact that so many men were out
on the firelines. At least one firm in
town closed up for business as the
owners headed for Lac La Hache.
According to residents of that area
the woods seemed to be crawling with
People as the prospectors pushed
through swamps and up the mountain
to stake their claims. The first claim
is located about a mile from Percy
Wright's ranch at the end of the road
branching off from the main highway.
This is about 12 miles from Lac La
Hache. Richest deposit appears to be
at the top of Timothy Mountafn,
which is 5400 feet high.

What would the ore have been
worth if it had contained beryl? Ac-
cording to Mr. Renner, a prominent
mining engineer who is a director of
{two large Canadian mining syndi-
cates was here for several days going
over the find and he was prepared to
recommend to his company that of-
fers of 5 cents a ton be made if the
rare mineral was present. One group
of claims was estimated to contain
75 million tons of ore and two
other claims contained 500 million
tons.

NEW METAL

A comparatively new metal, Beryl-
lium was first used to any extensive
degree during the last war. It is a
light, hard metal like magnesium and
aluminum but produces alloys that
have a rare combination of lightness
and toughness. It is therefore in high
demand in the alreraft industry, but
because of its rarity it is used only

THE WEATHER

Min. Max.
Friday, Aug. 22... 62 72
Saturday 60 T4s
Monday 50 67
Tuesday 50 0 71
Wednesday ........ 42 68

ading at the airport at 8:36
this morning was 49°.

Prospecting Fever Hits
District On Heels Of
Rumoured Beryl Strike

With visions of sudden wealth before their eyes, hundrei!s
of amateur prospectors last week converged on Timothy Moun-
tain in the Lac La Hache area to stake their claims in what
could have been the richest ‘strike’ the

Cariboo has known
in key~parts of the airframe and
engines. -

The commonest source of beryl-
lium is beryl, however there are four
other minerals which contain the
metal; _beryllouite, _ chrysolberyl,
euclase and phenacite. Their actual
beryllium content ranges from 5 to
16 percent.

The hardness. degree ranges from
6 in beryllonite to 8.5 in chrysoberyl.
(In comparison a knife blade has a
hardness of 5 and glass a hardness
of 5.5.) While color is no criterion,
the minerals may shade from green
to yellow or blue, and on occasions
they have been known to be trans-
parent.

The gemstone beryl when cut and
polished is known under the more
refined name of emerald or acqua-
marine, depending on color, while
chrysoberyl when -cut and polished.
becomes cats eye.

Because of the rarity of the min-
eral beryl, it takes laboratory tests
to disclose whether an ore does or
does not contain it.

Mrs. Sid Pigeon
Wins Major Awar:
At ’52 Glad Show

Happiest competitor at the Pair

Pigeon, who madé an outstanding
Tecord in the Gladiolus Show by tak-
ing six firsts and one second. She
then went on to take the show’s
Grand Champion spike award with
an outstanding bloom, Orchid Mar-
vel, and have a second spike piaced
in a tie with Mrs. Ray Hargreaves’
entry for Reserve Champion Spike.

This was the first year that Mrs.
Pigeon had entered any quantity of
blooms in the Glad Show. Last year
she showed a single spike.

The number of exhibitors compet-
ing this year was the highlight of
the Glad show. Actual entries were
down, but where individual exhibit
ors in the previous shows enierca
Possibly twenty classes each, this
year’s season held down heavy en-
tries from individual growers. This
drop was made up for by the number
of comparatively new exhibitors who
have started growing glads for show
purposes.

In picking the Grand Champion
and Reserve spikes of the show,
Judge Harvey Turnbull had a tough
job. He finally declared two Reserves
and a third award of an Honourable
Mention, which went to a spike
shown by Mrs. Len Hellyer.

This closeness of competition was
reflected throughout the show. and
Mr. Turnbull declared it was-one of
the hardest assignments of his judg-
ing career. In one class that contain-
ed four entries, the judge spent con-
siderable time trying to Place the
spikes and finally awarded two se-
conds, because he said that not one
of the four should go without a
ribbon,

Speaking of the show as a whole,
Mr. Turnbull said it wasn’t often
that you saw such a high standard
of quality maintained. He remarked
that where many show blooms az
the coast lost points on the green
parts of the spikes, these flaws did

not show up on any of the local
entries.

He recommended that local grow-
ers “seriously consider shipping

blooms to the Vancouver show next
summer. He had just completed an
assignment there this year with five
other judges handling an entry list
ot 8000 blooms.

| Mrs. C. McIntosh visited in Que.

nel over the weekend. Returning
j With her for a visit in Willams Lak
| Was her daughter, Mrs. Allan Blau
| and two children,

last Week was undpubtedly Mrs. Sissi

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