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Volume 20 — Number 35

NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

WILLIAMS. LAKR, B.C. Thursday, September 4,195

Single copy 10c, $2.50 per vear.

PRINCE GOLFER NEW
CARIBOO CHAMP

Completing 36 holes with a low of
147, George Walchuk of Prince
George took the Cariboo golf. crow:
in championship play on his home
course last weekend, finishing two
strokes ahead of fellow club mem-
bers Claude Heggie and Ford Wray.

Rube Band Travels
To Vanderheof Rodeo

The Williams Lake Rube Band
travelled to Vanderhoof for the holi
@uy weekend 10 fullfill an invitation
the
rodeo.

northern centre’s annual
The band was well received and
took part in Uke rodeo parade and

Last year’s Cariboo champ, Don|!#ter played for a public dance. Thir-
Gurrie of Quesnel, was 13 strokes|%¢e2 Were in the party that included

off the pace.
Although six of the 10 "Lake golf-
ers who made the trip qualified for

ihe famous band.
Note on the financial success of

the affair was given by Bill Saws;

the championship flight, they were|!0 said the rodeo’s gross gate was

unable to come close to the Prince
players’ championship effort. The
six who qualified were Wilf Moore,
Claude Barber. Ken Rife, Owen Ker-
ley, Jack-Smedley and Frank Latin.

Scores of the locals for the two-
day tourmament were as follows:
Jack Smedley 161, Frank Latin 163,
Wili Moore 176, Ken Rife 177, Bert
Levens 179, Owen Kerley 180, Bill
Margetts 187, Tony Woodland 209.
George Morris 222.

Scores in the team play were
Prince George 1242, Quesnel 1354,
and Williams Lake 1412.

Quesnel club pro Bill Weir won

the long driving contest with a drive
of 253 yards.
- An unusual ‘possible’ was scored
by Ford Wray of Prince George to
take the Pitch and Putt event with a
score of six.

Next year’s championship play will
te staged on the Williams Lake
course.

J. A. KENNEDY TO
ADDRESS BOARD

3. A. Kenncdy, general manager
of the Pacifl’ Great Eastern Rail-
way company willbe the guest
speaker at a special meeting of the
Board of Trade here next Wed-
nesday. é

Board. directors.moyed the reg-_
ular September 11th meeting ahead
one day to accommodate Mr. Tien-
Hedy, who, in reply to an invitation
40 speak to the board stated Wed-
jlesday, would be more convenient,

The mecting will start half an
thour earlier, at 7:80 pan. in the
Village Hall.

Daily Closure Hours
For Bridge Work

Effective Next Week,

According to 4 notice inserted by)
the Public Works Department, daily
closure hours of Chilcotin Suspen-
sion bridge (Sheep Creek) will go
into effect next Tuesday for purposes |
of repair work.

The bridge will be closed each day
from 10 am. to 6 p.m. to traffic
while new stiffening trusses are put
in place. The work is expected to
take about a week. :

Timber for the work arrived last
night and works officials are anxious
to get the work completed while the
good weather lasts.

Around Town |

Les Pigeon left Sunday for 2
three weeks’ vacation and hoped to
get as far as Mexico.

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Sid Western left Monday to visit

his wife, who is a patient in Vancou-
ver General Hospital.

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Mr. and-Mrs. Boyd Halfnights re-

turned last;week from a two weeks

vacation at “Portland, Oregon.

:
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Deschene returne
ed last weekend from a week's visit
to Vancouver.

Mr. and Mrs, Herb Gardner re-
turned Monday‘from a week's visit
at the coast.

eu eee ;

Dan Rottacker, who is undergoing
treatment in Vancouver, does not
expect to be back home for another
month at least.

Miss Jessie Foster was a week-end
guest of Mrs. Norman Lee at Hance-
ville.

$4500 for the one afternoon.

ON WILLIAMS LAKE
ees eae orion

20-POUND LING
CHASED ASHORE

The combined efforts of four peo-
ple resultéd in the landing of a 20-
pound Ling just off Judge Henry Cas
tillou’s private wharf on Williams
Lake last week. * e

Mrs. Z. Graysen, with her niece
aud nephew, Colleen and
Brown from Mi
fish swimming Y around the
wharf about uine o'clock Wednes-
day morning.

The judge, tearing their excited
scredms, came running with a ter-
fcot gaff and fishing net. After pur-
suing the fish sround and under the
wharf, and prob:ng it out from among
the Weeds, they Gnally landed it on
the beach. Nature aided a little, with
rough waves piling the fish back to-
ward shore every time it swam away
trom the wharf.

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$160,000 REPRESENTS “A LGT OF BULL” 1”

Central Press Canadian
phis unpleasant-looking animal is “Prince Sunbeam 249th," th
World's most valuable bull, following the sale of one-half of the’ 1,800"
é Antonio, Texas, for $100,000—

~ the highest price in the history of catlle buying. ‘The bull will commute
by air between his owner's farm at Red Bank, NJ. and San Antonio,
Said Dr. Hammer about his bull's
“Phe uglier they are, the more

Contraciors’ Crews Delay
Opening of Seme Classrooms

With contractors’ crews still putting the finishing touches
to the new addition to the former elementary school class bells
didn’t ring for all students of Williams Lake Tuesday morning.

Grade 7, 8, T moved into the avail-|"— sy ==

Claims Freight Rates
Blast Hope That PGE
Link Will Help Industry

»The Qu 1-Prince-Georg of the Pacific Great
Eastern Railway will be of no assistance to Cariboo luinber
producers in seeking a new market in eastern Canata, accord:
ing to a survey made by Mr. J. Kirz, president of Lignum
Limited, and based on figures recently: released by 3. A.
K 3 1 of the P.G.E.

Sete Ps oe et yee
spread into consideration, a Princ
George operator would still’ make his
normal profit of $3 per M, when at
the same time the Quesnel: operator
selling at the same delivered price,
takes a net loss of $3.

SOME HELP

__“‘The arbitrary on American ship-
ments-ts-cut by about 40 per cent,
which will rediee=the present $3.75
penalty to about $2.50. “his u
doubtedly will be of some help, but
gain leaves the Quesnel operator at
2 serious disaivantage as compared
to the Prince George or coast ship-
per. The new freight setup further-
more just perpetuates the present
situation in which the PGE operator
can only compete on the American
market.”

Although the figures given per-
tain to the Quesnel area, it is appar-
ent that Williams Lake operators
will suffer even more under the new
fieight rate structure, which is based’
on the distance from Prince George.

“As far as 1 know,” states Mr.
Kirz in his survey, “it has been the
hope and endeavor of Mr. Kennedy
and Mr. Drage to have our freight
rates somewhere between the
Prince George and Vancouver rates.
It was considered, if I am not mis-

taken, that coast rates—would be
about the worst we could get. It is
however, not just a question of dis-
appointment that it has been impos-
sible to realize this objective, but
the penalty on shipments from PGE
points as compared to Prince George
or even the coust still stays such that
our industry remains just as Margin-
al and vulnerable as it has been
before the eonnection to Prince
George.”

In giving a comparison of freight
rates to several key destinations
from Quesnel, Mr. Kirz states that
they easily illustrate the statement
that the northern end of the PGE
has been completely eliminated from

set

able classrooms this morning and

| Grades 9,10, 11 will start their term

Trex a
Mrs. Graysea says that 20 pounds vext Monday, the school board hopes.

is just a rough estimate of the weight |
of the fish. Betore anyone had the
presence of mind to weigh or meas-
ure it, Kenny had it cleaned, skinned
snd decapitated. However the head
alone weighed four pounds.

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Represent Cariboo
At Anglican Church
Genera! Syned

Rt. Rev. Frederic Stanford, Bishop
cf the Anglicon Diocese of Cariboo;
Can J.C. Jolley, rector of St.
Faul’s Cathedral Church, Kamloops.
and Ben Clark of Williams Lake are
at present in London, Ontario, rep-
resenting the Cariboo Diocese at the
triennial sitting of the chureh’s gen-
eral Synod.

The General Synod is the Anglican ~

Chureh in Canzda’s gathering of the
&reatest impertance. In attendance
will be all the 40 archbishops and
bishops, headed by Most Rev. Walter
Barford, Archn‘shop of Edmonton
and Primate of all Canada. There will
be an equal number of clergy and
laymen, 137 of each, in addition to
‘the members of the House of Bishops
» attendance.

The Synod’s business sessions will
he held mor: %, afternoon and eve-
nings from September 4 to 12. Some
idea of the volume of business to be
transacted can be gathered from the
“Convention Jircular,’ a hefty yol-
ume which contains 337 Pages of fi-
sures and printed matter
gested and di:
policies and work of the church in!
the coming yeurs,

Vandals Breck
lato Church Here

Police are investigating a report of
wilful damage to Sacred Heart
Church that occurred on the night
of September 1st.

According to the report a window
in the church was broken, a whiskey
bottle was Jeft on the altar and vigar-
ette butts strewn around.

In another case of entering in the
early hours of Saturday morning no
damage was done nor was anything
missing.

Stephen Demeoe, manager of the
Lakeview Hotel, heard the sonud of
breaking glass about 3 a.m. and
looking out a hotel window saw a
man and a dog entering the wiadew

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Last week -was the busiest one re-
corded at the local airport by Cana-
dian Pacific Airlines since the ser-
yice was inaugurated two years ago.

of Mackenzies Ltd. office. He tele-
phoned policé and an officer entered
the building in company with Alas-
tair Mackenzie, but could find no
sign of the intruder,

Painters are still working in the
halls and new classrooms and car-
penters are puiting on final trim.
Enrollment figures climbed again
this year with che total figure for all

grades a
325 -lgst

grades J-G are are 277 compared
220 last year and from 7-12, 168

compared to.115.

An even 40 new pupils turned out
for school for the first time Tuesday
and at the other end of tlre local ed-
ucational ladder are 15 students in
grade 12.

Heavy enrollment in the elemen-
tary grades may force the board to
operate two <lassrooms in the old
Annex building. At present one class-
109m is in use with combined graaes
five and six. ‘The other class may
come from grades one and two, which
ach have heavy enrollments of over
40.

The school hoard expects to take
over the dormitory building this
weekend and have it operating by
Monday. There are 29 students now

Boy ©7ys bie Slept
Viith “White Baas”
While Lest in B.

ae
3 28 a Oe
Centra) Press Canadian
David Dugo, age three, spent 18

hours al
bus!

wi bear b, at
quarts cf blueberries and his
shoes off to go to bed.” He was

found by a search party, barefooied
and singing to himself, f.ve miles
de. . His parents, Mr.
Roy Deugo of Weston,
were beginning to fear he
would never be found ve, but
when they sw him dem:

man-sized mea. conel
was very much alive. “he f
bear” is believed to be a cow or dog

registered for this building from|t® Canadian markets. Freight rates
; istrict, [fF example trom Prince George to
homes in every part of the district. = See Rade
Total student capacity of the dorm-|*°Tonto is $1.27 per huni reds from
fits 36 ~ |Vancouver to Toronto it is $1.32.
As work on the new high school|THe present PGE rate from Quesnel

F088 on, crews will complete the gen-|‘0 Toronto, vio the coast, is $1.64

The Cariboo lumber industry came
ivto its present prominent state be-
cause of two things; the post-war
markets in the United States and
overseas. In the last year the over- ~
Seas markets have shrunk to the

eral classrooms and then finish the
home economics and industrial arts
rooms:

with white hat, marun fw

On Second Aitempt

R. A. Monruzet, managing-director
of the B.C. Credit Union League was
successful in his second attempt to
start a Credit Union branch in Wil-
liams Lake last Thursday night.

Fourteen people were on hatid to
listen to Mr. Monrufet’s explauation
of the way that credit unions work
nd decided to go ahead with the

und the proposed future rate is $1.50.)

int that they are 2 :
NOT ENOUGH MARGIN y Gee coe eotcsteion:

existant, leavicg an American mar-
“Thé present rate trom Quesnel! ret that at the present. time gives
Toronto is $1.64 as against.a Prince |<.me indication ning, off ine
Georpe rare UTFL.27, ore Gitreren=} Gemand. as cae
tial of 37c,” the survey report con-
timues. “At 2500 Ibs. for dressed
lumber, this «mounts to $9.25 per
thousand board feet, and at 3300
j Pounds for rough lumber, to $12.50
|per M. The diierential to Edmonton
|and Winnipeg is even higher being
4le or $10.25 for dressed lumber and
$13.50 for rough. It will be obvious
for anyone acquainted with possible
profit margins in the lumber business
that a freight penalty of approxi-
mately $10 per M is bound to com-
pletely eliminate a competitor.”
“While the uew freight rates al-

To offset the overseas loss, the_
Curiboo operator has placed a lot of
fajth in the Quesnel-Prince exten-
sion to bring zastern Canadian mar.
kets into the fieid. This is particular-
jy true of spruce, which finds a ready
sale in eastern Canada.

110 BULLS ENTERED

JUDGES NAMED -

| close of the meeting.

» [Cariboo Trap Sheot

establishment of a local one at the|
most halve the past prohibitive dif-

Barl Brown volunteered to be sec-| ferental,~a $5 to $6 spread as re-
relary pro-tem of the new group and| maining between Quesnel and Prince
‘ermal application has been made, George, is still more than a normal
tor a government charter. profit margin. [f a $3 average profit

When the charter has been receiy-| is considéred normal, then it can be
eG. the next move of the new branch| said that the PGE has no chance
will be to hold a general meeting and| whatsoever to compete with the
clect officers und directors. it will| Prince George area. Taking the $6
then start in business as a credit
urion.

U.S. Navy Planes
Land At ‘Port

Labour Day stay-at-homes were
treated to something unusual when
Sunday afternoon the third an- they turned out in force to see two
nual Cariboo Championship Trap] american Navy planes land on the
Shoot gets underway at the Stam-|tocal airport.
pede grounds. The story behind the visitation
Sponsored by the Williams Lake could have been tragie since it con-
Rod and Gun Club, the stfoot is being| cerned the fight of a fighter pilot
handled by committee chairman] of course and out of gas in the
Benny Abbott, who is looking for a| rugged country to the west.
good turnout of scatter gun enthusi- Last Thursday the pilot got off
asts, course and found himself over Nimpo
At 1:00 p.m. the open competition| pare country. Fortunately he was
for the trophy will start, followed py lable to pick out a small meadow to
a handicap shoot and a novelty shoot. land in end brought bis plane down,
Defending champion is Herb Gard-/ although he struck a rock and blew
pers a tire coming in. His radio signal
was picked up by a commercial sta-
There Were Gther tion and no widespread alarm of a lost
fi plane was circulated. The pilot walk-
a. . L | edout to the closest ranch and then
AVEFYS Fy Thea Show returned to wait help in the form
jot @ Navy Catalina from Seattle with
Our apologies this week to Dr.!a spare pilot, mechanic and the neces-
Mrs. Frank Avery of Quesnel, sary gas.
whose prize-winning entries in the’ Monday a DC3, also from Seattle,
Gladiolus Shew here were not only came over and parachuted gasoline
ignored by our office, but were jotted
down in the name of Dr. Larry Avery,

Set For Sunday

and

Wother of Frank and president of ship returned to N:mpo and flew back |}

the local club.
Dr. (Frank) Avery won a first and here to refuel.

ee seconds with his blooms and an

entry of Mrs. Avery's won a third. | Gordon Bruce left Tuesday
Since the start of our show three two weeks’ vacation. While away

and Mrs. Avery have will visit at his brother's home in

uttenders and exhib- Saskatchewan and will spend some

| time at coast pointe,

years ago Dr.
been faithful
irors,

°D) crown. Quesnel
be/ George Third

FOR CATTLE SALE

Wm. MacGillivray, Director of Ag-

ricultural Development of the De-
partment of Agriculture, and Chas.
Turner, prominent breeder from -
Salmon Arm, will be the judges at
the 15th annual showing of the
Cariboo Feeder and Fat Cattle Show
and Bull Sale.

According to the anouncement
trom the Cariboo Cattlemen’s Associ-
ation, Mr. MacGillivray will aandle
the judging of the bulls and Mr, Tur-
ner will take the commercial cattle
classes.

i According to Sale Manager Rae
igeon, a record number of entries
have been received for this year's
bull sale. The figure has reached 110.
Last year 80 eatries were received,
although this figure had dropped to
71 by the time the actual show took
place.

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Locals Lose Oui In
Cariboo Ball Tourney

Williams Lake’s bid for the Cari-
hoo softball championship ended
abruptly at the Wells Labour Day
weekend tourney when the Power
Glides lost an 11-inning decision to
the host club 3-2. With six regular
piayers makiag the trip, the Clides
showed a lot less power than in their
other games this season. On two
ther occasions they dumped Wells
Without much effort.

As the tournament wore on though
the Wells aggregation showed they
were able to take on more than the
oys trom the south. The home club
went on to defeat Prince George;
Legion and best Quesnel in the final
same 6-5 to capture the tournament

eased past Prince
Avenue Billiards in
6-5 and then took a
bye as Wells and Legion battled tor
the play-off spot,

their first start