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NEWS-EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

illiams Lake Tribune

Volume 20 — Number 37.

“WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday,

September 18, 1952

Single copy 10c, $2.50 per year.

Around Town |

Special speaker at the evening ser-
vice of St. Andrews’ United Church
this Sunday will be Dr. W. P. Bunt.
Dr. Bunt, who is superintendent of
Home Missions for British Colu:
will arrive in Williams Lake Satur-
day. He will stay at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Rod’k Mackenzie.

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Mrs. S. Roberts of Vancouver, is
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Steve Malesku.

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Viiting Mr, and Mr. Owen Kerley
over the weekend were the latter’s
aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. ‘fT.
Anderson of Westview.

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Dr. S. N. Wood is in Armstrong
this week judging at their fall fair.

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Mrs. Gordon Cummings of Van-

eouver has been visiting with her

Parents, Judge and Mrs. Hemy
Castillou.

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Mrs. Bruce Magoffin and children
arrived Tuesday from Vancouver to
make their home here.

So

Mr. and Mrs. Stan Goad returned
‘Tuesday night from a three weeks’
vacation to Vancouver and Seattle.
returning home through the Okan-
agan.

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Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Elliott of North
Vancouver arrived Wednesday for a
few days visit with Mrs. L. Goffin
and the Ed. Deschenes.

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Mr. and Mrs. Tony Borkowski and
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Borkowski are at
the coast on a week’s holiday.

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Sponsoring board of the Williams
Lake and District Credit Union
League will elget officers and form
the necessary committees ‘at a meet-
ing Friday night. Charter for the
group aas been approved and the
union will be in business when the
officers have been “chosen.

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Jack Smedley returned last Friday
from a week’s fishing trip to Stuart]
Lake. Along with his smaller (2)
trophies Jack had a nice 11%$-1b.
Rainbow to show for his expedition.

BIRTHS

NOAKES — Bern to Mr. aud Mrs.
H. Stan Noakes, on September
13 at Royai Inland Hospital,
Kamloops. Mr. Noakes was a for-
mer Forest Ringer here.

Still Plenty of Birds,
Hunters Report

On some sloughs there were more
hunters than ducks on opening day
Monday, but reports on the whole
seem to indicate quantity of birds
about the same as previous years.

Although this is

the

: MEXICAN CATTLE ADMITTED, CANADIAN BANNED IN U.S.

FRED PINCHBECK
LAID TO REST

Friends from town and country
crowded into Sacred Heart Church
Wednesday morning to pay their lust
respects to Frederick Julius Pinch-
beck who was killed in a tragic ac-
cident last Sunday in his 46th year.

A member of one of the district’s
pioneer families, Mr. Pinchbeck was
horn on the old family ranch at
Chimney Creek, the eldest of nine
children.

He made his own home on the old
vanch and with the exception of ser-
vice overseas in the First World War,
he lived there all bis life. After re-
turning from overseas he started a
Sawmill an wood business which he
was stil ontrating at the time of lis
death.  *

He leaves to mourn lus passing his
wife, Daisy; his mother, Mrs. Matilda
Pinchbeck; three sons, Gerald,
Claude and Frederick, and seven
daughters, Jacqueline. Nancy, Peg-
gy, Marion, Kathleen, Bileen and Mrs.
Charlie (Rene) Westwick. Also sur-
viving are four brothers, Yom, Percy,
Wilfred and Archie; five sisters, Mrs.
F. J. (Christine) Buchholtz, Mrs. M,
C: (Mary) Curtis, Mrs. Geo. (Violet)
Murphy and Mrs. Marvin (Marys
Curtf of Terrace.

Funeral services were conducted
by Father Johnson and pallbearers
were Dan Buckley, Gerry Buckley.
Antoine Boitanio, Alfred Bowe, Ray
Curtis and Bert Westwick. Branch
139, Canadian Legion provided

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colour party and Mickey Lunn sound- |,

ed ‘Last Post,’

Peak cycle for grouse the uplands
birds are spotty according to reports.

‘A lot of local hunters struck out
for the Chilcotin Saturday or Sun-
day to be ou hand at their favourite
haunts on opening day. But at least
one hunter did all right in the gonse
line by staying close to home. Alvan
Miller was back in town for regular
office hours after Imocking down
two honkers,

Cariboo Cold Storage reports 32
ducks and five grouse were put in
lockers opening day.

Hon. Ralph Chetwynd
Will Attend Sale -

Hon. Ralph Chetwynd, Minister
of Trade & Industry, has anounced
that he will be in Williams Take
for the annual Cattle Sale, October
9-10th,

At that time the Minister will
spend three weeks in his constitu-
ency.

Avery Clinic Installs
X-Ray Machinery Th

Installation of a new General Blec-
trie X-Ray machine has just becn
completed at the Avery Clinic.

Rated as one of the finest units
manufactured today, the machine is
also one of the first of its type to he
placed in operation in British Colum-
bia and brings to district residents
the availability of an X-Ray service
that has previously been found only
in much larger centres.

In the past, where it was necessary
to obtain visualization of the internal
crgans for diagnostic purposes, pa-
tients had to be sent to other centres
to have X-Ray work done. In othe:
cases delays were necessary because
of the lack of such a machine.

The 2000-pound machine and its
panel of intricate controls takes up
an entire room in the clinic and took
@ week to install, Special wiring

Modern
is Week

was necessary for the job and C. B.
Fraser, sales engineer for General
Electric handled the installation
work.

By the use of a simple control
mechanism the machine can he
changed over from deep X-Ray work
to fluoroscopic viewing.

The equipment includes a fully-
equipped dark room where the X-Ray
Dates are developed. Lead sere:
for the protection of the opersutor
-ave yet to be erected.

The first patient examined with the
new machine was B. M. Hoffmiester,
President of McMilland & Blcedel
Ltd., who was being checked for a
Possible cracked rib suffered in a
sight hunting accident. Mr. Hort-
meister and his wife have been holi-
daying at Rose Lake Lodge and are
spending a few days with Dr. and Mrs.
L, EB. Avery, \

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mitted next year.

herds were cut almost in half in the battle to wipe “ Mexico, where U.S, tattlemen ar

banned be-

Tribune Delayed

Due to a breakdown on the
morning of press day your copy
of The Tribune is delayed this
week. 5

The newspaper press proke
down at ten o'clock in the
morning and repairs couldn’t
be effected until the late after-
noon.

Vapour Trail
Excites Interest

A high flying aircraft that left a
wide vapour trail across the sky Sun-
day morning created interest for a
quiet day. A familiar sight to men
who were overseas, the vapour trail
was something net to lots of penple.

Not so easy to explain was the so.
port of Game Warden Leo Jobin that
he saw the craft below the 150 Mile
flying at what he estimated at 300
feet over the fields before it started
climbing at a tremendous rate of
speed. Although he had his field
glasses with him Leo says the. air-
craft was fiying at such a speed he
was unable to “identify it.

Operators at Dog Creek airport
saw the vapour trail but didn’t ‘work:
the plane and didn’t know “its
identity,

HOSPITAL FINANCES
HOLDING STEADY

the annual occurence of
slumping occupancy during the late
summer months. War Memorial Hos
pital showed an operating. loss of
$941 for August. The overall finan-
cial picture for the year continues to
look good however, with a surplus
shown of $6,502 up to August 31,

Continuing their policy of improv-
ing the hospital as much as finances
will permit, members of the board
last Friday approved an expenditure
of $600 to convert the present furn-
ace to oil firing.

At the same time further investi-
gation was ordered into the poss!-
bility of installing a complete cow-
mercial laundry unit. Chairman Fred
Bass will consult with manufactur
ers when he is at the coast this week
to ascertain what unit capacity is
necessary for the hospital.

A carpenter has been employed by
the board to make new cupboard in-
stallations.

Next month the board will con-
sider the advisability of planning tor
the addition of a small isolation ward
to the present building. If the work
is approved it will not be carried out
until next but provision foy
such work must be prepared this fal!
for inclusion in next year's budget.

MUFFLER DEADLINE

against truckers operating without
mufflers on their venicles, police offi-
cers this week conducted road checks
to warn offenders.

So far no summonses haye been
issued but Sgt J. Howe states that

cause of the same disease,

Central Press Canadian
are expected to be ad-
is at Casa Grande

MRS. G. GIBBON:

PRES.

P-TA Elects New
Slate of Officers

Over fifty members were Present at
the first meeting of the Parent-
Teachers Association Friday evening
at the old school to see Mrs. G. Gib-
| bons elected to the office of presidert
for the 1952-53 term. She replaces
Mrs. J. Smedley.

Other officers named were vice-
president, Mrs. E. G Woodland; sec-
retary, Mrs. C. Stangoe; treasurer,

Mrs. Boyd Halfnights; honorary-
president, J. Phillipson. “Committee
members elected were — Program:

Mrs. D. Stevenson, Mrs. J. Haramia,
E.'Pedersen, and R. Friesen; Social:
Mrs. C. MacIntosh, Mrs. P. W. Scott;
Membership: Mrs. F. B, Bass, Mrs.
icot; Publicity: Mrs. C; Stan-

sum of $250 has been set aside
from the general funds towards the
purchase of a public-address system
for the new school.

The possibility of having adult

and leathercraft was discussed and
L. Cantell was given full authority
to meet With the school board and
make the necessary arrangements.
A suggestion by J. Phillipson,
principal, that he hold an evening
session to acquaint parents of high-
school children with the requirements
of the high-school program was en=
dorsed by the meeting.

Mr. Phillipson also gave a short
talk on the progress of the new school
‘nd dormitory, and stated that 34
pupils were now registered for the
latter building. Full capacity is 36.
Mrs. C. MacIntosh will conyene
the tea which the P-TA will sponsor
en opening day of the new school.
She will be assisted by Mrs. B. G.
Woodland, Mrs. F. B, Bass and Mrs.
®. Deschene.

RETURN VERDICT OF
ACCIDENTAL DEATH

A verdict of accidental death was
returned Wednesday by a coroner's
Jury inquiring into the death of Miss
Lillian Carin of Aldergrove, who
died September 5 of injuries received
when she was thrown trom the cab
of a truck on Deep Creek Hill August
50th, -
Jury members were Wm. Sloan,!
foreman; Allan Smallenberg, Ralph |
Woodland, Harold MeKay and Gor-
don Cunningham, J. Seibel.

Local Man Injured
In Korean Fighting

Gordon Lioyd, son of Mrs. 3. W
erris of Williams Lake, was the first |
istrict serviceman to be mentioned |

sts of the Korean

ccording to information received
xy his mother, Gordon was injured

September 11 when a shell
punctured his ear. drum. The

dent occurred on Gordon's 26th
birthday.

After serving in the Second World
War, Gordon re-enlisted and has
been two and a half years with the
Lord Strathcona Horse (tank regt.).

after September 24 any offender can
expect to find himself in court,

He left Calgary in May for Korea.

night clases in woodwork, metalwork | @

Struck On Highway Near Tow:,
Local Man Killed Instantly

Fred Pinchbeck, member

family was killed

(Chicotin Cabizs)

of a pioneer Williams La
Sunday mornin

struck by a car as he lay at the side of the road.

According to subsequent investiga-
‘ions, Mr. Pinehbeck, accompanied by
Alfred Isnardy had been drinking to-
gether in town before the accident
occurred, It is believed they reached
the lodge by catching a ride in a small
‘ruek and after the driver stopped at
the pumps for gas he went on without
them.

The two men went into Herbert
Lodge and sometime later made their
way back to the road.

In the meantime two taxis were
‘saving Williams Lake on chartered
trips. Driver of the first cab, Gordon
McLean left town at 12:55 with a
fare for the 153 Mile and right be-
hind him-a second cab, driven by
Percy Wright of Lac La Hache start-
ed out for Sugar Cane reserve.

As Mr. McLean’s cab reached =
point estimated about a thousand
yards beyond the lodge he was
forced to swerve out to the centre of
the road when he saw a man lying at
right angles to the highway with all
but his feet on the road. A second
man was sitting at the prostrate
man’s feet just off the highway.

As the driver brought his cab back
to the right side of the highway a
truck passed him going the opposite
way and the thought occurred to him
that the truck and Mr. Wright’s cab
would pass.about the spot where the
man was lying. He pulled over and
stopped and at the same time in his
rear vision mirror he saw the two
vehicles passing. In the second cab
Mr. Wright wasn’t aware of anything
else on the road as the passing truck

FIRST CLASS ONLY

Highway Post Offices
Have Daily Mail

Effective Monday, residents along
the Cariboo Highway finally received
much needed break in their mail
delivery.

Post offices at 150 Mile, 100 Mile,
Lac La Hache, 70 Mile and Clinton
will now have first class mail dreppead
off daily from the southbound Grey-
hound.

Deliveries of mail originating from
points south of these post offices will
take a day longer to reach its des-
tination than that addresed to Wil-
liams Lake because the sorting will
be done at Quesnel. For exampie,
first class mail from Vancouver wil}
be picked up by the northbound bus,
which arrives here in the early
morning, then will go on to Quesnel
for sorting to individual post offices
and returned for delivery on the
southbound bus.

Second and third class mail will
be handled by rail as previously,

TO CONTEST RIGHT
TO ALBERTA OIL

Central Press Canadian
Veteran film actress Marie
ngelque Mayot, snown in her Los
gles nome as she prepared to
ieave for Edmonton

farmland
years ago. She hopes to
fortune from the oil-rieh
because there was no “men-
tion of oil rights” when the tract
was sold, 1

Sees ae ae
eecupied his attention. Sitting in the
‘ack seat though, Mrs. Jimmie Wy-
eote saw the man and cried on: {}
they had run over him.

Mr. Wright immediately pull
over and stopped and the occupants
rushed back. They were 1
of any assistance
Pinchbeck had been kiliei in

A coroner's jury met Mona
view the body and the inquest was
then adjourned until September 22.
Folice in the meantime are complet-
ing their investigation of the acci-
dent.

P.G.E. STATION
BEING RENOVATE)

Work is nearing completion on an
addition to-the Pacific Great astern
station.

The addition provides express stor-
age space and a small room that was
formerly used for this purpose will
now be the express office. The space
between this office and the station

how

agent’s office will be used as a train-
men’s room.

In addition to this work new roof-
ing is being laid on the station. With
completion of this work and the
cement platform that replaced the
old plank one the station has under-
gone a major transformation.

The heavy increase in express
volume that necessitated more space
is repeated through the yards here.
‘The old.turntable in front of the
roundhouse has been removed and
work crews are filing the excavation
in to lay more trackage. Similarly, 2
raised section that runs’ partway
down the centre of the yards wil!
levelled out and a common grade
established.

The volume of freight is taxing
the capacity of the existing freight
shed and plans are being readied to
put up a new building down from the
warehouse of Mackenzies Ltd. This
would allow trucks to load and un-
load without crossing the tracks as
they do now.

With four and five trains in daily
compared to the old days when it was
a twice-weekly event, more and :nore
work will be done in the future to
accomomdate the increased traffic in
the Williams Lake yards.

Stop Sign For
Oliver and Railway

New &top signs made their appear-
ance in town this week with the con-
troversial corner of Oliver and Rail-
way being included in those desig-
nated.

Vehicles travelling down Oliver
must now come to a full stop before
turning on to Railway Three white
lines on the lane affected emphasize
the curb-side sign. Farther along

Railway a stop sign has been erected
at the foot of Yorston Street.

In addition to these, signs have
been placed on all the streets cross-
ing Oliver, and at the junction of
Third Avenue a School “Stop When
Occupied” lane has been established,

Work Starts On
Smail Park Proje::

Work started this week on im--
provement of the triangular piece of
and at the head of Oliver Street tha!
has been set_aside as a park.

The village bulldozer has finally
been repaired and the big machina
has star lerracing the hillside.
the rough excavating
nothing much will be done with the
land this year except possibly the
construction of a fence around it.
Commissioner Tony Borkowski is in
charge of the development.

Now that the ‘dozer is operating
again the village has several jobs
that can be cleaned up including the
grading of new streets on the PGE
sub-division which will be offered fo)
public sale when streets are in aud
water lines are laid,