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THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.

== Thursday; November 6, 1952.

THE TRIBUNE

Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C.

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Solidarity Needed

Last week’s on-again, off-again holiday fiasco put Wil-
liams Lake in a poor light in the eyes of communities up and
down the PGE line. If we had decided to have a holiday and
made the decision stick, or conversely turned down the idea
in the first place, we would have handled the civic holiday
question in the proper manner. As it was we managed to
demonstrate once more that as a community we never seem tc
be able to get solidly behind an idea and present a combined
front.

It would be pointless at this time to offer arguments on
the question one way or another, but we think several things
should be seriously thought about.

In the course of arguments put forward by the chairman
of the Retail Merchants Association, the ‘right’ to suggest a
holiday was challenged. In our opinion the challenge could
have been put to the negative side with greater jusification.
he time to have entered an objection to the civic holiday
was When it was first suggested — and made & public sugges-
tion in the press. But it wasn’t to be the case. Somehow or
other the Retail Merchants Association managed to keep well
buried in its sand pile until the holiday was an actual fact,
and then caused a major upheaval in getting it rescinded.

Whatever the merits of the arguments on either side
however, we think the fact that this question was resolved in
the manner it was presents a dangerous precedent. A bare
“majority of the 47 holders of business licenses who voted
dictated the policy of village government in this instance.
On the last voters’ list there were 200 people to whom the
commission is responsible. Whether the commissioners were
right or wrong in their original decision we think they should
have maintained that decision unless faced with an opposite
view that had the backing of a good section of the ratepayers
as a whole.

The Creaking Epic

The fact that the Pacific Great Eastern Railway company

managed to stumble along to a fairly successful celebration
of the opening of the Quesnel-Prince George extension can
hardly be attributed to its directors.
Right from the start the ‘People’s Great Epic’ showed
igns of coming apart at the:seams. After g 40-year interval
everything was going to be done with a matter of a week anda
j halfs rehearsal and_troubi@ soon followed. [{
«= Along the lineFin thegeommunities mcst
ension, the cel@rati ~ committees ‘cranked their in+
“i idual efforts and hustled on stage with some\of the acts
deleted and others cut down. Cues were missed or never given
and a lot of disappointmént resulted.

Biggest farce was the actual spike driving ceremony at
Abhau Creek. There 600 people lined the tracks and climbed
the near-by hill to see the historic ceremony while a tight
little knot of dignitaries effectively managed to keep from the
spectators the fact that anything special was going on around
the chosen spot. Even Premier W. A. C. Bennett managed to
give the impression of being handed his script two minutes
before curtain time, and the contents made it sound like one
that could be published for the guidance of heads of govern-
ments and applicable for the opening of bridges, hospitals,
highways or railroads (insert applicable names and miscel-
Janeous data).

That the whole celebration was a fair success can be at-
tributed to the railway company’s J. A. Kennedy and Bill
Stewart; td the individual community committees who groused
about the time element and still managed to work wonders
in organization, and most of all to the people of the Central
Interior themselves, who just naturally love a celebration and
don’t mind letting the whole world know about it.

sed by thé

Dangerous Delays

In the too-frequent times we have picked up our telephone
and waited patiently for the operator at the other end of the
line we have often wondered how we would feel if the place
was burning down over our heads while wasted minutes slipped
by.

Well, after Hallowe’en we don’t have to wonder any more,

Because we felt that we might not be. able to control] the
fire we had that night in an awning with our chemical extin-
guisher, we asked someone to call the fire department while
we handled the extinguisher. Miss Georgina Fullerton picked
up our phone to place the call and while she was waiting we
emptied two extinguishers and were going out the door with
a bucket of water to finish the job when she finally came away
from her post at the phone, still without having gained con-
tact with the outside world.

We have a well-trained fire brigade that would be a
credit to any town but the fact that its members are ready
at an instant’s notice to go into action is nullified to a great
extent by an ancient stem of telephone communication
that belongs in the horse and buggy days.

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formed at Soda Creek made dis off
cial appearance— , Towns
(som Sie veteran? Sunda:

(in The Prince

It seems to us that Prince ‘George |
and other Central B.C. communities;
are getting unduly excited over the
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Alberta and the)
Peace River, an elation which stems
from the possibility of eliminatiug
all-work and worry from the burden
of household cooking and heating.

Westcoast Transmission has bee2
authorized by the Board of Trans-
portation Commisioners to build a
gas pipeline and had a location crew
working between Prince George and
Dawson Creek for two months; But a]
decision to go ahead with the project
hinges upon securing the permission |
of the U.S. Federal Power Commis
sion end the line into the
United States. The B.C. market is
not considered large enough to car-
ry the huge capital cost, estimated
at $110,000,000.

There is a powerful lobby at work
in Washington to balk any move to
bring Canadian gas into the United
States and in that country such prup-

prospects of obtaining natural
from north-western

‘agandists often have more influence,

‘Ping the U.

From Another Viewpoint

“COWARDLY CAPITAL"

George Citizen)

than the elected representatives of
the people.

It is probably true that there ar
not enough potential consumers —
at present — to justify the expense
of building a 960-mile gasline. But
at the rate B.C.’s population is grow-
ing it may not be long before the
Project would pay off without tap-
S. market.

It would appear that firms iike
Westcoast Transmission should dis-
play a little more courage and faith
in this province. They might show
ie same gambling spirit and ente'
which actuated other individu-
als and firms Who pioneered in west-
ern Canada when the market for
their products and services was 2
great deal smaller than it is today.

Nowadays it has become the fa-
Shion for financiers and promoters to
dodge every risk and have their yen-
tures blueprinted for success from
start to finish.

Fortunately for us, such timidity
was not the dominant trait of those
who laid the corner-stone of B.
present prosperity.

ONE YEAR AGO
November 8, 1951

ation of two nurses at War
Memorial Hospital, one because of
the present salary scale and the se-
cond because, in her estimation the
hospital is under-staffed, precipitated
the Hospital Board into hurrying
their plans for an over-all salary ad-
justment that resulted in approval
of substantial increase— Orville
Fletcher, well-known rancher at the
144 Mile, was granted patents for
traction grip cliajns adaptable to
tractors— Sale of the tourist camp,
Chileotin Cabins, has been announced
by Ed. Follis. Purchaser is Wm.
Duncan’ Herbert of Victoria, who
took over November 1— Walter Nis-
bet, local laywer, was elected secre-
tary of the Junior Chamber of Com-
merce— The new section of the high-
that swings off from the en-
trance to the ‘lake-158 Mile by-pass
was Officially opened— The first
Parent-Teacher Association to be

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tribute to the memory of those w
fell in two World Wars—

FIVE YEARS AGO
November 6. 1947

The local skating rink repair work
and the building of another dressing
room for visiting hockey teams is not
progessing satisfactorily and unless
more volunteers show up, a contract
will have to be let out for the work—
Only eight registered students were
at Williams Lake to enroll at the
opening of the Rural Occupational
School with a possible 15 known
who would attend— Patricia Ivis
Roberts of Soda Creek became the
bride of Clifford Odine, Alexis Creek
— It will cost the taxpayers of Wil-
liams Lake around $1500 to have
the improvements done to the side
streets and alleys— Mr. Bob Lovelle,
brother of Mrs. Jerry Moore of Tat-

Harold Cripps of Big Lake have been
killed by wolves this past summer---

TEN YEARS AGO
November 5, 1d42

The town of Williams Lake has
been without electric service off and
on since September 13th when the
engine of the Columbia Power broke
down— The Elks entertained about
130 children at their second annual
Hallowe'en party— Word
ceived of

was re-
the death of Mrs. Alec.

Williams Lake, Mrs. W. Lehman
(nee Jane Bryant) of Anahim Lake

without benefit of doctor or nurse
— Ashower was held at the home oy
Mrs. P. J. Quesnel in honor of Ann
Kathleen Robertson— Lenore Bar-
clay and Dorothy Baker sold $20
worth of War Savings Stamps at the
Elks’ Hallowe'en party—

Nature
Scrapbook .. .

by W. F. Myring

Sulfa for Fish

Sulfa drugs are successfully in-
vading a new disease field—the ash
hatchery.

Furunculosis — the disease most

dreaded in the trout hatchery
yielded to treatment with sulfa-
merazine as the result of investiga-

layoka Lake was foreed down in nis}
plane in a hayfield at® the Newton},
Ranch— Fourteen head of cattle of}

Meiss of Horsefly— 240 miles from}:

gave birth to twins, a boy and gir, |:

From the Files of the Tribune °

TWENTY YEARS AGO
November 3, 1932

A masquerade dance was held for
the benefit of the War Memorial Hos-
pital. Included in the prize winners
were Miss G. Wright,, Dr. and Mrs.
Grafton, Miss Gibson, W. Orr, Miss
Muir, Mrs. W. Crosina and Mr. and
Mrs. W. Gallagher— E. L. Roberts
Meat Co. announce the opening of a
Cash Meat Market at Oliver and 3rd
Ave. Prices advertised were: Cam-
bridge sausage 2 Ibs. for 25¢ and pure
pork 20c per Ib.— A son was born to
Mr. and Mrs. R. Blair— At a meeting
of local stockmen at Springhouse, it
was decided to have ‘the ranges at
Springhouse, Chimney Creek, Alka-
li and Dog Creek closed with a view
to disposing of all wild and useless
horses within the area— At a chii-
dren’s whist drive at the home of
Mrs. Hodgson the prize winners weie
Irene Moxon, Pauline Mainguy, Joan
Taylor in the girls and Billy Smith,
Wilfred Hodgson, Ro:and Dodwell in
the boys!— In the classified section,
ffered for sale

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