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NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

Felker, G.

Lake Tribune ©

Volume 20 — Number 47

WILLIAMS LAKH, B.C. Thursday, November 27, 1952

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

COMMISSIONERS

Photos by Blackwell's

IN THE NEWS

ONE WILI.

AND TWO WON'T.
village commissioners shown above whose
seats become vacant this year,
signified his intention of running
December 11. Commissioner Stan Goad, right,

stand age

in

ouly one has
for election | has stated he

Cemniissioner

commissioners,

Of the three’| has served two years on the board and will

for nomination. Chairman of

Alastair Mackenzie, centre,
will not run this year, as has
John Anderson.

Interest Again Shown In
Formation of Historical Society

Eighteen people interested in the
preservation of historical data on
our district were on hand Monday

- night to spark the re-organization of

an historical- society in Williams
Lake.

Henry Windt, who came to the
Quesnel district in 1901, was named
president of the group. Arthur Had-
dock, another old-timer in the Cari-
boo, was named first vice-president
and Alex Smith was elected second
vice-president. Honorary president
is Judge Henry Castilou and honor-
ary patron is Dr. A. H. Bayne.

“Tt was ier to the officers elected
to brifig iz recommendations at the
next meeting for persolis to fill the
remaining oifices.

Before the actual mecting got un-

_derway, Mr: Windt outlined some of

the work of the Quesnel branch of
the Cariboo Historical Society and
the work that he thought a local
group could carry out.

The Quesnel society has restored
the ‘Blessing’ grave on the Quesnel-
Wells road, which is a point of his-
torical interest. The members are

Sewer Levy
May Be Split
Three Ways

Commissioners are still
for the best method, or methods, to
raise the necessary money fov the
proposed Williams Lake sewer §
tem, |

At present the commi
examining the method that wa:
by Penticton which was actually
combination of three. Penticton first
levied a straight land tax charge 10
lay the necessary mains and disposal
beds.- Then a charge was made to
each user, being 50 cents an outlet
with a minimum annual charge of

looming

5.
: Although the local commission
likes the Penticton set-up, there is
still some doubt as to whether a
village has the right to make the
charge for connection through an im-
provement ta:

When this question is settled the
way will be clear to preparing the
py-law for presentation to the rate-

~payers.
STREET RECEPTACLES

Commissioners at their meeting
quesday night gave approval to a
request from the local branch of the
Business and Professional Women's
club that the group be allowed w
provide waste street receptacles for
installation at the main street cor
ners in town. The only proviso made
py the commissioners was that the
yeceptacles be of a design acceptable
to the commission.

SUB-DIVISION

‘Work of grading the streets in the

sub-division was started

new PGE
this week.
has been set aside by the railway
company to grade and gravel the
streets and provide culverts. In ad-|

‘A total of around $6800!

currently examining the old ‘McIn-
nes House’ near Macalister with a
view to restoring it. Mr. Windt said
that it was in this house that Mrs.
Annie Huston was born. Mrs. Huston
is the mother of Claude Huston of
Williams Lake.

The chairman said it was this kind
of work that he would like to see the
local group undertake, as well as
gathering material for eventual pub-
lication. There are many old-timers
in the district who could contribute
much to the society’s meeting pro-
gramp, Mr. Windt told te prospee-
tive members.

He went onkto. say that nip
ihe valuable historical materi
the Cariboo had

ou
been lost but that
there was still timé to record ’a lot
of the Cariboo’s colorful past. Com-

menting on little known facts, M
Windt said he doubted whether
many of his listeners knew that once
Bella Coola produced its own,money
and guaranteed its value as far
south as the 70 Mile.

DIARIES

Following the election of officers,
Mr. Windt read some extracts from
old diaries that he had in his poses-
sion. One set had been carefully kept
by W. D. Moses, a negro barber of
Barkerville that recorded events in
that town around the 1860’s and

70’s. In one of these an entry made
x June,

5, noted’ that the first

nee in the Cariboo had come off
the presses. The newspaper was
called the Cariboo Sentinel.

Reading from a diary kept by
Johnny Stevenson, one-time govern-
ment collector and assessor in Ques-
ndt gave a few coinments
on the Federal election of 1888. Mr.
Stevenson also acted as returing of-
ficer for the huge Federal electoral
district that stretched from Barker-
yille to Boston Bar and he had care-
fully recorded the number of votes
at every point. In the election a total
of 297 votes were cast. Mr. Bernard
eived 117 votes to‘un-
t the previous Member, Bob Me-
Leese. Mr. McLeese was the grand-
father of Miss Jessie Foster of
Williams Lake.

The members of the new society
agreed to hold monthly meetings and
Mr. Windt promised an interesting
program for the December meeting.
The public will be invited to each
meeting to hear something of the
history of the Cariboo.

Hospital Telephone
Number Changes

War Memorial Hospital is now on
a private telephone line

Previously the hospital was on a
party line with Avery Clinic, but be-
cause of inability of the hospital
staff to get a call out this week dur-
ing an emergency, the Board asked
the local telephone office to put the
institution on a private line.

The request was made yesterday
and this afternoon it had been com-
plied with. New number for the

dition to this amount will be the cost nurse's desk is 13-R-1 and for the
[hospital office is 13-R-2,

ef laying water mains,

New Switchhoards
To Be Installed
At Telephone Office

Work on Installation of two new
switchboards will probably get un-
derway next week at the local tele-
phone office.

The two 120-line boards are of
English manufacture and will permit
eventual establishment of increased
telephone service for Williams Lake.
At present the new switchboards will
not afford much relief for local sub-
scribers however. New lines will also
be necessary before added services
can be installed.

Considerable alteration work will
be necessary in the telephone=. office

Xmas Tree Contract
Handled In Record
Time By Town Firm

Wilbur Hannah, husting head of
Interior Wholesale Distributors Ltd.,
has just completed what he describ-
@s as the ‘toughest contract he has
ever handled,’ and it had nothing to
do with fruit and vegetables.

Offered a rush job to supply 13
ears of Christmas trees for the David
MeNair Company of Vancouver, Wil-
bur took it on and finished his con-
tract -by the deadline date of Novem-
ber 23.

The trees came from Hanceville
and were loaded on trucks at that
point and taken to: Ashcroft where
the hoxcars were spotted. In order
to handle the job 11 men were hired
Pbesides the contract cutters and four
diucks were used; two of them big
diesel units.

_The diesel trucks handled eround
675 bundles of trees and the smallez
trucks 500. Average bundle contains
four trees.

The waiting boxcars at Ashcroft
presented a financial challenge to
the contractor to make his dead-
line. Spotted there for transit over
United States lines, a $400 bond bad
to be posted on each car and was
subject to forfeit if the shipments
weren’t made in the specified time.
The trees were being shipped to To-
peka, Kansas, and to Missouri.

The trucks were practically work-
ing around the clock to make the
200-mile trip to Ashcroft, delivering
enough trees to load a car every
second day~

In all about 52,000 trees were in-
cluded in the total
order meant a value to this district
of some $22,000.

The other major shipment of trees

shipment. The

‘|from this district was one df five

| ears out of Soda Creek, taken by the

to make room for the

Hotert ¢

With the nomination day

fied his intention’ of running
on the Village Commission.

Chairman of the present board,
Alastair Mackenzie and Commission-
er John Anderson. have stated that
they will not offer their names this
year.

Chairman Mackenzie has served on
the board for six years and has stated
he would like to take a rest from the

duties of commissioner. Pressure of
business is forcing Commissioner An-
derson to step out of the civic field
after seven years on the board. He
also has served as chairman. Mr.
Anderson decided not to run last year
and made a last-minute change in his
decision when it became apparent
that there. were not enough candi-
dates to force an election.

businessmen
acted in town have declin-
ed to consider the possibility of their
running for the village board.

Former commissioner C. H.

Various who have

been cont

Pos-

‘Locals Drop Hoop
‘Series On Weekend

the type of opposition the
running

With
‘lake Elks hoop squad is
,into in their league there seems lit-
|tle hope that they can get out of
their cellar spot in the three regular
games left to play.

On the weekend Quesnel hoopsters
handed the locals two rough set-

backs at the Elks Hall. Saturday the
visitors came out on top of a 75-32
‘score and the next day they ran up

89 points with the Elks only secur-
ing 39.

_ The local girls took two losses as
well from their visiting counterpurts,
but stayed a lot closer to their rivals.
Saturday night Quesnel was only able
to eke out a 31-28 win and went on
to take Sunday's by a score of 45-34.
In the latter game the ‘lake squad
provided their usual effective oppo-
sition until Kay Halloran and Edna
Irvine were banished from the floor
with five fouls each. Without the
strength of these players the team’s
play fell off badly.

for civic election only a week

away, Commissioner Stan Goad is the only man who has signi-

for one of the three vacancies
ton said this morning that he had
inot made up’ his mind yet whether
he would allow his name to stand.
The board’s two sitting members
are Commisioners M. F. Johnson and
T. A. Borkowski

NEW GARAGE OPENS
DOORS FOR BUSINESS

Building and equipment delays
have plagued the Neufeld brothers
since they started construction of
their new garage here in May, but
the company is finally open for busi-
ness this week.

Operated by Henry and John Neu-
feld, who were formerly in the gar-
age business at Wells, the new iirm
handles Imperial Oil products and
has been appointed Ford and Mon-
arch car dealers. The garage is
located just inside the village limits
on Oliver Street, close to the Stam-
pede ground entrance,

Local Man Director In

New Mining

Venture

Returning from the Kootenays last week, local business-
man Bert Lloyd announced that negotiations and transfers
have been completed in the acquiring of the Yankee Girl and
Dundee mines at Ymir, B.C., as well as adjoining claims. Ymir
is located between Trail and Nelson.

These adjoining mines were oper-
ated in the early days as gold mines
only the previous operators discard-
ing the lead-zine content because of
the lack of markets. Rising labour
costs gradually made it impossible
for the mines to operate profitably
as gold was then worth only $20 an
ounce.

In 1929 Stobey-Furlong commenc-
ed driving a mile long tunnel trom
the other side of the mountain to tap
the ore body eight hundred feet be-
low its developed levels. After driv
ing 3200 feet they became enmeshed
in legal difficulties and were forced
to-abandon the project. During the
ensuing years, titles to the proper-
ties became lost in a maze of legal
entanglements with some of the prop-
erty going through the Escheats Act.

Before the establishment of the
latest. company, two miaing inen:
Bert Goodridge. and Ralph Sostad
spent months getting the properties
consolidated so that mining opera-
tions on both could be handled under
a single company.

APPOINTED VENDORS

The new company will be known
as Yankee-Dundee Mines Ltd.. with
an authorized capital of four million
dollars. Capital for initial develop-

HEADS LEGIO:

W.A.

Photo by Blackwell’s

Mrs. Imhoff Heads
Legion Auxiliary

Mrs. V. Imhoff was elected presi-
dent of the Ladies’ Auxiliary to the
Canadian Legion at their annual
meeting Friday. She succeeds Mrs.
F. B. Bass.

Other officers named were 1st vice-
president, Mrs. E. Blackwell; 2nd
i president, Mrs. A. E. Levens;
Mrs. J. Blair; treasurer,
G. Gibbons; standard-bearer,
J. Stitt. Executive members
named were Mrs. F. Mellish, Mrs. S$.
Pigeon and Mrs. C. Pigeon.

A committee was named to take
of decorating a tree for the
children’s ward at the hospital and
providing gifts for the small inmates.
Another committee will look after
supplying hampers for the needy.

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It Happened This Way...

To one member of the Parent-Teachers Association

the group's monthly meeting proved educational in an

unusual way.

During a question and

part to the discu

a Friday night.

dawning understanding

“Something has been
final remark on the subje

of school dances was being discussed with the e
on what time these affairs should end. Contributing her
ion a mother ventured the opinion
that the dances went on too late,
students had to attend school the following day.

Somewhat puzzled by
Phillipson said he didn’t think the argument applied
in this case since the school dances were always held on

answer period the pro>lem
emphasis

particularly when the

the remark, Principal J>

“But aren't some student dances held during the
week?” the mother queried.

She was assured by other teachers and parents too
that this was not the case
ame over her fa

and suddenly a light of

put over on me,” was her

1: . Doubtless the school dance
question was re-opened when she

reached home,

ment work has been placed in the
pany by the directors themsel

Ata later date the first issue of shares
will be offered to the public at 25
cents a share to provide $175,000 for
development work. The firm of F. B.
Bass Ltd., has been appointed as
vendors for the northern area.

The company proposes to set up a
mill complete with sink-float plant
and zine circuit as soon as develop-
ment work has been completed. Size
of the mill is tentatively set at 200
tons daily with a sink-fioat plant
capacity of 400 tons daily.

Average grade of the ore is $15
per ton in gold-silver with a combin-
ed metals conteht of 7 per cent. pro-
ducing a combined value of $22 per
ton. Average mining and milling
costs throughout the province run at
about $12.50 a ton. Preliminary fig-
gures indicate a gross value of ten and
a half million dollars above the level
of the extension of the mile-long
tunnel, with a large potential in the
unexplored areas.

DIRECTORS

Directors of the new company are
Mr. Goodridge, Mr. Sostad, Len Bel-
liveau, Les. Jamieson and Mr. Lloyd.
The first three are well known in
mining circles having been instru-
mental in respectively developing the
Copper Ridge Mine near Topley, the
Estella Mine in the Kootenays and
the Gray Rock Mine in Bridge River.
Mr. Jamieson is a well known Van-
couver businessman, and Bert Lloyd
is well known loeally as a partner in

tion work in Northern British Colum-
bia prior to going into his bresent
business. The aged years as a
mining man were spent with thé
Canadian arm of Kennecott Copper
Corporation.

When questicned on the future
possibilities of the property, both
Fred Bass and Mr. Lloyd were most
enthusiastic. They pointed out that
the trend in financial circles was to-
ward a considerable raise in the pri
of gold while the outcome of tie
United States election would indicate.
a strengthening of the metals mar-
ket. They also pointed out that the

new company was starting out with.

a saving of several thousand dollars,
owing to the amount of development
work already done and the proximity
of the property to the town of Ymir,
which obviated the need of construct-
ing a large camp.

School Opening
Set For Dec. 4

Dr. F. T. Fairey, Deputy Minister
of Education will officially open the
new addition to the Wijliams Lake
High School and the dormitory build-
ing at special ceremonies December
4th, it has been announcedsby the
School Board Office.

The buildings will be thrown open
to the public at 2 pm, that day for
to the public at 2 p.m. that day for
ies are scheduled for 3 p.m. The
Parent-Teachers’ Association will
sponsor a tea at the school commenc-
ing at four o'clock.

It was originally intended to have
the Hon. Tillie Rolston, Ministcr of
Education open the school buildings,
but the pressure of officiating at simi-
lar ceremonies this fall throughout
the province has resulted in the Min-
ister being forced to cancel similar
engagements for the time being,

Cache Creek Issues
Cow Moose Figures

According to a check made with
Cache Creek game station last night,
up to eight o’clock $5 cow moose had
been taken out since the week sea-
son for these animals opened Monday.

Tuesday 400 cars passed through ~

the station with cow moose
checked. Altogether this season 959
moose have been taken through
Cache Creek,