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Lake. Tribune ™

NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO.

Volume 20 — Number 51.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Wednesday, December 24, 1952

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.
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SUSPECT WANTED
‘ON MURDER CHARGE
IN ONTARIO

“Identity of the man cut down in a

Teachers’ Salary Question
To Go To Arbitration

The teachers’ salary question in District 27 will go to
arbitration it was decided last Wednesday following a break-

—~ pipipal story is outsi@ndingly déeor-| ty

gun battle with police last week has
been definitely established by police
as Henry Seguin, alias Henry Beau-
dry, who is wanted in connection
with a slaying in Ontario.

Ontario police hold a warrant tor
his arrest on a murder charge arising
from the slaying of Leonard Hurd.
Maxville, Ont., businessman.

| Hurd’s body was found in his car
last August 16. A search for Seguin
concentrated for some weeks in the
Catineau area near Ottawa,

The wanted man had used two
other names during his stay in this
province. He had gone under the
names of Redford and Godin.

Wounded in the chest by police
after he had opened fire on them, Se-
guin is now recovering. Each day the
wanted man gains in strength and
has been sitting up for short periods.
He is being guarded 24 hours a day
by RCMP officers.

Friendly and talkative with hos-
pital sta members, Seguin is ap-
preciative of the care given to him.
He steadfastly refuses to talk to

identity.

In an announcement made Tues-
day, Attorney-General Bonner stated
that the man would be tried in Brit-
ish Columbia first. Police haye not
released details of the charge thet
he will face.

Bank Manager Len Hellyer, who
was shot in the hip during the at-
tempted bank holdup -here is now
back home and is walking around
id of crutches

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For the second dear one Fa ers gee is Bile a “ies pegs
Qvestern, Rife and sed on three=tréts In. < > on|comys uy workers abd tmi@@@ar hag

the stor as awarded the Jaycee |Third avenue and homen fr «jong : new venture, Avae ot
een Ye best eee have also got“§pusy ‘out- Quesnel and’ Dr. Larry Avery and
challeice AcE ae eee TH doors. In order to er ie extra |Sid Pigeon spe
io conde eee Jaycees have erected A large | Passengers along the route, Canu-|ing of ea p

The displays, ile w oi Les|trees down’ Oliver Street the |dian Pacific Airlines has heen send-| bench - mds a.ong
Pigeon, take up oth windows of |siant Hospital tree is ou ing the four years they owned the
the store and depic: suow scenes ing the town. 5 sistance is yO :
complete with Santa and seindger/ivyn in this respect by B.C. Power! 41's. sa sscneore trom Queen 5 eas an property was handled
against a star-studded —bathdrop: LE as ede a ie a snehTby. Alvan Miller.
The display’ is carefully Pas “jhe-Street strings of lights mloops. Hea-
each morning by Mr. Pigeon so that |areladding their colour to the show. |viest Passenger list from town for a .
it wont impede normal business, and Sid Western has his tree up again single flight has been eight, although Hes it | C f
is replaced each night, on the small lawn beside the ‘beatre. |more would have gone if space had p @d OSTS
The ay4rd tor the home division| Judges for this year’s competition ; been available.

J. Haramia, Wm. Mouat

£ Ss: Bopy were Dr. J. " Biggest air lift was the movement |

ae een ee was | Miss Thelma Buffum «nd C. Reding.) of 200 men on special planes out Will Rise Ten

just ¢dged out-of the picture. Bob Prince George. The men wer

has frected a life-size Santa with

hipSleigh and reindeer on tiie front
yovn. The figures are made of p>
{wood and. are spotlighted
ground. His home is

in coloured lights.
The judges

[Deen no exception.

| ing extra planes out of Prince George,

leaving more room on the regular

ployees of Mannix Congnaction com- 5]
Gea AL DUSINESSM AN Percent i in 53
The open winter~ means heavier
y| Passenger car traffie on the roads
SEES FLYING SAUCER ands corresponding drop inte um
of people travelling by bus, but|722, or an appr
Back from a business trip to Aa len aviound agents feel that the rush }1952 of ten percent, acc

Estimated

an honourable rding to a

ib a “Ciristinas (fhose: mysterious fiying saucers. Ashcroft when needed and the extra}jnsurance Service.
fawn a larget Actually it was too dark at the usually stays over here waiting for
¢ dépicting the shepherds in zie] time to make out the outlines of any|the southbound regular to come
© of airship, but Bert said the back. same daily rate for pe

Although the directors feel that

ons

Police though on the subject of his;

st of operating War|ranch included
emorial Hospital next year is $60,-| fenced property. Mr. Moon said he
‘imate increase over| Was 17 when he took part in his

down of dij
staff and the school board.

The teachers held to their de-
mands of an increase that would
mean a boost in educational costs in
the district of approximately $21,-
885 in the coming year. On the other
hand the school board offered to,
drop the cost of living clause in the
agreement made last year and leave
teachers’ salaries at the 1952 level.

In a statement last month to the
area representatives C. B. Macaueen,
secretary of the board, explained
that a year ago the board had enter-
ed into a salary agreement with the
teachers and “it was mutually agreed
that the 1952 schedule would be
based on a cost of living index figure
of 195..At that time, he said, it had
been anticipated that the index would
rise to at least this point when 2¢-
tually during 1952 it never rose be-
yond 191.5.

Under the then existing agree-

DISTRICT RESIDENTS
‘ON RADIO PROGRAM

R&dio producer Bob Harlow took
to the highways and byways to de-
scribe Williams Lake district in the
second of a series of programs on
this part of the province Monday
night.

The magnificent scenery on the
road to Dog Creek came in for a
wholehearted boost as the producer
opened this week’s half-hour broad-
cast. At Dog Ceek itself, the nar-
rate: emphasized the hospitality ne
and his technician received in the
‘nearly century old’ home of Mr. and
Mrs. Chas. Place,

His interviews here

started’ with

blessing it twas.
f ~{ conversation.
lit Dyinkell told his interviewer
something of the history of Dog
Creek and the original settlers of
\the district.

Charlie Place told of his father
oming to the valley in 1886 to start
the original ranch. He said that his
lown acreage today is about. 3000, on
which he runs 276 head of cattle.
ja ts. Place told wher interviewer
jtvankly that although she had been
in Dog Creek since 1914, she didn’t
care for ranch life. It does have its
compensations though, she _ said
eaching people to become self-
eliant.

Out towards the Chilcotin the pro-
ducer next stopped at ‘Hillcrest
Ranch’ and interviewed R. A. ‘Pudge’
Moon. This well-known rancher said
he ran 800 head of cattle and his
12,000 acres “of

first long trail drive to Ashcroft.

sa ploof, Bert Lloyd reports that he'is heavy enough. Wxtra busses have|)udget prepared by directors last} Asked if that was unusually young
witnessed an appgarance of one of been put on the northbound run from week for submission to the Hospital| to be taking part in this work, Mr.

Moon feplied that ranrh bred boys
start riding at“10 years.
East of, Williams Lake the radio

between representatives of the teaching

ment the index figure for December
would have been used to b:
1953 salary on. In order to give a

comparison, Mr. Macqueen prepared

a salary breakdown using 190 as the

December figure. (it was actually

around 186) The secretary main-

tained that because the teachers

were actually facing a cut in salaries

if they continued under the existing

agreement, their new demand was ~
in point of fact amounting to a re-

quested overall salary increase of

$24,547.

Teachers salaries are graded ac-
cording to the type of teaching cer-
tificate they hold and the years of
experience they have. However, by
taking several examples of typical
elementary and ‘secondary (high
school) ‘teachers, some idea can be
given of what the taxpayer is spend-
ing for instruction in District 27.

In 1952 an élementary school
teacher holding a first class certi
cate (normal school gsaduate) and’
having three years experience, was
paid $2,600. Under the teachers’
proposed schedule he or she would
receive $2,800, plus an isolation
bonus if it applied or a bonus for
special qualification.

A secondary school teacher with
ythe same qualifications and years of
experience earned $3200 in 19
would earn $3720 according to the
proposed teachers’ request.

The spread of, increase asked for
varies in relation to the number of
years experience. For example the
increase for a secondary teacher
with a first class permanent’ certifi-
cate (qualications being higher than
required for an elementary teacher),
stays at $300 for from 0 to 2 years
experience. However, by the time
the experiences byacket reaches 14
ay wears, the salary increase. spread is
$950.
j>, Two men have been appointed to
the arbitration hoard. P. T. Samson
of Oliver will represent the school
board and V. L. Dryer of Vancouver
will represent the local braneh of
the B.C. Teachers Federation.

The procedure now is to have the
two members of the board agree to
the appointment, of a third member.
who will act as chairman

Acting on the teachers’ salary com-
mittee is A. Haloran, 0. Kerley and
G. McRae. School board salary com-
mittee consists of board chairman H
Gardner and trustees E. G. Wood-
land and H. Place.

VILLAGE RECEIVES
SHARE OF SALES TAX

The Village of Williams Lake has
received a cheque for $4,338,85 as
part of the interim distribution of
Social. Security and Municipal aid
Tax made this month by the Provin-

cial government.
The municipalities share under”

team’ travelled to Big Lake to in-|the ‘Municipalities Aia Act’ one third

ative Untortunatey’ the parish d

8

ing’ was emitting a light froin a!

at
One night the bus left here with| covered by B.C.H.I. the rate for

terview Mr and Mrs. Ken McKenzie

source

not/ /fail into tYe two contest diy

5.
Ciof comp fition in the commer- saw th

ejrmer/store, has a nativiiy
scef2 oné of the Railroad Avenue

utes, 1
and i

railroad station
with electric trains.
hows the results that can be chengel
‘je@ with the tasteful use of ly blu
jandise set off by adequate; comple
ig. n.
h year more homes are being} ‘:aucer
ened up by the use of outdvor appe

[eet square. Two persons who first. commodatea by a single taxi. But! ¢s 60 to $10

wa/ provided“by Macken- the house where Bert w

7 A. anf Brandly's Drug Store. and five companions went out:
cs see the fiying object. hina.
Bert estim
swif'S and several of the Oliver traveller to have been at about 2009 time rarely increases on the PGE,

gt Windows are given over to a feet. It stayed in

of t) collecti i Ze
goal appenred:-to~beybeverg) ¢ swiall overload that “could” be: ac-| uninsured! persons has jumped trom|Wwho dnevete silver woes Lodge, Me,| on, COuestions itt the: fiséal. year

McKenzie told the interviewer that|°"0™& March 31, 19
Reason for the opinion that the; prior to taking over the resort ne} P@¥ment is made so that municipali-
ute under the hospit: ce| had gained experience working on|ties receive this revenue before the
will be adequate is that the directo j aude ranches and cattle ranches.|close of their fiscal year, December
can budget for increased oceupancy.| Mrs. McKenzie had also had farm| 31st.
traffie at Christmas} nis was where the board was | experience, although hers had been] Total amount of the interim pay-
caught last year, in theory, her husband s e 4
Fe to 2 aT Cu ie zallway being] “Wot only doak the: voard have to|seterring’ to the seven yease Mg [ieee ng oe men tot
moving in different directions "ecorded in mail and express. Ex t for estimated but the| McKenzie played on the CBC Carson|000 greater than was “ts trib aa
m the meantime the light ®a7s: have been used for tne: past, 4, must also set an estimated! Family program. last year se
d from red to green and finel- Week and a half to carry the extra and in theory that is what} Boosting for the tourist business. Distribution is based upon the
€, at one-point disappearing business. the service pays. At the end of No- | which he said was just starting in|municipal populations according to
tely and then flashing on - vember insured patients over the) the Cariboo, Mr. Mackenzie declared| the 1951 census. =
Tter staging its display-the Can spring be far hehind? . . budget oveupaney figured out that’ it was one of the province's] Indicative of the growth of our
sped across the sky and Monday, December 22 was the short-|year had run up bills totalling some! most . important industries since|neighbor to the north, Quesnel's
d over the horizon, st day of the year. k eryone shared the tourist dollar. | share of the payment was $7,541,

- The interim

te light about 1 a.m. phoned business picked up along the way and
» and he} by the time the bus reached Ashcroft
e f0) five faxis were following along be-

Passenger

the unknown sky! .

costs

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