THE TRIBUNE. WILLIAMS LAER. B.0, Wednesday, December 81, 1959 Is going to teach in, a school near Williams Lake. MR. and MRS. JOHN KROEKER and family spent Christmas at the 200 ATTEND XMAS CONCERT i ae ae The children’s Christmas party in| Cloverdale for tht holidays. the Hall Thursday evening, Decem-|_ MR: and MRS. JACK JOHNSON of ber 18, was one of the best concerts | Roe “Lake spent Christmas day with ever given at Lone Butte. The pro-|M?- and Mrs. Horace Woodrow in gram lasted about two hours. Cos-| Lone Butte. fumes were nice and the children| MRS. M. STOVEN and Michael acted their parts well. spent Christmas with the A. J. Huck- There were about 200 people at| Vales- the party. Santa Cldus gave presents|_ NELS SANDBERG spent Christ- to over 125 children. Refreshments|™4S Day with the A. J. Huckvales. ere served after the party and a dance followed. Police Court News Perey Jeff, Anahim Indian, was sentenced to three months in jail in police court last week on a charge of assault causing grievous hodily harm: The charge arose from a fracus in which the man’s aunt, Lizzie Jeff, was injured. THE Chas. Ashleys spent Christ- mas with the Dunlops at the Chasm. THB Bert Browns are at the coast for a few days. NORMAN PRICE spent Christmas at his home in Vancouver, returning to Lone Butte Monday. BUSINESS is quiet here with all the sawmills closed for two weeks for the holidays. found by police last month to be in THE WEATHER was nice and|P0ssession of several articles that mild for Christmas, with very little| 8d been stolen around town, were aoe! given a severe verbal reprimand I M ‘ i anne ey ere and were released in the custody of ean their guardians. 0 mar The two young boys who were itors of Mr. and Mrs. of Quesnel and their children, Doug and brother, Dr. ana Lila. OLIVER THEATRE— Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday — January 5, 6, 7 with her mother June Allyson - Arthor Kennedy in “THE GIRL IN WHITE” Thursday, Friday, Saturday — January 8, 9,10 Allan Ladd - Lizabeth Scott in “RED MOUNTAIN” Comedy and News Shows start at 8:30 p.m. Thurs.; Fri., Sat., this week - Clifton Webb and Anne Francis in “ELOPEMENT” Best Wishes fora Happy end Pratperous 1953 LOU AND PHYLLIS SCOTT Interior Power & Equipment This business will be closed for staff holidays December 20th to January 5th YOUR HOSPITAL INSURANCE PREMIUM 36 sees at essen Cece Mites SONG a 3 Si MAKE SURE YOU ARE PROTECTED Please return your billing nofice with your Premium payment directly to: B.C. HOSPITAL INSURANCE SERVICE Victoria, B.C. or make payment through local B.C.H.I.S. office or Government agent. ORES RS HR RRR SRN % HO eet Ne tn Mater Metin can “ Mi . ae PR SY wie ZS COST os Zee LOWEST =| PROTECTION AGAINST CRIPPLING HOSPITAL BILLS! F Bs Uchida in Vancouver. Miss Uchida The Cracker By A J. Drinkell Barrel Forum The Christmas edition of The Tri- hune was quite a snappy volume with its seasonal green cover and twelye pages; at least that is how the boys sized it up. From the particularly well chosen picture on page one to the last item on page twelve there sa “bill of fare’ to meet the most astidious reader. A quick ‘run through is what the boys gave it for a starter, that is after they got their eyes off the little fellow dreaming of Santa's visit via the chimney. Bills Puddle is to receive a nice slice of the S.S. and M.A. Tax, but no mention of so much asa sliver for the communities of Forest Grove, Horsefly, Dog Creek, ete. Must be like the gas tax for roads — we just | pay it. Next we read of the exciting adventure of a local businessman while at Vanderhoof. That sent us scurrying to test our Christmas ship- jment from the local fire-water dis- | pensary and wondered how come| the biologists, Trappers Associations ané the pit-lampers. Continuing our browsing we ga- ther the social ereditors have a pro- posal re extension of the PGE to the Peace River. They will have to win the next federal election to bring it about beeayse the crystal ball says the chappies now in power at Ottawa are not likely to make any move which might give the hymn singing gentry a handle to say ‘look what we did.” Anyway we wish them luck. We lett the rest of the items to read the messages from the churches. They put us in a better frame of niind. Perhaps about mid-summer it would be a good idea if they (the jehurehes) commenced all-out war ‘against those dollar hungry stores jwhiel” advertise “Five Santa Clauses iin attendance — No waiting.” Not counting. the: lovely verbal |bouguets the ‘village commission- ers handed each other (after seven they get it so much more potent at Years of arguing) we found fifty-two Vanderhoof. Then we console our.|Pusiness concerns wishing us all of selves — shucks, in this neck of the! the best for Christmas and the New Es * 1 Year. Bat ne: . woods almost any eni: v when they appeared in juvenile court Bt BOY OvenIne : MAELOUE the aid of even a mild bromo we can see lights high in the heavens alter- nating from green to red to.— But why go on? It is just the regular jhositpal rates are to increase 10%, which prompted someone to enquire if the staff still gets meals served at two-bits each (tax free). Turning the page we were cheered to read that a Japanese with his bead frame (abacus) beat the tar out of the latest in American calculating machines operated. by an American? The cause of our elation being that recently someone voiced the opinion that if they did not stop tinkering with Robots humans would soon be divided into two classes; a button pushing automaton or an inmate of a lunatic asylum, driven there by sheer ennui. What a cheerful thought. A letter to the editor was next to catch our eyes. We hesitate to do battle with one of the boys who founded the B.C. Trappers Assn., but persistent reports reach this forum of quite sizeable areas of browsing being killed out. Better not condemn “those young biologists” too hastily, folks: We found it difficult to accept the #heory expounded on page 5, ‘that Santa’s reindeer are likely to be supplanted by substitutes a la Dept. Store. Nothing doing Mr. Editor. We know that Dasher and Prancer, | Cupid and Vixen, Comet and Dancer and Donner and Blitzen are imperish+ able and will easily survive despite | Dog Creek News THE CHRISTMAS CONCERT by the school children under the direc- tion of Mrs. Stewart was successful in every way. The very generous sum subseribed enabled Santa Claus to distribute a handsome present in ad- dition to candy, nuts and oranges to every child in the settlement. All in all it was a pleasant interlude for those attending. RED ALLISON and Dave Graham have just returned from a vacation trip which took them as far as Pen- dleton, Oregon. ‘TOMMY DBSMOND. is ‘spending the festive season with his parents at Kamloops. VISITORS to coast points include Miss Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. Al Stew- art, Mrs. Carl Urness, Mr. and Mrs: Russ Phillips and Tony Parrott. THE FEW PEOPLE remaining in the community celebrated quietly but happily. The Charles Places en- tertained Christmas Eve. The Circle S Bunkhouse were the hosts Christ- mas night and the night of Boxing Day was spent at the Harold Places’. THE Geoffrey Places spent a few days with parents at Dog Creek House returning to town Saturday. G. E HILLMAN is visiting his old haunts as a guest of the Charles Places. THE Hilary Places spent Christ- mas in town, returning home Satur- day. . ONCE AGAIN a group of children under the able direction of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Russ toured the com- munity giving pleasure whérever th led with their excellent ren dition of Carols and other Christmas features. This year they wandered farther afield to Alkali Lake where the st kindly receiy- ed. We have learned to look forward to this highlight of our celebrations. THE VOLUME of mail handled by the Post Office was by far the largest on record. As usual, large numbers of Greetings were received in the community from former members of the RCAF. The passing of time shows them more widely scattered and an increasing number of happy Lits- bands and proud fathers, but still-re- taining vivid recollections of their sojourn at Dog Creek Airport. One for every week. That ;should do the trick. We sincerely ‘hope so at any rate, because it is a !lot nicer living amongst happy folks. Turning back for! a more careful R. Cunliffe were the former’s uncle CPA Airliner hurrying to Vane acne bees = tree and Mrs. D. A. Jones |¥er. The next cheerful item is that &' Bases esa g ‘earned of a great loss to the whole Cariboo district. We have lost Hope. Not hope in the spiritual sense but a .very material Hope. No longer will our old friend tap out our messages of grief and gladness. We shall all miss his familiar figure around the telegraph office and we proudly tip our hats to retiring operator Hope |Patenaude. Forty-seven years in the public service is a long time and is deserving of a compensating period jof really pleasant relaxation. We sincerely hope it will be so, in Hope’s case. LAC LA HACHE Ice Was Just Right For Unique Sport Luck Was with local residents the past week when Lac La Hache froze over enough to permit several days of the grand sport of skating for fish. The recently frozen parts of the lake were clear and smooth and just about right for this type of fishing. Those who felt the call of the twink- ling blades and the challenge of the elusive char were lucky enough to bring home several of the big trout Fresh snow which fell the last two days has ended the skating, but cer- tain expanses of the lake to be the very best fishing grounds, remain as yet unfrozen so there is a possibiilty of some fishing later on. A CHRISTMAS DAY PARTY was held at the home of Mrs. M. M. Wright where a large crowd ot neigh- bors gathered and made the rafters ring, dancing and singing to the ac- companiment of Mrs. Dan Bwart-at the piano. ANOTHER very enjoyable party was given Saturday by Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Ogden to a houseful of friends and neighbors. MRS. JOHN CALAM was a holiday visitor from Vancouver. MR. and MRS. W. LOWDEN, par- ents of Mrs. Ray Wise, spent a few days at the latter’s home. GUESTS at the Ogden home are Miss Madge Hamilton and Miss Aun Paul, the latter accompanying Ann Ogden from Abbotsford for the school holiday. More About 1952 Review (Continued from page 1) July Mrs. Marie J. Johnston, formerly of Coqualeetza Indian Hospital at Sardis, was appointed matron of War Memorial Hospital. On the lighter side, zany members of the Rube Band, unofficial ambas- sadors of the town, were on a trip to Vernon to assist in opening that centre’s Diamond Jubilee. August Early this month the forest fire situation was reported as ‘good’ in the district but inside of a matter cf days the Quesnel Lake trouble spot was burning briskly and men were being conscripted for the fire lines. Cost of the summer's fires in the dis- trict was to run to $80,000. Biggest news story this month was the rumoured Beryl strike on Little Timothy Mountain. Hundreds. of amateur prospectors hurried_to the Lac La Hache area to stake their claims. It took some time for labora- tory tests to disprove the discovery, but it was eventually reported that of the half dozen minerals involved, beryl was not one of them. The Fall Fair was not as success- ful in point of entries, but quality of produce remained high. September % The news that first class mail would be dropped daily at post of- fices between here and Clinton was big (news for the residents of the Cariboo Highway. Figures released by the Cariboo Cattlemen’s Association showed that shipments through the association to date were far below the 1951 total. October “Better than expected’ trend of cat- tle prices was recorded at the 15th annual Cariboo Feeder and Fat Cat- tle Sale as 1800 head were offered at. auction. A park site, comprising 5.8 atres on the north shore of Williams Lake was reserved by the government in an official announcement. 2 If the United States will agree to to the West Coast Transmission Com- pany, Williams Lake will have ua- tural gas in 1954, according to Cecil H. Smith, official of Inland Natural ers. November A second large cattle sale was held by the.Cattlemed’s Association when 1489 head were auctioned for a total of $227,440. At the Remembrance Day service, in front of the hospital.~ December It looked as though there would be no civic election this year, but finally four candidates offered their names for the three vacancies on the vil- lage commission. Commissioners Al- astair Mackenzie and Stan Goad were returned and politics, Alf Eagle, was also elected. new dormitory building. New Year. Around Town Arthur Haddock will address the next meeting of the historical society on “Freighting and Staging in the Early Days of the Cariboo Road.” The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held in the Municipal hall January 9. An authority on his subject, Mr. Haddock was once a driver himself on the old road. es Mr. and Mrs. Ken Moore visited Asheroft for the Christmas holidays, oS Miss Nan Densham left last night following a short visit with her sis- ter and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs, Len Hellyer. ¢ —o— Visiting with his daughter and son-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Peter- '. T. G. Williams. of Kam- ——— Z Mr. and Mrs. Herb Barber and family of Quesnel spent Christmas allowing a gas distribution franchise | Gas Ltd., who spoke to commission-j; the local branch of the Canadian Le- gion unveiled a rock cairn situated with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Barber. : Mrs. F. M. Leigh of Ashcroft spent Christmas with her. sister and bro- ther-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Bass. E ——O—— | Over 150 children and parents at- tended the annual family dinner party for members of the B.P.O.Elka 2nd Royal Purple lodges*on Sunday. Candy and games were enjoyed by the children in the lodge hall, fol- lowed by a turkey dinner in the ban- quet room. Mr. and Mrs. R. Booth and ‘chil- dren of Quesnel spent Christmas with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.- Jack Lloyd. a Visitors from the prairies are Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Henke of Rockyford, Alberta, who have been visiting with ees son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Henke and their daugh- ter, Mrs. Pat Hosey. BIRTHS At War Memorial Hospital VAN DER SMAN — To Mr. and Mrs, Pauluf Van Der Sman of St. Jo= seph’s Mission, a daughter, born December 29. 4 GILLARD — To Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gillard of Williams Lake, a son, born December 25. WHIPMER — To Mr. and Mrs. John Whipmer of Big Lake, a daughter, born December 30, TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY FOR SALE FIR FIREWOOD for sale, immedi- ate delivery. Phone 36-R-5. newcomer to civic Dr. F. T. Fairey, Deputy Minister of Education came to town to offi- cially open the new addition to the Williams Lake High School ana the . and so to Christmas and the THE WEATHER Min. Max. Friday, Dec. 26. 3 15 Saturday 10 22 Monday 19 32 Tuesday 3345 ‘ Temperature reading at the a: port at 8 o'clock this morning was 22° above. FOR RENT FULLY MODERN SUITS, furnished, one-half mile from town. Inquire at Drummond Lodge duplex. HOUSEKEEPING ROOM for rent. Apply Mrs. Paul Smith, town. FOUND | KEYS IN LEATHER CASB, on Deep Creek road. Inquire Tribune office. BRITISH COLUME . POWER COMMISSIO Our New Year’s Resolutions... Your Sends Best Wishes — SS SSSSeEn Public Utility for a TS