Page 2 THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Wednesday, December 31, 1952 THE TRIBUNE Published. every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C, By The Tribune Publishing Co. Clive Stangoe, Editor $2.60 $3.00 Established 1931 Subscription; per year Outside Canada .. Payable in Advance ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers association British Columbia Division, C.W.N.A. Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa A Small Offering A word of explanation is probably in order on the size of this week’s Tribune. H Faced with a number of more or less related problems including the short time available to produce @ normal sized Paper with no additional editorial or mechanical workers, it was decided that if any Tribune was to appear at all this week it would be a condensed version. In-order to do this, all local advertising with the exception of certain ones of a service nature were dropped for the week. On Looking Into 1953 With the sands running out on another year, most of us are looking ahead with just about the same fears and trepi- dations that we had when 1952 was about to be ushered on stage. Cattlemen are afraid that beef prices will drop; business- men worry about a possible recession, and we all worry about health, money and the coming generation. Using those not-so-profound thoughts as an introduction, We would like to pass on some 1953 wishes. —— To the Board of Village Commissioners — a speedy pas- sage of the contemplated sewer by-law, twelve months free of taxpayer’s complaints and enough money to do more than plug leaks in our pesky water system. To the ranchers, a steadier beef market and the hope that consumers the continent over will suddenly realize that the finest beef comes from the Cariboo, thus placing a premium price on our district's principle product. To the School Trustees, success in your efforts to make the teachers realize that the cost of living in 1953 will not warrant a salary increase. To the teachers, the aforementioned wish is made, in the language of professional bargaining, “without prejudice.” To the people of West Vancouver, the hope that you will see the advantages of an “‘On to North Vancouver” movement for the Pacific Great Eastern Railway. To the rest of the people in the province, the hope that you will insist this will be done whether West Van forms such an organization or not. To the Bella Coola Board of Trade, completion of your road link with the Chilcotin. To the local Board of Trade. a continuation of your “‘neighbourly’ policy with the rural parts of our district. - Z To the members of the Volunteer Fire Brigade, the hope that you will not have to indulge in any more strenuous ac- tivities than washing down the town streets and attending _weekly ~practise. To all of you in general, a sincere wish that 1953 may bring you individual prosperity and the best of health with which to enjoy it. In The Cariboo? Last week editor Lew Griffith of the Observer in Quesnel took exception to the terminology used by a ‘Cariboo’ paper From Another Viewpoint “IT COULD HAPPEN TO you” No seconds to live. It’s happened to lots of people; maybe not just that way, but simi- larly. Drive too long, eyes get tired, reactions slow down. Rain, darkness, a windshield that’s hard to see though. Driving too fast. A car or truck ahead that you can’t see. It’s happened to lots of people. It could happen to you. New Year Was A Spring Affair Sn Egypt, Kome New Year's was not always a mid-winter affair. Ancient Egypt used the overflowing of the Nile as a calendar and celebrated the New Year accordingly, in June, The Babylonians began their year in March, and the early Romans followed the Babylonian pattern. Bearing this in mind, the custom of invoking the gods of fertility at New Year’s time—the origin of which is lost in antiquity—seems logical and appropriate. The Romans were accustomed y THIS WEEK’S CROSSWORD ACROSS 2.Restrict _19. Exclama- 1. Swiss 3. Early > tion ; mountains 4 eritiors a. colber See (in the Comox District Free Press) . Used in arying 2. Desire brewing weight greatly “He pushed his sleeve back, hell @. Measure of (India) 23. By what- Back Page Hie Soe ci sisi _ Gistance 5. A Christ- evermesns Fo solution 8 wrist close to the lighted speed- 10. Foreboding mas shrub 24. Shoshonean FO! a ometer, squinted to read the time. A ee erieein — Seeenye ett ieee little after nine. Five, ten minutes », lends 8 convulsively after:. Ought to be home in half an 12. Covers sh 27. Kettle Sf oy ink theinside 11. Egyptian 29. One or the 32. Southeast by hour...” Thus The Link. house 14, Ireland god five senses south (abbr.) organ of the Great Lakes Paper ie) is pace, g0: Kind o roe company sets the stage for a striking tion “to be” 31. Allowances 38, Man's ten-second accident drama. 17. Rone for waste nickname 2 Ten seconds to live. He a City eae soe his eyes with thumb and middie 19. Russian Z finger, trying to rub out some of the river, Z 1S sand. 2u Hoe a Nine seconds to live. He’d driven epee m iz a eee almost eight hours since lunch, and make butte: fz _ —— was beginning to feel it. 25. Brief Ya Hight seconds to live. Lousy driv- a8 Dee TT 6 19 ing in the rain. ‘Light from your “food “A headlights just seem to soak in along 28. Solemn 20 2l with the water. wonder - Seven seconds to live. Probably itine pei 422 (23 124 25 = ss 20: Ronee need a new windshield wiper blade. aL. Cooling aS oF Old one just spreads the water device around instead of wiping clean. Get 2 Going at) 28 Ez 30 St 132 one tomorrow, or next time it rains. . Troubles ‘ ; rg reoubles = Es = Six seconds to live. Somebody 39, Prepare ter ZY Z threw a cigarette out of an oncom- publication 6 | [37 58 ing car. The red glow dissolved al- 40. Source of [ most before it hit the pavement. 4 URE Ti)? | ao G Five seconds to live. He planted ree Bites oa —~— | his heels on the floorboards, squirm- DOWN Zi | | Y ed back in the seat, trying for com- 1. Beetle ae a fort. to hanging tiny masks of Bacchus From the Files ONE YEAR AGO January 3, 1952 Definite inclusion of Williams Lake Stampeders in the new nor-j; thern hockey league has been assur- ed following several meetings at Prince George with representatives from Quesnel and Vanderhoof. First league games will be played here with Vanderhoof— First New Year's baby to come into the world at War Memorial Hospital was a son born to Mr. and Mrs. John Elsworth Doda, 150 Mile— John Stratton passed away sddenly at his home on Canim- red Creek— Local Stampeders held Clinton to a 5-5 draw and went on to take a 3-2 win the next day— On December 31st the PGE therme- meter dropped to 40° below— FIVE YEARS AGO + January 1, 1948 fom, The Wells hockey team will be at Williams Lake for the opening league games of the season— a] Young, age 79, famous stage driver of the Cariboo, died at the Lytton hospital— According to figures com- piled by J. M. G. Smith and Arthur Haddock, Williams Lake has more oe Four seconds to live. At 60 miies of the Tribune PGE is completing a new bunk house for train crews below the tracks near |/0°ked wrong, through the blurry the roundhouse— a son was born to|Widshield. A tentative dab at ihe fr. and Mrs. Paul Niquidet of wit.| Takes stiffened into definite pres- sure as he made out an old, unligh:- ed slow-moving truck ahead. Two seconds to live. Panic moved pavement every second. Four sec-| onds, 352 feet. | Three seconds to live. Something liams Lake— TEN YEARS AGO December.31, 1942 Sgt. Baker and Const. Sharpe spent all of Monday searching the area in the vicinity of Twilight Lodge and interviewing persons who reported hearing a teriffic explosion in the area— Miss Phyllis Norquay of Williams Lake became the bride of B. L. Jefferies of Prince George— Turn to thé right One second to live. Horror numb- ed everything into slow motion. He was floating right into the near cor- mouth to scream. upon trees and vines, the idea be- ing to impart fertility. to every an hour, a car covered 8§ feet of' side of the tree to which the masks | were turned by the wind. In the old days, Rumanian youths went from house to house singing and wishing everyone a prosperous New Year. Scottish lads always had a howl- ing good time going about on New Year’s Eve switching the trunks of fruit trees and petitioning a ‘good howling crop.’ Reflecting the fear of starvation, in. Turn to the left. No, car coming.) peasant families in various parts Headlights too close. Can’t make it.| Of the world baked a special New Year's cake which they dashed against the door; members of the household hastened to pick up a piece and eat it, prayerful that neither hunger nor want should ner of the truck bed. He opened his| enter the house during the ensu- ing year. Many ranchers complained of the Wednesday afternoon closing of the stores immediately before Christ- mas— The big bulldozer of the PWD driven by Shorty Fullerton broke through the ice of the Chilcotin Riverat_Redstope and, settled on the bottom— Miss Margaret Rite, member of the RCAF, was home on} Christmas Leave— j TWENTY YEARS AGO No issue of Tribune published. will be closed The history of gold mining in CLOSING FOR HOLIDAYS Roberts Curing Plant | LAKBSIDE ¢ for one week than 437 resident voters— Due to Canada dates from 1654 when Louis glare ice on the Cariboo Road, all XIV of France granted a concession from January 5 to January 10 in describing the recent attempted bank hold-up here. Greyhound bus schedules were can- to Nicholas Denys to mine gold in Specifically, Mr. Griffith objected to the reporter saying |celled until further notice— The Nova Scotia. the suspect was captured at a “desolate point in the country.” 7 ' He goes on to editorialize, “This episode took place not more than 10 miles from the Cariboo cattle centre. It may have Qecurred in bush country and no doubt was somewhat removed = from residences scattered about the district, but it goes without saying that the capture did not take place in the ‘wilds’ or in any ‘desolate point in the country’.” Having laboured under the impression that the Observer and The Tribune were the only two papers published in the ‘Cariboo,’ with possibly the centres of Ashcroft and Lillooet being included through the courtesy of being called ‘gateways to the Cariboo,’ we unsuccessfully skimmed through three of these four newspapers to find the offender. Looking* a little farther we included the Prince George Citizen and finally found the object of Mr. Griffith’s wrath. But at the same time the thought occurred to us that the editor who had hurled the brickbat had also been rather loose with his descriptive thought. It is generally conceded that Prince George is not in the Cariboo. At least that is the belief here, and we have not heard the citizens of our large neighbour to the north issuing any counter claims. If Mr. Griffith is not careful he will be joining the ranks of the CBC commentators who once placed Pouce Coupe in the Cariboo, ! : EXECUTIVE COUNCIL—GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA—1953 4 Dates fo Rememtenr a The Honourable W. A. C. Bennett, Premier and President of the Council. Is your office desk pad “up to date” The Honourable Philip A. Gaglardi, Minister of Public Works. The Honourable Robert W. Bonner, Q.C., B.A, LL-B., i e i “ P?, york? wks es Attorney General. for the coming year’s work? The Honourable W. Ralph Chetwynd, Minister of Railways, The Honourable Wesley D. Black, Provincial Secretary and Minister of Trade and Industry, and Minister of Fisheries. Minister of Municipal Affairs. The Honourable Robert E. Sommers, Minister of Lands and orests and Minister of Mines. The Honourable Lyle Wicks, Minister of Labour. The Honourable Erie C. F. Martin, Minister of Health and “el The Honourable W. Kenneth Kiernan, Minister of Agriculture. 1953 desk stand refills (large or small) The Honourable Mrs. Tilly J. Rolston, Minister of Education. Plastic stands for above 19% The Honourable Einar M. Gunderson, C.A., Minister of Finance. A Happy New Year. The Best Wishes of your Government, inspired by the abiding faith we share with you in the future of this great Province, go out to one i and all in the confident hope that your earnest endeavours will be ; rewarded with the blessing of ; — A Prosperous New Year ERE: Ss 3 calendar memo pads w in stock at The Tribune