Page 2 THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAEE, 8.9, Thursday, January 8, 19538, “THIS WEEK'S CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Certain THE TRIBUNE - Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C, 2, Shoshonean’ 18 Gast Indtes By The Tribune Publishing Co. Indians (abb:.) From Another Viewpoint “FREIGHT RATES UP AND DOWN” z Gin Rural Scene) The suggestion has heen made that | dure would lead to a demand for sub- Tallway freight rates in Canada be|sidized freight rates, which in turn fet at a level that would enable the | would be based on political consider- CPR to earn 64 per cent in its actual | ations. investment in the railway; ang that] Ip setting freight rates, the first these rates be made applicable to all | consideration should always be the railways in the country. effect any proposed rate would have The proposal has been laid before|on the traffic, for the best rates are the Board of Transport; and the | those that will attract the most traf- hoard has undertaken to study it. | fie consistent with the solvency of We do not doubt the board’s abit-|the railways. 3 ity to determine how much money eso Sa the CPR has invested in its railway; 2, Smiles et Se nor do we doubt its ability to set freight rates that would, or should, A sultan at odds with his harem Thought of a way he could scare, yield an annual return of 6% per cent on such investment, But we have very grave doubts of the wisdom of doing so. He caught him a mouse, Set it loose in the house, And started the first harem- scarem. Setting freight rates on such a basis'‘would mean, that, having reach- ed a standard of efficiency satisfac- tory to the Board, the railway could rest on its oars, for its dividends would be assured. It could expect no advantages to itself from further im-| _Binx: “How so?” Provement in efficiency, for 64% per| Jinx: “§Ve had a collision, and cent would be the maximum as well| he gave me a drink to steady my as the minimum it would be allowed | Nerves — and then the police came,” to earn. ~ Jinx: “Smith is not only a bad driver — he’s a crook!” Such an arrangement would wea- SALE! SALE! SALR! Established 1931 Clive Stangoe, Editor 5. One-spot 3. Turned 19. Appendege See Subscription: per year $2.50 cards backward 20. Turkish = 9. Weasel-like 4. Erbium honorary = Outside Canada ; $3.00 web-footed (sym.) titles (ver) Back Page Payable in Advance memmal = §. Anoints. ~—21. Uncomfort- 10. Hubs (archaic) bly For Solution of wheels 6. Kind of lily. 22. Boil slowly 12. City on 7.Bvening 25. A curled nrorcement Neede Pr poe eet hei 8.Condemn to 27. A fali see re vrong it ; SS ace Tillage Com- . punishment of rain . First man sea Ve, Could be wrong, but it is our belief the Village Com 14. Scottish- 9. Weight of 28. Kettles 37. Supreme missioners could give closer attention to violators and viola- Gaelic rkey 29. Gold (Her.) tions of the village building by-law. je Slee F (var.) 31. Top shel 46; eebyt ially i law i ro- 16. Toward 1, Consisting for pearl . Peris| ubsontlally ine PELE OSE as ee Bolging Be: ees ear 17. A repeating of stories buttons 42. River tect the proper ty ownei's and the public as a whole. Prote freer 13. Mature 35. Thick cord (Chin.) to other taxpayers is afforded through the restrictions on 20. Catkins = construction of shacks for homes or places of business, which (collog.) (eae as cae es Je W718 would otherwise bring down surrounding property values by 23. pooled their existence, It gives protection to the general publi¢ hy in- 24. Poker stake 9 10 Dy) sisting that public buildings conform with good building 25. A staple rm is practices. : jooset : In Williams Lake we have a sound building by-law, but 26. Gbsawe 14 1S 16 in all the time we have watched the commission work we have 27. Decayed rag Z not been too impressed by the manner in which it is enforced 30. A thorny, u Private builders and contractors alike hay ein the past blithely araning, no 21 faz Pry ignored the essential clause of the by-law whereby permission 32. Like must be applied for before construction commences. With this 33. Decompose 24 > 25 application must come the plans tor the building or alteration Hence ng ae em em job: that is contemplated. What happens in too many cases is vahusbong that the village clerk notices someone excavating for a build- 40. Metal- Ey EN ing and advises the person in charge of construction that a A ah Bearing-veln = 7 = if LAL permit must be secured. Sometimes the building is half up, 42. A leat and occasionally, as has happened quite recently, shacks appear | of acalyx se 39 40 | ‘completed form on a lot before the oversight has been 43. Fotiea > Z 5 of time ye. MOU Ged: ; F - 44, Newspaper These are not always small jobs either. In one instance Pry ae submitted. The place and in the meantime carpenters kept right on working. - For some reason or other the commission as a whole Seems reluctant to issue ‘halt contruction’ orders or to prose- cute in the case of repeated violations. We say ‘as a whole,’ becaue there have been isolated cases where individual com- missioners have wanted- to make-an example of a violator. Notable among these has been Commissioner Borkowski, chairman of the Board of Village There would appear to be two alternate solutions to the Commissioners _ replacing Commis. problem, failing appointment of a building inspector, which sioner John Anderson. Chairman | a small village could not afford to do. One of these would be | Mackenzie stated he wanted the to spread some of the other departments around and make one} board to start working on plans for commissioner responsible for building. His job would entail}a sewerage for the Village close liaison with the village clerk to ascertain what jobs were | and to draw up a town zoning by-law being contemplated, and contant inspection of i ' a five-year term in office, discover unauthorized construction work before i Trustee Gardner Boultbee resigned to prosecute persons as chairman of District 27 School who persist in ignoring a by-law which is designed primarily | Board— Trustees of Distriet 27 will renew their canvas of the district this month in an attempt to sell $112,000 worth of bonds to finance the school building program— Ten- ders for the Federal Building in Wil- liams Lake may be called about the first of May, according to Davie Ful ton, M.P._— Students taking the new: Industrialy Arts courks in thk tow school may construct a two-room a = ONE YEAR AGO January 10, 1952 house Teasdale, Beaver Valley, Alastair ed with the Lake beating Midgets of the held in the Were Eddie Gaspard, Sid, January 5, 1983 Support The Arena At the time this editoria] is being written, it would appear that-the delayed hockey season is about to get underway. To most of us the unseasonable weather we have heen spring, but to‘those in charge of}the mild winter means an operating loss ~- e that the society cannot afford. At the moment the big arena is ole Te eee & and the purpose 1s: to“SHOW jane Stampeders in two penalty-stud- curling and ice skating. With- ded For the weather becomes all im- term, Mrs. Tom Bishop was elected y fear that is always with the president “of the women’s curling | management of the arena is that a money making season will club— Mrs. S. Kydd is the new! winter. housekeeper at the Outpost Hospital the season has already been cut slightly and at Lone Butte— Mrs. J. Stitt was the only purpose behind this editorial is to put in a plug for | clectea president of the Ladies’ Aux! increased attendance on the part of the public to see that this iliary to War Memorial Hospital— cut is offset by increased gate receipts. In the two months or so ahead, get out and support your hockey teams, the-ice carnival and whatever else is presented at the arena for the encouragement of sport among the younger generations and for your entertainment, Letter to the Editor Editor The Tribune, Williams Lake, B.C. contributions was a ied by the bagpipes played Smith—— Milton E. (Bill) games here— a second thickness of the ice, FIVE YEARS AGO Ja ary 8, 1948 A st January 8; pected in the early spring. Four hundred thirty-nine persons attended the New Year's Eve dance, which marked the opening of the new Elks Hall— Major D. M. Mac- [Kay, Indian Affairs branch commis. | sioner for B.C., left for his new post jin Ottawa— The Stampeders defeat: ed Wells 9-3 in the first Northern You may reeall that I paid tribute! po. Wockey League game of the seas to the small rural elementary schools] son Claude Huston; pioneer. of whieh have done splendid work “in| winiams Lake, is starting a sched: the past and are still doing it. As al uiea ty, ght service to and from Van- paneer Of fact, the Department pre-| couyer— 9630 moose and deer were fers that the small rural elementary taken out of the upper country dur- school remain, and deplores {88 the -cusvent season. transportation of elementary pupils to a central point, unless it is abso- the Ladies’ Guild of the United lutely necessary. Chureh— Patricia Gee became the hanks onee again for the eplen~' pose of Albert Meldrum, son of Mr, aid report and the Kindness I re-|on4 hrs. ‘Thomas Meldrum of Mel- ceived during my short visit to your | 3) om Groen Blettion day in Gav! Nature Scrapbook Butterflies Migrate as one of the main reasons for the establishment of large administra- tive areas so that better secondary education couldj be provided in dis- tricts such as Williams Lake, Dear Mr. Stangoe: I wish to thank you for the very fine report of my visit to Williams Lake on the occasion of the opening of the dormitory and addition to the high school at Williams Lake. In reading the report, I notice the omission of a word which may, per- haps, give a wrong impression of what I actually said about the small rural school. The newspaper account Says as follows: “Dr. Fairey said the travels the route from the Terias Lisa butterfly, a specimen. fragile beauties. Se ee ‘From the Files of the Tribune age about 77, was found dead in his cabin— For the first time in| ‘ : Mackenzie was. elected tires years the Williams Lake skat- ing club has a good sheet of ice. The rst hockey game of the season end. Mission Indian youngsters 14 to 3— A very success- ful Christmas concert and dance was North Bridge Lake| School— Home on Christmas leave Pigeon and Leo Marcel Jobin— TWENTY YEARS AGO A crowd of about three hundred attended the Community Tree con- nected with the Christmas festival, in the Stampede hall. Among other swprd. dance y Miss Annie Gampbelly‘a an old Barkerville miner, was found dead in his cabin— Wil. liams Lake won by a narrow margin of one goal over Soda Creek in a hockey game here— Mr. and Mrs. Ray Elliot and Fred Mellish started to drive over the lake to test the but crashed j through almost at the edge— The fi formation of new companies indi- cates renewed activity at Barkerville and a rush to the goldfields is ex- Perhaps one of the most peculiar migrations, and one which few peo- ple know about, is the migrating of butterflies. One species of butterflies to Bermuda, a distance of six hundred miles across open water. This is the However, butterflies migrate only once in their short lives. There can: mever be a return trip for these ken the hands of the company in] Luxurious C1 nille Bedspreads bargaining with its employees, for the at 3 39 each. if unions could always argue that no|FROM FACTORY TO YOU. This bedspread is the latest rage. It has Matter what demands they made thousands of small velvety tufts, the cost could be passed -on to the| which completely covers the spread. shippers, It would mean that, if the volume of traffic should fall off, the railways | Would be in a position to demand a of! rise in freight rates at a time when industry was in need of the stimu- lus of lower rates. At such a time this Proposed proée- QUR JANUARY SPECIAL. An outstanding buy in an oil heater “SILENT GLOW" { the oil heater that features the carbon cleanout rod, a revolutionary way to keep the oil outlet free of carbon. ONLY $109.50 with either multi- colored or solid same color patterns on top. 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