a Williams NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO Lake ‘Tribune Volume 21 -- Number 3. WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, January 22, 1958. Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year. P-T.A. Sets Date of Anaval Carnival .May 9th has been set as the date for the annual Carnival sponsored by the Parent-Teachers Association, is] was decided at the regular meeting Tuesday evening. A general chair- man will he appointed shortly to take charge of the event which it is hoped to make “bigger and better.” Proceeds raised from the Carnival will be added to a special fund set aside for the purchase of a public- address system for the school. The meeting also endorsed a mo- tion to send a student to the annual High School Conference held at the University of B.C. Pebruz | 28th. A sale of home-cooking will be held this Saturday to raise funds. After the meeting, Prinicpal J. Phillipson gave an informative talk on the differences between a General program and a University program for high Mrs. D. Stevenson read~ several poems in school students. honor of Robbie Burns Day, January 25th. Citizens in most gratulating them: parts of Canada have been con- ves on a mild win the weatherman had something up his sleeve for one or two sections of the country, and this was his blow JUST WHEN EVERYONE WAS HAPPY ...COMES THE at southern Ontario. ter. As usual, stalled troffic. then of rain, then cold w hydro and tclephone lines, slippery highways and JOLT —Central Press Canadian He let go with a fall of snow, veather. The result: Fallen No Solution the village’s largest industry. Unhappy about the degree of thc nuisance this year, management of the mill asked The Tribune in an in terview Sunday to express their apologies to the townspeople and in dicated a répresentative would be on hand at the next Village Commission meeting to explain their actions. Hach year around this time the huge pile is touched off, usually in extremely cold weather when the atmosphere is still. Last Wednesday the temperature dropped sharply and mill manager Gordon Bruce decided the time was right for burning, par- ticularly with the weather forecast reading ‘snow.’ Then the weather became milder and the prevailing wind took over, funelling the smoke directly over the centre of town. Asked about the possibility of the TWO SESSIONS COMPLETE ARG Final Decision On Teachers’ Up to press time today, the thre t SS coday, e members of the arbi- tration board considering the question of a salary schedule TENTS Pending Salaries for teachers of District 27 had not handed down a decision In two long sessions yesterday afternoon and evening. the boardlistened to the arguments presented by the advocates for the school board and teachers; accepting some 40 exhibits entered from both sides and finally closed off the proceedings at 11 p.m. George, appciniee of the schcol|t board was P. T. Samson of Oliv: and for the teachers was R. J. Me- Master of Vancouver. Advocate tor the school bourd was A. D. C. Wash- ington and arguing for the teachers was J A. Spragge, official of the B.C. Teachers Federation. Mr. Washine- ten is a Vancouver solicitor. Although both sides presented 2 mass of*evidence in the form of sta- tistics showing comperative salaries and quoted in other professions, opinion on relative subjects, the main point of argument evolved around the cost-of-living index and lary schedule whether or not the s should be tied to it as agreed in District 27 as late as last year. The fact that tre teaches were argument on the irr ele- pasing their ms of salar- yantcy of the index in ter : Photo = Blackwell’s Hospital Matron’s Resignation Accepted Resignation of matron of War Memorial Hos; ston, was meeting last Friday. | Johnston, who came to Wi jiams Lak Mrs. Marie John- accepted by the directors from a sta position at jndian Hospital at Sav- | sentenced to SEGUIN SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS ON THREE CHARGES Henry Seguin, alias Henry James Redford, alias Henry Godin, was five years on each of the three charges arising out of an attempted bank holdup here when he appeared before Judge Henry lou in County Court Saturday. The three sentences will run concurrent~ ly, that is, he will serve a total of five years. ie) Joveniles Drop Two Games To Clinton Williams Lake Juveniles dropped wo-close games to their Clinton viyals over the weekend, Saturday $ game score was 4-3 and Sun- mill a burner, J. Kirz, president of Lignum’s, stated that with the present lumber market he did not see how the company could afford to invest the necessary 10 to 12 thousand dollars for a closed b “Although we tender our most abject apologies to the town for the nuisance the burning has cre- ated, I frankly cannot see any ofher solution to the problem,” Mr. Kira The loeals sidered they got a raw deal on both games. They got their tying goal in Saturday’s-game, but it wasn’t allowed because a string of lights over the outdoor rink went out at the same time. At least the referee ruled it was the same time, the, phi fis di, 4 Two Years Given On Retaining Charges Two years in the penitentiary was the sentence meted out to two in ' Seen By Miil Management For Town's ‘Black Snow’ A thick deposit of black soot and ashes r a ck ¢ over every squa: inch of Williams Lake last week from the burning aa pile at the plant of Lignum Ltd., put townspeople at odds with stated. The mill is undoubtedly an asset to the industrial life of the town and district as well. The mill payroll varies from $8000 to $9000 a month and a further $3000 each month is spent with town suppliers.. Fixed assets of the company at its plant on Railway Avenue amount to from $75,000 to $80,000 and in addition a lumber stock of around $100,000 is carried. Mills in the district depend on Lig- num’s for the purchase of their rough lumber. Mr. Kirz estimates that over 90 per cent of the district mills ship to the Lignum planer. For this stock the company pays out from $60,000 to $70,000 each month. The mill management agrees that the original choice of location for the mill five years ago was wrong. Had it been along the tracks another two miles the nuisance factor would never-enter the picture of operation. To move the mill now would be a major undertaking. Not only would the cost of moving equipment and buildings have to be taken into con- sideration but so would the cost of loss of operation, and the loss of money spent in building up the mill yard. Each year additional gravel is placed to build’ up the sinking ground, and it is estimated that 14 inches of gravel now covers the yard. On the subject of burners, man- agement feels tha: i . a i = he afternoon hearing. FOUR POINTS Four main points were touched on by the spéaker as ones which should be the basis for the board consider- ing a salary schedule increase: the decrease in the value of money (in- flation); the general rise in produc- tivity of the country, resulting in a general increase in the standard of living; the fact that even if the cost of living index had gone down an increase in salaries is warranted if the original base rate was not a just one; increase justified if the existing rate does not attract enough men and women to the teaching profes- sion. or those of a high calibre. Expanding on his argument, Mr. Spragge said that to insist that the schedul2 remains tied to the cost of living index ignores the fact that the country may be expanding with an increase -in- productive capacity, which in turn would increase in- comes. He went on to quote from an article that was entered as an ex- hibit and which stated that the stand- ard of living in this country could be expected to increase by 2%5 per cent each year. Using this figure Mr. Spragge showed that while the cost of living index had increased by 50.7 per cent in the years from 1947 to 1952, a standard~ of living gain“ of| 70.3 per cent had been registered At the same time, tbe speaker said, | the salaries of teachers in District 27 over the same period had shown an increase of from 50 to 53 per cent. Referring back to-1947 when the first salary schedule of the consoli- dated district was set, Mr. Spragge maintained that the pattern was fashioned from the experience trus- tees had had in previous small rural districts when they, had had difi- culty in financing and teachers’ sa)- aries were very low/ Much of the remainder, of Mr. Spragge’s arguments werebased on comparative figures with the earnings of other professions such as engin- eering, law and medicine. .| DREAMED UP APPROACH ‘As the evening session got under- way Mr. Washington took the floor levelled his opening assault on what he termed as ‘‘a new approach the teachers have dreamed up because they could see salaries would drop.” He was referring to the contro- Coqualeetza : dis, was employed py the board last July 9th. During her stay here. Mrs. Joho ston has beep a tion of two woment’s groups. She the charter president of the Busine: and Professional Wi organized the W illiams Lake Chapte of the Registered ive in the forma- omen’s Club and Nurses Association, versial ‘cost of living index’ clause of the previous agreement. Entering as an exhibit a letter from the local teachers’ salary committee in 1948, Mr. Washington read an excerpt from +/it which stated that the teachers (continued on back page) guin, a man wanted on a murder charge in Ontario, the man who was charged under the neme Redford, has a long list of previous convic- tions which were read to the court. These included one for ‘shopbreaking with intent’ and ‘shopbreaking’ hoth in 1942; ‘shopbreaking ‘theft’ and a conviction for escaping custody all in 1943; another “‘escap- ed custody’ charge, one of theft and one of car theft all in 1944. 1947 he was convicted on another ‘escaped ly “indicated to enforcement officers that he would elect for trial by jury. Previously identified as Henry Se- ed for speedy trial. Hétiag previous—4 and theft,’ custody’ charge and one of robbery. He was released from prison Febru- ary 8,1 Seguin was sent to the coast under escort Tuesday. Police in Toronto have said that arrangements are be- ing made to send an escort for Se guin, probably within the next couple of weeks, to return him to Ontario to stand trial for the murder charge He is wanted in connection with the robbery and slaying of Leonard Hurd. a taxi company operator in Maxville, Ontario. CUT IN LUMBER RATES ON PGE SOON reduction in A ‘considerable’ Pacific Great Eastern lumbes rates Canada via Prince assured, according to Eastern George is now to a wire received this week by The Tribune Hon, Ralph Chet- wynd, Minister of Rail from Phe new rates will become ef fective the first week in February. ‘The wire continues: “Both have reduced PGR lumber rates to ssastern Canada agreed > points dian Na- ... our proposals for prai not yet. accepted by Cand tional Railway. At moment cannot ay redue- give actual pate but can consider tion quit The subject of lumber rates vi Prince George was in the news last fall when local lumber operators le, claiming that objected to the s it did not allow Cariboo mills to into reasonble competition enter with suppliers to the eastern de~ mestic market. J.D. Smedley has been for a further two year term pital Board representative of the vincial Government, sermons a Timton goal thal they claimed an opposing player had thrown past ‘JL? Briekson. - Playing against a heavier squad in their one appearance Sunday af- ternoon, the ‘lake Pee Wees manag- $50 and 3600 aiort of Sothing stolen ‘from the 150 Mile store October 23. ‘The men, Gordon Thomas Lam- bert and Archibald Cameron, had both previous recordssThe other man ed to hold Clinton to a 2-2 draw. Terry Buchholtz scored hoth "lake goals. apprehended at the same time, Frank John Ross was acquitted on the same charge. Torrid Stamp s Deadlock Series. With Vanderhoof Loeal hockey fans turned out in force over the weekend to see for themselves if the stories about a rejuvenated Stam- peder club were true, and they weren’t disappointed as the boys kept up a torrid pace Sat hoof Bears urday night to swamp Vander 7-3 and came within an ace of holding the visitors to. a tie the following afternoon. Score of Sunday’s game was 2-4 for the high riding Bears. An estimated crowd of 400, big- gest yet to crowd the arena bleachers for a league fixture, was on hand appointed | H Pro- 1 Saturday night and attendance fi- gures held up Sunday. The new line of Doug Norberg- Camponi-Norquay set the scoring pace for Saturday’s game just 47 seconds after the first whistle with Camponi sagging the twine and his two wingmen getting assists on the play. The line added two more to credit before their first reliet with Camponi scoring on Norbers’s and Doug getting the second as ssed the puck out from pa Camponi pa the corner right in front of the goal. Frank Latin, who has been out of play this on with an injured back, figured in the next play when he scored on a pass from Hutehin- son. Buchholtz filled out this second line that clicked consistently through the game. tion scoring a goal With the oppos THE WEATHER Min, Max. 6 il | 1416 Monday - i930 Tuesday. - sie GL 29 15 20 Temperature reading at the airport at § o'clock this morning was 19°. every two minutes, the Bears were still in trouble when they finally managed to beat custodian Don Me- Niven at the ¢ight-minute mark, to close off the period scoring. There was no wild scoring spurt in the second frame as the visitors poured on the pressure and were only kept from being a threat by the jiard-working McNiven who manag- ed to kick out everything that wes thrown his way. Nine minutes ticked by before the locals added another marker when Camponi beat Wall on an unassisted play. The second ‘lake goal of the period was set up by Norquay. Picking up a loose puck after a Bear rush, Keith worked it over the Vanderhoof blueline before passing to Hutchinson who made | the goal. | With the score standing at 6-1 as | the Anal period got under way it was not a matter of which team was going to win—but of ‘byshow much.” dened the gap one more | Camponi w at the five rifled a shot from just inside the blueline trom Buchholtz’s pass. Aftey a series of determined rushes the Bears finally added another to their score when Jim Silver got right in on with only McNiven to beat. ‘eal ly in th ‘Day (Continued on back page) minute mark when he | Forsey added the visitors’ third tal- dying seconds of the game. it was this same trick of Forsey’s that cheated the Stamps out of a tle over the burner, a certain- amount of set and ash escapes. With the preyailing wind blowing from the mill in the direction of town, it is felt that the burner would give Wil- liams Lake a minor soot nuisance every day of the year instead of a major one for one or two weeks. Veteran Skip Takes Rink To Prince ‘Spiel For the 15th year, veteran skip Tony Woodland will head for Princo George this weekend to compete in that city’s annual bonspiel. On Tony’s rink will be Mike Boui- ton, Vancouver, third; Tom Hawker, second and Herb Gardner, lead. Two rinks from town went to the Quesnel bonspiel last weekend but didn’t register much success. The rinks lost all of their six games. On the Woodland rink were Fred Gra- ham, third; Tom Hawker, second and Clair Reding, lead. John Holland's rink consisted of Jack Smedley, third; Ed. Gaspard Sr., second, and Bill Lowden, lead. Rinks from Prince, Quesnel, Wil- liams Lake and Wells were compet- ing for the new Northern Hardwa Challenge Trophy.. The silverwai will be thrown open for open cor petition each year at the Quesnel ‘spiel but throughout the year the rink holding the trophy will alsq@ have to defend it on 24 hour notice from any challenging rink from the four centres. A challenge match would be curled on the holders’ home sheet. Winner at the Quesnel ‘spiel, and holders of the trophy, were the Clary Arnott rink from Prince. Another Prince rink, Garvin Dezell’s, placed second. ’Phone Switchboards May Not Be Installed Tt has been decided not to install the new switchboard at the local tele- phone office according to Claude Barber. Future plans for the switechboar? will depend on whether the Federai government accepts the low tender submitted in November for the new™ public building here. If work is to go ahead on the project, the switch- boards will remain in storage until the building is completed and then installed in the new offices.