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Williams Lake

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Volume 21 -- Number 9.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.G. Thursday, March 5, 1953.

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

Omar Crosina,

Pictured here are the Juvenile Pontiacs,
who show good promise of providing the neces-
sary talent for future Stampeders.
right in the front row are Tom Bishop (coach),
Walter Richardson,

JUVENILES _

Left to

John

Erickson, Allan McDougall, Marvin Scott and
Gordon Blackwell
from left to right are Allan Demcoe, Louis
MacDonald, Barry Bishop,
Levi Purjue and Doug Kerr.

Town Businessman
Collapses In Store

© Local businessman
well, who collapsed in his store last

will be confined to bed in

Memorial Mospita)l for several

Mr. Blackwell, who coaches the
juvenile hockey tea
ed by two of his young players, Bar-
rie Bishop and Allan McDougall
about 12:30 in the afternoon. The
two boys summoned help -and Mr.
Blackwell was rushed to the hos-
pital.

Lecal Insurance

—
Photo by Blackwell's

(coach). In the rear row!

Frank Purjue.

Cattle Embargo-

The United States has officially
re-opened its borders for the import
of Canadian cattle, sheep and other
domestic animals.

Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft
Benson of the United States signed
an order in Washington opening the
U.S. borders. The order is effective
immediately.
~ Imports had been barred for a year
becanse of an outhreak of the dread
foot-and-mouth disease in the prov-
ince of Saskatchewan, Benton said
the disease no longer exists in
Canada. ~ oe

(Officials said tie “action means
that import conditions and regula-
tions in effect before February 25,
1952, when the embargo was put
into effect, go back into operation,

The ban had applied to animals
as well as to chilled or frozen beef,
veal, mutton, lamb or pork, aud
straw, hay and other materials that
might possibly have taken the infec-

OTTAWA FOLLOWS SUIT

Officials in Ottawa say Canada will
lift most of her meat and livestock
import controls, immediately follow-
ing the end of the year-long United
States embargo on Canadian ship-
ments, ©

The officials add that a special
Canadian Government statement —
ending the controls and touching on
other meat and livestock problems—
is being prepared and will be issue
just as soon as the United States
opens its borders,

The Canadaian Government state-
ment eliminating the controls will
likely specify however, that whi
American beef can enter the Cana-

Post Office Revenue
Hits New Record

As a result of a record revenue
total of $20,634 for Williams Lake
post office last year, employees who
handle the mail will be getting a
raise in salaries,

The new total puts the post office
on a higher salary grouping to what
it was previously. The revenue from
the sale of postage stamps shows a
healthy gain over the figure for a
similar period three years ago of
$15,000.

Three Men Rewarded
As Result of Bank
Hold-up Attempt Here

Three persons have benefitted as
a result of their experience in the
attempted. bank hold-up here last
Heliyer is at present on a month's
holiday ‘and accountant Don
Mars will receive three weeks wie
day. Town businessman Tony Kal-
laur received a cash award as di

bank

Lifted By U.S.

dian market, American pork will be
kept out.

The reason for this is the existence
on some American farms of vesicular
exanthema, a disease somewhat like
foot-and-mouth disease which affects
only swine. °

Canada will also keep out cattle
from England and Scotland because
of the existence of foot-and-mouth
infection on.some Scottish and Eng-
lish farms.

WILLIAMS LAKE HAD
A MORE ROMANTIC
NAME YEARS AGO

It was news to us that Williams
Lake was, in years gone by, once
known by the more romantic souné-
ing title of ‘Columetza,’ but that’s
what the book says.

We are referring to a well-pre-
served issue of a small hook or maga-
zine called “The Leisure Hour,”
printed in London, Bngland in 1865.
A recent addition to our library, the
book contains an article entitled “To
The Cariboo and Back,” and records
the journey of a Mr. W. Champness
and his nameless nephew. who tray-
elled from England to the diggings
at Antler Creek in the year 1862.
The alternative name for Williams
Lake is tossed in in passing. The
traveller records stopping at an inn
in Williams Lake (also called Col-
umetza).

Curious about the name, we put
out several feelers that produced the
belief that the name was not of
Shuswap or the language of the Lil-
ooet Indians, :

Then we asked Judge Henry Cas-
tillou, who is a noted authority on
Indian lore ‘and anthropology. 17:
reaction was that the name was ac-
tually “Clumneetza,” and belonged
to the Athapaskans,

Far back in the past the Athapas-
kans,/a race of tall, fair people, mi-
grated south and penetrated as far
as Lytton. Some of these people went
as far south as the southern United
States and were the forefathers of
the Navajoes and Apaches. But the
main body of them in British Colum-
bia were later pushed back ngrth in
front of the wave of Shuswap people.

They lived here when the elk
plentiful, before that animal
pushed out by the Caribou.

Judge Castillou tells us that the
Word “neetza” in the Athapaskan
language means ‘princely people or
ruling house.’ Working back from
this he believes that Columetza
Probably a mis-interpretation
‘Clumneetza,’

was

of

y. Hellyer.
hold-up attempt and Mr. Mars and
Mr. Kallaur frightened the bandit
into fleeing by their unexpected ap-
pearance at the bank,

al :
the aistriet from Lytton ey eee oe
James, Judge Castinoy theorizes that
the-1ake could ewalll hays Neon the
| meeting place for the ehiets of all the
| banas of this nation in the area

|Rush Heavy As Ever

Road Report
Stirs Town
Businessmen

Town businessmen were
mad at the government last Friday
incom

boiling

morning, all because of an
plete report on projected road work
that was published in a coast daily.

The said that
tion of the Cariboo Highway would
continue north to Mile 158 (Moun-
aia House), with no mention of
Williams Lake. This was taken to
mean that the old Cariboo Highway
route would be followed and our
town would be left to languish some
12 miles away from the stream of
traffic.

Honourable Raplh Chetwynd was
bombarded with wires: letters and
telephone calls and his answer was
that the report was untrue and Wil-
liams Lake was included in- the
program. !

This was corroborated the next
day by the official release from the
Public Works Department, from
which the daily’s report was taken.
(Government releases take a lot
longer to reach Interior towns than
Vancouver, particularly when they
are sent air mail to a centre like
Williams Lake.)

The release states ‘In order to
keep pace with the large develop-
ment taking place in the northern
portion of the province, and also to
provide an all-weather road to meet
the Hart Highway, special attention
will be given to the Cariboo Road.
Our program calls for the comple-
tion. of the standardization of the
road, as‘far north as the “Mountain
House” (Mile ). This will ine|
volve .the completion between the,
126 Mile and the 134 Mile and from
the 134 Mile to Williams Lake and|
the completion between Williams
Lake and the Mountain House.

In addition to this work, recon-
struction will also he carried out
south of Quesnel and between Ques-
nel and Prince George, ~

report reconstrue-

Annual Car Licence

Life was just one big rush for em-
Ployees of the government agent's
office last Friday and Saturday as
motorists ran true to form and wait-
ed until the last minute before ob-
taining 1953 plates.

Of the 436 commercial plates is-
sued, 400 of them were bought dur-
ing Friday and Saturday morning
office hours. There were 368 pas-
senger car plates issued.

Only 85 chauffeur’s cl Coie
cences were issued, a figure that
should be around 400. Reason for|
this is believed to be that most hold-|
ers of the class ‘C’ license think it]
is good for five years, the same as]
an ordinary driver's licence —/
which isn’t the case,

Buys Quesnel Firm
In Expansion Move

In ‘a major expansion movement
this week, the local firm of F. B.
Bass Ltd., moved into Quesnel with
the purchase of the insurance busi-
ness known as A. L, Mills & Co..
Limited.

‘The new company will be known
as F. B. Bass, (Quesnel) Ltd., and
the principals are F. B. Bass, pre
dent, H. J. ‘Bert’ Lloyd, vice-presi-
dent; Andrew Waddell, secretary
and Ed. Follis, treasurer.

The move marks the second major
expansion of the local firm since it
was formed in 1946 by Mr. Bass on
his return from overseas. In 1951
the company purchased the insurance
business of the R.‘H. Morgan estate
in Ashcroft. Mr. Lloyd, who is also
ce-president of F. B. Bass Ltd.,
came into the firm in 1950,

Newcomer to the well-known
surance and real estate’ company i
Mr, Waddell, who will take over as
manager of the Quesnel branch. Mr.
Waddell, a Vancouver man, brings a
wide selling experience to the busi-
6s. | He worked for the Safeway
cagpins pricr ib the last wat
when he returned to civilian life,
he worked for three years with Lon-
don Life Imsurance-company. He
returned to the food business
and is presently senior salesman with

in-

During the war he served |
Army overseas and rose
through the ranks to become a Lieu-
tenant. Mr. Waddell will move to
Quesnel around the middle of April.
Ed. Follis, who joined the firm a
year ago and has built up a wide
rural clientele in the South Cariboo
during that time, will continue to be
travelling representative of the firm,
working out of Quesnel. Before he
joined F. B. Bass Ltd., Mr. Follis
operated Chilcotin Cabins here.

Gordon Plack-

n, was discover-

Two Straight

emerge as 1952-53

ended 6-2. :

The margin of victory for the
Bears was provided by the impreg-
nable defence of Howie Sugden and
Jack Forsey. The two veterans broke
the hearts of the Stamps forwards as
they broke up play after play.

In Saturday night's game the more
than 600 fans saw the Stamps turn
in one of their poorest efforts. With
one line broken by the absence of
Keith Norquay, coach Camponi shift-
ed his players around trying to find
a winning combination and the re-
sults were something less than spec-
tacular. But even as individuals the
locals had trouble in holding on to
the. puck and Vanderhoof kept con-
trol of the play from Forsey’s open-
ing goal at the 5-minute mark of the
first frame. Sugden provided a two-
goal margin two minutes later and
the Stamps were unable to make up
the deficit.

Red Cross Branch
Ready For Campaign

The annual Red Cross campaign,
which runs through March, will get
unéerway in Williams Lake next
week when the local branch holds its
annual meeting and selects a cam-

paign chairman.

headed
and also the dis-
s f committee, gave a break-
down yesterday of what the Red
Cross sent to this area in 1952 to
aid disaster victims.
~ During the year. 250 pieces of bed-
— and clothing were! distributed
and 28 pieces of baby Jayettes and
bedding. Victims of three fires were
assisted at a cost of $237, plus a fur-
thér $100 spent in Williams Lake
for additional supplies. Since then
two more fires have resulted in the
Red Cross furnishing assistance.

Throughout the province, 78 fam-
jilies were burned out in the same
| period and the value of clothes and
|bedding distributed by the 36
branches amounted to $8000.

Quota for Williams Lake and dis-
trict will probably be $2000, the
ame as in 1 Last year the can-
here realized $1651.

The local branch will meet in the
Village Hall next Wednesday after-
| noon to elect its officers.

who last

i

Dr. L. E. Avery Receives Appointment
To Outstanding U.S. Surgical Hospital

Dr. L. B. ‘Larry’ Avery, prominent
local physician and surgeon, will
leave Williams Lake about the mid-!
dle of May to take a position as resi-|
dent surgeon of the Henry Ford)
Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. |

The outstanding appointment, to}
what is noted as a major surgical]
hospital on the continent, was o:
ed to Dr. Avery last November, fol-
lowing his work with Vancouver
specialists Dr. France Word and Dr.|
L. H. Appleby. It is a tribute to
abjlity as a surgeon that Dr. Avery
has shown since he graduated from
Queen’s University in 1943. !

Following graduation, Dr. Avery
took a post-graduate fellowship in
pathology and then entered a surgi-
cal clinic in Orillia, Ontario. In 1945
he came to Williams Lake to estab-
lish his first general practice. He
built the Avery Clinic and up until
last year was the town's only doctor
engaged in private practice

Active in community aifairs, Dr.
Avery is at present president of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce. His
hobby of gardening led to the form-
ation of the Williams Lake Gladiolus
Club and he was the Fall Fair As-

Sociation’s first president when the
annual affair was revived three
years ago. He is a member of the
badminton club, Canadian Legion
and the Volunteer Fire Brigade,
Mr. and Mrs. as will be missed
by the scores of friends they have

made throughout the South Cariboo
during their eight-year stay in Wil-

| liams Lake,

Bears Trounce Stampeders

To Win Title

Exhibiting a flawless brand of hockey, Vanderhoof Bears
took two straight wins over the Stampeders on the weekend to
champions of the Central B.C. League.
Saturday night the visitors won 5-2 and Sunday’s clincher

The period was wearing on when a
determined rush by Latin, Doug Nor-
berg and Camponi finally paid off.
Doug tried to carry the puck right in
and was knocked down, but the fight-
ing little forward followed the rub-
ber into the corner and passed out to
Camponi who practically pushed cus-
todian Wall and the puck right into
the net. Trask widened the gap again
just before the period ended when he
took a goal-mouth pass and picked
his corner of the net.

Neither team was able to score in
the first half of the second frame al-
though.for five minutes the Stamps
played their hearts out. Rush after
rush was broken up just in front of
the goal and while the play was being
pressed, Ken Silvers broke away and
carried it well behind the Stamp
blueline before he was stopped. He
managed to get a pass away to Steele,
who rapped his shot home.

The final canto was a repeat of the
second, with the locals unable to cut
down the Bears’ lead. A face-off in-
side the Take blueline brought the
first score whén Vandérhoof centre
Smithers passed to Trask, who drill-
ed a hard shot past MeNiven. With
three minutes to go a Stamp rush”

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DR. L. E. AVERY

| Avery Clinie and Dr. Avery’s prac-
been purchased by Dr.
ood, who came to Williams
Lake last Dr. Atwood has
stated that he will be bringing in
another doctor to assist him.

Dr eDougall, who has heen
ciated with Dr. Avery since last
October, i that his plans are
indefinite tor the immediate future.

tice have
Hugh 4

year.

Alex

tes

Dr. Avery's appointment at Henr:
Ford Hospital becomes effective
| July ist.

clicked and Camponi took George
Begg’s pass to score.
SUNDAY

Sunday’s game left nothing to be
desired as far as playing was con-
cerned.~ The hard fought game’
brought out some of the best hockey
that has been seen in the league this
winter with both clubs travelling at
a killing pace for the entire 60 min-
utes. Up ‘to the middle of the thira
period it was still anybody's gamo,
but the breaks. finally went Vander-
hoof’s way. ~ ——

The scoring plays opened much the
same as the night before with Silvers
rapping home Sugden’s pass when the
game was just 45 seconds old. Twelve
minutes later Forsey added a second.

On the next play, Camponi put 2
lot of wasted effort into beating cus-
todian Wall. Reg Norberg had
brought the puck out from behind his
own net and passed ahead to Al, who
went roaring in between Sugden and
the boards; cut back and sank a
shot marked goal all the way. But
after the goal the referee’s whistle
blew and the goal was not allowed.
Seems the original pass had gone over
two lines. 3
FIRST OFFICIAL

With five minutes to go Camponi
got the first official Stamp goal when
he knocked down Doug Norberg's
high shot in the goal mouth and
pushed the rubber in.

Carl Bucholtz tied up the game 58
seconds after the second period face-
off whistle when he took Camponi's
pass just inside the blueline, bored in
and rified.a shot past Wall.

That was the only score of the
second frame and as the final period
got underway the home town fans
were looking for a possible Stamp
win.

But it proved to be the Bears’ peri-
od. The first scoring play was a heart-
breaker for MeNiven, who turned
back two tricky shots during a gozl-
mouth scramble. Down on the ice
after making the second save, he wes
unable to do-anything with the re-
hound shot that Steele raised over
him.

Tempers were beginning to flare
over a couple of hard body checks
handed out about this time, but the
aid was cleared by the comedy relict
afforded by the predicament goalie
Wall found himself in when Sugden
and Hutchinson collided behind his
net and overturned it, pinning him to
the ice, .

After some delay, play got unde
way and a three-man rush from the
face-off wound up with Holmes sccr
ing for Vanderhoof. Ken Silvers add-
ed another when he picked up a loose
puck behind the Stamp defence line
and then the locals put four forwards
out in an attempt to catch up. As |
all-out Stamp offensive continued, ic
was Vanderhoof that finally scored,
when Forsey made a lovely break-
away.

Saturday night McNiven had 19
shots on goal directed at him and
Wall had 15. Sunday McNiven had
19 and Wall 18,