Williams Lake Tribune —. ~ NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO Volume 21 -- Number 14: se WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, April 9, 1953. Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year. Around Town Miss Gail Wooalant is spending the Easter holidays visiting in Kel- owna. me ote Ss Miss Margaret Bradley of Milford, England, has arrived to take up resi- dence with her sister and brotner- in-law, Mr. and Mrs, L. D. Scott, —o— Visiting with Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Woods on the weekend were L. D. Coffman and John Faulker of Burn- ~aby. os Mrs. Julia Johnson was a visitor to Victoria ovér the Easter weekend. Tom Denny Jr., came up trom Vancouver for the weekend to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Denny Sr, —o—_ Miss Mary Anne Duncan of Van- couver is‘ visiting with her cousin, Miss Claire Haramia. Also visiting with Dr. and Mrs. J. Haramia is the latter’s mother, Mrs. J. Maltman of Vancouver. ee eRe zd Recent visitors of Dr. and Mrs. Hugh Atwood were Dr. and Mrs. Barney Ringwood of Edmonton, and Dr. and Mrs. Stewart Burris ot Kamloops. x “Manitoba Remembers”, With $150,000 Cheque During a Coulter of Wi. s_ remembers, the Manitoba division. now that she has been Jaycees Turn Down Suggestion That Club Be Disbanded Faced with a proposal to disband the local Junior Cham- ber of Commerce, 18 members Wednesday night talked over Possible solutions to-the ills that beset the organization and with the exception of one contrary vote, elected to carry on. Prior to the general discussion on the question, the darker side of the club’s activities were presented by seeretary Walt Nesbit and local Jay- eee charter president Clive Stangoa spoke against the motion to disband. Mr. Nesbit presented two possible alternatives to the membership. He said the group could break off its affiliation with the Junior Chamber of Commerce movement and become a loosely knit club that would meet together for companionship. On the other hand, the club could break up entirely and its members join other community organizations, such as the Board of Trade. FORESTRY DEPARTMENT APPOINTMENTS MADE Two Forestry Department appoint- ments affecting local men have been approved. Reg Norberg has left for Merritt where he will be Assistant Ranger and Miles Nichols will go to Horsefly within the next two weeks as Assist> ant Ranger. Cabinet Ministers Now Due Saturday ~ Due here originally Tuesday on their trip to Central British Colum- bia, Trade. & Industry Minister Ralph Chetwynd and Health and Welfare Minister Eric Martin have indicated that they will now be in Williams Lake this Saturday. The two ministers travelled north Thursday on the, PGE, plannea on spending the remainder of the day at Prince George, and Friday at Ques- nel. They will leave here for Vic- toria Saturday. night. Political Parties Selecting Leaders At the B.C. Provincial Liberal con- vention in Vancouver Wednesday; ‘Arthur Laing, M.P. for Vancouver South, was named provincial party leader to succeed Byron I. Johnson. The CCF convention, which open- ed today in Vancouver, will have to choose a leader to replace Harold Winch, or persuade the veteran MLA to reconsider his retirement an- nouncement of last week. Dean Finiayson, new Progressive- Conservative leader, became one of the first candidates in the field for the election June 9 when he was nained Pro-Con candidate for the Oak Bay riding. This was the seat Speaking against the motion, Mr. Stangoe said that although the mem- bers present had the physical ability to discard the Junior Chamber, he did not believe they had the moral right. He based this argument on-the ment provided a training ground for young men that was of vital worth to the community and the individual. He asked the members to consider what advantages they had derived from the Jaycee gavel club and com- mittee work such as the sponsoring of public meetings to stimulate inter- est in civic government. This type of work, he stated was worthwhile to the present members and to those young men who would join the moye- ment in the future. To the suggestion that the group carry-on as a club outside the frame- work of the Junior Chamber move- ment, Mr. Stangoe said he did not believe that such an organization would carry on. “Any group must have ‘an objective to hold its mem- bership,” he stated. Before introducing the speakers, Jaycee president Larry Avery told the meeting that the debaters were not necessarily expressing their own opinions, but had been instucted by the executive to argue in favour of both sides of the question. Father Naphin Slightly Injured In Accident Rey. Father J. C. Naphin was re- leased from hospital today after treatment for head injuries sustain- ed in an accident last Sunday when the car he was driving was involved in a collision with a horse on the Cariboo Highway. Two horses walked out on the highway in front of the approaching vehicle and the driver, was unable to miss one of the animals. Rev. Father Cain, who was also in the car, was uninjured. Approximately $700 damn- age was done to the automobile. The accident occurred about 10 miles this side of Clinton. Local Principal New B.CT.F. Vice-President J. Phillipson, principal of wi_ liams Lake High School, was elected vice-president of the B.G. Teachers’ Federation at the group's second annudi provincial convention in yan- couver Wednesday. Mr. Phillipson served Previously formerly held by Herbert Anscomub. as a director of the federation, | Pipeline Companies Seek Ruling on Inter- Provincial Status One point of law has occupied the attention of County Court yesterday. and today in an $862,000 case against Comstock Midwestern Ltd... and Trans-Mountain Oil Pipeline Com- pany. Plaintiff in the case is one of the sub-contracting companies in the huge pipelime project, Campbell, Ben- net Ltd. Decision is sought on whether the Provincial. Mechanic's /Lien Act'tan have any application to a. pipéline which is alleged to be an inter-pro- vincial undertaking under the exclus- ive legislation control of the parlia- ment of Canada. , Counsels for for the defendants, Douglas Brown and G. Winton of Vancouver, are arguing that the pipe- line project is in effect an inter- provincial undertaking and should have the same standing as the con- tinental railways that’ come under Railways Act. Although the pipeline, project is far removed from this part of the province, a case of this nature must be heard in each of the counties in which the work is being done. The line mainly transverses Yale county, but north-east of Blue River, near the small centre of Albreda, the line crosses the extremely easterly point of sprawling Cariboo County. THE WEATHER Min. Max. Friday, April 3... 40 52 Saturday . 41 53 Monday 32 49 ‘Tuesday . 25 52 Wednesday 2. 57 Thursday 35 50 Temperature reading at the air_ port at 8 o'clock this morning was 34°, 1To Lift Highway Load Limit to Quesnel { Highway restrictions on the | Cariboo. Highway from 150 Mile to | Quesnel and from Williams Lake to Quesnel via the River Road to Soda Creek will be lifted at mid- night Sunday, according to in- ) formation received this morning from Divisional Engineer Chas. Grigg. Restrictions will also be removed on certain sections. of the Trans. Canada highway, but rumours that restrictions were due‘ to be lifted on the Cariboo Highway south of here have no foundation in fact. BELLA COOLA ROAD NEARING COMPLETION Wheels may roll on the Bella Coola road by May 24, according to Bella Goola Board of Trade spokesman Clif Kopas in a telephone interview with The Tribune this morning. Official opening ‘of the road has been set for July 1st, Bella Coola Board sponsoring “the celebration, The Williams Lake Board will be asked to take a prominent part in the ceremonies, Mr. Kopas states that there is less than five miles of @on8truction re- maining in the link with the far reaches of the Chilcotin. Of this mile- age, 1500 feet Is rock slide clearing that will take about 10 days ani then the workers will tackle 1400 ,feet of heavy rock work. The remain- ing three or four miles is along a gravel mountainside, At present a bulldozer is working on the road ana six men, under the supervision of E. Guer, Work on the road link started Sep- tember 12 last year and Mr. Kopas -Sigedcs thet the perfod of time neces. “py to punch the