— ae \e Ae \ Sant \e NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO Williams Lake Tribune Volume 21 — Number 16. WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, April 23 1953. Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year. School Bus Tenders Higher Than Budget Allowance It will cost more than the $4000 allotted in the annual budget to provide a schoal bus or the 100 Mile, trustees learned at their meeting here last Friday. The eight bids that were ranged from $4459 to $5532. Speci- cations with each bid varied so much thet the whole list was turned over to the finance committee who! are asking the firms for prices on standardized models and will re- consider them Friday. pproaching portation prob- with an increasing school population at Lone Butte and a danger of over- “crowding on the present bus run,,the school may have to be re-opened. Purchase price of the land is $150. Hilary Place, vice-chairman of the school board was named board rep- ive to the Northern Interior Jems in the Lone Butte area prompt- ed the trustees to authorize purchase of the land the old Willowford schocl sits on. The school has been closed for four years, but trustees feel that Decision Given In Pipeline Case In a decision handed down in County Court here last week, Judge Henry Castillou found in favour of the defendants, Comstock Midwest- ern Ltd., and. Trans- Mountain Oil Pipeline Company. Plaintiff in the $862,000 case was one of the sub- contracting companies on the pipe- line project, Campbell, Bennett, Ltd. In effect, the court’s ruling upheld the argument of the defendants tna‘ the Provincial Mechanic’s Lein Act does not apply to a pipeline which is an inter-provincial undertaking. The decision is the same as an earlier one that was handed down in County Court at Kamloops recently in the same case. An appeal from the Kamloops ruling has already been entered, Matron To Address WI. Convention — Mrs, L. Boyce, Williams Lake school dormitory matron, will speak to delegates from the Cariboo Wom- en’s Institutes at their annual zone conyention to be held in Lone Butte early in June: The matron will address the dele- gates on the general routine of the dormitory, which is ‘home’ during the school months for some 32 rural students, In giving their permi&sion for Mi Boyce to make the trip, school trus- tees at their Friday meeting sug- gested that two of the dorm stu- dents should go along at the board’s expense. Several trustees may also be in attendance. The annual convention is attended by delegates from institutes from Lone Butte to Quesnel. Former District Man Dies At Coust Funeral services were conducte? yesterday in Vancouver for Frank Lipscomb, former district resident, who passed away April 19. Mr. Lipscomb came to the Cariboo about ten years ago and managed the store and post office at Alkali Lake. He was taken ill in 1951 aud left for the coast inthe fall of that year, He later started a store and post office at Port Moody. Years ago he lived in Prince George, where he was manager of the old Bank of Vancouver, the first bank to be es- tablished in Prince. He leaves to mourn his passing his loving wife; one son, Harry; and one daughter, Miss Elizabeth Simp- son, at home. His mother and two sisters in Toronto also survive. Ownership Change In Local Garage Completion of major change in the ownership of Central Service Ltd., was announced this week. Bfiective April 15, E. W. ‘Ted’ Ewing purchased the interest held by his former partner, Vie Imhoff in the garage business. The two men have operated the firm for just over five years. (Mr. Imhoff’s plans for the im- mediate future are indefinite, but he intends to stay in Williams Lake, pach of the B.C. Trustee’s Asso- ciation.- Staff changes approved by the board included acceptance of the res- ignation of Miss Ruth ef- THE WEATHER Min. Max. Friday, April 17... 40 61 Saturday 2559 Monday G4 Tuesday 67 Wednesday... 44 63 Temperature reading at the air- port at 8 o'clock this morning was 39°. Lifting Restrictions | Sunday On Highway! Road restrictions ‘on the Cariboo |: Highway from Cache Creek to Ques- nel will be lifted Sunday midnight, fetive in June. Miss Erickson is com- mercial teacher of the Williams Lake High School. Miss Nancy Holman, who. is presently completing her studies at UBC for her secondary certificate, will join the town high school staff in September. Work on the new extension to the school dormitory is expected to start around the end of May: Plans are just about completed and as soon as they have been approved by both the board and the Department of Educa- tion, tenders will be called. The board approved extension of the dormitory hours from 9 to i0 p.m. during the summer daylight saving months. Three Months For Drunkeness On Reserve A sentence of three months Im- prisonment was imposed on Isadore Prentice, Alkali Lake reserve Indian, iast Friday in police corrt when he pleaded guilty to charges of being drunk on a reserve, On the night of April 15, Prentice began ereating a disturbance on the LFeserve ang broke seyeral window: 3 ‘before he was subdved and hane= cuffed by one of the Indian police, =| ROMP. officers went out from town to pick up theman, but just prior to their arrival he broke away and ran into the bush, He was apprehended the next morning in one pf the houses on the reserve. First Spring Rain Light In This Area Low clouds last night brought Wil- liams Lake valley its first spring rainfall. Not enough to provide the ground with a much-needed soaking, it at least settled the dust problem temporarily, Reports from throughout the Cari- boo indicate ranchers are extremely worried about the parched condition of the land. An almost unprecedented mild winter (that had old timers searching back to 1904 to find a simi- lar one) left little moisture in the form of snow. Instead of the usual mud of spring break-up. dust has been flying along the roads. Without a run-off, creeks feeding the irrigation systems show no ap- Preciable rise and a dry summen would mean extremely ~ poor hay crops. An example of this situation is the little San Jose, flowing out of Williams Lake, which is at its fall level instead of running with full banks, * pe DRIVING THROUGH PATROL DRAWS S25 FINE Another motorist landed up in local police court this week for ig- noring School Patrol flags on Oliver Street. Donald Weir, Williams Lake, was fined $25 and costs Tuesday on a charge of driving without having reasonable consideration for other people using the highway.’ to an by. District Engineer Ray Cunliffe. Restrictions to 50 per cent of max- imum legal loadings are till in effect on the highway north of Quesnel. On Monday there will be two Greyhound bus trips north and one south. The following day the line will return to regular schedules with two buses daily north and south, A second dental office opened its doors in Williams Lake this morp- ing. New dentist is Dr. John W. James. no, California, he was raised in the Kootenays, returning to° the States to finish his education. He graduatea trom the College of Physicians and Surgeons, School of Dentistry in San Francisco in 1943 and spent the next three years with the 112th Cavalry Regiment af the/U:S. army, serving He in ‘the ‘South Pacific area. Following his discharge he practised dentisiry for three years in Fresno and then moved to Castro Valley. Dr. James is a resident of Ochil- tree, having purchased 1200 acres of the old Elliott property in partner- ship with his cousin, Roy T. Blake.| }’ He plans on commuting daily from Ochiltree. Dr. James is married with five children, his eldest son high school in town. Mr. Blake have two children. pi Ralph Chetwynd Sacred Choice and cabinet minister in the last pro- Vincial government, will again be the Soeiil Credit candidate in the forth- NEW DENTAL : OFFICE OPENED Se ea nel. was unopposed. heard Richard Gook, in his formal nomination speech compliment Mr. Chetwynd on the work he has done 37, formerly of California. for the constituency during the short | Dr. James is no stranger to Car-| teria as member. i ada, Although he was born in Fres-| president of the party’s constituency | association. show that would provide rides and games, ing the rides and the Stampede sociation providing attending| run the games; take and Mrs.| the rides and handle all return 50 percent on the +. . CANDIDATE Ralph Chetwynd, Cariboo M.L.A. oming election. Mr. nomination on the hoo constitency con- ‘The y delegates attending Mr. Gook ¥ (Continued on back page) P.G.E. Sub-Division Work To Start Immediately Completion of the work necessary on the new PGE sub- division before the jots can be way .immediately. This information was conveyed to The Tribune yesterday by “Hon. Ralph Chetwynd, who stopped in town briefly on his way te the Social Credit nominating convention at Quesnel. ‘The work consists of laying the water mains in the sub-division, a job that the railway company had tentatively agreed to undertake,. subject to the approval of the board of directors. On Mr. Chetwynd’s last visit here, the minister was advised that, since the board of directors Four Imprisoned For Taking Truck Two of the four Vancouver men who appeared in police court last Thursday on charges of ‘taking a truck without the consent of the owner’ were sentenced to six months in jail plus $100 fine or another month in default. The other two were each sentenced to three months. The four men were picked up in Vanderhoof following the theft of a truck belonging to local man Robin Blair. The two who drew the heaviest | penalties, William Sound and James Cook, had only been released from Oakalla a week earlier. They picked up the other two involved, Don Lam- oureaux and John Burgess, in Prince George. A perennial problem split Cause of the question being rought up Was an offer from a coast with the firm’s men uperat- As- the manpower to admissions for money. In the company asked ercent of the net on the rid for 75 sand The meeting finally turned the One-Night Drive For Cancer Campaign whole question over to a committee consisting of one representative. of each of the participating organiza- tions. The committee will make the final decision on-this offer and any All homes in Williams Lake will other suggestion of bringing in out- be visited between 7 and 3 p.m.| Co" Sues e Friday, May 1, to receive contribu- - Members agreed to revert to the tions to the 1953 Conquer Cancer Campaign. In announcing the one-night drive, local chairman Don Bingham said the money raised here will help raise the British Columbia quota of $200,000. “This money,” Mr. Bingham states “is returned directly to the citizens ot the province through the Cancer Institute in the form of educational Programs, research, welfare com- a e former three-day program of operat- ing a show consisting of a the for flat racing only. year’s show were struck: grounds Bill Pulver, Pete Barker, Bert Ley- ens, George Felker; parade, Benny ena event Last year ran two da: reserved the third day nd flat ra ng every day. association vents and The following committees for this forts and treatment ‘facilties, includ- ing the Cobalt 60 beam therapy unit. Some canvassing: will he done in the outlying communities but con- {ributions may be forwarded at any time to the Conquer Cancer Cam- paign chairman at Williams Lake. Mr. Bingham asks the citizens £6 show the same enthusiasm in con- tributing as one young girl did last year in town. When the canvasser called at her home, she tola her mother to give her show money to the visitor, saying: “I'd like to heip the sick people.” Daylight . Saving will Columbia on election. Daylight Saving Coming Clocks will be moved ahead one hour. go into effect in Britis Sunday at 2 a.m. The changeover will be province-wide, in keeping with the decision of the voters at the last provincial the end of Ma: | in the association office May Ist, ». NEW SECRETARY Shown above is Chet Leavitt of | | Kamloops, who will take over | Position of secretary-manager of the | Cariboo Cattlemen's Association ai] Stampede Ass'n Considers er of Ouiside Show the Stampede Association last night as the meeting considered the question of whether or not to have a show come in to run on the grounds in conjunction with the Stampede itself. Abbott, Johnny Erickson, Antoine Boitanio; town decoration, Board of Trade; race committee, Bill Pulver. Mrs. Frank Matheson, Clive Stan- goe; finance, Don Mars, Jack Pur- ser, Walt Thomas, Bert Roberts. sociation president Slim Dorin will head the arena commitee and will appoint its members. Dr. Bayne Labels Tourist Advertising Budget ‘Joke’ The Department of Trade and In- dustry’s tourist advertising budget i Dr. A. H. Bayne told a meeting of the B.C. Tourist Council in Vancouyer Tuesday. Stopping off at the convention on his way home from a tour of South- ern California, Dr. Bayne attended in his capacity as Cariboo represent- ative on the council. “Tourist information centres, es- pecially in California, are not ade- quately informed about B.C.," he told the convention, “Galifornia, | which is so different in ciimate and topography from British Columbia, is an ideal place for advertising.” He urged setting up permanent inforina- tion centres in San Francisco ana Los Angeles. ‘It is poor economy and poor mathematics not to spend more tourism,” the owner stated. He id the industry was second only to Inmbering and could be B.C.s first industry. Westcoast Given 22-year ‘Canadian Export Permit | he Canadian Government has granted a year permit to West- fe t Transmission Company to ex- port natural gas to the United States. would come from the Alberta- bute h Columbia Peace River area. The permit was announced in the Commons last Wednesday by Trade Minister Howe, put up for sale, will get under- had not met in some months, the project seemed destined to be stalled indefinitely. Once the project is completed, the company will place an ‘upset’ price - on the individual lots and let them go at public auction. TRACKAGE On the subject of provision for commercial trackage along the PGR, Mr. Chetwynd said that although he had not seen the finished report of the engineers, he understood from talking to them that there were 80 acres available about two miles north of town. If the engineers’ final recommend- ation is favourable, Mr. Chetwynd said work would also start on the project immediately. QUESNEL HYDRO Asked about the Quesnel Hydro Project, the minister said that pre- liminary work was going ahead right away, although it was doubtful that actual work on-the dam woud commence this year. : Hospital Board Settles Janitor, Heating Problems At a special meeting of the Hos- pital Board Tuesday night, the ap- plication of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mal- esku for the positions of caretaker and laundress were accepted. The board also accepted the ten» der of Cariboo Electric for the sup- ply and installation of a used oil- fired hot water heater at a cost of 524g. y Dormitory Choir Fund Growing With the help of town and country organizations, as well as interested individuals, it appears the School Dormitory choir will have enough money in its fund to finance the trip to Kamloops next month,-to take [part in the musical | festival at that centre. Country points that have contrid- uted include Lae La Hache and Soda Creek. School trustee Bert Levens, who offered to round up local assist- ance, reported to the school board Friday that he had four private cars Promised for the trip, one town or- ganization has donated and others have yet to be contacted. Helping themselves the choir will present a program tomorrow night at the high school. auditorium. They Will also be singing tonight for the Royal Purple Lodge as a result of an invitation from the women’s or- ganization, The choir, under the leadership of dormitory matron Mrs. L. Boyce, con- sists of 19 students. Five of the girls are from town and remainder of the membership is made up of rural students. Mrs, L. Cantell will got along with the choir as accompanist: ‘Brownie’ Group For Girls Being Formed Efforts to establish a group of Brownies here got underway Wed- nesday afternoon when the first or- ganized meeting was -held in St. Peter's Parish Mall. Mrs. 8. Wood was named _presi- dent of the tentative slate of officers for the Mothers’ ‘Association, Sec- retary is Mrs. G. Cuthbert, treasurer Mrs. L. Deschene, and membership committee, Mrs. D. 0. McKay. A second association meeting will be held next Tuesday evening at § p.m. and all interested mothers are cordially invited. Meetings will be held once a month, - The Brownies, which includes young girls from seven to eleven years of age, will meet every Monday afternoon at 3 0’ clock in the Parish Hall under the leadership of Mrs, M. 8. Pelkey, who was elected Brown Owl.