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Volume 21 -- Number 17.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, April 30, 1953.

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DISCUSS RESOLUTIONS

Clarence Singer
Cariboo Liberal Head

Clarence Singer, salesman with]
the local firm of C. H. Dodwell &
Co., was named president of the
Cariboo Liberal Association at the
group’s annual meeting here Satur-
day. Mr. Singer replaces retiring
president Keith Yorston.

Mrs. Lois Dawson, an active work-
er for the party in Quesnel was
named one of the association's vice-
presidents, and J. Forman of Welk
was re-elected to the second vice-
presidency. Secretary-treasurer ts
Mrs. Harold McKay of Williams Lake.

Frank Clark, district party organ-
izer, addressed the meeting-and de-
seribed the recent provincial con-
vention that resulted in the unani-
mous choice of Arthur Laing as party
Jeader.

Retiring president Yorston sound-
ed a plea for the party to butid a
tighter organization in Carihoo.

Two resolutions were presented to
the convention by Lew Grifrith,
chairman of the resolution commit-
tee, both of which were approved by
the delegates.

One of these called for an increase

Winnipeg and then at

in the y paid to ‘S
of thie Legislative Assembly “in line
with the ‘important position they
hold’. In his brief explanation of
the resolution, Mr. Grigith said it
was ridienlous to give the men who
are running the province's largest
business, aqsalary that wouldn’t hire
a man on the open market.

The second resolution, which was
sponsored by the Williams Lake
local, called for the extension of the
PGE from Squamish to Vancouver
to be undertaken without delay and
then the extension of the line to the
Peace River.

It was pointed out to the meeting
that thé Liberal provincie® plank on
the PGE called for building the line
to the Peace and to provide the most
adequate connection with Vancou-
ver. Speaking on the resolution,
Bert Roberts warned that this plank
was subject to several interpreta-
tions, but that the Cariboo wanted a
rail link, a 2

Foliowing the afternoon conven-
tion, a banquet was held in the Elks
Hall. Speakers included Garvin
Dezell, mayor of Prince George and
Liberal candidate for the Fort
George riding; Mrs. M. Murray, Mr.
Clark and Mr. Malcolm, Cariboo Lib-
eral candidate. Mr. Singer presided
at the head table.

Doctor To Enter
Practice Here In July

Dr. Hugh Atwood has announced
that early this July he will be joined
in practice here by Dr. J. B. Ring-
wood of Edmonton.

A graduate of the University of
Alberta, Dr. Ringwood first practised
at the Lamont Clinic in Alberta.
During the last war he served with
the Medical Corps, attached to the
28rd General Hospital in England,
where Dr. Atwood was also stationed.

Since the war he has practised in
Edmonton and is presntly complet-
ing a post-graduate course in surgery
at University Hospital, Edmonton.

Dr. Ringwood is married and has
four children. His wife. Gwen Farris
Ringwood, is a successful wricer,
specializing in radio script work,

Sub-division Sale
Will Be Advertised

Advertisements regarding
the public sale of lots on the
new PGE sub-division in town
will start appearing in The
‘Tribune next week, it has been
Jearned from the company’s
head office.

Village commissioner have
also been advised of this sale
the

and have 2
company intends to lay
mrains in the sub-divisi
cording to the original plea.
The only exception is the erec-
“Gon of fire hydrants, an ex-
pense the company would not
assume,

With more than two months sufficient riding experence to
of strenuous training first at|fit them

CANADA'S MOUNTED ESCORT TO QUEEN READIES FOR CORONATION
coe pescapramits rs < ene ee

for such a

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—Central Press canaaian

to supply the horses and have
the tiders fit and ready in the
limited

d time available. [t was
tough struggle but it worked,
nd the result is seen lined up

under the Peace Tower on Par-
liament Hill in Ottawa. From

left are Lt.-Col. E. G.

Brooks,

left, of Montreal and Winnipeg;
ja.

Maj.
A.
and Lieut.

rton, Ottawa; Lieut.
epler of Oakville, Ont.,
H. A. McLellan of

Sarnia, Ont.

Passenger Service
Set For May 12

Passenger service on the
Pacific Great Bastern exten-
sion from Quesnel to Prince
George is’ expected to com-
mence May 12, according to a
wire ‘received Tuesday from
Hon. Ralpl Guebiyas Aline
ter of Raitways,

At the same time, Mr. Chet-
wynd states that through USA
trans-continental rates fron
PGE rail shipping points are
expected to be in effect on
June ist.

Northern Publisher
Is Pini-Size Dynamo

Budding politicians of any party
could take a leaf from the book of
Mrs. Margaret Murray, the pint-sized
dynamo who runs, the Alaska High-
way News at Fort St. John, who was
in town Saturd to attend the Cari-
boo Liberal nominating convention.

An innocent bystander would have
thought “Maggie” was running for

around the convention floor before
the business session got underway.
shaking hands with every delegate
and passing the time of day with
them. Later in the conventiou she
gave a pep-talk to the convention and
was called qn at the evening banquet
to again address the delegates.

The Fort St. John publisher feels
right at home in the Cariboo. For
years she and her husband published
the Bridge River-Lillooet News before
selling out and starting up again in
the Peace River country. George
Murray is now M.P. for Cariboo and
the work of publishing the paper falls
on Maggie and her two sons.

Not noted for her subtle approach,
Mrs. Murray was at her best Saturday
afternoon as she gave her opinion on
the ills that beset the Liberal party
in B.C. in the past few years, (Co-
alition), and warned delegates of the
danger of ever again considering au
alliance with the Conservatives.

A staunch supporter of the Liberal
party since before the First World

|| War, Mrs. Murray said she had been

one of the few Liberals who had held
out against Coalition from the time
it was suggested. She went on to say
that this personal feeling had led her
to finally run as a Social Credit can-
didate in her own constituency, This
was in the days when Social Credit
was strictly an Albertan product ard
the affiliation had been made to gain
support from former Alberta resi-
dents who had moved to the B.c. part
of the Peace River area. But the ad-
yenture had been a brief and unsuc-
cessful one, the speaker explainea,
and she had returned to the Liberal
fold.

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election herself as she started going}

ANNOUNCING MORE
BUSINESS CHANGES

Two businéss changes were an-
nounced in town this past week.

Garth Lloyd, well-known local
sportsman, has purchased the inter-
est of George Halfnights in the firm
of Lake Hardware & Plumbing. At
the same time the company name has
heen changed to Lake Hardware Ltd.

Of the three brothers, Getirge, Jack
and Boyd, only the latter is now as-
sociated with the company. Jack
started his own plumbing business in
February of this year. The Halfnights
have operated the hardware store for
the past six yéars.

Mr. Lloyd has had a varied career
that has included such diverse inter-
ests as big game guide and public
accountancy with his father, Jack
Lloyd. He carried his interests in the
out-of-doors to the local Rod & Gun
club, which he was secretary of fer
three years.

The second business change was
the purchase of the Home Oil Agency
here by Geoff, Place from Buster
Henke.

Mr. Henke, who has held the agency
for the past eight years, intends to
leave in the near future for Califor-
nia to make his home. ,

Mr. Place, who is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Chas Place of Dog Creek,
left that centre two years ago to
make his home in Williams Lake. He
is a member of the Fire Brigade and
ve in the town badminton club
and Elks Lodge. 7

Firemen Wind Up
First Aid Course

In line with their general t ing,
seven firemen wrote examinations
in first aid Monday night, following
a six-week course,

Instructor for the course
fellow fireman Dr. Larry Avery, vith

Clig McIntosh, local St. John’s Am-
bulance branch official, assisting.
Examinations were given by Drs.

Hugh Atwood and Alex McDougall.
The firemen were Geof Place, Ken
Huston, Bob Moore, Jim Blair, Joe

Phillipson and Mars Poirier.

Mr. McIntosh will continue to give
refresher lectures to the fire brigade
once a month.

Cloudy skies brought sunny smiles
to the faces of ranchers this week
istent rains provided the dis-
trict with a much-needed soaking.

RECEIVES REWARD

Predator animal hunter

1, follow-
ing an attempted hold-up of tle
Bank of Commerce here,

Two Forestry Staff
Changes Announced

“Two changes in Forestry Depart-
ment staf have occurred this wel.
Deputy Ranger Roy Williams has
been transferred to Merritt where he
will take over the forest district as
ranger. Coming here from Princeton
in Mr. Williams place is John Wien-
urd, who was here during the 1951
fize. season. statjonéd at Likely,
es i :

seal Liberals Elect
Slate of Officers

Sixteen members of the Williams
Lake and District Liberal Association
attended the group’s annual meet-
ing here last Friday and elected C.
F. ‘Bert’ Roberts president for the
coming year.

Retiring president George Renner,
who has held the office for a number
of years, refused to allow his name
to stand again, saying he felt the
time had come to put young men in
office in the Liberal party through-
out the province. In recognition of
his long service to the party, the
meeting later named him honorary
vice-president.

Mr. Roberts told the meeting that
there was a big job of organization
to do and that new memh should
be sought from the ranks of new-
comers to the district to swell the
association to at least five times its
present strength.

The meeting named Clarence Sing-
er vice-president and returned Alf
Eagle to the position of secretary-
hott,

treasurer. Directors are Ben A

George Gill, Ren Hance, Walter
Daniels, Tom Harvey, Mrs. D. Me-
Neil, Jack Smedley, Antoine Boitanic

and George Renner.

Other outside delegates pr
were Tom Harvey and Newt Clare of
Alexis Creek and Hilary Place and
A. J. Drinkell from Dog Creek.

sert

CONVENTION DELEGATES ENTHUSIASTIC

An el

Old-Line Parties Name
Candidates For Election

battle was

d in Cariboo last weekend

With the nomination of Liberal and Progressive Conservative
candidates in conventions held at Williams Lake.

Nominated as Liberal at
a convention attended by some 50
delegates, was Earl Malcolm, former
Quesnel businessman who is 20w
living at Prince George.

The Progressive - Conservatives
took a new lease on life with the
word that popular Bridge Lake ranch-
er Gardner Boultbee would allow bis

warts from Quesnel and Williams
Lake drummed up. a_ convention
meeting Sunday afternoon to make
the choice official.

The Liberal candidate did not -re
ceive his nomination without a fight.
Local hotelman Benny Abbott’s name
was also placed before the conven-
tion, with Bert Roberts giving the
highlights of his successful career in
making the nomination.” The yote,

Ken Thibaudeau
Heads Conservatives

Progressive - Conservatives over
the weekend named Ken Thibaudeau,
varty candidate in last year’s elee:
tion, president of the Cariboo asso-
ciation.

First vice-president of the group is
Bill Sloan and second vice-president
is Alex Fraser of Quesnel Secretary-
treasurer is Alastair Mackenzie.

Named honorary ° vice-presidents
along with the provincial leader,
Dean Finlayson, were veteran noli-
tical campaigners Red’k Mackenzie
and John A. Fraser. Hon. George
| brew 18 honorary president;

Directors elected were Alvin John-
ston, Seth Smith, Cele Tingley and

es Cashman, ail of Quesnel; Bob
Blair, Sam Sloan and Dr. A. H. Bayne
of Williams Lake; Herb Auld, 100
Mile; Bill Dingwall, Lac La Hache
and Joe Place, Dog Creek,

Dr. Bayne has been named agent
for Mr. Boultbee in the campaign.
Mr. Dingwall will act as campaign
manager in the south of the riding
and Mr. -Tingley in the north,

Coronation Day
Committee Formed

About eight town organizations
were represented Monday night at
the formation of a full Coronation
Day committee to carry on with ar
rangements for the local program
that were started by the Canadian
Legion branch.

C. H. Poston was named chairman
of the committee, with Commissioner
Stan Goad vice-chairman and I.eo
Gylnn, secretary-treasurer,

The committee approved the ac-
tion of the Legion in ordering sou-
venir mugs for all District 27 school

children, as well as students of the
Indian residential schools in the
area.

A planning sub-committee will

make up a tentative program for the
day and present it at a second general
meeting this coming Monday.

QUES

VEL BY-LAW STUDIED

Although there is still a lot cf
preliminary data to be gathered be-
tore the aw can he

day night that they are finally on the
right track when they heard a report
of a visit of several of their board to
Quesne! last week.

of that centre
spent a year and a half finding out
what was necessary for their own by
law, which was approved recently by

| water Users of the sewer will
pay nine-eight) of their present
| water rate. Besides this rate a charge

Town Sewer By-law Discussed

of 30 cents a foot frontage is made
on property facing the lines.

Local commissioners will hold a
1] meeting next week to discuss
the findings.

spec

The meeting approved a grant of
$100 to the Coronation Day com-
mittee to assist with defraying ex-
of the holiday celebrations.
rmits for home construction
were approved for Ken Cameron and
Tony Borkowski, both at $7000 value,
and for FP. A. Bennie with a valua-
tion of $6500. A commercial permit
line filling station applied
for by Rudy Johnson was turned
down pending receipt of building
specitications.

name.to stand, and the- party stal-|

however, showed the delegates strong-
ly favoured Maleolm.

Following the convention, the suc-
cessful candidate secured Mr. Abbott’s
services as campaign manager.

Mr, Malcolm is a fifth generation
Canadian who came to British Col-
umbia from his birthplace in Ontario
in 1908. Following several business
ventures on the coast, he first came
to the Cariboo_in 1921, although it
was not until 1930 that he toolc up
residence in’ Quesnel. There “he
operated the Cariboo Hotel for years
and in 1944 also organized the firm
of Northern Dairies. This last
connection with active business life
he sold out a month go to the Cari-
boo Farmers Co-op.

He is a past president of the Assc-
ciated Boards of Trade of Central
and Northern B.C.; past president
of the Quesnel Board of Trade and a
former Village Commissioner, He is
married and has a son and grand-
daughter.

BOULTBER

Mr. Boultbee was born and eduea-
ted in Vancouver, moving to Bridge
Lake in 1940 after disposing of his
interest in the Vancouver real estate
and insurane firm of Boultbee, Sweet
& Co.

He worked hard to build up his
1200-acre property and by 1943 his
Bridge Lake Herefords ranch was «
well established. Since that time
Mr. Boultbee has built up a reputa-
tion’ as a Hereford breeder and has
taken an active part in advancing tho
industry. He is presently, president
of the B.C. Hereford Associ&tion ané
of the Bridge Lake Livestock Asso
ciation.

Mr. Boultbee has also contributed
to education in the South Cariboo,
having served as chairman of Dis-
tract 27 School Board for five
years, up to the resignation last
fall. He is also a past president of
the Bridge Lake Rod & Gun club.

His family has been associated
with the development of British Col-
umbia for the past 50 years. His
grandfather was the first police court
magistrate in Vancouver. Mr. Boult-
bee is married and has five daughters.

Police To Start Drive
On Tagless Dogs

For the first time in several years,
a drive will be undertaken by police
to check on dogs in town without
licence tags.

Sgt. J. Howe said that strict en-
forcement of the provincial statute
concerning dog licencing will com-
mence immediately. Licence fee,
$1 for males and $2 for females,

It is understood that the geuera!
concern about stray dogs is a direct
result of the outbreak of rabi
the northern part of the province.

Musical Program
For Cheir Is Success

The sum of $76 realized at the
school concert staged Friday night
in aid of the fund to send the dormit
ory choir to the Yale-Cariboo Music
Festival at Kamloops.

The program consisted of solos by
Mrs. L. Godfrey. Miss Lucille Bo:
worth, Miss Marlene Hilmoe, Miss
Kay Halleran and Bert Levens; a
piano and accordian duet by Marlene
Gardner and Beverley Hawker: a
ballet performed by girl students,
and a comic ballet by the boys.

Mrs. L. Cantell and Mrs, L. Royce
acted as accompanist, while Herb
Gardner was Master of Ceremonies.

Other donations to the fund are:
sale of home cooking $36.00, Lac La
Hache $50.00, Soda Creek $25
Royal Purple Lodge $2
Singlehurst $10.00, and Mr:
$5.60.

Mrs. Boyce and members of

the
choir left by car this morning for
Kamloops. Cars were donated for rhe
trip by Central Service Ltd., Williams

Lake Motors Ltd., Vie Imhoit and

Bill Sharpe,

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