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Volume 21 -- Number 23.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, June 11, 1953.

Single copy 10c.°$2.50 per year.

Chetwynd Wins Riding On First

Socreds Well in Lead
Throughout Province.

The Social Credit party was ac-
corded overwhelming support pro
vincially in Tuesday’s election, as
voters in British Columbia went to
the polls for the second time in a
year. -

Latest results show the Socreds
elected or leading in 30 ridings;
CCF elected or leading in 17 and
Labor in 1.

Premier W. A. ©. Bennett, Hon.
Kenneth Kiernan, Minister of Ag-
rieulture and Hon. Ralph Chetwynd,
Minister of Railways, Wisheries and
Trade & Industry, were returned
early on the first count, just as was
the case 12 months ago. Hon. Phil
Gaglardi, Minister of Public Works
has also been elected,

Hardest hit this year were the
two old-line parties, who hayen't a
candidate leading in the first count
returns. Liberal Leader Art Laing
is trailing Hdneation Minister Tilly
Rolston. In the.Oak Bay Riding Pra-
gressive Conservative leader Dean

Painting Contract Let | 400 Atien d :

The School Board last Friday. i
awarded the contract for supplying 2

labour only to paint the old elemen- All-Party Rally :
tary school, annex building and the
small workshop on the grounds, to

G. G. Groome & Son for $827.43. |

Tenders were received from three

contractors. The successful bidders
Submitted quotations of $1029.23,
for two coats brush; $935.00 for one

brush and one spray, and

for two coats applied by

current campaign,

of Commerce, the meeting featured

Sore: own platform and were allowed a five
a ee ‘hy Minute rebuttal before the meeting
coats spray aiid Kozuki Bros. sub-,”@S thrown open to questions.
mitted a price’ of §1237.00 for a’ It Was a difficult night for Hon,
Rare oa [Ralph Chetwynd, who had all but

The board will call tor tenders’ f0¥Y of the questions from the audic
from local suppliers for the material BCe directed his way. The Minister
foreach. had to defend his government's stand
on just about every controversial
issue of the day,

e During a debate with several rap-

Contract Let For Pipe .20ni.3 7s et sever
3 Board, Mr. Chetwynd was asked how
Laying In Village he would handle: their problem of a
bank overdraft since it was his goy-

Contract for the digging and lay-|@rument’s policy that the province's
ing water pipe in the new suh-| business could he handled on a ‘pay
division has been let to Del Fowler|@S you go hasis,’ “That is your prolj-

Finlayson is far behind the ieaders,

Those candidates who hayen’t;
received the necessary majority
{half the total yote plus ene) te be

of Antoine Lake, who submitted a/lem,” the speaker snapped,

low bid for the entire job of $4,069, John Anderson, a former village
A former resident af Okanagan,|/O™Missioner, asked the minister it

Ww. Mr, Fowler was a mem-|it was not true that he had attended

election ta the
single transferable system, will
have to wait fdr the answer until
June 30 when the seconq sount
yotes are tabulated. The three-week
delay is necessary to allow far re-|
ceipt of nbsentee ballots at all home
polls, © |

STORAGE SPACE WANTED

A sign in the window of Alf Bagle’s
barber shop has been amusing pass-
ersby. ‘The~sien reads “Wanted
storage for old Liberal ]i

ture. |

Period of 20 year: |

Alf is secretary of the local Lib-
era} group,

ber of his family firm of G. H, Fow-|@ Special meeting of the commissiun=
ler Contracting Co, of that centre, |€TS last September and promised

A. breakdown of the suocessful|that he would fght any praposa! of
tender shows $2464.00 for digging|ducational financing that would re-
5600 feet at 44 conts per foot; $2016 sult in Williams Lake losing any over-
for laying 5600 feet of pipe at 36/ all share of government revenue, Mr.
cents a foot, and $180 for installing|Chetwynd went into an explanation
reaction blocks and hydrants. of his goverfiment’s belief that the

Work_on laying the pipe will com-| revenue from the three per cent sales
Mence as soon as material is on the| tax showed a tendency to level off,
Job. It has been promised by the end| bu did not seem to recall the meeting
of June. 2 >
Commissioners at their Tuesday
might meeting approved  bujld}
permits for two homes jn. town, ofe
tor Ralph Woodland, valued at $8460
and one for Mrs. 4. Hdinggr, yalued
at $7940,

a
who were facing
the electorate for the first time thi
year said they found it easier to take}
part in this type of meeting than ta

work from prepared material right

Two Drown As Canoe Capsizes ison ssw: oe yor al

Two Likely men lost their lives
Saturday evening as-they were thrawn
from their cance into the swift waters
of the Quesnel] river,

Dead are Basil Campbell Noakes,
28, and Thomas Emmett McGill, 38.

Two other men, Assistant Forest
“Ranger Melvin Edwin Monteith and
James Robert McGill, brother of one
of the victims, were also in the canoe
but managed to make their way to
shore. ~~ Pe

“Aseording to police repgrts gn the
fragedy, the four men had been gut
fishing jn the large 18-foot craft and
flecided to gp down river to the post
gifice at Likely tp get the mail
make the short trip, the men had te
go through a series of papids at a spot
Known os “the Narrows” This was
accomplished without incident, but
the accident occurred when the re-
iurr attempt was made.

Working their canoe through an
eddy alongside the riverbank, the men

to make the safety of the hank. Turn-
ing ayeund he saw the three others

clinging to the overturned eanoe,
James McGill dropped off to take his
chances with the ourrent and reache

shore in a state of exhaustion, but his

brother and Noakes stayed with the
canoe. The two men on shore watched
horrified as the

almost-submerged
Z dawnstreany ang
then plunged uni the water drag-
ging McGill and Noakes with it. |

A senrchgnas spade immediately for’
the twa Viste; buf they nevey game
to the surface again. The ROMR were
notified of the accident ang dragged
the river the following day Fithgut |
success: Five bpats were used Mon!
gay in the search for the bodies and
js still continuing,

Both married men, MeGi} has tour
children, the youngest tworyears ola
and the eldest eleven. Noakes js
survived by two children, two ana
four years old. |

The McGill brothere ang mp,

craft was whisk

‘To High Past

| Scholasticate,

the Junior Chamber in sponsoring
Noakes have been operating a log- the meeting and the manner in whieh |
ging camp in the Likely area for the Jaycee past president Ray Cunliffe;
past two years. The former were carried out his duties as chairman, |
fermerly from New Westminster and During the afternoon members of
Mr. Noakes came from Newton, in the club conducted a car caravan
the Fraser Valley. The families of parade through town to publicize the
both men arrived at Likely in April. meeting,

of this year to establish permanent
residence. The homes of both men

i518 close proximity to the Nar- B.C. Products '
Display in September

Ranger Montejth |
arrival at Likely, 1
Here last week on a brief visit ta
make plans for a B,O, Products Dis-,
play to he held in Williams Lake in
the latter part of September were two
members of the B.C. Products Bur-
eau of the Vancouver Board of Trade.
Marshall Murray, chairman of the
bureau and Arch Foreman, bureau
secretary, discussed the coming di
play with representatives of the Joc: va
trade group.” ~~ i
“VAD exagt dgte for the show will not
be Sft UBT] the bureau has contacted
Qpesnel and ince George boards,
but if 48 likely that it will be held
in the third week of September,
An addition to the- display here
will be a composite entry that will
be made by the Bella Coola Board of

Narrgws.- Pelige say they travelied
through it in a beat powered by a
25 horsepower motor and the craft’
just managed to make headway
against the current,

Priest Elevated

Very Rev. William O'Grady, QMI,
of, Williams Lake, has been appaint-
ed Pravincial af the Hnglish ohlates|
in Canada,

Elevation of Father O'Grady, Trade,
president superior and director of
the Cariboo Indian residential school,

was announced from Ro! : i
Foseny n,| WO Road Paving

He succeeds Very Re¥. Jose
Birch, OMT. provincial tor the tast|Contracts Awarded

x years W has been appointed
assistant-general of the order in
Rome.

Two contracts for paving were let
in Victoria last week that affeet phe

Father O'Grady was horn in 1908 | Caribe a
at Macton, Sack. He recgived hig eq-| ity Constyuction Company Limi-|
ueation at Saskatchewan schgols ana|ted has been awarded the contract
St. John’s juniorate college in @-|f0r paving of approximately 30 yes
monton. in the Garjbeg yng Pert George dis-

His final vows were taken Sentem-|Tcts at a price of $847,205 and
ber 8, 1931, in Gttawa. He did his| FePeral Construction Company has
ber 193 ig did oe : ;
nilisophical studies at Sacred Heart VE awarded te contract tor seal
Farolan Lebret, Sask., ana|°°8tng aproximately 47 miles in

t Ottawa. : the Lillooet and Cariboo districts |

theology a 7 peer, oTtbOO

He was ordained in 1934. Since

s . Father O’Grady has
July last year, Facer ot ine) See YOU At The Stampede
Next Week!

Cariboo Indian residential sgheol at
Williams Lake,

a). - + BACK IN

Four hundred people atteuded an
all-party political meeting here Sat-
urday night, marking the end of the

Sponsored by the Junior Chamber

the“ four Cariboo riding candidates,’
ho spoke for 15 minutes on their
T. Woodward Roofing ana “2° SP i

7 “Gre: following is a dgtailedlist-orthe reslts*of Tuesday's
jelection Uy polls. Ranged alongside the 1953 results are those!
for 1952, to give a comparative analysis between the two
elections in Cariboo. Readers will notice that five of the
polling stations this year had not been reported on up to press
time today, One poll, Canoe Creek, was added to the riding
for the 1953 election, 2
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Ca Zz is} 2 s Cs) a 8 Ae
Quesnel Ss 3 0734 360 380 104 784, 928 287 784
Wells: 5 hens: $70 120 107 «75 «49 ¥70 "67-79. 30
Williams Lake .. 876 283 G8 160 368 88 432 1038
Barkerville 55° 20 6 0 15 6 16 4
Roe Lake i 13 de 8d 3 9 20: 28
Soda Orepk 5 6 22 8 47 4° 21 4
Horsefly 45018 8 8 4801000 21 9
Oastle Rock . a 25 0 5 1 16 0 4 10
150 Mile Hause 156 60 6 7 6 7 4 10 Qi
trathnayer ... 43 11 0 39 23 20 2
Fawn 60 9 3 44014 9 18
Kersley 63 1 3 40 33 6 44
Alexandria 45 3 3 44 4 8 3
Forest Grove G4 1213 64 24 13 42
Likely 3 5 1 28 48 a1 5
Alexis Creek 16 25 1 10 o 18 6
Canim Lake ...... 20 42 20 2 8410 12 «12
115 Mile House 14] 64 12 22 8 47 9 14 15
Narcosli Cre 9a 63 8g 6 0 71 4 8 0
Hydyaulie .. 12 7 a i) 1 8 0 ) 1
100 Mile House 97 2000417 7 18 $0" 2G. dea
Springhouse aa 18 1 0 3 13 2 4 0
Moose Heights .... 39 29 1 5 0 25 0 5 6
Cinema 26 4 1 0) 38 3 1 1
Beaver Lake 17 5 6 0 23 2 ? 1
Tatla Lake . 2 10 7 0 2 19 2 ) 3
Rose Lake 3 19 4 0 0 18 3 1 3
Miocene 2 11 2 1 q 8 0 1 8
28 i @ 4 1 8 0 2 3
45 4 0 0 a
- 41 18 2 2 7 0 8 5
03 16 2216 7 21 a 4 1
Gung Ranch 23 0 1 3 3
Stanley . i 0) a 1 1 0 2 5 0
Meldrum Creek .. 29° 14 a 7 i 3 3
Black Creek 4 0 2 5 8
Keithley Creek .... 2 9 2 2 1 16 2 2 2
27 Mile-House .. 5 7 a 4012 i 0 5 7
Redstone 1 4 8 8 2 2 14
Nazko . 8 4 9 12 0 17 21
Bouchie Lake 9 13 4 49°12 6 419
Chezaguy 6 i) 0 8
Cottonwood 8 1 0 2 Q 3 1
Kleena Kleene -... 3 1 1 1 0 4 2
MeNeil’s 3 3 0 a 1 6 4
Gravel Ferry 3 0 a a a 0 0
Haneeville . 6 1 4 18 0 3 1
Alkali Lake 2s 18 2 9 0 3 3
ahim Lake 9 8 & 22000 81 21
|Tatlayoke Lake .. 24 1 2 Oa) 13002 8 °
Marguerite .. rr sr tT 8
Chilko Lake 4 ne
Chilanko Forks .. 79 1 1 5 So 6 6
Canoe Creek ........ 50 10 4 14 2

Credit government, repeated

With the results of 49 out of 54
jpolls in up to press time today, Mr.

the necessary first count victory of
50 percent plus one of the total vote
‘cast.
{date Earl, Malcolm was second with
'921, followed by Joseph McConnell,
| CCF with 839 and Gardner Boultbee,
Progressive Conservative with 459.

A review of the results from the
polling stations indicates that Mr.
Chetwynd lost a little ground in the
larger centres of Quesnel, Williams
|Lake and Barkerville, but held his
[own, or gained strength in prac-
{tically every rural poll. -

1

His biggest drop was registered in
| Williams Lake where he had 368 in
|1952 ana 282 this year. This centre
jslso accorded Mr. Boultbee his only
— 7 : show of' strength. He drew 166 votes
Hon. Ralph Chetwynd, holder of to Place second at the poll.
three cabinet portfolios in the Social In Quesnel the Social Credit candi-
Credit Government, was returned
Tuesday by Cariboo voters to a first eete was downn50 vores TiDmy evel,
Boas go and he lost the game number in

; Wells,

Looking over the whole picture,
the trend hardly varied from twelve
‘Dozers Clearing Land months ago. Cariboo followed the
| District Agrieulturist Joe walsh /"eMAinder of the province in decid-
{passes on the information that three !2S to give the Social Cyalt govern:
bulldozers are now operating in the | ™°2t @ chance to prove its merit.
district under the government Lana| FT comparative purposes, here
SioHine aoe : are the totals of 1952 and 1953,

Ranchers or farmers interested in 1953 1952
having land clearing done should! Chetwynd 2352 Chetwynd 2408
Contact Mr. Walsh as soon as possible! Malcolm .... 921 Liberal ..__ Baz
So that the work schedule can be| McOonnell 859 ProiGon . 699
arranged as economically as possible.| Boultbee .. 458 ccr 005

ee ee cee ee ee

would lie recorded.

Count

Hon. Ralph Chetwynd, cabinet minister in the last Social

his clean sweep of a year ago

when he emerged from Tuesday’s voting with a first-count win
| over his three opposing candidates in Cariboo.

In most polls the number of total

lao ee had 2352, well ahead of|votes cast remained the same, with

the glaring exception of Quesnel,
where only 1578 votes were cast com-

(4569 ballots). Liberal candi-|pared to 2083 in 1952. This year

there were 74 spoiled ballots at
Quesnel. Total spoiled in the riding
was 147,
FIRST RETURNS

First returns received at Return-
ing Officer Woodland’s headquarters
in town were from Chilanko Forks,
a tiny poll that reported in at five
minutes after eight. Readers looking
over the chart at the bottom of the
page may wonder why there is such
a difference between the number of
votes at Chilanko this year compar-
ed to 1952. Although there are 79
voters listed as resident of Chilanko
Forks, these were men on the big
construction job there last year, and
have now all moved out of that area.

As results kept pouring in over
the telephone in the office, it was
soon apparent that Mr. Qhetwyna
would be much in the same position
as a year ago.

Opposing party members kept
checking with the hope that Mr,
Chetwynd wouldn’t gain his neces-
Sary total on the first count, but he
was actually farther -in front than
Tuesday night’s final count showed.
An error in tabulating had placed
Mr. Boulthee’s figure at an even 100
more than it should have been, and
with this amount lopped off the
total, the margin over first count
division was much greater.

The vote in Williams lake was
just about the same as last year, with
a slight gain to be registered when
the absentee votes come in. “Wilh
fair weather prevailing much of the
day it looked like a record yote
In the first ‘teo
hours of yoting 200 persons had
cast their ballots.

...+ PARTY LEADING

Premier W. A. C. Bennett’s Social
Credit party will in all probability
have a working majority in the next
sitting of the Legislature when the
second count is made June 30. The
Premier himself, was accorded a
great personal victory in his own
riding.

Likely Resident
Dies Suddenly

Funeral services were conducted
jJast Saturday for Christian Eder, of
Spanish Creek, who passed away
suddenly June 4.

Mr. Eder was sting Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Kinvig with seeding their
land, when he was stricken by a
heart attack.

Born in Munich, Germany in 1902,
Mr. Eder came to Canada in 1929.
He was married at Vancouver and
lived there for 16 years befcre com-
ing to Likely six years ago.

He leaves to mourn his passing his
wife, Mary; two sisters, Rosa and
Anne, and one step-sister, Teresa,
all living in Germany. |

Funeral services were conducted
from Sacred Heart Church by Rev.
Father Naphin. McLeod Bros. Fune-
ral Parlors were in charge of ar=

rangements.

Pallbearers were Clarence Singer,
Charles Cassford, Gordon Bruce,
Bryce Patenaude, Lawrence Kipe

and Andrew Ritz,

Se