Williams

NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

Lake Tribune

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Volume .21 -- Number 30.

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

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

KELOWNA GIRL IS MiSS CANADA

tra eress Canadian

Kathleen. Ann Archibald, right, 19-year-old brunette from Kel-
owna, B.C. wins the Miss Canada title at the beauty contest at Bur-
lington, Ont., and recives a kiss of approval from Marilyn Reddick,

who. won the’ contest Jast year.
tall.
America contest.

Kathleen is five feet eight inches
Her prize is $1,000 and an opportunity to appear in the Miss

Trackage Snarl
Holds Up Industry

According to information receiv-
ed from PGE representative Ronald
Waite, the railway company's indus-
trial trackage project, which involv-
es 321 acres north of town, is being
held up because of legal complica-
tions to the status of three small
blocks of land within the proposed
area.

The company has had to deal with
the owner of the lots, a second party
holding a mortgage on the property,
end secure 4 survey of one of the
Parcels of land before the way is
clear for purchase.

But in the meantime, an American
firm with money and equipment
ready to put a planer mill on the
site with an estimated minimum
monthly payroll of $15000, is left
in the dark. This firm has asked the
railway company for a letter of as-
strance that the project will go
through and that they can secure
trackage.

It is understood from a real estate
firm that has been acting as go-
between for the two companies, that
the Americans have asserted that
unless this letter of assurance is
forthcoming by Friday, they will
look elsewhere to invest.

Visit Former Local
Doctor in Detroit

While on their recent trip to the
East, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Hannah
went to Detroit for a short visit with
former town residents, Dr. and Mrs.
Larry Avery.

The Avery's asked to be remen-
bered to all their friends out here.
They have a lovely home close to the
Henry Ford Foundation Hospital.
where Dr. Avery is on staff. Dr.
Avery is finding the staff hours a lot
more regular than the night and day
work of a small town practise. He is
on hospital duty from eight a.m. to
5 pm. five days a week and is ‘on
call’ one night.

WE'RE LATE!

As niost of our readers are
aware, we are late this week—
a good day late, or a bad day
late, depending on how you
look at these -things.

This time we are innocent,
however. No piece of machine-
ry collapsed, no key member
of the staff decided to quit at a
critical moment. We are late
for the simple reason we hav.
n’t had any newsprint to place
these lines on until this morn-
ing. (Friday)

Extra newsprint was order-
ed last Tuesday to see us
through this issue, but. the
Vancouver transportation com-
pany entrusted with the order
failed us when we needed them

most.
And that, dear reader, is why
your Tribune is late,

bee

THREE CANDIDATES
ARRIVE IN TOWN

It took quite a while for the Fed-
eral campaign to get boiling in this
part of sprawling Kamloops riding.
but things should be different this
weekend with three of the four
candidates in town.

Austen Greenway, CCF and Clar-
ence Wright, Social .Credit candi-
date, both checked into town this
morning. Expected in town Friday
is Davie Fulton, sitting member and
again candidate:for the Progressive.
Conservative patty

Mr. Greenway is faced with doing
a lot of his own campaign arranging
since his manager died suddenly last
week in Salmon Arm. Soon after his
arrival in town he had met with
local party workers and arranged a
meeting in the Parish Hall for Friday
night.

Mr. Greenway’s home is in Lil-
jooet, where he works in a garage.

Prior to coming to British Columbia,

in 1941 he lived in Saskatchewan.
He was campaign manager for M. J.
Coldwell in Biggar, Sask., when the
now national leader of the CCF was
first elected to Parliament.

Mr. Wright speaks tonight at the
Elks Hall. f

Next Monday Davie Fulton will
put his case before the voters at a
Progressive-Conservative meeting to
be held in the Parish Hall.

Dates Set For
Annual Cattle Sale

Dates for the Sixteenth Annual
Cattle and Bull Sale have been set
for October-7, 8, 9, by directors of the
Cariboo Cattlemen’s Association.

Judge for the big stock show will
be J. Charles Yule, prominent Al-
berta stock association official, who
has the past judged at many
shows, including the famous Royal
Winter Show at Toronto.

Working on the rules and regu-
lations of the bull sale, directors of
the association have affected several
major changes.

This year all bulls will be graded
prior to judging by a committee ap-
pointed by the directors, and con
sisting of the official judge, one
member of the B.C. Hereford Breed
ers Association and one breeder of
commercial cattle.

A culling committee will be ap-
pointed by the directors, which may,
after the bulls are graded, cull bulls
below a certain grade as it may de-
cide. Disposition of such culled is
provided for in the regulations.

This year sellers of bulls will be
charged $3 per head for hay and
straw, a departure from previous
years when hay and straw was sup-
plied by the show.

Officials are asking prospective
contributors to the cattle sale to
advise the associatjon in advance as

in

to the number of head they will be
sending in, :

Commissioners Boost
Cemetery Lot Prices

Real estate values in the village
cemetery went up Tuesday night
when commissioners approved an
increase in the price of single plots
from $5 to $10.

The decision to boost the plot
price came after the commissioners
had discussed the condition of the
cemetery. Commissioner Alf Wagle
said his present problem was to se-
cure labour to cut the unsightly
weed and brush growth. It was only
a short verbal step from labour to
money, particularly income from
the cemetery, and the commission:
ers agreed that the former $5 price
tag on single Tots was more in the
nature of a token fee than one that
could result in proper care of the
grounds. An attempt will also be
made to secure a provincial govern-
ment grant for cemetery upkeep
since it services a large section of
the country as well as the village.

Still on the general subject of
income, the commissioners agreed to
a minimum charge of one hour, or
$12.50, being levied on persons hir-
ing the village bulldozer. Discussing
a Dill for a half-hour's bulldozing
time, the commissioners stated the
fee would hardly pay for moving the
machine to the job.

BUSINESS LICENSES

The following business licenses
were approved by the board: Del
Fowler, contractor; L. W. Campbell,
contractor (transient); N, J. Kor-
ehynski, contractor; F. C. J. Nadon,
contractor; Brown & Friesen, second
hand store; R. Johnson, service
station.

Only one building permit was up
for approval; an addition to the
home of Robert Kyte valued at
$1500.

‘Death Dodgers’

5 \Bring Show To Town

Somthing different in. entertain-
ment for Williams Lake was pro-
vided last night by a show billed ag
“Vancouver Death Dodgers.”

Twenty-four acts, mainly featur-
ing stunt riding on motorcycles, built
up to a climax when the owner and
star of the show, Al Klatt, ‘rolled’ a
product of one of the local garage’s
junk lots. As the evening shadows
lengthened, the show wound up with
Klatt doing a ramp to ramp jump
with a motoreycle through a flaming
hoop, and riding the hood of one of
the stunt cars through a flaming
wall.

As the program went on, it be-
came apparent that without Klatt
there would be no show. The rugged
star, who at 42 years, is the excep-
tion to the general rule that stunt-
men are washed up at 30, shows the
results of his long training with such
shows as Satan’s Hell Drivers of
California and with Captain Put
Mossman, world famous motorcycle
stunt man.

Most of the other five members of
the show were youngsters in thei
late teens who are working their
way up in the game. The show usual-
ly has eight men, but two perform-
ers are reclining in hospitals with a
broken shoulder and ankle, respec-
tively. Al himself is going through

his stunts with a badly swollen
hand. He says he figures there is a
broken bone in it, but he hasn't
time on his busy summer agbeduls
to have it attended to.

... SPEAKS MONDAY

es

E. Davie Fulton will speak in W:

26 Head Offered
At Stockyards
As Season Opens

Only 26 head were on offer at the
local yards of the Cariboo Cattle-
men‘a Association last Saturday when
the buyers were on hand for the first
sale date of the fall season.

Canada Packer's bought the entire
offer and prices were as follows:
light steers (500 to 600 lbs.) 12c;
other steers, 15 to 17¢; cows from
09 to 13; heifers from 10 to 15.50.

At the Vancouver stockyards of
the B.C. Livestock Co-op, the first
weekly sale of thé season on Tues-
day brought the following prices.

Good steers, 17 to 18; common to
medium, 11 to 16;, stockers and
feeders, 14 to 16; good heifers, 15
to 17:50;~common to medium, 11 to
14:50; good light beef cows, 11 to

13; good heavy beef cows, 9 to
10:80; five good dairy cows, 8:50
to 10:50; cutters, 6 to 8; good
bulls, 12 to 13; 25 good veal calves,
21 to 24; good lambs, 24:30; good
ewes, 10.

Comment on the-sale was “‘morn-
ing market fully steady, but turned
lower on afternoon sales.

Illinois University
Sponsors Tour
Through Province

Twenty-one homeward-bound per-
sons from Southern Illinois Univer-
sity, who are mixing the fun of a
vacation trip with the chore of geog-
raphy lessons, stayed at the Lake-
view Hotel ‘last night enroute to
Vancouver. The group of college
students and teachers is homeward
bound after five days at Fairbanks,
Alaska,

The travellers are on a seven-

sSveelis’ *£050.00 mile gé>graphy field

Tre gh Wesvern Zanuda,~Alas-
aif ahd through Doriwestera
United States. They are travelling in
four University-owned automobiles.

For the most part, members of the
party are southern Illinois school
teachers seeking additional college
credits.

Dr. Floyd F. Cunningham, chair-
man of SIU geography department
and study-tour director, has been
with the university since 1947. This
is the fourth annual tour from SIU,
in previous trips groups have tour-
ed Mexico and Southeastern United
States.

BACK TO STANDARD TIME

Final Decision Made
On Hours Of Voting

Confusion over what time polls
will be open on election day, Aug-
ust 10, can now be dispelled.

Im a revised announcement from
Ottawa last Thursday, the final word
was that the polling centres will be
operated on Pacific Standard time
from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., or from 9 a.m.
to 7 p.m., daylight saving time.

First announcements had stated
that voting in the Federal election
would be on Pacific Standard time
but this was changed to Standard
Pacific Time, a little used term for
daylight saving time.

The polling centre in Williams
Lake will be St. Peter’s Parish Hall
There will be no advance poll here.
Unlike the provincial election, there
is no absentee voting provision for
the federal election.

R.C.M.P. Joins Search
For Missing Youth

Constable Bob Turnbull of the
Alexis Creek RCMP detachment,
Was flown into Tsacha Lake yester-
day to assist in a search being car-
ried out there for a 19-year-old
Indian*youth who has been missing
for about ten days.

The youth, Frank Peters, was last
seen at his home on the lake when
he left to round up horses. Other
members of thé Indian band in this
rugged area some 100 miles west of
Quesnel have been carrying out the
search and sent out for police aid

liams Lake Monday on the Progres-; when they found the youth’s trail

sive Conservative platform.

| about 25 miles from the lake.

night.

Ken Houghton, young
lawyer and Liberal candidate, ex
pressed the thought by saying that
in the working of government more

a friend than the voice of a critic.”
C. F. ‘Bert’ Roberts, local Liberal
Association president and chairman
of the meeting put it more bluntly
when he said ‘‘we haven’t had direct
contact with the government for
eight years ... if you want things,
done — vote Liberal.”

The thought was also left with the
audience of 40 persons by Senator
Gray Turgeon, who added a breath
of old-time campaigning to the pro-
gram with his scornful attacks at
the Progressive Conservatives as a
party.

SINCERE MANNER
r. Houghton his audi-

|
Ashcroft

attention was given to “the voice of,

Voters Asked To Put
Kamloops Riding on ‘Right
Side of Political Fence

Main strategy of the Liberals in their campaign in this
riding will be to convince the voters that it is time Kamloops
got on the right side of the fence politically. This theme was
repeated by three speakers at a public meeting here Friday

KEN HOUGHTON

ence with the sincere manner in
which he dealt with the accomplish-
ments of the Liberal government.

The Liberal have, he stated, given
Canada progressive and stable ad-
ministration; balanced the budget
kept inflation under control, and
enticed investment capital into Can-
ada.

During the Korean war threat,
the Liberal government instituted an
indireet control over credit which
resulted in an inflation threat being
averted, tle speaker asserted.

Defending the surplus revenues
collected during the past several
years, Mr. Houghton said these sur-

pigses were due to indus!—
resulting in more revenue frém
ation. And the surplus had been te
to good use, the speaker claimed,
saying that two billion dollars had
been paid on a 13 billion war debt.

He scored George Drew’s promise
of a reduction of 500 million in taxes
if the Conservatives are elected as
an impossible one to carry out, since
it would amount to a quarter of the
defence budget.

On the subject of welfare work,
Mr. Houghton said thé Liberal gov-
ernment had been responsible for
the instituion of the Unemployment
Insurance scheme, family allowanc-
es, and the contributory old age
pension plan. He said it was also
laying the basis for a contributory
health insurance plan that would be
operated by the provinces.
ATTACK BY TURGEON

The financial promises of Mr.
Drew were again attacked by Sen-
ator Turgeon when he took over on
the platform.

Finance minister Abbott had been
accused by the opposition of bring-
ing down an “‘election budget” last
year, the senator asserted, yet “now
Mr. Drew says he is going to reduce
axes and expand welfare measures.”
“This is the same man," he went on,
“who bitterly opposed the family
allowance scheme: when it first came
out.”

The question of secret orders-in-
council was a confusing one to the
voters, the senator said. He ex-
plained that prior to the institution
of orders-in-council, which are de-
cisions made by the Cabinet, the
same work was done by ‘ministerial
authority.” By bringing a sroupse

men In on tip question
is done now, a definite improvement
had been made over the former prac-
tice of leaving the decision to one
man, the speaker said.
AIR MAIL SERVICE

A former MP for Cariboo, when
that riding took in Williams Lake
and south to Lillooet, Senator Tur-.
geon was at his best when he traced
the history of various bills through
sessions of the late 20’s and early
30’s. He also traced the history of
air mail service from Vancouver to

FEAT ce

Prince George. In those days, he
said, his recommendation for the
inauguration of this service had

earned him the bitter opposition of
the coastal area, particularly by the
Vanéouver Board of Trade, -

On our present airport problem,
he said he understood that depart-
ment of transport engineers had de-
cided the site was not worth devel-
oping and thought they were ready

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'GLIDES SPLIT ‘SERIES
KAMLOOPS CLUB IN

The high flying Kamloops Music
Centre boys; who have been confus-
ing the best softball clubs on the
coast by consistently beating them,
almost came a complete cropper
here cn the weekend when they ab-
sorbed a 15-3 drubbing at the hands
of the Powerglides before coming
back in the second tilt to take a
close 4-3 win.

Although the pride of the south-
ern centre left two of their players
at home to perform with an all-star
aggregation, the lop-sided win scored
by the locals proved their club could
offer as tough opposition as Kam-
loops would want to run against.

Music Centre's starting pitcher
Chubb was knocked out of the box
during a third inning onslaught by
the ‘gides in the opener when the
locals pushed across seven runs.
Walt Malahoff replaced Chubb and
held the ‘glides to five runs during
the remainder of the game.

The second tilt was a ding-dong
effort from the opening pitch. The
game was scoreless to the top of the
fifth when Gary Hutchinson scored
to put the locals one up. In the bot-
tom of the same inning, a home run
wallop by Hines with one man on
base put Music Centre in the lead.
| Still in the running, the Powerglides

WITH STRONG
WEEKEND PLAY

scored two more in the sixth to forge
ahead and held their Jead through-
out the frame mainly due to the ef-
forts of Don McNiven in centre field,
who robbed Holmes of a home run
with a running one-handed catch
with his to the ball.
Kamloops tied the game up in the
seventh with a single tally and went
on to take their final count in the
eighth, while hurler Malahoff held
the locals scoreless for three frames.

Batteries for
were:

the opening
Powerglides Gordon
anuk and Gordon Rowand;
loops—Chubb, Malahot
Second game: ’Glides—Smet-
and Rowand; Kamloops—
Malahof and Scotty Laidlaw.

Other Powerglide players were
Len Pelkey, Mars Poirier, Doug Nor-
berg, Gary Hutchinson, Don Wright,
Don McNiven, Fred Hutchinson.
Coach, Wilf Moore.

This Sunday the Powerglides will
play another home series, this time
against Quesnel. The first game, call-
ed for 2 p.m. will decide the winners
of a $ Purse that was originally
played for at Quesnel three weeks
ago. At that time Quesnel and Wil-
liams Lake wound up in a tie for

game
Smet-
Kam-
(3) and Art

the money. Second game will be at
6 p.m,