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Williams Lake Tribune

NEWS EXCHANGE

OF THE CARIBOO

Volume 21 — Number 43.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Th

ursday, November 5, 1953.

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

St. Andrew’s Receives Pledges
Of $11,346 Before Drive Opens

Pre-canvass pledges amounting to $11,346.00 have
already been made to St. Andrew’s Church for the proposed
building fund, accordifig to™&-release from canvass lead-
quarters this morning.

The actual general
raise $45,000 for a Sunday School
and Youth Centre commences fol-
lowing a Loyalty Dinner to be held at
the Elks Hall at 7 p.m. this evening.
Reservations for 150 have been re-
eeived and the event is expected to
be the largest gathering of members,
adherents and friends of St. Andrew's
has had in its existence.

Lee Skip will be master of cere-

Curlers Investigate
Means Of Financing
Artificial lee Plant

A whirlwind drive to try and se-

« eure adequate financing to install an

artificial ice plant is being under-

taken this week by members of the
Williams Lake Curling Club.

Cost of installing a plant at the
curling club is estimated at $18.000,
and a finance committee is busily set-
ting up a financial plan that would
feature the issuance of ten year
bonds to swing the project. Although
the plant would only service the two
sheets now in use, the equipment
would be large enough to hand'e an-
other two sheets if and when the club
tackles a building program.

With the prospect of & five-month
eurling season with the use of ar-
ticial ice, curlers at a well-attended
meeting Tuesday night enthusiastic-
ally endorsed the plan in principle.
Another meeting will be held next
Tuesday at the high school to re-

+ esive a report from the finance com-
mittee and a second committee that

j ts looking. gre problems of instal-
lation.

lf the plan is undertaken, curling
fees will probably jump from the
present $12.50 to $25 for the season.
Equipment committee .consists of
Fred Graham, Herb Gardner and Bob
Kelt. Finance committee members
are Tony Woodland, Clive Stangoe
and Dan Rottagker.

Bank Manager
Will Leave Soon
For Vancouver Office

Len Hellyer, manager of the local
branch of the Bank of Commerce
since March, 1950, announced this
week that he will be leaving around
the end of the month to take another
post with the bank in Vancouver. |

Replacing Mr. Hellyer will be N.
J. F. P Nicholson, formerly manager
of the West Vancouver branch. Mr.
jHellyer is being promoted to the
bank’s superintendent’s department
as an assistant inspector.

Since coming to Williams Lake
irom Vernon, Mr. Hellyer has, taken
an active interest in community af-
fairs, particularly the Board of

| Leavit,

canvass Slee) at the dinner this evening

and a full program of speakers will
outline the need for accommodation
and the manner in which the canvass
will be carried out.

Heading the speakers will be Rod-
erick Mackenzie, pioneer town busi-
nessman and chairman of the first
church board, He will speak on “A
page from the past.” Another mem~
berof the first board, Bob Blair, will
speak on ‘Our Church.” Other speak-
ers will include Dr. Stan Wood, Les
Cantell, Don Binghan
and Rey. Jack Colclough.

Canvass organization members are
Mr. Mackenzie, general chairman;
Mr. Blair, initial and special gifts
chairman; Dr. Wood, canvass com-
mittee chairman; Mrs. Bill Smith, ar-
rangements chairman; Mrs. Jim Stitt,
hostess committee chairman; Chet
canvass treasurer. Canvass
training is in charge of Mr. Mars, and
Rev. Colelough heads the publica-
tions committee.

Canvass committee members in-
clude Mr. Mackenzie, Mr. Blair, Mr.
Cantell, Dr. Wood, Don Bingham,
Mr. Mars, Mrs. W. Smith, Mrs. J.
Stitt, Jack Esler, Mr. Skipp, Tom
Hawker and Jim Stitt.

At a special dedication service at
St Andrew’s Sunday evening, the
guestispeaker will be Hdward F. Sul-
livan of Woodstock, Ontario, canvass
director for the Wells Organizations
of Canada, who will take as his sub-
ject, ‘An Adventure into Faith.”

Don Mars,

t

Manslaughter Charge
aan? ee iia

Laid in Accident Case

A charge of manslaughter has been
laid against C. B. ‘Chuck’ Maequeen
in connection with the fatal accident
on the night of September 25, when
the truck he was driving went off
the road. A passenger, Frances ‘Tres-
siera, lost his life in the accident.

Mr. Macqueen appeared in police
court Wednesday morning for the
preliminary hearing of his case, but
by consent of defense counsel and
the Crown prosecutor, the hearing
was adjourned until November 7. Ap-
pearing for the defence was J. A. V.
Cade.

No Change Reported
In Lumber Picture

As far as the current lumber strike
is concerned, no news is certainly
good news, and that’s the way the
picture looks locally this week.

Refuting a never-ending flood of
rumours that have pickets on their
way from Quesnel, the production of
lumber is proceeding normally.
there is also

Trade; which he has served as direc-
tor and secretary. Mrs. Hellyer has!
also been a hard worker with several
town organizations. At present she
is serving as president of the Hospital
Auxiliary.

2000 HEAD
ON OFFER AT
TODAY’S SALE

Although an accurate count on
lable yet, there
cattle

the stock is not av:
are around 2000 head of
going through the ring and back
to the scales for weighing. Last
year it tool two days to handle the
1400 head offered at that time.

Although by noon today only
about 25 per cent of the stock had
been sold, prices paid by buyers
seemed to indicate that classes will
be down two to three cents from
last month’s sale

Checks of what bad been sold
showed steers selling from 14 to
16.35; heifers around 12.50 and
cows from 6.00 to 9.00.

was in last week. Major development
was the formation of the Cariboo
Lumber Association by i

Local Teachers
Receive B.A. Degrees

Two teachers on the Williams Lake
High School staff received their
Bachelor of Arts degrees at the Fall
Convocation at the University of Brit-
ish Columbia October 30.

Owen Kerley, mathematics teacher
who has been on staff here for the
past six years attended the exercises.
Social studies teacher Miss Margaret
Grubb, who joined the local staff this
September, received her degree in
absentia.

Firm Presents Skin
Grafting Kit To Hospital

Marking completion of a year in
business in Williams Lake, Bruce
Magoffin, owner of Williams Lake
Pharmacy, has
|girone skin grafting knife to War
|

Memorial Hospital.
| In making the presentation, Mr.
Magoffin said the gift was intended
as a tangible gesture to the people of
Williams Lake and district in appre-
ciation of their patronage.

The grafting knife kit includes
gauges and. extra blades and is car-
ried in a smart leather case.

Seguin Sentenced
To Hang For Murder
Of Ontario Man

A year ago this December the name
of Williams Lake was plastered over
the front pages of newspapers
throughout the country when a
powerfully built stranger attempted
to rob the Bank of Commerce and in
failing, started back along a road of
evidence that has brought him to the
shadows of the gallows.

Thursd: i
enri Se;

ing taxi driver Leonard Hurd.

He
was sentenced to hang January 19.

The Supreme Court jury deliberat-
ed two hours and 45 minutes. Seguin

protested his innocence but showed
no emotion when Mr. Justice F. H.
Barlow pronounced sentence.

Hurd, 41-year-old businessman,
was found robbed and shot to death

of Cornwall.

Although police knew who they
were looking for in connection with
the shooting, Seguin dropped out of
sight and might still be on the ‘want-
ed’ list if he hadn’t decided to rob
a bank. He had been working close
to Williams Lake under the name of
Henry Godin and on the night of
December 15 he forced bank man-
ager Hellyer to enter the bank after
hours to open the safe. Fortunately
the intervention of accountant Don
Mars and businessman Tony Kallaur
spoiled the robber’s plans, althougli
before -he escaped into the night he
wounded Mr.. Hellyer.

Picked up the following day after
a gun fight near Sugar Cane Reserve,
Seguin was eventually identified, and
was serving 20 years for his robbery
attempt here when he was taken back
to Ontario to face the murder charge.

operators, which hopes to be in a
position to bargain locally with the
1WA after the present strike is set-
tled one way or the other.

This organization has asked the
union to call off the picket lines and
re-open negotiations with them, but
the union answer been that the
association must first agree to a six-
cent-an-hour raise, a union shop

clause and check off system.

At present union picketing is only
a token gesture along Two Mile Flat,
where the majority of mills are lo-
cated.
men.

Lines usually consist of four

Here this week to conduct an ex-
ploratory oil survey of leases in the
Beaver Valley district are Dave Gil-
more and Merril Wardell of Seattle.
The Seattle men and several associ-
ates hold oil leases in the area. Local
businessman associated with the
group is Clarence Singer.

Mrs. Gordon Gibson and son of
Rockhaven, Sask., has been visiting
with ber parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray
j Curtis.

Local Lawyer Appointed
Official Administrator

According to an announcement in
the B.C. Gazette, Walter L. Nisbet,
local barrister, has been appointed
Official Administrator for this sec-
tion of the County of Cariboo.

Government Agent Jessie Foster
has held the appointment in the past.

presented a Calta-|)

‘Remembrance Day
Plans Handled
By Legion Branch

Plans for the observance of Re-
| memberance Day, November 11 are
being readied by of the
loca} banch of the Canadian Legion.

members

| Dhe aay’s program will follow that
of previous years with the parade ot
ex-servicemen and women assembling
at the Fire Hall at 10:30 a.m. From
there the parade moves to the Elks
Hall for the public service and fol-
lowing this will form up again to
march to the Cenotaph at War Mem-
orial Hospital. After ‘the ceremony
there, the parade will moye to the
‘Arena to lay a wreath at the memor-
jal plaque and then.will return to
ithe Elks Hall,

Refreshments will be served at the
‘hall to Legion members and other
ex-servicemen and the annual meet-
ing of the branch will follow. At
6:30 p.m. the annual banquet will be
held, which is open to all ex-service
personnel and members of the W.A.
to the Canadian Legion, each of whom
may bring one guest. Widows and
mothers of deceased ex-servicemen
Snay also attend.

The day's program will wiad up
with the annual public dance at 10
p.m.

All town organizations are invited
to take part in the Rememberance
Pay parade. St. Joseph's Mission
Boys Band will take part in the par-
ade again this year, and a detach-
ment from the 917th Squadron of
the U.S. Airforce will also be in the
parade.

The principal speaker at the ser-
yice this year will be Rev. J. R. Col-
clough. Readings will be given by
Rev. Father J. Boyle and Rev. C.
Faweett, with Rev. G. J. Fielder
yeading the names of The Fallen...

"FIREMEN ANSWER
TWO FALSE ALARMS

For the second time in four days,
firemen were called out Wednesday
by a false alarm turned in at the
switeh at the corner of Oliver Street
and Second Avenue. e

The first call was turned in at
:30 Sunday morning probably as a
Hallowe'en prank. | Wednesday’
alarm was sounded in broad daylight

just before one o’clock as Oliver
| Street was starting to fill up with
store and office workers returning
to work.

But in neither case have the po-
|lice been able to discover who was
responsible for the alarms. One office
| man was within a few feet of the
|alarm box Wednesday when the siren
| sounded, but he was just around the
;corner from the telephone pole hold-
ing the mechanism and didn’t see
anyone running away from the scene.

If the pranksters responsible are
jcaught by police and charged with
|turning in a false alarm under See-
tion 516A of the Ci
‘aye liable to imprisonment up to,one

iminal Code, they

year, without option of fine, if con-

victed.

. Visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Stan
Sloan is the latter's mother, Mrs. R.
Barnes of Vancouver.

—o—
J. T. Beckerleg, accountant at the
fontreal's Kelowna branch,
ng at Williams Lake while
ck Purser is on a month's

Joe Borkowski left for Vancouver
by train Tuesday to undergo medical
i treatment,

Decision on whether a new airport
site will be developed near Williams
Lake will depend in a great measure

with the Department
who is currently conducting
tailed survey here.

of Transport,

Mr. May arrived in town last weelt
and is concentrating is work on two
possible sites, the one about
miles out on the Springhouse Road,

and a new location on the hill over-

looking the present landing strip.

five

Engineer On Airport Survey

of Canadian Pacifie Airlines, looked
over several possibilities on the lat-
ter location. They were accompanied

to the findings of Eric May, engineer | by Tom Brent who lived on top of

|the hill for a number of years, Bert

a de-| Levens, chairman of the Board of

Trade's airport committee, and Clive
Stangoe, board v
following day Mr. May and Mr.

The

site by village clerk E. H. Gibbon.

will be carried out by Mr. May during

inspector Predicts Need For
More School Construction

Paraphrasing Sir Winston Churchill's famous quotation,
School Inspector Wm. Mouat told a record turnout of rate-
payers Friday evening that all he could see ahead was “‘blood

More detailed engineering surveys

sweat and more taxes’.

Mr. Mouat was referring to a re-
cord of statistics his office had com-
piled on the birth rate trend over the
past several years which indicated
that school enrollment is due for
continued increases.

This year there were 262 pupils
in the elementary school (grades 1
to 6) in Williams Lake and the in-
spector said that next year he an-
ticipated this figure would be around
300.

Rural school accomodation ap-
pears adequate, according to the
speaker, but more buildings are

needed in town. He said it might be
possible to provide more accommo-
dation and avoid a money by-law by
pegging the mill rate at 18 for sev-
eral years.

Referring to the amazing turnout
of 42 to the meeting, Mr. Mouat said
he would like to offer his congratu-
lations to the Parent-Teacher Asso-
ciafion on the response obtained to
its campaign to interest ratepayers
in eduation. “It is the best school
meeting I have ever been to,” he
said. Lending emphasis to his com-

pliment, he went on to say thet last
week at Quesnel a similar meeting
drew eight persons.

had a good deal of

Mr.
pra
Board for
trustees have improved the second-}
ary education program in the past

Mouat

WITHDRAW PICKETS

UNION, OPERATORS

AGREE AT QUESNEL

Picketing of all non-certifled
mills in Quesnel ended at 1:30 p.m.
today.

In a joint announcement by
Quesnel local 1-424, International
Woodworkers of America, and the
newly formed Cariboo Lumber As-
sociation, it was stated that an
agreement had been reached be-
tween the operators’ group and
the union.

Normal operations of these non-
certified plants will resume tomor-
row morning.

It is understood that this does
not affect the dispute between the
union and the two certified plants
at Quesnel. Employees of one of
these, Quesnel Sawmills, voted for
strike action and the plant is idle.
At the other mill, Pacific Western.
employees voted against strike ac-
tion and the company obtained an
injunction restraining the union
from picketing.

Former Residents
Involved In Car Accident

Mr. and Mrs. Cam Hooper of
Princeton were involved in an acci-
dent October 24 when Mr. Hooper’s
car went off the road and rolled
down a steep embankment near their
home town. 3

Mr. Hooper escaped with cuts and
bruises but his wife has been hosital-
ized with a broken wrist and cracked
shoulder.

Mr. and Mrs. Hooper are former
idents of Williams Lake.

No Extensive Damage
By Prangsters

No extensive damage was reported
following the Hallowe’en observance
in town, according to police.

three or four years, and raised stand
ards generally.

The rural classrooms have beea
improved, the inspector asserted. By
experimenting with different meth-
ods of building, the board has
brought the cost of rural classroom
consruction down from $9,000 to be-
tween 4 and 5,000 and have “put
something in the classroom to teach
with.” Maintenance of school ‘uild-
ings has been improved with the em-
ployment of a full time maintenance
man,

‘Touching on the school dormitory,
Mr. Mouat said its establishment had
proved to be sound reasoning, and
had become so popular that the ex-
tension had to be constructed last
year. The dorm has adequate accom-
modation now to look after the needs
of rural high school students for the
next five years, the inspector pre-
dicted.

BOARD REPORT

A detailed report of the activities
of the School Board from June 1952
to June 1953 was read to the meet-
ing by board secretary C. B. Mac-
q

chairman Herb Gardner
spoke briefly to the meeting, but did
not touch on activities, which he said
were adequately covered in the fo!

press on behalf of the board his
thanks to the P-TA for promoting
such a good attendance, and in wel-
coming the ratepayers he urged them
to continue their interest in educa-
tional matters.

During a brief question period, Mr.
Mouat was called on to answer the
question of “why students here are
not going on to university?” His
answer was that he was well aware
of the situation, but that improve-
ment would be noted as a result of
the additional program of education
available locally in the high schools.
In Quesnel where the program was
instituted a year earlier than District
27, Mr. Mouat said this change had
already been noted with 22 graduates
moving up last year. “This change
will be repeated here,” he asserted.

Board officials and the inspector
took a firm stand on the question of
why trustees would not pay boarding
assistance to a high school student
who would rather stay in Rosary
Hall than the school dormitory.

‘Whey pointed out that before the
dorm was constructed, many rural
students could not attend high school.
This picture had changed once the
dorm was built, but in order to oper-
ate it at a reasonable cost it is nece
sary to ‘Insist that students receiving
assistance stay there in order to build

BOARD CHAIRMAN
RESIGNS AS AREA
REPRESENTATIVE

Only town trustee whose term of
office is up this year, School Board
chairman Herb Gardner refused to
let his name stand for election as an
area representative at last Friday’s
meeting.

Mr. Gardner said he had been with
the board for five years and although
he liked the work, re-organization
of his business next year would not
allow him time to spend on school
affairs.

New area representatives named
for Williams Lake were Bill Sloan,
Al Stewart and Ken Cameron.

| The usual number of gates were
removed, fences knocked down, and
some sections of wooden sidewalk
moved out on the street. Just about
jevery stop sign in town was pulled
|up and the air was let out of a num-
ler of tires on parked cars.
Highlights of the evening for the
ters were the annual party at

play that followed. Firemen had one
‘casualty in operating the latter show
{when a burning fuse twined around

Last Friday Mr. May and ‘Bus’| his stay here. He expects it will take Deputy Fire Chief Bert Levens’ neck
| Gordon, from the president’s office | about six weeks.

and inflicted a painful burn,

The meeting tendered a vote of
thanks to the School Board for the
past year’s work and especially to the
retiring chairman.

Trustee Bert Levens, who acted as
chairman of the meeting, called for
a vote of thanks for Inspector Mouat,
‘the hardest worker we have on be-
half of education,” which was heart-

don were taken to the Springhouse) the Elks Hall and the fireworks dis- ily approved.

| The area representatives for the
entire district meet here November
21 to fill vacancies on the school
board. Second town trustee Mr,
Levens has another year to serve,

mal report. He said “ie wanted to ex.

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