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Thursday, November 19; £958:

THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

Williams Lake Tribune

Establishea 1931 Clive Stangoe, Editor
Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C,
By The Tribune Publishing Co.

Ratepayers Want Action

To the average property owner, who wants to see a sewer
system in operation in Williams Lake, the news that the village
fathers can’t agree on where the lines should go must have
come as somewhat of a shock.

Months have passed since the engineering firm employed
by the village presented a plan of the proposed system and the
estimated cost. At that time ir was generally believed, since
the plan was approved in principle, that the whole project was
just about ready to package up and present to the ratepayers,
with the possible deletion of certain areas to bring the cost
into line with the amount we can borrow.

Now it appears that we are just about back where we
started from. :

The subject of debate among the commissioners now is
not new of course. Commissioner Eagle has opposed the scheme
from the start, maintaining that the lines should be laid down
the lanes in preference to the streets. Although some of his
arguments are well-founded, we think he is on extremely shaky
ground when he argues that the work could be done 20 per cent
cheaper if the lane routes are followed. The reverse sounds
more logical when the engineers claim that working in narrow
lanes will result in higher costs. If it is considered a slower
process and more fraught with the possibility of property
damage being done by using the lanes, the contractors bidding
on the work are going to take that into consideration when
estimating the job. z

But even if Commissioner Eagle concedes that point. he
may still have an argument that makes sense to the property
owners. Taken asa. whole, the ratepayer might be more inclined
-to pay niore for the project and save the untidy mess of having
every street and every front yard‘in town torn up.

“Whatever eventual form the project takes, the ratepayers
are quite justified in wondering why these points were not
threshed out by the commissioners months ago. If the work is
going to be done at all, they would like to see it started next
spring, and there is a lot of preliminary work to be done yet,
even after the location of the mains is agreed upon.

That Prince George Weather

-The pacific disturbances that have been prolonging a mild
fall seem to have subsided, leaving us with the prospect of
cooler weather. But at least we are allowed to enjoy (or
endure) the coming months in solitude.

This is not the case in Prince George, where the Board of
Trade members and tourist trade boosters have more than
cold weather to endure in the winter months -- they have to
listen to the readings being broadcast all over the country,
a situation that these hardy souls complain about annually,
bitterly and at length.

Says the Prince George Citizen, “It won’t be long now
before newscasters will be telling listeners that ‘the minimum
temperature in Prince George last night was five below zero’
or that ‘Prince George js the coldest spot.in B.C.’ ” Continu-
ing its icy blast the Citizen states, “The trouble: with weather
repcerts is that people who are not fortunate enough to live in
our invigorating climate have a vision of Jack Frost concen-
trating all his icy breath on the city of Prince George, forgetting
that the same temperature probably prevails at Vanderhoo
and McBride, for instance, and for hundeds of miles in every
direction.’

While we sympathize with the Citizens of Prince George,
we do not take too kindly to that “hundreds of miles in every
direction” --- You’re including the balmy South Cariboo, sir!

For Goodness Sake, Speak Up

Dr. Sidney Smith, president of the University of Toronto,
believes there are not enough “characters” in Canada. He
qualified his statement, made in the course of an address of
welcome to incoming students, with the rider that he was not
praising actual eccentricity, Lut rather the courage to be differ-
ent from the stereotyped pattern of the crowd.

Too few Canadians, Dr. Smith suggests, are prepared to
think and speak for themselves,

it is a fact that most people have a dread of stepping off
the path approved by society. Through the medium of press,
screen and radio folks are urged to get in the swing or join the
crowd rushing to buy soap correctly scented or skirts the right
length. We are urged to stick together in fraternal organiza-
tions, political parties, trade unions and even social groups.
Even voting is no longer a matter of the sovereign elector try-
ing to make up his own mind about public issues; millions of
both words and dollars are poured out to urge him to take part
in a great crusade to become one with a peoples movement.

Where he may be going is of secondary importance to the
vital suggestion that the voter should scramble on the band-
wagon post haste.

This psychology of the sheep herd is remarkable in Cana-
dian society, where for generations we have considered indi-
vidual rights a paramount consideration and have looked upon
pride in individuality as part of our national heritage. Dr.
Smith does well to sound his note of warning. z

If our Canadian democracy is to attain the virility it
should possess, Canadians must conquer this fear of being
different. Churchill was different, for many years, so much so
that he had no political home for a time. Yet the whole free
world is indebted to the qualities of leadership this independ-
ent thinker and speaker could provide in time of crisis.

The time will surely come again when the characters, the
people with the intelligence and the courage to think and speak
for themselves, will have cause to rejoice in their independence
of mind. Because a politician or a labor union leader or a
business executive or an editor says something does not mean
the matter settled. If you think differently, be enough of a

“character’” to say so.---Abbotsford News.
every Saturday

Dancing Night at
Columbus Hall

MUSIC BY

The Cracker

pluses to Great Britain, France and |
other countries for which he will
accept payment i their own curren-
cies. What an object lesson that

Barrel Forum

|. Drinkell

By A. J.

Last week the minister of trade,
The Honourable Mr. Howe, was ad-
dressing the Manitoba Wheat Poot

and assuring its members that he-
fore the end of the present crop year
is ended (next fall?) they will have
sold most of their gfains at very
satisfactory prices. It was a rosy pic-
ture he tried to portray

Meanwhile two of B.C.’s largest ply-

wood mills were closed down throw-
ing some 500 men out of work. @hej
anticipated flow of orders from the
prairie provinces had failed to mat
terialize. The prairie farmers lack
funds to pay for their lumber needs.
Other B.C. mills have greatly cur-
tailed their production whieh mea
many of these men will haye to seek
work in other fields. Other industries
will be adversely affected.

At’the same time Mr. Mosher,
of the Canadian .
Congress of La-
bour, is busy as-
suring his unions
the road to great-
er prosperity lies
in their receiving
still higher wages
and shorter hours.

, head

|

; conference of all

the surpluses says Mr. Mosher and

Greater prosperity | mands.
for whom, Mr. Mosher? Give vil While all this is going on Uncle
Sam decides to offer his huge sur-

should be to our own government
Reu-| which persistently reiterates its im-'
nadian tax-|potence in that direction, and Can-
payers have an inexhaustible gold|ada a part of the Commonwealth. to
mine upon" whieh they ea draw tol post, If Unele Sam ean ana ways
finanee Mr. Mosher demands tor| ot utilizing pounds sterling surely
higher wages and a welter of larg-| Canada can go even further in doing
esse, on international lines. Another |so. We venture the opinion these
cry is to put still higher prices upon| countries will appreciate thai far
™ products for home consumption} more than being made to feel they
so we may play Santa Claus 365 days} must constantly appear as recipients
a year with the fruits of our farmers’| of undignifying charity. Such a
labours. course would be far more eifective
VOICE IN WILDERNESS in uplifting the backward nations,

Oceasionally we hear a voice eall-| 80 constantly giving and lending.
ing for wages and production costs| While it is undesirable to be con.
to be cut down somewhat so we may | St#MUy preaching blue ruin it does
sell some of our excess production |° harm to look facts in the face at!

his American counterpart, Mr,
Seemingly the

intervals. If we are to work our way
ou: of our present condition without

|a major depression those gentlemen

who insist upon conducting our in-
ternational dealings along outmoded
lines must be given the boot with the
utmost vigor. Our trade unions and
industrialists must.also be told in no
uneertain terms to halt this nonsens-
ical spiralling whirl-i-gig. if free
enterprise is to endure a who e lot of
people will have to be less greedy
and we will have to submic to the
state being empowered to | low the
referee's whistle whenever tne game
shows signs of getting out of hand.

Murdoch McLeod — Op‘ometrist,
Vancouver, B.C., will be at the Lake-
view Hotel» Tuesday, Decomber 1st,
from 10:00 a.m. to noon only.

at reasonable prices fo those in need
of them.

As yet it is a very small voice in a
vast wilderne: Why, it asks, must
we starve our farmers and plague our
taxpayers to benefit a few power
crazy fanatics? Instead of calling a
branches of our

IT’S
Cariboo Home
Furnishings

communal life to discuss ways of|
getting costs down, our eorsnnentey

| aggravate a bad situation by setting | 5 a

| up arbitration boards which inyari-! 2 for the. finest
[ably favour the labour unions re- = in

| gardless of the merits of their de-

From the Files

ONE YEAR AGO
November 20, 1952

Eighty sportsmen took in the
second annual game banquet of the
Williams Lake Rod and Gun Club
—Night classes in woodwork, metal- |
work and leatherwprk, which were
offered recently to the public for
the first time in Williams Lake, will
be dropped due to lack of response—
A sentence of one month was given
to a man who had run from the
Williams Lake Cafe to the Maple
Leaf Hotel, without the benefit of
clothing— The Board of Trade went
on record as being in favour of the
sale of liquor by the glass in restau-
rants or dining rooms—A rock cairn,
honouring the war dead, was unyeil-
ed by BE. G. “Tony Woodland, in
front of War Memorial Hospital
during the Remembran é
monies—Cow modse will
the Cariboo and Lillooet electoral
districts for the last week of the
hunting season— Beverly Mabel Me-
Leod and Jack Bryce Wilcox were
united in marriage and will make
their home at Forest Grove— Inez
Ruth MacKay of Riske Creek be-
came the bride of Robert Edgar
Hudson of Hope— Doris Marie;
Sharpe and Hugh Kennedy Cameron
exchanged vows, and will reside in
Williams Lake—

FIVE YEARS AGo
November 18, 1948

Forty-three miles of first-class
highway were officially added to}
B.C.'s highway system when ceré-

monies marking the opening of the
section of the Cariboo Highway from
the 57 Mile to the 100 Mile House
were held— Definite decision to con-
struct a new five-room school in Wii-
liams Lake was reached by the
Board of Trustees for District 2

he Canadian Legion will sponsor
the erection of an honor roll for the!
dead of World War II in War Memo- |
rial Hospital— “Open House” day at
the school drew sixty-three interest
ed visitors— The Lone Butte Com-
munity Club held its third anniver-
sary meeting, with president Jack |
DeVries in the chair— The Williams
Lake Branch 139 of the Canadian
Legion elected C. B. Macqueen presi-
dent—

The more thought you give

to the matter of food... .
the
the fine quality of our cui-

more you'll appreciate

sine. Service is tops too!

Laheview Aotel
Restaurant

Vic Imhoff and his Orchestra |

‘on, vice-president and H. J. Lock- Trains priced
jWood, see-treas— The Williams Cranes from
Lake Bakery announce a rise in the Trucks 17¢ to $29.95

[irs per month or $1.50 per week

tim geese

of the Tribune

of all
TE awe
November 25, 1943 descriptions

The long sought for road from the! Walking
Bridge Lake district down to the Talking
North Thompson to connect with the Sleeping
Kamloops road system will be built Crying
ithis spring— Unable to obtain large Flirting

calibre rifle shells, some hunters are
getting their game with .22 rifles—
The wholesale price for top gradd
turkeys this year is not to exceed 39
cents per pound, with the retail price
not more than 7 cents per pound
above this— In Williams Lake on
furlough are Tom Carolan and son,
Allan Wilkinson, and Jack Moore—
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Hanson of Miocene— Bishop Wells,
formerly of Cariboo, has been ap-
pointed Chief Chaplain of all the
Canadian Forces—
TWENTY YEARS AGO |
f Noveyaber 23,/1933 |
Blection of{officers for the board
of Trade resulted in Rod’k Macken-
zie being elected president. A. J.

$1.25 to $35.00

MECHANICAL
TOYS

Jeeps
Racing Cars
Dirt Moving Machines

; Tractors

GAMES

Tice-Tac-Toe
Parcheesi
Dominoes
Steeplechase
Bingo
Monopoly
Prices from
39c to $3.00

MUSICAL i
INSTRUMENTS

Geetars

Priced
Pianos from
Drums 89ce
Xylophones to
Music Boxes $2.98

price of bread: three loaves for 25c,
or 9c a loaf— The Lakeview Hotel
advertises winter month rates of

“Visit the Store wit!
Agents for Connor, Mayfal
Gas and Electric

for a room, and meals at 30¢ exch—
Funeral services were conducted at
115 Mile House for Mrs. W. H.

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