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THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAER, 2.6.
Thursday, November 26, 1959
Williams Lake Tribune
Established 1931 Clive Stangoe, Editor
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Election By Ballot
Attending the School Area Representatives meeting here
Saturday, we were impressed by the interest shown by the rep-
sresentatives in educational matters, both at the strictly locai
level of mending fences and at the higher level of district-
wide problems.
The election of trustees from this group however left us
with the feeling that this miain reason for the appearance oi
the representatives was not handled in the manner hat it
should have been. Instead of observing the usual custom oi
electing these officials by ballot, they were chosen on the
Strength of a show of hands.
The main objection io this simple style of election is tha:
it invariably points up the fact that some of us go through life
libiting the qualities to be found in a herd of sheep. When
the vote is called in favour of a candidate, the independeni
. tu.nkers who favour the man put up their hands immediately
If there are only a few of them, the voters who like to be identi-
fied with the majority keep their hands down, but if the first
how of hands is impressive, these same crowd followers can
2€ seen belatedly venturing their yote in favour of the
endidate.
Even with small organizations, the method of choosing
business of selecting trustees to handle the costly operaticn of
education in this district. we think it should also be the accept-
ed method of election.
Adult Delinquents
According to coast press reports, there are some students
at the University of British Columbia who need a lesson of a
different nature than those usually taught in the halls of
higher learning.
It was bad enough when this element in the student body
flaunted the forces of law and order during a downtown spree
last month, but it is infinitely worse when they earry this type
of behaviour into a neighboring country. :
Following a UBC “invasion” of the city of Bellingham for
the Western Washington football game November 7, a com-
plaint was made by a Bellingham hotel. Students were accused
of holding wild parties, during which a hotel fire hose was
turned on and lamps smashed. Two of the students later
skipped out without paying their hotel bill.
This type of behaviour tarnishes the good name of the
university, and when it occurs in a neighboring province or
state it reflects on British Columbia as well. The adult delin-
quents responsible should be thrown out of UBC. sS
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We Can All ‘Help
will never perform the operation known as
Most of us
thoracoplasty before the admiring gaze of medical students.
However, this omission from our careers does not mean that
We will never do anything to decrease the loss of life and prop-
erty caused by tuberculosis, There are a few less spectacular
activities which we can carry though very well.
No matter how ordinary or humdrum we may be we can
The Cracker
Barrel Forum
J. Drinkeu
Having become
of the results of
cattle sale,
Asso.
possessed of a
the second
ued by the Cattlemen's
week dissecting its
Jue by the groans
they licked the stubs
salvaged still more
from the refuse barrel it was a
painful process. Two and two ap-
parently will not make five, at leas!
not when it comes a
to settling uy
with the Banker
However, the
boys came up with
quite a bunch oi
Statistics — whieh
we append foi F
the~ benefit
those who
studying
things.
STEERS — Of the 1087 head ot
in the sale seven sold for Je.
11.00. Seven more averagea
5 and three sold for oy.
ning -1070
vo, averaged $12.35
o, averaged
averaged
averaged
ave
and sighs as
of penciis and
aps of paper
499 or 47%,
337 or 31%,
138 or 13%,
The 1070 head aver: 14.86 ali
Uirough. Two ranchers “bia in’
their own offerings amounting to
some 55 head even though the bid-
iing had gone higher than what
proved to be the average for the sale
ft was a splendid display of faith in
the near iuture of their business
which we hope will be amply re-
warded. They bought other cattle
at better than ave
1g@ prices, _
COWS—After deducting from the
which sold in the
th and two which
sold for over 11.10, the remaining
cows two,
e dollar class,
291 squared off as follows:
20 head or 7% averaged
head or 9% averaged
head or 25% averaged 7.42
head or 33.5% averaged 8.41
6 head or 19% averaged
6.5% averaged 10.54
average all through was 8.03.
ERETTES — The 43 head
sold for an average of 10.67.
HEIFERS — Of the 432 heifers
offered 76 were )ought in by the
sold for under 11.00.
Of the remaining 350
59 or 17% averaged 1157
107 or 31% averaged 12.30
110 or 31% averaged 13.26
51 or 14% averaged 14.9
23 or 7% averaged 15.17
The average price all through
was 12.94.
CALVES — There were 402 little
fellows in the sale, of these,
17 head or 4% averaged 11.74
66 head or 16% averaged 13:36
14.35
15.25
40 head or
157 head or
74 head or
10% averaged
40% averaged
18% averaged 16.07
48 head or 12% averaged 17.35
‘The average all through was 15.10
with 20% of the total offering going
o one buyer.
_ BULLS — Private buyers hought
even of the bulls offered at prices
anging from 8.75 to 12.75. One
sold for 6.00. The remainder went
o the packers for an average price
of 8.89. The six B.C. Packing hou-
ses represented at the sale bought
only 423 head, or 18% of the total
fering.
surns and Co. bought 76 or 3.2%
Wwift Canadian bought 145 or 6.2%
*acific Meat bought 47 or 2%
Canada Packers bought 24 or 1%
Alberta Meat bought 91 or 3.9%
Cariboo Packers bought 40 or 1.7%
This group bought
192 steers _...... or 17.5%
112 cows _.... or 40%
16 heifereties or 16%
58 heifers _. or 16%
82 calves or 8%
12 bulls - or 232%
Another group of four buyers pur’
chased 789 head or slightly more
than one-third of the 2311 animals
in the sale,
A. V. Lampaert bought 103 or 5%
O. Fletcher bought 96 or 4%
Baird & Co. bought 210 or 9%
Spencer Interests bought 338 or 15%
(Percentages are approximate)
This group between them bought
approximately 50% of the steers.
10% of the cows, 18% of the heifer-
ettes, 42% of the heifers, 12% of
the calves and 65% of the bulls.
oe
fon the Files
s ONE YEAR AGO
November 27, 1952
Neufeld Bros. age opened for
business this week— Mrs. V. Imhoff
was elected president of the Ladies’
Auxiliary to the Canadian Legion—
help with prevention. It may not bring glory to us but it will
help to save human misery.
Perhaps we are not equally thorough in our individual
efforts to prevent tuberculosis because we can’t see so clearly
just what we can do.
One thing we can do is buy Christmas Seals when they
reach us in the mails this year. Funds from Christmas seals
help pay for tuberculosis prevention in this community.
Planning is now going ahead for next year’s anti-tuberculosis
activities and what is to be accomplished depends to a con
siderable extent on how much money there will be to carry out
the program, which means how much comes from the
Christmas Seal sale.
As we weigh the worth of this annual campaign we
should remember that there are still 10,000 new cases of
tuberculosis being found yearly in Canada: that in 1952 there
were 2,456 deaths from this preventable disease, 215 of which
occurred in British Columbia: that TB causes more deaths in
the 15 to 40 age group than any other communicable disease,
and that it is estimated there are about 40,000 cases of tuber-
culosis in Canada in the yet-to-be-found group.
Since Christmas Seals are spent for tuberculosis preven-
tion the intensity of the program is dependent on the generosity
of the citizens. And where there is an earnest desire to prevent
new cases of tuberculosis there should be solid support for the
Christmas Seal sale this year as in the past to provide the still
necessary sinews for the ultimate goal... complete eradication
of this preventable disease. 7
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Agents for Connor, Mayfair, Norge, Gilson and Climax
Gas and Electric Washing Machines
Commissioners are still looking for
the best method, or methods, to
raise the necessary’ money for
the proposed Williams Lake sewer
system— Local businessman Bert
Lloyd announced negotiations and
transfers had heen completed in the
acquiring of the Yankee Girl and
Dundee mines at Ymir, B.C.—Bight-
een people interested in the preser-
vation of historical data on our dis-
ict were on hand to spark the ri
‘y Windt
was named president of the group—
The addition to the Williams Lake
High School and the dormitory build
ing will be officially opened next
week— Mary Mabel Wynn Harris
united in jage to Francis
Clifford Overton— Ruth Mary West-
wick of Williams Lake became the
bride of Leonard Harold Pickering
of Prince George— Ramona House-
man of Buffalo Creek exchanged
vows with Roy Haldorson of Prince
Albert, Sask,—
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Board of Trade in sponsoring a con-
vention in the northern city of al)
groups interested in completion of
the PGE— Sid Pigeon was elected
president of the Williams Lake Bad-
minton Club— The new water main
is within 100 feet of being hooked
up to the present system— Mrs. G.
Blackwelh was elected president of
the W.A. to the Williams Lake
branch 139 of the Canadian Legion—
Rai! traffie north of Williams Lake
was cut off for two days when a
south-bound passenger train jumped
the tracks about four miles north of
town— Additional lighting for the
third airport runway at Dog Creek
has arrived— Mr. and Mrs. N. Pal-
mer have recently purchased Rose
Lake Lodge— Mrs. Tom Patton and
Mrs. E. C. Bryan have re-opened the
Nugget Koffee Bar—
TEN YEARS AGO
December 2, 1943
The businessmen of Williams Lake
turned out to the Board of Trade
meeting to criticize and want some-
thing done to improve local condi-
tion in respect to sewerage smel],
poor telegraph and telephone service
and improvements to the municipal
airport— The death of William H,
Williams, formerly of Fawn, is re-
ported from Victoria— Angus Black,
age 81, of Likely who has heen in
the district for 40 years, passed away
at Kamloops— Lloyd G. Walters and
Wes Speed were home on leave at
Likely— Andy Westwick is here for
a two-day leaye— No candidates
have come forth so far for the office
of Village Commissioner for a three-
year term, though the election is
only two weeks away. Mr. R. Beau-
champ is the retiring Commissioner.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
November 30, 1933
Following a four-day trial, John |
S. Larsen, Keithley Creek miner,
Was awarded 250,000 shares of Cari-
boo Yankee Bella Mining Co.
Defendant was Williams
mine operator— The Welfar
this year will be supported by the
Elks exclusively— The start of the
basketball season finds promising
material in the girls division with
the old reliables, Thelma Smith,
Alice Hooker, Annie Campbell and
Gladys Cotton augmented hy the
Moxon sisters, Grace Thompson,
Florence Smith, Norma Dussault-and
Caroline Bryant— Overwaitea ad-
vertise No. 1 Alberta creamery but-
ter at 25¢ a pound, Jap oranges 95c
a box,
25% ef all the steers and 20% of
all the heifers went to the Spencer Smiles eos 2 2
Ener ests. The father was explaining busi-
One item does not show up in the
foregoing analysis; that is the heavy
shrinkage suifered during a protract-
ed sale. Cattle naturally fret when
penned up and the hustle and bustl¢
keeps them nervous. One rancher
reports his two-year heifers, sold the
first day, outweighed his two-year
steers sold the final day. In another
instance poorly finished steers seg-
regated from the main offering but
sold the first day outweighed the
better finished animals held over
until the last day. This, in our
opinion, is a most important factor
which should engage the serious at-
tention of all concerned. It repre-
sents real loss, prices notwithstand-
ing.
ness ethics to his young son.
“It's this way, son... suppose a
customer” owes the store a hundred
dollars. He comes in, gives me a one
hundred dollar bill. Later I fina there
were two hundred dollar bills stuck
together. That's where j,usiness
ethics comes in. Now, should I tell
‘my partner or not.”
A race track is the only place to
find windows that clean pe ple.
Letter to the Editor
Editor, The Tribune,
Dear Sir: Re your editorial in
Thursday, November 19th Tribune,
I do not often see eye to eye with
Alf Eagle, but this time I know he
is on safe ground when he advocates
to have the sewers placed in Lanes
instead of in the Streets,
Some day we hope to have ear |
streets paved. Sewers, unfortunate-
ly, have a bad habit of getting
locked. It is then that the cost of
haying them in the Streets would
tell.
Apart from this, it would cost the
Householder more to make this con-
nection in the Street than to make it
in the Lane.
So what is the difference?
people always haye to pay!
The
INTERIOR WHOLESALE Z
DISTRIBUTORS
Williams Lake, B.C.
Yours truly,
Roderick Mackenzie.
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