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THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

Thursday, December 17, 1953.

Williams Lake Tribune

Established 1931 Clive Stangoe, Editor
Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C.
By The Tribune Publishing Co.
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, We Gain And Lose

Now that the civie election is over, the commissioners can
get ahead with their 1954 plans for the village, although with
only one new member on the board there is little likelihood
that there will be any general change in policy of administra-
tion.

Our congratulations to Mr, Gardner on being successful in
obtaining a seat on the board. Asa young, aggressive business-
man we can expect the village to benefit from his appearance on
the governing body.

At the same time we feel that the town has lost the services
of an able commissioner in the person of defeated candidate
Tony Borkowski. During the two years he held his office, Mr.
Borkowski has worked hard for the village and has shown a.
conscientious attitude that will be missed in commission de-
liberations. It is unfortunate that of the three good men run-
ning one had to lose out. e pest

The Apathy Is General

Last week the Board of Trade met to elect a new slate of
officers and decided that in view of the small turnout, hardly
representative of the businessmen of Williams Lake, that the
business of election should be held over until January.

There is nothing new about this type of situation, either
in Williams Lake or elsewhere in the province. Two years ago
our board had-to-send out two calls before enough members

“were on hand for an annual meeting, and according to an
editorial in the Comox District Free Press, that Vancouver
Island community has a similar problem of lack of interest in
Board of Trade activity. States the Free Press:

The newly elected president of the local Chamber of Com-
merce, Norman Olsen, has the sympathy of the Free Press.

Mr. Olsen has undertaken a task which, judging by the
poor attendance at the annual meeting last week, is one in
which he can expect to receive little support.

Of the 128 members of the chamber, only 19, including
the president, secretary and press representatives, were on
hand to name the men who are to guide the destinies for the
coming year.

No matter how well-meaning or hard-working a president
might be he can only hope for a faint chance of success unless
he has full support and assistance of the general membership.

How many clubs and lodges find only 14 percent of their
members at the annual meetings?

The Chamber of Commerce appears to be the Cinderella
of local clubdom. Unfortunately it seems that it will take a
good deal of magic to bring forth a fairy godmother to elevate
the Chamber from the ragged girl class to the state where it
is the belle of the ball.

We, in this district, are well-blessed with the good things
of life but wé are not so close to Utopia that ave can affo™=to
be without a strong Chamber of Commerce.

What sort of support could we expect from a government
in requests for a bridge, say, if it was known that only half a
dozen members were present at the meeting which sponsored
the resolution? Or what attitude could a city council be ex-
pected to take regarding a suggestion that a city manager
should be employed if it was known that only half a dozen
members were present at the meeting which sponsored the
resolution?

Our congratulations to Mr. Olsen on his election are
tingled with sympathy and at the same time we congratulate
Mr. McPhee, the retiring president, on being well rid of a
thankless job.

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By A. J. Drinkei

This week our hold-forth was in-
fluenced by the approach of the
‘Christmas Season. The boys have
always held to the opinion it is
strictly an event for the youngsters
although they have never been
known to refuse a cake from Elza
Poppin or ginger ale from Ima
Prude. In casting around for a
theme suitable for the small readers
to share we came upon a report
about the time Santa Claus decided
he would take a holiday. Nowadays
they would call it a sit down strike.
In the hope it
will interest the
little fellows we
recount the story
as we got it.

It seems “that
each year there
is a greater num-
be of children in
the world which
makes it harder
for Santa to get round to them all
and his sack gets heavier all the
time. One year when he had filled
the very last stocking and wished
the last little child a Merry Xmas he
suddenly felt very tired and while
driving home he was a pretty grum-
by old Santa. He growled at his
reindeer all the way home. Finally
he told them he was going to tuke a
holiday next year. He said he haa
not had a holiday in over a thousané
years. “Why shouldn’t I have a
holiday like all other folks do.” he
asked them. “I will not make any
wagons, sleighs, dolls or toys of any

kind, just take a real long rest.”
When he finally reached home he
turned his reindeer loose, patted

each one on the rump and told them
to_go find some nice green feed as
he would not need them again for a
long, long time.
NO CHRISTMAS

Word soon got around there was

going to be no Christmas as Santa
Claus was ing a holiday and
everyone was very sad. As the time
for the Christmas celebrations drew
negrer and the rumor persisted that
Santa would not, be around one little!
boy could not stand to hear everyone
sorrowing so he persuaded his mo-
ther to permit him to go to Santa
, and tell him how sad all the little
| people were. Tieing some Junch in
a big bandana Mandkererief he star-
ted out to find Santa’s home.

As he trudged along arid people
learned where he was going they
helped him as best they could. Even
the birds and animals seemed —to
understand and helped to keep him
going along the right trails. It
seemed such a long way but he kept
plodding along and at last he found
the place he was looking for. Santa
Claus demanded to know what he
was doing there and when he told
him he had come to ask him to
change his mind about taking a
holiday Santa gruffly told him it was
no use. “Why, I haven't a thing
made this year”, Santa told the boy,
and handed him the key to his work-
|shop so he could see for himself.
Sure enough all there was in the big
place was some wood and metal and
other things needed to make toys,
but no toys.

“Now, what did I tell you,” says
Santa. “How can I change my
mind?” Then the little boy pulled
a large sea shell out of his pocket
and placed it to Santa’s ear. It
sounded as if all the boys and girls

were sobbing at once, which seemed
to upset Santa. “Even if I wanted
to I have no time to make all the
things I would need”, he said, “there
is not nearly enough time”. He
scratched his head a long time and
then he said. if he could get enough

From the Files

ONE YEAR AGO
December 18, 1952

A fusilate of shots in a small ra-
vine near Sugar Cane reserve ended
in the wounding and capture by
Police officers of Henry Seguin, oO

during an attempted hold-up of t
Canadian Bank of Commerce, here
had shot manager Len Hellyer in the
leg— C. F. “Bert” Roberts was re-
turned as president of the Williams
Lake and District Board of Trade—
Commissioners Stan Goad and Alas-
tair Mackenzie secured the bulk of
the popular vote at the civic election,
and Alf Eagle rode into office on his
first attempt at gaining a seat cn the
board of commissioners— A disas-
trous fire razed the small home of
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Weil, newcom-
ers to Canada, located about two
miles north of town— Fire Chief
Claude Huston, who has directed the
destiny of the local volunteer Fire
Brigade for the past 20 years, was
accorded official appreciation of his
efforts at a village Commissoners
meeting— Up to the time the Cache
Creek checking station closed for
the season, 320 cow moose were
taken out—
FIVE YEARS AGO
December 16, 1948

Quesnel and Wells students took
the major share of the honors as the
three Cariboo high schools met

of the Tribune

TWENTY YEARS AGO
December 21, 1933

Some stables belonging to the old
Borland home, a chicken house and
a shed containing a car were all de-
stroyed by fire— The monthly meet-
ing of tH® Williams Bake Board of
Trade was held at the Haddock Cafe
\— Dodwell Studios have installed
complete portrait lighting equipment
— Miss Miller arrived to assume du-
ties as matron of War. Memorial
Hospital— Lovett and Joy MacKin-
non, daughters of Rev. and Mrs,
MacKinnon of Williams Lake, per-
formed at the Rotary Ice Carnival
at Vancouver.

Smiles...

It was one of those mountain roads
and the tourist stopped to ask direc-
tion from a native.

“Pardon me, sir,” said the strang-
er, “can you tell me where this road
goes?”

“Well,” said the hillbilly, “this
road just moseys along a piece, then
it turns into a hog trail, -then a squir-
re] track. and finally runs up a scrub

help he might be able to manage it.”
He blew sharply on his whistle and
pretty soon his reindeer came gullop-
ing up to him. He told them to
scatter around and bring him a lot of
help as he was going to try to make
Christmas for the hoys and girls
after all. Off they went and in no
time at al] the fairies, pixies, elves
and hobgoblins seemed to come from
everywhere. Soon they were ail busy
as bees making dolls, lead soldiers,
eeroplanes, trains and a host of
things. Some made dresses and
Shoes for the dolls. The news soon
spread there was going to be Christ-
mas after all and everyone was glad.
Before leaving for home the little boy

put the shell to Santa’s ear again
|

but this time. the sounds were all
gay like as though everyone was
laughing and Santa was happy too.
This made Santa and his helpers
work all the harder and somehow
they managed to get the last toy
tucked away in Santa’s big sack just
in time for him to be able to make
his rounds filling stockinzs and
wishing all the little boys and girls
a Merry Christmas.

We hope this year, too, a1 the
young folks in Cariboo, a~d else-
where, will each have a stoe ing full
of pleasant surprises, a tur my full
of good eats, a heart full of happi-
ness and a mind filled with thankful-
ness on Christmas Day — Cheerio
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pine and ends in a knothole.”

This was probably the same hill-
billy who was embarrassed because;
his wife made moonshine but he
loved her still. |

here for championship basketball |
and badminton play— The semi-
annual meeting of the Cariboo Cat-
tlemen’s Association unanimously
endorsed the resolution of the B.C.
Beef Cattle Growers Association!
calling for the establishment of a
proyince-wide TB-free area— Gor-
don Blackwell was elected 1949
president of the Board of Trade;
vice-president is C. Ben Richards—
The water shortage is over, as Com-
missioner John Anderson threw
the switch on the new system and
four hundred gallons a minute start-
ed pouring into the town mains—
Tony Borkowski is rushing comple-
tion of a new office in the Borkowski
Block for Game Warden Leo Jobin—
TEN YEARS AGO |
December 23, 1943

A little more than 18,000 head of
cattle have heen sold from the Cari
hoo district so far this year, to best
last year's sales by a small margin—
The first woman in the history of
the municipality of Williams Lake to
win the seat for Village Commission-
er in the annual election was Mrs.
Eva K. Fry, cattle rancher of the Lae
La Hache district. The other two
commissioners are W. S. Western and
M. F. Johnson— Herb Gardner, of
Gardner & Sons, states he has con-
tacted for the delivery of saw logs
to his mill,, formerly the Anderson
Mill— A meeting was? called at
Quesnel for the purpose of forming

a cattlemen’s association— J

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