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Volume 21 --- Number 50.

Christmas Call Comes
From Ausiralia

What is believed to have been one
of the longest telephone calls re-
ceived in the Chilcotin was placed]
Sunday to Sam Barrowman of Alexis
Greek by his daughter. Mrs. R.
Sprague of Melbourne, Australia, ~

Williams

Lake Tribune _ :

NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thu

“tis younger brother went to take the

of the eee Tuesday afternoon and

~ While the call was going through,
Sam said he could hear the operators
connecting in Honululu and Sidney.
The weather at Alexis Creek was 14
above zero as Sam and his deughter
were talking and at Melbourne it was
107 above. Sam also talked to his
two grandchildren, who he has never
seen. =

' The long distance eall was handled
at Alexis Creek by operator Mrs.
Nellia Kincaid.

Boy Loses Life

It’s a wide and wonderful
-year-old Japanese-Cana

Tragedy marred the Christmas! a
holiday season for one local family’ Regina,
when Peter Hiarn Mikkelsen, sishe | see as a TCA stewardess
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Claus} shown here with Miss Kay

life in a shooting accideut near his
home Monday.
According to-police reports on the

accident, Peter was hunting squirrels) in Canada.”

looks at the globe and dreams of the places she will
in the near
Aver.
Mikkelsen of Williams Lake lost his | starts to fly as a stewardess on the Montreal-Halifax run. One

of the only two Japanese-Canadian girls to become TCA
stewardesses, Miss Yoneda hopes some day to fiy to the heme-
land of her people “for a visit -- but I want to make my lite

World. Vivian Yoneda (right),
dian girl trom Victoria and

future. Miss Yoneda,
stewardess instructress,

with his brother Nels, 10, near their
“when the fatal accident oc-

curred. Nels was carrying the .22 |
ealibre rifle and St is understood that Legion Auxi lary
;
Installs Officers

‘The new officers of the Canadian
Legion Auxiliary were officialiy in-
stalled at their meeting Friday by
Comrade Harold Richardson of the
parent branch.

A social evening will be held
January 6th to present two previous
neslionts with their past president's

is

gun away from him and as he grasp-
ed the barrel the rifle fired. Ne was
stuck on the head by the bullet and
died instantly.

Nels ran to a neighbor for help
ami word of the accident was brought
the ten miles to town by George
Keener who rode in on horseback.

- A-coroner’s jury viewed the body

mincdite sex
eral airmen trom Puntzi Lake over
the Ghristmas holidays.

‘father and mother,
Teer a sinvivea by -his three broth-
er, Gordon, Nels and Johnny. -
Funeral service’ will be conducted
“his afternoon at 2:30 from Calvary
Tabernacle.

It Happened This Way...

Sid Pigeon, captain of the local Fire Brigade, moves
fast when he hears the first note of the’siren, but last Fri-
day morning he was wishing he had checked a little closer
into the call he answered.

It was 6:30 in the morning when he woke from a deep
sleep convinced he had heard the last wail of the siren.
Springing out of bed, he dressed hurriedly and rushed into
the street, Pounding along to the firehall he thought it was
strange there were no other firemen on the street and when
he reached the hall the horrible truth began to dawn on
him at the sight of the closed doors. The fire alarm had
never sounded,

Back at home Sid's wife had the answer to her fire-
man’s mistake. Seems Sid had left the radio on the night
before and at 6:30 in the morning the noise of the network

Austin Gibbon is home from UBC
to spend Christmas with his parents.

ce aoe its haye been made By )*

| been handled

Deer Goes Through Ice
jin Escape Attempt —

Dogs were responsible for the
‘death of a doe deer on Williams Lake
last Friday. The frightened animal
tried to cross the thin ice to Scout
Isiand and got within 50 feet of the
|shore when its front feet went
through. one leg being broken,
| RCMP officers dispatched the
‘animal and also shot two dogs that
were harrying it,

CHRISTAIAS MAIL
NO TROUBLE AT
NEW POST OFFICE

Although the Christmas flood of
mail has heen heavier than ever this
year, Postmaster Cece Rhodes re-
ports that bis staff has had no trouble
keeping right up with their sorting.
due mainly to the improved faciliti
an the new post office.
ne Heavy mail has been handled
by the regular staff, augmented by
five extra clerks for the past ten di

Since Decemher Ist, the post. office
has sold 3,000 two-cent stamps and
35,000 four-cent stamps. An esti-
mated 50.000 incoming letters have
During the past seven
gays 400 bags of mail have been;
sorted and distributed.

, Goffin returned last week

; : Mrs. L,
‘tuning in’ could easily be mistaken for the lower notes of Homa Awe: monte! “welt ta. the:
a siren by anyone awakening irom a deep sleep. coast.
TOO MANY SANTAS SPOIL A BOY’S ILLUSION! e

Now. here is a difficult position for a boy
to be in. Even if he believes in Santa Claus,
€an be believe in two dozen Santa Clauses?
Young Salvatore Stabele, in New York, was con:
fused — but only for 2 moment. He decided

that_all these whiskered gents w.
to {Se ene and only Kris Kringle and said he

No red tape was going to stop h; fee
Ne eachinnitbe ‘top his Christmas list

Central Press Canadian

top man.

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tsday, December 24, 1953

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Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

Village Ciniicdoag Toke Exception
To Cabinet Minister's Protest Letter

Village Tax Share
Higher Than 1952

Williams Lake's interim payment
ofits share of the SS & MA Tax rev-
erues: for the year will amount to
$4,890.96, according to a wire re-
ceived by “The Tribune from Hon.
Ralph Chetwynd yesterday.

This part payment is made at this
time of the year so that municipali-
ties may receive it prior to the end
of their calendar year. Balance is
computed on reyenues up to the end
of the provincial government's fis-
eal year in March.

This year’s payment is $552.11
greater than that received in 1952.

MAY PRACTICE SUNDAY

STAMPEDERS WAIT
FOR ARENA ICE

Faced with their first league game
on the weekend of January 2, local
hockey players are hoping the wea-
ther will tighten up to let them get
in as much practice as possiple.

-If the weather doesn’t get any
milder the Stampeders hope to hit
the ice Sunday for theirfirst practice
and. will be up at the arena every
night next week.

Besides the regulars, the hockey
committee knows of some five new
prospects who have stated they will
turn ont for practice, but how they
will fit into-the season hockey pattern

: who Mant to 13
tealh® the committee wants riem To},
turn out on the weekend.

“live Performer
‘Unweliomé Addition
- To Nativity Tableau

A touch of realism that wasu’t ap-
preciated by the parishioners of
Sacred Heart Church was added to
their life-size outdoor Nativity scene
this week.

For those of you who haven't seen
the production on the chureh
grounds, the scene is complete with
models of farm animals appropriate
to the manger setting and includes
several bales of hay.

It was the hay that proved too
much of a temptation for the un-
invited player in the scene. Someone
left a gate open and in came a stray
cow. Before the interloper was dis-
covered, the loose hay that filled the
cradle had disappeared and part of
one bale of hay,

Usually at the final meeting of the year, Village Commis-
sioners limit their business to essential mattérs and skim over
anything contentious, but Tuesday night the village fathers
received a letter that caused more yerbal sparks to fly than «

BY Sahl

as
enough that th

any other

Actually it was a carbon copy of
the original message, but since it)
solely concerned the commission,
this‘fact just added fuel to the fire,

The letter was from Hon. Ralph
Chetwynd and addressed to Tony)
Woodland with the notation on the
bottom “ee Alastair Mackenzie, Com-
mission Chairman, Williams Lake”
(vir, Woodland is vice-president of
the Cariboo Social Credit group and
president of the South Cariboo group)

In the letter Mr, Chetwynd refers
to a news item reporting a publié
meeting in Williams Lake at which
Mr. Mackenzie had stated an attempt
had been made to receive provincial
government assistance with the cost
of upkeep of fhe village cemetery
through Mr. Chetwynd and that no
information on the suggestion had
been received.

Mr. Chetwynd's letter went on to
say that “for your information |
would like to make it clear that at
no time by letter, word of mouth, or
any other means of communication
have I received any such request.

With reference to Mr. Chetwynd’s
visit to Clinton, the Minister states
that it had nothing to do with main-
tenance of cemeteries, but that when
the subject of Clinton's cemetery had |
come up, he had pointed out that his |
department had a small sum of
money available for historic sites
and it had been-his thought that up-
keep of the graves of the old pioneers
that are nobody’s responsibilities
might come under this category.

(The reference referred to was
made by Mr. Mackenzie at the same
public meeting when hesaid he poted

advice to Clinton recently on the!
lees matter and concluded lis re-|
| marks by saying “This is his (M
Chetwynd's) riding and I believe he
should look after it.) |

When the letter was read out, M
Mackenzie declared the minster was!
in error when he said that he had
never been approached on the cem-|
etery problem. The question had
come up at a meeting Mr. Chetwynd |
had had with the commissioners over |
a year ago and just prior to a méet-|
ing in the same hall with the Board
of Trade. The cemetery upkeep prob-|
| lem wasn’t ‘the only thing brought
up at that meeting, Mr. Mackenzie
declared. The minister had been
sked to help hurry along a one-time |
promise of the PGE to turn the}
Stampede grounds over to the vil-
lage; to enquire into the possibility
of the railway company paying a
grant for fire protection, and to have
the Public Works Department. ade-
quately drain the airport road. At the
conclusion of each item Mr. Macken-
zie interjected “and nothing has been
done about it.”

In regards to the

Stampede

MERRY

The publishers, the statf
Tribune join in extending to al

that you May enjoy a very Merry Chistmas and that the

year will be a happy and pros

Staff

Mrs. W, Woods = Jim Stitt

Corresponder

Perey Willard, Lone Butte s. D. Roberts, Roe Lake
2 Bonner. Big C: eek A. J, Drinkell, Dog Cr
_H. Gibbons, Ho: ;

Mrs. & Moore, Tatlayoko Lake
John R. Ross, Bridge Lake
Mrs. R. Conn, Keithley Creek

and the correspondents of The
1 of our readers the sincere hope
coming
perous one.

John Gibbon Louis Lobsinger

minister had offerea » tions.

| the Walk-Rite,

communication of the year.

grounds, the chairman said he had
asked Mr. Chetwnyd about the prob=
lem just prior to the last election
and “he told me himself he had for-
gotten‘ahout it.” E

Commissioners wanted ‘to know
where Mr, Woodland entered the
picture of village business, with one
commissioner asking “Is Mr. Wood-
land the representative of ‘the
member?” _

The clerk was instructed to write
to Mr. Chetwynd itemizing the
points that had come up at their
original meeting with him and to pro-
test strongly’ about the manner io
which his protest was forwarded.
Concensiis was that the original let-
ter should have been sent to the com-
mission, with carbon copies going to

| anyone else the minister wished to

keep informed.

‘VOGUE WINDOW

WINS COMMERCIA

UGHTING CONTEST

Winner of the commercial class in
the first Christmas lighting contest
sponsored hy the Junior Chamber of
Commerce in 1950,’ again took the

judges’ eyes this year as the award—

went to the Vogue. The store, ma:

aged by Mrs. B. R. Brandly, devel-

oped~ its

Second placé In the class went to
Western, Rife & Pigeon, For the
decorative night effect Les Pigeon

| has again been changing the store

windows each day. In third place was
where merchandise
was again used to good advantage
in decorative effect.

Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kyte were win-
ners for the second time of the
placque for home decoration with
the Chrismas floodlit scene of Santa
Claus riding across the lawn on his
sleigh *

In second place was a new con-
tender Dick Felker, with old-
fashioned lanterns flanking his door-
Way and candles at upstairs win-
dows, A decorated tree added the
| final touch. Thira ze went to the
Sid Pigeons.

Honourable mention was again
given this year to Sacred Heart Par-
ish. A flood-lit nativity scene has
been erected on the lot behind the
ehurch and the church itself is out-
lined with coloured lights.

Judges for the contest were Mrs.
Chas. Griggs, Bennie Abbott and
James Shaw.

Icy Roads Contribute
To Dec. Accidents

Eleven car accidents, mainly due

chment since > December 1.

been failure to exercise due care on
the iey voads, police report. Failure
‘otiate curves and taking curves

wide with resulting failure to get
beck on the driver's own side of the
approaching ‘vehicle
chief causes.

road when an
looms up, are listed as

Damage of $1000 w
model car that went over the
near 148 Mile and $800
done to another that
to negotiate a sharp turn on
le Hill north of town.
ents have oc-
between Wil-
1 Mile.

la
bank

WHITE CHRISTMAS
The Cariboo countryside is dressed
i white for the festive

in Williams Lake heavy snows fell
jJast Saturday and all day Sunday,