Page 2 = THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. ‘ Thursday, February 18, 1954. Williams Lake Tribune Established 1931 ive Staugoe, Rditor Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C. By The Tribune Publishing Co. The Cracker By a. J. stituted hospital district. That would sdso serve the purpose of making a position on the Goard of Directors a < more coveted one. The proposed new structure is something we cannot Barrel Forum Drinkeu Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association | British Columbia Division, C.W Subscription: per year Outside Canada ... This week the boys cast pensive nees in the direction of Williams Lake War Memorial Hospital, They were occasioned by the report of the Payable in Advance annual meeting of the Hospital So- - ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION ciety. If Chairman Stangoe erred at Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa _| all in presenting the case tor a new hospital he did so on the side of uz derstatement. S B ] H k There is definitely no valid argu- ewer V-law omewor. ment to the contrary, and it is woll the society instructed the Board=to Biggest question ark in the ci ‘ic government life of the | present more concrete plans and data. community this year will be the eventual fate of the much-| The inadequacy — proposed, often-d2ferred sewer bylaw. Commissioners will of the present lave to work hard to whip up voter-interest in a project that| building is pe- has been dragged out in its planning stage for over a year. coming more Probable hike in original estimates will take Some eX- | pronounced every plaining too. Project was first estimated at $130,000, including | aay. Quite apart the new sub-division. Dropping this latter area out of the Plans |from the lack of and making use of the present two effluent drains in the town’s | accommodation to business section was to have madea considerable saving; bring |take care of the the cost down to $90,000. Since then the inclusion of lanes bed rather than streets as a location for the lines in some places a could be expected to bring the cost up -- at least according’ to | keeping many of the facilities wor the early warnings of the engineers, Whatever the reasons, and | ing at anywhere near required effici- they will probably all come out before the bylaw is presented, |ency keeps the Directors and stat the cost figures bandied about now are in the neighborhood | constantly perplexed. It is not neces- of $119,000. sary to go into details as the report Voters in the new sub-division would seem justified in asking why the lines are not servicing their part of town. Since the 93 lots were placed on the market last year, 18 of them | no sense in making extensive repairs have been sold. Although the proportion may seem small, an |r additions. It was most unsettling ‘observer must take into consideration that the lots came on | to have such grave doubts expressed, the market too late for prospective purchasers to look ahead | regarding the prospect of forming a to a full building season. -This spring will undoubtedly see q |Nospital district for the purpose of home construction surge on this property, and builders will | financing a new institution. While “take @ dim view of going to the expense of installing septic |the idea may receive some critical tanks and rock pits if the work has to be torn up in a couple | comment we believe if the case is of years when sewer lines are extended to the property. Properly presented, once the ri Undoubtedly the village needs a sewer system, but the|auired data is in the hands of the success of any bylaw is going to be dependent on the answers| directors, approval will eventually comprehensive. There is absolutely q | Dresented by the chairman was very | be given. The system of financing of | easily refuse to provide for. Usually a Tew other projects we could men-| When its facilities are needed that Uon. solely by means of voluntary | need is very urgent. Sickness cannot contributions, has not proved work-| Wait for a room to be built and equip- able. They have been proceeded with | Ped with all the fixings to make it an betore the full requirements have | efficient ward. Needlessly long dour- been forthcoming and we are of the |#eys to such an institution often opinicn had commencement been de-| Prove fatal. It hehooves everyone, layed until they were, most, of those | before hampering the project, to give projects. would not have been pro-| most sympathetic hearing to any pro- ceeded with at all. , posals the Board eventually puts In the case of a hospital such pro-| forth. They are conscientious people cedure would be disastrous. The|'tying earnestly to do a good job. difficulties attendant upon success- | It is up to all of us to heed what they fully operating a hospital in this age | Say and go along with them to the demands almost superhuman eiforts | utmost of our ability. of the Directors. It would be grossly unfair and most unbusinesslike to : add to their burdens the worry of { etter to the Editor extracting payments for capital ex- a jpenditure out of the ether in the |“: Editor: On reading your editorial concern- ‘ng N.H.A. Loans, I would like to elaborate further on the subject. ; Operating room. It may be possible j to put on an intensive drive for con- tributions before making the initial assessment and by borrowing a por- N.H.A. loans were enacted in Par- tion of the remainder the payments | ‘iament during the 1930’s with the could be spread over say ten years. |3ole purpose of making it possible That would make the annual assess-| ‘or people in the low income brackets j ment fairly light. That, of course, is | (0 buy and own their own homes, and for the society to decide when the | in this respect it has failed miserably Board reports back, but if the dis- | both in small and large centres. trict wants a hospital large enough| 1 would also like to point out this and sufficiently well equipped to take | taét, to anyone contemplating build- care of its future requirements there |ing under N.H.A., it would be very just will not have to be too much per-| wise to go deep into the interest ty quibbling about how it is going to charges compared to private loans, be financed. There must be no doubt one will soon find’ out that at the jWhatsoever that the full amount|end of fifteen or twenty years they |meeded will be forthcoming, regard-| have paid enough to build another jless of how many years the repay-|house. * ment of the loan is spread over. “All joking aside though” it is a That necessitates a properly con- | fact the payments are so slow com- the commissioners can give to the foregoing questions. Their From the Files homework will have to be weli prepared. ONE YEAR AGO Those Are Our Boys! ee 19, 1953 . A five-goal scoring splurge during Before the Stampeders go into the Central Interior play- |.sunday's semi-final series opener set downs, we would like them to know that the community is| the stage for the biggest upset of the pretty proud of them. If they go ahead and win the league] hockey season as the Stampeders «championship they will, of course, be the heroes of the hour, | went on to dump the powerful Ques- but win or lose the boys have played good hockey this season | nel Kangaroos with a total point and have brought the town and district a lot of valuable margin of two— The Board of Trade publicity in doing so. will sponsor an agricultural field day One thing the fans can do is give the team every support/to be run in conjunction with the as they play their final season games. Let the club know you’re | annual meeting of the Cariboo Cat- behind them by filling up the bleachers for the games. _ |tlemen’s Association— Local contri- . butions for the European Flood fund-have topped §140~— Poli pect possible murder in connection with the disappearance in Kamloops of a former Williams Lake couple, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Labrie— “Fly saucers” are in the news again, with Mrs. Oscar Lindstrom of Buffalo Creek reporting watching a strange object for about ten mintes, and Bert Lloyd and Mr. and Mrs. C. Stangoe also witnessing a strange light— Williams Lake again in 1952 headed the province as the largest single cattle shipping point, with 11,707 head moving out— Roy Clements ¥ elected president of the Cariboo Fair A Machine-age Parliament? The Stettler Independent isn’t sure that members of Parliament are entitled to the pay boost they have voted them selves. Some are but Many aren’t. However the paper is sure that Parliament is too large. Says The Independent: The great work of developing Canada is not done by mem- bers of Parliament, apart from a few of the leaders. It is done by Scientists, our masters of industy, our agriculturists, our ministers and teachers, our statesmen and by the common people generally who work steadily at their jobs and pay the taxes that keep the country on even keel. It is manifestly true that we could run our government at Ottawa just as well with-one-third of the present membership pated of the House: All that we would need would be the cabinet and ee ae ae aa eae be= a few exceptional men on one side and the opposition on the te Noes . ea ae other side, composed of the best men that could be obtained. the cassis calcieates he see To make up the balance of the Parliament, we could place the aiyereues 4 ie aeeival cE ea required number of robots in the House, labelled according to ites” Bee their party and equipped to vote automatically for the party they belong to, when divisions are called. Ido not mean to imply that the average legislators whom. we elect in the constituencies are not needed to serve the electorate. They are needed at home and they can do a lot oF good work in their constituencies, although the Town of Stett- ler has not seen a representative for the past twenty-five years, except at election time. What I mean is that we should keep our mmembers at home doing essential work for their own ridings, thus saving their travelling expenses and living expenses at Ottawa, by having robcts in their places in the House. Then there would be no reason for the members voting themselves an increase in salaries up to one hundred per cent and there would be a general gain all round. The back bench members could devote all their time to their ridings, Hansard would be cut down to half its size, the work of Parliament would be speeded up and democracy would have a better chance to function by more representation at home. in FIVE YEARS AGO February 17, 19. This town was jubilant when Prem- ier Byron Johnson announced in the legislature ‘that $13,329,000 will be spent on the Pacific Great Bastern Railway at once to complete it to Prince George, and to provide a motor-road connection to Vancouver — War Memorial Hospital incurred a net operatipg loss during 1949 of $2,764.85 Total number of patients ng the hospital was 585; and pa- tient days were 4,926— Si, y trum- peter swans caught at Lonesome Lake, 36 miles from Kleena Kleene, without food, were rescued when an — ing, and when they do come there is # ts never enough to cover your indebted- of the Tribu TE Jness imeurrea on the house at that time, so one has to go to the banks. Now when the banks enter into this mortgage business where will we go then? These conditions really exist, es- vecially in small centres such as Wil- liams Lake and also in large cities. The payments are supposed to be made as follows under N.H.A.: Your down payment should carry you to the roof. An inspection .and payment when. mebrnecy ag aba the roof is on. : Mr. H. Lambirth called the atten-| 48 inspection and payment when plastering or Welboard’ is done. RCAF plane dropped sacks of barley — George Renner, John Erickson and A. E. Levens were appointed to study the problem of routing the Cariboo Highway through Williams Lake and northward to Soda Creek — Ruth Margaret Rogers and Mar- vin Clarence Patton were united in marriage— A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. George Halfnights— TEN YEARS AGO An inspection and payment in full, 20 days after completion if a letter of satisfaction from the owner can be gotten. This was the system of pay- ment laid down at the inception of N.H.A. There are many other facts con- cerning N.H.A. which make it prac- tically impossible for a person to build a home. Asa builder who has built “eyeral houses under this scheme I speak from experience. If you live in a large town where CO.M.&H build large housiig pro- jects one can go and buy 1 home without any of the difficulites men- tioned. Two years ago two r presenta- tives of N.H.A. approache’ me ask- ing me to build homes here in Wi! liams Lake at which tir >, having gone into all the difficulties I have mentioned, they informed me that things were different now, so a friend of mine took on one or two houses) and after he had finished he inform- ed me he would never again do any- thing under N.H.A, The conditions I have mentionea have gotten worse, not better as I was led to believe. 2 G. A. Morris. HANDIPAK CARTONS. Phone INTERIOR WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS Williams Lake, B.C. gi of members (of the Board of e-fokthe! opportunities and aa- Une eee eee eee vantagés of having a town planning committee for liams Lake to work along with a provincial body. Again R. Mackenzie brought up the dis-; g¥aceful State of roads in this district — War Memorial Hospital showed an operating loss of $120.74 for the year. Retiring board. members R. Beauchamp, Chas. Moon and 0. J. Quesnel were re-elected; other mem- hers are Miss J. Foster, Wm. Christi a M. F. Johnson, Mrs. S. C. Elliott and Mrs. H. C. Richardson— For the past month a group of citizens of Wil liams Lake have been meeting to.take part in the Citizens Forum which is being conducted by radio all across Canada— A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. K. Dunlop of Williams Lake— TWENTY YEARS AGO February 22, 1934 Williams Lake maintained its po- sition as premier shipping point in the province with 6526 head of cattle shipped - total number from Cariboo was 10,614— A preliminary an- nouncement of the Stampede shows | the committee composed of Chas. Moxon; president, Sid Western, J. Summers, T. Tomas, A. J. Tyson and | Jack Mackenzie— Twenty-four mem- bers attended the Board of Trade meeting and discussed the forming of a co-operative livestock association— The crossing at the ferry at Soda Creek is much improved, with a Me rowboat put in use. # 20% Until the En Gas and Electric In Walnut and Blonde Finish _This Clearance Offer Good Cariboo Home Furnishings “Visit the Store with the Friendly Door” Agents for Connor, Mayfair, Norge, Gilson and Climax a £ z learance! End Tables Coffee Tables OFF d of February W: l:ing’ Machines (The C ‘Notice of Firm Name Plumbing and Heating Business will now be known as Central Plumbing & Heating Jack Halfnights George Halfnights dropped there. “‘Ho Telephone 70-R4 MORAL: It’s far For the Finest in QUALITY MEATS Shop with Confidence at Williams Lake Meat Market and the Jewel A COCK, scratching the ground for something to eat, turned up a Jewel that had by chance been doubt, and, had your owner found you, great would his joy have been. But for mel give me a single grain of corn before all the jewels in the world.” things you really need, than to have luxuries. That’s why you should do as so many other far- sighted Canadians do—build up a savings account at The Canadian Bank of Commerce. Then you will be sure you need never go without the necessities of life. Visit our nearest branch today. miele ” said he, “‘a fine thing you are, no more important to have the Mlustration by Arthur Rackham, from the Heinemann Edition of Aesop's Fables. The Canadian Bank of Commerce