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THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

lliams Lake Tribune

Established 1931 C.ive Stangoe, Editor
Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C.
By The Tribune Publishing Co.
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British Columbia Division, C.W.N.A.
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Treat Beauty As Necessary

‘We believe that it is a matter of some concern that not
one commissioner at last week’s meeting spoke out in favour
of town beautification.

We are referring specifically to the matter of park devel-
opment and the expressed reluctance on the part of the village
fathers to have this department tacked on to their annual civie
chores. Granted there is usually little, if any, money left to
develop a park or even trim boulevards after the main services
have taken their chunk out of village revenue, but we at least
expected someone to speak in favour of provision being made
for such projects.

Each year we have sought to spark interest in town
beautification, and each vear this problem is relegated to the
background. Exception was the attempt made last year by
ex-commissioner Tony Borkowski to develop the small park
at the head of Oliver Street.

It is evading the issue to say there is not enough money
for a planned park development. If the commissioners’ sense
of civic pride was great enough to concede that in village
matters beauty can progress hand in hand with efficiency, they
could soon have-the necessary funds to institute such a
development. 3

We are not suggesting that the commissioners should plan
on an outlay of thousands of dollars in the annual budget for
the development of park or playgrounds, but we do suggest
that a small development could be handled out of village
revenue if the amount budgeted was used for that exclusive
purpose. If it i$ not possible to conduct village business without
borrowing from these auxiliary accouns to fix water Jeaks, for
example, then it is time that village revenues were hiked to
do so. S

In the overall picture of town growth we feel the com-
missioners should consider beautification of the town (and
that includes the cemetery) just as important as good streets

Red Cross Month

This week the annual campaign for funds for the Cana-
dian Red Cross got underway and will run throughout the
month of March.

Here in Williams Lake the business of the local Red Cross
branch is augmented during the campaign period by volunteers
from other organizations in town and rural centres,

These volunteers will be asking you to donate to the fund |

--- asking you, in effect to give a helping hand to lhe thousandt

of people throughout the Dominion of Canada‘who will be hockey,

calling on the Red Cross for help when disaster strikes.

The B.C. campaign is under the chairmanship of Hon.
Eric Hamber, who points out that the provincial quota of
$323,000 must be raised to carry on the 12 essential services
Tun by the Red Cross, including blood transfusion. outpost
hospitals, home nursing, Red Cross lodges disaster work,
international relief, hospital visiting, meeting veterans, miss-
ig persons enquiry and collection of blood for gamma glob-
ulin used in the fight against polio.

The measure of success of this worthwhile work depends
on our generosity.

Focus On Schools

Another noteworthy observance in the montb of March
is Education Week, which runs from March 7 to 1:

The object of Education Week is simply to focus the at-
tention of every person in Canada on the important busine
of education for this short space of seven days.

In Williams Lake we can all take advantage of this week
by learning what goes on behind the classroom doors of the
elementary and high schools. In the full program arranged
by the teaching staff, there is one morning set aside for the
adults to literally ‘go to school’ again and watch regular
classes at work.

The education of our future citizens is probaby the most
important activity in our whole society, through its influence
in the moulding of character and the guidance of ability. That
is why the slogan of Education Week is truly expressed in the
phrase “Education is Everbody’s Business.”

Pass It Along

It would be almost impossible for a reader of this week's
issue not to notice the loéal Library Association, together with
the Parent-Teachers’ Association, is conducting a book drive
next week.

The drive should be a collecting success if every housew
would spend the few minutes necessary to unearth their
family’s once well read tomes that are probably now reposing
in a box in the attic. If you or your children enjoyed them once,
pass that enjoyment on through the shelves of the library

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Thursday, March 4, 1954.

The Cracker Barrel Forum

By A. J.

Drinkell

We had thought that through the
old transport sys-
tem bad been subjected to all
verbiage it was possible to conjure
up but, after perusing the latest
bateh of newspapers the hoys are of
the opinion the orators and seri)
e only now warming up to the task.
rhe apparent determination of the
rmment to extend the!
line into North Vancouver and tie
assurances it will be built into the
Peace River in the near iuture h
unleashed a spate of rhetoric hither
to unequalled

So confusing and contradictory is
this flood of .
statements, ide
and suppositions,

Bennett go

Bennett to invoke
the Shantz pro-
cedure to enforce
a‘cessation of all
ion on the
for a per-
iod of two months =
to give “we the public” an opportun-
ity to separate the grains of wisdom
trem the bushels of nonsense’ we
have recently had dished up to us. It
high time the poor old system was
ken out of the debating stage and
her aecorded a long overdue ma-
jor operation or
burial. Having emerged shakily from
a prolonged attack of rickets due to
early malnutrition it was then sub-
jected to periodic attacks of growing
i of these agonizing
somewhat endurable
promises of a robust
| future, it finally elongated to Prince
| George. We may be pardoned now if
we wonder if the North Vancouver
extension is not just another seda-
| tive.
UNIMPRESSIVE

| Looking over the list of directors
|

we find it unimpressive. There is Mr.
Kennedy who once stimped the
country assuring us the old invalid |

how convalescent — paying its
}¥ So to speak and yet a delayed
report just made public shows it was
still relapsing to the tune of $450,-
900.00 in 1952. That does not in-
spire confidence in future utter
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Then there is the minister of r;
ways who succumbed to the new
urge for rhetoric oratory. First he
states that even after the completion
of the scuthern extension there
would only be one train per day for
a long time to come. Right after tha
the honourable gentleman, himself,
had spasms. Had he sounded a pe:
mistic note, Had he unwittingly giv-
en the patient a wrong dosage? Pos-

sibly so. The situation must be reme- }},

died. He hegged leave to explain he
had omitted to mention the length of
this one train which was like leav-
ing the sugar eoating off the pill.
Seventy cars it would be, avowed the
minister; seventy cars northbound
and seventy cars southbound each
day. Our teacher says that is 90
cars of freight every week. The min-
ister says it is just twice the volume
of freight now being handled. That
implies the barge system we have
heard described as worn out, utterly
delapidated, belongs to the dark ages
and sundry other uncomplimentary
states of disrepair, is still capable of
hendling 35 cars of freight per day
each way between, Vancouver and
Squamish. Why, then, spend an un-
determined amount extending the
line? Why not purehase another
worn out old barge?

ASSURANCE OF PROFIT

The minister assures us once this
southern extension is completed the
sick will rise from its bed and start
earning a profit of half a million
dollars per annum. A reversal of a
million dollars over 1952. Those 70
ears going north intrigues us. We
thought the line was intended to
bring out the vast resources of this

| From the Files

| ONE YEAR AGO
March 5, 1953
Tug a flawlshg brand. of

anderhoof Bears tooktwo
straight wins over the Stitmpeders to
emerge as the 1952-53 champions of
the Central B.C. League— In a ma-
jor expansion movement this week,
the local firm of F. B. Bass Ltd.,
moved into Quesnel with the pur-
chase of the insurance business
known as A, L. Mills & Co., Limited
— Dr. L. EB. “Larry v"
ent local ph rgeon, will
leave Williams Lake about the mid-
dle of May to take a position as resi-
dent surgeon of the Henry Ford Hos-
pital in Detroit, Michigan— The
United States officially re-opened its
borders for the import of Canadian
cattle, sheep and other domestic ani-
mals— Local businessman Gordon
Blackwell, who collapsed in his store
ast week, will be confined to bed in
r Memorial Hospital for several
— Union agreements with the

and Restaurant Employees

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Hotel
and Bartenders International Union
were signed here by the town’s three

major hotels—

Under the directon of M. J. Walsh,

the Williams Lake and District
branch of the Canadian Red Cross
began its annual appeal for funds,
with the objective set this year of
2,000— The Wells high school bas-
kethall team took the Brandly Chal-
lenge Trophy by trouncing Quesnel
37-17 and then Williams Lake 47-
26. The local squad downed Ques-
ne] 47-20— A new fire alarm system
has been installed in the village, con- |
nected to the telephone office— Mr.
lana Mrs. Joe Deshane have pur-
|chased the Nugget Coffee Bar from
Fred Russell and Bill Edwards—
| Ninety percent of the cost of re’ |
Jing the placque in War Memorial |
Hospital, honoring the war dead, to |
include the names of the fallen in the |
Second War, has heen subscribed— |
M I. Piers was elected chairman
of the local branch of the Canadian
!' Cancer Society—
TEN YEARS AGO
March 2, 1944

Plans for the Williams Lake |
Branch of the Red Cros$ canvass
have heen approved, as workers pre-
.000 set as the
—The Parent Teachers As-
appointed Mrs. Sheward

|

M. G. Smith as delegates

|1o the B.C. Federation of the P-TA|
to be held at Vancouver— Effective |
last week all meat rationing aad
Tuesd were suspended

— Norman Jakel has been reported |
wounded in action in Italy— E. G.|
Woodland, 0. J. Simons and Herh|
Gardner participated in the Prince |

of the Tribune

George annual bonspiel and returnea
with 100 pounds of flour each— The
local school staged an excellent con-
cert here— Liéut. Logis Lefourdais,
member for Cariboo,; advocates the
increase in Lounty on wolves, coyo-
tes and cougars; also the taking of
the game department out of the
hands of the Attorney-General’s de-
partment and placing it under ad-
ministration of the Department of
Agriculture— A son was born to Mr.
and Mrs. J. Lepinski, Williams Lake,
and a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. W.
Twan, Alkali Lake-—

TWENTY YEARS AGO
March 8, 1934
A committee has been set up to
se by contributions $650 for the
purchase of a new Sterilizer for War
Memorial Hospital— The public
school entertained with a concert;
participants included R. Woodland,
Billy Smith, G. Jakel, R. Dodwell,
H. Barber, Irene Moxon, Pauline
Mainguy, Marjory and Phyllis Hodg-
son, Edith Paxton— The telegraph
has been taken out at 100 Mile
House and communication will be
put through the telephone— Golf
enthusiasts were out trying out the
course— Hockey staged a comeback
when Alkali Lake played the Lake
tezm on very soft ice, winning 4-2.

northern interior in which case we |
visualized far more cars going out |
loaded than would be hauled in over!
steep gradients for which the
old cripple’s bed is‘ noted. Come Mr.
Chetwynd, put some more sugar on
the pill. ‘Does Mr. Bennett intend
building another bridge across The
Narrows.-to accommodate all those
commuters from Squamish and way
‘peints, which Mr. Chetwynd sees in
his crystal ball? Would it not be
more realistic to build a road?

The cluckings of brother Shantz
over the B.C.H.LS. are soothing syrup
|compared to the cackling we are
‘hearing over the P.G.E, Mr. Benneti
quickly silenced his deputy-speaker,
let us see what he can do with the
rest of his discivles. What we really

Well Baby Clinics

Well Baby and Immunization
Clinies will be hela at the
School, Lae La Hache at 3 p.m.
Wednesday. March 10th and
“at the School, 150 Mile House,
3 p.m., March 11th.

Clinics are also eld in the
Borkowski tock. Wil cams
Lake, every Friday, 2 - 4 p.m.

“Support the Library Boo' Drive,
: Mareh 12th’
hea

wish to know, in as few ‘words as
ble, is. whether Mr. Bennett is
neere in-his assurances of an early
start of construction into the Peace
River or if the North Vancouver ex-
tension is heing undertaken purely

Good.for
hildren

a political sop. We would like him
to make up is mind and then lift the.
censorship long enough to say “That,
is Final.”

KIWANIS

Former Kiwanians and any
business or professional men
interested in forming a Ki-
wanis Club (service club) in

Williams Lake are invited to

Ph
contact Mr. H. Camphell, Sec- INTERIOR WHOLESALE
retary Kiwanis Club of Kam- DISTRIBUTORS

loops, Box 544, Kamloops, B.C. ani
Bene Ce Williams Lake, B.C.

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