Page 2 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. Member: Canadian Weekly Newspape: ssociation British Columbia Division, C.W.N.A. Subscription: per year $2.50 Outside Canada - $3.00 Payable in Adyance ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Depariment, Oviawa Treat Beauty As Necessary ‘We believe that it is a matter of some concern that not one commissioner at last week’s meeting spoke out in favour of town beautification. We are referring specifically to the matter of park devel- opment and the expressed reluctance on the part of the village fathers to have this department tacked on to their annual civie chores. Granted there is usually little, if any, money left to develop a park or even trim boulevards after the main services have taken their chunk out of village revenue, but we at least expected someone to speak in favour of provision being made for such projects. Each year we have sought to spark interest in town beautification, and each vear this problem is relegated to the background. Exception was the attempt made last year by ex-commissioner Tony Borkowski to develop the small park at the head of Oliver Street. It is evading the issue to say there is not enough money for a planned park development. If the commissioners’ sense of civic pride was great enough to concede that in village matters beauty can progress hand in hand with efficiency, they could soon have-the necessary funds to institute such a development. 3 We are not suggesting that the commissioners should plan on an outlay of thousands of dollars in the annual budget for the development of park or playgrounds, but we do suggest that a small development could be handled out of village revenue if the amount budgeted was used for that exclusive purpose. If it i$ 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 The Pacific Great Eastern Railway Co. fmective September 2¥th 1953 Will Uper: THROUGH-FAST PASSENGER & EXPRESS between VANCOUVER, B.C. AND PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. Including Sleeping & Dining Car Service Prince George - Squamish Dock Ly-Vancouver (Union Pier) :30a.m. Ar-Wims. Lake 5:2 Ly-Wms. Lake Ar-Pr. George IRVICE Ly-Pr. George 3:00p.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat Ar-wWms. Lake 11: 00p.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat Ly-Wms. Lake 11:30p.m,.-Tues-Thurs-Sat Ar-Vancouver (Union Pier} 6:30p.m.-Wed-Frid-Sun THROUGH FREIGHT SERVICE Ly-Vaucouver-Mon-Wed-#rid Ar-Wms. Lake-Wed-Frid-Sun FREE PICKUP AND DELIVERY ON FREIGHT AND EXPRESS 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 nee w 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 E vi 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. “Support the Library Book Drive, March 12th” Miss America of 1954 says: Save «= $100.00 on MY special MISS AMERICA KITCHEN Only 95 349 omplete Yow'll like this Gleaming (White, MODERN Kitchen Sink & Cupboard assembly. It belongs in your kitchen. 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