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Williams Lake Tribune

NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

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Volume 22 — Number 10.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, March 11, 1954.

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

‘Lake Players
Club

Win Cariboo

adminton Trophy

For the fifth time since-the institution of Cariboo Club
Championship play back in 1948, TIocal players gained posses-
slon of the Woodland Trophy on the weekend as they racked

up 34 wins to “outpoint Quesnel,

Closest opposing club~ was the
strong Quesnel team entry with 25
wins, followed by Prince with 19 and
Wells with 18. In the seyen tourna-
ments the clampionship has been at
Stake, Williams Lake has only lost
out twice. Wells iook the tournament
in 1952 and Quesnel in 1953.

In the mixed doubles play Satur-
day, the local team held a.slight lead
over Quesnel at the end of play, with
Wells and Prince well down. The
latter clubs picked up points the fol-
lowing day in the men’s and ladies”
doubles. The leading ‘lake club kept
its Saturday's margin throughout the

failed to threaten right up to late
Sunday afternoon.

One of the outstanding matches of
the tourney was played between Otto
Monk and Earl Robertson of Quesnel
and Reg Norberg and Gordon Smet-
anuk of Williams Lake. Honours
were split at the end of two close-
fought games that both took an hour
of play. In the final game the local
players kept control of the play as
they downed the hard-fighting Ques-
nel pair. =

A surprising spectator-interest
was noticed during the two-day tour-
ney. An estimated 300 spectators
took in the games.

Two slight injuries marred the

tourney. Early in the first game Sat-
urday morning, Mrs. Sid Pigeon pull-
ed a muscle in her leg and had to be
replaced in the match. Mrs. G. Buck-
ley took her place, and with partner
Jim Apperson recorded the first "lake
win, In the wind-up game Saturday
afternoon, Miss Star Hoy of Quesnei
sprained her foot and was out of
play the following day.
_ In presentiag the Woodland tro-|*
phy at the banquet Sunday night,
Mr. E. G. Woodland praised the
calibre of play in the tournament. He
also reminisced about the game in
Williams Lake, mentioning that it
was going strong 20 years ago when
he ceme here, with such stalwarts as
Claude Barber, who had ten years of
play behind him then and is still an
active club player.

The trophy was presented to vet-
eran player and ladies team captain,
Mrs. Thelma Rife, who played on the

Land Inspector
Leaving For Kelowna

Alex Smith, resident inspector for
the Department of Lands, will be
feaving soon to assume a similar po-
sition at Kelowna. Mr. Sniith has been
in Williams Lake for the past two
and a half years. Successor to Mr.
Smith's post here has not been an-
nounced.

Prince George and Wells,

first Williams Lake team in 1948
at Wells. Men’s team captain Sid
Pigeon was called on to present the
erests to the following members of
the ‘lake team: Mrs. Joe Borkowski
Mrs. Rife, Miss Claudia Barber, M
Joan Huston, M Ethel Stafford,
Miss Helen Lee, Miss Noreen Carson,
Mrs. G. Buckley, Mrs. S. Pigeon, Ed.
Gaspard, Jr., Ralph Woodland, Reg.
Norberg, Gordon Smetanuk, Jim Ap-
person, Art Morgan, Wilbur Hannah
and Sid Pigeon.

Local club president Ralph Wood-
land spoke on the importance of de-
veloping the junior clubs as a source
of senior material, He also compli-
mented the various committee mem-
bers for their work in making this
the best of the annual tournaments
to date.

At a public dance sponsored by the
host Williams Lake club, over 300
people attended.

Local club championship play will
start tonight.

More Interest Shown
in Education Week
Program At Schools

An increasing interest in educa-
tion on the parents was seen by su-
pervising principal J. Phillipson as
a result of the ‘open house’ programs
staged at elementary and high

schools this week.
Tuesday morning 75 adults vale
the elementary

Bhool and in

as adults strolled through the rooms
observing normal procedure.

Most popular spot was the School
Dormitory. Here Mrs. Boyce and the
resident students treated between 80
and 100 visitors to afternoon tea and
took them on guided tours through
the building. Students had been busy
with spring cleaning for a week be-
fore and the new building was spot-
less.

Yesterday afternoon the high
school staged an inter-house indoor
track meet at the Elks Hall which
was open to the public.

Tonight the program winds up
with a father and son, mother and
daughter, night at the high school
and a large turnout is expected.

Students have used a full show
window in Smedley & Sharpe's store
to display art work and project work
from industrial arts and home econ-
omies classes.

Minister Answers Critics of

Proposed PG

In arising in the Legislatur:

“debate on the Speech from the

E Extensions

e last week to take part in the
Throne, the Hon Ralph Chet-

wynd, Minister of Raiiways,.and M.L.A. for Cariboo, dealt
solely with the government’s proposal to extend the Pacific

Great Eastern Railway.

yital interest to every Cariboo resident, we are

In the belief that this subject is of

reprinting

the speech almost in its entirety.

I arise to partake in this debate as
Custodian of the Shares held by the
people of British Columbia in the
Pacific Great Eastern Railway; that
custodianship rests with the Minis-
ter of Railways, J have the honour to
hold that portfolio.

I restrict my few remarks to the
subject matter of that part of the
Speech from the Throne, the exten-
sion of the P.G.E. Railway, first to
North Vancouver, and secondly or
simultaneously into the Peace River
and other points North from Prince
George.

When I deal with the so-called
fabulous debt that the Construction
and Operation of the Pacific Great
Eastern Railway has piled up over
the last forty years, I feel I should
on of association

establish my posii
concerning the Pacific Great Hast-
ern Railway — For 12 years now I
have been continuously — 1. Trouble

Shooter for the Pacific Great Eastern
Railway; Traffic Representative; As-
sistant to two General Managers;
Field Representative to the Right-of-
Way Agent; Claims Adjuster; Min-
ister of Railways; Officer respon-
sible for completing construction,
Quesnel to Prince George.

I think this House will agree then
that I could be established as an
expert for this particular subject in
the eyes of the Law, not therefore
just anyone talking 35, miles away
from home as an expert is some-
times known “

Railroading has been made to
sound very complicated and indeed
when a system becomes gigantic it
does become complicated—However,
the Pacific Great Eastern Railway i
not gigantic yet as its name may im-
ply, therefore complicated only as

(Continued on page 5)

Sewer Pl

Credit Union To Hold
Annual Meet Next Week

Steady growth of Williams Lake
and District Credit Union will be re
flected in the reports of committee
heads that will highlight the annual
meeting of the group March 18.

In the 16 months the union has
been operating up to last December,
it has grown from a small organiz-
ing membership roll of seven to its
present number of 59. Assets of the
young financial organization now
total nearly $2000 and at December
31, 1958, a total of $777.50 was out-
standing in loans to’members.

Mrs. Alan Blair of Quesnel has
been visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. McIntosh, for the past week.

pate

Mrs. W. Edwards left ‘Sunday for
a visit and medical attention at the
coust.

Local Man Starts
Equipment Business

Work will start soon on a com-
mercial building in town to house
the new farm equipment business of
McKay Equipment, according to an
announcement this week by Harold
McKay.

The new structure will measure
86 x 40 feet and will be located on
the corner of Yorston Street and
Second Avenue.

Mr. McKay, who was a former
partner in the garage business known
as McKay & Laverdiere, has secured
the agency for the following equip-
ment manufacturers: Ferguson Trac-
tors,. New Holland haying equip-
ment, Howard Rotavators, Davis &
Wagner loaders and -stackers. The
new firm will handle sales and ser-
vice.

S

Student Journalists To Take
Over Next Week’s Newspaper

The Tribune will record

a local journalistic ‘first’ next

week when students of Williams Lake High school take an

active part in producing an iss

In the of Education
Week, the publishers have invited
the students to form their own staff
for the experiment, and will provide
their experience in helping the ama-
teur journalists over the rough spots.

Staff will mainly consist of mem-
bers of the school’s Publication Club,
which, under the guidance of Eng-
lish teacher, Mrs. J. Haramia, has

interests

ue of the newspaper.

Carter of Springhouse, Doris Taylor,
Ross Smith of Huston near Terrace,
Bill Laird of Devine and Marilyn

Scott.

Staff members from out of town,
with the exception of Miss Carter.
are all residents of Williams Lake
Dormitory.

The students will be responsible
for collecting advertising copy for
the issue, writing it up, gathering

aa yeay. The student publication
comes out monthly and the next issue
of The Hurricane will coincide with
the issue of The Tribune they are
working on.

Student paper editor Eddie Kozuki
will take over as editor-in-chief, with
Miss Joan McNeil of Canim Lake as
news editor. Other department heads
are Michael Cluck of Meldrum Creek
advertising manager; Miss Rosemary
Hannah, social editor, and Miss Hat-
tie Bliss, sports editor.

Advertising department members
will be Miss Claire Haramia, Miss
Sandra Clark, Patrick Bass and Den-
nis Graham. Reporters will be Miss
Beverly Hawker, Mies Beverly Green,
of Condon, Oregon, Miss Barbara

Commissioners Turn
Down Sawmill Plan

Request of Argus Lumber for ap-
proyal of a plan to construct a small
sewmill within the village boun-
daries was turned down yesterday
after commissioners had viewed the
suggested. location.

Commissioners considered the
written request at their Tuesday
night meeting, and seemed against
tho proposal at that time. Feeling
was that sawmills should be located
outside of town for the sake of both
residents and the mill owners them-

selves. Aside from the nuisance cre-
ated to neighbors, commissioners
stated that the mill owner would

soon find property space too small if
the mill was successful.

Another lumber company’s prob-
lem came before the board with a
request from Lignum Ltd., for a
building permit to construct a tem-
porary office building on skids. A
temporary permit was issued cover

ing a six-month period, at whicn
time it comes up for renewal if re-
quired.

Chairman Stan Goad informed the
meeting that the company would
soon be constructing a burner at the
mill. He said he had been advised
that the unit was now in Williams
Lake.

PERMITS

One residential building permit
was approved for a $6,000 home for
James Groome.

Two business permits

were also

approved. One was issued to Walter

Legare and Ralph Ganzer, paintin
contractors, and one to G. E. Gib-
bons for the retail sale of wood,

: S-editoral Satter.
hey ‘will also be shown how’te make
up the newspaper and will take wn
active part in its production.

Teachers are giving full co-opera-
tion with the publishers to ensure
the success of the student-edited
issue.

JUVENILES LOSE TO
VERNON PUCKSTERS

After decisively eliminating Kam- |
loops on the weekend, the Clinton
All-Stars lost out in their bid se |

Interior juvenile hockey laurels when
they were defeated 6-3 and 2-0 by!
Vernon in games Monday night and
yesterday afternoon.

The Clinton squad, bolstered by
locals Marvin Scott, Barry Bishop.
Walter Richardson, Frank Purjue,
Omar Crosina, and goalie Trites from
Quesnel, showed a lot of hustle on
their weekend games against Kam-
loops.

The Saturday night was a
goalies’ duel with Clinton coming
out on top by the narrow margin of
1-0
Netminders Marvin Tansley of
Kamloops and Clinton's classy Ron
Trites turned aside every effort to

affair

(Continued on back page)

Village
According To Deputy Minister

Williams Lake’s often-co:
project has received another set-back within the past couple

of weeks, commissioners were

Tuesday night.

Letters from B.C, Bracewell, dep-
of- Municipalities, and
rs in Victoria

uty minister
from the firm of lawy

retained by the village, indicate that
provincial approval of the scheme
will not
struggle.

Main difficulty is a matter of popu-

be fortlicoming without a

lation — we just haven’t enough
citizens within the village boundar-
ies. In his letter on the subject, Mr.
Bracewell points ot that, based on
4 population of 1250, the cost of the
sewer project ($120,000) plus the
present indebtedness of the village,
would place the per capita indebted-
ness at $168.50, which is not con-
sidered good business. He went on
to say that the average ‘per capita
indebtedness in villages amounts to
and that only in exceptional
cases is approval given for a by-law
that would result in an indebtedness
in excess of $150.

Only possible ray of hope seen in
the deputy minister's letter is his
statement that the project might be
viewed in a more favorable light if
the entire village were to be served
by the sewer, even if the total cost
of the scheme was increased.

This comment is aimed at the fact
that the present proposal leaves sev-
eral parts of the village without ser-
vice. One of these is a section of the
sub-division above the Stampede
grounds, and the other is the new
i ont Helow he airport! y Thes
latter contai lots. Of this num-
her, some 44 have now been sold, and
according to a local real estate agent,
at the rate enquiries are coming in
now, the entire sub-division will be
sold within the next two months.

The letter from the legal firm sug-
sted that if the population figure
ound the 1400-mark, the gov-
ernment might approve the scheme.
This could only be ascertained by
conducting a cénsus, but commi
sioners frowned on the idea since
this would. involve extra cost and
there Was little likelihood of finding
the extra citizens anyway.

In fact the commissioners indieat-

Load Limits Imposed

Load and speed restrictions on
all district roads with the éxcep- |
tion of the Carioo Highway went
into effect at midnight, March 10.

Restrictions were originally to
apply to the Cariboo Highway as
well, but a last-minute decision
rescinded the restriction deadline
to midnight, March 13.

During the road
period on the highway the Grey-
hound bus schedule will be chang-
ed to one trip daily. The bus will
leave Williams Lake going south
at 2 a.m. and at 3 a.m. going north.

restriction

were announced Mone
In his budget addr

amount to
The budget
@ Seek

percent,
address also

approval of gr:

approved at the 1
The premier

ave no ind

anting

from sales tax of

s ),000,000 to the
Fastern Railway.
e A flat $5 increase in
bonus to old-
of social assis‘ance and mothers’
e Fxemptions
and shoes,
e
fees.
© Abolition of the 10 ner

ast session ef the Legis

BUDGET FORECASTS SALES TAX HIKE

Increase in the sales tax to five percent to replace
premiums in British Celumbia’s hospital insurance scheme
y by Premier W
the premie
from 3 to 5 percent in the social service tax will give the

Cc. Bennett.
said the increase

government an anticipated § 0,000 for the year ending
March 31, 1955.

The tax, expected to be effective from April 1, will be
the highest in Canada with the exception of some cities in
Quebec where municipal and provincial taxes combined

revealed proposals to:

of

borrowing powe

government-owned Pacific Great

the province's cost-of-living

age and blind pensioners and recipients

allowances,
children’s clothing

Reduction from $10 to $14. cf automebile registration

cent tax on liquor by the glass
ature,
ation ef how the $30,000,000

requested for the P.G.E. would be spent.

ts Snag

Population Too Small,

mtentious long-delayed sewer

informed at their meeting

ed they were beginning to take a dim
view of the whole proceedings. Their
understanding of the original pro-
posals of the firm of engineers re-
tained was that officials of this com-
pany would draw plans of the sewer
system; prepare information for the
by-law; see that it was presented at
Victoria, and finally to assist in the
way of providing speakers and in-
formation for the job of presenting
the plan to the ratepayers before it
was voted on.

Since then, the wile has been
advised to engage the firm of Vic-
toria lawyers for the work of pre-
paring the by-law and steering it
through the government department,
a procedure that costs money, and
the final suggestion of putting out
mere money for a.ceysus seemed too
much of a good thing.

Village Clerk E. H. Gibbon was
told to write to the firm of engineers
suggesting that this type of informa-
tion collecting came under their re-
sponsibility.

NOTED CHILCOTIN
RANCHER PASSES

Following a period of ill health,
Kennon Beverly Moore, familiar
pioneer resident of the Chilcotin,
passed away quietly March 7th at
Shaughnessy Military Hospital, Van-
conver.

Born September 12, 1891 in BOS,
ton, Mass, to parents whose lineag?
dated back to the first settlers of
that area, Kennon Moore held true
to family type when at the age of 21
he came west and settled in the re-
mote regions of the Chileotin.

When World War I started he
joined the Canadian Engineers, serv-
ing in the front lines in France. When
his outfit was gassed, he alone sur-
vived, and after spending a period of
recupertion in Scotland, he returned
to the Chileotin, to the then unset-
tled Tatlayoko Valley.

In 1920 he married Dora Isobel
Church, daughter of the pioneer
Church family of Big Creek.

Ken worked hard at enlarging his
first “garden patch” on the fertile

(continued on back page)

Plans For Combined
Museum-Library
Being Readied

First definite steps in providing.
Williams Lake with a library and
museum were taken at a meeting
Monday. night of the Williams Lake
Historical Society.

The meeting authorized the estab-
| lishment of a joint committee made
up of members of the historigal
group, library board ayd,art society
to draw up tentative plans for a
building to accommodate the needs
of all three organizations. These
plans will then be submitted to the
‘Board of Village Commissioners for
approval.

It is understood that the building
will be constructed of logs and will
be large enough to give each organ-
ization a space of 20 x 80 feet to
th. The firm of J & W Log-
oifered to donate the logs
for the building, peeled and deliver-
ed. The members behind the project
feel that with this assistance, the
bare cost of supplies and erection of
the building would be approximately
$3,000.

The building will he situated on
the park site below the hospital
grounds.

Speaking from the point of view
of the Historical Society, president
Henry Windt states that there is a
definite need of such a structure. It
collection of
items of historical interest that are
mow scattered over the whole dis-
| trict and gradually vanishing,