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Volume #2 -- Number 15.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, April 15, 1954.

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

Students Win At Festival

Choir

The Dormitory Choir under the
direction of Mrs.&. Boyce brought
distinction to Williams Lake at the
Yale-Cariboo Festival last week by
winning the Rotary Shield. This was
the top honor given in the class
“voices under 18 other than a school
choir.””

Adjudicator J. S. Haton, of Edmon-
ton praised the selections as well
chosen asa contrast, and the group
gs a whole as a “fine choir.” —__

The girls Were accompanied by
Mrs. G. MeKinnell, and Mrs. . E.
Wright of Lae La Hache. They re-
turned home Friday morning and
were all in school the next morning.

Expect 150 Here
For Scout Reunion

It is expected that around 150
former Boy Scouts of the Williams
Lake Troop, as well as present mem-
bers, will attend the Boy Scout Re-
union Dinner set for May 3 at Col-
umbus Hall. —

Venerable B. A Resker, Arch-
deacon of the Kootenays and the first
local Scout leader, will be guest of
honor and will show slides and
photographs of former scouts and
their activities. His assistant leader
in those early days of the troop, Tom

“Denny, Sr., will be chairman of the
reunion gatherng.

Form letters of invitation to all
former local scouts and cubs are
going out this week, and whether
the recipients are planning to attend
or not, they should contact Mr. Den-
ny before April 28. Some of the
troop’s official records are missing
and there is a possibilty that some
names be missed. If a former scout
fails to receive an i he

Players

“The Voice of the People,” a mod-
ern comedy presented by the Players
Club of the Williams Lake High
School, took top honors in the form of
the Buckerfield Cup at the Yale-
Cariboo Music Festival last week at
Kamloops.

Adjudicator Mrs. Leona Patterson
congratulated the local group, direct-
ed by Mrs. A. Stevenson, on their
excellent festival choice of play. “The
Voice of the People’ by Canadian
authur Robertson Davies, is usually
only attempted by adult groups. Mrs.
Patterson said it had been perform-
ed “three times as well as it had been
done by adults at a recent Calgary
festival,” and was amazed at the
ages of the Williams Lake players
(16 = 18). She also complimented
them on working together as a team
and maintaining their parts.

Taking part in the play were Rex
Moon, Elizabeth Stevenson, Phillip
Mayfield and Carole Berglund. Men-
tion should be made of the excellent
job of prompting done by Barbara
Bryce, who kept the play flowing
along smoothly at all times.

The students competed in two in-
termediate classes winning over Lil-
looet, Westwold, Kamloops and
Bridge Lake to take the cup with 87
points. Nearest competitor gained 84
points.

Fred Cardwell
Heads Game Club

Fred Cardwell was elected presi-
dent of the Williams Lake Rod &
Gun Club at the sportsmen’s annual
meeting last Friday.

Named yice-president was Ben
Abbott and Geof. Place was elected

shold’ contact MrSOemuy, =~

Trade Group Joins
Ambulance Project

The Board of Trade joined other
town organizations in preliminary
work on the ambulance project at
their meeting last Thursday when
they appointed Povl Jorgensen as.
representative on the planning com-
mittee.

Jack Abbott.
Elmer Carswell, Dan Rottacker, Herb
Gardner, Sid Pigeon, Cliff Odine, Joe
Gillis and Alvan Miller.

Changes in present game regula-
tions suggested by the meeting in-
cluded an antlerless season this year
for deer with a bag limit of two, and
a short hornless season on moose. It
was also recommended that the
bounty on coyotes be withdrawn.

Following a lengthy discussion on
the status of the club’s pistol section,
it was finally-decided that this group
would break away from the club as

Prior to. the nt, Bill
Edwards, organizer of the scheme,
and Ralph Woodland, Fire Brigade
representative, explained the objects
of the planned ambulance service.

Members agreed to again sponsor
an agricultural field day this year.
The program is designed to assist
one the district's primary industries,
ranching, and is staged in the week
of the annual meeting of the Ca
boo Cattlemen's Association. - This
year the field day program will ex-
tend through May 14 and 15.

Reminder by Gordon Blackwell of
an official statement that the pro-
posed addition to the provincial
building here would be on the top of
the list of government projects in
1954 prompted the board to author-
ize a letter to the Minister of Public
Works on the subject.

Members’ approved the establish-
ment of an annual honorarium of
$25 for the secretary of the board,
effective for the year 1953. During
the discussion, praise was accorded
secretary Doug Adair, who was ab-
sent from the meeting, for the man-
ner in which he has carried out the
duties of this position. It was point-
ed out that Mr. Adair has held the
post for the past 18 months, a longer
term than any other secretary for the
past seven years.

The following committee chair
men were appointed for the year:
Clive Stangoe, & industry;
Bruce Magoffin, membership; Jack
Dye, national affairs; Tony Wood-
land, roads; Gordon ~ Blackwell,
tourist development and publicity:
Bert Roberts, entertainment.

TO SHOW KITIMAT FILM

The huge aluminum company pro-
ject at Kitimat will be depicted in a
film to be shown at Columbus Hall
Saturday night under the sponsor-
ship of the Volunteer Fire Brigade.
The film will cover the project from
the initia] survey work to completion
of the Kenny dam,

an i organization.

DISTRICT MAN PASSES

Howard MeNeil, well-known busi-
neesman of Forest Grove, died sud-
denly this morning, according to a
late report received at press time.

Mr. and Mrs. MeNeil have operated
a store and garage at Forest Grove
for a number of years.

thet Arg BI |

Messenger Lands

—Central Press Canudian

Roy Budgell, 17-year-old mes-
senger, was asked

tens and twenties.” When the
teller read the note she sounded
the alarm and Roy, wondering
what it was all about. had to tell
his story to the police who ad-
mitted if was a new wrinkle in
altempted bank hold-ups.

Lakeside Home Saved
By Town Firemen

Prompt appearance of Williams
Lake Fire Brigade in response to a
2am. alarm Tuesday morning is
credited with saving the loss of the
jJakeside home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Kozuki.

Although spread-of the fire was
immediately prevented as hoses were
brought into play from the “hydrant
at Herbert Lodge. firemen were kept
busy for gn hour and-a half com-
(Mishel Pe beiis- Gie ¥ mudatdering
walls.

The fire is believed to have started
in the wall insulation by overheated
wires from a water heater in the k
chen. st member of the family
to he awakened by the dense smoke
in the second storey bedrooms wa
Mr. and Mrs. Kozuki’s son, Dick, who
aroused his father. The family of
three boys and a girl were forced to
flee through the upstairs window on
to a porch roof and down to the
ground. Dick and his brother Eddie

both received cuts as they went
through the broken glass.
Once on the ground, Dick went

across to the home of Harold Rici-
ardson, who placed the alarm. In
the meantime Mr. Kozuki played a
garden hose on the fire through the
back door until firemen arrived to
take over. -

The intense heat of the fire, as
well as smoke and water damage, re-
sulted in approximately $2500 dam-
age done to furnishings and $3500 to
the building. Loss fully in-
sured.

was

J}. Waster holidays.

HOLIDAY CLOSING

The mechanical department

of The Tribune will be closed
from tonight until Tuesday
morning, April 20, for the

Front office will be open Sat-

urday morning from 9 a.m. to
12 noon.
i Next week's issue of The
Tribune will be published Fri-
day, April 23 instead of the
usual Thursday publication
date.

Plans Accepted

have the building completed in time
for the fall term in September.

$75,260.

Besides two regular classrooms,
the addition will contain a junior
scfence room, agricultural class room,

TEACHERS’ SALARIES
TO BE BOOSTED
THIS SEPTEMBER

| Although teachers’ salaries in Dis-
trict 27 do not come up for revision
this year, trustees have found them-
Selves caught in a general increase
trend that has forced them to volun-
tarily approve a boost in September
Qf face the prospect of having a hard
time to fill vacancies.

The board was approched by rep-
vesentatives of the local teachers*
group with a request that consider-
ation be given to revising the present
schedule 6 fall in line with those of
the majority of the districts in’ the
province. Although the teachers said
they were giving no consideration to
breaking the existing agreement, they
pointed out that District 27 now has
one of the lowest scales in the prov-
ince following the general shutfle
early this year in arbitration awards.
(There are no districts in the prov-

{ince paying a lower scale than Dis-

tict 27; two others are at the same
scale.)

‘Trustees agreed to adopt the same
schedule as that of the Quesnel dis-
{et, effective September 1. The boost,
ah S approxhaatesjamp om
$150\per teacher per year In the
four months to the end of 1954 the
rise will cost the district somewhere
in the neighborhood of $3000. +

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home economics sewing room; com-
mercial class room. students activity
room, combined library and class-
room,
CLASS PROJECT

‘The board has authorized an ad-
vance of $150 to the industrial arts

Former District Man
Dies From Injuries
At Prince George

Funeral services will be conducted
from St. Andrew’s United Church
Sunday for John Roy MacDonald,
formerly of Macalister and Big Lake,
who passed away in hospital at Prince
George yesterday morning.

Mr. MacDonald, who was 34 years
of age, died as a result of injuries
suffered in a logging accident 12
miles out of Prince George. when he
was struck by a falling snag.

Born in Vancoyer, Mr.,MacDonald
came to this district in 1921 when
his father and mother took up land
at Big Lake. The family lived there
until the early 1940’s when they
moved to Macalister. Roy served with
the RCAF in the Second World War.
Following discharge he moved to
Prince George.

He is surviy;
rehildren, Carlgad ‘Glory kis mother
at Macalister; one sister, Mrs. L.
Turner at Prince George, and two
ares Harold at Macalister and
‘Wendell at Williams Lake,

Curlers Elect Ne

Sixty-five members of the Williams
Lake Curling Club elected Bob Kelt
as president for the 1954-55 season
at their annual meeting and banquet
at the Elks Hall last night.

Dune Herbert was named vice-
president, and Lorne Earl, a new-
comer to town, was elected secretary-
teasurer.

Directors for the coming year are
ack McPhail, Perry Scott, Tony
Woodland, Tom Bishop, George Me-
Kenzie, Ken Rife and Claire Redding.

Roderick Mackenzie, who retiring
president Fred Graham referred to

as “one of the oldest active curlers

Canadian Rockies, are stranded
three or four days’ skiing time

Bao FLYING WEATHER STRANDS ICEFIELDS’ EXPEDITION
Bie MEE x, Serre Ty = oo :

This group of Ontario skiers who sei out on Q
an exploration trip of 200 miles through the air

starting place of Moab Lake, near Jasper, Alta
The arrangements called for a plane to drop
food at Fortress Lake, put poor weather has

at Fortress Lake,
away from their

their destination.

1 impossible for their ;
So it is expected they are patiently wait-
ing at Fortress Lake until the
before they tackle the rest of the glacier-aval-
anche country between th-m eng

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weather clears

Hector, B.C.,

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At Annual Meeting And Banquet

in, Canada,” was re-elected honorary
president. Club chaplain is Bill
Mouat.

In a brief resume of the club’s ac-
tivities during the past season, Mr.
Graham siad he felt it had been a
successful one. This feeling was

secretary-treasurer Murray Fairley
who showed that financially the club
had prospered.

Prospect of obtaining artificial ice
at the arena may not be out of the

committee of curling club and War
Memorial Arena Society members

believed the plant can be put in in
both the main arena and curling rink
for about $30,000. If this proves to
be the case, Mr. Gardner said he felt
that the project could be financed on
a sound basis.

Highlights of the evening was the

presentation of
competition,

Home Furnishings Trophy, a feat

marked the first time that one rink

season. Owen Kerley accepted the
Central Service trophy tor his rink
and Fred Graham accepted the Mac-
kenzie trophy

The Scott rink is made up of Pat
| Hosey, ,George Mackenzie and Jack

Joe Walsh. On the Graham rink is
Bill Lowden, Tom Larson and Warren
Toop.

EL STUDENTS

ADDRE

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Leo Jobin, retired game warden,
{ Friday addressed a gathering of
150 students at Quesnel. Mr. Jobin
has conducted a series of talks on
wildlife at schools throughout Dis-
| trict 24, but this marked the first
time he had made a trip out of the
district to address students,

Architects’ sketch plans.for a. six-
Treom, two storey addition to Williams
Lake High School have been accepted
by trustees of District 27. Final plans
are being rushed and it is hoped to

Cost of the project is estimated at

d by his wife and two |

borne out in the report of retiring

question, according to a report by
Herb Gardner, who is a member of a

who are investigating costs. Mr. Gard-
ner said that on the basis of using

trophies for club
Perry Scott received
beth the Gardner Trophy and Cariboo

that incoming president Kelt said

had won two trophies, outside of the
Mackenzie Challenge Trophy, in one

For Major

Addition To Local High School

class to finance construction of a
garage. When the building is com-
pleted it will be sold by the students
and the original load paid back.
SKYLINE siTp

Board officials are negotiating
with the Cariboo Cattlemen's Associ-
ation to obtain a site on the stock
holding grounds on the other side of
the lake for the proposed Skyline
school. Ths school would take chil-
dren in the lower grades and would
cut down on present bus line prob-
lems. When the new school is opened
the old Springhouse school will be
closed.
BUS TENDER

All school bus tenders in the. dis-
trict expire in June and public ten-
ders will be called on all routes
sometime within the next two or
hree weeks.
WANT SEWER

Anxious about the problem of
sewage disposal, trustees forwarded
the following resolution to the Vil-
lage Commission. “Resolved that
whereas the size of the present high
school and dormitory is such that the
sewage disposal field has become un-
Satisfactory and is nearing the point
of saturatiotysthus becoming a haz-
j ard to public healt
school board plans
tional six classrooms to the high
school thisyear which will further
aggravate the situation, the Corpora-
tion of the Village of Williams Lake
be urged to expedite plans for the
provision of a sewage system.”

Spring Building
Permit Surge On

e town's spring building pro-
grath looked just ahead to Village
Commissioners Tuesday night as they
approved seven applicatons for resi-
dential building permits.

Permits ‘were granted to St. An-
drew’s United Church for construc-
tion of a manse and to the following
Prospective home builders: Sid Leith,

. deGeus, Nick Posnikofi, John
Pyska, Fred Lee and C. E. Buck. Two
other applications were turned down
for lack of sufficient information.

Four business licences were grant-
ed to the following applicants: Leo
j Fowler, ready-mix conérete; R. BE.
Dupont, building contractor; Peert-
son & Ternan, chain saw sales and
Nservice; Miss T. M. Parisien, beauty
parlour, ;

Commissioner Herb Gardner was
asked to continue to sketch plans for
a village hall. The bulding will mea-
Sure 18x32 feet and will be separate
from the present hall, probably fae-
ing on Borland Street. If the struc-
ture is built, the present hall will be
turned over to the Williams. Lake
Volunteer Fire Brigade for its ex-
elusive use.

A letter from the Board of Trade
in regard to the parking problem on

way Avenue resulted in the com-
missioners deciding to devote a
special meetng to the question of
parking in general.

A petition was received from prop-
erty owners along First Avenue be-
tween Oliver and Yorston for con-
struction of a cement sidewalk down
the west side of the street. Cost es-
timates will be obtained so the prop-
erty owners may know what their
share of the project would entail,

Cadets Hold First
Parade Last Night

First parade of the local cadet

Routledge. On the Kerley rink is Al- . = + ‘. a
ei y this figure will jum much highe:
lan Smallenberg, Jack Halfnights and . ane ener

corps was held last night at the vil-
hall. At present there are 23
8 who have signified their inten-
tion of joining and it is expected that

lage

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within the next week. Boys who have
now joined are being measured for
uniforms,
Surprise enthusiasm for the cadets
was supplied by the boys of the Cari-
| boo Indian Residential School at st
Joseph's Mission, It hd been expected
that some ten boys would be intex
ested, but 29 have joined. Size of the
group may force instructors to hold
parades at the Mission for them ra-
ther than have the problem of trans-
porting this many boys back and
forth to town once a week,