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Volume 22 --- Number 18.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, May 6, 1954.

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

Over One Hundred Attend
Boy Scout Reunion Dinner

Their association with Scouting, “the greatest game in
the world,” in the words of the guest of honour, drew 110

_ persons together Monday night at Columbus Hall to take part

in the 1st Williams Lake Troop reunion dinner.

There were newcomers to Scout-
ing, right down to the youngest Wolf
Cub in the hall; there were 21 form-
er members of the troop present;
there were old scouters in attendance
who took part in the movement in
other parts of Canada, and there was
the oldest Scouter present, Arch-
deacon B. A. Resker. who joined the
Scouts in England when the move-
ment was first started and who is
still in the game as a Scout Commis-
sioner in his home in the Kootenays.

Four members and leaders of the
troop who were unable to come to
Williams Lake for the reunion sent
letters regretting their inabilty to be
at the reunion. Not forgotten were
those former scouts who have passed
away. Chairman Tom Denny read
their names from an honour roll as
the scouts and their guests stood in
silence.

Early scouting in Williams Lake
was recalled by Wilf Moore, who was
a patrol leader in the original troop.
Looking around the hall, Mr. Moore
said there was a vast difference in
meeting places. He said the troop’s
first home was in an abandoned
chicken house that was cleaned out
by the boys’ mothers for the purpose.
The next improvement was securing
a room in the school to hold meet-
ings. Mr. Moore recalled the hikes
and camping trips the troop had
taken part in and referring to the
stalking games, he told the boys that
this type of training came back to
you when you went out in the woods
on hunting expeditions. The great
feeling that all of the boys felt for
their original leader was expressed by
the speaker when he said that Mr.
Resker was one of the greatest lead-
ers inthe movement. :

For the present day boys. Scout-
master Bernie Matthews and Cub-
master Bob Sweet promised to do

Greetings were brought from the
Chilcotin by Scoutmaster Tommy
Lee of the newly organized Alexis
Creek Troop. Mr. Lee, who was a
former member of the Williams Lake
Troop, said his new group would
appreciate all the assistance it could
get from town scouts and leaders.

Messages of congratulation to
local scouts were voiced by two form-
er Scouters in Saskatchewan, Clive
Stangoe and Father Naphin.

Mr. Stangoe, who went through
the three branches of the movement
to leadership in Saskatoon, appealed
to the group committee to encourage
Scouts to stay in the game as Rover
Scouts. Frem this branch of Scouting:
come future leaders, he said, and the
interest of young men in scouting is
maintained if the transition step of
Rovers is available to them.

Father Naphin, who was a Scout
in Yorkton and went on to become a
Scoutmaster, directed his remarks in
discipline to the parents present,
The speaker said he had been a troop
Jeader back in 1922 when the great
peace movement resulted in the
dropping of such commands as “‘at-
tention” in scouts, to be substituted
by “alert.” This demilitarizing of
the movement and resulting loss of
a certain amount of discipline had
been a mistake, Father Naphin said-
If we take a realistic view of life,
will
rmy in another war and
their early training in discipline will
be invaluable. On the subject of
leadership, Father Naphin stated
that Scouting offered a wonderful
field for adults to better themselves.
“You will find,” he asserted, “if you
can lead a boy, you can lead anyone.”

Harold Richardson, president of
the local Canadian Legion branch,
sponsoring body of the troop, pre-
sented Scoutmaster Matthews with
a framed picture of the original troop
under Scoutmaster Resker and assist-
ant Scoutmaster Tom Denny.

Following the dinner, Commission-
er Resker showed slides of early
scouts and incidents in Williams
Lake, interspersed with anecdotes of
the boys he came to know so well in
the twelve years he lived here and
worked with them.

There were scenes from the spring

hike and Joe Smith’s pack horse drive |

to Chimney Lake. Another camp
scene was taken at Lac La Hache
where the troop acquired the dubious

advantages of a cow. The camp was
held during the height of the fiy sea-
son and Harry Taylor, former assist-
ant, patly cartooned the daily pro-
cedure of milking time in camp.

Mr. Taylor, who was formerly the
Indian Agent here, is now retired
and living at Kamloops. He gave the
troop valuable help in their social
activities, writitg plays and staging
them. A new series of stories written
by Mr. Taylor, “Tales of the West
Coast,” started this week over CBC.

There were pictures of the inspec-
tion of the troop by Lord Willingdon
when he visited Williams Lake in
1930.

Following the slides, commission-
er Resker spoke briefly, addressing
his remarks to the present day troop

and pack. He told them of the many

changes of quarters, from the old
school to the old Goodrich house by
the creek where vagrants burned
many of the old records, then into
St. Peter’s Hall, the Elks Hall and
finally to Columbus Hall.

He asked if there were any of his
first troop who had boys in scouting
and found two; sons of Jim Groome
and the late Jack Moxon.

Former local scouts present inclu-
ded Raymond Wise, Lac La Hache,
Bill Smith, Sid and Les Pigeon,
Hugh. Ogden, Lac La Hache; Bill
Stafford, Ed. Gaspard, Ralph Wood-

jand, Dick Hamilton. Quesnel; Reg.
Norberg, Ken Huston, Tom Lee,
Wilf Hodgson. Jim Groome, Don

Quesnel, Fred Hutchinson and Wilf
Moore. There were four members
of the Blair family present, Jim,
Ramsay and Robin were joined by
Allan from Quesnel.

e-plcilers- were réceived fpom Cap=|
tain A. A Loyeridge, Chilliwack, a
former King’s Scout; Tommy Tho-
tas with the Department of Trans.
port at Lampart, Sask.; Flight Lieu-
tenant Percy Pigeon with the RCAF
in Ontario; Neil Robertson, now
serving in the Armed Forces in Ko-
rea; Dr. L. E. English; Kamloops:
Harry Taylor, Kamloops.

Plan Cancer Panel
For Williams Lake

The Williams Lake Cancer Society
will be assisted by the Junior Cham-
ber of Commerce in jointly sponsor-
ing a panel on cancer to be held in
Williams Lake around the end of
May.

The panel will consist of a special-
ist from Vancouver and local phy-
sicians.

These public forums on diseases
have proved exceptionally interest-
ing to coast audiences, and the
Cancer Society is backing the plan to
bring the forums on cancer to the
rural areas.

It is hoped to have a definite date
for the panel set for announcement
next week.

Life Membership
In Anglican W.A.
To Mrs. Denny

Mrs. Tom Denny, charter member
ot the Anglican Women’s Auxiliary.
was the recipient of a life member-
ship in the church organization at a
special ceremony following evening
service Sunday, that was attended Ly
members of the W.A. and the con-
gregation.

In making the presentation,, Ven-
erable Archdeacon B. A. Resker said
the life memhership was given in
recognition of the years of devoted
service Mrs. Denny had made to the
chureh.

Witnessing the ceremony was an-
other life member of the Auxiliary,
Mrs. L. A. Moxon, who was charter
secretary-treasurer of the group
when it was formed in 1926.

At the first meeting of the W.A.,
attenGed by eight members, Mrs.
Denny took charge of children’s
work in the church, and she has been
active in this division ever since. The
auxiliary grew to 35 members in the
first year.

| Lake High School

Well —Not Many

It didn't take long to get a re-
action to our comments on “no pock
marks on Williams Lake win
shields.” The morning following
publication Mrs. Harris Wilkinson
reported that their car and truck
both had small groups of these mys-
terious and tiny marks pitting the
windshields. The windshields of cars
owned by Henry and Pete Unrau also
showed evidence of pock-itis, Mrs,
Wilkinson states.

In the case of their own vehicles,
our informant told us the car hasn’t]
been out of the
months,

Students Elect A

Council President

Students this week at Williamg
elected Barbara,
Gardner as president of the Student's
Council tor the coming term. The
popular local girl won out by a nar-
row margin of 16 votes over Barbara
Bryce of Lac La Hache in one of the}
closest student elections on record.
Barbara, who is the elder daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Herb Gardner of,
Williams Lake, is 15 years old and’
in Grade Ten. Outstanding in school
sports, the new president is captain
of the girls basketball team and is
her house sports representative.

Stampede Directors
Prepare Budget

A budget was finally forthcoming
from last Friday's Stampede direc-
tors meeting, but not before two
hours had been devoted to a free-
swinging argument between the rep-
resentatives of the participating or-
genizations and the others on the
board who favour a decrease in per-
centage cut to the concession holders.

When the directors finally got
dows to business, a budget was
ooo that shows a detferor $160.

if revenue from the show stays*at
1st date should, in theory, provide
a much “greater gate revenue: than
has been the case in former years,
the $3500 from the turnstiles in the
1953 stampede were taken for bud-
get revenue purposes. The same con-
cession proceeds were figured in, but
the figure for donations was cut from
$900 to. $500. The $500 received last
year from the travelling road show
company was not taken into con-
sideration.

Expenses showed a rise with ap-
proval being given to raising the
amount of prize money for the race

urses from $1640 to $2000. Also
approved was an item for $600 to
provide materials for repairs to the
ground, which will probably include
rebuilding two concession hooths. An
item of $100 was tentatively included
for rain insurance.

Estimated expenditure figure ac-
cording to the budget could be $6375,
compared to estimated revenut of
$4830.

There is little hope for the organ-
ization representatives that this Fri-
day’s general meeting will see any
relaxation of the original demands of
the directors who favour a greater
slice of the concession profit melon
going into the association’s coffers.
It can be expected that the demand
for a new 60-40 split will be pressed,

Breakdown Cuts
Size Of Newspaper

We apologize for the ratio of ad-
vertisng to news matter in this issue
of The Tribune. A newspaper press
breakdown Wednesday morning fore-
ed us to hold eight pages when we
would ordinarily have gone to ten.

News items that were: unable to
set in this week’s issue will see their
way into print next Thursday.

We just didn’t have room for a late
advertisement from the Elks Lodge,
but since it concerns an evening vi
entertainment that had been previ-
ously scheduled, here it is up front.

“Due to many requests from out-
side points for more time to prepare
acts and presentations, we have de-
cided to postpone our amateur show
until a later date. Watch. your local
paper for the date of this forthcom-
ing gala event.”

Lee Skipp, partner in the firm of
Cade & Skipp, was rushed to hospital
in Vancouver last week for medicai
attention,

garage for two |

last year’s figure, Althongh the ~

NEW PRESIDENT

— photo by Blackwell

Ed. Gaspard, Jr., president-elect of
the Williams Lake Junior Chamber
of Commerce, will be installed in of-
fice at the annual Jaycee social event
May 15.

Horsefly Pioneer
Buried Today

Funeral services were conducted
this afternoon from St. Andrew’s
United Church for Albert Joseph
Patenaude, grand old pioneer of the
Horsefly country, who passed away
at War Memorial Hospital last Sun-
day morning in his 81st year.

He had been in failing health for
the past eight months and had been
confined to hospital for the past two
weeks.

He is survived by his loving wife,
four sons, Wilfred, Harold, ‘Spud’
and Albert, all at home except Albert
who is with the Consolidated Mines
at Allenby; one daughter, Mrs. Al
Zirnhelt (Ida), and nine’ grand-
children.

Albert Patenude as born at La-
Pehute, Quebec, and came to British
Columbia when he was 17 years old.
geaeues atyVancogyer in 1891 ond

iten\liked to tell afterwards that he

was offered Woodwards corner for
€150, but as it was only a frog pond
with a fence around it, he didn't
think it was worth the money,

He soon headed for the Cariboo,
working the first two years at a store
in Clinton before heading up the
road to the 150 Mile where he work-
ed for Veith and Borland. In 1894 he
took up ranching on the Woodjam
Ranch near Horsefly.

He was married at Horsefly in
1911 and the next year sold his
ranch and took up storekeeping in
the village for the next four or flye
years. He then bought the Flying U
Ranch on-Martin Creek, where he
epent the rest of his life,

Always active in political life, Mr.
Patenaude was toasted at the annual
convention of the Cariboo Liberal
Association in 1952 as the “oldest
active Liberal in the Cariboo.” He
amused his listeners at that time
with stories of elections in the old
days in this part of the country.

He was a member of Centre Lodge
113, A.F.& A.M., who were in charge
of the funeral,

Chureh service was conducted by
Rey. J. Colelough and interment was
in Williams Lake Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Dan Rottacker,
Vie Imhoff, Jim Wiggins, Wylie Wig-
gins, Sam Sloan and Fred Cardwell.

Detachment Head
Now Corporal

Constable Jack Routledge, con-
stable-in-charge of the local detach-
ment of the RCMP was promoted
Wednesday to the rank of Corporal.

The new corporal has been in the
force for the past five years, three
years at Vernon and the last two
years in Williams Lake.

A vetern of the last war, Corporal
Routledge served in the RCAF with
the rank of Flight Lieutenant. He
was awarded the Distinguished Fly-
ing Cross.”

To Observe Hospital
Pound Day Saturday

National Hospital Day, or Pound

Day, will be observed in Williams
Lake this Saturday. It will be ‘open
house’ at War Memorial Hospital

during the afternoon and the public
is invited to visit the institution.

Afternoon tea will be served by the
Women's Auxiliary,

NO WORD YET ON CPA PROPOSALS

No informaion has been received
as yet on what proposals, if-any,
Canadian Pacific Airlines is going to
make in regard to the reduced service
out of Williams Lake. A recent letter
from E. D. Fulton, M.P., reveals that
the Air Transport Board is looking
into the matter.

Mr. Fulton encloses a copy of a
letter he received from the Air Trans-
port Board on April 21, outlining
some of the developments of the situ-
ation and what action the board is
taking. The letter states: =e

“Last .January when Canadian
Pacific Airlines reduced thé fre-
quency of their service to three times
a week, an inquiry was made as a re-

Students Respond
Well To Hospital
Poster, Essay Contest

‘The poster and essay contest spon-
sored by the Women’s Auxiliary to
the War Memorial Hospital closed
with the judging of entries Saturday
and proved to be the most successful
one since the custom was started
three years ago.

Students in the elementary schools
within the hospital district contrib-
uted heavily to the poster contest
and judges were faced with difficult
Gecisions among the 54 entries.
Children from the town classrooms
captured the majority of the cash
awards.

The following is a list of the prize
winners and those’ whose entries re-
ceived well-deserved ~‘honourable
mentions.” Addresses are only given
of the out-of-town winners.

Grade Six: 1. Lawernce Eagle; 2,
Peggy Pinchbeck and Barbara Kyte.
Honourable mention - Connie Pineh-
beck, Bobby Lee and Jerry Moon.
Susan Ringwood, Joan Hamel, Rose-
mary Buck

itade Five
2. Rosanne Deschene; © honourable
mention = Mary Tresierra, Tini de
Geus, Eiko Uyeyama, Forest Grove
Glen MeNeil, Canim Lake.

Grade Four: 1. Mabel Potter; Clif-
ford Seiden; honourable mention -
Stan Rushton; Arnie Nohr, Forest
Grove.

The essay contest went just the
opposite as far as the prize winners
were concerned. In this division stu-
dents from the south of the district
scored heavily, with Forest Grove
entries winning two of the three
prizes. There were only cash prizes
for the first place available in this
group. Students could take their
choice of two subjects: “Florence
Nightingale” or “The Importance of
a Hospital in the Communty.” The
winners in grades eight and nine
chose the former subject, but in the
grade seven group both the prize
winners and honourable mention en-
tries were on the second subject,
(One entry of each subject is printed
elsewhere in this issue.)

Winner of the Grade nine group
was Wendy Worthington of Forest
Grove, with honourable mention go-
ing to Maureen Simpson of the same
school. Grade eight winner was Laura
Lynn MeNeil of Canim, Lake East.
Grade seven winner wa$ Gail Simp-
son of Forest Grove with an honour-
ble méntion going to Rosemary Ness
of Williams Lake.

Contest officials have announced
that a placque for annual school com-
petition has been donated by a local
businessman and will be competed for
next year for the first time. The com-
mittee will work out a point system
that will equalize the opportunity of
rural schools to compete against bet-
ter equipped town classrooms.

Judges for the poster contest this
year were Mrs. Ken Cameron, Tony
Borkowski and J. C. A. Long. Essay
judges were Mrs. Povl Jorgenstn and
Clive Stangoe. Contest committee
members were Mrs. B, Ringwood and
Mrs. R. Friesen,

B & E Case Committed
To Higher Court

William Joseph Sound, Alberta
man tacing charges of breaking and
entering Williams Lake Pharmacy
April 1, was committed to trial in
the next court of higher jurisdiction
when he appeared at a preliminary
hearing of his case Monday.

The accused will come before
County Court May 20 for election of
trial,

1. Bernnrd Perzeten; ib

sult of a protest from the Williams
Lake Board of Trade, and it was de-
termined that the matter had been
discussed with the Board of Trade
officials, and while both the carrier
and the officials of the Board of Trade
agreed that a daily service was de-
sirable, in the light of the traffic that
was being generated on the route,
daily service could not be economeal-
ly justified:

“To illustrate, in November prior
to the reduction of the service, on
twenty trips into Williams Lake
there was only an average of one
passenger per trip carried, and only
an average of three passengers car-
ried out during the same period.

“The Board had assurance from
C.P.A.L that reduced -service would
only be for the winter months, how-
ever, in a recent general revision of
the service schedules of Canadian
Pacific Airlines, effective April 13.
it was noted that the three-a-week
service on this route was being con-
tinued. Therefore, an inquiry was
made on April 5, of the carrier ask-
ing detailed traffic statistics on the
volume in and out of Williams Lake,
particularly, in order that the Board
might judge whether an increase in
frequency would be justified.”

The letter goes on to state that Mr.
Fulton will be informed wlien the
Board makes its decision.

Portable Mill
Has Latest Features

Th latest ‘Bach’ model portable
sawmill to come out of the maker’s
Vancouver plant is attracting con-
siderable attention as it sits in front
of the office of Lignum Ltd.

Mounted on what looks like an
elongated truck frame, the small mill
is about 40 feetin length. The frame
has truck wheels and a hitch on one
nd for pickup by a tractor. The unit
complete with saw carriage, edger
and a 170 V’8 motor tor power. As”
the carrlage carries the-iog-past the
aw, the boards drop off on rollers
and continue ‘their way to the end
of the frame. The carriage passes
over the edger and motor and when
it is making its return trip, the rough
boards are fed back in a centre chan-
nel through the edger.

The mill will handle logs up to 18
feet in length and has a 62-inch saw.

The unit is the seventh produced
by the Vancouver factory and incor-
porates several added features that
did not exist in earlier models. There
are two of these mills operating in
the Beaver Valley area, one of which
is claimed to be the original model.

The firm of Lignums plans on
using the mill in timber close to town
where its extreme mobility will be
its biggest asset. The portable costs
$14,000 and should handle 15,000
feet daily.

Golfers Hold Tourney

First tournament play on the local
golf course was held last Sunday
with the vice-presdent’s team win-
ning over the president's.

Best card turned in for the day
was Wilf Moore's for 78. Under the
90's were Ken Rife, 83, Bert Levens
86, Owen Kerley 88, George Mable-
‘son $9 and Jim Shaw 89.

Steelhead Fishing
Good On Chilcotin

Steelhead fishing on the Chilcotin
River drew anglers from as far afield
as Williams Lake last weekend,, and
the ocean-going trout were there to
be caught.

Honour of taking the first steel-
head out, according to our Alexis
Creek correspondent, goes to 12-year
old Billy Gibbs of that centre, who
last Thursday battled 45 minutes to
bring a 12% pound beauty to shore.

Marius Mortenson reports that five
steelhead were taken out at Alexis
Creek on Sunday, the largest being
14% pounds. Marius himself took
one weighing 1434. Lightest one of
the five was a 1214 pounder. Farther
up the river, local anglers Garth
Lloyd and Herb Gardner found their
hardest job was to reach the water,
Ice ledges had formed some 15 feet
above the river. Herb caught one
around 12 pounds and Garth Jost
another big one,