Page 3 ~~ THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.¢. Williams Lake Tribune Established 1931 C.ive Stangoe, Editor. Published every Thursday at Wi'liams Lake, B.C. By The Tribune Publishing Co. Member: Canadian’ Weekly Newspapers Association British Columbia Division, C. Subscription: per year Outside Canada .. Payable in Aavance ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa The Cracker By a. a. Barrel Forum Drinkell One of the boys sparked a lively discussion this week by producing a newspaper clipping reporting an ad- dress given recently in Victoria by | the Ralph Chetwynd, | minister of trade and industry. Ru- mour hath it that two Alberta Pack- ing Concerns are shipping dressed meat into Vancouver by truck and Honourable Menace To Health Now that the provincial government has approved in principle the need of a sewer system for Williams Lake the commissioners are nearing the hardest part of the whole project ... selling it to the property owners. Although it is generally conceded that the need of such a system is paramount in our town, when it comes to a vote. thoughts of individual taxation boosts will probably split the property owners between those who have septic tanks that work, and those who don’t. There is one piece of land in the village though where a dangerous sewage problem exists that affects home owners with children, whether or not their own residence is adequately serviced. The sewage disposal beds at the high school have failed to operate properly in the heavy clay soil and at times pools of sewage effluent lie on the surface of the ground. School board officials are properly worried about this menace to health and even if the village system doesn’t materialize they will have to give active consideration to cleaning up this sanitation problem. The only solution will be the installation of another effluent drain within the village boundaries, this time from the high school property down to and across the railway tracks. It would also call ter construction-of a disposal field at the outlet. These effluent drains serving limited areas are all a cost to the taxpayer, either the individual property owners on the lines, or in the case of the proposed drain for the school, to every taxpayer in the district. It is time the entire problem of sewage disposal was settled by a proper system with rigid health control maintained by treatment of the entire discharge in central disnosal fields. < Clean-up Needed The village dump has just undergone.a neat spring clean- ing job by the village bulldozer, and while the area could never be described as a beauty spot, the improvement is certainly noteworthy. Now the only spring cleaning job left is the village itself. Aside from the few individual property owners who fail to take an interest in keeping their own surroundings neat, the biggest eyesores.are the vacant lots near the edges of town with their accumulations of rubbish, ranging from tin cans to abandoned car and truck bodies. It will take community effort to clean up these spots and community responsibility to see that they remain tidy. The results would be worth the expenditure of time and effort though. é ‘ ; It Pays To “Buy At Home” Although the following editorial from the Prince George Citizen deals with an incident in that city, we feel that the moral of the story is equally applicable to Williams Lake. One could easily go farther in saying that the conclusion reached could also apply to many other items besides used cars. By and large it pays to “‘shop at home.” Persons who are contemplating the purchase of a second hand car or truck would be well advised to patronize Prince George dealers. At least that is the belated opinion of a Prince George man who had a costly experience with a Vancouver used car dealer last month. While returning over the Cariboo Highway with a three- year-old sedan which a Vancouver salesman verbally guaran- teed was “in good condition,” the engine broke down near Williams Lake. The garage bill was $120 for towing, parts and repairs, and in addition the disillusioned owner had the expense of going to Williams Lake to pick up the car, which the garageman assured him must have been defective when sold. Most used car lots in this city are operated by firms dealing in new cars. They place too high a value on goodwill to engage in any shady deals based on a policy of ‘‘let the buyer beware.” They realize that every buyer of a used car or truck is a po- tential customer for a new vehicle at some time in the future, and for this reason will go to any reasonable length to retain customer satisfaction. There is no need to go to Vancouver or Edmonton and deal with strangers when in need of a used motor vehicle. Dealers here have hundreds of models to choose from at a wide range of fair prices. Unlikely many of the fly-by-night operators in larger cities, they will be here next week and next. year to reap the benefit of honest selling practices. “Buy at home” is a good motto under most circumstances but in the case of second-hand cars and trucks it has extra LAC LA HACHE Invitational SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT MAY 28 MAY 24 Tournament ‘Starts at 10 a.m. Evening Entertainment May 23 Movie Tournament Dance (silver collection) 12:01 a.m. May 24 * Movie ‘Celebrate the 24th at Lac La Hache’ ing the local boys by two cents per pound. This, according to representations made to the Minis- ter. will seriously affect the several hundred packing-house worke! ployed in B.C. plants. The Minister confesses he is deep:y perplexed. The matter is terribly involved says he and he is somewh to know what can be done about it. Now. the boys do not like to see the minister such perplexed over matters and with a view to helping him out of his dilemma respectiully suggest: First, that he studies his copy of the B.N.A. Act. There he will learn there nothing his govern- ment can do which savours of inter- ference with trade hetween the prov- That is the very essence of Confederation. Secondly, the packing- house brigade will not for long have its signals crossed (if indeed they are crossed at all) so there is no- thing to get really alarmed about so they are concerned. Thirdly, the Alberta feed lots are reported to be already denuded of feeder cattle inces. From the Files of the Tribune ONE YEAR AGO May 21, 1953 A return to responsible govern- ment and restoration of dignity of Legislature guaranteed with election of Liberal government says Arthur Laing at meeting here— Lord Martin Cecil returned as head of Cariboo Cattlemen's Association—- First aueticn sale held by Board of Trade was a success with 98 articles dis posed of— Dr. Wallace Gunn, Live- stock Commissioner from Victoria, was principal speaker at annual meeting of cattlemen. His main theme was control of brucillosis in cattle— Total number of stock sold through association was 5,539 of cattle, 474 sheep, 29 horses and-72 pigs for gross total of $894,265.58— B.C. Teachers’ Federation to ailevi- ate housing shortage by, buying lots and building homes for rental— Pound Day realizes $247 in cash and produce for hospital— Pte. V. #8. Collier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Collier of Meldrum Creek, mention- ed in dispatches from Korea— Dr. L. BE. Avery receives thanks from Hospital Board and presented with set of bookends when he left for Detroit— Twenty-four local carpen- s apply for charter in Unite: Bfosernooa of Carperiters and Joy ers— Annual banquet tenderéty gvaduating class by P-TA set” May: 24th— Large crowd turns for annual sports day at Horsefly— Williams Lake Power Glides secured second prize money in two-day invi- tational softball at Lae La Hache with Kamloops in top spot— FIVE YEARS AGO May 19, 1949 Livestock shipments reach an all- time peak with 13,066 head of cattle and 464 sheep marketed through the Cariboo Cattlemen’s Association — An appeal made to Village Com- missioners to declare pune 8th, first day of Stamede, a civie holiday— Poor radio reception was given‘a go- ing-over at Board of Trade meeting with intermittent reception from local booster station strongly criti- cized— EB. D. Fulton, MP for Kami- loops, opened campaign here— An- gus McLean, Wells gold-miner, will earry the banner for Coalition Gov- ernment in Cariboo riding— In wild chase over old Mountain Road to Soda Creek, Hugh Cornwall and ; Const. Lon Godfrey stop young In- dian who had stolen Mr. Cornwall’s light ¢elivery truck— Spring assizes in Williams Lake have heavy calen- dar with three murder charges, one of attempted murder and two of menslaughter— Helen Harris, noted CBC commentator, will be at annual Stampede— Keithley Creek s on rampage— Good crowd turns out for opening of Miocene’s new commun- ity-built hall— Hundreds of fires burning in timber throughout Cari- boo and Chileotin— PGE to run three freights per week for cattle ship- ments— Elks Hall will be completed in time for Stampede— TEN YEARS AGO May 18, 1944 Cariboo, slow to start, neverthe- less passed quota mark of $210,009 by $24,650 in Gth Victory Loan— Rey. S. C. Crysdale and Mrs. Crys- dale to attend United Church Con- ference at Vancouver, accompanied by Mrs. Rodk. Mackenzie as lay de]e- gate— Local boys took their share of top honors in boxing bout. Keith Norquay, 86 pounds, won two cups, one for best boxer under 14 and other for showing best form and style of any boxer in tournament. Trophies presented to Don Lindley, Tory Exshaw, Kenny Snow and Don Quesnel— H. J. Gardner & Sons have old Anderson mill Joe Lineham has obtained licence to open a business of developing films — Alex D. Rae purchased Caverly Garage— 22-piece Williams Lake Band made first public appearance at boxing tournament— Secretary of hospital position filled by Mr. Jeffery replacing Rey. A. F. Sheward— TWENTY YEARS AGO May 17, 1934 1934 Ford V-8 Deluxe to be given away at Stampede— Children bap- tized _at United Church service at Horsefly were Robert Alexander Pe- gues, Margaret Grace Parminter, Joseph Clarence Williams, Lynwood Hooker, Josiah James Pegues— Two new companies sched- uled to commence operations - in Keithley area, these being Keithley Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd. with authorized capital of one million dol- lars, and Keithley Creek Placers Ltd. with authorized capital of twenty thousand dollars. DRINK Burnett's than any other DRY GIN Distilled in Canada and distributed by The House of Seagram This advertisement is not published or displayed by Thursday, May 20, 1954, so the suggestion this meat is being shipped igto Vancouver because the wo firms in question have lost a big to need propping up. packing-house will for less work and more pay, plus fringe benefits and all the trimmings and most likely will walk out again about the time the B.C. Ranchers are ready to unload the bulk of their livestock. Fourthly, the workers themselves Eastern contract appears so weak as | hortly be agitatszmg once more | will see he gets a good price when he |ships. The Ministry of Trade and Commerce will have one less head- ache to contend with. Mr. Mosher may develop a migraine when the prices of farm products start to climb again but he and his unions have had a long innings so we should worry. Just leave it to the ladies. They are fully aware of the magnitude cf the task and that it cannot be »ccom- plished without some elemonts of compulsion. in operation—- Francis SHOULD KNOW ANGLES : The Hon Mr. Chetwynd has been in the livestock game far too long not to be fully acquainted with ali those angles. To still further assist Well Drilling him we respectfully call his atten- WM. CRUTCHLEY tion to the press reports of Farm Women's Week recently held under leave enquiries at the auspices of the Saskatchewan Farm Union Women. They decided 10 go all out for a livestock market- ing board and whenever the ladies decide to go all out after anything it is safe to offer odds of ten to one they get it. The Minister conld shed his perplexities, and appease his con- science at the same time, by advis- ing The B.C. Beef Growers Associa- tion and its various affiliates to each establish a, Women’s Division with the ultimate object ‘of their taking over the active management of all livestock organizations in B.C. Then Papa can stay home and raise the jeritters while Mamma sallies forth to sell the fritters. Shorty suggests in order. to strengthen the hand of the new board of female directors, when they march against the forces of the Council of Canadian Meat Packers and The Re- tail Butchers Association, the gals be armed with lorgnettes. As a sym- hol of their high office the handles could be tipped with a bull's head. What a day that will be for the live- stock industry. Mrs. Rancher will no longer languish by the kitchen range or spend hour upon hour gazing out of windows. She will be rejuvenated each time there is a meeting of her organization. She will get a new lease on life every time she goes forth to battle. Mr. Rancher will never more have to worry about those pesky meetings which never do nobody no good no how. He can just stay home with his hay and his beef in the full knowledge Mamma F. B. BASS LT.. INTERIOR WHOLESALE z DISTRIBUTORS Williams Lake, B. Qo you mend, a NEW TRUGK? . thon tale to WORN ito see A necessity on almost any farm, a good sturdy truck saves you time, work and money in a hundred ways. If you're short of ready cash for such 2 profit-building purchase, FIL may be your answer. A B of M Farm Improvement he Tulcea ae Farm Improve- ment Loan. Give him a chance to help fix up your farm... he’s eco- nomical, conven- ient, versatile. He o almost anything in mak. 1B your farm a beter farm. 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