illiams Lake NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO or Volume 22 — Number 30. WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, July 15, 1954. Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year. FIRST BOOM MINE Production of base metals in have stated that ‘the full potential Turning a deaf ear to the “long-range” forecasts, IN PRODUCTION —Centra! Press Canadian y New Brunswick, which began a boom 18 months ago. is a long-term proposition and mining men will not be reached for years. a tungsten mine, 65 miles north of Fredericton. capital of the province, has advanced to the production stage and, moving eight tons of tungsten conce trates to market before auluimn, will be the first of the “boom Mine Manager Plumadore, right, and a S at the entrance to the mine discoveries in production. driller éxamine. their min Which they believe to contain enough ore for 20 years of production. And They Call This Sport One of the most flagrant examples * of game hoggishness of its type to ome to light in the Chilcotin ig re- ported by Game Warden Ken Walms- ley Of Alexis Creek. Kén was making a routine check of popular Nimpo Lake last Wednes- day when he came across three Am- erican tourists about to strike camp and head for their home in Yakima. The game warden asked them how any fish they had and they told hin they had their iegal limit of 108 (three days limit each), On check= ing the fish, Ken found there were actually 112. Although the tourists kept insisting that this was the amount of their catch, the game war- den started to search the vehicle and uncovered 93 more. Of the total, 112 were fresh and 93 smoked. For their infraction of the-Game Act, the visitors were fined $50 and $2.50 costs each and had their fishing tackle confiscated .They were allow- ed to keep their legal limit and the balance was turned over to War Memorial Hospital. Average weight of the fish 2% pounds, ? ~ as AMBULANCE DIRECTOR ‘Mrs. Steve Malesku, R.N. has been appointed representative of the local chapter of the Registered Nurses’ Association to the board of directors ofthe Williams Lake & District Am- bulance Society. District Ranch Imports Six Head Of Highland Cattle Interesting additions to the dis- tricts livestock population are the six registered Scotch Highland cattle recently imported by the J. BE. and J. F. Whitmer ranch at Quesnel Forks. Th short, shaggy haired animals came from the Baxter Berry ranch of Belvidere, South Dakota. The herd sire of this ranch was sired by David of Fordie, a bull imported from Scotland and a full brother of the Grand Champion of Scotland. An- other brother, Donald of Fordie, sired the bull purchased last Rebru- ary at the Oban sales to head Queen Elizabeth’s herd of Scotch Highland cattle at Balmoral. While at the Baxter Berry Ranch, which is the largest Scot Highland ranch in the world, Mr: and Mrs. J. E. Whitmer met Mr. and Mrs. 8. H. L. MacDonald of Bargellean Farms in Argyl, Scotland. Mr. MacDonald is the present head of the original Hghland Breeders Society of Scot- | land. He was the guest speaker at the third annual meeting of the American Scotch Highland_ Breed- ers Association held at Belle Fourche, South Dakota. Anyone interested in looking over the six animals at the Whitmer ranch will he welcomed at any time. GRAVELY ILL Mrs. Roderick Mackenzie is grave- dy i}] in a Vancouver Hospital. Mrs. Mackenzie accompanied her husband to Vancouver last week and shortly after her arrival she suffered a brain hemmorhage. She was pro- gressing well but it is now under- stood she has suffered a relapse. Mr. Mackenzie returned to Vancouver yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. W. Edwards are _ away on a to-weeks’ yacation at the coast and U.S, points. Board Circulating Air Mail Petition Still working on the possibility of securing air mail service for Wil- liams Lake, the Board of Trade is currently working on a new ap- proach. Airport committeeman Al Stewart has circulated several _ petitions around town and will be sending them to the country post offices. As many signatures as possible will be secured before the petitions are for- warded to Ottawa for attention. In Williams Lake there are petition forms at Cariboo Cold Storage and Williams Lake Pharmacy. Mr. Stewart told the board meet- ing last Thursday that he felt there was every. possibility of the Depart- ment of Transport developing the new airport site through the:village commission. He said that one run- way could be constructed some two miles in length, making facilities here better tham that of most air- ports in the interior. Not daunted by the fact that Ques- nel is having very littl€ success ina similar request, the local board is going to petiton the powers-tbat-be for establishment of an employment office here. There will be no meeting of the board during .August, the meeting decided. The September meeting will take the form of a dinner meeting. Minister Hints Side Road Maintenance May Go To Contract The provincial government is giv- ing some consideration to a plan of letting side road maintenance ont on a contract basis, according to Hon. Ralph Chetwynd, who met with members of the Horsefly Committee of the Williams Lake & District Board of Trade last Thursday. The meeting, held at Horsefly, was at- tended by 40 residents. Mr. Chetwynd told the meeting that there was a feeling in the gov- ernment that maintenance by con- tract would result in the work being dene at less cost to the taxpayer, SUMMERTIME |. Summer finally came to the Cariboo this week. Tuesday the mercury climbed to a high of 78. Yesterday's high: at 4:30 p.m, was 85 and at 1:30 this afternoon the thermometer at the airport read 82.5. FIRST HERE IN 1894 Death Calls Chilcotin Old Timer, Miss H. W. Lee Another link with the pioneer days was severed July 7 when Miss Helen ‘Warden Lee passed away at the Ana- him Mission Hospital, Hanceville, in her 93rd year. Daughter of the Rev. Canon Lee, Miss Lee first came to the Chilcotin from Egland in 1894 to keep house for her brothers, Norman and Pen- rose. In 1900 she returned to Eng- land for a visit and then came out to California where she remained sev- eral years, experiencing the great earthquake and fire in San Francisco. She returned to the Chilcotin in 1920 to keep house for her brother, Pen- rose at Redstone, remaining with him until February of this year when she had an accident and was forced to remain in hospital. Funeral services were conducted July 10 at the home of her nephew, D. L. Lee. and interment was in the family plot next to her brother Nor- man. Owing to the illness of Rev. George Fielder, Mr. E. R. Hance con- ducted the burial service. Hospital Won't Allow Use Of Facilities For Ambulance Calls Suggestion that calls for the com- anvnity dimbulance, under fhe pro posed ambulance society plan be channelled through the nurse on duty at War Memorial Hospital was turned down by directors last Friday. The board felt that there were two main objections to the proposal. The main one was that the hospita! might be open to possible damage suits if any wrong information should delay the ambulance or re- sult in insufficient medical assist- ance being available with the call. Directors also felt that relaying the call to the hospital and then to the duty driver would automatically cause a delay that would not occur {f the call were placed directly to the driver from the telehpone office. DESPITE OVERCROWDING Hospital Costs Still In Line With Budget Although it is bulging at the seams with extra patients, and more staff is béing taken on all the time, War Memorial-Hospital is still man- aging to hold the cost line, accord- ing to figures released at the regular board meeting last Friday. Here area few of the comparative figures, using actual cost and esti- mate according to the budget brought down this’ spring: payroll cost, $20,290; estimate $23,004. Cost of drugs $1713;- estimate $1755. Total expenditures $34,094; estimate $36,290. Directors were a long way out on their estimate of occupancy. Their estimate of 3,900 patient days was just 800 patient days short of actual for the six-months period. The budget will in all likelihood fail to hold together for the second six months of the year. Salary in- creases went into effect June Ist and there has heen additional help hired over and above the budget allowance. Directors agreed to increase the Tate paid substitute general duty nurses at the hosital, Previously this rate was $1 an hour, but effective immediately this will be increased to $1. Dr. H. K. Atwood left this week to spend a month's holiday at Kelowna and the coast. Mrs. Atwood and fam- have been at the Okanagan centre for the past two weeks. Dr. Atwood’s mother, Mrs. Evan Atwood ily 4s visiting her sister in Vernon. ANAHIM STAMPEDE ‘BEST YET’ Ranchers Erect New Buildings For Annual 3-day Show Anahim Lake’s annual Stampede, held last Thursday, Seek Name For Bella Coola Route Now that a definite highway link with the coast via the Chileotin country will soon be reality, some thought is being given to an official naine for the entire route. According to a letter from the De- partment of Public Works directed to the local Board of Trade, the Bella Coola trade group favours naming the route “The Alexander Mackenzie Highway,” commemorating the tfa- mous explorer. ~--Eocal board members were of the epinon that a better name would he “the Bella Coola - Chilcotin High- way,” and have offered to seek the Opinions of residents along the road to find out their reactions to the bames. Village Considers Purchase Of Grader For Streets Condition of the village streets is prompting commissioners to finally give consideration to purehasing a grader. The question of village ownership has often been debated at the meet- ings, but after Tuesday night there appears no doubt that the village will soon own a grader. Commission- er Herb Gardner, who is in charge of streets and who had advocated the purchase of equipment before, told the meeting that the condition of the streets as terrible and would get worse because there was no grading equipment available for rent. [».,He said he did not-think it would ary to pnrchase a new maz Ree rr d chine, but felt that a second hand, one in good condition would fill the | bill. He was authorized to find out | more about availability and costs of machines. Commissioners approved a sugges- tion that the village. pay off the bal- ance owing on the fire truck rather than reducing the principal by instal- ments. Amount involved is $1600. Two applications for building per- mits were approved. one for a barrel loading platform at the Shell Oil agency, valued at $750, and one for a residence in the name of Freeman Butler, valued at $10,000. Commissioners approved a grant to the Williams Lake Public Library Association or the year of $200. CANADIAN CHAMP DEFEATS RUSS CHESS MASTER —Central Press Canadian Photos Frank Anderson of Torento, co- champion of Canadian chess players, d feated Igor Bondarev: sky, Russian grand master of the game, in their match in Toronto The Russian, who ias defeated top-ranking U.S. A-tish and Canadian players in his tour of Canada and the U.S., resigned after 542 hours +f olay. Friday and Saturday enjoyed a record turnout as if in appre- ciation of that community’s remarkable job of preparation. Things looked pretty hopeless for a stampede this year, the old grounds with their single chute, sagging fences and corrals were in pretty grim shape. Then a bunch of the Anahim cowmen got talking and jok- ing one evening and a feasible plan emerged for/an entirely new set up. Ready cash for nails, wire and other immediate expenses was put up by Pan Phillips and Darcy Christensen in exchange for a five year franchise controlling meals and snacks sold on the grounds. Later, a half interest was sold to Mrs. Evelyn Wilson, per- mitting her to serve hot meals. Lester Dorsey’s mill was dragged in; he sawed timbers for chutes and the dance hall; Fred Engebretson sawed all the lumber and all the local men volunteered their time and abil- ities. The result: a 30 x 40 foot dance hall and a set of corrals, two chutes and bucking arena seven logs high, set up near an encircling hillside that made a fine grandstand. Lester and his boys levelled the grounds and did all necessary grading with’ their crawler. Pan Phillips built his hot dog stand. The whole operation took only six days. Proud of their phenomenal achieve- ment, the ranchers got ont on the range and rounded up steers and brones necessary to the show. All the ‘best steers were picked out at brand- ing time by the association. Added to the Herefords, for the first time, were sixtéen head of half Brahmas belonging to Andy Holt: These Brah- mas were rounded up near Death Tom” Mathews, and Andy himself, and driven 40 miles to participate in the show. (Of the three weeks old calf in the buneh, Andy said: “If-he hadn't been part Brahma the would not have made it!”) Besides the old-time broncs enter- ed by the local ranchers fourteen head of real storters were trailed up from Big Creek by Duane Witte and Walt Bliss, the trip taking 414 days. Michelle brought several from Red- stone, over the Chezacut trail, a dis- tance of about 70 miles. Air Service Charter Sought By Local Firm Application for establishment of a non-scheduled air charter service has been made by Chilcotin Airways, a recently incorporated firm com- posed of five local businessmen. Managing director of the company is H. J, ‘Bert’ Loyd, who earlier this spring purchased an Aeronca sedan aircraft for the company in Edmon- ton. The plane has since been equip- ed with floats and is based on Wil- liams Lake. Should the application for a char- ter be approved, the plane will oper- ate out of Williams Lake to any point in B.C. Principals expect that calls will come mainly for cattle spotting, timber cruising and tour- ist work. Pilot of the aircraft for commer- cial work will be Frank Burgess who has his own plumbing and elec- trical business here. Mr. Burgess is an ex-RCAF bomber pilot and flying instructor. A hearing before the Air Trans- port Board on the charter applica- tion will be held in Williams Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bass will re- turn this weekend from a two weeks business trip to Prince Rupert. Neighbours and friends from sur- rounding districts: Kleena Kleene, Tatla Lake, West ‘Branch, Tatlayoko, Redstone, Alexis Creek stirred up the-dust on the Anahim road for sev- eral days, moying up for the show. The large ad in the Tribune roused the interest of a few folks as far out at Williams Lake. Noticed were ‘faithful’ Jack Cade who hasn’t miss- ed a show, and Mr, and Mrs. Felix Nicholson and family. Quesnel; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Harris and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wasyliw, Mr. and Mrs. Prosser and daughter, Mrs. C. Bryant. Kamloops: Mr. and Mrs. Mike Hall and sons. North Vancou- ver: Mr. and Mrs. Escott and family. Several young people from Bella Coola were there. Miss Jeanette Brindleson, on her way home from school at Summerland, stopped off for the show. Bill Meacham and Bud- dy Gurr rode saddle horses from Atnarko. Leslie Kopas, Harvey Gil- bert, Daryl Smith and Monty Engel- son walked up from Bella Coola val- ley over the canyon trail, a distance of about 50 miles. Camps were pitched throughout the jackpine bordering on the road from ‘town’ to the grounds across the Dean River, and along the river banks. Unsettled though the weather was, only a light rain fell during the second night. The very reasonable admission fee was $1.50 per day, dance included, Total gate receipts oyer the three days amounted to roughly $1075. : Steer riding took up al the first Lake by H Andy Jack, “Rainbossmempeeyns Tina ists ines Brahmas. Unfortunately ‘Happy Jack’ Thompson was put out out of the running when a steer’s head con- nected with his nose, breaking it. R.N. Jane Lehman reset it immedi- ately so it should be none the worse. The brones were very good, squealing and grunting while pitting all their energy and fear against their determined riders. With two chutes operating and a raid-fire delivery over the P.A. sys- tem by Howard Harris and Johnny Webb alternately the show was full of thrills and good natured ‘ribbing.’ Visiting policemen were. Const. King Hubbard of Alexis Creek, Const. Ervin Pethic of Williams Lake and Const. Don Elson, dog master from Kamloops with a handsome police dog. They admired the orderly way in which the stampede was run, no drinking around the chutes — these cowboys were intent on their job. Judges were Andy Holt, Lewis Holtre and Frank Witte. Timekeeper was Curly Swale. Ike Sing kept the records straight. Four nights of dancing in the new hall, equipped with electrie lights (Alfred Bryant loaned his home Plant) and the P.A. system owned by Jimmy Holt and Harold Engebretson added tremendosly to the crowd’s enjoyment. An enthusiastic band comprised of Harold Engebretson, Jimmy Holt and Howard Harris with Gordon Woods filling in, kept the big crowd happily on their toes. During the last night of dancing a large stuffed Bunny. donated by Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wasyliw was drawn for, lucky winner was Mrs. Thelma McInroy. Winners of the Stampede events were announced later, results being as follow: Steer riding — 1st and 2nd prize were divided between Oggie Capoose and Duane Witte. 1st $50, 2nd $35, Saddle Brone — 1st prize $50, 2nd $40, divided between Bob Smith and (continued on back page) Natural Gas At Searching for water on the prop- | erty of Sheridan Lake Holdings, a well drilling outfit natural ! | gas at 66 feet, according to a report struck this week from the Tribune’s Lone Butte correspondent Percy Willard. The report goes on to say that the accidental strike of driller C. For- esier occurred gomething over a week ago and the gas well has been | Lone Butte? burning ever since. According to Mr. Williard, nothing was known of the well until word of the incident was dropped by the well driller in Lone Butte, which i8 16 miles from the scene. Owner of the property is J. H. Mitchell of Vancouver. It is understood that a geologist from Ft. St. John is being brought to Lone Butte to investigate the find.