> Fage a THE PRIBUND, WILMIAMS LAR, BG, Thursday, July 28, 1854, Williams Lake Tribune Established 1931 Clive Stangoe, Editor Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C. By The Tribune Publishing Co. --- $2.56 - $3.00 Subscription: per year Outside Canada Payable in ‘Advance Membe Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association British Columbia Division, C.W ADVERTISING F Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa The Horsefly Road (?) Our apologies to the good people of Horsefly. For some time now we have been listening to tales abour. the condition of the (and you'll pardon the expression) road leading to the pretty community; tales, that had they been believed, would lead us to assume the line of communication resembled a modern facsimile of the trail the Overlanders took when they entered British Columbia. Of course we realize that our friends in Horsefly are good honest citizens, but we did feel they were probably exagger ating their plight. Now we know better. Last week we took our first trip over this road since last summer, and although we only went as far as Rose Lake, we can honestly, and with considerable feeling, assure our-r ead- ers that the people of Horsefly, were if anything, understating their case. It has seldom been our misfortune to have driven over such a collection of potholes, strategically placed so that -it is impossible to miss them unless you are using a bicycle for conveyance. To say that this road is a disgrace to the district is putting it mildly. The road is a disgrace to the whole provincial system of secondary road maintenance. Here are people paying licence fees, gasoline tax and every other kind of tax that contributes to the province’s economy, who are forced to put their vehicles over a 20-mile obstacle course every time they move out of their centre. If this condition affected only a handful of people perhaps there would be some excuse for the shape the road is in but there are hundreds using this outlet, both with private and commercial vehicles. We understand that the road is being graded now, but how many months of the year have gone by? And how soon will the road be allowed to deteriorate into its former condition? No, we dont blame the people of Horsefiy for complaining. It’s a wonder they haven't been talking secession, Political Mathematics No doubt to the Progressive Conservatives, the internal organizational battle at Vernon last weekend was a matter of some concern. Provincially speaking though, now that Giovando is gone, a lot of us are going to be more interested in what result the party is going to come to in its mathematical problem of dividing nothing by two and coming up with -- what? 7 ; : re a Punch From The Pulpit It isn’t always that the powerful editorial comes from the professional writer. To be truthful one wonders if sometimes said pro. writer doesn’t get a little jaded on the job. Anyhow, here’s one who willingly pays his tribute, for what it’s worth, to an editorial writer in “Christian Victory.” “We know far more about raising hogs than we do about raising children for Christ’s kingdom,” says the religious jour- nal editor. “We can kill weeds in our lawns — and then we permit them to grow in our hearts... Our children know all about Tarzan, but little about Paul, David or Daniel. “We are ready to fight for four freedoms — and we encour- age many bondages: drink, gambling, immorality and un- belief,” goes on the quoted writer. ‘‘We need to get back to the Bible, back to God . . . to put Christ and his kingdom first!” Oh yes, there’ll be many to scoff at both the pulpit man and the weekly newspaper editor who dares to quote him. But, after all, there is something more to life than having what is called a good time. There is something more than selfishly getting by with both hands grabbing all the material things we can lay our hands on — for ourselves, and the devil take the hindmost!—Ladner Optimist. Building Troubles? See Len or Clarence PELKEY BUILDERS Alterations Kitchen Cabinets Concrete work of All Kinds Phone 22-S-L Williams. Lake Estimates NSS Your Top Quality WOOD and SAWDUST from KOHNKE BROS. The Cracker Barrel Forum By A J. Drinkell This week one of the boys produc- ed a copy of the petition now being circulated by the Williams Lake Board of Trade requesting a daily airmail service to that point. It got 4 very cool reception. The lads ful agreed it had one commendable fea- ture — brevity. Beyond that it had no appeal whatsoever. It was unanimously decided we could not concur in the statement that “The present mail service to this fast expanding ‘district’ is total- ly inadequate.” True, most outlying areas in Cariboo have only a bi- weekly mail, and a few get it once weekly. Most of these communities can get an airmail letter to eastern Canada in three days and to Great Britain or Burope in four to five days. Orders sent by ordinary mail as far east as Winnipeg are trict. A telephone “service, for ex- ample, which requires rural subscrib- ers to ring for thirty to forty-five minutes before getting a Williams Lake connection or a telegram dis- patched has to be experienced to realize the exasperation and incon- venience it causes, to say nothing of of business you suffer due to your customers quitting in disgust before even getting a reply from Central. We know of instances when. subscribers have tinkled the bell at intervals for a whole day desperate- ly trying to get a telegram away. There is reason to place some cre- dence in the story they tell of the Chilcotin rancher who got so durn tired of ringing. he jumped into his car and headed for Cowtown. Upon arriving he entered that cubby-hole they call the telephone office and handed a huge bouquet of flowers to the man in sole charge at the time and in a most sepulchral voice said “These are for the girls.” The oper- ator thanked him profusely and said back within the week, Vancouver papers published Fri- day are received Saturday, and so on. This we consider to be excellent service, and, to imply that a daily airmail service to Williams Lake would noticeably improve it borders upon distortion of the facts. | The village of Williams Lake now enjoys a daily service by truck to and from Ashcroft which is a decided | improvement over the old PGE train service. The service now being pe- titioned for would only benefit a very few town residents and at infre- quent intervals. We feel the cost would be out of all proportion to the revenue it would produce. There really is nothing to warrant it at this time. There are far more pressing imat- ters requiring attention — matters of vital importance to the entire dis- “I will certainly tell them you brought them.” ‘You'll tell them,” querried the rancher. “H-— I thought they were dead.” The service has even worsened since those days but in all fairness to those obliging young ladies it must be remembered they can be no more efficient than the limted equipment they must-try to get along with. As it is, the mail service. so de- plored in the petition, offers keen competition to telephone and tele-| graph. We would point out there are several mail stages operating in and | out of Williams Lake which in every respect mean more to the village economy than a whole flight of air- craft ever can do and yet not one of them travels a road one could de- scribe as good. Not one of these roads receives an annual maintenance allowance com- mensurate with the amount paid in From the Files of the Tribune ONE YEAR AGO July 23, 1953, Residential and commercial power rates cut in Williams Lake, B.C. Power Commission -annownces— Former. Alexis Creek, reside rs. |. Greta Morgan, dies at her home here — Williams Lake Rod & Gum Club forms pistol section— Applications from Indian students wishing to en- roll in the Williams Lape school dor- mitory will be treated the same. as those of white children, School Board decides—Body of Basil Camp- bell Noakes, 28, one of two men who lost their lives June 6 in the Quesnel River, found near the scene of the tragedy at Likely. It was the first time the river had given up one of its victims at this point— Mrs. R. A. Robinson of Yorkshire, England re- united with her sisters, Mrs. E. Gaspard, and Mrs. E. A, Ross of Williams Lake. Sisters failed to recognize each other— In another family re-union, Mrs. Eva Lockwood had a visit from her brother, Wallace MacArthur, of Mission City, whom she hadn’t seen in 43 years— Work starts on installation of water sys- tem for new sub-division— A quiet wedding of interest to Canim Lake was solemnized at Forest Grove when Géorgia Wilson exchanged vows with Raymond Galpin— FIVE YRARS AGO July 21, 1949 Federal and provincial govern- ment officials promise ranchers to co-operate in the-establishment of a TB-free area in the interior of the province with the exception of the Peace River country— Advance party of Hollywood technicians ar- rives to look over location at Chilco Ranch for film “The Cariboo Tral” — Popular local couple married at the home of the bride’s parents when Marion Kathleen, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Plante became the bride of Victor Roy, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Woodland—First sod turned this week on the South Cariboo War Memorial Centre build- Matilda Trounce Rose, the Cariboo, Mrs. Rose y ranch and had lived for the past 45 years at Rose Lake— Roy Haines of Alexis Creek, narrow- es death as north span of the lyn ross the Chileotin River near Alexis Creek collapses. Mr. Haines was driving a tractor across the bridge when the structure gave way— Edna Foxgood, 24, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Mart. passes away—After two months of showers and heavy rains, Cariboo ton opens under management cf Jack Cripps— TWENTY YEARS AGO July 19, 1934 Scouts break camp ‘ Chimney Lake. The boys passed Rests for 24 proficiency hadges— Board of Trade, under president Rod’k Mackenzie, to visit Likely and Keithley for a ‘get acquainted” trip— Mackenzies ad- vertise slacks for $1.00 pr., broadcloth shirts at 50c. Shingles advertised by Smedley & Sharp for $3.65 a thousand. ket, formerly operated by R. C. Cot-| boys | gasoline road tax, ae local users, It the service organizations really en- quired into the matter they might discover the reason we are afflicted with an annual visit by the power rader is hecause our road appropri- ation contains practically nothing for capital expenditure. The Board of Trade would serve its members and the district well by insisting this condition be rectified and support the engineer in his de- mands for the equipment needed to enable him to carry out a program of sustained improvement on the secondary roads. Contracting out more maintenance work, of the type we now get, to local residents is far from the answer. We also need a larger hospital far worse than airmail service. To say some of these are provincial matters is beside the point. They all involve the expenditure of public funds no matter whether they come out of the right side pocket or the left side. It is time we commenced giving some thought to what we can really get along without instead of how much we can gouge out of the various lev-.| els of government. We are willing to support the- service organizations wholeheartedly on projects of dis- | trict wide benefit, and upon matters affecting the town only, provided \they are communal in scope but we must beg to be excused from lending countenance to throwing away publio funds on projects too utterly limited in beneficial scope as is this proposed daily airmail service. We feel the |few can very well get along without it for some time yet so let us bend | our efforts to the more urgent mat- jters which we can all support with a [clear conscience. The petition as written should be withdrawn from circulation. CS SU, you can judge a home by iis porch!” A bright, newly paint: ed porch floor jmeans a home that is neat and ‘tidy inside and out. Use B-H PORCH FLOOR PAINT and have Lake Hardware Ltd. 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