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Williams Lake Tribune

NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

Volume 22 — Number 34.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, August 12, 1954.

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

First shipment of fron ore from the $250,
000,00C Labrador-Quebec Iron Ore Co. mines was

— poured, left, into the freighter, Hawaiian, at
Seat Ues, Que, to be taken to the steel mills of
Philadelphia. Four years of effort. went into the
development of the iron deposits and of
mile railroad that travels over gorges, through

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plies and men.

little town on
river will become

the 367-

mountains and over muskeg.
motive, rignt, will haul the ore over a road bed
that was built almost entirely by airlifted sup-
As thousands and thousands of
tons of iron ore are discharged at Sept Iles, the
the shore of th

FIRST GRE SHIPMENT FROM $250 MILLION LABRADOR PROJECT ,

—Centro} Press Canadian
The diesel loco-

e St. Lawrence
one of Canada’s busiest ports.

POWER SHUT-DOWN

4 six-hour power shut-down for
the entire village will occur tonight
from midnight until 6 o'clock to-
morrow morning, according to Basil’
Gale, local B.C. Power Commission
| manager.

main switchboard at the power plant
in preparation for the installation
of a new engine.

Local Society
Secures Lounge
Liquor Licence

First licence to be granted locally
‘under the new liquor legislation was
received this week by the Cariboo
Elks Home Society.

The licence, termed a ‘lounge li-
cence,” will allow the society to sell
Spirituous liquor in its club rooms

Highway 97
Boosters In Town

Currently on a tour to evalvate
tourist promotion possibilities over
Highway 97, Chester C. Kim, secre-
tary of the Okanogan-Cariboo Trail
Association, of
Prince George, association’ director,
were in Williams Lake Tuesday night
to meet with local Board of Trade
members.

It was revealed that the associa-
ton plans publication of a travel
guide brochure of Highway 97 next
epring, to be financed. by towns and
cities along the route on a fee based
en popylation, ~~ x

Highway 97 ig increasing.in popu-
larity with tourists, accoraing}to Mr.
Kim, who guotes figures from the
border entry points to prove his con-
tention. j

Total number of tourists, travel-
ing both north and south, through
the ports of entry was 243,075 in
1951, 291,811 in 1952 and 346,805
in 1953, :

The two-way visiting is fairly well
divided, Mr. Kim states. In 1953
there were 174,508 tourists visited
the United States though ‘97’ ports
of entry and 172,297 American tour-
ists visited Canada.

and Alex Bowie

Kamloops Kiwanians

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Handle Local Club’s
First Meeting

Officers of the Kamloops Kiwanis
club attended the first regular meet-
ing of the Williams Lake group last
Thursday to conduct the meeting.

Headed by Kamloops president Dr.
Frank Christie, the delegation includ-
ed Reg. Humphries, Dr. John Dunn,
Rev. Alex McSween and Randy Mul-
caster.

A surprise visitor was Eric Lowe
of Vancouver, Lieutenant-Governor
of Division 1A, Kiwanis, who hap-
pened to be vacationing in the dis-
trict and struck up a conversation
with one of the loca] Kiwanis without
being aware a new club existed here.

Guest speaker at the meeting was
Rey. MeSween, Presbyterian minis-
ter, who told the members that in
this day of scientific achievement we
are in danger of wrecking our own
way of life because we are not giving
enough attention to the spirtual and
moral values.

The reason behind the non-appear-
ance of the Kamloops band at the
Stampede was given by Reg. Hum-
phries on behalf of the club, spon-
ssoring organization behind the
band’s European trip. Mr. Humphries

Sincerity Keynote Of Talks
By Former Alcoholics

Fired only with the desire to help others afflicted with a

disease that an estimated six

million people on the North

American continent have acquired in their lifetime, and one

that is ranked as the fourth k

iller, members of a Quesnel

to and their guests.
Officials of the society say they
hope to have the lounge open by next
week, with a possibility that it might
be ready for this Saturday night.
Members have renovated the club
room and have installed a modern
rs
It is planned on having the lounge
open during the afternoon and eve-
nings up until 11:30 p.m.
The Elks Home Society is a wholly
local group that was formed to own
and operate the Elks Hall.

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group of Alcoholics Anonymous related their exp! at
a public meeting here last night.

The visitors, both men and women,
impressed their listeners by their
obvious sincerity in the belief that
A.A. offered the only hope for the
confirmed érunkard who is willing
to admit that he cannot stop the
habialane and: must spsk<onteic
help. Purpose of the meeting was to
spark interest in formagfon of a simi-
lar group in Williams(Lake.

‘Toyshow the pattern(of the disease
of alcoholism, chairman Ken out-
lined a series of ‘stages’ that had
evolved from a study 9f the disease
at Yale University, and while the ex-
planation had its humorous side-
lights, the stark tragedy of the ulti-
mate fate of a confirmed alcoholic
was clearly defined.

In the beginning, chairman Ken
stated, the alcoholic takes his drinks
for the same reason that the rest
of us do; to produce a feeling of
security or for the purely social
‘lift’ derived. For the majority of
people this type of drinking is all
that is indulged in through life, but
for the alcoholic it is only the begin-
ning of a losing battle.

Steady drinking begins to produce
early symptoms of the ‘blackouts:
that gradually get worse and perm-
anently scar the brain tissues. At
first the lapses are slight; the alco-
holic forgets names or slight inci-
dent, then he finds he can’t remem-
ber what happened at the dance the
night before or how he got home.

His drinking too begins to develop
a different pattern. He becomes a
‘gulper’ because now he is drinking
for a different purpose entirely. He
can’t sip a drink but has to throw it
down’ and reach for another in a
hurry. Then he reaches the sneaky
stage and while the rest of the party
ts in the front room he’ll sneak out
to the kitchen for a quick one or out
to his car.

STARTS DESCENT

Now the alcoholic is just starting
his descent. He finds he has no con-
trol over his drinkng. He will go in
for a beer on- a hot afternoon fully
intending to have just one and then
find himself being kicked out -at
11:30. The alibi stage is reached now
and the alcoholic thinks up all kinds
of reasons for his periodic drunks

About this time too he reaches the
eye opener stage when he wakes up
in the morning with the shakes and
needs a quick one to start off the day.

Of course the one will probably de-

said the reason had been Strictly |
financial, that the club could not send }
the band up here when it was learn-
ed the Stampede Association could
not give a guarantee. He said he |
understood that the association had |

velop into three or four. By this time
he is well over the line between a
heavy drinker and an alcoholic. He |
begins to drink alone so that people |
wont know how much he is consum- |
ing. He becomes anti-social because!

He is now going on real benders
and probably. suffers from delerium
tremens. He protects the source of
supply and alway makes sure he has

a bottle handy for the the next morn- |Fi- as
ina Hovtussours omenonene -3-2ncing. Events

eentment against his family and his
friends and becomes harder to
handle.

Then he reaces the stages of name-
less fears andyanxiety when he comes
to the realizafion that he ean’t blame
anyone and there is nothing he can
do for himself. =
NO HOPE

Previous to the establishment of
Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935,
chairman Ken said there was noth-
ing could be done for an alcoholic in
these final stages. However, of the
ones who have reached the stage and
asked A.A. for help, over 50 percent
have never gone back to drinking,
and half of the remainder are ones
who have slipped and come back to
the organization again to carry on
as sober citizens.

‘Al’, a member of the group for a
year, said that of the 12 steps which
Alcoholics Anonymous based their
program, he favoured the first and
last. The first one is that a member
must admit he is an alcoholic, and
the last one instills the idea of help-
ing other alcoholics.

DIFFERENT BOTTOMS

Looking at the stages, Al said the
bottom of the alcoholic ladder de-
pended on individual reaction. In his
own case he had wrecked a car and
it had not stopped his drinikng, but

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Wins Second Place
In Canadian

if. Second place in the Canadian fenc-
ing championships held at Vancou-
ve Sunday went to Alma Koch, 25,
1 has been-working in Williams
ake since March. Winner was Ma=
ihlame.J_ Gilbert, Montreal: “
i Miss Koch. who came to Canada,
rom Austria three years ago, last
year won the Ontario championship.
The local fencer has not had any
‘Practice with the foils since coming
to Williams Lake, which makes her
achievement Sunday even more re-
jmarkable. In eight matches she lost
one and dropped her competition in
the finals.
(Next week a full story on Miss
Koch will appear in these pages. Ed.)

Local Saddlery Man
Purchases Kamloops Firm

A. B. ‘Tony’ Parrott, former oper-
ator of the local-firm of T. P. Traders
in partnership with Hilary Place of
Dog Creek, has puchased the pioneer
Kamloops saddley firm of ~Rocky
Mountain Saddlery.

The Kamloops business has been
operated for the past 40 years by
Jack Bradley.

The local firm, which has now clos-
ed its doors, was started by Mr.
Parrott and Mr. Place last year.

POLICE FAIL TO FIND ‘PEEPING TOM’

Extra patrols of the RCMP in ci-
vilian cars haye failed to uncover any
trace of a ‘peeping Tom’ who early
last week was active in the neighbor-
hood of Fourth Avenue and Yorston
Street.

For two nights men of the neigh-
borhocd also joined in the search for
the prowler as anger mounted over
his actions.

At the request of police, The Tri-
bune did not publish an account of
the incidents in case the information
would be detrimental to the intensi-
fied search.

First evidence of the prowler’s
actions came last Monday night
when he was seen at a window at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Phillipson.
That night there was a short electri-
ical storm and Joan Phillipson and
her girl friend Patricia Tyrrel, who
was staying with her-at the time,

been given two.or three weeks notice | he knows his friends have no use for, went to separate windows in the

of the decision.
Joe Schlitt, a member of the newly |

him.
About this time he comes to the

house to watch the flashes of light-
ning. Joan went to the bathroom to

5 swani ince | hospitalization stage, first taking | look out, and just as she ca: lose
formed Kiwanis Club at Prince hospi g uw just a: came ¢}

George attended the meeting and!

bromides, then stronger pills and

to the open window a flash of light-

was preseted with his button by local ' finally going to institutions to ‘take | ning illuminated the sky and the girl

elub president Felix Nicholson, |

the cure,’ }

found herself looking into the face

of a stranger at the window. She
screamed in fright and the prowler
fled. Mr. Phillipson later found the
man had taken an old chair from the
back yard and placed that underneath
the window to climb on.

This occurred around 10:45 and a
few minutes later the prowler was
seen at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Matheson. Doug Norberg,
Mrs. Matheson’s son, was standin
in a bedroom of the house when he
noticed his dog looking at the win-
dow, which was open at the time but
had the curtains drawn. Doug could
hear footsteps and waited quietly to
ee what would develop. In the mean-
time his wife came in the room and
he motioned for her to remain silent.
As they watched the window, the
curtains parted and an arm reached
ever the sill, At this point Doug
hollered’ at the man and he disap-
peared.

The neighborhood was by
thoroughly aroused and severa] men
were out searching for the intruder
without any success.

The following night the third in-

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now

Sewer By-law May Come
Before Voters This Fall

A strong possibility that the village’s sewer by-law
The shut-down is necessary to al-/ come before the ratépayers this, year
Jiow workmen to change over the

at Tuesday night’s meeting of

Although commissioners, do not
plan on doing the project. until next
spring, it ras been reconimended’ by
B. C. Bracewell, inspector of muni-
cipalities, that the by-law be sub-
mitted now, and if passed the vil-
Jage would be in a position to award
the work contract early” in the
spring. If this is done, and the bonds
sold, the inspector stated that it
would be in order not make a pay-
ment on the principal ofthe amount
berrowed until 1956, although: -in-
terest would have to be paid next
year. ‘

There were only three of the five-
man board at the meeting to the de-
cision on the matter was left over,
probably toa special meeting next
week.
PGE LOT

Approval of the sub-division oth:
small commercial parcel of land was
asked by the Pacific Great Eastern
Railway Company, but commission-
ers have asked that provision for

Police Court News

Patrick Joyce, who comes up for
election for trial at County Court this
Friday on a charge of theft by con-
version, was sentenced to six months
in jail in police court this week on
a charge of issuing worthless
cheques at Quesnel. This sentence is
to run consectively with another six
month sentence on a similar charge
that was meeted out in Quesnel’ prior
to his being brought to Williams
Lake.

Carl Bertrand. Spacil was fined
$50 andi costs in police court August.
9 on a charge of impaired driving.

A similar charge against Richard
Flynn was heard August 11. Flynn
entered a plea of not guilty and the
prosecution introduced five witness-
hes. The accused yras found guilty ana
fined $50) and $28.50 costs.

Harry Dale/Lefferson, was fined
$20 and costs on_a charge of driving
without due care and attention.

Rash Of Tire Thefts

A rash of tire thefts has been re-
ported in town recently. In the past
week four tires and wheels have been
separated from light delivery trucks.
Usually the thieves take the spare
wheel, but in the case of a truck at
Neufeld Bros. Garage, a dual wheel
was unmounted from the vehicle as
well as the spare.

Monday night Neufeld’s Garage
was broken “into but nothing was
taken, .

Mrs. Stan Sloan returned from
Vancouver Saturday, where she has
been undegoing “medical attention.

may
after all was forecast
the commissioners.

road access be included in the plan.
The plot consists of the land across
the highway from Neufeld’s Garage.
It has 662 feet frontage on the high-
way and extends to a depth of 266
feet on-one side and 82 feet on the
other. A piece of the golf course lease
| was taken in to add suificient depth
|t@. the block. When plans are finally
completed, the lots will be offered
fér sale at public auction. *
TREES os
Commissioner Herb Gardner, who
recently made a motor trip to the
Okanagan, was so impressed by the
appearance of towns in that part-of
the province that he has become
fired with the idea of beautifying
Williams Lake.
’ Mr. Gardner told his fellow com-
missioner he would like to see trees
planted along the side stfeets, with
the village putting up the money for
purchase of the trees and planting
costs and property owners being ask-
ed to care for them until they be-
came established, He also said he
would like to see a small park de-
veloped in town. =
Still in a town clean-up vein, com-
missioners instructed the clerk to
write the owner of the property form-
erly oceupied by the United Church
to have the old basement filled in”
and the lot cleared of old lumber
PERMITS
-Residential building permits were
approved for Roger Therrien $8,000;
Dillard Therrien $8,000; C. H. Walsh
$7,000, and N. E. Johnson.

Horsefly Board
Asks Road Grant

Hopping mad over the condition
of the Horsefly Road and the roads
tributary to’ it, 40 members of the
Horsefily Committee of the Williams
Lake «& District Board of Trade met
last night to pursue their fight to
receive better travel conditions.

Informed of aii impending visit to
the district of Hon. Ralph Chetwynd
and Hon. Robt. Sommers, minister of
Lands and Forests, the meeting de-
cided to hold off on-any co: rted ac-
tion until the ministers arrive. A let-
ter was sent to Hon. Phil Gaglardi,
minister of Public Works, demand-
ing a special apropriation for work
on the roads.

An official of the committee told
The Tribune that althogh the main
road is in bad condition, the tribu-
re in even worse condi-
tion. He said the Beaver Valley road
was impassable in one place Wednes-
day and that roads like Black Creek
and 108 Mile are also in ‘terrible’

shape. >

FINDS BULL'S-
ee

t.-Col. Steve Johnson,

army
rated
at the On

the man
s textbook on the art of rifle-handling, showed why he is
Canada’s top marksman by scoring 51 consecutiye bull’s-eyes
io Rifle association matches held at Long Branch. The

EYE 51 TIMES

a

—Central Press Cansdian
who wrote the Canadian

Calgary insurance man, a member of Canada’s 1954 Bisley team,
won the banker's and president’s matches, the two top senior events

of the 73rd annual matches,