Thursday, September 2, 1954,

THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAE®, B.C.

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Cc. fAHOOD NEWS

New Post Office
For District

To serve the area of approximately
thirty homes inclusive of Mahood
Lake and westward along Canim
Lake a Post Office, Mahood Falls,
was opened’ August 17th at the home
of Kenneth E. Higgins. Mr. Higgins
has the contract to hau) the mail
weekly to and from Lone Butte, a
distance of about 42 miles.

THE PUBLIC WORKS department
has, during this summer and in spite
of bad weather greatly improved the
Well Gray Park road so far as they

is road foreman O. H. Gibson. They
are boarding at Paul Mailloux’. Bull-
dozer operator, Jos Bott has now re*
turned to his home at Williams Lake,
the bulldozer having been withdrawn
from the work.

PAYING an official visit recently
to Wells Gray Park were F. S. Me-
Kinnon, assistant chief forester, and
B. G, Oldham, forester and head of
the Parks Board. They arrived in the
Pacific Western Airlines ‘‘Beaver’’
piloted by James Marshall general
manager of PWA.

PARKS SUPERVISOR Les Cook,
and Parks Forest Observer H. White,
also have recently visited Mahood
Lake by plane.

HON. P. A..GAGLARDI made a
social call last Sunday on hs brother
and sister-in-lay, Mr. and Mrs, Chas.
Gaglardi at the Forestry station west
end of Mahood Lake.

B. D. MORGAN spent a two weeks’
vacation at his Mahood Lake cottage,
returning last week-end accompanied
by Eddie Akerman, who with John
Smith spent a motith of their vaca-
tion camping nearby.

MR. and MRS. WM. ABBS visited
recently with Reg. Davis the home of
Mrs. Abbs’ parents.

WHILE. OPERATINNG a. bull-
dozer August 13, Norman Carlson
had the misfortune to be struck on
the cheek bone by a small tree. Taken
by B. Spencer ‘MeNeil to Lady Minto
Hospital, Ashcroft, Mr. Carlson was
sent for further treatment to Van-
couver. He returned home to Mahood
Lake on the 24th and will be on sick
leave for a short time.

HOWARD LEVERINGTON also
is driving ‘cat’ for B. Spencer Mc-
| Neil_on_the logging contract east end.
of Canim Lake.

ARTHUR and ERNEST KLAS-
SEN, ranchers from Alberta, motor-
ed to McNeil Ranch and Mahood
Lake Lodge for a brief vacation, re-
newing acquaintances while waiting
for harvest. Phey took in the Jolly
Hours Club dance at Mahood Lake
Lodge Saturday night and left Sun-
day for Rosedale, Alberta.

EDWARD HIGGINS is spending
a few days in Vancouver.

MR. and MRS. JAMES DAVID
recent visitors at the Hartwig home,
have returned to Vancouver. Mr.
David ably assisted with the music
at the Jolly Hours Club dance at
Mahood Lake. The other musicians
were Harold Hartwig and Jack

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Franklyn Young, Toronto avia
tor, has been awarded the McKee
Trans-Canada trophy for 1953
the highest aviation honor in
this country. He began flying
when he was 17 and now at 45
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Press Canndian

BIG CREEK

First School Teacher
Re-visits District

Miss Bertrand, who taught in the
first Big Creek school has been a
visitor in the Chilcotin this week as
guest of Mrs. Norman Lee of Hance-
ville, and Mrs. T. C. Lee of Alexis
Creek.

Dick Church, Pat Scallon and Ren
Hance were among the pupils of Miss
Bertrand in that year of 1915-16.

There have been three schoois
built here since then.

Miss Bertrand now works with
the Red Cross in Shaughnessy Hos-
pital in Vancouver and also does
part-time teaching.

ROSEMARY and ELLEN HIG:
GENBOTTOM spent a week with
Arda Witte recently.

OUR READERS will be happy to
know that Joseph, younger brother
of the two Higginbottom girls, who
suffered an attack of polio last win-
ter, is improving steadily, and at
last report was walking with crutch-
es. Joseph as a patient in Williams
Lake for several months but is now
receiving treatment in the General
Hospital in Vancouver.

MR. and MRS. THOMPSON from
Vamerest. with Mr. ard MTs- Caro}
of California, were guests at Henrys
on Tuesday.

JIM SCALLON of Noteh Hill is up

with his brothers for the haying
season.
MR. and MRS. FRED WITT. of

Oregon, who have been ivsiting at
the Sky Ranch, left for home
Thursday.

DWAIN BRANDLY of Williams
Lake is staying at Henrys’ for tw>
weeks.

MR. and MRS. FRANK WITTE
and Mr. and Mrs. Duane Witte were
guests of Blisses of Redstone over
the weekend.

MR. and MRS. NORMAN SAND-
BERG, who have been at the Sky
Ranch headed their car toward Lone
Butte on Wednesday.

FRED OLIVER has completed a
well, and he and his family are en-
jeying the convenience of water in
the house — even if you do have to
pump it.

JOHN LYON, tired of the rain
here, left this morning for a week’s
holiday to see if it can rain any more
on the coast.

4.17 inches of rain has fallen on
Big Creek in August.

BIG CREEK

Creek Nears High
Water Mark Of 48

Swollen by incessant, heavy rains,
Big Creek is crowding an overflowing
its banks in very unseasonal style.

Usually at the end of August our
creek is so low and friendly — but
not this year. Rising steadily as the
rain continues, it is a raging river,
brown and defiant, above any spring
high-water record except 1948.

BRUCE WATT returned from a
short trip to the coast Sunday, bring-
ing home his truck. ....

BIG “CREEK FALLS, scenic spot
below Scallons, was visited Sunday
by a group of young people on horse-
back, namely: Rosalie and Johnnie
Church, Phyllis Bambrick, Olav
Skjelbred, Ann Vroom, Hank-Vroom,
Janet Kinkead and John Siebert.

DUANE WITTE lately took four
young men from St. Helens, Ore., in
to fish at Kloa Kut Lake.

BRUCE WATT was visited this
week by a boyhood friend, Capt. Foss
of Los Angeles, Calif. The two men
haven't met since they were boys
together in Chilliwack. -

HENRYS will be fishing very le-
gally in Fletcher Lake on Saturday,
in company with two game wardens,
Ken Walmsley of Alexis Creek and
Joe Gibault of Williams Lake.

A SURPRISE, happy birthday par-
ty, complete with a beautiful cake,
for Veera Bonner was held in her
home August 25. Organized by Ros-
alie Church, the evening was greatly
enjoyed by all attending, especially
Veera. z

TOTAL RAINFALL here in Aug-
ust is now 5.46 inches, but at last
it looks as if the.clouds may be emp-
tied. We have had two days of sun-
shine, and mowers are click-clacking
hastily in the fields.

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