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Volume 22 — Number 40.

WILLIAMS LAKH, B.C. Thursday, September 30, 1954

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

. FLYING KIWANIANS

A few hundred miles between them and a
Kiwanis get-together is no problem: for four
flying members of the Okanogan, Wash., club.
The morning after charter night here, they
were joined at the airport by several other
Kiwanians to see them off on their next air
jaunt to take in the Prince George charter

night.

From left to right in the background is Dr.
Chas. Benson, Okanogan, lieutenant-governor
elect of division five, and Dr. Louis

Okanogan;

Okanogan; Reg.

It took the four Okanogan members two
hours and 40 minutes to make the trip from
their home to Williams Lake.

| Jim Finucane,
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S. Dewey,

Pacific North-West district;
president of local club
lieut.-governor of division five.

—photo by Blackwell's

owner of the aircraft. Centre: Vernon Banggrt,
Tommy

Tompson, governor of
Felix Nicholson,
and Bob Johnston,
‘Front TOW:
Kamloops; Robert S. Stookey,
Humphreys, Kamloops. /

Kiwanis Club Officially
Launched At Charter Night

A turnout of 165 local and visiting, Kiwanians and their
friends witnessed the formal presentation of the Williams Lake
Kiwanis Club Charter to president Felix Nicholson last Friday

night at the Elks Hall.

Among the guests at the charter
night festivities were some 25 visit-
ing Kiwanians from some eight clubs
in Division Five of Kiwanis Inter-
national, which includes British Col-
umbia and Washington State. They
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Wash.. Vancouver, West Vancouver,
North Vancouver, Penticton, Kel-
owna, Vernon and Kamloops.

Feature of the charter ceremonies,
under the chairmanship of division
lieutenant-governor Boh Johnston of
Kelowna, was the actual presentation
of the charter by Governor Tommy
Thompson of Redmond, Oregon.

The district governor said that on
behalf of Kiwanis International he
welcomed the Williams Lake club as
tre 217th club in the Pacific North-
west District. Speaking to the audi-
ence, he said he knew that the people
of Williams Lake would come to
know that the club was an impor-
tant part of the community's life
Kiwanis, he said, is dedicated to the
betterment of the community and
the individual member It is not a
political or an ethical movement.
but seeks to do good in any direction
that service is needed.

In accepting the charter on behalf
of the local club Mr. Nicholson said
he was taking it as a building permit
for Williams Lake. The club has yet
to prove itself to the people -of the
community, he said, but with the
type of members now on the club roll,
he felt that this proof would soon be
forthcoming.

Goyernor Thompson then took a
silver chain from a small velvet bag
and explained that it was made up of
links representing each club in the
district. The final few links were gold
and represented the clubs added in
1954. Dr. Frank Christie, president

Truck Still Needed
On Coast Outlet

Although work is still being car-
ried out on the Bella Coola Road,
anyone planning a trip over the new
coast outlet should do so in a tru
according to two Bella Coola resi
dents who passed through here on
the weekend.

Mike Christensen and Andy Wid-
sten, school trustees of the coast dis
trict, were on their way to the pro-
vincial convention in Penticton when
they The
travellers found the connecting route
still hard to navigate in spots where
culvert work is necessary. Once the
road is suitable for general travel
though, they feel that it will bring
added trade to both their community
and our district. :
released

Game department men
15,000 fingrlings last week in Chim-

ney Lake.

of the sponsoring Kamloops Club
was given the honour of connecting
the new link representing Williams
Lake.

Gifts for the new club were nest
presented to local club. secretary: Bob
Court by* Jim Finucane, chairman of

/the Kamloops new club building com-

mittee. These gifts included presi-
dent’s and serretary’s kits Canadian
and United States flags; president’s
gavel and gong. Ward Allen presi-
dent of the Vancouver club presented
Mr. Court with a banner inscribed
with the local club’s name, and Helge
Pearson, past president of the West
Vancouver club presented the presi-
dent’s lectern.

Wishes for the success of the new
ow were expressed by Village Com-
ion Chairman Stan Goad, who
ar the audience that he felt Wil:
liams Lake needed the type of assist-
ance that service clubs extend to
make the town a better community.

Following the banquet and charter
ceremonies,-the evening was rounded
out by a caharet-style dance in the
main auditorium of the Elks Hall
to the music of Vic Imhoff's orchestra.

Sale |
Calendar

Here is your calendar,
and
Seventeenth Annual Feeder and Ball
Sale.

both sale

social, for next week’s big

WEDNESDAY, October 6 — Judg-
ing of commercial and breeding
classes, starting at 1 p.m. Judge -
Chas. Yule.

THURSDAY, October: 7 — Open-
ing ceremony at 8:30 a.m. by Haga
Ker Kiernan, Minister of Agricui-
ture. Auction sale of feeder cattle
starts at 9 a.m. Auctioneer - Mat
Hassen, Jr.

FRIDAY, October’ § —-~ Auction
sale of purebred beef bulls, starting
at 1 p.m.

SOCIAL

Tuesday — Wrestling, Elks Hall,

Wednesday — Wrestling, Elks
Hall.

Thursday — Annual
Banquet, Elks Hall. 7
Elks Hall.

Friday — Famous Klondyke Night
Elks Hall.

Cattlemen’s
p.m. Dance,

THANKSGIV
Day will be observed
Lith.

Thanksgiving
this year on October

SAYS THERE IS OfL AT NORTH POLE

Rev. Danie] J. Linehan, of Bosten ae
Wilber E.
Monte Cariu
8,000-mile voyage to the Arctic.

tories, left and Captain
aboard the fishing schooner,

scientists made the trip.
tusk, souvenir of the voyage.

Capt.

a very successful trip.

pole but we may have been the first to have been so close ma

magnetic measurements.”

Central erese Canadian
’s Weston Jabora-
arrive in Boston
after a two-month

Father Linchan and nine other
Dow is holding a nine-foot whale

JT.

The partly returned with a wealth ot
scientific data including evidence of p'
in the remote North Pole area.

sible huge deposi
Linehan said:

It's been
I would not say we pinpointed the Magnetic

Fath:

SUMMER RAINS HARD ON LUMBERING

Students Take
Three Ball Titles

Contining their winning ways of
local high school students
hustled their way to three out of four
title spots in play against other Cen-
tral Interior centres last Saturday at

last year.

Quesnel.

‘The senior boys smothered Wells
21-2 and Quesnel 19-9 in heavy hit-
ling attacks. Al McDougall on the
mound paced the team with a fine

hurling performance..The final game
was highlighted by a strong come-
back. At one time the boys were on
the short end, of a 7-1 score in their
ganle with Quesnel before settling
down to play winning ball.

In two free-scoring contests the
junior girls swamped Quesnel and
Prince George by scores of 17-7 and
18-11. The outstanding star for the
locals was Betty Wardell.

The junior boys, featuring control
pitching. by Ernie Smallenberg and
fine defensive play all round, downed
Quesnel and Prince George by scores
of 9-2 and 7-4.

The only team failing to return
with a cup, the senior girls, howed to
Prince 9-1 and Jost a heartbreaker to
Quesnel 9-8.

Old And New ’Ports
Dealt With At |
Commission Meet.

the news at Tuesday night’s com-
The ola and new airports were in
mission meeting.
A letter received by the Board of
Trade-and to the i

A survey of some individual mill
owners shows that plants with a
capacity of from 13 to 15 thousand
feet qg-day have lost around .160M
feet production and those up to.20M
per day have lost around 250M pro-
duction. Smaller mills cutting from
8 to 10M daily have had a corres-
pondingly lower preduction loss of
around 50M feet, but financially the
figure looms just as high in indi-
vidual pictures.

Actual shut-down time is not the
only loss these mills have suffered.
In attempts to get their logs in to
the mill and their lumber out to the
main roads, owners have spent much
of the summer in expensive and
useless efforts to rebuilt bush roads.
Bulldozing and gravelling these
stretches of bush roads has taken
time and money.

CUT PRODUCTION

Fighting the water and mud while
the mills are running is estimated to
have cut normol production from 30
to 40 percent, and this condition con-
tinues. While the main roads are
drying up in the recent time stretch
of sun and wind, the bush remains
as soggy as ever. Millmen feel their
troubles won’t be over until we get
a heavy frost, provided there isn’t a
heavy fall of snow beforehand. In
the meantime their production con-
tinues slow as muddy logs forces
some to file their saws every hour.

There are some mills that have
succeded in keeping their production
up fairly well up, but have been un-
able fo get their finished product in

sioners bore the welcome news that
the B.C. district of the Department
of Transport has recommended to
Ottawa that funds be set aside for a

grant to tlfe village for development

of the new airport. The "port locaticn
is on the plateau overlooking the
present airport.

Once the commissioners have re-
ceived an exact description of
jana they will make application
the property.

A letter from Chilcotin Airways
Ltd., asking for permission to con-
stuct a hangar on the present airport,
was referred to the Inspector of Mu-
nicipalites and the Department of
Transport for instruction.

‘The letter went on to say that the
recently-formed local company has
received its charter from the Board
of Air Transport Commissioners.

One building permit was presented
to the meeting and approved. The
firm of Lignum Ltd., proposes to
build another structure next to the
present office to house a lunch room
and parts room.

Two business licences were grant-
ed. One to Mrs. Irene Henderson and
Mrs. Dolly Robinson for the opera-
tion of a florist shop. The firm will be
known as Cariboo Flowerland and
will be located in the Lakeview
Hotel. The second licence was grant-
ed to Stewart Smith and Gordon
Bruce for a sawmill supply house.
The business will be located in the
new building being erected on Lig-
num property.

KOHNKE BROTHERS
READY FOR SALE
WRESTLING CARDS

As a wind-up of their training in
preparation for next Week’s wrestling
card, Bill and Felix Kohnke will be
out at Puntzi Saturday night to stage
a show for the airforce.

Felx has been in town all summer
following a tour that took in Hono-
lulu and the San Francisco and ‘Salt
Lake city areas.

The well-known brother combina-
tion will be matched next Tuesday
and Wednesday nights in the Elks
Hall against Buddy Knox and Bud
Rattel.

Knox last wrestled here as the
Masked Marvel, and if memory
serves us right, turned in a crowd-
pleasing performance. He lost his
mask to Louthesz in Seattle last No-
vember, after having it for two years,
A native of Port Angeles, Washing-
ton, Knox comes to town with an
impressive record and is at present
one of the coast’s top TV mat stars.

Bud Rattel of San Francisco has
also wrestled here previously. At
that time his match with Felix
Kohnke went to a gruelling draw.
Rattel didn’t lose a fall in the two-
night card. He is also presently ap-
pearing on TV matches and is a big

attraction.

Thieves Do $1000 Wanton
Damage To Local Store

Destructive thieves who ransacked
the department store of Mackenzies
Ltd., early Saturday morning. did an
estimated $1,000 damage and
caped with around $15 in cash
$200 worth of merchandise.

Taking double-bitted
from the hardware departinent,

es-
and

a

two

the

thieves W throughout the store
breaking open drawers and cabinets
they thought might contain money.
In the large filix b-

it
unlocked. In the grocery department

inet was wrecked although it was

a new electric ter was com-
pletely destro: ttempts
break it open. The only cash obtained
ales tax money.

t is believed the thieves gained
entrance by forcing a door off the
lane. They then opened several win-
dows and another door to engnre

to}

avenues of escape.

Police been unable to con-
tact anyone in the nearby hotels who
heard or noticed anything of the
thieves.-A telephone operator in the

have

next building thought she heard a
|disturbance around three in the
morning

Police haye appealed 10 any citizen
ed the disturbance in the
rd with the in-

having noi

store to come forw:

formation
Opinion is
sible y

that the ones respon-
under the influence of
Nuor when they broke into the store.
om the damage done there seems
lo have heen little effort at conceal-
ment or attempt to carry out th
robbery in silence.

The thieves escaped with men's
clothing, including Indian sweaters
and a n.

oa shotg

Saturated Woods Still —
Keeping Production Down

Ranchers have not been alone in feeling the effects of the
months of wet weather this summer. Lumbering, tlre biggest
dollar volume industry in the district, has also felt the pinch of
bucking soggy roads and attempting to keep production up.

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to the planer mills. One large mill
has 60,000 feet of lumber stock-
piled and loaded trucks still cannot
navigate between the lumber piles
and the main road.

In the opinion of one lumber com-
any official, the only factor that has
saveed many small operators in the
ditsrict this summer has been the
strong market. Early in the summer
the mills in the northern United
States were crippled by a drawn-out
strike, and its effect has been to keep
the market in a firm condition. Saw-
mills are still getting from $46 to
$50 a thousand at the planers.

This temporary market bolster has
since been removed with the strike
settlement, and although as yet
there has been no visible reaction on
the local market, it is expected that
a general softening will follow he-
tween now and the close of the year.

The summer of 1954 has been a
hard one on both the district’s
primary industries.

September Cattle
Sales Over Double
Same Period In 1953

More than double the amount of
cattle were sold through the Cariboo
Cattlemen’s Association in the month
of September this year than for the
corresponding period in 1953.

This: month there were 2053 head -
of cattle sold and 496 sheep for:a
total value of $279,139.16. In Sep-
tember, 1952 there were 944 head of
cattle and 469 sheep sold for a total
of $156,316.48.

Last Saturday there were 259 head
moved through the C.C.A. and $3
head through the Live Stock Pro-
ducers Co-o.

Good steers brought from 17 to
18.75; medium steers from 15 to
16.65; good feeder steers from 14 to
15; medium feeder steers from 12
to 13.65; medium heifers from
to 13.50; good light cows from
to 12.50; heavy cows from 7 to 9;
canners from 6 to’6.75 and bulls 9.

Good lambs brought from 17 to
18.50; medium lambs from 12 to 16
and ewes from 2 to 6.

Truck Driver
Injured In Odd
Highway Accident

Dan Atkins of Horsefly, truck
driver for Niquidet Bros., is in hos-
pital with a broken leg as a result
of an unusual accident on the high-
way Monday.

Mr. Atkins was bringing a load of
lumber into town when the load
shifted as he passed Sugar Cane re-
serve, overturning the vehicle. With
the help of an Arnett Company
grader the lumber was moved to the
side of the road and the truck right~
ed. Mr. Atkins was working at one
end of the spilled load, moving the
lumber right off the highway when
a car driven by Charles Fisher of
150 Mile glanced off the other end of
the load, driving some of the boards
ahead to strike Mr. Atkins in the leg.

It was around 6:30 p.m. at this
time, and according to Mr. Fisher’
report, the glare from a passing car's
headlights prevented him from see-
ing the lumber, Unaware that anyone
r end of the load, he
Mile and telephoned
the information that
a load of lumber spilled
the highw: In the meantime,
the grader operator, who was still
nearby, picked Mr. Atkins up and
brought him into. hospital.

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Miss BR.
matron of

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Nordland, a :former
War Memorial Hospital,
in town yesterday on a business
trip in her capacity of an inspector of
hospitals with the British Columbia

Hospital Insurance Service,