Page § ~™: THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LARS, 8.6, Thursday, September 80, 1684 Williams Lake ‘Tribune Bstablished 1931 Clive Stangoe, Editor Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C. By The Tribune Publishing Co. Subscription: per year ... sues B60 Outside Canada — etecis PSO Payable in Advance Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association > British Columbia Division, C.W.N.A. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa {they lead you through a veritable The Cracker Barrel Forum By A. J. Drinkell maze of unspoiled wonders of nature. Then taste the evening coffee made over the camp-fire and revel in the One of the boys barged into our last hold-forth chuckling gleefully in spite of the persistently inclement weather. By way of justifying the mirth he produced a much thumbed copy of the Vancouver Sun. We learn- ed that one of its columnists had spent two or three days exploring Sale In Time Of Crisis Next week is cattle sale time in Williams Lake, and from this Saturday until the closing of weighing and penning next Tuesday, the sprawling whitewashed stockyard along the lakeside will gradually fill with white-faced products of our rangeland. It is a sale that will be watched with considerable anxiety by the ranchers contributing. The lack of feed may push the number of stock offered up to a record figure, and taken in conjunction with the general situation might result in lower prices being offered. The same might well be said of the breeders contributing to the bull sale. Ranchers worried about how to maintain their present herds may not be anxious to offer top prices for herd sires. In either case, we hope the fears of the contributors prove groundless when the last lot is sold out of the auction ring, and we know the hope is shared by everybody in the district. From a viewpoint of dollars and cents, the beef industry in this area has taken a second place to lumbering, but it still forms a very valuable section of our economy and a very permanent one. Here’s wishing a large measure of-success at a critical time to the Seventeenth Annual Feeder Cattle and Beef Cattle Sale and Bull Sale. _ On The Pessimistic Side Probably no other service club has been ushered in to the Stage of community activity with such a pessimistic expectation of failure on the part of outside observers-than the Williams Lake Kiwanis Club. 2 Some of this pessimism jig based on the history of the first service club to be formed here some five years ago that eventually faded from sight. Some of it is based on the oft- repeated phrase that we are over-organized. ‘We hope the pessimists are wrong. A good service club can be an asset to any community. If one takes the time to read the daily newspapers they cannot miss the accounts of sound work carried out at community and provincial levels by the Kinsmen, Lions, Rotarians, Kiwanis and other similar groups. These organizations channel the activities of individuals into work where results show group accomplishment. If the Kiwanis Club can show such group accomplishment here (and there is lots to accomplish), its existence will even be welcomed by the pessimists. The fowly @omina We ran an object lesson on the value of punctuation in a front page story last week concerning the new telephone switchboard. The line went --- “The telephone situation in Williams’Lake can be expected to show a tremendous im- provement with the changeover this week from the antiquated switchboard operators and subscribers have been complaining about for years, to a spanking new one.” Honestly, girls, we meant to put a comma after “switchboards.”’ Think of how yauch worse it would have been if we had left out the ‘‘and” too. BE SAFE! BE SURE! Have a Chest X-Ray A FREE SERVICE For All 15 Years and Over 100 MILE HOUSE October 8th 2to5 p.m. PUBLIC WORKS GARAGE WILLIAMS LAKE Elks Hall October 12 and 13 A Preventive Health Service of Your British Columbia Tuberculosis Society “Bager Beagle” searched high and low but nary a sign of color or ro- mance could he find. Says Mr. Scott, ge “Let's face it, the Cariboo is no longer a fron- tier.” Just where did the gentleman seek this romantic Cariboo? Did he travel the cow- paths that pass for roads here- S. abouts or the by-ways leading to the ranching communities? No siree — of all places, he sought it in the buildings housing the two weekly newspapers where the principal equipment is weighty with lead; the visibility is of the same dull hue and even the feet of Lew and Clive, as they: stand poised over the draught- ing boards, are as leaden as the type they use and their very brains so cloyed with vital statistics their brows are furrowed with agate lines, Mr. Scott also travelled that black- topped replica of the old Cariboo Road which conveniently by-passes any historic landmarks not yet razed and where the slow creaking wheels of the picturesque freight wagons (which made such sweet music to the stoppinghouse operators) have made way for the raucous sounds and ob- noxious smells emitted by the exhaust pipes of gasoline driven monstrosities that drown out the voices of the ani- mals and pollute the air they breathe. PASSING OF SALOONS Mr. Scott mourns for the rough and tumble saloons of yesteryear. They only passed from the scene in tales it will inspire and the vocal 1916 with the birth of prohibition eforts that burst forth in the night but probably that was before the air. Leave the highway with its smells birth of Scott. He did see some chap and sounds to brave the ruts and the in a checked shirt and greasy denims mud. ease himself onto a cafe stool to bite We regret Mother Nature has into a fish sandwich and suck in a dealt our cattle industry a bit of a milk shake. How hath the mighty wallop this year but it is not down cowboy fallen in mine eyes exclaims and out. We can still guarantee you the romantic Cariboo. This self style¢ |the scribe. The fellow should have a steak the size of a raft that has ridden inside on a charger; instead, never seen Calgary or a butcher shop: he parked a jalopy outside. we will garnish it profusely with Our shopping centres “blaze in the history galore, ancient and modern. night with neon” moans this histor- After that Mr. Scott you can. if yon ian. Their economy is now sustained are still in the mood, tell us more about those Mantovani records, Book /of the Month selections, receding |frontiers and lost isolation. It may | be, of course, you will have realized what you saw last time was a little jadded make-up to make us appear more up-to-date to dudes and wan- dering journalists. P.S. There will be no neon lights outside, or plumbing inside, so be sure to bring a flashlight or you may catch your chin on the bunxhousé clothes-line which borders another line, still in use, although first trod- den on by our pioneer forebears —Our “Frontier.” ia by such base industries as logging, building, ete., and are growing ac- cordingly as evidenced by the quoted testimony of Ye Editors. Naturally, we are proud of these signs of ac- tivity and prosperity around our DANCING at Columbus Hall Every Saturday Night VIC IMHOFF’S ORCHESTRA commercial centres. We are boastful, too, of the lovely pavement which has relaced the old Cariboo Road. We deplore, however, the fact these changes have brought to our pre- viously serene little towns a wave of hold-ups, safe-crackings and other jous crimes practically unknown to us in the more primitive days. |] Nevertheless, they still remain our, shopping centres — not the entire district as Mr. Scott opines. ON A BUCKBOARD : We hope ere long Mr. Scott will return equipped with a power-wagon or a rented buckboard so he can straddle the ruts made by those logging trucks and get back to the areas where they are still producing cattle in increasing numbers; where the horse is still very much in use even though the ranchers may own jalopies or runabouts, and where the frontier has not budged an inch. We urge him to come right along; to Pause en route at Lac La Hache for the Barn Dance, then on to Klondyke Leo Fowler Williams Lake Concrete Products READY MIX CONCRETE FOR YOUR CONCRETE NEEDS SPECIFY “READY-MIX” — FASTER ON THE JOB. Free Estimates --- Phone 44-G Lakeside Night and any little local rodeo he may come across. Join us in the ex- citement of branding time or listen to the music of a thousand calves at weaning. Climb on a horse Mr. Scoit and follow a herd of cows all day as From the Files of the Tribune ONE YEAR AGO October 1, 1 Dora Renner secretary and Valerie James treasurer— For the first time To VENEZUE Eight hundred adults and children |in history of Dog Creek, mail dis- HONG KONG see the B.. ProductsiShow atthe Elkg{Patched twice weekly from that aes Fiviass on i Hall. Held under ‘sponsorship of the | centre as new service inaugiirated— TOKYO z x gs aie See cea sence Vancouver Board of Trade, show|New sawmill starts up at Forest pasts ient way to any part of the globe! proves popular— Biggest upset in |Grove under onwnership of Jack and VANCOUVER Today, Canadian Pacific Airlines fon stop serves four continents. . .and main- the past several years in high school sport occurred in the Cariboo inter- school softball when the Williams Lake nine took the senior champion- ship— Pioneer medical man, Dr. Chest X-Rays Save Lives! The Pacific Great Eastern Railway Co. Effective June 1st, 1954, Will Operate THROUGH-FAST PASSENGER & EXPRESS SERVICE between NCOUVER, B.C. AND PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. Including Sleeping & Dining Car Service Prince George - Squamish Dock Daylight Saving Time Ly-Vancouver (Union Pier) 9:30a.m.-Mon-Wed-Frid Vv. Ar-Wms. Lake 5 ‘Tues-Thurs-Sat Ly-Wms. Lake 5 “Pues-Thurs-Sat Ar-Pr. George 1:30p.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat 3.40p.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat Op.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat Ly-Wms. Lake Op.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat Ar-Vancouver (Union Pier) 0p.m.-Wed-Frid-Sun THROUGH FREIGHT SERVICE Lv - Vancouver-Mon-Wed-Frid Ar - Wms. Lake-Wed-Frid-Sun FREE PICKUP AND DELIVERY ON FREIGHT AND EXPRESS Ly-Pr. George Ar-wms, Lake Gerald Ramsay Baker dies at Quesnel —Coroner’s inquest will be held into highway death of Frances Tressiera, 39— Local jewellery firm of E. G. Woodland & Son marks 20th anni- versary in business here— FIVE YEARS AGO September 29, 1949 2000 head expected for twelfth annual cattle sale— Chilcotin cow- boys are just as tough as ever. Ac- cording to report, Arthur Bambrick kills a bear with pocketknife. Seems Arthur was wrangling horses when a three-year-old black bear came after him. Being without a gun, Ar- thur grabbed his rope, caught Mr. Bruin in his loop and then finished him off with the knife— Formal dedication ceremonies held at new Elks Hall— A new business building, two stories high going up on Oliver Steet between liquor store and post office— ~Nora Moon elected presi- dnt of students council at high school with Fred Hutchinson vice-president, Roy Wileox— TEN YEARS AGO September 28, 1944 men ieee. and also the -barber shop to Alf Eagle— TWENTY YEARS AGO September 27, 1934 James Cunningham, game.commis- Bioner succeeding Biryan Williams, paid his first official visit to Williams Lake— A wedding of wide interest in Cariboo performed at United Church manse when Charles Alfred Eagle of Lac La Hache united in marriage to Evelyn Catherine Robin- son of Vancouver— Mackenzies ad- vertise leather coats for ladies at $8.50; men’s heavy winter work tains fast, communities in Canada! AIRLINES ‘ FASTEST to 4 CONTINENTS and 65 COMMUNITIES in CANADA frequent service to 65 What is probably the first syrup LIMA ‘ made from Cariboo-grown cane was $ Flight Times, Low Fares brought into town by F. N. Sutton— _ VANCOUVER WILLIAMS LAKE To W. S. Western, present manager of non stop Vancouver 2:30 hrs. 4 - the T. A. Moore Co. store. announces HONOLULU Prince George 0 hrs, $12.50 the opening of a new grocery store in pen stop = : = ame tise to Williams Lake to be operated under FlJ| Victoria 5 hrs. $29.60 a partnership agreement between non stop Mexico City 12:00 hrs. 152.00* himself, Ken Rife and Les Pigeon— NEW ZEALAND *Tourist P. J “Nick” Quesnel announces that fon stop he has sold his interest in the Ques- AUSTRALIA eo nel Bros. Garage to his brother, Dell, SOO PRINCE gareuens JUJOHN, YUKON RUPERT PRINCE GEORGE WILLIAMS LAKE CALGARY. shirts from $1.35 to $2.75. Buy SEVERAL HANDIPAK. CARTONS, Orange- Crush TM.REG. 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