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NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

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Volume 22 — Number 40.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, October 14, 1954.

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

2+ B T OF THE SHOW

Grand Champion of the show, Noble Creek
Real Supremé 6H, is shown here by Kamloops
breeder Fred E. Dey, shortly after the white-

face was picked by Judge Cha:

$1025. This ra.
s. Yule as the }

best bull in the 17th annual show. The champ
was sold Friday to Gr

enacres Cattle Co., for
neh bought the grand champion

of last year’s show from Len Wood for $1350

Bull Sale Reflect

s Position

Of Cattle Industry This. Winter

Unsettled situation of the

cattle industry in the Cariboo

this year was reflected in the results of the annual bull sale

Jast Friday as
$21,392.50, making a sale ave:
last year’s ‘sale was $510.84. |
Grand champion bull of the show,
contributed by Fred Dey of Kam-
loops was bought by Miss Barbara
Spencer for Greenacres Cattle Co.,
for the show’s top price of $1025.
Miss Spencer bought four animals
altogether for a total of $2,660.00.
Earlscourt's reserve champion bull
was sold to Mel Moon for $550
Other top buyers in quantity were
Mrs. Geneva Martin, who purchased
six bulls for a total of $2490.00, and
St. Joseph’s Mission, buying five
bulls for a total of $1,900.00.
Except for isolated instances,

bid-

noon as auctioneer Mat Hassen_ Jr.,
worked hard to get ranchers inter-
ested in the bulls on offer. There were
14 animals turned out of the ring,
either because no bids were forth-
coming at all, or hecause buyers
would not meet the contributor’s
single bid privilege.

This occurred in the sale’s open-
ing stages as the first three animals
were passed out of the ring. Although
after this the bulls started to sell,
there was a noticeable reluctance on
the part of buyers to start at the
auctioneer’s first figures, and once
underway the raises were accepted
in many cases at $10 in order to get

any jumps at all.
Fred Dey’s Noble Creek Real
Royal, that teamed with the grand

10’ Alkali Lake for $650
Top prices for the five Shorthorns

R.C.M.P. Add New
Item To Sale Program

An addition to the cattle sale pro-
gram this year was provided by the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
with the appearance of three high-
way patrol cars in town to carry out
a series of road checks.

The men, worked from Wednesday
afternoon until Friday night and
checked 670 vehicles, serving traf-
fie notices to 2 e were mainly
for defective equipment on vehicles,
with faulty lights high on the list.

Two drivers who had never bother-
ed to obtain driver's licences were
caught in the check and charges
were laid against two men for im-
paired driving. These latter two,
Wilfed Emile and Rold Halvorsand, |
were fined $50 and costs in police|
court on the charges. |

Game Warden Joe Gibault worked
with the patrols one day and picked
up three violators of the Game Act.

5. Thes

rapehers bought 55 animals for a totalj of
Average of:

age Of $383.95.

sold at the show (three others were
passed out) were paid for James
Turner’s first and second place win-
ners in the class to M. Shaw for $500
and $375 respectively.

Tourist Fined
In Accident Case

A fine of $50 and costs was im-
osed on Richard Metler of Klamath.
Falls, Oregon, when he appeared in
police court this week on a charge of
reckless driving and a further fine of
$25 was levied on a charge of failure
to have a driver's licence.

‘The charges arose from a spectacn-
lar crash at the junction of the Cari-
boo Highway and Mountain House
cut-off about 3 Saturday after-
noon when the %-ton pick-up that
Metler was driving en route to a
hunting trip in the Chilcotin, flipped
over three times on the pavement.

Seriously injured in the crash was
the other passenger in. the truck,
David McGowan of Kamloops, who
is in War Memorial Hospital suffer-
ing from a broken back, fractured
ribs and slight concussion. McGowan
had hitched a ride with the driver.

According to police reports the

; truck went off the highway about 70

feet south of the intersection,
oughed back on the highway and
knocked over the stop sign at the
intersection and then flipped over.
Both men were thrown out of the
vehicle, but in coming to’ rest it pin-
ned McGowan. Police rushed to the
scene, and aided by passersby, freed
the injured man. Metler received
bruises and suffered from shock as a
result of the crash.

Damage to the vehicle is estimated
at $800.

One Day In Jail
On Damage Charge

Steve Vichek was sentenced to one
day in jail when he appeared before
Judge Henry Castillou Tuesday,
charged with wilful damage. In pass-
ing sentence, Judge Castillou said he
was taking into consideration the fact
that the aceused had spent two
weeks in jail awaiting trial, and had
made full restitution of the damage
c of $384.00.

The charge arose from an incident
in front of a dance hall September
24 when Vichek jumped up and
down on the top of a late model car,
damaging the roof. ,

Sees Hope For Jaycees

In Appearance
Of New Service Club

Appearance of a service club in
Williams Lake may help the Junior
Chamber of Commerce back to

This was the “hope
regional director Geof Hill of Princes
George, who spoke to local Jaycees
Tuesday night. Mr. Hill said that the
Williams Lake Club, like may simi-
lar groups, had been saddled with
the work of service clubs in the past
and had suffered as a result. Now
that there is a service club in Wil-
liams Lake, he recommended that
the Jaycees concentrate on selt-
development programs.

Next Friday, L. J. ‘Flip’ Filipelli of
Trail, president,
will address a meeting of the local
group at the municipal hall.

Six Months For
Cheque Offense

Edward Perisee, no fixed address,
was sentenced to six months imprison-
ment when he appeared before Judge
)Henry Castillou last Friday on a

jcharge of uttering a forged docu-
ment. .

The document, a cheque taken
from Lemac Lumber Co., had been

passed at the local store of Western,
Rife & Pigeon. Amount involved was
$57.75. Perisee pleaded guilty to the
charge.

Early Freighter
On Road Passes
At Lac La Hache

Friends gathered Monday at Lac
La ‘Hache to pay their last respects to

Raymond Gaynor Wise, 70,
who passed away at his home Satur-
day, October 9th

Born at Redding, California in
1884, Mr. Wise came to the Cariboo
in 1912, where he married Adeladie
Hamilton, daughter of J. R. Hamil-
He was one of the first fre
riboo Ri
remem-

het-

ton.
ers by mule 1
and through
bered for his warm affection to every-
one and his unfailing generosity. He
engaged in ranching for many years
and was employed during the active
part of his latter life by the Public
Works Department

He is
one son, Raymond, and three grand-
children, all of Lac La Hache.

Services were conducted by Father
J. Boyle and Father Naphin. Pall-
were Leonard’ McCartney,
| Bud Barlow, Tommy Paxton, Bordie
| Felker, Clif? Eagle and Roy Beaman

nin on the C
the ye

was

oN
xpressed= be} nd dled within the-fiumework oF the

survived by his loving wife; |

Work Of 4H Clubs
Described To Kiwanis

Town Kiwanians had their eyes
opened to the work being carried out
by the 4H Club movement in British
Columbia last Thursday when: they
listened to Miss Bcho Lidster, gov-
ernment supervisor of the boys’ and
girls’ organization.

Obviously the top saleswoman for
he 4H Clubs, Miss Lidster packed a
wealth of information into the few
minutes at her disposal at the lunch-
eon gathering.

‘| As guests of honour in the centre

of the ‘U’ shaped club tables at Col-
ambus Hall, some 13 members of the
3t. Joseph’s Mission Calf Club were
seated. They, with their leader, Bro-
her McDonald, were introduced by
.| Kiwanis club president Felix Nich-
yison.

Prominent among the head table
suests was Hon. Ken Kiernan, Min-
ister of Agricluture, who brought
sreetings from the government, and’
informed the members that be had
just recently become a member of
the Victoria Kiwanis Club.

Miss Lidster told the audience
that she has been with the 4H move-
ment for eight years now, and
watched it grow to an organization
ot some 2000 members. 3

The “4H” stands for four import-
ant little words, she explained, ‘‘head,
heart, hand, health,” and although
the ultimate aims of education, help-
fulness, work and bodily care are
lefty ideals, they are brought down
to earth through the work in the
clubs.

The beef calf clubs are only one
pie of-4H activities, Miss Lidster
stated. There are spme 15” project

movement, including. potato clubs,
dairy clubs, sewing clubs, woodwork-
ing clubs and others. The basic idea
of the movement is to have the mem-
bers work at some project through
the year and then show the results of
their work at achievement days, such
as the fall cattle sale here.

In addition to their individual
projects though, the boys and girls
develop talents in public speaking
and in parliamentary procedure, she
stated.

Although the 4H movement is one
that draws mainly from rural chil-
dren, there are many members who
are not ‘destined to stay with agri-
culture, although 70 percent of the
members do stay with the industry
or in allied lines when they grow up.

“One of the things I am trying to
explain is that part of the Work of
the 4H Clubs is a thorough training
in citizenship,” Miss Lidster said.

The guest speaker was introduced
by Rey. Jack Colclough and thanked
by Ernie Eve.

Mobile X-ray Unit
Visit A Success

Technicians in charge of the mo-
bile X-Ray unit that was in the area
this week, report a very satisfactory
public response.

In Williams Lake there had been
614 people checked by ten o’clock
this morning. At 100 Mile House 189
visited the unit.

A temporary break-down of equip-
ment on opening day Tuesday, stall-
ed the procedure until 11 o’clock. To
make up for this the visit was ex-
tended an extra half day today,

This Week’s Edition
Courtesy Cariboo Truck

Your paper comes to you this we!

through the courtesy of the boys at
Cariboo Truck & Equipment.

Yesterday our small gas power-
| plant for the newspaper press broke
down, and Ross Rich of the equip-
ment company mechanical staff wor
ed well into the night trying to work
to tide us|

|some life into the motor
over. Manager Bill Sloan and Tom-
my Bishop finally got into the act
too, without success, and finally Bill
kindly offered us the loan of another
motor. This was installed around
| midnight last night.

Prices Hold At 17th Annual Sale

$281,944 Paid toRanchers
For 2,834 Head of Cattle

Pessimistic forecasts on the results of the 17th annual
cattle sale were completely contradicted last Thursday as
buyers paid top market prices in most cases for the 2,834 head

on offer,
$281,944.55,

Last year there were 2470 head
sold for $295,022.

Reappearance of American inter-
est in the sale helped considerably
to keep prices up.’ Carsten’s of Spo-
kane and Tacoma buying for two

other packers besides themselves,
bought 446 head for a total of
$41,827.50.

Heaviest buyer in dollar’value was
Burns & Co., paying out $56,335.57.
Other Canadian packing houses and
their total purchase figure were:
Canada Packers, $27,368.67; Sw:
$18,897.95; Alberta Meat $18,826.11.

Highest price paid for steers in the
show was 19.70 bid by Canada Pack-
ers on a lot of 20 steers contributed
by R. A. Moon. Burns & Co. paid
19.50 for a lot of 20 show steers con-
tributed by Mel Moon, and “Gus
Piltz’s show lot of 20 steers was
bought by Burns for 19.25,

Top price on cows was 9.70 paid on
a small lot by Carsten’s. O. F. Wolte
paid the top price of 16.00 on heifers,
and the best price for calves was ob-
tained by Huston Dunaway’s lot of
29, bought by Burns for 14.85.

Grand champion fat steer of the
show, contributed by Marie Pigeon,
was sold for 35 cents a pound to
Charles Hobbis, of Honolulu, who ‘is
ing at Chileo Ranch. Ray ‘Butch’
s bought by the PGE

éents.a_poundzaLast
champlod animal

Only two local buyers bought the

show calves offered. Williams Lake

Meat Market paid 23 for Henry
Frank’s calf, and Cariboo Cold Stor-

Second Cattle Sale

Second big cattle sale of the season
will be held this year on November
4, according to a decision reached b:
directors of the Cariboo Cattlemen’s
Association at a special meeting this
week.

‘electrification

Contributing ranchers realized a total gross of

age Ltd., paid 21 cents a pound for
Leslie Henry's animal.

Any hope that reduced freight
rates would result in sales to Edmon-
ton buyers failed to materialize. The
one buyer from the Alberta centre
who attended the sale didn’t offer a
bid as the day wore on.

Four cars-of cattle headed for Cal-
gary. J. O. Bulman of Kamloops
purchased two carloads for his new
ranch at Claresholm, Alberta, and
John A. Harper purchased two car
loads for Adams, Wood & Weiller of
Calgary. é

The big sale was handled in good
time by auctioneer Mat Hassen, Jr.,
taking just seven hours to complete.

B.C. Power Adding
Rural Power Lines

In accordance with their; rural
program, the B.C.
Power Commission will have some
7% miles of additional power lines
outside of Williams Lake either com-
leted or under construction this year.
Scheduled to be completed in Nu-
vember is the 150 Mile extension of
some 3% miles to serve 15 custom-
lers; % mile along the csnolstgn
[Road, a r completion
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Dog Creek road extension -n:

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‘approved for a distance of two miles

to service 10 customers, a start may
be made this year; a 1 mile extension
along the old River Road to Quesnel
from Allfir Lumber, to service two
customers, start also may be made
this year.

Cost of these extensions is placed
at an average of $2000 per mile.

Mr. and Mrs. C. Huston are visit-

ors to Vancouver this week.

Minister Warns

Ranchers

To Place Orders For Pellets

Without minimizing the acuteness of the hay situation

in the Cariboo; Hon. Ken Kiernan, Minister
told ranchers at their annual sale banquet Thursday ni

of Agriculture,

that there is no general hay shortage in British Columbia. =

“This is not an acute situation,”
he said.

At the same time he warned Cari-
boo ranchers that if they were short
of liay, orders for pellets must be
placed immediately if they want de-
livery this winter.

“What we can get out of Vancou-
ver in the next three months, plus
your available hay, will see you
through, but don’t put off ordering
too long.

On the industry in general
throughout British Columbia, the
minister said “this is not the worst
year in agriculture, but it is almost.

He went on to say that in the
Fraser Valley hay crops varied from
very good to poor, but a lot of en-
silage had been put up.

For those who might have been
looking for government assistance in
the present problem, Mr. Kiernan
held out little hope. “A policy of
is not wanted by the peo-
the industry he id. “And
taxpayers

ple of
I do not want to go to th

with the request for more tax money
for one industry.’
Leaving the specific problems of

agriculture. Mr. Kiernan. offered the
opinion that he personally favoured
the extension of the Pacific Great
Eastern Railway and would not be
ratisfied until it reached Fort st.
John

He also expressed the opinion, in
referring to the provincial economy.
that what we have lost in agriculture
we have made up for in the bush this
summer.

(in an interview the next day, Mr.
Kiernan said he had not realized

that the wet summer nad worked a
hardship on the interior lumbering
industry, He had been thinking of
the coast logging camps where a wet
summer cut down on the loss of time
through normal fire seasons. Ed.)

Livestock judge Chas. Yule had
something to add to the feed ques-
tion. He said there was no room for
pessmism in the industry, thot
ranching was still the best thing we
can put our money in. There is one
thing a crisis like this does, he went
on. It separates the men from the
boys and results in a more stable
industry.

Acting president Mel Mayfield
of the Cariboo Cattlemen’s Associa-
tion welcomed the visitors to the
vanquet and introduced the head table

guests. Followng the speakers he
then, assisted by director Ray Har-
greaves, distributed the trophies

among the winners of the two-day
show.

Board of trade president Tom L:
so told the his ¢
happy to again sponsor the a
nual banquet tor the eattlemen, one
of the ways in which the board takes
to help promote all interests of the
Cariboo.

Bert Roberts acted as master of

audience that

was

ceremonies and introduced Mr.
Kiernan. The guest speaker was
thanked by Judge Henry Castillou.

Mrs. Margaret Murray, publisher
of the Alaska Highway News at Fort
St. John, urged cattlemen to look

into the possibility of augmenting
their feed supplies from the Peace
River country,