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THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.G.

Thursday, December 9, 1954,

Williams Lake Tribune

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_ Another Town Builder Gone

A sense of loss will be felt in the community with the

By R J. SCOTT
FOUDROYANT

{ MunbeRna: Sonning: DazzLING,

even though we believe this man
Tinker went aound Toronto looking
for slights real and imaginary. Ii
must be admitted we have editors
who appear only too happy to con-
strue every decision of Congress us
inimical of Canadian interests. We
do impose high tariifs while profess-
ing to favour their gradual abolition,
and we howl like the dickens about
the tariffs they impose against our |
agricultural products,
OFF THE BEAM

Nevertheless we think Mr. Tinker

adian opinion and, we believe, the
same goes for the U.S.A. Articles in
the nature of the one under review,
regardless of their country of origin,
do little to dispel confusion nor do
they contribute, to the betterment of
international understanding. They
just confuse the casual reader.

Smiles .

Here lies the body of Jonath-n Gray;
He died maintaining his right of way.
He was right, dead right, as he sped

is off the beam. It is quite obvious he along.
moved around in a very narrow orbit | But he's just as dead as if he'd been
while in Canada and assumes a few WIONEs = , 2

of the acquaintances he met up with
to be representative of Canada as a
whole. We could point out that a few
American publications love to pan us
and are outspokenly hostile to any-
thing British. We are not oblivious

Worrying is like sitting in.a rock=
er. There's a good deal of agitation
without getting anywhere.

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passing of J. D. Smedley, one of the town’s pioneer
businessmen. B :

Not an aggressive personality, “J.D.” was a gentle, kindly \
person who moved through life pursuing his business and \ =
community work with guiet courtliness. . = ine SVR OIE oF |

One of his main contributions to the community’s welfare Ae, EXPLOSIONS BE cere \ND LIVING in Ale
was his work on the board.of directors of War Memorial Hos- pe BORER. MARS 2 Sn a BR

i ir r si ructi ita t WH FIRES BURNING UNDER

pital. He was a director since the construction of the hospital BRougn “Ttick YES- IF THE MaRiiANs ane HEC oe ane

30 years ago and was vice-chairman at the time of his death.
His architectural knowledge was called on often in this work,
and as the district grew through the years and additional

Have Teves WARM ON CHILLY HIGHS.

accommodation was required from time to time, the plans
came from his drawing board.
The town has been tie better for his years among us.

The Cracker Barrel Forum

to the unfortified bouridary with the
U-S. on the one side and the Com-
monwealth -on the other — not just
Canada. & y
SITUATION NOT HELPED

We think much of the attitude Mr.
Tinker complains of is brought on by
# section of his countrymen who, in|

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‘ Watch Those ‘Targets’

After enduring one of the wettest summer seasons ou
record, ranchers and lumbermen alike are not apt to greet
with enthusiasm the. news that rain makingsmachines have
been in use on the coast for two years.

According to the news report, a million-dollar American
company has been hired by a paper company to increase rain
get’ areas on the coast. Brains behind the weather
changing company is one Dr. Irving Krick, who, somewhat
naturally, claims his system will increase rainfall when put

in certain ‘tar

into operation.
The idea is fine i

do work.

3 lowing: An Am-
rainfall on our side of the Coast Range as well as along the erican spending
Pacific shores — provided, of course, the-rain making machines more than a brief

aes : vacation in Can-
If the machines are still in operation next year and the] .4, je* anade: to
summer of 1955 proves a repetition of the one just past, Dr. feel ike an ‘une

Krick’s experiments will cert
by the residents of the Centr

Stull The

A bit over 100 years
Encyclopedia Britannica as

widely read,

attention.

In that novel Dickens describes tuberculosis as ‘‘a disease
which medicine never cured,
poverty could boast exemption from:
in giant strides, and sometimes at a tardy sluggish pace, but.
slow or quick, is ever sure and certain.”

Another day was coming but Dickens was not to see it. It
was not until twelve years after his death that Dr, Robert Koch
that caused TB and, by proving it was

discovered the germ
communicable,

over.

Early discovery and prompt treatment, drugs and surgery
have since combined to reduce the death toll from tuberculosis.
Even- so there are still approximately
early of this disease and more than 11,000 patients entering
Prevention is still the great challenge —
-and it is for this cause that the Christmas Seal sale is being
conducted not only in Canada, but in many other countries, In

two score countries on all continents, Christmas Seals fight

Sanatoria a year.

tuberculosis.

for your money

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British Guiana’s
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matured and
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This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor
Control Board or by the Government of Briti:

does work, and if it confines the added
rainfall to the specific area, but weather forecasters say that
if the machines are increasing rez
be controlled to the extent of limiting it to watershed areas
for which the company is being paid.

In other words, if the weatherman’s reasoning is correct,
Dr. Krick’s rain making agent might be producing excessive

ainly be looked on with suspicion
ral Interior.

Best Weapon

ago a journalist described by the’
“one of the most rapid and accurate
reporters in London” turnéd novelist. In so doing he put some
of that same accurate reporting into a form is which it is still
for he was Charles Dickens whose “Christmas
Carol” will be read by thousands in the coming weeks. >

It is in “Nicholas Nickleby” however,
paragraph which has special significance in these weeks before
Christmas» when the prevention of tyberculosis claims our

not hereditary,
against what was then the leading cause of death the world

By A. J. Drinkell Cs

During our last hold-forth one of
the boys produced a copy of the De-
ceber Ist issue of Maclean's which
contained an article by a Mr. Frank
Tinker entitled “Im leaving Canad
and I'm glad.’ Mr. Tinker has ju
resigned his position of American
Vice-Consul in Toronto after a two-
year tenure. An intimate Canadian
friend solicitously enquired if he
wasn’t sorry to be leaving to which
Cousin Frank retorted that on the
centrary it’s going to be a great re-
lief to leave Canada.

After reading
the article we ga-
ther this pleasur-
able feeling stems
from such experi-
ences as the fol-

a

nfall they doubt if it could

welcome interloper. We accuse our
American neighbours of being grossly
. i ignorant of Canada. We have done
nothing to alleviate this condition.

Much of this unfamiliarity stems from

the small circulation there of our na-

tional publications. (We hope the |
editor of Maclean's noted this.)

HOSTILE INFORMATION

But, says Mr. Tinker if they were
more widely distributed it is a safe |
bet many Ka ms and Texans would |
refuse to believe that some of their |
comments came from our northern
neighbours. If a U.S. editor printed
material as hostile to and suspicious
of Canada as the material Candian
editors print dai about the U.S. he
would be snowed under by an im-
mediate a lanche of protest.

We are altogether too sensitive of
Uncle Sam’s greater size and larger
industrial development. We delight
in reminding our American guests
that. such characters as Senators Me-
Carthy and MacCarran are Americans,
We are too critical of the U.S. immi-
gration laws although they closely
resemble our own and we deplore the
tariff barriers erected by Uncle Sam
while imposing higher ones ourselves.

There is much more all in the same
vein. Unfortunately much of it is true

From the kiles of the Tribune |

ONE YEAR AGO | 4
December 10, 19:
Thirty-two ratepayers on hand foil
annual stewardship meeting Felix
Nicholson arrives to replace Len
Hellyer as Bank of Commerce man-
ager; and Jack Purser, manager of
Bank of Montreal, moved to North
Vancouver branch— District's’ first
polio victim, seven-months-old daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Frizz, on way
to full recovery— For first time in
history of War Memorial Hosptial,
over 1000 patients admitted in
twelve-month period— Over 100
sportsmen turn out for annual Game
Banquet.’ Bulk of prize presentations
went to Ed Follis— Fifty years of
married life celebrated by Mr, and
Mrs. Will Scott— R. F. P. Bowan
appointed manager of P.G.E.— Mrs.
J. Stitt elected president of Register-
ed Nurses Association— Hospital
Auxiliary donates $300 towards
X-ray for hospital— Two new trucks
added to PWD— i
FIVE YEARS AGO
December 8, 1949 4
Canvassers collect $1200 towhrds
War Memoral Building centre— Ten
of 70 lots offered by P.G.E. in new
subdivision sold— Vie Erickson, 72,
pioneer of Big Creek-Hanceville area,
dies at Kamloops— Red Cross opens
13th Outpost Hospital, at Alexis
Creek in the Chilcotin. Nurse in
charge is Miss Sophie Smith— Pres-
entation made to Mr. and Mrs. Archie
Herber who are leaving the Cariboo
after 27 years— Leo Jobin brings in
huge bunch of pussywillows in full
bloom which he gathered near the
144 Mile— Fund started at Likely’
to aid Clive McKeever, severely in-
jured in an explosion— Board of
Trade formed at Forest Grove with
twenty-five members—
TEN YEARS AGO
December 7, 1944
Jack Cripps, owner of Williams
Lake Meat Market, will construct a
modern frigidaire food locker sys-
tem— May Rose Larson, 21-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ole Larson
of Roe Lake, dies at War Memorial
Hospital— A snipe sailboat club
being formed in Williams Lake with
Rodk. Mackenzie, J. D. Smedley,
J. Simons and B. Boe as the present
members— Williams Lake Meat Mar-

that we find a

wealth never warded off, or
which sometimes moves

gave impetus to the fight

1,800 Canadians dying

ket advertises turkeys 44¢ per 1b;
ducks 38e; chicken 28e, and fowl
35e—

TWENTY YraR: GO

December 6, 1934

h Columbia
Work camp has been established

jyat Riske Creek where the road in
H} that section will undergo gravelling.

turn, like to remind us of that au |
er size and expansive industry. They
never forget to remind us how they. .
won the war. We owe much of psa

development to American capital. |
Most Canadians do not object to the
two flags flying side by side upon
appropriate occasions. Mr. Tinker
unwittingly sizes up the situation
quite well when he declares “The
practice of identifying a person of a
certain nationality with his country’
powerful and unpopular interests is,
of course, fraught with danger, The
fact he is American does not mean
he automatically endorses every )it
of claptrap put out by Hollywood,
U.S. Steel or the C.1.0:

We suggest that goes for both
sides. While in Toronto Mr. Tinker
should have had ample opportunity
to keep informed regarding the ut-

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