Williams Lake Tribune _. — NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO Lb Volume 22 — Number 49. WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, December 16, 1 Single copy 10c. $2.60 per year. Natural Gas Certain For Town Worker Drowned In | STORE HOURS News Of Pipe Line Project Gus Storage Tank | iss vea'ty mon wercnne Hailed As Boon To Interior town, stor remain open all Tragedy marred the construction) Gay next Wednesday and will be Best Christmas present the Central Interior could have of the new Royalite buik storage) @josed from Friday at-6 p.m. until received was the news this week that the natural gas line agency plant here Monday when GuY| the morning ot Tuesday, Decem- project from the Peace River Country would be undertaken Levesquae, 21 of Val D'Or, Queber,.) yey 28. in the near future. SSS ee Ee lost his life when lie fell into one of |” % stores will not observe evening ‘Aunouticeiegic De the amuleemil |Tesidents Wsathe: Iefewledse thar ae : i TRS Waa tare z tural gas will be aVailable in our Tie, ane Smee tro map next wee lion collar project, involving the] (0, ee Ferrall GUGBEE bad eee surred abo : ' = 9 - fae eae eiueresqus wae Soe ore signing of an agreement by West: | arity sooner ‘ n the mor’ s Li e Sales y : : = : ; ast Pransmission and=two major| In a telephone interview with stalling a feed pipe in a tank that ° coas' 0 contained about # foot of gasoline arson gain @OGS | American fyms, Pacific Northwest] John McMahon, president of Inland in it. The young man had heen told | 4 : Pipeline Corp. and El Paso Natural| Natural Gas Company, The Tribune by agent Bob Kyte to put the pipe Lo | T dd G Gas Company, that will involve the| was assured that original plans. for into postion by reaching through aca ra e roup supply of 300 million cubic feet of distribution here will be carried . < ‘ as to the United Sta . rt rovide ; the 22neh anole and having: at [) om Larson, manager of he Ban ee ee en sacl mney receive a tramshiaes other man hold on to him eye did| ofmontreal was returned as presi- the work in case the fumes hecame|qent of the Williams Lake and 5 Se ; Be ork Me ee eee ERE. Geta or te ak oa | LA Walts Permit Amendment do the job another way, and placed| group's annual meeting last Thury a plank inside the horizontal tank | gay. Mr. Larson has been in off to stand on. Whether he slipped from | cince last June, stepping up to fill ‘the plank or was overcome ‘by the) te place of Jim Shaw, who left town mission Company will awaft the : ra fumes and fell is not known, but-he| 9¢ that time. necessary imendment being received Beautiful “Chris’’ Peebles of Vancouver, charming fea- plunged to the bottom seven feet be-|" Vice-president is Paul Jorgensen. | for the original import permit given tured starlet of Canadian Ice Fantasy of 1955 which, weather lows paktner of the firm of J & W Logging. | )y Washington, permitting; will come to War Memorial Arena December 21. Seppo Makinen, who was standing | Returned as ary Wasa) on the tank to assist, called for help | Stewart, who fepiaced Doug Adair and nearby workmen rushed to the| three months ago when the lalter Mr. McMahon stated that work on, to say since that would bean engin- the pipeline of the Westcoast Trans- | eering problem. However, if it is feasible, there is a possibility that Williams Lake could be serviced late in 1955. It was back-in 1952 that towns- hearings on which| people first learned of the possibility will probably start early in the year.|of a gas distribution system. In the If this amendment is approved in] fall of 1953 Inland conducted a sur- 3 Z = z time to allow a full working season | vey of the town after commission- . 2 Beene. While ropes were being se-| was transferred. _ {next year, the line should be.at the] ers stated their intention of sub- z WELFARE RESPON IBILIT ES cured, Bill Pulyer allowed himself to Directors ake Bert Ropers, Fell] coast by the Tall of 1956. Tilting @ “by law/émbodyine ‘entiior= < ~ te be lowered into the tank in a desper- Nicholson, Bob Blair, Ray War-| yp {ie meantime, Inland Natural|sty to grant the franchise if and ate bid to reach the victim, but he | greaves, Clive Stangoe, Dr. J. Dutlne,| Gas wil) seek franchises from the|when the gas line project went EXPL AINED TO CONUMISSIONERS |: nis sees erate ae PoE Fe Set ee era hn sae em | : Bus pulled out by lowering a hook. on ap answer toa question from the| Guging Williams Lake. As soon as At that time lopes were high that the end of a rope, and although only | B.C. Telephone Company on an P| (hese are obtained, the company will] Westcoast’s application before the Along ith the continued growth of the village comes its five minutes had’ lapsed from” the | igipal comp) int from the boz ub he} cart laying: distribution systems, Federal Power Commission in Wash- © growing pains, and commissioners Tuesday_night were given time he dropped to theybase of the méeting instructed the executive t0) \vyether it is possible to supply| ington to import gas to the united s 4 bit of an insight into-the problems. of Social Welfare work, | tan Ne was dead. ist specific telephone service com-| 4. {9 a town like Williams Lake| States would be approved. The hear- for which they become responsible on January 1s: The young man worked for Seigt pints for study by the utility com-| hie construction is still going on| ings dragged on for 18 long months Not that this resonsibility will be ; = = Construction company and Mr. Kyie|PABY. : ae 8 ‘Jon tie pipele farther south, Mr.|and finally the application was re- ~ ae to the village will probably be small,,| had planned on taking him on perm=| Phe board.of trade of Quesnel and] yy. Manon sdid he was not prepared | jected this spring. top: eee aecording Lom es ifick will be to budget enough money | anent staff as soon as the agericy was for Dea : ed to send dele regional administrator, who attend-|'(o jaye some working capital in the | operating at full capacity, ues tows ans wake to meet with > 2 ee HY a ed the meeting along ith ‘Nigel | fund, since the ante ast pay out ae ae just missed, the F Airline: Benefit Domestic, Field First 35S aistrie sunervisos = oil Ue cheqnes andthesympnly to the | spcident. He had left. the plant -i faenssions on the fyasi-| Me jntroductiom, chs a of Trade presidex: Briefly, the responsibility is nase government for 80 percemepiter, warning Levesque not to go Satenr to Wasa parstir is of the opinion that t Beer nc clin coarcenisetas veyenuet ceare: aud the 20) pereut te other [into the tank by himself, and by ihe yee eee: in the ao-| ime will prove to be an ou! standing aoeeied 12500 Jast year. Unden| munieibalipfes sliercimyplicable. Ti tme he returned ten minutes later) | 770" asset for the community as well as this amount, a village’s social wel- will be particularly true next year| it was all over. a Seer of hy a boon to the steady growth of the fare preblems are looked after sole- when a new financial set-up for vil- A coroner’s jury, inquiring “into ae she “a s Central Interior. ly by the provincial governmen lages comes into effect where budget | thé fatal accident, returned a finding ne oF ee coe sg though Inland officials have stated The gas deal just soimpleted is Gaceroucs giee Amount) dha Social money for various depantmente; cat” get Moyes cnime gio bis deatir as, SPR was Me anelubion: of teiehan| efore that it will: be ‘compeutive.’| said to be a far better one for the Welfare Service still carries on the | 70t be used for other purposes as has} result of asphyxiation from gas|/?#P olvamilinted ‘The non-poisonous gas though will] north country gas producers than » ZS job, but now the workers are ‘hired’ been done in the past. fumes and drowning in gasoline. ae ae oat or ee ee nndoubtedly prove popular as a4|the scheme originally submitted to by the village to do the work, and aay er ties, a eee ee aoe tat : ya Ly Stee the FPC. Under that plan, gas sale the accounting problems and a share | gw e ete nin le RS aun colntically Sete Lee eae probe vere expected to mount to 300 mil- of the cost of looking after those le Sewer By- aw Given 0.K. Ea Ee Oe | aba teatiie BC ower Commission |Tion eubleteet dally by the fifth year. fortunate than the ordinary citizen ‘ saiieer Sree ine with :ts huge generating engines that|1t called for construction of a 24- go along with the responsi en to ihe com y-laws drawn up for the,| mestic fuel consumption field’ Just pted amendment io} what the cost will be is not known, recommend- untomatic ave now using diesel oil but can be}inch line with a maximum capacity converted to gas. No marked saving | of 420 mililon cubie feet dafly. Since seen in electricity rates how-|the initial throughput announced nee, under the B.C. Power’s| this week is only 15 million cubic > ‘grids plan,’ cosis of producing power | feet short of this mark it is taken whether by hydro or diesel aye pool-| ror granted that a 24-inch line will ed and all customers receive the|not be big enough. benefit. It has been suggested that a line, What it will mean as an attrac-|at least 20 inches in diameter will tion for industry is purely conjec-|have to he built. ture, but businessmen are optimistic] Construction of the 630-mile line in their hopes that natural gas will |from the Peace River country to the be a means of attracting industry to | International Boundary is estimated his part of the Interior. to cost about $110 million. Hospital Addition Plan Ready; For A ss ospital board meeting was given over Tiaily to the question of a temporary addition to the present 4 fae 4 The few property owners who turned out to the polls last For straight administrative work,| Thursday gave the village’s proposed $132,000 sewer by-law the service charges the village 15| 4 thumping margin of approval cents per capita worked out on the 1951 census. Since in that year we Neda population. cf. 918, that isa't| favour of the project and 21 voted much of an outlay. In addition to| against. Under the Village Muntel- this, approximately 14e per capita is] palities Act, there must be three- Of the 108 votes cast, 87 were in Next step’ in the sewer proposal awaits the final approval of the hy- luw from the Inspector of Munici- a : 3 palities folowing study of last levied as our share of the cost O!| ffrns of the votes cast in favonr | Thursday's results. @ medical care plan for those re- ceiving” assistance. es Fi approved. Based on the number out ‘Actual cost of direct payment of social assistance is another Teature yes's’ would have | Rage Against Time of the program. Of this amount, the| been enough fer success. village pays 20 percent and the pro- Disappointing feature of the T M k \ e For yvincial government picks up the tab| vote was the low turnout of ele> oO iviaKe i¢ for the remaining S0 percent. gible propertyowners. ‘Only 27.7 At the moment, out of Me nine) per cent of the names on the voters Sho i Next Week people receiving this assistance| }js¢ exercised thelr Ww within the village, our direct respon- sibility is only one cage. The other i eight, as far as the 20 percent local jack of interest is blamed mainly on share js concerned, of a money by-law before it can be | for the by-law, Weather rov'tiie.polliwas ideals bur | Closest: tiermomieter watehers in town these days are the men repson- sible for making ice at War Mem- orial Arena as time draws closer to is either the re-| the fact that there was no election of Seeted Tus a sponsibility of other provinces or] commissioners to draw yoters out. , é next ODER aE MaCaLIES: tue acheduled tens "whoo Tent Gt he Board | Puilding as directors studied contractors’ proposals, di cussed - |Puesday with the “catiadlan te-1 day DECEIGED: ‘ equipment costs, and the advisability of providing 9 A case becomes the direct respoL- te Beptesy su0W. ot Trade. auditi bet ‘tinal réeir hn prineisz~ vw. F project. sibility of the town when the person R ER D NTIST Tt was gener felt that the re- ‘ddition, before finally ag Be ng in ppingtete "vo THE PRO has lived 12 months prior to receiv- E 8 turn of colderweather this week was Working on a base cost aube thes ritish Columbia Hospital Insurance 3 ing assistance within the town and too late to make Ice in time for the HOLDUP MEN by Overton Brothe: and es imartas Seevieo: for approval: Wien wud if i pn oso anne ANA RETURN sw oa Arn Sey sn rine ut reel heme oes time. For anyone who has been re- Bert “Roberts nde: the cancellation the cost of beds, nig take the plan to a meeting of the = ie ndvaa’ and: udags neces- ceiving aesistance at another ceutre| neve isa strong nossibility that. |deciston andi wired: the touring com GET SIX YEARS the hundred and one metas: | Oe ray abetoty toh action: eary to a patient's eouafort, the over ee ee a practice of Dr. J. James [Dany accoraliely. ary to a patient's 602 ta ue| As planned, the addition would the denta 20 percent local share of the fst-| ay be taken over by Dr. Lloyd But the show officials wouldn't will m Walker, 20, and Emi ° all jake ee Oe provide two public wards, an isola- ance cost is chargeable to the munt| pothamley, former dentist here, who | hear of it, A ‘phone call from Kel- | Piliatranit, were each sentenced nels bo noo oF S18 Ee purther| tion room, maternity a>’ ‘ease ciality from where he or she came. | \i-iteq town this week. gwna advised the local men not to|to a total of six years impr sonment| Berore at sanyo room and nursery. If it is adopted, Outside of these costs, the vilage|" p, poinamley left for his Van-[eapeel anything, that the show could|at Clinton Monday hy Judge Henry je bal os avegetara ‘has reo rtormer mararuity wararand ease - fs also responsible for 20 percent of| iver “nome today ind before he £0 on if there was half an inch of ice. | Castillou. |e uit in eae ne end] ro0in cud be : the cost of any ‘extras’ which they | jer, indicated 1 ne would “pos-| Given the job of seeing that ice is} ‘The two men Dad pleaded guilty | priges on t He ad aig ee es ae |and an isolation 3 approve for welfare cases or thos] .iniy: ye huek early in January. produced ‘i? possible,’ arena man-|to a charge of armed robbery with | te submit the entire propossl 1 TS o ae qe aon Sf eee wee i receiving old age pensions who have|” yp, james left on the weekend for | #¢ér Reg Norberg has crews working |yiplence on November 16 at 69 Mile — cnotiee 6 2 tae ioe no other support. his former home. in’ California. at night and bas turned the respon-| Ho and they elected to 20 1 Ga ayy Falls la Tow vssary ti it was planned as a two Although actual cost of the service Dr. Bothamley practiced here for sibility ot day time flooding if pos- | speedy trial : or three year op gap, but it was paneer | wo and a hal years folowing grad ible over to Mat Latin, It its possible The bandits made the firet move Firat heavy snowtall of the se9-| 1). pinion of Dr. J. B. Ringwood BUSINESS LICENCES GRANTED | uation trom dental college. He left |to.get ice im time tor the Show we|of their night of violence when they | yoy) just night, leaving about a0 | mat anything wena wet! be 5 pierce here in 1949 and: has sinee practised | intend to.do it, Reg asserts accepted commercial : pe: aoe. “With the inch of the Business ‘licences were issued | mmauiries about the show have| traveller W at Castlegar ad Vancouver. uesday night to J. L. Wilson & Sons | ae been coming in from widely seatter-| Near Spex ge they pulled a | street bways lat He"! ypie| percent and patients who should be qr machinery and truck sales; | Sue ed country points as people plan on|knite on the driver and. made bin | been ausiDE er eealized being treated at home to = ES shancE con | combining their. Christmas <3) aw | pelieve the situation, he said the ad- z| drive them up the Cariboo High- { dane- : Mrs. Gloria Groome, tescher © | Seareh for the body of Cleland H. ‘trip to town with the opportunity At the 59 Mile servic : witowal beds were desperately need= ing, and T. A. Ooyevas building | oo ux, 55, Who is believed tovhave See ¢ top-notch ice Show. = « saped with about ft aL contractor. drowned in Quesnel Lake, has-been| That's the picture to date. Ad-| leaving Albert Friend 2 ss the plan 18 Spproved, dba ae Z once Building permits were approved | -aned off. Searchers will resume ‘vance sale of tickets continues at| boarder, at $500 each for| efforts to find the body et @ later Blackwell’s Photo Service and B. G.! kitchen ¢ | Weodiand & Son. and took oif in snother truck the board is to raise the district's (Continued on back page) yin Rodberg, bo y then lett ¥ vering. Today | wor thar had sel yaney rate at a new high of 111 | for garages valued 4 W. D. Herbert and M. Meraw. | date.