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_ Thursday, February 3, 1955.

LHE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

Rocky Mountain Saddlery
256 Lansdowne Street
Kamloops, B.C. 5
MAKERS OF FINE LEATHER GOODS
LEADING SADDLE MAKES
ALL LEATHER REPAIRS

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Wrangler, Levi's, Lee
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MAIL ORDERS FILLED SAME DAY

Coats, Shirts, Pants

Are ¥ xt Books Uli, Bown
Ad in @ MESs

Lik. thig’s

If so, bring them to us.
We'll straighten them out.

“CARIBOO ACCOUNTING”

WILLIAMS LAKE, B-c.

Phone 95
OFFICE IN LAKEVIEW HOTEL BASEMENT
Vi Glover * Al Smallenberg

| put into operation.

Society. Still Far

Of Ambulance Service Goal

Disappointment that the Ambulance Societ
from its objective of securing enough funds to finance a service
was expressed by soc
Woodland at the group’s annual meeting Monday night.

for the district

The directors and a handful of
seneral members attended the meet-

Since incorporation last May, Mr.
Woodland said that logging and saw-
mill companies went through a very
difficult period due to the long spring
break-up and subsequent wet sum-
mer, The directors therefore felt that
us it was not a suitable time to ap-
proach these companies for substan-
tial financial help the matter w:
left over. A canvass of the merchants
and businessmen of Williams Lake
is now in progress, and the speaker
stated he hoped that ranchers and
lumbermen would contribute whole-
heartedly so that an ambulance
could be purchased, equipped and

“The area is largé, the need ur-
gent, and the sum now required is
not large when spread over the large
number of industries that would
benefit from the protection afforded
ed,” Uie president concluded.

In the general discussion of the
society’s business that followed. it
was felt that although the hospital
directors could not see their: way
ciear to have the hospital act as a
dispatching centre for the service,
this was one of several problems that
could eventually be solved when the
ambulance was in operation.

‘There were 155 memberships sold
y last year!. Some of
these have heen renewed for the com-
ing year and several donations have
since been received. One rural couple
have contributed a total of $320, an

A special message to

_ Home-owners

tr va. NY

10 2 MILLION CAYADIANS

‘Do you need MONEY

ye

for HOME IMPROVEMENT?

There’s no need to hold up
improvements or repairs to your home
for lack of ready cash. You can

pay for them outright — at less expense
—with a low-cost B of M Joan.

If you want to add an extra room or
two...erect a garage or

carport... install a new plumbing,
heating or electrical system...

build a basement playroom or even
aint your present one... or

make any other home improvements or
repairs — see the manager of

your nearest B of M branch. He w
be glad to discuss your plans with

you and to explain how a B of M Home
Improvement Loan éan help you.

corner

Every bit of repair worl
neglected, every crack, every
flake of pecling paint means
a loss in dollar value — a
depreciation of one of your
most valuable assets.

Enlist the B of M’s help...
why not see your
neighbourhood manager today.

now is the time
TO TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT YOUR HOME

Spring is just around the

and that’s the best

season to make repairs —
or to modernize.

“once over” every year.

Bank or MonrTrReAL ,

Canada's Firat Sanh

Williams Lake Branch:

WORKING WITH CANADIANS IN

EVERY WALK OF

THOMAS LARSON, Manager

LIFE SINCE 1817
si

Shert

still so far

ty president Ralph

elderly couple $50, and a pensioner
sent in $5, to itemize tliree of these
donations.

The directors expressed their gra-
titude to those who have contributed
and who have written letters of heip-
ful encouragement.

The election of officers
original slate returned to their posts.

These include Ralph Woodland,
Frank Lee, Bob Moore, Bill Edwards,
| Mrs. S. Malesku, Cece Rhodes and
Paul Jorgensen. T
point their own o}
|. Mr. Rhodes, who ac!
er last year, reported the society had
a balance of $719.46 ot the end of
1954, and since that time between
$200 and $300 has been collected ia
donations and memberships.

rhe following is a breakdown of
the financial statement;

Ree

aw the

he directors ap-

cer

ed as treasur-

pts
Bank loan

for initial expenditures $300.00
Membership fees 155.00
Donations 719.00

Eypenditures
Record and receipt books $14.70
Printing appeal letters,

ionery and advertising 62.11

and mailing costs

st
Envelopes
of appeal letters

around 2800) 68.40
Legal fees re incorporation 7.00
Bank loan repaid 300.00
Bank loan interest
Balance in bank
Cash balance on hand

Building 500-Acre
Enclosure For;|
Sheep In Oregon) »

Visitors to Oregon next summer
will be able to catch a glimpse of the
California bighorn sheep that were
transported last fall from Jack
Moon’s Deer Park ranch to the Hart
Mountain ga erve,

‘Yhe Oregon State Game Commis-
sion is ‘constructing a nine-foot
Tence around a 500-acre section of
the reserve to hold the animals. In
addition, an observation platform
being constructed so that visitors
can get a look at the sheep. The
vommission has allocated $23,000 for
the project in an attempt to restore
the bighorns to country they wer
once native of. The sheep were las
seen in the rough desert country of
South Centra} Oregon in 1911,

Clippings of the work of the com-
mission were brought to The Tribune
by Glen Tubach, who was on a recent
visit fo his former home at Klamath

ne

100 MILE NEWS

NO BLAME ATTACHED TO ANYONE
iN FATAL LOGGING ACCIDENT

(held over)

The inquest into the death of
Maurice Lionel Fortier was held in
the school on January 20 at $ p.m.
before coroner Gordon Marks. Mrs.
G. Marks was court stenographer.
The jurors were: Glen Gaynor, Steve
Smele, Joseph” Martineau, James
Bruce, Cecil Wardell and Art Wea-
ield?
nstable Ron Duncan was the
flivst witness. He took photographs
and measurements at the scene of
tho accident, and exhibited them to
the jurors. One picture was of the
two large logs cabled together which
hit a poplar tree. Dr. Ringwood,
Walliams Lake, performed the autop-
and gave as his findings. Maurice
Portier, 18 years old, died of severe
fracture of skull.

Herbert John Armstrong, an em-
ployee of L.P.H. Lumber Co. told the
inquiry that he came to get a load
of logs but there wasn’t enough for
a load so he went to the bush where
Gunner Wasstrom and Maurice For-
were working. was about
3.30 p.m. Gunner Wasstrom, ‘eat’
prator pushed underbrush to get to
logs, then backed up and Fortier put
chockers on logs. Fortier then walk-
ed ahead and to right of tractor to
get out of the way of logs. He was
tucing away from the poplar and did
not see it get hit. When the tree fell
Johnson ran to him. Wasstrom stop-
ped the tractor and ran to Fortier.
‘They carried the injured man to the
pick-up and drove to 100 Mile where
they got a panel truck and started
for Williams Lake. On the way they
met the Public Health Nurse, Miss
Mary Kartner. They stopped her and
she examined Fortier and said he
was dead.

Question— by Constable Duncan

tie

“ey
Answer— by H.
was not.”
Next witnes:
strom who

Johnson,

“No, he

was Gunner Lief Was-

d he had set chokers
two years and heen driving a ‘eat’
one year. Maurice Fortier had been
one and a half or two months choker-
man with L.P.H. Lumber Co. Was-
strom's evidence confirmed that the
accident had occurred as outlined by
the previous witness.

Question “Was stretcher equip-
ment available.” Ans. “No just small
first aid equipment

Question “Was any signal given.”
Ans. “Yes.”

Would a steel hat have

Question
saved his life.
Coroner Mar
who then retired to deliberate. In

about half an hour they filed back
and Glen Gaynor gave their findings
“Maurice Fortier came to his death
as a result of a fractured skull caus-
ed by being struck on the head by a
dead poplar tree.” No blame was at-
ached to anyone.

Mr. Williams of Vancouver, rep-
resented the Compenstion Board.

B.T.A. held a whist drive on Sun-
day which was well attended.

THERE will be two cashiers in
the 100 Mile Store soon.

ON Wednesday, January 19, work
was completed on the new switch-
board of the B.C. Telephone at 100
Mile. The board is staffed by Mrs.

Sarah A. Watson, agent and chief
operator, and assisted my Mrs. Mel
Barker and Miss Shirley Watson.
THE 100 Mile School was closed
on Friday, owing to the plumbing be-

tacted and the children were back at
school on Monday.

MR. BURGHSS of the C.N.R. Tele-
phone Company was at 100 Mile over
the weekend.

START IN FALL

Canadian Bechtel
To Build Gas Line

Canadian Bechtel Ltd., will he
general contractors on the $120,000-
000 Westcoast ‘Transmission gas
pipeline from the Peace River to
Vancouver. ~~

Ford, Bacon & Lavis of New York
will engineer the project, said George
McMahon, West-coast vice-president
in Vancouver to open headquarters
for Westcoast.

Start of construction is forecast
for early fall," with Federal Power
Commission approval _ expected
shortly.

JOBS FOR 200

More than 200 men will be em-
ployed at peak of construction with
completion slated for October, 1956.
The 650-mile line will connect at the
border with Pacific Northwest Pipe-
line Corporation’s $168,000,000 pro-
jected pipeline from the San Juan
basin of New Mexico-Colorado.
LEADING FIRM

Canadian Bechtel, which has had
engineering parties in B.C. for some
time looking over the ground for the
projected gas line, will open offices
in Vancouver.

Ford, Bacon & Davis, one of the
continents leading engineering firms,
specialized in pipeline construction.

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