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Canada’s death toll irom motor |100 \ULE NEWS tables of Court Whist were in play. | eo. gy oe eo = ; °
gceldents is placed officially at some |——————— Faiaien tos poe Whur Ka Hospital s 30th Anniversary Recalls Hardships
2,000 per year. W. | 5 onsorin Smele, the gentlemen's first was wou s
A eee one Pp g by J. Martinean, the consolation ° effene e © 5
i Government uor authorities op- ri: ing ii *
mnie ome vit font Teves Ss |Polio Drive sis oa at sone: Endured Prior To Facilities: Being Available

Canada,
THE Young People’s Club plan to

hold a square dance in the schoo}

The 100 Mile Women’s Institute | soon,
held their regular monthly meeting] 4 Cap went of the Cariieo Read,
at the home of Mrs. 8. Smele on|rolling over a couple of times, but
February 10. Nine members and one| luckily no one was hurt. There have
wsitor were present. ‘The Women’s| been 2 number of cars and trucks
Institute are sponsoring the Polio|°!PPing off the road recently, keep-
Ske ing the 100 Mile Garage busy.

A tea with home cooking ana] THE C.N. Telegraph Cot is mov-
; novelty sale will be held April 2, a|i"& from their present loca i
P dainty lunch was served by Mrs. g.|the Telephone Company office to
Smele and Mrs. Doug Scott. The next | their new office which will Ibe at
W-I. meeting will be held at the home| 4. Perkins warehouse.

Se eae WILLIAMS LAKE of Mrs. D. Scott. A program will be| MR, and MRS. GREENLEES, of | &XPressed that it had not been pos-

put on by the members, * Canim Lake stopped at 100 Mile on | Sible to open it sooner and some con-

D C —_ their return from ten days spent in| Jecture as to how many lives might
RY LEANERS THE WHIST PARTY sponsored | Victoria,

have been saved had it been put in

(held over) By Ben Clarke

It is thirty years ago this month
since the War Memorial Hospital of
Southern Cariboo admitted its first
Patient, and the initial treatment
must have heen effective for the man
in question is still alive. The official
opening did not take place until the
following 24th of May. The late Dave
Stoddard of Clinton who was our
M.L.A. at the time, was supposed to
perform the ceremony but, when he
could not come G. H. Curtis acted in
his stead. At the time, regret was

day morning. The writer is positive
of that because he was one of the
Passengers on hoard. There had been
a heavy snowfall so that the flanger
had been added to the train's equip-
ment. Late, the next afternoon, the
sick boy was placed on a speeder to
be driven to Quesnel by Keith Cay-
erly. The train began its return trip
late on the Sunday afternoon when
the temperature at Quesnel was nine
below zero and a cold wind was hlow-
ing off the river. Starting at Sisters
Creek, the train stopped at each
siding and stop while members of the
crew got off with lanterns to look
tor the speeder for fear had been
expressed that the snow packed )he-

that it may be erected and opened
before a bad accident or an epidemic
causes the satisfaction at its opening
to be tempered by the rueful admis-
sion that, once again, “It was not
soon enough.”

operation ea There was certain-

by the PTA was a decided success.| |. te _ a :
q |A good ‘crowd gathered and nine|, VE ARB CERTAINLY LUCKY tol}, 2 period of year or more, of tween the rails, paiticulariy in the
fs be having such lovely winter wee- peration: when the building Lrock cut about-six imiiles north. of
I: ther. The Cariboo Road is almost all | sq empty, unequipped and not) Williams Lake might litt the speeder

bare. The sun is as warm as in

Spring Is Almost Here sane
and Spring means changing footwear

BRING YOUR REPAIR WORK IN =
BEFORE THE SPRING RUSH-STARTS
;

Touey's Leather Shap

“We repair anything in leather’ Phone 15-R.

staffed.

It isa long time
had not been here many yea
forgotten some of the cases cited but
recalls that two illustrate what per-
sons in need of surgery. went through
before hospitalization was possible
in Williams Lake. One Christmas

sutliciently to cause the wheels to
spin. The speeder was not located
but when the late Jobn Hargreaves
boarded the train at his ranch, he
told us that the speeder had gone
through about ten minutes phefore.
We learned later that the boy was
being rested and warmd in the Deep
Eve, in 1922 or 1923, Jimmie Wal) Creek section house while the train
was driving a spirited team near! passed. The first condition that Dr.
“The Pines” on the outskirts of the] Baker had to contend with was that
750 Mile House when he lost control! of pneumonia. When that had been
and, before the runaway had been| hrought under control, an operation

and the writer
sa has

son, : ‘stopped, poor Jimmié’s head had was deemed necessary. As such it

gaanner loth dipped in sweet milk been cracked against a tree. Dr.| was a success hut the lad’s constitu-
and then rubbe 3 3 ain -

will clean kid gloves and avoid the un- Agnew who went from Williams tion had been so weakened by his

Pleasant odor of cleaning fluid Lake to attend the injured man de-
cided that his only hope of survival
was in an operation but there were
no local facilities for such. At a time
of year when few car owners used
the Cariboo Road, Newt Claire with
Jimmie Hargreaves started to take
the patient “Below” until be met
Clarence Steveneson who had been
summoned from Ashcroft to take the
patient to Kamloops. These splendid
eftorts were of no avail as it was too
late to save his life.
TAKEN TO QUESNEL

The second incident took place
just a matter of weeks before the
opening when the heating system was
in operation to keep the frost out of
the building. One of the two sons of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Goodrich of
| Chimney Creek developed an Iment
upon the diagnosis of which the local
medical men could not agree so, in
mid January it was decided to turn
the case over to Dr. Baker of Quesnel
We did not have snow, plows or win-
ter buses in those days. The sole
means of transport was the railway
and the second mixed train of the
week had gone north on the Satur-

illness plus the pneumonia that his
life ebbed away.

The writer has not forgotten the
small private hospital that Was oper-
ated by Miss Norah Weetman in the

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THE PARTY LINERS

Nowadays, the hospital is often
taken as a matter of course as just
another public utility but there are
a number of us still here who re-
member the medical hazards we were
Subject to before the House of Heal-
ing on the Hill received its first pa-
tient. It must be apparent to all who
give the matter @ second thought,
that, once more. this community
requires a new hospital. Let us hope

rhe

WAT E R tells the

truth about whisky

Put Seagram’s “83” to the water test.
Water; plain or-sparkling, ——___ seinen Ml

5509
$5,494,100 is needed this year
ee ear:

reyeals a whisky’s true, natural flavour
and bouquet, THOUGHTFUL

‘+ 99 THEODORE releases the

S 5 83 line graciously when his
eagram’s Se ie

in to place an emergency

Canadian Whisky call. Thanks to all the

Theodores, party line
ae Day Seagram's. whe Sure : service is smoother.

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Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. | 3

Liquor Sales For

Some people suspect that British Columbia.

has more oil in its Peace River region than
has yet been found in oil-rich Alberta. It

Are Williams
tore for the

Liquor sales thy

Lake governme quor

could he, but until recentiy, drilling inter-
est has been almost exclusively in Alberta.

figures released by the Control Board.

Total sales from liquor in the prov-
ince for that period amounted to
$71,946,307.91, up from the 1952-53
figure of $70,829,537.14.

Here are some of the sales figures
for othe smaller Interior centres
y Merritt $278,06
Revelstoke $318, Salmon. Arm
16,700; Prixcéton and Keremeos
$410 0407 Quesnel and Wells $544,-
Largest sales figure totals by
individual centres in the ‘Interior
were recorded through the Prince
George outlet which included Me-
Pride, with $1,609,012, and Kam-
loops with $1

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lease laws were restrictive and unattractive
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