NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO iiams Lake Tribune * 9-83 ys wre 2, sone 78 Volume 23 — Number 9, WILLIAMS. LAKE, B.C. Thursday, March 3, .1955._ Single copy 10c. $2.60 per year. - Winter Finally Here y Our delayed winter weather finaily caught up to us this past week wiih the low being registered Sunday. The 28 figure was registered at the airport at 8 a.m. Here are the airport readings for q ¢ the past week. = ne Min Max Friday, Feb. 25 =10 14 February 26 11 2 February 28 19 26 Mareh 1 37. 8 ” Mareh 2 as = 6: = This morning at §:30 the ther- ; mometer read 17 below No Extensive - Program Planned | For Education Week There will be no extensive program in local schools marking Education Week, according to a check with the principals. Both the high school and elemen- tary schools will hold open house Tuesday. The elementary school vi) be open to visitors trom 9 a.m. to 10:30. The students will operate a baby sitting service at the school. At the high school open house will be observed in the afternoon. Usual in both institutions during the day. Plans to have the high school Pub- lications Club take over publication of The Tribune for one issue near Education Week will have to be 4 doned this Tom eames states that the club will be é Principal f | concentrating on the publication of a year. school annual and will not be able to devote the time necessary to work on the newspaper project. | Six Months Sentence; oe 4 er ierge | = C2 old Lawler of Williams Lake was sentenced to six months in jail on drug possession charges last Thursday at Vancouver. Lawler pleaded guilty, He was arrested in a Vancouver motel February 6 with another couple after detectives watched a cache in @ motel hallway. He told the court he had worked “every day for the last eight years’ bs a waiter at a Williasm Lake hotel. But he had come down to Vancou- ver to see relatives and “I did fall iy the wayside. I slipped.” : Extent Of Airport Work Still Not Known Just how much work will be under- taken this summer on the new air- port here is still somewhat in doubt. In a letter to the Board of Trade, Senator Gray Turgeon said that work would definitely be underway this summer. On the other hand, in a letter to The Tribune, Davie Fulton, M.P., quotes extracts from a letter he has received from the Minister of Trans- Port that fails to say anything defin- ite. Writes the minister: “Inserted in next year’s estimates for clearing purposes is only a so- called planning item which will per- mit us to start clearing sometime during the year. We have not yet determined whether we will use all ‘of the funds tentatively allocated, namely-$100,000, for his purpose. No constrne n is proposed and we have not reached any decision as to when this would follow.” In the meantime, it is reported jthat two Department of Transport engineers were in town yesterday making inquiries about snow condi- tions on the airport site, which jn- dicates that an early start mignt pe contemplated, New Administrator Lee Skipp, partwer in the lega) firm of Skipp & Langley, has been ap. pointed Official Administrator, », placing Fred Bass who resigned trom the position. Miss Ethel Stafford returned home Saturday after spending six weeks in i Vancouver, Readings varied from 28 to 35 below. |. moon with coffee being served : classroom routine will be Si -he sitting by but the story doesn’t end there. accompanying } thought the crown Lyneh-Staunton). AS TIT Wx Miss Lethbridge ‘Josephine Tab SEEN FROM BOTH ANGL: aha —Central Press Canadian ~ Miss Yukon became queen of Alberta’s Banff winter carnival, After the judging and coronation, orski) said the publicity build-up liss Yukon was responsible for her victory. he hould have gone to Miss Crow's Nest (Marina Miss Yukon (Dalls Smith) is designated by arrow. Firemen, Businessmen Battle To 4-4 Draw In Annual Game Back on the ice again in Firemen and Businessmen F- iday their annual puck classic, the night battled to a 4-4 draw and incidentally raised $95 for the Although the game had its mo- ments, there was not enoug! in the 60 minutes of pseudo hockey as far as the paying customers were eoncerned. One of the moments oe- curred in the seend period when ‘T- Bene” Hawker and “Slasher” Pigeon tangled on the boards, with the re- sulting mock battle including all avilable players on hoth teams and When’ Yelce Was rot stored first aid man Cli MetIntosh applied a head bandage to the prone Hawker and the ex-Vanderhoof play er was | In keeping with the impartial atti- tude that The Tribune adopts towards this annual game. we give below not one, but two accounts of the play, written from the viewpoint of both 1EN VIEWPOINT Jumping into the lead early in Pri- ay’s game. the Businessmen socn demonstrated their superio ity ‘oa the ice they kept control of the the haple: iremen to resort to rough playing in their er- forts to keep the commercials fromm scoring at will. Hero of the game was Fred Reau- » high stepping laddie from the east, who ten year sched- uled to play for Fort William when he decided to come west with roxad construction crews. Fred accounted ago was pfor two goals and hud two nullified icious whistle blasts. Beauclair scored the opener on an ist from Billie Smith. Smith w: handed a penalty seconds later when visiting Fireman happened to come in contact with the big defenceman and bounced off the hoards to make it look convincing. The score wa3 knotted up by Harry Curtis whose shot got by Gordie Rowand when the pusinessman was adjusting g occurred in the period, the businessmen polite- ly holding back when the Firemen found themselves short a man as An- derson was waved off for a well- deserved penalty for cross-checking, ored as the se- & Beauclair V’s Sunday Game Will Be Broadcast ians Hockey conscious Can will their radios Sunday io le betweer listen to the important ¥ Canada’s Penticton V's and Russia. The broadcast will be handled hy Foster Hewitt and will mar time in more than 20 years will have missed a Saturday game. His son, Bill Hewitt, will car- y the March 5 broadcast for his first solo. The important Sun me will be heard over CBC's Trans-Canada hetwork from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m and will be broadcast direct from the Stadium in Kregfeld, Germany. hospital fund in the process. Rural Registration |High For Vaccination Although total registration figures throughout the district are not yet complete, public health Miss Mary Kartner reports. that from returns Bow in, a greater percentage of chil- dren in the rural areas will receive the Salk anti-polio vaccine than in j town, Town registrations of both grade one children and those who will be entering grade ome this September are just over 50 per cent of those eligible to receive the vaccine. Of the | country schools reporting, the figure fe around 85 per cent. |. The vaccine will be given in the district by the public health nurses and work will commence after the Easter holidays. -- The deadline for registration of children was February 28. Grudge Fight Will Highlight Card Cal Roberts and Felix Kohnke Fwill provide the highlights of a wrestling card to be staged in the Blks Hall March 19. Our local lad and Roberts mixea it up in the wrestle royal here last month and the bout ended in a near riot. : _ Frank Snyder of Tacoma, one time holder of the U.S. Pacific Fleet heavyweight belt while in the service, will meet Bill Kohnke in the other one-fall match. Rounding out the program will be a tag team match. : ds Of this card, being spon- vomedy | cond period opened, and Hawker was winding up for another obvious scor- ing play when he was taken out of the play by defenceman Pigeon, who dropped his stick and gloves and started to clobber our boy. Fred Fraser added the next goal for the commercials on a beautiful play, and although defenceman Madison ie Sox Gi dau able holding verdict. the Firemen were unable to break down the stone wall Businessmen defence. The commercials all hut wrapped the game up as the third period got underway with Omar Crosina, who is in the defence business, scoring on a solo rush. Down three goals at this point, the Firemen got all the breaks as they scored three fluke goals to tie up the game. They were helpad along by a penalty handed ont to Roy Williston, who was banished for tripping when an opposing player ob- viously tripped over his, own shoelace. FIREMEN'S VIEWPOINT Stacking ther line-up with imports for the annual game proved wasted effort on the part of the Oliver Street peddlers Friday night as a hustling Firemen crew played sound defens- ive hockey for two periods and-then unleashed 2 dazzling offensive spinit during the final frame that came within an ace of putting the victory in their grasp. A travelling diri-mover by the name of Beauclair pushed Jucky opening counter past Bishop in the opening minutes of play as the Fire- men re changing their line-up. This was nullified by Harry Curtis in a brilliant display of stickhandling (continued on back page) START LESSONS FHIS WEEK _ Flying Club Members Take To The Air Twelve members of the newly formed Williams Lake Flying Club started taking their course this week hat will eventually lead to their pri- vate pilot's licence. Up from Langley from the fiym of Skyway Air Services is Fred LeGrice, who is giving flying instruction in # small Luscomb all-metal aircraft. The school will go on for months with actual flying’ instruction Z varied with nig fore qualifying for his priv licence, each pupil must have 12 hours dual instruetion and a total af 30 hours in the air. Lessons in the air started Monday with student getting an hour's instructional flight at a time. One of the club’s enthusiastic mem- bers is local hotelman Benny Abbott who recently purchased a Howard -place aircraft in the States. The plane was flown up from Denver, Colorado hy well-known local pilot Bob Ransom, two being t classes. Be te pilot's sored by the Elks. will g6 towards purchasing a new ring for future wrestling. George Morris left last week for Mission where he will superintend the building of a new federal build- In Decisive P The Stampeders’ bid for hi the short end of a 9-3 score. To the loval fans and probably the Stamps themselves, the one-sided scoring spree came as a horrible sur- prise. A couple of errors, a few bad breaks, and the work of an oppor- tunist by the name of Wall was enough to turn the trick. The import from the ranks of the Kelowna Pack- ers scored three goals and-acquired as Taany assists in the game. The Stamps found themselves in trouble from early in the first period. With Ken Silver off the ice on a two- minute penalty for charging, the lo- cals cranked up a power play that backfired in spectacular fashion with Ken Smithers picking up a loose puck and tearing in on his own to beat Hutchinson for the first goal. The visitors made it 2-0 before theahalf way mark and added another as Wail flipped the puck in right from a face- off inside the Stamp blueline, An- other intercepted Stamp play gave the Bears their fourth goal as Gra- ham broke loose and rifled his shot between Hutchinson’s legs. Tho period was early over when the locals finally clicked with McDougall carry- ing the puck into opposition territory and passing to Rocky Richardson for the score. The rampaging Bears put the game away in the second frame as they Streigler accounting for the third. The game began to roughen up in the final period after the Bears had assist 4 TMONTREAL MAN > NOW OWNER OF TORONTO PAPER Stamps Swamped By Bears lay-off Gaine ockey honours this season came to an abrupt end Saturday night when they were snowed under by a highly effegtive Vanderhoof combination to come out on a cre | The Bears won the right to meet Quesnel in the finals by virtue of their two-game win. The Williams Lake protest over the game at Vanderhoof last Wednesday was not allowed. At Quesnel the Kangaroos advanced to the finals by defeating Prince George two straight. Local arena officials were not hap- py about the Vanderhoof decision to pass up an exhibition game here Sun- day. The visitors’had made prior ar- Tangements with Prince to play an exhibition game there if the Lumber- men were eliminated: Saturday night. Referees for the game Saturday were ex-Lumberman Norm Sneff and Martin Johnson, also of Prince George. The Stampeders appeared on the ice in new sweaters for the games, donated by Bill Sharpe of Cariboo Home Furnishings. Mother Escapes With ‘Infant [From Burning Cabin A young mother carried her nine- months-old baby to safety last Wed- added three more goals without a re- . ; : nesday evening as a sudden fire com- sour on from the: Stamps... Wall sictan: euvaiehed ues ear eabin scored the first two on solo effort and about six miles from town along the cut-off highway. . Mrs. Bert Charest was lighting a gas lamp about 6 p.m. when the lamp Tapped home two more to: Dost thel| eisaaa: spraying the room with score to 9-1. Reg Norberg and Smith- Z eee a i, | #2ming gasoline. The young mother fe Were banished fot roughing. Baciol aie baby from his erib and on the ice again Reg contributed an ‘ u managed to escape into the yard. Rocky Richardson’s goal,| G).4 only ina light housedress, Mrs. it was Rocky's: turnSo serve i i sie ee s E Charest walked to*S & ® Sawmill, time’ in company with Bear Gefence- man Hryciw as the two mixed it up. where her husband-is employed, for i x help. The mill is about a mile irom Along the Vanderhoot backboards the cabin. Mr. Charest was in tow= the most serious flareup occurred as McDougall lost his temper and came in swinging on Silvers. When the two were separated McDougall drew five minutes and Silvers two. The two Stamp defencemen. Mont- gomery and Blair teamed up on the final goal with Monty setting the puck on Ramsay's stick for the counter. Sparks Interest In Improvement Contest For Town A scheme or a town beautification contest that would include residences and business firms, was outlined by District Agriculturist Joe Walsh to R. HOWARD WEBSTER ~ —Centra) Press Canadian New owner of Toronto’s Globe and Mail, largest circulation morning newspaper in Canada, is R Howard Webster, 45-year-old most modern r newspaper plant in Canada. In a message cc the Present editor-in-chief, Cakley Dalgleish, Mr. Webster said. “I have no intention of making any changes. It is the finest news- Paper in Canada.” Players Will Donate To Hospital Fund Two one-act plays will be present- ed near the end of this month by th Williams Lake Players Club, with the proceeds from the first night’s per form. 6 the hospital build- ing fund. The plays will be sta Hall March 25 and 26 Both plays are by Philip Johnson and consist of a cautionary comedy “Orange Blossom” and a melodrama “Dark Brown.” Directing the former is le Galbraith with Mrs. Joan McKinnon handling the second pres- entation. The plays will be the first offerings of the Players Club, which was form- ed this winter, ed in the Elks the Kiwanis Club Tuesday. Modelled after similar contests in other centres, this one would have three classes; commercial, older resi- dences and new homes. The idea would be to have property owners when the accident occurred. The young couple lost all their longings in the fire. Mr. Chare his family the following day to P George to stay with his wife's for awhile. Fair Association Elects Officers Roy Clements was re-elected presi- dent of the Fair Association last night at the association’s annual meeting. Named as vice-presidents for the ensuing year were Mrs. C. Pigeon and Harold Richardson. Secretary is Mrs, M. Perreton. The meeting went on record as fa- voring the dates of August 25 and 26 for the fair this year. Approval of the dates will be sought from, Victoria. Prince Wins Caribee make application to enter the contest and when the entries had been com- pleted, the first judging. would be held. This would be done about April, when property looks at its worst after a long winter. A system of marks would be siven for the judging and then a second look would be taken about the middle of August. In this manner the spread of improvement as shown by the judging marks would determine the eventual winners. Mr. Walsh has taken his idea to the village commissioners and received their official approval of the plan. He hopes that the contest will be spon- sored by the Fair Association or a combination of this group. the Board of Trade and the Village Commission. Sponsorship would mainly consist of giving awards and seeing that a com- petent committee was appointed to carry out the j 2 Mr. Walsh believes his plan would ance ot stimulate pride in the appe: the village. Since the town is so small, it would not be economically feasible for the taxpayers to bear the load of a parks maintenance department to utifuy streets and boulevards, and . Walsh believes that his scheme the natu alternative. If private les take an interest in beautify. ng their property, then thought! ould be given to spending public! dg along the belore, money for trees but mot streets, | Club Shuttle Trephy Prince George players won the Cariboo Club Chamionship trophy in badminton play last weekend at the northern centre. Detailed results of the games were not available yet here at press time. The strong Quesnel club finished in second place with Williams Lake third and Wells trailing. The 18 local Players who took part in the tourn ment accounted for 11 sets won,’ Alkali Lake Residents Raise $100 For Hospital Another cheque for §100 has beea contributed towards the hospital building fund This time the contribution comes trom Alkali Lake, representing money collected at a recent dance. Wrtes L. M. Sivan, in sending in the cheque, “Many thanks are due to Indian people, who not only sup- plied their hall. lights and fuel, but contributed wholeheartedly: some of them giving their all, attest- ed to by the fact that there were 50 pennies in the money collected. This shows they are not only willing to co-operate, but also to donate gener- ously,” also