S3K 2 Page 2 . LHE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKEPB,C. es Thursday, March @4 1955. “1: ee — = a wean Williams Lake Tribune T |. SCOTT'S SCRAP BOOK ~ ByR J. SCOTT ‘Established 1921 Cilvs Siangos, Raitor he Cracker Barrel Forum < < ye: Published every Thursday at Willams Lake, 3.0. By a. J. Drinkeu | HARD BOILED, i : ®y The Tribune Publishing Co. A few weeks ago many rural tele-y When the tolls exceed that amount eo Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Depertment,Ortnwa) | shone: saseriter: received a circular |he is charged exile rpieeee recre kia. Subscription: per year . $2.50 letter mailed from the District Man- | ticnal call, The average eail to Town | Outside Canada .. $3.00 ager’s office at Quesnel. At our last | now costs 45 to 50 cents. It used to | Payable tua vence hold-forth Elsa Poppin came trip-|he 25 to 30 cents. Rural subscribers Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association pine Over the thréshhold brandish-| could call all other subseribers on Brian Columbia Bivieion, Gen ee ing a copy of this missive with sparks /the same line without charge and shooting from both eyes. This letter | without bothering the operator. this| ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION complains that “charges’for calls | was included in the rental. ‘These between toll stations on the same | calls now cost 10 to 15 cents Accord- line and the right of our operators to | ing 10 distance, plus 15 cents for They Show The Way intercept and ticket these calls are | ev minute over three, so that a being disputed.” rmer’s wife would be soaked The children of Williams Lake ana Skyline elementary After pointing out the the com-| 4.50 for just one litile talk-test such schools have presented an example of interest in community pany tariff stipulates that a toll|as her urban sister may enjoy daily welfare thafwill be pointed to with pride for a long time. charge applies for for just 3.25 per month. = i These children, with their limited types of money raising | ait calls whether A rural subscriber wishing to send ei Is A SMOKE, Projects, have managed to accumulate out of their nickels and £0: ae-suhseniuer a telegram must now pay 45 cents Wits Oe dimes a highly creditable amount of $213 for the hospita!| oy tne same line for a connection to the telegyaph consunprion ou e building fund. We don’t know just what Would bea com-lor oinenwise, it office. (some penalty) One ealt ror OF MANY BIRDS (B INDIANS LIVING parable amount to expect from a similar sized group of adults, | oes on to say, day for a week and your 3.25 is useal Zz cpk WES4 of HUDSON BAY but it would be considerable, => 3 i Wee! “appreciates up. What a contrast to the privilezes Ee aes lek SMOKE CRANBERRY LEAF More than. the money involved is the manner im which the co-operation accorded urban patrons. It is no - as ex suv JOBACCOD ° Canavas they have kept working over a period of months for the fund. of those who con- longer possible to check one’s month. eee It is not too hard a project for a group to work towards one| orm to these reg- ly Statement due to the unbusiness- . major money-raising social function, but it is quite another wlations — and in : like way they are put together. 11 is | © PYivate member pills ran.out. So thing to keep up sustained interest over a period of fime. It is) toirness to them. we must ‘advice all bordering upon the ridiclous when | ae young tyke will be able to keen RUBBER STAMPS comparable to filling a bucket with sand by the use of tea those who do not co-operate that] the wife of a merebant having a/0" fighting his mock pattles with COUNTER SALES BOOKS they leave themselves. open to im- (mediate interruption of their ser- ice. We sincerely trust that such drastic steps will not he necessary.” CONSIDER INEQUALITIES Now, before the district manager gets the urge to compose more-“O; ELSE” letters we suggest he devotes spoons. While it result in the same quantity being collected. it is a long slow process. In this case the children had to use teaspoons and their accomplishment is the greater appreciated because of this fact. Adult response to the need for increased hospital accom- modation has also been outstanding. fund raising drive has never been officially launched by the board of directors, who have been forced to wait while Victoria’s machinery of officialdom digests the proposal of the new addition, the residents of several district centres have net waited for any prompting but have sponsored money raising projects on their own, . The hospital directors have assured Victoria the district will have no trouble meeting our obligation and the people are offering the proof of the assertion, Wrong Way For $30 Millions mp fe Gee Cee Almost imperial in its grandiloquence is the suggestion |though she ties up several party that Victoria’s proposed super highway and river crossings to | lines in the process, and yet the cost link Vancouver and the United States are to mean something | !s only around 3.25 per month, which like $30 millions in expenditure by British Columbia’s new| is the minimum one must agree to toll authority, pay in order to get a telephone. The project is glittering with possibilities for political] town merchant may ring any num Marks for the government. Vancouver will get its Marpole}| ber of his town customers every day bridge; Ladner will get a bridge or tunnel, and a new super'| for around 6.25 per month. A coun- highway or “Via Gaglardia” will bring streams of luxury| try merchant is calied upon to pay traffic to pay tribute and make the whole project a cost-free| ten to fifteen cents every time he triumph. Z INts the receiver so would soon be There are only two things wrong with the idea. Whether] bankrupt wy ng to furnish similar we let a toll authority do it or finance it out of general revenue, ; Service for his customers. the people will pay for any such undertaking. Just because we IN COMPARSION set up a toll author y does not mean }we as a people are, _sIn place of the monthly rege escaping any of the éosts of bridge an highway building.’ it should be reasonable, then, to demand that first things | ship a subscriber now g come first even if a toll authoritiy is injected into the Picture.] pay not less than 3.2 equalities present in said tariff, a subscribers. if they were eliminated; far more so than by patting the backs of the vic- Ums. An ordinary subscriber, resi- dent in town, may make as many calls as he wishes. His wife may gos- ntees fo per month, 5 nuclear weapons guided missles Phone in the store and another in the Fe eee eee and ‘8 must first eal central and dime to eal hubby to Innenh. 1 en more so when a pay in the neighborhood of $20 for .°* ae three phones and then be charged foy | /"*' * bit different age—that's all, calls to the two outlying points bo- cause the mjnium has a little time to considering the in-, ed on the home office phone. If the district manager think seen from the standpoint of his rural lone moment these people We would also intimate ; to spend a clock hour trying to it would improve customer goodwill | central when they wish to tell the neighbour: or “We are in urgent need of help’ in case of s contingencies whieh arise in outlying areas he had better start taking the phones out right now.If he finds him- self in the middle of a hornets nest he will-also-find-us inthe forefront, alongside Elsa Poppin — rooting tor the hornets, We think these discrim- inator features should be m the company eem there is a wonderful opportun- ity here for the Board of Trade to vindicate its use of the words “AND e DISTRICT” in its official title. SAME BOYS We are happy to report the bel!’ ved little Tommy last week No. §3 whic would 3.00 paid under government owM®y the sale of fireworks in unorganized areas was ordered dropped from the order, paper when ‘the time Space-ships. In our boyhood we used SCRATCH PADS flaming spears-to quell fanatic der- | Vishes and raked pirate ships with | hot cannon balls ana Canister. This ig mmcher must THE TRIBUNE heen exhaust- The Pacific Great Eastern Railway Co. Effective June 1st, 1954, Will Operate THROUGH-FAST PASSENGER & EXPRESS SERVICE between VANCOUVER, B.C. AND PRINCE GEORGE, 8.0, Including Sleeping & Dining Car Service Prince George - Squamish Dock Pacific Standard Time Pier) ’ _ 9:30a.m.-Mon-Wed-Fria 5:20a.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat §:50a.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat 1:30p.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat 3.40p.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat : Bi Op.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat : Ly-Wms. Lake 0p.m.~Tues-Thurs-Sat Ar-Vancouver (Union Pier) :80p.m.-Wed-Frid-Sun THROUGH FREIGHT SERVICE Ly - Vancouver-Mon-Wed-Frid Ar - Wms. Lake-Wed-Frid-Sun Z FREE PIOKUP AND DELIVERY ON FREIGHT AND EXPRESS e going Our house is on FIRE” ekbess and may similar Ly-Vancouver (Union Ar-Wims. Lake Ly-Wms. Lake Ar-Fr. George ‘uv-Pr. George Ar-Wms. Lake removed tariff. It would Notice of Application For Change of Schedule a5 Hilary H. Place : Dog Creek Stage Bill ve restrictedy allotted ? Granted that the Marpole bridge is badly needed, we can think of many other (projects much more necessary than either a : = tunnel to Ladner or a super highway for tourist travel to and From the Files from the United States. of the Tribune Proposed Passenger Time Schedule No. 3 (Replacing Passenger Tinie Schedule No. 2) for Passenger Service between We don’t think a toll authority should be permitted to Put such grandiose frills ahéad of some of the highways the bulk of British Columbians use a great deal more frequently. There is the need for a modern four-lane Trans-Canada highway through the Fraser Valley; the need of finishing the Cariboo highway to modern standards; the need of finishing the John Hart highway; the need for improving other im- Dbortant Kootenay and northern British Columbia highways. and Mr: YEAR AGO » 1954 ONE March The village commissioners are giy- ing serious thought to extending the boundaries of the village as the vil- jage proper is now bursting at the Beams— Windup of the special is- 2. the in the distriet— A,r. @ employed a Hospital Bo: members of the P-TA in an effort to obtain the services of 2 school nurse— A bad wash-out on the Dog Creek road has held up W Tom old timers nt has been full time secretary for — Thirty-six met Tuesday Doug), _Dog Creek and Williams Lake Date of Issue: March 24th, 1955 Proposed Effective Date: May ist, 1955. Route: Provincial Road via Alkali Lake and Springhouse ROUND TRIPS All these things, we submit. are more essential to the} sue of the Tribune published by the 4 ‘ 5 Proper development of a British Columbia highway system | students was a dinner attended hy|liams Lake traftic— The reserve Tuesday and Friday than a new deluxe tourist road to Blaine. fourteen members of the school pu)-|G"and Champion Hereford pull at 3 True, Victoria has approved all these things in principle. |aication club— Approval was given |the Kamloops sale was purchased by Miles f Read up Just about evey part of British Columbia has been promised a| sketch plans for the proposed United | Dan Lee of Chileotin— Ly. Dog: Creek Arr, £00 pm. highway millenium within the next ten years. Translating| Church manse— Williams Lake bad- TWENTY YEARS AGO Ge ees Airport 5:25 p.m. some of the rosy prases we have heard, into good roads is going | minton players continue their starty yion Hall Taylor, wite of our zi saat ae 4:40 p.m, to require a staggering amount of money. climb by capturing three titles in the/Indian Agent passed a in her peas One: D-DYs Let’s not deprive ourselves, or even delay, any of the| big North Central B.C. championship | thirty-seventh year— A eut of 75ca Springhouse p.m. highways British Columbia needs most urgently. in order to| play at Prince George— The village | quart in the price of liquor has been eee p-m. hasten less necessary projects we could well let wait, commission approved plans for a/announced by the Liquor Board-— 11:00 am we Wilts abeck's : pem, Thirty millions is a lot of money. None of it should be} building to house the Historical So- Grade A medium eggs are selling ai ee arr. Williams Lake Lv. p.m, Spent on anything but the most vital undertakings. ciety's museum— The Board of two dozen for 45c-— A large radio Subject to the consent of the Public Utilities Commission Abbotsford, Sumas, Matsqui News.|Trade held its annual banquet | station to be establishe@ in Van- any objections to this Time Schedule may be filed with with James Shaw installed as} eouver which will prove a hoon to the Superintendent of Motor Carriers, Public Utilities president— Lord Martin Cecil has|the Cariboo— A heavy blanket at Commission, Vancouver, B.C. within (14) fourteen days Jib A R a [ P F been named a director on the newly | snow covered the ground Protecting || — trom its date of issue. 1Des t USSlans In oor orm formed Canadian Meat Council—| the daflodils and violets from the | . Monty Gunn of Horsefly Lake re: cued Stan Newcombe when his truck went through the ice while attempt- ing to cros Stan was none the worse for his near tragic experience Over 50 members attended the second annual meeting of the Credit Union— District Engineer Ray Cun- ves for. Vancouver to take up on as district engineer at Vuncouver— FIVE ¥YRARS AGO We have thought all week that the glorious victory of the Penticton Vees lést much significance because of the jibes made by various persons at the Russians. We didn’t like all the salt mine references and we thought a cartoon on the front page of the Penticton Herald showing a Russian hockey player equipped for the salt mines in very bad taste. We were agree- ably surprised to open the Vernon News Friday and to find an editorial the views of which coincided with our own. editorial follow: “A great many Canadians are not necessarily of the per- suasion that all Russian are fiends in human form. And it came as rather a jarring note, therefore, to hear and read jibes at the Russian hockey team in the wake of their defeat by the Penticton Viees. “All in all, the Russians seem to have borne themselves well. Following their defeat - ana it undoubtedly came as bitter blow - they merely linea up in a correct if semi-military formation and waited the end of the tumult. “When the victore had been acclaimed, the Russians offered congratulations and the nnal presentations proceeded “The scene must have been quite familiar to hundreds of such ceremonies-each year on Canadian rinks. In this instance, Work is starting this week on ex- ‘tensive alterations -to the Liquor Store— Forty young men turned out a wins Lake— Mise Spencer arrived this week over active management of the Diamond 8. Ranch— Spring bax with th come to Hanceville news the Russians acquitted thems elves much better than, say the thet robins and buebirds are hack final last spring for the world’s professional hockey title, when in spite of chilly reception— the loser to a man refused to congratulate the Detroit Red ny eeiieun 42, Wings. Y YEARS AGO “The free world’s continuing battle against communism Mareh 22, 1945 is weakened rather than ¢ rengthened by some of the com-| ‘The supply main from the power ments offered from surprisingly high places which should |house to the water tank broke leav- know better. ‘Away to the salt mines’; ‘he’s a colonel today Jing the vill Without water for but he’ll be a corporal in the kitchen: tomorrow,’ an@ other | several hours—— Reg Norquay. who was comment in similar vein is in exceedingly poor taste and con- reported ing in action, is trasts harshly with the generous tribute paid to the Canadians | now a prisoner of war in Germany— by the Russian press, radio and commentators,” The Carihoo district Ww. Revelstoke Review, [hear of the sudden yp heavy frost. i. “Created in the past... for your pleasure toda zy”? e Adams Antique CANADIAN WHISKY Shewmeas dams Distillers Kid, AMHERSTBURG. ON. VANCOUVER. 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