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NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

Williams Lake Tribune —

Volume 23 — Number 13. WILLIAMS LAKH, B.C.

Phursday, March 31, 1955.

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

Fire Destroys
Beaver Valley Home

Fire that was discovered at 2:30
last Thursday morning completely
destroyed the home of Mr. and Mra
Lloyd Chapman at Jacobsen’s Mill,
Beaver Valley. =

Mr Chapman was awakened by
dense smoke in the house and di:
covering it coming from an out=

Spring Arrives
The welcome wanm weather of
Spring finally arrived in the Cariboo
this week.

In Williams Lake the snow has
disappeared in a matter of a couple
$f days with the greatest run-oif
“Securing yesterday when the mer-
Sury hit sixty downtown,
_Here‘are the readings at the air-

sida wall where he could not check
the flames, he aroused the house-
hold. ,

The Chapmans and nearby neigh=

2 : : a

Site of ’55 Grey Cup is Empire Stadium, Exhibition Park,
‘Vancouver to be played November 26. Canadian Rugby Union
officials voted move of the football classic from Toronto to the
west coast, when’ they met in Vancouver last week, Stadium
is managed by Pacific National Exhibition who are purchasing
a $25,000 nylon tarpaulin to protect the playing field from
weather damage. PNE this year is August 26 to September 5,
with foolball season starting during the fair.

Village Ends Year
With Surplus Of $6,530

Operation of the. village last year resulted in a surplus
Of $6,530 of revenue over expenditures, according to the
year-end financial statement.
This healthy surplus for the year py
compares to an operation deficit of
314 in 1953.
Revenue in general funds amount-
€d to $23,282 in 1954 compared to

matter of minutes, managed to ré-

move
+24 below zero weather,

although

enough of the searing heat was later
found hadly damaged. Three beds
and a davenport were destroyed.
There was no insurance, 3

The fire is believed to have started
from pitch dropping from hot stove-
pipes.

Mr. and Mrs. Chapman have lived k
in Beaver Valley for two years. At
Present they are staying in the Gib-
bons’ house at Horsefiy.

Mill Truck Fire
Brings Out Brigade

Firemen responded to a call from
Allfr Lumber Company yesterday

NXPENDITURES
Administration and general govy-
ernment $4,128 ($4,613); fire, street
lighting and pound $2,573 ($4,190);
streets and sidewalks $2,444 ($4,

Seto) $e 1958) swithsexpenaitures | 51) = canipment. aed quainteneace afternoon but after making the
le ee ee Seared soi gabep):  draldaee 9376 bumpy trip over the road to the mill
to $22,310 in 1953. ($96); sanitation and waste removal | toung there was no need for. thele
Here are the comparative figures | ¢3 9° eae); “community #er-| Services. Ona muddy trail qall lew:
ges teat vidual bem yaneeie 198 Freee ores ct S805 (S808) icine loaded yardiwan tic “en teco
sures in brackets. paous cemetery and sundry $1,686 Gump truck with-cab and amotar stilt
REVENUE ($1,045); capital expenditures ~ | smouldering.
SEU ereipment (grader maintyy’ $5/¢98 According to mill officials, the
067); Utility Tax $2,012 (31,586) (mil, mains $3,487 ($6806); other truck was béing driven to the mil]
Business Ueenves $820 48 $1081 ($2,906). 7 _ | dump with & Yoad of cattinus wlien
PUNGine agents. $4 T3_ (555. ~coliecdome in S654 amounted] the motor suddenly went up in
3 7 (5200); !t0 90.6 percent of the total levied tor naaniGe:

#9/821'| the year. In 1953 the amount col-
Sie er ceeLCeDCE | Teclediaras 62 fereent of the total
share $2,017 ($2,548); bulldozer |)...

Bee SES) AG 1988)2.  alsport. seer hecavst time the village water
Foae 3869) ($1,020); cemetry. fees||. cis Showed & sustantial surplus
and sundry $239 ($148). in 1954. This figure amounted to
$2,727 compared to §721 the year
previous.

Water rates earned amounted to
$20,351 (1953 figure $17,951) ana
Services connection fees amounted
to $1,350 ($577). Water system ex-
penditures of $18,994 were only
$1,187 greater than the year before.
A substantial chunk of this increase
was the $500 more paid on deben-
ture principal than the year before.

Residents Warned
To Boil Water

Town residents have heen warned
to boil water from the village s:
for drinking purposes until further
notice. .

The warning followed a notice
from the Public Health Unit that a
sample taken in the downtown area
this week was found to have a con-
tamination ratio of 3-5. A sample of
water for these tests is divided into

Stores To Close
On Helidays

Stores in Williams Lake will close
on both Good Friday and Easter
Monday, a spokesman for the retaii
merchants announced this week.
They will be open as usual on Sai-

bors who arrived on the scene fn af:
a lot of the furnishings, mm the}

clothing that was not thrown. clear |

urday, April 9th.
Provincial government offices will |

be closed from Thursday night, April

7th to Tuesday morning, April 12.
Postmaster Cece Rhodes states

Four Student Pilots

five parts and each one tested for
contamination. The 3-5 ratio means
that three of the five parts tested
were contaminated.

Th commissioners had been warn

Make Solo Flights

Four students in the class taking
instruction for their private pilot's
licence have soloed according to fiy-
ing club officials.

Jack Abbott, Clarence Moore, ¥.
“Cookie” Hodgson from town and
Peter Ogden from Lac La Hache
have taken to the air on their own.

Flying instruction came to a halt
on the weekend with the advent of
warm weather. The airport thas been
covered in slushy snow arid the water
hasn't been able to drain off.

First Plays Of New Club .
Received With Enthusiasm

Members of

ed previousiy by the Medical Health
Officer that several contaminated
samples had been taken in the past
at the time of temporary shut-downs
of the chlorination system. In this
case the village clerk states that the
chlorinator has been working stead-
ily, but there is the conjecture that
the broken main on Second Avenue
may have resulted in a part of the
system being contaminated.

that the post office will he épen for
an hour on both Good Friday and
Easter Monday, from one to two Pan,

Local Restaurant
Receives Dining Room
Liquor Licence

The Famous Restaurant will be
the first local dining spot to offer
beer and wine with meals.

The management of the restaurant
received word this week that their
application for a dining room licence
has been granted.

Although some alteration work is
contemplated, this will not delay the
actual serving of the beverages. lt is
understeod that the new service will

ee
Bill Sloan is undergoing a medical
examination in Vacouver.

the- Williams Lake) Fairburn did -an excellent portrayal.

be available some time next week. Players’ Club put a lot of effort into |The two feuding aunts who were nee
Whether the licence covers the] preparing their firet Rlays for public| COnciled at the family gathering
serving of beer and wine with meals showing, and last Friday ang gat-|24inst their will, were port: a

by Mrs. 1B. Deschene and Miss Kay
Halleran. We thought Miss Hallerau
did an extremely capable job in ta-
king on a character study of a much
older person.

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urday nights they were rewarded
with the knowledge that local audi-
ences found their productions at
times well polished and all through
thoroughly entertaining.

The first play, Orange Blossoms,
portrayed the Duckworth family pre.

in both booths and the dining room
will not be known until the plan of
the establishment, with the servini
‘areas marked, are returned from
Victoria, There will be no service of
liquor at the counter.
Se

ring r vedding of their .. -
‘AKES FEI paring for the wedding
ee os daughter Glad Foster, with the A port Landings

comedy mainly evolving around their
Marius Mortensen made a trip out| problems when the bridegroom, Fred
to Bluf Lake, west of Tatla Lake] Ashford, appears on the scene with
with a load of feed for a number of| the avowed intention of not going
swans on the lake that were reported | through with a ceremoy that will put
to be having a difficult time to find him at the mercy of a nagging wife.
focd. According to the report four} Mrs. Jim Groome was outstanding
of the, flock had died. It is not known.‘ as the shrewish mother, . Duck-
whether the birds are the rare trun-| worth, and as the ‘straight man’ for
peter swans or not, | his wife's nagging overtures, Horace

Out For Air Line

Condition of the airport has re-
sulted in regular flights of Canadian
Pacifie Airlines in here being can-
celled. Last fight was Saturday.

If ig expected that the port will be
ready for use again by the time the
Gally air service schéaule goes into |
effect April 4,

ort for the week from 8:30 to 5 p.m.
ally.
Min Max
Friday March 25 3 3
I Saturday 17 42

Monday 26 40
Tuesday 42047
Wednesday 29° 51

Temperature reading at 8:30 this
morning was 40 above.

Officials To Discuss
School Capital Costs

A special meeting of the Board of
School Trustees of District 27 has

been called for next Wednesday to!
Wiscuss the capital portion of the

annual school budget with represeu-
ftatives of the Department of Edu-
ration.

Here from Victoria will be H. L.
Campbell, deputy minister; W. G.
Graham, director of administration,
and S. B. Espley fmancial comp-
troller,

The department officials will meet
with Quesnel School Board to dis
cuss similer problems in that district
next Tuesday. 5

CLUB SHUTTLE
FINALS MONDAY

f Local badminton club champion-
ship play is being hurried along this
week to clear the draws for the pro-
gram of finals scheduled for Mon-
day night. ,,

Both senior and junfor finals will
be run off at the Elks Hall on that
night. The juniors have completed
their elimination play but the senior
finalists have ‘still not been decided,

Here fs the line-up of juniors:

Boys’ singles Gordon Armes vs
Ernie Smallenberg; boys’ doubles—
Smallenberg and Boyce Crapelle vs
Patrick Bass and Bert Poston; girls’
singles— Barbara Gardner vs Billie
Gardner; girls doubles— Gail Wood-
land and Barbara Gardner vs Billie
Gardner and Rosemary Hannah;
mixed doubles— Gail Woodland and
Patrick Bass vs Barbara Gardner
and Boyce Crapelle.

The games will start at 8 p.m.

School Budget Approved Again

Representatives Think More
Funds Due Rural Areas

Area representatives approved the budget for School

District 27 as presented last

themselves in the dark as far

$179,475 was concerned.

Board chairman Hilary Place told
the meeting that the trusttes still
had not received’ word back from the
Department of Rducation on whether
approval would be given to all of the
capital portion, although he intimat-
ed that it might not be forthcoming.

When the board representation met

with departmnt officials in Prince
George last month, Mr. Place said it
was the opinion of these Officials |

that the capital portion of the budget
was so large part of it should be re-
ferred to the taxpayers in a bylaw.
At the same time they said they were
not questioning the wisdom of the
projected expenditures,

After some confusion on parlia-
mentary procedure of carrying an
amendment to a motion of ‘straight
approval, the. meeting by a vote of
11-6 finally carried a motion to ap-
Prove ‘vith the proviso that should
department approval not be forth-
coming, the board be empowered to
cut back the capital portion of the
budget to those costs that were
O.K.'d.

Feeling was that a straight mo-
ion of approval would put the trus-
tees in the position of being able to
place the balance of any unapproved
capital costs directly on the taxpayer.

Road Restrictions
Now In Effect

One of the surest sige of spring
isjthe annnal ‘notice ofroad elosu: ki
for the break-up Deriod. The limit
went on in the South Cariboo last
night at midnight.

Along the Cariboo Highway from
Mile 76 to Williams Lake vehicles
will not be allowed to operate with
an axle loading in excess of 50 per
cent of that allowed by the regula-
tions pursuant to Section 36 of the
Highway Act. All other roads in the
South Cariboo Blectoral District are
restricted to 6000 pounds gross
weight. Speed limit for trucks and
busses is 30 miles an hour. :

$800 IN DONATIONS
oq

Saturday, although they found
as the large capital portion of
Ee he ee

The only major part of the opera
tional portion of the hudget that was
not approved was an $11,000 differ—
ential in teachers’ salaries between
the goverument scale of ‘approved’
costs for this Jtem-and the actual

however that they had no alternative
but to approve this item: since the
district has a contract with the
teachers this year. =

Secretary C. B. Macqueen told the
representatives that this amount
would take about a mill and a third
in tax money, according to the tenta~
tive assessment figures for the dis-
trict of a total value of six million,
700 thousand. Assessment figure last
year was five million, 200 thousand,
WATER FOR LAC LA HACE:

Much of the time of the meeting
was taken up with the need for water
at.La La Hache school, and from that
to the feeling of some-representatives
that the rural schools were-not get-
ting a big enough share of the budget
dollar. 3

Representative Voth of. Lac La
Heche kept pressing his point for a
system for his area's large elemen-
tary school, to rectify what he term-
ed a disgraceful sanitation problem.

Chairman Place told the meeting
that the trustees realized there was
need of a piped-in water supply at
Lac La Hache and at several other
Targe schools, but hé pointed out that
it had been necessary to cut the
budget to the bone and that there
were a great many needs that could
not be finaxed out-of current funds.

Mr.
the suggestion that if the entixe
capital portion of the budget was
approved, it would be extremely
likely that economies could’ be ef-
fected that would give’ water ‘to his
school and to several others.

The meeting was also informed
that a great number of these ‘needs’
were being considered for inclusion
in a by-law that was’being consider-
ed by the school board. No ‘further
word was giyen out on the by-law or
when it was proposed to present it.

A suggestion emanating from the
last representatives meeting that the
Department of Highways. paint cau-
Honary signs on the- Cariboo High-
wey approaching certain schools had
been turned town from Victoria, ac-

scale here. Representatives were told .

Voth" had té-be “Satisea-with—

Hospital Fund
Receives Big Boost

The building fund of War Mem-

cording to Mr. Macqueen who read
a letter from the department saying
there was “not enough traffic to war-
rant painting the signs.”

Firemen Douse
Early Morning
Fire in Lumber Yard

Firemen were catled out at 2
o'clock this morping to fight an un-
unsual fire among the lumber piles

across Railway Avenue from the
planer mill of Diane Lumber.
When firemen arrived on the

Scene, one pile of two-inch lumber
was burning fiercely. Around the wet
Spruce pile affected were dozens of
similar loads waiting procéssing in
the mill.

Deputy Fire Marshall A. B. Ley-
ens plated later this morning that
© could not say definitely what had
caused the blaze, which had started
among the upper tiers of the pile.

One supposition is that the upper
tier of the load might have become
selurated with gasoline or oil and
been touched off
from a large
was still burning several hundred
feet from the pile. A wind was blow-
ing over the piles of lumber trom the
direction of the scrap fire. The gas
or oil might beve been deposited
when a trucker was bringing in the
load since it is often the practice to
lash empty drums to the top of the
loud coming into town.

Damage in the blaze is estimated
at §150.

CURLING BANQUET
Wind-up of the curling season for
the men’s club will be the annual

Representatives instructed the

orial Hospital took a big jump this
week with three major donations be-
ing received.

Veteran rancher Charlie Moon
donated $500. From the Soda Creek
Community Club came a cheque for
$200, the proceeds of a pie social
and dance held Saturday night, and
the Williams Lake Players Club
turned over a cheque for $100 from
the proceeds of the group’s first
night performance last Friday.

Telephone Whist

|Scores Announced

Scores in the highly ‘successful
telephone court whist held Wednes-
day evening by the Legion Auxiliary
were as follows:

Men's high— Earl Petersen 222:
low, Miss Joyce Thompson 178. La-
dies’ high— Mrs. Rar) Petersen 248:
low, Mrs. K. Rife 181, zes were
men’s socks and costume yelery
for high scores, choclates for low
scores,

board to appeal again through the
office of the minister, Hon. P. Gag-
lardi.

The board was also instructed to
prepare a redistribution. of trustee
zoning within the district to give
better representation of the» more
Populated areas on the board.
SUPERIOR SCHOOL

An inquiry from Mrs; J.-R. Scott
of 100 Mile House on the possibility
of providing a superior school at
that point for the children of 100
Mile Forest Grove, Lone Butte and
Lec La Hache, brought the informa-
tion from Mr. Place that the board
would be sending a representation
down to that area within the next
month to discuss the school: needs
With the people.

School Inspector Wm. Mouat tala
the representatives that a great.deal
of study would have to be given

such @ suggstion since it would in-
volve additional expense of hussing
and equipment, which might ~
might not receive departmental ap-
proval. If it didn’t, of course, the
district would have to be prepared
to pay the extra cost themselves.

tte bar te exer
‘FLU EPIDEMIC FELT IN SCHOOLS

The influenze epidemic that has
cut school attendance figures in
Quesnel and Prince George by ag
much at 50 per cent in the past few
weeks is now being felt in Williams
Lake.

According to Dr. H. M. Brown,
medical health officer, who is in Wi)-
liams Lake today, town and district
schools here have an absentee per-
centage of up to 80 percent among

| curling banquet next Tuesday night,

students and teachers, q

The malady, generally termed “24
hour flu.” is not serious, according
to Dr. Brown, but should not be
disregarded.

ts symptoms are headache, chills,
| fever, aching legs, sore throat
general pains. Persons who contract
“flu or think they have contracted it
should see their family physician to
have the diagnosis confirmed,

and