Boon Ay ouln ss “ae ot 2 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. (continued on pack page) | SS 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