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NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

Williams Lake Tribune.

Volume 23 — Number 15.

“WILLIAMS LAKR, B.C. Thursday, April 14, 1955.

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

OF THIS
AND THAT}

When Sam Barrowman, Alexis
\Creek’s genial hotelman, left on:
trip to Australia last Recemberp he
“promised to send back some, notes
on life “down under.” Well the other
‘week the notes turned up in two
betches, with one written early in
February arriving two days before
one that was completed December 24.

We'll’ be lucky to get this into
print before Sam and his wife, Irene,
come bounging through the office
door.

On February 6th as Sam penned
his lines, the thermometer read 9S
above and a 40 day dry spell had
been experienced, a 100-year record
with temperatures up to 104,

Wis other lines on Austaralia were
brief and to the point. No stores open
on Saturdays at all. All beer par-
ours close 6 p.m. for the day. Horse
racing all year round with two and
three sweepstakes a week for hos-
pital upkeap. Lots of jobs ayailable
and no unemployment. February 1st
end of summer holidays for children:

The travellers were impressed by
the facilities on the Oronsay, 28000-
ton liner of the Orient line that car-
ries 1200 passengers, and has a <rew
complement of 625. The boat left
Vancouver December 7th and 10
days later crossed the equator with
King Neptune coming aboard with
his court to perform the traditional
veremony. Sam is now carrying his
certificate. December 21st was the

hottest day of the trip with the mer- 5

eury at 114 above at Suva.

Notice the Stampede Association
is showing signs of activity with the
annual meeting called for next
Wednesday.

The ice break committte’s para-
hernajia for recording the exact
time the ice goes out on Williams
Lake has heen in place for some tim
the past yeur:
average it should-hé apoving anytime
now. Last year the ite.
4:48 p.m,

With some citizens still away on

"fu, the board of trade meeting last
might was postponed to next Thurs-
day when only seven members show-
ed up.

Trade and Industry Minister
Ralph Chetwynd (and our own MLA)
is In England now fo¥ the first vi:
home in 31 years. Ralph will have a
reunion dinner Monday with hi
brother and other relatives. He will
be leaving England for Vancouver
again next Saturday.

—Clive Stangoe

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gillis and Mr. |
end Mrs. Fred Cardwell returned |
this week from a holiday in the|
southern United States.

—o—

Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Kemmler en-
tertained Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Cantell
of Castlegar, Mr. and Mrs. W. Low-
den and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kozuki
at their residence Wednesday eve-
ning.

Ss
Mrs. Buynes of Matsqui is visiting
her daughter and sen-in-law. My.
and Mrs. E. Nieuwejaar.
Bert Roberts is at the coast for a

tae cae
Shown here just after she.
noted singer Josephine Baker,
Lake (see story below).

Vancouv

BEVERLEY MEETS A CELEBRITY ....

liams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Harr:

was presented with flowers by
is six-year-old Beverley Wiil-
Williams of Williams

Also in the picture is Miss Dorothy
Findley, director of nursing at the B,C, Cancer Institute in

A -6-year-old Williams Lake girl
‘uet.a world famous. celebrity last
1 Fancouver.

Jose fe Baker whose love for
children is international in scope
went calling on child cancer patien
in Vancouver as -B-C.’s “Conque
Cancer” campaign opened.

The famous entertainer who has
adopted eight children, each from a
different country, took gay bouquets
for the four children under treat-
ment at present in B.C. Cancer In-
stitute.

The institute, built by B.C. divi-
sion, Canadian Cancer Society and
B.C. Cancer Foundation with ‘“Con-
quer Cancer” funds, is across from
the General Hospital.

Ranch Cafe Under
New Ownership

Another change-over in the owner-
ship of the Ranch Cafe took place
last Thursday when Yie Sim of Lil-
looet purchased the cafe equipment
from Raymond Lee. The cafe prem-
ises are leased from the hotel.

Mr. Sim has had wide restaurant
experince. He operated cafes in Sas-
katehewan and at Revelstoke, B.C,
before moving to Lillooet seven year
ago. He is an uncle of Sam Kwong.
well known merchant of the south-

‘week on business.

Trio Face Robbe
Violence Charge

Three men face charges of robbery with violence in con-

nection with a fight outside a lo
that resulted in a Dog Creek
and robbed of $220.

-Awaiting preliminary
their case April 20 are Garnet Marks,
31; William Sound, 24, and John
Spurrell of Vernon,

One of the men, Sound. was sen-
tenced to a year’s imprisonment last
April for his part in the breaking
and entering of Williams Lake Phar-

bearing of

D:

macy. | :

Arising out of Saturday nights
ineident, another man, Richard Han-|
son, 18, pleaded guilty in police court
Tuesday to a charge of receiv
stolen property and was sentenced |
to two months imprisonment. |

According to police Russell, 41,

ern town.

ry With
s Here

cal beer parlour Saturday night
man being knocked insensible
ees

an employee of Gang Raneh, was
sitting im the Ranch beer parlour
Saturday night when it is alleged
that one of the three men heeame
involved in an argument with him.
‘The upshot of this was that the men
and in the
was knocked unecon-
scious and fell hetween two parked
On regaining consciousness he
overed his wallet was Missing.
Police were quick to round up the
suspects and the three men were
hook um of $60 was found in
possession of one of the men ana
$160 was found hidden in a vacant

d

Local Girl Meets World
Famous Singer Af Hospital ~~

Miss Baker presented the flowers
to Beverley Williams, daughter of
Mr..and Mrs. Harry Williams of
Williams Lake. Mr. Williams is local
manager of the equipment firm of
J. L. Wilson & Sons Lta.

Beverley, who is under tr
for a tumor of the arm. presented
bouquets to the other children in
the hospital. Miss Baker, whose own

family has been stricken with can-
cer, smiled broadly when told by
Institute doctors that Bev

treatment is progressing favourably.

The little girl has been in hospital
for two months.

Miss Baker, a close friend of
dame Curie, discoverer of radium

which is extensively used in treat-
ment of some ea delighted
to hear that no one in B.C needs to
y treatment of cancer
sons. Patients at the
institute are charged on the ha

of thelr a
low income
free. .
In order to meet these and other

bility to pay and those im

brackets are treated

costs in regard to the fight against
cancer, the society sponsors an an-
nual “Conquer Cancer’? campaign
for funds that is going on this
month. The local campa is under
the chairmanship of Rev. Jack Col-

Phillipson Named
B.C.1.F. President

Joe Phillipson, former principal
of the local high school, who left last
fall to take a similar position at
Campbell River, has been elected
president of the B.C. Teachers’
Federation.

Mr. Phillipson, first
year, was named pr
onp’s annual convention at
couver Wednesday.

A long record of service to teach-
ere is behind Mr. Phillipson’s elec-
tion. He has been on the provincial

ice-president
sident at the
Van-

executive for four years, Last year
he was also president of the Wil-
lias e Teachers’ Association

A graduate of Victoria 1
school xnd UBC, he holds a B.A. and
Bachelor of Kducation degree, He
taught in Williams Lake 15 years

and position.

taking his

~ and Mrs. Ralph Lincoln. of
Williams Lake have adopted two

shack on First Avenue,

little girls, Kathleen, 11, and Pa-
tricia, 7,

The Weather

Considerably cooler weather was
experienced over the past week.
From two to six inches of snow fell
in various district points as a result
of the lower temperatures.

Here are the readings taken at
the airport last week:

min ma:
Friday, April 8 35° 57
Saturday ee 46° 55
Monday 34° 48
Tuesday 37 42
Wednesday 37 43
Thursday B83. 41

Garage Parking

parked in front of garages takin.
they wait their turn in the shops,
unless the commissioners thems
commercial lots: -

This side of the problem was pre-
sented Tuesday night by Jack Cade,
a director of the firm of Williams |r
Lake Motors Ltd., who told the com-

issi that his company had

‘Local Wholesale

Firm Opens Branch
At Dawson Creek

The local wholesale firm. of In-
terior Wholesale Distributors Ltd.,
has opened a branch at Dawson
Creek, the second major expansion
move to the north for this hustling
company. It already operates a
branch at Quesnel.

Wilbur Hannah, president of the

ycompany has. been busy for the past

few weeks getting the new branch
established. The Dawson Creek
branch will operate as @ wholesale
soft drink business with a franchise
‘from the Orange Crush Co, of
Canada.

‘The company operates its own
transportation service under the
name of Interior Freightways, haul-
ing fresh fruit and produce from the
Okanagan Valley north as far as
Prince George.

Interior olesale Distributors
employs a staff of 20 men with Frank
Armes as manager at. Williams Lake.
and Harvey Gibson at Quesnel. Man-
ager of the new Dawson Creek
branch is Bob Armes, 23, who for
the past year has been employed in
town by Western, Rife & Pigeon.

Wash Streets Sunday

The town’s two paved streets will
get their annual spring washing this
Sunday by the village fire brigade.

Fire Chief Claude Huston asks
residents to co-operate with the bri-
gade by having parked cars off
Oliver Street and Railway Avenue
before 9 a.m.

Daylight Saving
Starts April 24

D

light saving time goes into
et April 24 in British Columbia
and will end September 25. ;

Provincial secretary's office said
official time for setting clocks for-
ward one hour is one minute past
midnight April 24.

Lac La Hache News

PREDATOR HUNTER Bill Hillon
was in this area tracking cougar and
shot one fully grown animal out to-
wards Ernie Wright's meadows. He
is having it made into a rug.

KEN FRASER is soon going to
open his new garage, to be known as
Northern Service.

MR. and MRS, DUDLEY GUNN
have returned from their trip south.

MR. and MRS. J. WATERS and
the children, Wendy and Carol spent
Easter week-end at the coast

TRAVELLING, in California are
Mr. and Mr Bun Ogden and Mr.
and Norm Ewart.

MRS. W. DINGWALL

attended

the P-TA concert in Clinton, where
she
painted
contest

helped in judging the posters
by school children in the

sponsored by the Historical

MRS. ALAN PRY

| home Toronto
they were recently married, and are
guests of the latter’s mother, Mrs.
E. Lockwood

MRS. ALEC BRYCE with Ken and
bara and accompanied by Ann
Ogden have gone to Seattle for a few

and and

from

day

‘old home week’ at V:
York Hotel for local v
weekend. A check of the
ter showed 42 registered
Lake and district.

Te was

Williams

trom
A home-town party of 25 were guests

of hotel guests Mr, and Mrs. Joe

| Borkowski,

firemen Wall — F

where |

been prepared to purchase several
lots to erect a second body shop and
alleviate the overcrowding of ve-
hicles now on Second Avenue. Only
obstacle was that there were no such
lots available.

the largest garage in town, with 28] _
employees, had acted in good faith
in an endeavour to help the situation

to the commissioners to negotiate| ,,
with the Pacific Great Eastern Rail-
way to secure more land. He point-
ed out that the property along Rail-
way Avenue from the village houn-
dary to the creek bridge would make
ideal commercial development land.

tl

One Rail Break
Repoired At Quesnel

ti
~ According to information receiv-
ed this morning, service over the Pa-
cifie Great Eastern to Quesnel was
resumed yesterday following a week
of shut-down as crews effected re-
pairs over a break four miles south
oi that center.

Last Thursday a mud slide took
out a sectidn of the line and it was
necessary to construct a 90-foot
bridge over the gap. Sunday another
mud slide cut the line 18 miles to
the north of the town, halting trattic |
to Prince George.

The. northern break} was eonsid-
erably worse and repairs there lave
still not been completed. tl

Want Town Clean-up

Village commissioners will seek | P
co-operation of ‘the board of trade in
staging a ‘clean-up’ campaign around
town this spring.

At Tuesday night’s meeting. com-,
missioners said they would be will-
ing to assist by bearing the cost of
having refuse trucked out to the
dump. Commissioner Alf Bagle was
appointed representative to contact
the trade group and outline the plan.

t

LICENCE PLATE FIGURES

Up to March 31st, 1050 passenger
car licence plates were issued trom | \
the local government agent office
and 700 commercial plates.

t
dvawn to the
with any part of an airplane might

result in the liv
sengers being in jeopardy.

Village Complaints About

Backfires

Perennial annoyment to Village. commissioners of: cars

g*up needed parking space as
will continue to be a nuisance

elves can find more available
¥ SS See ee ae

The commissioners instructed

Clerk BE. H. Gibbon to write to the

railway company suggesting that

this land along Railway Avenue be
opened for commercial development.
PERMITS

Building permits were granted for

construction of. residences to W. J.
M. Duthie $8000; BE. Walters $6500,
and a temporary one to I..F. G.-
Fraser for construction of a garage
Mr. Cade said he believes his firm.| or qwelling purposes pending erec-

ion of his home. Commercial, per-

mits were granted to Kahl Propane
Ltd., for construction of a store and
but he believed that it was now up| warehouse, and to the Ranch Cate

‘or a storage room $500.

GRANTED INCREASE

Commissioners agreed to an in-

crease of $50 a month to the end of

he year to Phil Coxon, nrésen;

holder of the village garbage es:
tion contract. The former ra‘e. w
$275 a month.. In applying for iho
inerease Mr. Coxon pointed o t

he rate had remained the same i
he past two years but in the mean-
ime from 50 to 75 new homes had

been constructed.
RETAINED ot

Commissioners agreed’ to the ap-

Pointment of the local firm of Skipp
& Langley as village solicitors.

Lays Aircraft Fire.
Blame To Thoughtless
Tampering

Thoushtless tampering with air-
raft at the Jocal airports blame:

by pilot Bob Ransom as bemg pehimi

he cause of a fire to his "plane at

‘Vancouver Monday.

Bob flew down last Friday and left

2 ° 2 the ship at the Vancouver *port un-
Commissioners Ul ready Cetitite Sena He ab
day. When he started up the motor,
leaking gas caught fire and the air-

ort fire fighting equipment had to
e called to extingish the blaze. Es-

timate of the damage is not known.
Repairs to the motor and controis
are being effected at the coast.

The pilot feels that the gas leak-

age was caused by something being
damaged in the fuel system.
weeks ago he had to have a hole in

Two

he fuselage repaired that had been

punched by someone when the ship
was parked at the airport.

ide from damage to the aircraft,
Ransom say he believes that
he attention of the public should be
fact that tampering

of pilots and pas-

—By Pletro a!
Rich blue cloak of the Garter
sky are part of the splendor of thi.

goni. The Queen is painted life-
into the distance and behind her

artist was commissioned

Her Majesty—considered her finest—by
ize, star

y the worship

SAID TO BE “FINEST PAINTING” OF QUEEN

onigon! from Central Press Canadian
ound of light blue
and latest portrait of
in artist Piertro Ai

and bac
ir

is

ring
Itali

out
uiet pastoral scene. The
1 Company of Fishmongers

is a

to make the oil portrait for a fee of £2,000,