illiams Lake Tribune

NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

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Volume 23 — Number 18.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, May 5, 1955.

Single®copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

Elect for Trial in County
Court on Robbery Charges

Facing charges of robbery

with violence, three men who

appeared in police court last Friday for the preliminary
hearing of their case, elected*to face trial by a judge of the

County Court.
The charges are faced by Garnet

Marks, William Sound and John
Spurrell.
According to the evidence of

James Albert Russell, employee of
Gang Ranch, he liad come to town
April 9 with almost $500. After pay-
ing some Hills and sending a nfoney
erder away he claimed that he still
had about $295 in cash.

Late in the afternoon he went to

‘the Maple Leaf beer parlor where
he met another employee of the

Gang Ranch, Frank Stockdale and a
friend of his, Joe Beulanger, and he
had “half a dozen beer.” The three-
some parted company and about
10:30 that night Russell said he
entered the Ranch beer parlor and
again met Stockdale and Beaulanger.
Then, the witness testified. “that
man,” identifying Sonnd, “came over
and asked me to buy him a case of
beer.” The witness said he had seen
no reason to do so and they ‘igot
into an argument.’’ He could not re-
eall who had asked who outside, but
he testified that he went out with
Sound and went hetween two parked
cars. Then he said his opponent
struck ‘at him with his left hand and
grazed his cheek. “I never got a
chance to hit him and he didn't hit
me. I don’t know what hit me but 1
went down,” Russell said.

The witness testified he had his
wallet in his pocket when he went
into the beer parlor but after he
came out it was gone.

Stockdale told the couzt that he
and Beaulanger were sitting in the
beer parlor when Russell came in
with Sound behind him. He said
Sound wanted Russell to sit with
him put when he wouldn't he went ||
aver Abont 11:30 he testified that
Sonnd came back and asked Russell
to huy him the beer. He then iden-
tified Marks and Surrell as men who
had been sitting with Sound and
thet they went outside too.

SAW PIGHT

Richard Emile Hanson, 18, tes-
tified that he had been to the show
earlier in the evening and had sat
in Spurrel's- car as it was parked in
front of the Ranch Cafe on Oliver
Street about 10 o’clock and started
to read. He said that he saw some-
one fighting and got out to see who
it was. He said he recognized Billie
Sound. He then testified that Sound
knocked the other man down and
that was all there was to it. Al-
though he saw a erewd on the side-
walk he said he did not recognize
anyone,

He said he then went back to the
ear and about five minutes later
Marks and Al Minow got in and they
drove away. About. 20 minutes after
the fight, Manson said they picked
up Spurrell and Sound, and after
dropping Minow off at Marks’ trail-
er, Spurrell took the wheel and drove
towards the Stampede arounds.
COUNTING MONEY

The witness said they drove a
couple of miles out of town and then
Sound and Spurrell began: counting
money. To questioning he testified

‘Lake Ball Chances -
epends On Success
In Finding Hurlers

What will happen to the Williams
Lake Power Glides in the forth-
coming invitational ball tournament
at Lac La Hache May 22 and 23 will
depend largely on the eluh’s succes
in procurimg the services of one or
two additions to the pitching staff.

that nothing was said at this time
He then continued with his story to
say the police came and started to
question them and. after they left
the group went back to the trailer
where the money was counted again.

He tesetified that Marks and
Sound gave lim money to keep and
that he hid it.

Questioned again about the fight.
Hanson said that after the fight he
saw Sound cross the street and run
up the road.

Corporal Jack Routledge testified
that on the evening in question he]

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Member of Pioneer
ine Family Dies

soe services were conducted

| Lac La Hache, last Saturday for
miicaee MeCauley Hamilton, aged
89, who passed away after 24 years
in provincial Infirmary. Marpole on
April 26.

Service at Lac La Hache was per-
Yormed by Rev. Fr. J. Naphin and
interment was in the family plot.

He is survived by one sister, Miss
Margaret Wamilton of Williams
Lake, and four brothers, Gavin of
Beaver Valley and Ike, Teddy and
Moffat of Lac La Hache.

Mr. Hamilton was a great grand-
son, of Peter Skeene Ogden, original
uuaseas Bay Factor of Fort St.

ames.

Active In This District

Survey crews of Canadian Bechtel
Limited, engineers for West Coast
Transmission Company, are working
in the vicinity of Williams Loke in
preparation for construction of the
gas pipeline to the Peace River
country.

Actual construction of the line
awaits permission from the Federal
Power Commission in Washington,
-D.C., to import gas into the United
States.

Construction may start this fall.
but only a small amount will be done
this year, according to a representa=
tive of Canadian Bechtel.

P.G.E. Considering

for Land Problem

Consideration is being ‘given by
the Pacific’: Great Eastern Railway
Company to engaging a firm of con-
sulting engineers to study the prob-
lem of land development around
Williams Lake, according to a letter
received by the Board of Trade by
company general manager R. F. P.
Bowman.

Mr. Bowman states that last fall
a study was made of the prolem and
consideration had been given to
opening up another sub-division on
the north edge of the village. adja-
cent to the one opened up last below
the airport. However, Mr. Bowman
said that problems arose that pre-
vented the adoption of this plan.

With regard to the board’s com-
plaint about piling of lumber on
PGE land along Railway Avenue, Mr.
Bowman said that steps would be

taken to control this.

F

Belaid

Following 3-Car Crash

Charges will be laid as a result of a spectacular three-car
erash Saturday night at the junction of the Mountain House
cut-off and the Cariboo Highway, according to police, who are
stiH investigating the accident,

Two persons are still in the hos-
pital, both in good condition. S.
Michele is suffering from concussion
and lost part of his scalp in the
crash. Mrs. Clifford Joe has severe
lacerations to the face.

According to police, the three-way
crash occurred about 11:30 p.m. A
panel truck driven by Ernest Cook
with four other passengers, was pro-
ceeding south on the highway when
| it crashed head-on with an oncoming
| vehicle driven. by W. A, Stewart, who

Permits Granted

Three building permits were ap-
proved at Tuesday night's commis-
sioner's meeting.

Two were actually hold-overs
from last week’s meeting, with per-
mit being granted to Cariboo Oil Dis-
tributors for a dwellimg and Over-
waitea Ltd., for addition to their
present store. Another commercial
permit was granted to Home Oil Dis-
tributors for construction of a small
addition to the Home Service Sta-
fon on Railway Avenue. Applicant
will be warned however that~ the
shack 6n this property must be torn
down as soon as the new addition is
completed.

‘Transjent Heences were granted to
Chas. C. Russell, plumbing and
heating and to Klassen & Born,
Vancouver, building contractors. A
three-way licence for funeral direct-
or, florist and ambulance service was
granted to Chet. Leavitt.

Teams to the south are reported
strong in that department, and |
opinion of one Lae La Hache citizen |
with an eye on the entries, if the|
*glides can’t produce an outstanding
hurler out of the sports hat, they
might as well go fishing on the
holiday weekend. =

Of course experts can be wrong,
and in the meantime the leals are
getting in as much practice as pos-
sible. This Sunday they travel to Lac |
La Hache to take on the home club |
there in their first season game.

The sponsoring Williams Lake
Motors is providing new uniforms for
the club this year,

|

Parents Of Local Nurse
Killed At Armstrong

Miss Betty Hopkins, public health
nurse here, lost both her parents
Saturday. in a tragie autmobile ac-
cident near Armstrong,

Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hopkins, aged
79 and 73, were killed instantly
when their car, driven by Mr. Hop-
kins, crashed head-on into a car
travelling in the opposite direction.
They had been residents of: Arm-
strong for 50 years.

Miss Hopkins was driven down to
Armstrong early Sunday,

was alone in his car. The Cook ve-
hicle had slewed sideways on the
road when a third car, driven by
Steve Todorak came down the high-
way towards town and struck it
again, this time knocking it to the
side of the road.

Both Mrs. Joe and Mr. Michele
were occupants of the panel. The
others, Mrs. Michele, Mr. Joe and
Mr. Cook all suffered shock and
bruises. Mr. Stewart suffered shock
and bruises and was confined to ho:
pital for two days. Todorak and his
passengers were unhurt. All of those
involved are from Williams Lake.

The Cook vehicle was a total loss
and an estimated $300 was done to
Stewart’s car and $300 to Todorak’s.

Soil Samples At Airport

Engineers Bric May and Bill Hols-
worth of the Department of Trans-
port are currently taking soil sam-
ples on the new airport site. Inform-
ation gathered from these samples
is used in making up specifications
for such work as paving.

Mr. May says he believes that work
will.get underway in the summer on
actual clearing of the runways.

Highway Paving
Contract Let

Contract for the paving of 38.3
miles of the Cariboo Highway
around Williams Lake has been
let to Mannix, O'Sullivan Paving
Company Limitea for
$348,372.00.

The paving worl: is broken into
sections: 150 Mile to Williams
Lake - 8.6 miles;
paving to 170 Mile - 9.6 miles;
170 Mile 19.0
miles, and recapping Oliver Street

a price of

end of cut-off

to Macalister -

and Railway Avenue in town -
1.6 miles.
the Railway

be undertaken this year because

Of this latter amount,
Avenue work will not

ot the proposed sewer project.

Gas Pipeline Survey Crews |

We Are Ferced To
Do Some Squeezing

We are leaning a little heavy on
Advertising this week to keep the
Size of the paper down.

, Reason is that a third of our me-
ehanical staff is in the hospital with
pnenmonia. Of course in a three-man
back shop a third is one man, but it
Sounds a more serious shortage us-
ing the fraction.

Our apologies to our district cor-
espondents whose news did not get
in. The items will appear next week.
Apologies too to Norton Olsson.
Cariboo Cattlemen's Association sec-
tetary whose advertisement couldn't
lie squeezed in. Norton was advising
all association members to be on
land May 20 for the annual meeting
at Columbus Hall and also the pro-
gram that evening and field day May
21 sponsored by the Board of Trade.
> The plug is free, Norton.

Students Shaping
Up For Coming
School Sports

Local student athetes at the high
school are putting in long hours of
practice in preparation for the school
sports meet coming up.

A check with physical education
teacher Pete Moffat shows that he
has several likely looking prospects
among the boys. The discus winning
Mark at the 1947 provincial high
meet was 108 feet and Bill
18 throwing 179 téet in prac-|
tive With Dave McClure and Alt Ad-
ams throwing consistently over 100
feet.

A good relay teanr is shaping up
in five boys who are running the 100-
yard dash in around 11 seconds. Ray
Foisey and Tom McDonald have the

edge, followed closely by Gordon
Armes, Charlie Wiggins and Al
Demcoe,

Among junior sprinters, Walter

Levick and Wayne McArthur are
also around 11 seconds in the 100
yard.

Although condition of the playing
fleld has limited practice in-the 440,
880 and mile events, Mr. Moffat has
hopes for Don Grover, grade nins
student who is doing the mile in
under five minutes.

The school playing field is gradu-
ally shaping up now and ‘tis said it
will be one of the best in the central
Interior when work is completed. /
lot of credit goes to the boys of the
school, who have been working like
trojans with pick and shovel.

CORRECTION

In 2 story on an inside page of
this issue about a forthcoming musi-

cal show, featuring Theatre Under
the Stars performers, the date is
May 20. Since this was written the

sponsoring group has changed the
date to May 21
Another correction, or cancella-

tion, reached us just before the front
page went to press. The local players’
group received a wire from Kamloops
‘at noon today saying the club there
would not be able to visit Williams
Lake this Saturday for their pro-
poséd workshop performances as
reported on Page Six.

LUMBER COMPANY
ANNOUNCES PROMOTION

L. J. Kerr. president
Limited, announced this week
appointment of Charles Cassford as
manager of Quesnel Sawmills Ltd,
am associated company.

Mr. Cassford has heen active with
Lignum's since 1946 in the Cariboo
and was the first manager of the
| firm's Williams Lake planer mill.
| More recently he has been managing
| Likely Sawmills.
| Gordon Bruce remains in over-all
charge of all Cariboo operations of
num and associated compani
In Williams Lake he is assisted by
Stewart Smith, who has been ap-
pointed assistant manager.

of Lignum

the |}

Faced with a petition sign
on the block affected, and the 1
us ensman Al Carswell, repr

night,

Some ten
hand to hear the arguments present-
ed by both sides involved.

The problem arose out of an un-
derstanding by Mr,-Carswell fhat
the lot in question was in a commer-
cial zone when ae purchased ity last
fall. Since no goning by-l-aw has
ever been passed \by-the Village; the
block in which the-fot is locafea is
actually residential sthce se built
up almost solidly with 2°™$s,

In this case a section of 4

townspeople were on

fe Muni-
cipal Act dealing with ch®™fes from
residential to commercial . zones
would séem to apply, village solicitor
Lee Skipp told the meeting. This, in
effect, states that before such a
change can be made, there must be
the approval obtained of not less
‘than 75 pescent of the residents liv-
ing in the area where the zone ap-
plies, In number and value. z
Mr. Carswell. took the position
that the whole thing had been mis-
represented to him in the village
clerk's office when he was shown a

his bid to get a building permit for
Third Avenue when he appeared before commissioners Tuesday

Petition, Statute Blocks Firm’s Plan
Of Building Plant On Third Avenue

ed by 75 percent of the residents
etter of the Municipal Act, local
esenting C &§ Tire Service, lost
the controversial lot on

thing should be done about fashion-
ing a proper zoning by-law immedi-
ately.

Speaking for the residetits oppo:
ing the commercial developmen
retired game warden Leo Jobin also
mentioned this need when he told
the meeting, that when he was plan
ning his house he was told the block
was in a residential zone and now,
years later, Mr:. Carswell is told it
is a commercial-zone. “It is not fair
to him or to yourselves,’”"he asserted

Mr. Jobin said he built his home
in 1944 and he had expected to spend
the remainder of his:life there, but
with rumours of commercial huild-
ines going up he had decided to sell.
Construction of a tire shop next to
his home would devalue his property
by one or tw6 thousand dollars,
said, “and I cannot afford it.”
¢ Although he wasn’t concerned in
the matter personally, Jack Dye told
the meeting that he thought the vil-
lage should reimbursé Mr. Carswell.

map with the coloured
and residential zones shown on it.
He said that both he and the repre-
sentative of the local real estate firm
involved had heen given to under-
stand that the zones were legal and
since Third Avenue is shown on this
map as being in a commercial zone,
it would be in order to purchase a
lot there for commercial develop.
ment.

NOT WORTH 5 CENTS

“If there was hot a proper by-law,
We should have been told that,” Mr.
‘Carswell sid. “The lot is not wi ete
five cents to us it we can’t build on
ity xs

He went on to tell the meeting
that the lot had cost his firm $1480.

Chairman Stan Goad‘ told Mr.
Carswell he should have come before
the commissioners with his plans for
approval when he contemplated pur-
chasing the lot and he would have
been told it was not commercial. He
said he could not understand why
the clerk would instruct him other-
wise.

The map. he went on, had been
prepared at the time a zoning by-law
was being considered, but the pro-
ject had not been carried out when
only a handful of citizens turned out
at a public meeting several years
ago to discuss the matter.

HIDE MAP
Under the cireumstances, Mr.
Cardwell said he believed the map
should be hidden away or burned it
it,didn’t mean anything. He‘also said
that it should be apparent that some-

Mr. Goad took exception to this
Suggestion, since he again pointed
out the

portunity to present their views on
zoning several years ago and had not
taken any interest:

The final resolution’ read that iu
view of the petition présénted and
the section of the Municipal Act per-
taining to the subject, the Board of
Commissioners could not grant the
permit.

Well-Known Alexis
Creek Resident
Passes Suddenly

Funeral services’ were’ conducted
Monday from St. Peter’s Anglican
Church for Rosamund King Lee,
well-known resident of Alexis Cree’
who passed away suddenly in Ro:
Inland Hospital, Kamloops, April 25

Mrs. Lee had undergone an oper
ation and appeared to he recovering
when she had a relapse:

She is survived by one son, Tom-
my, at Alexis Creek amd’ two-grand-
children.

Funeral services were conducted
Rev. George Fielder and inter-
ment was in Williams Lake cemetery.

A full story on Mrs. Lee's life will
be published next week on receipt of
more detailed information.

by

Iris Blair and Miss Joan
Huston are leaving Friday for a
two-weeks’ vacation in Californi

STAMPEDE PLANNING COMES TO LIFE‘

(With some 30 persons on hand Friday night for the
special meeting of the Stampede association, a new fire of:

enthusiasm was evident in planning for the 1955 show.

The
unanimous in selecting the dates of
June 30, July Ist and the
' Stampede, breaking a long-time cus-

meeting was practically

2nd for

tom of starting on Wednesday. Con-
census was that a larger gate would
result if Saturday included
since visitors would want to take
advantage of.the long weekend. Al-
though Saturday is not a holiday,
many industries and government
services shut down on that day.

Surprise for the officers of the
ociation came when volunteers
were asked to fill the various com-
mitees. Usually it is a question of ap-
pointment and reluctant acceptance,
but Friday night the members came
forward to fill the committee posts
j without any coaxing.

was

The one yacancy on the executive,
‘that of treasurer, was filled when
Jack Harder, accountant of the Bank

; of Montreal. allowed his name to
stand.
Here are the committees for the!

1955 show:

Grounds — George Felker, Bill
Pulver, Frank M theson; Conces-
ions — Fred Graham, Jim Blair:
Publicity — Earl Brown, Ron Frie-
sen; Parade — Clive Stangoe, Claire
Redding; Race committee — Bert

Roberts, Mrs. F. Matheson; First
Aid — Erwin Brandly; -Donations
— Spike Hannah, Jack: Dye; Arena
— Slim Dorin; Entertainment (eve-
ning) — Bill Sharpe, Bert Roberts.
The Kiwanis Club will be asked
to accept the job of looking after
town decoration.
" Legion representative.Jim Groome
told the meeting that his organiza-
tion had been unable to acquire the
rides they had proposed operating
and had decided to operate skill
games instead. Permission to oper-
ate such a concession was granted.
The association will hold its first
work bee on the grounds Sunday,
May 15. Work proposed this year
includes replacing broken fencing
around the t rebuilding con-
cession booths, and putting a’ new
floor in the Indian dance hall and
repairing the sides,

| STAMPEDE -
CORNER...

Make a down payment on a cow-
hat. From June Ist to show time,
the Publicity committee wants to sea
Western hats a ‘must,’