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Volume 23 — Number 20.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, May 19, 1955

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

Kamloops Firm Low Bidder On Sewer

Local Cadets Show Promise
At Annual Inspection

Townspeople who attended the first annual inspection of

the Williams Lake Cadet Corps

Monday night were impressed

by the appearnce of the boys, both on the parade square and
in their field demonstration work.

The entire parade was handled py |
eadet NCO’s. Cadet Cpl. Ernie Smal-
lenberg took the corps through the
entire inspection drill and Cadet Cpl.
Ken Brandly carried out . dressing
the ranks for inspection order. Botn
boys showed their thorough ground-
ing in the manual and gave their
word of command crisply.

Following the march-past in front
of inspecting officers Lieut. Colonel
J. A. McGowan, commanding officer
of the Rocky Moutain Rangers, the
boys were drawn up for the awards
announcements.

Col. MeGowan called Cadet Cpl.
Smalleberg forward and told him
that he had done a splendid job of
handling the parade and presented
him with his sergeant’s stripes. Go-
ing on, the inspecting officer said that
he was satisfied that all of the cadets
of the unit were good but that there
was one who had put his heart into
the movement and a result was
little bit better than the rest. As the
best all-round cadet, Col. MeGowan
said he was proud io present Set.
Smallenberg with a trophy for his
achievement. The award, he said,
was made in consultation with the
corps instructors.

Speaking to the boys, Col. Mec-
Gowan said they were not doing any-
thing in the cadet corps for the Roe-
ky Moutain Rangers or for him as
commanding officer. but for them-
selves and their country.

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He said the oportunity came once,
When ven aré-young, to take udvan-
tage of cadet training, which is net
aimed at making the boys soldiers
but good citizens. Of the traiuing,
he said it taught hoys to walk like
a man, not to slouch around. The
range training they receive, he said,
was not to enable them to be better
hunters but to give them training
that would be valuable if the need
ever arose to protect home and
country.

He added his personal thanks to
the St. Joseph's Mission fife and
bugle hand that provided the martial
music for the parade.

Major C. B. Macqueen, chief in-
structor of the corps, announced the
folowing award winners in the an-
nual classification shoot: Marksmen
- Cadets G. Fairley, B. Levens, Cdt.
Cpl. BE. Smallenberg, Cat. a. Des-
chene, Cdt. L/Cpl. T. Baker. Cat. s.
Robinson, Cdt. L/Cpl. EB. Kozuki.
First Class Shot - Cats. R. Olson, W.
MeDonald, J. O’Dell,
Cat. Cpl. K. Brandly. Cat
jy, R Bishop, G. Harding and R. Lee
Qualified - Cdts. A. McIntosh and R.
Ashley.

Cadets

who missed their marks-

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Local Couple Escape
Injury In Accident

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barter es-
caped- with bruises when the ear i
which they were riding went off th
road near Clinton last Sunday.The
who Were on the start of a
veek’s vaeation, were driving
Mrs. Barter’s brother and sis- |
nlaw, Mr. and Mrs. V. Dangault |
of Vancouver. Only Passenger sus-
injuries was Mr. Dangault,
auctured his collar bone.

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Fire Damage Confined
To Light Plant Walls

t minute check by manager Len
Smith resulted in early detection of
a fire in the building housing the
lighting plant of Twilight Lodge,
When Mr. Smith went ont to. the
plant around 12:30 am. he discoy-
ered smoke billowing out of the walls
round the exhaust pipe. He immeai-
ately put in a call to Lae La Hache
for the fire brigade there and within
15 minutes they were at the head of
nd were bringing the laze
under control. Damage was confineg
to the walls of the building, which ig
located about 50 feet from the lodge
itself, Estimate of damage is $150,

man badges will have another chance
to qualify.

Following the inspection and
march past, the cadets were dismiss-
ed to assemble their equipment and
in the intermission Brother McDon-
ald led his boys’ band through x
series of drills as the played familiar
marches. They received a sustained
round of applause when they con-
cluded their numbers.

Back on the field, the cadets set
up field telephone sets in the four
corners of the elementary school
playground, demonstrating cable
laying. They then went through rifle
safety procedure.

With Col. McGowan on the inspec-
tion trip was Lieut. G. Hobbs, cadet
training officer and Staff! Sgt. Lam-
bert.

12 Teams Enter
Big Ball Tourney
At Lac La Hache

Twelve teams from centres rang-
ing from Vernon to Prince George
wilt be taking part in the big invita-
tional softball tournament at Lac La
Hache over the holiday weekend.

The teams will be competing for
a total of $750 in prize money, di-
vided into three prizes. Winning
lub will also take thé annual tourn-
ament trophy. i

The games will start at 9 o'clock
s morning and will continue
through the two days. Here is the
schedule:
sUNDAY—

(1) 9 a.m. Vernon Aces vs Rut-
land Rovers (2) 11 a.m. Kamloops
Plaza Hotel vs Prince George Air-
force (918th Squadron). (3) 1 p.m.
Lac La Hache vs Louis Creek. (4)
3. p.m. Williams Lake Power Glides
ys Prince George Shields Motors.
(5) 5 p.m. Puntzi Airforce vs For-
est Grove. (6) 7 p.m. 100 Mile vs
Quesnel.

MONDAY—

10 a.m. winners of draws 1 and 2.
12 noon winners of draws 3 and 4.
2 p.m. winners of draws 5 and 6. At
4 p.m a draw will be made to choose
the semi-finalists among the three
teams still in the tournament and
6 p.m. the winners of the game. wil!
play the team that drew the bye.

The program includes a show on
Sunday and the annual tournament
dance getting underway at Sunday
midnight.

Hospital Pound Day
Successful

Another succesful Pound Day has
n recorded by the Hospital Aux-
iliary with donations of food amount-
ing to $175 turned in. Cash dona-
tions came to $30.00 with a further
$14.05 realized on the tea and $82.51
on the rafile.

Winner of the hamper of tood was
Mrs. A. Redford, while Mrs. F. Bass
won the set of doilies, and W. Serack
of 150 Mile won the surprise gift of
china.

The first hot day of summer con-
tributed greatly to the success of the
afternoon tea as visitors to the
nurses’ residence were able to sit at
tables on the lawn in the warm sun-
shine.

Acting as serviteurs under conven-
er, Mrs. P. Jorgensen were Mrs. K.
Cameron, Mrs. J. Pomeroy, Mrs 4
McKay and Mrs T. Larson.
in the absence of president Mrs.
Stewart Smith who was ill was Mrs.
C. Stangoe.

Receiving donations at the nurses”
residence was Mrs. E. Gaspard, while
Mrs. R. Court accepted gifts at the
hospital.

With the tea being held at the
nurses residence, only a handful of
People took advantage of the oppor-
tunity of insecting the hospital.

Telkwa Experts To
Assist At Barbecue

Something new that is bound to
prove popular with visitors to the
Stampede this year has been added
to the show in the form of an out-
door beef barbecue.

While the Kiwanis Club is spon-
soring the event the actual barhbecuc
will come to us through the active
co-operation of the good people of
Telkwa, a small town near Smithers.

Tie-in came when the service club
was investigating the possibilities of
a barbecue and was provided with

the information by former Burns

Lake resident Dick Moquin that such
an annual event had been held in
Telkwa for the past 50 years or so.
The club decided to go for the idea
but only if they could arrange to
have one of the men who has been
in charge of the Telkwa barbecu2
on hand for the beef extravaganza
ere.

A telephone call to Telkwa Tues-
day afternoon clinched the deal.

Clarence Bussinger, unoffici
‘mayor of Telkwa’ said he’d he happy
to line up the needed expert and

would likely make the trip himself.
If the two men come they will be the
guests of the Kiwanis Club during
the show.

Tentative plans call for running
the barbecue two days, on July 1 and
2. The quarters of beef will be low-
ored into the barbecue pit Thursday
night at a special ceremony and
volunteers will keep the fires burn-
ing and the beef turning all night
and into the next day for the first
serving.

Horsefly Road
Agdin Draws

Trade Board Fire

Word that only $15,000 in special
project money would be available for
the Horsefly road this year. prompted
the Horsefly Committee of the Wil-
liams Lake & District Board of Trade
several weeks ago to compose a sizz-
ling telegram to “Hon. Phil Gaglardi,
Minister of Highways, on the subject.

The wordy telegram found its way
first to the council of the parent
body and there was carefully edited
before being forwarded to Victoria.

Last Thursday the gereral meet-
ing of the board heard the answering
letter from the Minister and the mem-
bers got just about as wrath about
the situation as the Horsefly resi-
dents had been. Mr. Gaglardi’s briet
answer was said to be nothing but a

“prush-off,” in fact one member said
it was “‘an insult to our inteligence.”

Upshot of the hot discussion,
which included reminders that Hon.
Ralph Chetwynd had stated last year
that in 1955 there would be some
work done on the road by cont
was formation of a commitee of J
Cade, Herly Gardner and Marold Ed-
munds to compose a strong letter
pointing out critical condition of
Horsefly and Beaver Valley roads and
suggesting that the minister of high-
ways come up and inspect them him-
self.
TOWN ZONING

Need for a zoning by-law in town
was discussed and it was decided to
Tequest the Village Comm
to have one drawn up and pass
The hoard’s committee formed for
investigation into the lack of land
in the village was instructed to work
with the commissioners on zoning
problems.
GOLD COMMISSION

Decision of the
move the gold commissioners’
from Barkerville and Williams Lake
to Quesnel had resulted in the local
trade group sending letters of pro-
test to the Premier and Hon. R. Som-
mers. Letters in answer pointed out
that Quesnel was in a 2zie lo-
cation as a mining area, and consoli-
dation of the Quesnel and Cariboo
mining divisions would result in con-
siderable economy. It was also stated
that a local record office would still

government to

offices

be retained at Willams Lake, so the!
meeting decided to accept the move

without any more protest.

The Weather

That warm weather we were look-
ing for arrived this week and gar-
dening went into full swing.

Here are the ‘temperature reads
igs at the airport.

Min Max
Friday, May 18 40 56
“Saturday 42 66
Monday 45 79
{ Tuesday 55 68
“Wednesday ~~ oe Td

This morning at 8 o'clock it was
49 above.

Four Equipment
Companies To Take
Part In Field Day

Four local equipment companies
will take part in the agricultural field
day slated for Saturday afternoon in
the stockyard grounds. The com-
panies are: Cariboo Truck & Equip-
ment, Beath Motors (Williams
Lake), MeKay Equipment and J. L.
Wilson & Sons. ;

The field day will open at 1:39
with presidents of the Carihoo Cat-
tlemen’s Association and Board of
Trade, Mel Moon and Tom Larson
taking part.

At 1:45 ploughing will get under
way with John Deere equipment and
Ken May, Department of Agriculture
engineer will comment. At 2:15 all
equipment will be used for plough-
ing; Massey-Ferguson, McCormick-

Deering and Ford being added. This
will be followed by headlands plough-
ing, double discing, fertilizer spread-
ing, with commentary by Mr. May
and supervising agriculturist G. A.

test with two teams competing, one
under R. A. Moon with Massey-Fer-
gusson post hold digger and the
other under Hugh Cornwall with a
Ford digger. Tom Willis and Bern-
ard Guichon will be judges. Prizes
for the eyent have been donated by
the CCA and equipment dealers.

Annual meeting of the Cariboo
Cattlemén’s Association will be held
Friday afternoon in Columbus Hall
and the following morning there will
be a meeting of the B.C. Live Stock
Producers Co-op. Friday evening the
Board of Trade is sponsoring a social
evening for the ranchers with films
being shown.

Project

Village Receives Premium
Bid On By-law Debentures

Low bidder on the installation of a sewer system for
Williams Lake, and probable contractor for the projeet was

Interior Contracting Company

$103,437.62.

The other -four contracting firms
quoting were grouped closely to-
gether with prices all around $120,-
000.

Here are the prices received at the
opening of tenders Tuesday night.
Each tender contained two figures,
one for crossing the PGE tracks with
the main pipe by tunnel and the other
by the open ditch method.

Interior Contracting - $103,457.62
($103,507.23) Christien & Allan -
$120,238.70 ($123,707.95); Baynes,
Manning Ltd., $120,582.49 ($122,
802.49); Dawson, Wade - $120,653.-
80 ($120,715.80); Manning Ltd. -
$120,635.80" ($121,074.70). g

The bids were taken to the coast
following the opening by officials of
Associated Egineers for tabulation
and final recommedation.

Even using the low figure though,
the overall cost of the project will be
almost $10.000 more than the orig-
inal estimate made two years ago,

Added to the $109,437.62 is the
cost of the pipe $27,415.00 (con-
tractors figures on digging, laying
and back filling and construction of
the large septic tanks), and the en-
gineers’ fee of approximately $11,-
000.00. This brings the total up to
$141.852.00.

Youngster Pulled From
Chilly Waters of Lake

Barly. and-unintention£i dip in the
still chilly waters of Williams Lake
was taken Sunday by school princi-
pal Ron Friesen and his six-year-old
son David.

A group of townspeople were vy
iting at the Claude Hustons’ lakeside
home and David was playing around
the wharf while his dad was out ia
a boat nearby fishing. From the boat
Mr. Friesen suddenly noticed the boy
lose his balance and plunge into the
water. He; in turn, took to the water
too and headed for his struggling
son, but before he got to the wharf
Jim Stitt rushed down from a van-
tage point on the bank and helped
the youngster to safety.

Hospital Building Fund
Campaign Opens Officially

Official drive for funds for the proposed addition to War

Memorial Hospital will get

underway Friday, directors

fecided at their meeting last week.

It is estimated that the commun-
ity’s share will be in the neighbor-
hood of $12,000, although this figure
have to
definite until actual tenders on the

will remain somewhat in-
work are received and word is forth-
coming on whether the Federal goy-
ernment will give a grant to the
work.

The Provincial government will
make a grant of 50 percent of the
building costs and a third of equip-
ment cost.

Blueprints of the proposal were
fowarded to Victoria Tuesday and as
soon as final approval of these is giv-
en by BCHIS, tenders will be called.

Directors are hopeful of collecting
more than.is necessary for the build-
eaten

Trio Sprouting
Beards For Show

telling into the spirit of the Old
West for the Stampede prompted
three local men to lay a light wager
on their ability to grow beards, and
what is probably harder, to stand the
ribbing until July 1st.

Bill Kohnke, Geoff Place and Dr.
Lloyd Bothamley are sporting the
beginnings of hairy master-
pieces as they go into the second
week. Whether the custom is catch-
ing among other residents remains
to be seen,

ing and standard equipment. The
hespital’s Autoclave sterilizing ma-
chine is on its last Jegs and the in-
stitution’s share of the cost of a new
one would run around $1700. At the
same time added work that will be
imposed on the present kitchen
prompted directors to allow for the
purchase of a new commercial range.

The hospital building fund now
stands at $5,325. Most of this amount
has been donated by organizations
and individuals since last November.

In the drive for funds, director
Bill Kohke will look after the lumber
industry of the area; director Hugh
Cornwall will approach cattlemen,
and a three man committee of direct-
ors Felix Nicholson, Alf Eagle and
Bill Kohnke will approach town
businessmen. Directors Clive Stan-
goe and Fred Bass will look after a
1 names committee Director
Ken Cameron will co-ordinate
plans with the ladies auxiliary

mmunity groups in the district
will be invited to ke part in their
own areas and hospital directors will
visit any of the centres intere:
in hearing more of the project.

Both banks in town will bave offi-
cial fund receipt books and will ac-
ate donations on behalf of
pital.

Last donation to come in before
the drive opened was from the Chim-
ney Creek and Springhonse Live-
stock Association for $100.

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of Kamloops. The low bid was

To pay for this is $132,000 raised
by bond issue and a healthy premium
quoted by the top tendering bonding
house of $2,706.00. In the sewer
building fund also is an amount of
$5,040.00, representing 144 sewer
connection fees prepaid by property
owners. The contractors’ figures in-
elude an amount for connecting ap-
proximately 220 users.

Balance left is $2,100.00, and the
village should have another couple
of thousand dollars to handle any
extras that might materialize.

Theoretically this should be forth-
coming by the balance of the prop-
erty owners who have failed to come
forward with their $35 connection
fees. At present there are'175 sewer
connection applications on hand at
the village office but 31 have not
been accompanied by the $35 fee,
and there are many who have not even
filled in the application who will
eventaully hook up to the system.
BRIGHT BOND PICTURE

Brightest part of the picture was
the preminm bid for the 20 year de-
bentures bearing 334 percent in-
terest.

Top bid was submitted by Gaird-
ner & Co. Ltd., of 102.05.

The other ten companies submit-
ting bids were: Thos. Read & Co.
Ltd., 101.183; Odlum Brown Invest-
ments Ltd., 101.585; Baquitable Se-
curties of Canada Ltd., 101.548;
James Richardson & Sons 101.80;
sberton Securities 101.4
ze

According to bids on municipal
bond issues in Canada last month,
the ones secured by Williams Lake
were very good. It was only topped
by one bid last month of 103.475 for
a series of short term debentures of-
fered by an Ontario centre bearing
4 percent. The city of Saskatoon re-
ceived 100.13 for 20 year bonds
bearing interest at 314, 3% and 4
percent.

'Glides Take Trimming

Hopes for Williams Lake Power
Glides in the Lac La Hache tourna-
ment look slight if Sunday evening's
game here was any criterion of their
chances. The locals took on Lae La
Hache and came out on the short end
ofa17-2 shellacking. ,

Main Stampede
Parade July Ist

Directors of the Stampede agreed
last night to a suggestion from the
parade committee that the main par-
ade of the show be held on the
ond day, to give visitors here for
the Dominion Day holiday a chance
to see it.

On opening day a parade of con-
testants will be held along the streets
and something hig in the way of a
grand opening at the grounds is on

the agenda. Last year’s laughable
wheelbarrow “baby ra along the
streets will be again sponsored by

Wiliams Lake Taxi and will be held
the morning of June 30

Something wild and wooly is being
planned for the morning of the third
day of the show to keep spectators in
the spirit of the Stampede.

Back for the second year Will ha
the Wells Boys and Girls Band. This
year the popular group will mareh in
the big parade and a band concert
is planned the night prior to opening
day.

Back on the program of eveninz
entertainment after i
couple of years will be
Felix Kohnke is in Vancouver now
lining up talent for the shows, which
may he held on two or three nights,

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Mr. and Mrs. Bill Pulver are le:
ing Monday to make their home near
Vernon where they haye purehased
acreage.,

lapse of a