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Williams Lake Tribune

NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

Volume 23 — Number 21.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, May 26, 1955.

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

_ EYES R-I-G-H-T

Williams Lake-Cadet Corps snap their eyes r

SSS Se Ae :
ight as they march past in front of Lieut.-

Golie Ac MeGowan, commanding officer of the Rocky Mountain Rangers at their first annual

inspection last week.

The Weather

Although threatened rain held off
im most areas, the weather was any-
thing but summerlike over the holi-
day weekend. Last Saturday several
districts reported snow. Sunday re-
mained cold and cloudy. Monday
morning was cold with the weather
warming up in the afternoon.

Here are the readings at the air-
port for the past week:

max
Friday, May 20 45 59
Saturday 43° 52
Monday 42 60
Tuesday 46 67
Wednesday 46 59

This morning at 8 a.m.
reading was 45 above.

‘CCA. DirectorsName

Mel Mayfield To Top
Executive Post

Popular district rancher Mel Ma
field. who moved up from vice-presi-
dent of the Cariboo Cattlemen's As-
sociation last September on the
resignation of Lord Martin Cecil
was elected president of the ranch-
ers’ organization by fellow directors
last Friday,

Earlier in the day at the annual
meeting of the general. menfbership,
Mr, Mayfield was tendered a vote of
thanks for the direction he has given
the association during the past uine
months. =

Named first, second and third vice-
presidents respectively were Huston
Dunaway, G. L. Bayliff and Ray
Pigeon,

The four three-year terny directors

whose terms of office“were up this
year were all re-elected for another
dhree years. They are Dan Lee, R. A
Moon, G. Baylift and Huston Duna-
way. To replace Lord Martin Cecil
on the board of directors with one

year to serve, M. Reideman was
elected,

Directors named for {he annual
terms were Mr. Ch rae ea
Sutton, L. C. Hudeg H. E. Ra-
munds and O. Fletcher. Other one-
year directors elected at varions
meetings of district livestock asso-
ciations were as follows: Big & Bea-

John Lee; 150 Mile, R,
Springhouse, J. Corn-
. Moon, Big

ver Lane,
Hargreaves;
wall; Riske Creek, R.
Creek. R. H. Church; Horsefly. J.
Wynstra; Lae La Hache; S. Wright,
Rose Lake, J. A. Wiggins.

Named directors from the Cariboo
to the B.C. Live Stock Producers’ Co-
‘op were Mr. Moon, Mr. Baylif', Mr.
Reideman and Mr. Mayfield. These
four men and Mr, Dunaway were
named to the B.C. Beef Growers di-
rectorate,

STAMPEDE
CORNER...

Work bee again this Sunday.

Usual time, 9 am

Next Tuesday is tne last day to
leave your western hats at home.
Come Wednesday morning and June
ist and everyone is expected to blos-
som forth in approyeq headgear,

Williams Lake, R. F. P. ‘Paddy’

last Friday. a

Mr. Bowman said the firm of
Walker & Webber had heen engaged
by the railway company to make a
town planning survey of PGE prop-
erty from the lake to the railroad
and up to the airport. He said that
while he had<impressedon the
gingers that an. orderix plan cf ey.
pansion was wanted, the urgent need
of a residential subdivision would be
constdered immediately.

The railway company manager
said that the decision to engage the
engineering firm came when it be-
came evident the P.G.I.’s enginecr-
ing department was 100 bus
company work to handle the town
planning job. He said that his com-
pany wanted to see Williams Lake
go ahead. in an orderly manner,
since the growth of the town was
beneficial to the P.G.F. as well.

Informed by the local men present
that commercial property was just
as difficult to obtain as residential,
Mr. Bowman said he would the!
engineers to give equal priority to
a section of industrial property.

He indicated’ thar this industrial
area would he outside the village |
limits along Railway Avenue to-|
wards the-creek, and since zoning
entered into orderly development, it
was recommended that the commis-
sioners move to extend the village
boundaries to take in this propert

Residential development will first
consist of an extension of the new
sub-division above the arena. Asked
if some assurance could be given

School Addition
Contract Let

David Howrie Ltd. of Vernon has
heen awarded the contract to build
the addition to Williams Lake High
School, according to an announce-
‘ment by District 27 school hoard fol-
Jowing the opening of tend
‘terday.

The Vernon firm quoted a figure

yes-

of $83,300.00 for the two-store
structure. Two other quotations re-
eeived were from: Turnbull & Gale

Construction Co. Ltd. of Vancouver
for $92,243.00 and from Ward & Son
Ltd., of New Westninster for
950.00,

With the low bid well under the
$90,000 on hand for the job, the
school hoard ho to’ get another
room in the addition finished. Ovigin-
ally the plans called tor a two-storey
addition with six rooms completed,
but when the board was forced to ent
capital cost ouflay in April, the
plans for the frame were left as they
were Lut the project only called for
the finishing work on the main floor. |
| the successful tenderi firm will
be asked for a figure on completion |
of one of the unfinished classrooms, |

Town Planning Engineers To Be
Here June Ist, Bowman States

Representatives of a firm of consulting engineers should
be here by June 1st to study the problem of town planning for

Bowman, general manager of

the Pacific Great Bastern Railway told members of the Village
Commission and Board of Trade at a luncheon meeting here

that the proposed lots would he avail-

able this year, Mr. Bowman said “I'd

be disappointed if they weren't.”
The question of the Stamped

grounds and the promise that this
area would be turned over, to the

recommend that‘it he doné — with
strings attached. /The ‘strings’ would
be to ensure that the ground was
used as it is now for the public.
With Mr. Bowman was Bll Stew-
art, traffic superintendent; J. R.
Drage ,freight traffic manager; B. 1.
Valde, chief engineer, and Ron
Waite, local traffic representative.

PGE Gets Into Spirit

Of Stampede Time

The Pacific Great Bastern Railway
company is getting into the “act this
Stampede?

According to traffic superintend-
ent Bill Stewart. plan is to erect a
king-sized sign on the roof of the
railroad station that will be flood-
lighted and seen trom the length of
Oliver Street.

Coast Stage Artists
Draw Full House

Even with a full house Saturday

night at the Plks Hall, St. Andrew's
choir, sponsors of the variety show
featuring top-flight coast. artists

probably won’t do much more than

clear expenses.

ason of course js obvious, since
it takes a lot of ducats to fly a con-
cert group in and pay them too. But

actally we don’t imagine anyone who

saw the show cares about the profit
angle, they were content with the op-
portunity to enjoy a program that

isn’t available to us very often in
these parts.
The andience repeatedly called

who inelnded
den, pantomime
t Guy Faint, tap dancer “Tink-
Robinson and violinist Hilda Me-
Lennan who has appeared here he-
fore and was well received. Master of

back all of the arti
magician Rudy
art

ceremonies for the show was comedi
an Gordon Grant aud the piano styl
ings of Cy Cairnes provided back-
ground musie for individual num-
bers, with Tocalites Vie Imhoil, Bol
Kell, Jim Groome, Ivan Spears and

Gordon Gibbons providing orehe:
nee, former
-resident ot

now
uake kept the audience en-
led with his tenor voice.

The show was delayed for half au
hour hecause of the late arrival of
the troupe. Rough forced
their chartered aircraft down on
Pavilion Lake on the way up.

weather

Agricultural Field
Day Well Attended
Despite Cool Weather

Ranchers and interested towns-
people shivered in a biting wind Sat-
i afteroon to watch the. field
the C.C.A

urday
day demonstration at
stockyard grounds.

_ Equipment from the four machine-
ry companies taking part were put
through their paces in breaking up
allarge piece of ground, preparing it
and seeding it for pasture. General
explanation of the demonstration
Was handled by district agriculturist
Joe Walsh, and a detailed running
commentary on the use of the equip-
ment during the actual work was
handled by Ken May. assistant ex-
tension agricultural engineer from
Victoria.

Highlight of the afteroon was the
fence building competition. Showing
the result of organized team work,
the San Jose valley“ranchers headed
by. Hugh Cornwall defeated a team
led by R. A. ‘Pudge’ Moon. The win-
ners completed. their 110 yards of
fence in about three quarters of an
honr.

On the winning side were Orville
Fletcher, Bill MeCluckie, Charlie
Twan, Bill Downie, Archie Petro-
witz and Stan Wright. Harold McKay
handled the post hole digger for th

winners and Howard Warris of
Quesnel operated the machine for
the losers.

‘The evening prior to the field day
ranchers were the guests of the
Board of Trade at a social evening in
Columbus Hall. Seyeral films were

shown and a buffet supper enjoyed.
This part of the program was under
the entertainment committee mem-
bers Dr. Jim Duthie and Al Carswell.

:
History

Through the generosity of town

and district individuals and organ-
izations, Williams Lake High Schoo)
is the recipient of an ouistanding
collection of wildlife specimens that
will become the nucleus for a mu-
seum of anthropological and biologi-
eal specimens.
In making the announcement this
ek, school principal Tom Beames
said the collection will be known as
the Leo Jobin Museum of Natural
History in recognition of the servi
of the outstanding naturalist to stu-
dents of District 27.

A private citizen, who wishes to
remain anonymous, contributed
$500 which went to purchase almost
500 specimens from the collection of
Mr. Jobin, In addition to-this Mr.
and Mrs.° Jobin contributed some 1
large specimets of rare anima’
birds and also “a number of repre-
sentative skulls and eggs. On a pre-
vious occasion Mr, Jobin donated
some 40 specimens to the school.

To house the large collection,
which includes many specimens so
rare that they are not found in some
large museums, the Cariboo Cattle-
men’s Association has donated two
large specimen cabinets and another
is now being constructed by Frank
Smith. Students of the school will
contribute to the purchase of a
speci glass-topped table for speci-
amination. The cabinets will
find a place in agricultural
science room of the proposed high
school addition,

The museum will be available to
students of the entire district, for
SI as well as such other organ-
izations

as apply through the proper

channels.
When the museum is under *
Mr. Beames said it will be the finest

to be found in any high schoo) in the
province,

District Resident Wins
$1700 On Irish Sweep

* Lucky winner in the recent Irish
National Hospital Sweepstakes on
the English Derby was Mrs. Lorne
Halevo, who picked up $1700.

Her horse, “Our Babu, tailed to
place in the Derby Wednesday,
thongh for several days she had vi-
sions of really being in the biz
mone§. First place ticket paid $140,-

$28,000. .

| sergeant

Livestock Sales

Through C.A.A.

Show Increase Over 1953

Sales of, livestock through the Cariboo Cattlemen’s As-
sociation as agent for the B.C, Live Stock Producers’ Co-op,
during 1954 showed an increase over the year previous.

President Mel Mayfield told the

annual meeting of the C.C.A. that in|

1954 11,570 head were marketed
through the association for $1,234,-
.70.. In 1953 9,212,head were
marketed for a value of $1,065,614.
Both sets of figures include hogs,
sheep and horses. but sales of these

Power Commission
Will Spend
$27,000 Here

Bxpenditure of $27,000 on the
electrical distribution system in the
Williams Lake power district this
year has been authorized by the B.C.
Power Commission.

In a breakdown of this figure pro-
vided by local manager Basil Gale,
$12,000 bas heen set aside for new
services and short extensions to pro-
vide service for an estimated 100
new residential and commercial cus-
tomers. A further $8,000 has been
allocated for improvements to the
distribution system. This amount
will be spent by adding additional
transformers, extending primary dis-
tribution lines, replacing overload
conductors and making miscellane-
ous improvements.

Seven thousand dollars has: been
authorized for specificate estimates
to provide power for new industria}
loads and an additional short rural
extension, If necessary, further
money will also be made available
for new extensions to rural custo-

mers and industrial loads where
[| such experditure appears to be _
sound investment» >: )

Additional funds Are still held
over from last year for a~two mile
extension up the Dog Creek road and
a half mile extension along the
Mountain House. cut-off.

CATTLEMEN OPEN
FUND DRIVE FOR
HOSPITAL WITH

$1000 DONATION

First major donation to War Mem>
orial Hosiptal Building Fund follow-
ing the offi

al opening of the drive
last Friday, was a cheque for $1000
given the same day.

The donation came from the Cari-

‘| boo Cattlemen’s Association and was

agreed to at the annual meeting,

animals are so minor that for gen-
eral comparisons they can be treated
cattle sales, r

Of the 1954 figure, the two main
sales contributed 5,227, head~ for
$551,925.58. The field service sola
6,293 head for $782,152.21.

Tn its year of operation the asso-.
ciation showed a much better finan-
cial picture than in 1953, In that
year a loss of $6,547.97 was shown,
which-included a bad debt write-off
of $4,602.47. In 1954, the associa-
tion, on a gross sales figure of $145,-
429.28 of grain, hay. fertilizer, ete.,
realized a net profit of $2,920.35. To
this was added $4.136.16, made up
of membership fees, stock yard oper-
ating and other items, including
-2,518.75 recovery of bad debts writ-
ten off, to bring the total profit figure
to $7,056.51.

Canim Lake Lodge
Lost In Sunday Fire

Loss of approximately $50,000
was sustained in a fire Sunday that
totally destroyed the well-known
lodge of Everett Greenlees on Canim
Lake. 5
No details are available on how
the fire started. The log lodge was
one of’ the beauty spots on Cantin
Lake. Loss is partially insured.

Broken Hydrant.
Shuts Off Villege
eo ce ser
Water System —

the holiday weekend were wishing
they had made other plans when

they were forced to go without the
use of water from the town system
for 17 hours.

At 9 pm. Sunday a wrecker
sheared off a hyrant on the main
trunk line entering town, just in
in front of Pat’s Home Service. While
repairs to the hydrant were bein:
effected the entire village system was
shut ‘off and water didn’t move
through the mains until 2 p.m. tha
following afternoon.

In the meantime townspeople
brought water from the creak, head-
ed for wells and springs around town
tor drinking water. One of the hard-
est hit institutions was the ho§pital
but here a umber of citizens came to
the rescue by bringing water in cars
and trucks from wells outside of
town.

++. BESY CADET

Lieut.-Col. McGowan is

pictured

3

here presenting the

trophy for the best all-round cadet to Cadet Cpl. Ernie Smal-
000 second place $56,000 and thir 1¢nberg. A few minutes earlier Cpl. Smallenberg received his

stripes from the inspecting officer,