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NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

Volume 23 — Number 23.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.O. Thursday, June 9, 195

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Logging Truck

Collides With House

In- Freak Accident

No one was injured in a freak ac-

the higi-

Moose Population
Facts Aired In
Cow Season Debate

In town this week ior the Regis.
tered Trappers’ meeting, Eric Collier
had a word to say about the recent
3,C. Fish and Game Council conyen-
tion at Nelson, concering the cow
moose question.

Qn the convention fioor was a
Tesolution, subsequently defeated,
from the South Cariboo Guides As.
sociation, asking that the cow
moose or antlerless season be drop-
ped this year. Defending the resolu-
tion, Mr. Collier asked for a fey
facts on moose population in the

“i saicorasit

gists’ statistics Gen aerial
eounis, this population in the last
three years had dropped from 6.5
Per square mile to 4.5 last winter.

In view of this answer, Mr. Collier
reminded the biologists of a meeting
here three years ago when he asked
Mr. Hatter and Pat Martin if they
could give any assurance that adop-
tion of a cow moose season policy
would result in increased moose pop-
ulation in four years. At that time,
Mr. Collier said the biologists said
they were positive, and now, three
years later (two of which had cow
seasons), the moose count was actu-
ally down according to the biolgists’
own figures.

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Observer Corps
Regional Supervisor
Post Filled

Gordon Lewis has been appointed
regional supervisor of the Ground
Observer Corps for this area, which
takes in from 150 Mile and Dos}

Creek to Soda Creek and the immedi-| their crests.

ate areas east and west of us, There |
are nine observation posts in the,
area with four or five more to he
established.

Chief observer appointed for Wil-
liams Lake is Don Bremner.

About 30 pe?sons were out Mon-|
day night st Columbus Hall. to hes
F/O Dick Mungham show films St
the air defence system in action and
to give a address on the system and
the part the Ground Observer Corps
plays in it. Working in conjunetion |
with the radar detection system, he|
said there were a thousand observer
posts in British Columbia alone.

Among those at the meeting were
Mrs. R. Scott, observer at Riske |
Creek and Doug Huston from Soda]

Creek, :

Mr. Lewis will attend a corps con-

ference in Vancouver June 24, 25, 26
CORNER...

Work bees will he held every eve-

ing next week to finish up prepara-
tion of the grounds.

Parade time has been set for 11
a.m. on July Ist. A horsemen's par-
ade will lead off the first day’s pro-
gram,

by

__Pebatheontiele seh ass teen
~«:/2 Year Sentences Meted Out On

|
ges

sentenced to two years in the}

rel had four convictions, of aitempt-
ed theft, breaking in and receiving

victed of obstructing a police officer,
auto theft and B & E.

Members of School

Chairman Stan Goad, who said that

RETIRED ?

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cident on the Montain House cyt-of!
highway last Saturday afternoon
when a logging truck owned
Boyce Logging crashed into a smail
cabin being hauled across
way.

The truck, driven by Dave Ada
was coming over the hill near the
airport, heading for town, when the
driver spotted the cabin too late to
stop his big vehicle loaded with 15
ton of logs. The cabin was being
hauled by a PWD grader and when
driver Natale Gigliotti saw the truck
bearing down on his tow, he jumped
from his machine to set clear of the
impending crash.

Little damage was done to the loz
ging truck in the smash. but the
eabin, owned by Mrs. M. MeDonald.
was a complete shambl

It is understood that charges will
be laid.

—Central Press Carailan

Sir Winston Churchill is supposed to have retired, but Britain's
voters are seeing the old familiar figure on the stand in his Wood.
ford riding. He is campa ning for re-election himself, and while
he is at it, he is putting ina few digs at his Labor Opposition,

Robbery With Violence Char

Three men were each

penitentiary in County Court last Friday when they were
found guilty of a charge of robbery with violence,
The men, “Garnet Marks, William | pany and about -10:30 that night!

Sound and John Spurrell. were | Russell said
found guilty of robbing James Al-
bert Russell, employee of Gang
Ranch on the night of April 9,

In passing sentence, Judge Henry | asked me to buy him a case of heer.
Castillou said be was giving some |The witness said he had seen no rea-
leniency in term of sentence because
two of the men had no record of con-
viction for the past couple of years,
and one, Sound, did not have a long
record of oifenses.

In his appeal for lentency, de-
fence consel T. G. Colthurst of Kam-
loops said that Marks for th
fwo yeas had been gainful,

he entered the Ranch
beer parlour and again met Stock.
poate and Beaulanger. Then, the w:

son to do so and they “got into an

had asked who outside, but he said
he went out with Sound and went
between two parked cars Then he
said bis opponent struck at him with
his left-hand and grazed his cheek.
© past | He said. something else hit him’ on
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straight sinte 1997.
Reading trom the records of the

“missing. when he: regained’ |

consciousne: Stockdale Fecounted

men, Crown counsel, Lee Skipp re- seeing Marks and Spurrell follow the
cited a list of five previous convie-| two men out of the beer parlour.
tions for Marks including theft and | 174 voy S$ STORY
two drug counts since 1941. Spur-

The story went on, told by 18-year-|

old Richard Hansen who had been
sitting in Spurrell’s car, that Mark:
got in and drove off, later picking vp
Spurrell and Sound. Hansen's story
of the counting of the money in the
car and the evidence of police who
had come up to the parked vehicle

stolen goods, Sound had been con-

The case varied little in its gen-
eral trend from the story given at
the preliminary hearing. Late in the

; jon | Checking for liquor and discovered
afternoon of the day in question, the money was gone over, as was
Hussell’ went auto: the Maple Leat the trip back to town and the count-
beer parlour where’ he mer anoLuey ing of the money again in Mark's

employee of the Gang Ranch, Frank

trailer and the men’s subsequent ar-
Stockdale and a friend of his Joe| Te MS

: rest by police when they were in-
hora Soe Malt @iored | ried’ St Russsll’e com GAG
ees esey eee Ebert d Come) econ’ testimony at the trial

proved in many points to be direct
contradictions of what he had sald at
the preliminary hearing. Both de-
fence and prosecuting counsel had
difficulty getting him to stay with one
story. In his summing up Mr. Skipp
said the hoy’s garbled testimony was
due partly

Patrol Get Crests

Members of the local school Safety

5 to his troubled back-

Patrol were treated to their annual Brouiak at Aanvily: liter “ama” site
hanquet last Thursday and awarded straeth Be loyalty to MeaeES,

Praise for the work of the patrol] _MT- Colthurst took another view

= if ission | Of Hansen's evidence. He said the

was voiced by Village Commission crown's chief witness had proved

himself quite prepared to disregard
his oath on the stand, and -he said
elthongh it was not a nice word, he
was, in fact, a perjurer

The defence maintained that it
had not been proved that any of the
three accused had robbed Russell
with the use of violence. Hanson,
the person who saw the fight, had
given no evidence to show that any
of the three had robbed Russell with
violence.
THREE BOOTLEGGING

To explain his client's suspicious

although their job might seem a
small cone, its successful perform-
ance was a vital part of community
work. The smooth function of the
patrol since its formation has result-
ed in motorists depending more and
more on the boys and girls with the
yellow warning flags to control ped-
estrian and vehicular traffic at dan-
Serous corners. Mr. Goad said the!
volume of traffic is forcing consider-
ation to the installation of traffic
lights at the corner of Oliver Street
and Third Avenue.

{Responsible For
|Death Of Boy

“| b¥ medical men here to have been

jj mother the lat lap, and when nurse

ness testified Sound came over and |=

to tell’ doctor's here that he was being

argument.”’ He could not recall who!*

ond he. wi wn di
oystitin’ Se aor

Principal Ron Friesen cited Mr.| actions with the money when the

Goad as an example of-good citizen-|-police were at the ps ear Mr.

ship in accepting the type of respon- | Colthurst said they had g

sibility today that the boys and girls [to be acting — suspiciously

would be exeeted to shoulder in the| they were hootlegsing, He explained

future, that Spurrell's ear with the dented
Patrol captain Jimmie Boyde] fender was used to sell liquor from

thanked the village commission, | with the trailer the main source of

through Mr. Goad, for the banquet | the stock.

they ‘had enjoyed. The Crown's contention was that
Crests were given to Jimmy|the robbery had been a deliberate

Boyde. Laverne Felker. Gary Hol-| plot on the part of the three io ge: |

tom, Earle Leavitt Colleen Russell,| Russell's money. Mr, Skipp pointed |

Gayle Midnight, Panl Levens, Gary|to the incriminating evidence of |

Johnson, Con Buckley, Phillip Reau-] Hansen. who said that when they!

lien, Terry Nicholson Marion Robin-j stopped to piek up  Spurrell

son and Gerry Sloan, A letter of ap-| Sound after the fight, Marks had |

preciation and crest will be sent to} greeted them with “have you got it?”
Osear Salisbury, who has since Jeft| He later testified that le saw the
the district. wallet buried.

Soe CAE
. . and suddenly its warin

Summer arrived suddenly this
week, withthe temperature soaring
yesterday to 80 above, the hottest

Reach Williams

O'Sullivan Paving Co. Ltd.,

This morning at 8 o'clock it was|To feed the plant's unending nee
SLahove. for material, a mountain of some 1

thousand tons of
Wood Tick Believed

Wade Construction, sub-contractor:
for the work.

ing with

Death by paralysis, it is presumed

300 degrees Fahrenheit cooks

brought on by a wood tick, overtook
ht-year-old Tommy Ross of
hezaeut as he was being rushed to

day of the year. fs Paving on the Cariboo
Mere are the airport temperature | Williams Lake got underway:
readings for the week: Lewis, superintendent with

Min Max
Friday, June 3 49 63 be completed in two weeks.
Saturday 44 64 Up on the gravel pit overlookin
Monday 48 62 | the golf course, the big continuou
Tuesday ; 43 66 | flow asphalt plant is pouring out
Wednesday 52 0 | thousand tons of paving mix a day.

crushed gravel
towers over the machine, and behind
that again a crusher is working two
shifts a day to keep the stockpile up.
‘The crusher is operated by Dawson,

To dry out the gravel ready for
the hot ashpalt, oil-
fired burners generating a heat of
the
Tock as it passes through and is ta-
ken up an elevator to the sereening
operation of the plant. Here sand

Highway Paving Underway, To

Lake In 2 Weeks

Highway between 1
Monday, and accor
the Alberta firm

the wi

50 Mile ana
ding to L. R.
of Manni
ork on this section should

& | Will go on with the other two sec-
s| tions of highway under their con.
a} tract. From the end of the cut-oif
highway paving to 170 Mile is 9.6
miles, from there to Macalister is an.
other 19 miles. The 159 Mile-wil-
liams Lake stretch is 8.6 miles,

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‘Three Esca

S

pe Injury
In Car Accident

Three. young men escaped with
bruises when the light truck in
which they were Tiding slipped: oif.
the Springhouse Road about 1 a.m,
Monday.

According to Police, the pick-up

and 1 ? A ; i

Vancouver yesterday in an effort to| ‘4 lar rocks that got by  the| truck, Griven by Dennis Adolph, was

Fave ‘iis lite crusher are segregated and throwa overtaking another vehicle about
H - 5 ee

The boy. son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim| Oo. 0, ne mix. From there the] five miles out of town when the rear

Ross, is believed to have picked np
the tick In his sealp fonr or five days
hefore he was brought in for treai-
ment. His parents believed he was
psuffering fram pneumonia when
they started the long trip from
Chezacut to “Alexis Creek Outpost
Hospital. From Redstone a. LL,
Stuart brought the boy and his.

tating paddles and then poured mto
the waiting trucks. Fifteen of these
trucks are on the job, supplied -by
another sub-contracting firm of C. D.
Slack Contractors.

The plant alone employs 30 men.

This is the first paving job the
Alberta firm has handled in British
Columbia, although other heavy con-
struction work has heen carried out
here.

On the the job too is G. Crowe,
engineer in charge for the provincial
government. Following the comple-
tion of the 150 Mile-Williams Lake
stretch of the highway, Mr. Crowe
states the program calls for the flush
coating of Oliver Street. He estim-

Miss Lillian Whiteside examined the
boy at 12:45 am. Wednesday she
elena ead to Williams Lake

ushed in.
Gordon Jakel’ took over the next
Tun. With Miss Whiteside now in
attendance,

Arriving at Williams Lake, the

crushed material goes into a tank of
hot asphalt where it is mixed by ro-

wheel went off the shoulder of the
rosd and the truck flipped over. The
Vehicle was a total loss. With the

driver were Allan’ Evans and Don
Felker.
Police say a charge of driving

without due care and attention has
been laid against Adolph.

Large Dope
Seizure Made

Three Vancouver people are await-
ing trial here following the first
seizure of drugs to be made in Wil- --
liams Lake.

_ Following’ this-work: the
Tease FEAT

boy was examined at the hospital eer E 5
and the tick found and removed. He | “tes that this will be done ina coupla| The three, Yames Bazzlo,. Hugh—
hee of days: John McMillan ’and Marjorie:-Vic.
Bas toria,. Wright; H

e Nollowiie= 4 routines h
check last ‘Thursaas- py Constables

passed away peacéfully.
was 5:25 p.m.

Besides his mother and father,
Tommy is survived by five sisters
and three brothers. The body is be-
ing forwarded to. Redstone where
interment will take place.

oan
“The time

t——e, scott
When Lightning
Strikes Fir Tree

Huston Dunaway, 150 Mile House
rancher, experienced a substantial
stock loss recently in an unusual ac-
cident when lightning killed ten
two-year old steers.

The loss was discovered by ranch
employee Ivan Bowie, who found the
ten carcasses under a_tall fir tree
last Wednesday. It is believed the
steers were killed May 29 when an
electrical storm hit the area. Light-
ning struck the tall tree and travel-
ed down it and along the exposed
roots to electrocute the animals.
From the appearance of the careass-
es it looked as though the animals
had been killed instantly.

Mr. Dunway estimates investment
in the animals at $170 apiece.

LODGE CHANGES HANDS

In a deal effective June 6, owner-
ship of the well-known Twilight
Lodge changed hands. New owner
is William C. Driscoll of Vancouver,
a familiar figure in mining circles,
having operated in the industry from
Labrador to the Yukon.

Game Commission biologist Law-
son Sugden will be at Atlin, B.C. for
the next three weeks getting a wild-
ilfe investigation underway in that
area influenced by the Frobisher
hydro development.

Records Toppled By District
Athletes In Central Sports Day

It was a record-breaking day for District 27 athletes at
the big Central Sports Meet here last Saturday as mark after
mark was wiped off the book and new ones chalked up, particu-
larly in the junior events. In the 11 and 12 year boys’ group
every event record was topped.

Williams Lake students won the
school agregate award by a ‘single

Grove won the girls’ trophy with 13
points,

The constables che
Lakeside, and not satisfied with the
answers ‘to their questions, brought
them in to the ROMP office. There’
police found 55 capsules of heroin in
their possession. All three have been
charged with possession of drugs
and their cases have been remanded.

Although police here would not
estimate the value of the drugs, they
said that drug detail officers in Van-
couver stated the seizure would be
considered a large one in that city.

Former Constable Here
In RCMP Shoot Finals

RCMP Constable Gordon V. Ras-
mussen, Vernon, formerly station-
ed at Williams Lake, placed fifth last
week in the Dominion-wide shoot
for the Connaught Cup at Ottawa.
The cup is awarded on the basis of
the competition to the best revolver
shot in the force. Finalists were top

shots in their divisions across
Canada.
Constable Rasmussen shot 183

out of a possible 200. Top man in
the competition was Constable L. A.
Mills of Grand Forks, who shot 200.

Sawyer Dies In
Mill Accident

John Frank, sawyer at Northern

point over 100 Mile House. The win-
ning school obtained 80 points.
Individual aggregate honours
though didn’t go the way of either
of the top schools. Wilfred Louis of
St. Joseph’s Mission won the eup for
the boys’ high aggregate with 9
points and Phyllis Rutley of Forest

An estimated 350 students with a
sprinkling of adults watched the
running of the annual meet.

Onl. ident to mar the meet
occurred in the pole vault event
when Melvin Beckman of Williams
Lake broke his wrist.

In the record-breaking
r boys group the first
the line in the

the form nak
ymona }
Ronnie Ray, Ft

Special School Meeting
For Southern District

a 10.5
ohr of Forest Grove,

of

nd Bruce McLeod,

School trustees will hold a special | Horse: made the ron in 9.5, 9.6
meeting at 100 Mile House Tune i4/ and 9.9 sees. respectively. The three
to discuss the of high) boys also beat the former mark of
school education in the southern] 10.6 in the 60 yd hurdle event. Ray
part of Distr’ finished in 9. ohr 9.7 and MeLeod

The meeting follows request | 9.9. In the broad jump. Mcleod be:-

from that area that high school ae-! tered the existing mark of 12°7” by

commodation be made” available! three inches, and the Horsefly star

. Areas included in the general aiso took the high jump event, clear-
discussion sill Hache, | ing the bar at 44", two Inches
Blackwater, 100 Mile, Forest Grove. | higher than the current record.
Butialo Creek, Dempsey Lake, Lone Gordon Odian of 100 Mile estahlish-

Butte, Bridge Lake and Canim Lake (continned on back page)

Stud mill at Wright Station was
killed instantly about 2:30 yester-
day afternoon when he was struck
by a log while operating the main
saw carriage.

According to reports on the acci-

dent, a log had gone through the
saw but hadn't been cleared from
the ge when it was returned
and the big blade bit into it, flipping

in the ¢

i The log struck Prank

on the head.

A coroner's jury was empaneled
last night and will resume th
liberations before Coroner M. (

Marks at Williams Lake next Wed-
nesday

The victim of the fatal accident
had been working for the company
for a year. He is survived by his wife
and four children, >

Bad luck seems to dog the opera-
' the mill where the accident
- One of the best laid out
in the district, this is the third
fatal aceident there in the 1.

last year,