NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

Jilliams Take Tribune

Volume 23 — Number 25. *

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, June 23, 1955.

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

Child Recovers In Second
Case Of Fever Tick Bite

Second case of a child in this district being bitten by the
deadly Rocky Mountaia spotted fever tick occurred last week
on the outskirts of Williams Lake.

Fortunately, in this instance. four-
year-old Thelma Jean Fisher, was! carry the dreaded Rocky Mountain
brought into hospital last Tuesday | spotted fever in British Columbia, ac-
when a weakness in her legs devel-| cording to Dr. George Spencer, pro-
ped, and Dr. Jack Temple removed
the tick. The condition started to
‘lear up immediately and the child
was released the following da

Thelma is the daughter of Mr. and
‘Mrs. William Fisher, who live just
outside of town at Smedileyville.

Less than a week before the latest
‘incident, little Tommy Ross, § of
Chezacut, died from the paralyzing
effect of a tick bite as he was being
Tushed to hospital in Vancouver.

There haye been a total of 27 B.C.
residents die over the past years as
a result of the tick’s bite.

Jack Gregson, chief of the Veter-
inary and Medical Entomology Unit
at Kamloops and one of thé coun-
try’s top authorities on ticks, was
quoted in a coast paper following the
death of the Chilcotin boy as saying
that he had examined the tick and
there was no doubt it caused the
death with its toxic virus.

The department of agriculture
‘official said that less than one in a
thousand of the ticks bear the par-
alysing virus. ,

The paralysis spread hy the ticks
show much the same symptoms as
the start of polio. The paralyis first
starts in the legs and back and then
works forward and upward towards
the lungs,

Despite the tic

University of B.C. It bears only the
paralysis virus and a rabbit disease
known as Tularaemia.
SPREAD BY FEMALE

The virus is spread only by the
female. The tick bores only 4 small
distance under the skin. usually on
the head or neck, and can easily be
removed.

Unusual aspect of the progress of
the fatal paralysis is that in its early
stages, when the tick is removed,
the paralysis disappears.

The ticks are said to be more prev-
alent in the dry belt areas of Kel-
owna and Nicola this spring than
usual, but this condition is not the
case in our own area.

Dominion government. veterinar-
ian Dr. Stan Wood told The Tribune
this week that he considers the wood
tick situation here is less bothersome

short life cycle season is
later this year because of the cool
spring. Usally the cycle. starts
around the end of March and is over
by the end of June.

District Agriculturist. Joe Walsh
bears out the theory that the wood
tick situation is no more prevalent
this season than in others. Mr. Walsh
states that if a person is bitten by a
a tick not carrying the virus, the
bite will only cause a slight swelling
and dscomfort such as one would
get from a bee sting.

The ticks often concentrate on the
sides of roads and paths and in low
growing bushes such as sage brush.
[STUCIMEN WORRTED

Stockmen are also worired al
the prevalence of certain type:
ticks. At the annual meeting of the
B.C. Beef Cattle Growers in Kam-
loops recently. a recommenation to
the Federal Department of Agricul-
ture was made, asking that research
now being carried out in British

name, it doesn’t

+... TO ENGLAND

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fesser emerits of entymology at the .

Heavy Electrical Sterm
Experienced In District

Muggy weather of the past’eouple
of days climaxed last night in one of
the heaviest electrical storms this
area has experienced in years. Heavy
rains accompanied the jstorm and the
measuring device at the airport re-
corded almost two inches of-rain.

Hottest day of the year so far was
June 10, when the mercury hit 94 at
the airport.

Here Is the weather for last week.

car Y SHOW

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min max
Fridy, June 17 53 64
Saturday =~ 45° 51
Monday 49 61
Tuesday 49 82
Wednesday 64 76

This morning at
reading was 60 above.

RCMP Detachment
Head Transferred
To Okanagan

Corporal Jack Routledge, popular.
officer-in-charge of the local RCMP
detachment, will. be transferred to

8 o'clock the

Hon. Ralph Chetwynd, who this
year will officially open the Williams
Lake Stampede.

the:Okanagan after three years’ ser-
vice here.

Cpl. Routlede moves to Kelowna.
where he will be second in charge of
The
de-

Infant Passes Suddenly

Katherine Anne,
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Gordon
Moore of Williams Lake, passed
sway at War Memorial Hospital last
Saturday following a sudden illness.

Funeral services were conducted
Monday afternoon by Rev. J. Col-
clough from St. Andrew's Church.

the 13-man detachment there.
move to one of the larger B.C
tachments under the RCMP
move up the administration ladder
for the former airforce officer.
Coming here as officer-in-charge
will be Cpl. J. Murdock, who is
presently stationed at Revelstoke.
The moves will take place probably

tiny 13-month-

Most last-minute details
Wililams Lake Stampede will

officials have high hopes the affair will be one

Plans Readied for 29th Annual Showing
Of Famous Stampede Next Week

for the 29th showing of the
be completed this weekend and
of the best yet—

provided the weatherman cooperates.

More street and evening enter-
tainment is in store for visitors this
year as a more determined effort has
been made to extend the program
trom being mainly a grounds event.

On the opening day, next Thurs-
day, last year’s hilarious “baby bug-
sy race will be staged down Oliver
Street at 10 a.m., with Bill Edwards
of Williams Lake Taxi sponsoring
the event. Spectators of last year’s
race will remember the contestants
are paired off with one in a ‘buggy’
(wheelbarrow usually) and the other
doing the wheeling. It starts at Third
Avenue and the contestants race
down to Railway, over to the Ranch
Hotel, back up to First, over to the
Maple Leaf, where the winner is
declared.

At 11 a.m. the horseman’s parade
will move down Oliver Street, head-
ed by Stampede Association presi-
dent Slim Dorin. Also in the parade
will be a stage coach with visiting
dignitaries.

From this parade judges will sel-

| ect the best dressed cowboy and-cow-
girl. In addition to the usual prizes
‘for this contest, the two winners will
have the honour of leading the big
| Dominion Day parade July 1st.
The main parade on July Jst will
move off at 10:30 a.m. Parade mar-
shall Clive Stangoe asks that all
entries in the parade assemble at the

around the end of July.

During their three years here, Cpl.
and.Mrs, Routledge have made
wide circle of friends. They came to
| Williams Lake in July

Reminiscent of
ee the
the. Fraser

the aoe, scandal

‘To Wash Streets: Sunday. |.

Members of the Volunteer Fire | ons

oltered to the

Brigade will be out in force Sunday | PUPIic as ideal orchard sites, al-

to give Oliver Street and Railway | ough the majorty of it lacked
Avenue their annual washing prior | Y*'F and access, was’a story we ran
toc Stampede across this week.

Fire Chief Huston-asicg tliat motor-| _B2€k in 1911 4 Vancouver coupie
ists have their vehicles moved off |P™"hased 20 acres close to Williams
the streets before 9 a.m. Sunday to | b#ke ata e
facilitate the washing job.

th

F/L Percy Pigeon, now home o:
leave at Alexis Creek, leaves August
3-on an exchange posting to Eng-
Jand.

RCAF Officer Leaves
Soon For England

Home on leave at Alexis Creek
before assignment to England
Plight Lieutenant Perey Pigeon and
his wife and family.

TB.
evening.

“You are continually making de-
cisions all during your life, and the
schools are preparing you for the
future by giving you a solid founda-
ton to start on,” Mr. Des Champs
said.

Other requisites for the ultimate
goal in life he listed as the ability to

F/L Pigeon, officer in charge of | Work, the ability to play. the ability
Officer Training at No. 2 Air Opsery-| tO respect and get along with others,
er School, RCAF Station. Winnipeg, | the ablity to maintain high morals
is on transfer to the United Kingdom | and ideals, and the abilty to carry
on exchange posting with the Royal | out undesirable as well as desirable
Air Force. F/L Pigeon just recently | duties.
returned from the United Kingdom| W- Mouat,
where he was one of five officers rep-| told the graduating class “You have
resenting the RCAF personnel who |® great opportunity in this: province
took part in the raid that destroyed | Of British Columbia. This is the last
the Mohr Dam, and was present at|frentier. Some day there will be a

million or more people in the Interior

and you have a challenge to make it
a worthwhile community.”

Tom Beames, principal of the high

Inspector of Schools,

the premiere of the movie on that
raid, “The Dam Busters.” It was on
this raid that F/L Pigeon won the
Distinguished Flying Cross.

P/L Pigeon is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Pigeon of Alexis Creek. He

Advice For Successful Living
= Tendered Graduates By Speakers ‘!ost Everyone

“Don’t be a leaner, think
one of the most important requisites towards success and hap-
piness by A. Des Champs of the Extension Department of the |. -
when he addressed the graduating class Wednesday | imterest in this yea

Sa I Ee

for yourself” was stressed as

Is Wearing Them

Indictive of a greater community
Stampede is
the sales figures on Western hats in

school, said he was proud of his first town, following an appeal last month

graduating class in Williams Lake, | f°" €Veryone to wear one as a means
a in_ {Of advertising the show.

but gave credit to his former prin- Menswear stores report that over

cipal J. Phillipson for he felt that hate ave heat eet ast over

three-quarters of their work was] [0% Rats have been sold s itr sine

done under his supervision. ins get Stampe

Mr. Beames quoted a Biblical pas. :

‘In quiet and confidence shall
be your strength,” as his message to
the graduating class. “Go with a
sense of quiet and confidence in your
abilities and faith in mankind,
you will not go far wrong,” he said. On

Stan Goad, chairman of the Vil-
lage Commission, expressed best
wishes to the students in their new
studies and new jobs.

Chosen by his classmates to give
the valedictory, Gordon Armes did a
capable job.

BURSARIES

Mrs. J. Halfnights, Honored Royal
Lady of the 0.0.R.P., presented Dan
Burns with a $50 bursary.

Ruth Schoonover was chosen for
the §50 P-TA bursary which

Three Imprisoned
Drug Charges

Pleading guilty to charges of pos
session of drugs, three Vancou
persons were all sentenced to pris
terms in police court: Tuesday.

Magistrate C. H. Poston meted out
18 months to James Bazzlo and nine
months to Hugh J. MeMillan. Both
d a month on
run

sentences.

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men also receiv
rancy ch
with

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concurrently
The

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their other

ntenced to six months

ELDERLY COUPLE DISCOVER THEY PAID
TAXES 44 YEARS ON WORTHLESS LAND

I sketch, of the.
Property location, and looking tor
detinite directions.

They were told where their prop-
erty lies, and the nature of the coun-
try, and probably they drove out to
look it over, but if they did it must
have been with a great deal of heari
break.

Their land is at the junction of
Williams Creek and the Fraser River
and covers a hillside that is almos
a sheer cliif. Up at the top of Six-Mile
hill on the river road to Quesnel, you
can ‘step out of your ear and look
down the steep side hill to mouth of
the creek far below.

|

‘Parallel Parking

|
To Be Instituted

On Main. Streets

The method of parking on Oliver
Street and Railway Avenue, a ques-
lion that at one time created quite
aturore in civie administration
circles, will next weelt he quietly but
firmly settled by the Department of
Highways.

The change will be to paraltel
parking on both sides of the two
streets, Instead of the ‘half and half’
method at present. Both streets are
sections of arterial highways and as
such come under the jurisdiction of
the department.

Change-over, according to district

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age)

FORWARDED TO VICTORIA

ball park behind the elementary
school half an hour before parade
time. There will be all the usual
classifications — best out-of-town.
best commercial, best fraternal, most
original, best comic, best car, prizes
for decorated bicycles, and prizes for
Indian costumes and largest band.
PARADE ROUTE

Here is the parade route:

Leaves the corner of Third Avenue
and Proctor (Gardner & Sons cor.),
moves along Provtor to Second Ave.,
across Second to Yorston (block
beyond Oliver); up  Yorston to
Fourth Avenue; across Fourth to
Oliver; down Oliver to Railway Ay-
enue; along Railway to Yorston.

For at least two mornings, and
possibly three, a half-hour program
of square dancing will be presented
by school students on Oliver Street
between Third and Second Avenues,

Back this year for the second time
will be the popular Wells Boys and
Girls Band. These youngsters will
‘tske part in the parades and stage
| two concerts. One of these will be
held on the grounds in’thé early eve-
ning of June 30 and the other at the
E)ks Hall on the evening of July 1.
WRESTLING FEATURE

Wrestling will be back as a fea-
ture of this year’s program. The
cards ‘will be held two evenings.in
the Elks Hall, June 30 and July 2:

For the show, Felix. Kohnke has
lined up two feminine exponents-of
the art of grunt and groan: Kory
Palmer of Portland has appeared
here before and proved popular with’
the fans. Her opposition will be pro-
videa: by. Zel Avery-of Calgary. Both
girls have appeared on TV _. fight.
shows. Along with our own Kohnke
brothers will be the familiar faces of
Bud Rattal and Tarzan Zimba.

Down on. the grounds, the pig
three-day show of arena-events and
racing will get underway at 1:30
p:m. Thursday.

TO OPEN SHOW

Opening the show officially will
be Hon. Ralph Chetwynd, Cariboo’
MLA and holder of three portfolios
in the provincial cabinet. He states
that he is also bringing along as his
guest Hon. Erie Martin. minister of
health and welfare.

There will be no shortage of con-
testants in the show: Secretary Ollie
Matheson reports that rodeo con-
testants from many parts of the prov-
ince who have been coming year
after year have again signified their
intention of making the trip to the
‘lake

On the
this year

grounds for the first time
will be an open-air beef
barbecue, operated by the Kiwanis
Club with the technical assistance of
two experts from Telkwa, where a
similar barbecue has been operated
for years. The local one will be held
one day only, on July ist. In charge
is Kiwanian Freeman Butler.
Dancing wil] again hold the spot-
light during the later. evening hours.
The Elis will hold a dance each night
of the Stampede, with a Kamloops
orchestra providing the music. Down
at the grounds the Indian dance hall
has been repaired, and can be de-
pended upon to be packed if the
weather holds fa

FOR ACTION

Directors Approve Single Tender

was educated at Williams Lake and
for five years worked for the firm of
Mackenzies Ltd.

F/L Pigeon’s family will accom-
pany him when he leayes from Que-
bee City August 3 aboard the Hom-
eric. The post ing is for a two-year
period and may be extended a fur-
ther year. :

STAMPEDE
CORNER...

Last big work bee Sunday at the
grounds.

Carpentry work to be done and a
lot of cleaning up on the grounas,
How about some help?

‘Two More Telephone
\Switchboerds To Be
Installed Here

Work is expected to begin before
mid-summer on installation of two
additional positions of switchboard
in the local telephone office, accora-
ing to a release today from the B.C.
Telehone Company. -

The $5000 expansion, which will
double the total number of switch-
board positions here. will improve
service and provide facilties for wait-
ing applicants.

In the comany’s program for other
centres in the Interior is 9 switch-
board replacement for Alexis Creek.

presented by president Mrs. L. Lan
ley.

don Armes
with a .
Maple,” a gift to the s
graduating class.
BANQUET

Prior to the ceremonies, a bau-
quet of roast turkey and all the trim-
mings was enjoyed by the graduat-
ing class and their parents, and the
guests.

the tables which were grouped in a
U-shape and centred with bouquets
of white lilacs, purple flags and
white tapers. Grade 10 students were
commended for their’ wonderful
menu and the decorations,

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| currently,

An arch of blue and white |
streamers formed a huge arch over |

Je

vagraney char} run con-

Received _For Hospital Addition

Tender of Overton Bros., in the amount of
for construction of the

owned
to the

by MeMilan, was |

Crown under the

3,1
proposed addition to War

46 for
Memorial

ited

| Provisions of the Nayeoties and Drug | Hospital, was approved by directors last Friday.

an pear | The tender was the only one re- 7

; ¢ three, Bazzlo had been cons |eeived on the job, but directors feit| the plan was changed to inelude a
vieted previously on 10 counts sin the price w. sn if case room and nursery. Original
141, Records of the other two naq | ‘B® Price Was well in line. with stand- ie

corridor connecting the old building

aot arrived in time for the tr and the addition was widened to 20

put | 274 building costs,
|

MeMillan admitted to four The information has been forward-| ree to take care of a nurses’ station
convictions and Wrig) ed to Victoria for approval of the for the wing.

The charges arose out of an incj-/@epartment of health and welfare. Included in the tender price is an
dent June 2, when RCMP Constables | builders of § amount of $2500 to cover the cost of

Overton Bros.
A. ©. Tuttle and J. R. Grudinski | Schoor locally
the three in MeMillan’s car | price la t tall

purchase and installation of a new

checked on & ‘proposition’ bid| autoclave sterilizng machine for the

at Lakeside. Suspicious of the trio,/on the proposed addtion, hospital.

the constables brought them im for) The original y of the addition] 4 guaranteed completion time of

questioning and a search revealed 55 | called for war only, but in sub-]16 wee from awarding of contract
spules of heroin. duent discussions with Vietoriz »| was ineluded in the tende