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- THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.G.

Thursday, June 23, 1955,

Williams Lake Tribune
Established 1931 Clive S.iaugoe, Editor
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Whose Responsibility-?

We were unable to attend the last meeting of the Board
of Trade, but we understand from the secretary that the
gathering sent a request our way to aim our editorial guns in
the general directon of the merchants of Oliver Street. The
subject, presumably, was to be the fact that these merchants
don’t expend enough effort in cleaning up the front of their
Places of business. =

We hope the board won’t be too disappointed if we fail to
concur with their considered opinion. Frankly we think the
merchants, as a whole. do a fairly good job of keeping their
sidewalks clean in competition with the dust blowing down
the main street. Possibly though Commissioner Gardner, the
sponsor of the motion, looks for a little more in the way of
effort. Perhaps we should be out sweeping the street as well
in the morning, and chasing down all the scraps of paper that
litter the pavement.

To our mind this is a new conception of responsibility. Mr.
Gardner quotes a Fraser Valley resident as saying our town
is dirty. Comparing it with the neat valley communities, it
certainly is, but the merchants of say Chilliwack don’t expend
any more effort along the sidewalks than their counterparts
here. The difference is that in that centre the streets are kept
clear of litter by municipal crews.

We doubt very much that the streets of Chilliwack would
look any better than Williams Lake if the town was located
in a clay belt like ours, with two paved streets and the rest
without any dust-laying agent on them - and little gravel.

Under the circumstances we think that any campaign to
result in a cleaner town should start in the village commission
board room,

.... And A Challenge

Focus of attention this week is on eighteen young people
of town and distict who have finished their formal high school
education and are looking ahead to taking their place in the
adult world. Some of them, of course, will continue their
studies to equip themselves for their chosen profession, but it
will be in a different plane of education. Where the main
emphasis has in the past been on the guidance they could
expect from the educational system, now the onus will be in-
creasingly on the individual to choose his or her own path of
learning and profit by instruction. | -

Whether they are continuing their education or stepping
right out to earn their living with the training they have, to
these young people the future continues to show a bright re-
flection in opportunity. It stil} presents a challenge as well.
The future holds out materiaPand altruistic rewards only to
those who have the will and the energy earn them.

Our best wishes to the graduates of - We hope they earn
their measure of those rewards.

Watch the Darting Feet

It isn’t uncommon to pick up a newspaper and read a
report of some child's life being snuffed out as the youngster
darted in front of a moving vehicle. We will read more of these
Teports now that school is out, because hard statistics show
that three times as many young children are killed or injured
by automobiles during spring and summer months than
during the other half of the year.

Such sudden tragedy tugs at our heartstrings. No more
gay enjoyment of living for the small victim - a future destroy-
ed in a moment’s carelessness. We sympathize with the parents
in their tragic loss and in many cases with the driver of the
vehicle involved, who often never had the chance to stop. He
has to live with the thought that in a measure he was respon-
sible for the child’s death.

Most of us drive an automobile or truck. Let’s remember
that there are more darting feet on the highways and streets
at this time of year and exercise as much caution as possible
when we’re behind the wheel.

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We are all too timid, too chickenhearted, to say what we
mean in politics these days.—W. E. Rowe, Conservative MP.

Last year some 18 million boys and girls between the ages
of 10 and 17 were NOT picked up by the police for any crime
whatsoever.—New York Times.

We are deluding ourselves if we 4ssume everyone can
assimilate knowledge equally. I would like to knock out Joe
Louis, but I can’t.—Dr. Etienne Gilson.

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The Cracker

Any resident of Cariboo travelling |'ance of cheap power enabling those
n Valley must | living along the lake shores to pump
entered another ral reasonable cost. Reservoirs
world. Leaving behind him, as he | and streams supply those living on
does, a vast territory still very w the higher slopes and in the many
and primitive in many respects and | valleys running tangent to the main
where most of the beauty is-bestow-
ed by nature — marred in some in-
stances by the neglected appearance
of its infrequent habitations, by | small hvldings appear to predomin-
derelict buildings and unkempt| ate the scene.
towns — the contrast is far too| These orchardists may not be
marked to pass un-noticed. weighed down by the profits of their
The orderliness which strikes one | industry but they most certainly are
so forcibly may imbued with a wealth of community
have its origin ride, and present a pleasing front
in the rows upon to the pa Every home and
rows of fruit outbuiling has the appearance of be
trees, planted ing newly painted or well preserved.
with such mili- While each is possessed of a lawn
tary precision as ‘and flower garden, hoth neatly kept,
to appear readied there is nothing monotonous about
for a -full dress § this wonderful landscaping.
parade, and which Even though all the front door
constitute the steps and the garden furniture are
backbone of the valley's economy.| prightly painted each homesite re-
Sprinklers in unbelievable numbers | tains some distinctive characterstic
pending forth their scintillating | as though ts occupants are determin-
sprays lend enchantment to the pan-| ed to make their surroundings the
orama. One wonders where all the | ulimate in rustic splendour and joy
water comes from until he is able to| ful living. Certainly, they enhance
lift his eyes from the blossoming | the heauty of the countryside. No-
trees to observe the rows of tall poles | where enroute does the eye. detect
carrying high tension power lines in| unsightly can dumps, or rubbish
all directions to furnish an abund-| heaps, by the roadside. Columns of

From the Files of the Tribune

ONE YEAR AGO
June 24, 1955
Les Cantell, industrial arts teacher | James Muirhead has been appoint-

here for the past three years has re-|eq manager of the Rank of Mont-
signed to take a position with the] rea), He succeeds 0. }. Simmons—
Castlegar High School— Kenneth |e curfew has been changed from
Stewart. well-known local public ac-|9 p.m. to 10 p.m. for the months of
countant passed away at War Mem-/| July and August— Hodgson Bros.
orial hospital— Harold McKay was|joaded their freight boat on a truck
named president of the Williams] to take into Whitewter to haul sup-
Lake and District Liberal associa-| plies, including a dimond drill, for
tion— Pat Hosey announces the|the Hi Do mining property— Many
opening of his new service station— | friends gathered to pay their last re-
Freddy Oliver, age 11, of Big Creek, | spects at the funeral of T. J. Hodg-
was lost for twelve hours in the | con, a man who spent 31 years sery-
woods. When found, his collie dog | ing the public on the Chilcotin road
was leading him home— Two black|__ News has been received that
bear and two grizzlies were bagged |Rayond Moore has been released
at Big Creek— An award of merit| trem a prisoner of war camp in
has been given to a Cariboo snow | German and is coming home to Wil-
scene entitled “Cariboo Winter” | jiams Lake—
executed by.Dr. J. Harmia. The pic
Yure has beef on display at iKe e: TWENEY YEARS aco t
hibition of Canadian doctors+- June 27, 1935
Holy Communion was received by, 24 Yankee Belle Mining Co., with
youthful new Communicants at the| property at Keithley is attracting
9 at Mass celebrated by Father | considerable attention, a represent.
Boyle—

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pable of holding a dozen
is intensely farmed in fact

ative from England having spent the
FIVE YEARS AGO weekend inspecting the mine— At
Stipendlary Magistrate J.D. Smead-| the hospital meeting it was an-
ley, who received his appointment a | nounced that hospital days during
month ago was recalled from Kam-|1934 numbered 4628, the daily av-
loops to take over his duties at the| erage being 12.8 and the cost per
Police Court— Larry Sloan was res-| capita was $2.47. Voting for the
cued from drowning by Mrs. Alaster | three vacancies on the board result-
Mackenzie when he fell off the float ed in the following being elected:
while attending a party at Macken-| Mrs. R. C. Cotton and Rev. Resker
zies— Forestry men were kept busy | for two years and Robt. Beauchamp
this week with six forest fires report-| one year— Preparations for the an-
ed— Fire of unknown origin com-| nual Scout camp are under way. The
pletely gutted the home of Mr. and| camp site this year will be at Bron-
Mrs. Wilmot Beeson of Miocene— | son Lake—

smoke spiralling lazily upward in-| adhere stricly to this pattern of bold
dieate the lumber industry is Well | but pleasing front reflecting the busi-
represented. ness-like yet friendly atmosphere

Wnterng the towns he | within. It is diffiewit indeed to be-
same miltary pre a|lieve this ideal state has been ac-
planning. The same community pride | complished by passing by-laws and
is abudantly evident. No rusting | compiling civic regulations. It must,
components of derelict vehicles sully | surély, be the product of individual
the thoroughfares. Back streets, like
backyards, are models of neatness.
No litter, no rubble anywhere. but
orderliness and nich man-made
beauty prevails on all sides.

The stores and business premises | around.

pride and the full acceptance of civic
responsibilities. No amount of laws
could possibly
spread so “much beauty and joy

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