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OF THE CARIBOO

Williams Lake Tribune

Volume 23 — Number 31

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Th

ursday August 4, 1955.

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

MORE COAST CARAV.
as: =

that officially opened the Bella

Seen here are the vehicles of the

Se oS

first section of the convoy
Coola road two weeks ago. At

this point they were avproaching the steeper slopes where the

Alexander Mackenzie first saw

Vibbon-cutting ceremony took place,

of Deane Inlet lap the shores a fey fe

On the face of the rock is a ‘mural of
ceremony was held just after’ mi
Photos courtesy

outline.

TRAVELLING ARTISTS

dnight, hence the black
Government Travel Bur

PRESENT

OUTSTANDING MUSICAL PROGRAM

Music lovers anywhere se

ldom have the opportunity to

hear. the type of outstanding artistry brought to the stage of

the Elks Hall last Saturday
Show.

There was something in the pro-
gram for every taste from operatic
arias to popular songs from modern
musical comedy, and if it was parti-
eularly an Irishman's night, that was
natural too because tenor
topher Lynch and soprano
Walker are both products of
Emerald Isle.

The program opened with a num-
ber of piano selections. played by
Norma Holmes. gitted New York
pianist, who made her professional
debut at New York’s Town Hall in
1952 and has been concertizing all
over the United States since that

‘Nine Teachers Still ©
Needed For District

“Nine teachers are still needed
throughout District 27 to fill out the
staff! complement.

Appointments in the past two
weeks include Miss M. C. Schulz,
formerly. of Haney to Alkali Lake; A.
Maryka of Vancouver to principal-
ship of Forest Grove school: R. J.
Zwarich of Monte Lake to the new
intermediate division at Bridge
Lake; Miss Shirley Sanderson to
Lone Butte, and Miss Marsha Fearn-
ley of Westbank to Forest Grove.
(Miss Fearnley is currently a candi-
date for the famed Kelowna “Lady
of the Lake” contest, representing
the Board of Trade)

Miss C. Dougan has resigned from
the staff of the local high and two
teachers. Miss Joyee Thompson of"
the town elementary schoo] staff and
Mrs. Anna Klimas of 100 Mile school
have applied for releases.

Mrs. G. Gastin has been transfer-

red from Horsefly school to San
Jose,

night by the Christopher Lyneh
eS Se eee ane

dste. She has appeared with’ the
Eastman-Rochester Symphony Or-
chestra and at the celebrated Ber-
shire Music Festival at “Tangle-
wood” Lenox, Massachusetts.

Miss Holmes offered such familiar.
selections as the Warsaw Concerto,
Liebestraum, and Choin's Fantaisie-
Impromptu and the Minute Waltz.
In a more modern vein"her outstand-
ing keyboard stylings of Gershwin’s
‘I Got Plenty of Nothing’ and ‘Rhap-
sody in Blue’ were particularly well
received.

It was not difficult to understand
why lyric soprano Joan Walker, has
been so popular with American tele-
vision audiences. The fair-haired
Irish thrush who hails from ‘Dublin’s
fair city, where the girls are s0
Pretty’, justifies her. home town’s
Pardonable boast. Now only 23, Miss
Walker. considers herself a veteran,
for she has been winning prizes for
her talents stice she was in her ear.y
teens. She made her professional
debut at 17, as a soloist in leading
roles with the Dublin Grand Opera
Society.

Miss Walker, in her’ effortless
golden voice sang Killarney, 1 Know
Where I Am Going, Widmung, This
is My Beloved, and Comin’ Thru the
Rye. She was called back by her ap-
preciative audience and offerea as
curtain call number ‘I’m in love with
a-Wonderful Guy’.

The tenor voice of Christopher
Lynch, star of the shew, was all that
advance reviews had claimed. The
protege of the late famed John
McCormiack sang the songs of the

land of the Shamrock; American
songs of Irish ‘‘extration”, and one
operatic aria: The Gelida Manina

from “La Boheme’. His program in-
cluded - In the Garden where the
Praties Grow; Galway Bay; A Bal-
lynure Ballad; New York is an Irish-
(continued on back page)

University Student
Drowns In Swift
Quesnel River

A 20-year-old University of Brit-
ish Columbia student lost his life
yesterday morning when he was
thrown from a boat into the swiit
waters of the North Fork of the

Quesnel River, about three miles
south of Cariboo Lake.

Dead is Roger Keith Leckie of
Vancouver.

A companion, Ian Cartshore, also
a UBC student, managed to make
his way to shore.

According to meagre reports on
the tragedy, Leckie and Cartshore,
‘who were working for the B.C. Power
Commission, were doing surveys
from the boat when the accident oc-
eurred. Control of the craft was
maintained hy a long tow rope an-
chored to the shore. Evidently the
rope became snagged and when the
men tried to haul their way to shore
the boat swamped, throwing them in
the river.

Two constables from the locel
RCMP detachment are conducting
dragging operations near the scene
of the accident in an attempt to lo-
cate the body of the drowing victim.

Three Firms Tender
On Supply Of Bus

Tender of Beath Motors (Wil-
liams Lake) Ltd., for the supply of
a 43-passenger school .bus for the
Springhouse-Williams Lake route
was the low. one of three submitted
to District 27 when tenders closed
Tuesday.

The Beath Motors tender was

$5,965.00. Other tenders were re-
-ceived from Williams Lake Motors.
Ltd. ($6,116.22) and Cariboo Truck
& Equipment Ltda: ($6,132,238),
8 Becoad Aiur was Micinded i
the Geath Motors proposal for th
supply of a 49-passenger bus at an
additional cost of $210.

Trustees will recommend to the
Department of Education that the
tender for a 49-passenger vehicle
be accepted.

Board secretary C. B. Macqueen
left for Victoria yesterday to discuss
the bus tenders and also sketch
plans for one room schools at Lone
Butte and 100 Mile House. which the
board hopes to build this summer
out of current revenue.

Mr. Macqueen will also talk over
the proposed referendum that the
board is preparing now for presenta-
tion at a later date to the ratepayers.

Bridge Lake Man
Passes Suddenly

Fneral services were conducted at
Bridge Lake yesterday afternoon for
Donald Petrie, 46, who passed away
suddenly at his home Sunday morn-
ing following a heart atta

-The graveside service at Roe Lake
was conducted by Rey. J. R. Col-
clough. Leavitt’s Funeral Home
were in charge of arrangements.

Pallbearers were Gardner Boult-
bee, Slim Grossett, Fred Reid, Leon-
ad Larson, Ernie King and Jack
‘Black.

Puntzi Camp Owner
Dies In Sleep

Alfred Barker Yoxall, operator of
Alfranjo fishing camp on Puntzi
Lake for the past three years, passed
away in hi§ sleep Saturday morning

Since establishing his fishing
camp, Mr. Yoxall has been operating
it in the summer months and return-
ing to Chilliwack in the winter where
he followed his trade as a butcher.
He was 46 years old.

He leaves to mourn his passing
Mrs. Frances Herlahey. one son Jo®;
his father, John P,. Yoxall of Cal-
gary, Roland, Nanaimo, and George
in ‘the United States; one sister, Mrs.
Charles Braddel, Vancouver.

Funeral services Were conducted
from St. Peter’s Church this after.
noon with Rev. George Fielder offi-
ciating. Interment was in Williams

The Weather

Although there has been a let-ap
in the rain this wegk, the weather
remains coo] and unsettled.

Here are the readings at the air-
port, taken from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on
weekdays:

min max
Friday, July 29 53 66
Saturday 49 60
Monday 53 68
Tuesday 45 64
Wednesday 53 G4

This morning at 8 o'clock the
reading was 46 above.

Fire Confined
i fo Home Basement

An estiated $500 damage resulted
from 2 fire Monday evening that
started in the basement of the home
of Mr. and- Mrs. Pred Mellish on
| tira Avenne.
| Detective wiring is believed re-

spopsible for the blaze which made
an interno of an outside basement
stajrwell when it reached a tin of
cleaning fluid. Fames were shooting
up the side of the house when a pass-
evliy, Mrs. C. Hayward, dashed to
the-door to warn residents. Mr. Mel-
lish” phoned the alarm and .iremen
were on tlie scene in a matter of
miautes and had the fire under con-
trol. It started shortly after six
oictock.
“Fire Chief Claude Huston credited
@ action of Mr. Mellish in closing
ani inside door to the basement with
Igeping the fire confined.
“3Two young women who occupy
#Goms at the far end of the basement
had some clothes they had hanging
inothe main part of the basement
damaged by water.

Car Disappears

Police have failed to find any trace
of a car that was-stolen from a town
ssigaet:sometime Sunday night.
*“Fonal ky) TTuehes,

Honald (Reeky z awh.
rooms at a home on Second Avenue,
told police his 1951 Pontiac had been
parked in front of the house he stays
in. He saw it there about seven
o'clock and about 12:45 a.m. he
holiced it missing.

Question of Costs Sways Decision

Of Commission

Application of Claude Barber, long tine

On Village Post

telegraph

operator here with the Department of Transport was accepted

by commissioners Tuesday night for

sistant village clerk.

Commissioners wrestled with the
problem of engaging a younger man
for the job, as had been originally
‘intended, or in saving money for the
village by engaging a retired person
at a considerably lower salary. The
$125 a month suggested salary of
the successful applicant’s offer de-
cided the question.

Commenting on a matter of pol-
icy, Village Clerk Ted Gibbon point-
ed out that another person at around
$250 a month would raise adminis-
trative costs to about half the total
of tax receipts ($18,000), which, he
vtfered the opinion, wouldn't. put the
commissioners in a very good light
with the taxpayers. (Administrative
costs includes commissioners’ in-
demnities, clerical salaries and all
printing and stationary for the vil-
jJage departments.)

Commissioner Gardner said the
tax figure was not the one to be con-
sidered. He thought that any cost
figures should be related to the Vil-
age’s total revenue figure of around
$50,000, although he agreed that
the village should watch the pennies
this year particularly with the pos-
sibility of being faced with extra
costs in the sewer system. Although
he finally voted for the final motion,
Commissioner Borkowski gave the
impression he still was not convinced
it was a wise move. In previous ar-
guments he insisted the board
should stick with the original inten-
tion of hiring a younger man to train
for the village clerk’s job when the
day comes that Mr. Gibbon decided
to retire.

When the decision was finally
made it was with a rider that the
appointment be considered a ‘stop-
Bap! and that next*year thexsubject
iwould: be re-opened-azain. * >
WATER MAD

Commissioners approved the ap-
plication of Edward Boehm for the
position of water man in the village.
Bert Levens. who has been with the

Building Figures

Building activity continues at a
brisk,pace this year in town, with the
value of commercial construction
higher than that of residential.

Figures for the first seven months
of the year show total permit value:
of $201,800 for commercial work is-
sued. Of these the larger ones were
for Cariboo Oil Distributors Ltd.,4
($30,000); Overwaitea Ltd. ($15,-
000); addition to the high school
($84,000), and addition to the hos-
pital ($29.000).

Residential construction figures,
reached a total value of $13,275

In spite of the amount of home

Fined $50 On False
Pretences Charge

Edward Winfield Haug, formerly
of Regina, pleaded guilty in police
court yesterday morning to a charge
of receiving money under false pre-
tenses and was fined $50 and costs

or one month in default.
The charge arose from an inci-
dent last March when Haug cashed
a worthless cheque locally for $30.
A warrant was issued for his arrest
and he was picked up in Penticton.

Work Starts On Slaughter
House For Local Company

Work is underway this week on
a $10,000 slaugther house being con-
structed for Cariboo Cold Storage
Ltd., beyond Smedleyville.

When completed the plant will
have a killing room and kitchen fa-
cilities to make up pro
A small feed lot for ci
will also be maintained in conjune-
tion.

Work on the plant is being done
by Overton Bros

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Windt have
just returned from a week’s visit in
the Okanagan. At Kelowna they met

Lake cemetery. Leavitt's Funeral

Home was in charge of arrange-
ments.

up with former Cariboo residents
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Adams and Mr. and
Mrs. Leo Jobin.

Remain High

building going on over the past three
years there is still a housing short-
age with rental accommodation diifi-
cult to find.

Not included in the above figures
is the $130,000 valuation on the vil-
lage sewer system now under con-
struction.

Mrs. Pat Laing and daughter Pa-

tricia have been visiting with the
former's father and mother, Mr. and
Mrs, W. J. Thomas.

Object of the
MacBride in Toronto E
from his South American nomelar
six months ago and afl
on a narrow escape from
in Nicaragua when he
started out with S16. now
pedalling and intends to se

the position of as-

village for the past five years, will
terminate his employment this
month.

SEWER RATHS

Bulk of the meeting was taken up
with the discussion of a sewer rates
by-law. For comparative purposes a
similar by-law in force at Fort St.
John has been secured and is being
studied.

Principal variation will undoubt-
edly be-in the rates section and this
may not be formulated until nearer
the end of sewer construction when,
a better idea of extra costs, if any,
can be obtained. In the meanfime
the rest of the by-law will be whip-
ped into shape at other special meet-
ings.

PERMITS

Two residential building permits
were granted, one to D. Cameron and
one to C. Stangoe.

Route 97 Promoters
Planning Caravan
To Prince George

Doing preliminary work for a mon-
ster motor caravan that will pass
through here September 2, officials
of the Okanogan-Cariboo Trail As-
sociation were in town Tuesday.

The party included -association
president Alex Bowie of "Prince
George, vice-president George Hays
of Kamloops, executive secretary
Chester Kim of Wenatchee and di-
rector George Ziebart of Kamloops.
Glen Garvin,” secetrary of the Kam-
loops hoard of Trade was also along.
. The group met with several coun-
cil members.of the local )oard,. it~
eluding Bob Blair, who is the local
director of the tourist association,

The caravan, which may carry 250
people in some 60 vehicles, starts at
Wenatchee and will go on to Prince
George where the annual meeting of
the association will be held.

The caravan will stop here for
lunch and the local Board of Trade
will make arrangements to feed the
travellers.

The tourist association, which was
formed with the primary purpose of
publicizing Highway 97, is made up
of interested individuals and groups
from Weed. California to Dawson
Creek.

Indicating how popular the route
is, Mr. Kim states t in 1951 from
May to September, 250,000 tourists
crossed the border on ‘97’, and this
y the figure stands at over 400,-
000 to date.

dith
cled
t Columbia
looks back

nough of

his bicycle to return home by boat.

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