NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO ‘Williams Lake Tribune or Volume 23 — Number 32 WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, August 11, 1955 ° ro Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year. RETIRED FARMER COLLECTS EXOTIC BIRDS : EpaE- Nee —Central Press Canadian Jane Murdy admires the plumage of a colorful Pheasant fro. : ‘ m Russia, one of a large and exotic assembly of rare birds col- Markets—T,TVESTOCK— Industry news Frem the Office of the C.C.A. WILLIAMS LAKH Wednesday's prices: Good steers: 17.50-18.50; Good light cows and heiferettes: 11-12; Good heavy cows:: 9-11; Good heifers: 12-14. Last week 137 cows, 16 heifers ald two steers were shipped out from the Riske Creek, Dog Creek, 150 Mile House and 100 Mile House areas. Prices were medium to fair ‘with cows averaging from $9 to $10.50. and heifers $13.60 to $14. VANCOUVER Market report for Tuesday, August 9th. Good steers: 18.50-19.60; Com- mon to medium steers: 9-17; Stock- ers and feeders: 12-16; Good heifers, grass and grain: 15.50-17.50; Com- mon to medium heifers: 8-14; Good young beef cows and Good :heavy beef cows: plain only on offer; Good dairy cows: $.50-10.50; Canners Good veal calves: none offered; Good heavy 16-17. Good heavy calve: Good lambs, small lot., local-off truck: $19.25 .Good ewes, small lot, local-off truck: $8.25. Total sales: 117 Cattle and calves. Market comment: Market mostly unchanged on limited offerings. CALGARY Market report Wednesday, August 10th: Squamish Man To Face Gibson fn Lillooet Social Credit standard hearer in the coming Lillooet by-election will be Don Robinsn, PGE locomotive en- gineer of Squamish. The newly nom- inated candidate will face Gordon Gibson, former Liberal MLA, who re- signed in protest over the govern- ment’s forest management policies. | According to a coast news report Premier Bennett has labelled the by-eleétion ‘“‘two-bit Robinson, a worker of Lillooet, versus Jnillion- njrecplayhoy-yachtsman Gibson of = West: Vancouver”. The Premier said his Suzeested’name for the election commentéd that a that "he'd prefer to ¥un against their St candidate than‘a second rater. . Alberta-born Jack H. Thomas, 28- Year-old school teacher was named CCF candidate for the by-election last week. The election date has been set for September 12.» Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Wallace of _ Santa Monica accompanied by Mr. Wallace's sister, Mrs. Albert Bryant -25; Good Bulls: 11- |. ef Visalia, Calit., are spending the summer at their home on the North arm of Quesnel Lake. 20-20.80; Good steers: 18.50-19.50; Common to me- dium steers: 14-17; Good stocker steers: 16-17, Good feeder steers: 15.59-16.503 Common, to medium feeder steers: —10.50-13; heifers: 18-19.30; Good heifers: 17- 18; Common to medium heifers 10-16.50; Good young 11.50-12.50; Good heavy beef cows: 8.30-11; Good bulls: 11.50-12; Com- on to medium bulls: 9-11; Good veal calves: 9-17; Good lambs: 18-19; Good ewes: 4.50-7; Hogs, grade A: 27,75; Sows: 12.50-12.75. Market comment: Good with steady to strorg prices. MARKET LETTER FROM DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE, VANCOUVER Sales for week ending July 30th: Vancouver stock yards: 124 Cat- tle, 27 calves, 7 hogs, 112 sheep. Direct to packers from country points: 513 cattle, 99 calves, 320 sheep, From other yards and plants: 1011 cattle. 261 calves, 290 sheep. SUMMARY All across Canada for the week ending July 30th: Sharply reduced deliveries of choice and good slaughter steers sold to firm demands at steady to 50¢ higher rates this week. Medium and plain steers and heifers were general- ly hard sellers at barely steady to 50¢ lower prices. Cows finished most- ly even with last week. There was little price change in a dull feeder cattle trade. Hogs levelled off at last week’s buying rates. Lambs were down $1-2 at principal markets Except for holiday weeks, the slaughter cattle run this week was (continued on back page) Choice steers: demand Forestry Hearing At Williams Lake Next Month Sitting of the Roal Commission on Forestry, before Chief Justice Sloan, will be held in Williams Lake September 20 ana 21. It was originally understood the Commission would only hold sittings at Prince George, but the new an- nouncement lists the centres of Wil- liams Lake, Quesnel and Burns Lake on the new itinery. The Com. mission will spend the better part of three weeks in the Central Interior to give all areas ample opportunity to make presentations. The Commission is forestry management British Columbia, investigating licenses in Choice |. CENTRAL SERVICE SOLD —————_____ Beath Motors Buys Second Town Garage Announcement was made this week of the sale of one of Williams Lake’s oldest garages to the town’s youngest automotive firm. Central Service, a garage that was first established in 1927 by Arthur Hiller, has been purchased by Béath Motors (Williams Lake) Ltd. For the Beath company, the sale marks the second expansion step since it was organized last fall .1 Chas. Beath of Quesnel and Dick Moquin. This spring the firm pur- chased the garage of Neufeld Bros. Mr. Moquin, managing directo¥ of the firm, stated this week that ‘the Jatest addition to thé compan: property will be used as a hod} and paint shop. The gas outlet will, be retained but the deal, which is eftect- ive September 1, does not, include the Chrysler-Plymouth agency that was held by Central Service. = Head of Central Service Ltd.,” is Ted Ewing whose company has Operated the garage for the past seven and a half years ago. Vie Im- hoff was a principal iv the firm’ up to two years ago when he disposed of his interests to Mr. Ewing. Blaze Levels _ Trobak Sawmill -- Fire that is believed to have-start- ed in one of the power units complet- ely gutted cne of Paul Trobak’s saw- mills Monday evening. The mill is located eight miles from town on the Chileotin road. No one was on the millsite at the time of the blaze. Smoke was noticed by Porest Ranger Ken Petersen as he stood on the steps of his home in town, and realizing where it was coming from, he immediately drove to the scene. Mr. Trobak arrived in a matter of minutes and drove a JP jk that was alire away pron ‘the mill iiself. Forestry crews vere on the job right afterwards “ with pumps, but it was too late to do any- thing but confine the blaze. Mr. Trobak said he left the mill- site about 5:45 after making a check of the equipment. By 6:15 the mill had been levelled. Loss is estimated at $18,000 which is partially covered hy insurance. included 15,000 feet of lumber. Mr. Trobak states he will rebuild imme- diately. Believes Sewer will Be Finished On Time The sewer system for the Village should he completed within the con- tract deadline of October 31, accord- ing to engineer Stan Lawrence, who reported on progress to commission- ers Tuesday night. The work is being done by Interior Contracting. Asked about the piles of dirt left in streets where the mains have heen jaid, Mr. Lawrence said the coast company supplying pre-cast concrete for the manholes is behind in 4e- livery. In the meantime the contrac- tor has to leave these excavations open. Suspended Sentence On Conversion Charge Joseph Beckler of Vernon was given a year’s suspended sentence and, ordered to post bond for $500 and to make resitution of $525 to Penfold Roofing Company of Van- couver when his case of theft by con- version* was heard in police court recently. The charge was laid when the roofing company, employer of Beck- ler, Jaid a complaint that he had re- ceived the $525 from a local house- holder on a roofing contract and had failed to turn the money over to the company. Operator Takes New Job Roy Clements, chief oeprator at the local Power Commission plant will leave his position August 22 to take a post as power plant foreman at Puntzi air base. Mr. Clements has been active in town with the Fair Association and | has been president of this organize- The Weather Welcome sunny days returned to the Cariboo this week and operations fm the hayfields and the bush speed- ed up again. Here are the readings at the air- port for the past week between the hours of 8 am and 6 pm. .. min max Friday, August 5, 51 76 - Saturday 56 89 Monday 56 69 Tuesday 60 74 Wednesday 53.81 This morning at 8 reading was 53 above. o'clock the Tender Figures On Hall Being Held Up Two tenders for the construction of the proposed village hall were opened by commissioners Tuesday night but the figures have not been released pending clarification of one of the bids, : tion for two years, Difficulty arose when the original plans showed an elght-foot ceiling and commissioners subsequently de- cided to obtain alternate bids tor eight and ten-foot ceilings. One con- tractor was not informed of this when he picked up the plans and his bid was for an eight-foot ceiling as outlined. He will be asked to submit an alternate bid before a final deci- sion is made. One Year Sentence On False Pretences Charge Pleading guilty to a charge of false tretenses Jack Parcher of Wil- liams Lake was sentenced to one year in jail when he appeared in police court this week. Parcher wrate a cheque on a non-existent ac- count as a down payment on a car he purchased from a local garage. Weekend Highway Accidents Claim Lives Of. Two Men Two men met with violent death on the highway last weekend in separate accidents. Dead are Dan Foley, 25, of Willow- bend, Saskatchewan, and Norval Hammond. 45 of Hamilton. Ontario. Hammond met his death as a re- sult of injuries suffered in a specta- cular crack-up six miles south of 150 Mile House when two vehicles met head-on about 7:00 p.m. Saturday. Hammond and his two passengers and the driver and three passengers in the other vehicle involved, a light delivery truck, were all rushed- to hospital in Williams Lake where ex- tra staff were called on duty to hand- le the emergency. Hammond succumbed about 11:30 p.m. from his injuries. One of his passengers, Allan Tierney, had both Jegs broken and is reported in good condition, and the other man, Michael Bubish was released trom hospital following treatment for cuts and bruises, s Driver of the Bernard Jamieson, was released from hospital following treatment. His wife and the other two passen- ‘gers, Mrs. Bert Johnson and Jimmie Charlie are still in hospital. Mrs Jamieson has a broken leg and Mrs. Johnson and Charlie both had deep leg wounds. All of those in the Jamieson truck are from Forest Grove. Hammond and Tierney are believ- ed to have been heading for Dawson Creek at the time of the accident to work in that area. Bubish, a prairie resident. was hitching a ride in the Hammond car. An inquest into the fatal accident has heen adjourned until the middle of November pending full recovery of the others involved. GOES OFF HIGHWAY Second highway fatality of the Weekend occurred the following morning about eight o'clock when a other vehicle, Activity On Industrial Site Activity is again evident along the industrial trackage site north of town that was opened up by the PGE two years ago. Paul Trobak has commenced operation of his small planer on a jease next to Allfir. The planer is producing.a car a day and is design- ed to handle the cut from Mr. Trobak's two mills. Seven men are employed in the operation. Pending ‘completion of spur line to the planer, loading is being done from the team track in town. Also waiting for railway company action is Diane Lumber Company. This firm has made application to lease a 23-aere tract on the site and will move from its present Railway Avenue location as soon as approval is obtained and spur lines in. Diane Lumber is planning an operation involving an investment of over $200,000. It will include a new Will Take Services Services at St. Andrews United Church will be conducted for the re- mainder of this month by student minister Archie Birse, a third year theology student at Union College. Mr. Birse has served the church in New Westminster for the past year and for the past few weeks has been camp manager of the Youth Camp at Lac La Hache. Rey. J. R. Colclough and family have for Naramata for a_ holiday. While there Mr. Colclough will take a short course offered by the United Church school at that point. Shower Honours Miss Wohlleben A miscellaneous shower in honor of Miss Carla Wohlleben whose mar- risges to Mr. Guy Marcia will take place August 12th, was held Tues- day evening at the home of Miss Hattie Bliss. Co-hostess was Miss Marie Bellmond. The gifts were presented to Miss Wohlleben who is a former Post Of- fice employee in an imitation mail bag. Guests included Miss Viola Bell- mond, Mrs. W. Bellmond, Mrs. T. Denny, Mrs. Audrey Swank, Mrs. W. Stafford, Miss Ethel Stafford, Mrs. T, Beames. Miss Norma Bailey, Miss Madeline Fullerton, and Miss Alice Morrison. planer, burner, re-saw and automatic gang trimmer. Productio will be six cars a day. - Board Members On Northern’ Trip President Tom Larson and Bert Roberts represented the Wililams Lake & District Board of Trade this week on an aerial junket to north- ern British Columbia centres. The ‘trip, sponsored by the Van- couver Board of Trade, was made on a chartered CPA plane. The aircraft left here Tuesday and went to Fort St. John and Dawson Creek, stopping at Prince George on the way back. The goodwill tour party - returned today. light delivery truck went out of con- trol about a mile north of Twilight Lodge on Lac La Hache and plung- ed down 45-foot embankment. Camp- ers nearby rushed to the aid of the three men in the vehicle but were too late to do anything for Foley, who is believed to have been instant- ly killed from a broken neck. The other two men, Dollard Du- Fresne and Raoul Moletta, escaped miraculously with cuts and bruises. All three of the men have been working for sawmills in the Lac La Hache area. An inquest into Foley’s death will be held next Wednesday. The three yehicles involved in the two accidents were totally wrecked. Town Boy Scout Off To World Jamboree , Williams Lake’s lone representa- tive to the 8th World Scout Jambo- Tee leaves by train Saturday morn- ing on the first leg of his journey to the monster camp at Niagara-on-the- Lake. Troop Leader Al Deschene of the Ist Williams Lake Troop will board the PGE train Saturday for Quesnel, where he will meet up with four Scouts from that centre. From there they go to Prince George, a general assembly area for boys of the 14th Jamboree Troop, one of five troops from British Columbia. To earn money for the trip, includ- ing the purchase of a new uniform, Al worked through the summer holi- days driving a delivery truck for Mackenzies. His spare time in the last couple of weeks has been taken BP with Collecting “swap” articles” that he'll exchangesWith similar ob- jects prized by boys of otter lands. He's hand-carving a stave for this Purpose, and lays great hopes on tle swapping power of a collection of plastic casts of wild animal tracks. At Niagara-on-the-Lake he’ll be in @ camp with 10,000 Scouts and lead- ers from more thah 60 countries. It‘s the first world jamboree to be held outside of Europe and it’ll be an ex- perience that Troop Leader Deschene will never forget. The Jamboree is being held August 18 to 28. FAIR GRANT CUT Village grant towards the annual fair this year has been cut to $25. Decision to make the reduction from the usual: $100 was made Tuesday night. Commissioners felt that every step should be taken to keep expen- ditures down this year, and they felt that while the Fair Association de- served mora) support, it was not in financial difficulty. It Happened This The Union of B. c. Municipalities member before it got to the ‘ Way.... lost a prospective paid up” stage Tuesday night, all because of a convention - and the price tag thereon. ¥ It happened this way: Readers will remember that a few years back the vil- lage fathers took exception to the powerful UBCM’s alleg- ed lack of consideration for the smaller governing bodies that make up part of its menibership, and backed out ot the union. At the same time they tried to interest other villages in forming a seperate organization with not much marked success, Through the years the invitation has been sent out to entice the stray sheep back to the fold, but our commis- sioners have consistently elected to go their independent way. This year however the board had a chanve of heart, decided to let by-gones be by-gones, pay their $45 dues and join up. Tuesday night they were read a communication from the Prince George city council, with latest word on the planned annual UBCM convention to be held at that centre this fall. The suggestion had been made, it appears, that all of the Central Interior centres would “host” the convention, and the message tion from Williams Lake to would be $400, aid the estimated contribu- assist in defraying expenses There was a stunned silence that only true Scotsman could appreciate at the Suggestion of parting with so much loose cash. The commissioners were virtually speechless and when they did regain their voices they were in hardly in an affirmative vein. Clerk Ted Gibbon showed them the graceful way out. Seems he hadn’t forwarded the 46 membership yet - and the commi cheque for UBCM jioners quickly took the hint. If the village didn’t belong to the UBCM, it coud hardly take part in the convention as one of the ‘hosts’, They hastily rescinded their earlier motion and now we are going our independent - and cheaper - way again.