Page 9 = THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LARE, B.6. Thursday, August ii, i885 Williams Lake Tribune Establishea 1931 Clive Stangoe, Editor Publishea every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C: By The Tribune Publishing Co. Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association British Columbia Division, C.W.N.A. Subscription: per year $2.50 Cutside Canada $3.00 Payable in Advance ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa The Cariboo Grows Nothing reflects the prosperity of a town more than the building permit figures, and in the case of our own town: this economic barometer continues to record a high reading. Uu- doubtedly the figures of $201,800 for commercial and $153,- 275 for residential building for the first seven months of the year would have been higher if more land had been available within the village limits. To these figures too must be added the value of residential construction going on outside the vil- lage limits. Along every road leading into town homes. con- tinue to spring up to accommdate the growing working population. = Williams Lake is not alone in enjoying economic growth in the South Cariboo. Percentage-wise a probable higher ‘propor- tion of growth is being recorded at 100 Mile House where a highway stopping house of a few years ago is rapidly assuming the proportions of a village - and a thriving and prosperous | one. Less spectacular but at the same time stable growth is also seen at other centres like Lone Butte, Forest Grove, Horsefly and Alexis Creek. The future of the Ca That Cost Factor Decision of commissioners last week to place another retired person on the village staff seems an odd solution to the problem as it has been discussed at past Meetings. The vulage fathers have often spoken of the need to hire a younger man who could be groomed for the eventual responsibility of veteran clerk ©. H. Gibbon’s position. With no reflection in- tended on the ability of the man eventually hired, the fact that he is an clder man with a successful career behind him would Seem to preclude the possibility of his starting out on a secon one. iboo never looked brighter. The financial problem facing the village this year was given as the deciding factor in the eventual move, but we @ained the impressicn at the meeting that the commiss:oners had little opporunity to discuss this angle intelligently when. they were faced with the statenients that were offered on tie the cost factors. The extras involved for the balance of the year in salaries amount to $1250 for an outside man and a further $500 from September 1 for the clerk position. If one of the younger appli- cants had received the latter job at $250 a month, there would be an additional $500 to consider for this year. No comparison was made of the budget figures with actual expenditures for the first seven months of the year, but we doubt if, for example, a great proportion of the $11,000 budgeted for streets, and sidewalks has been actually spent. The $1,000 allowance for social welfare will not be used in whole or part since the vil- lage has been informed that these costs will now not be ap- Dlicable until 1956. There is $500 allowed for parks and $50¢ for the beach which look now as though they will not be spent. Actually, even allowing for extras on the sewer project, it would not appear that the village will run into ‘difficulties this year. We dre not prepared to argue the relatives merits 07 the case on a 12-month budget period, but from the tenor of the discussion last Tuesday, this was not the factor involved. The final decision was clearly labeled a “stop-gap”, with the inference being that it_was the eventual intention to carry out the original proposal of employing a younger man in the office if at all possible. In the light of this reasoning it seems too bad that the proposal could not have been carried out now instead of going through another re-organization in the spring. Improve CBC Publicity (Comox District Free Press) The rather deplorable type of “reporting” which has ap- Feared recently in the Vancouver Sun, in connection with the CBC will be pretty hard to combat in the minds of many people who delight in, and concur with, the Sun’s persistent attacks on the government sponsored broadcasting system. But the CBC has a way to combat this type of attack and it need not try to mimic the daily paper’s mudslinging in doing £0. The first thing the CBC should do is revamp its public relations program. : In this office we receive a great many publicity handouts from the various organizations, and we feel that the CBC’s contributions are just about the worst. Almost weekly we, along with all other B. C. weekly newspaper presumably, receive mounted engravings which would cost us, if we were to have them made ourselves, be- tween one and two dollars each. This type of advertising is not only expensive but it is, from our observations of other Dapers, seldom used. The reason it is not used in our case is that the engray- ings usually depict entertainers from Montreal or Toronto or incidents Which have happened in the east and are a. subject for broadcasting or televising. We do not feel that we have the our readers would be interested. The Cracker Barrel Forum Ry A. J. Drinkell A brief news item in the July is- | now articles have been appearing in sue of Country Life in B. C. came in for some attention at our last hold- forth. It stated that Hector L. Fora, senior livestock products inspector with Canada Dept. of Agriculture when addressing the B. C: Beef Cat- tle Growers at Kamloops recently, predicted good steers would reach 25e by Fall. This forecast appears to be based largely upon the fact wider use is being made of feed-lots across Canada which gage . affords a great- ere degree of volume control. This more order- ly marketing pat- tern has helped stabilize the in- dustry and main- tian much stead- ier prices. An- s . other contributing factor is a grow- ing population which creates greater consumer demand. It has long been our contention that market disruptions would be less violent as orderly marketing became more generally practiced. The thing that intrigued the boys the most was the fact that someone dared to predict a rise in pirces just before the grass-fed cattle are due to come on the nfarket. It is a most unheard of occurrence and yet we know of no better stimulant for the harassed ranchers. Instead of the usual pack of baying gloom-hounds telling them not to expect much for their cagtle this Fall here we have a brave chappie, who should know how to interpret market trends, pre- dicting a substantial rise in the price of steers. (Prices for good cows have been steadily improving for some time.) UNORTHODOX Surely some of those old cattle buyers will be turning in their graves at such unorthodox proceed- ings. Whether or not the full tent of Mr. Ford’s forecast is real- ized we give him three rousing cheers and many thanks for his powerful tonic. For some months the various farm journals, both American and Canadian, written in far more optimistic vein than we are accustomed to reading. This prompts Shorty to suggest that ranchers clip all such items they come across against the day they ship beef. so that when the buyer as- egone expression and starts fumbling for that “just received telegram” advising him cat- tle prices have dropped to-day in Peru or Timbuckto the rancher car wave his sheaf of clippings and say on’t bother searching for it brother prices are up to-day at BIl’s Puddle and that’s that”. Mr. Ford’s prescription is exactly what the doc- tor ordered to eradicate that hardy perennial “Gloomy Outlook” which somehow or other attains full bloom just before the shipping season starts. We hope this year the opti- mistic note sounded by Mr. Ford will develop into a real crescendo ere Fall arrives. FAITH IN INDUSTRY Cariboo Cold Storage is quite evidently imbued with a lot of faith in the future of the livestock in- dustry. Its new slaughterhouse, pro- cessing room with feed-lot in con- junetion shonld prove contagious and inspire the local beef growers with a similar measure of faith. It may not be a pretentious undertak- ing but we are reminded that all the oaks from little acorns grow. If the cattlemen show the same amount of ambition we may yet see an abattoir in connection with their proposed feed-lots, once they hit their stride. We proudly tip our hats to the management of Cariboo Cold Stor- age and wish them every success in their new departure. BRITISH COLUMBIA’s tourist traffic in June increased ten per cent over June of last year and for the first six months is up three per cent. In spite of the season’s poor start weatherwise. From the Files of the Tribune ONE YEAR AGO - Angust 12, 1954 First license to pe granted Ipcally under the new Tiquor legislation was received by the Cariboo Elks Home Society— The village comis- sioners announced that the sewer by-law will be placed before the ratepayers this fall— The power was shut off for six hours to enable workmen to change over to a new engine at the power plant— Extro. patrols have been pressed into duty to try and catch the peeping Tom who has been active in the neigh- bourhood for the past few nights— Mr. and Mrs: C. R. Place of Doz Creek celebrated thier fortieth wed- ding anniversary— With news of the impending visit of Hon. Ralph Chetwynd the board of trade met to draw up demands for special appro- priation for work on the Horsefly road— FIVE YEARS AGO August 10, 1950 Installation is being carried out at the airport of a meteorological station. A. Stewart, radio operator tor CPA will be in charge— Wilf Hodgson had a narrow escape from death on Sheep Creek hill when the brakes failed and the drive shalt broke on his vehicle— A survey is under way for a suitable site for the new federal building— Ranchers of the district have accepted the chal- lenge of the hoard of trade to en- gage in a battle of donkey baseball —In the weekend softball game Wil- liams Lake defeated Wells 14-3.— TEN YEARS AGO August 23, 1945 Tom WMawker is taking over Wil- liams Lake Meat Market from Jack Cripps— Bill Pulver has returned home after five years overseas—- Gardner & Sons Ltd. sawmill near Williams Lake s nearly ready to commence sawing lumber— What we would most certainly be interested in, but never get, is some news releases on programs which concern local people. > Recently Terry Tobacco appeared on television, so dia H. space to spare for such pictures, particularly as we don’t on BE. Wilson, another local man. But no press release told us when these people would appear on the television screens. If we had received such information we would have been only too glad to p. CBC isn’t going to get any more sympathisers, listeners or viewers by sending out publicity on people from the east, on the information to our readers. would get far more followers if it localised its publicity. People would be auick ta turn to CBC if they were told a man or woman they knew was to take part in a program Then once the dial is turned ic the CBC frequency, that is the first step towards getting a following and newspapers would not be able to point a biased finger of scorn and charge MOVING? If you are moving anywhere in Canada contact SMITH TRANSFER & STORAGE Fully Equipped Padded Van Phone 57-R-2 OUESNEL, B.c. especially when that vublicity isn’t used. We think the : that insufficient people are listening to warrant the a of operation. TWENTY YEARS AGO August 15, 1935 -The general store at the 150-mile a by R. 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