%,

“Thursday August 18, 1955

THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.0.

Page ii

Tiny, hot whole-wheat and date

muffins make good eating

frosty luncheon fruit salad. Use

with a

| sresn dates in the muffins and cut
them into thin slivers with a pair of
kitchen scissors,

- LEASE - LOAR--
THRU

: Thursday, September
Phone 56-R-3

for tember 30th of this year.
‘Classified’ Service :

REGISTRATION

WILLIAMS LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Grades I - VI

Beginners must be at least six years of age by Sep-

dst =) 1PM -to 5 PM

Re AS Friesen, Principal.

New Sub-division

. At Williams Lake

(Junction of Quesnel Road)

Commercial and Residential Lots

«

For sale by

F. B. BASS

This property gets sunshine all day until

will be available this Fall.

Telephone 58

and consists of some exceptionally desirable lots, Water

Contact a A, MILLER Salesman

LTD.

late evenin:

Report Tells Of

In the 18th report of the Okanagan
Historical Society, Louise Gabriel, an
Okanagan Indian woman, describes,
through Hester EB. White, native
foods and medicines which kept the
aborigines healthy before modern
‘drugs and diet were known.

Food was gathered and stored in
jate summertime, when the women
picked berries and dug roots and
-stored them in pits lined with bark
and pine needles which kept the mice
away.

Roots of the rock rose, wild potato,
carrot, onion, tiger lily and sunflower
were gathered and put in a cooking
pit which was lined with hot rocks,
with a layer of rosebush branches to
prevent the roots burning. The peel-
ed and washed roots were covered
with timber grass and a layer of
earth put on top. Through a hole in
the top, water was poured into the
pit, and the resultant steam cooked
the roots, after which they were sun
dried.

Indian bread, cooked in the same
manner was made from the hairlike
moss which hangs from fir trees on
the mountains. The moss was cleaned
and covered with dried berries to
sweeten and flavor it.

BERRIES SUN-DRIED

Berries used for food were saska-
toons, raspberries, huckleberries and
and other available wild fruit. They
were picked into birch baskets and
sun-dried on woven grass mats.

Wild meat and fish were either
sun-dried or cooked over a willow
fire and dried and stored.

For every illness or hurt the In-
dians had effective tonics, sali
drinks, and medicines, made from
wild growth. For sore mouths wild
strawberry leaves were baked and
crushed into a dusting powder. Red
willow cured rashes and bruises and
blood-poisoned cuts. Spring tonics
were brewed from fir, spruce, balsam,
juniper, and Oregon grape.

Bad colds were relieved with in-

A GENERAL MOTORS VALUE

Chevrolet's
least one reason why

. a Chevrolet year after year — especiaily this year.
=?" Day by day, Chevrolet gains in °°
popularity -- value -

Williams Lake Motors Ltd.

Dramatic Proof of Chevrolet’s Success!
Everywhere in Canada, consistently, more Che-
vrolet cars are sold than those of any other manu-
facturer. And now, to a greater extent than ever
before, the 1955 Chevrolet is the favorite of
Canadians from coast to coast.

This Is Important To You!

Because Chevrolet builds so many more cars, each
one costs less to make. That's the simple, provable
effect of voluine preduction. And this saving is
passed on to you in the form of more value, and
more features for the money than you can get
with any other car on the market. Also, compare
rices and you'll know for sure at

so many more pedple buy

-galeg !

salves. |

Medicines

That Kept Indians Healthy

fusions of sagebrush or the broth of
boiled fish-heads. The hillside parsnip
was good for poulticing open wounds,
but the swamp parsnip is poisonous.
For internal haemorrhages the inner
bark of the thornbush was steeped to
make tea.

Nature had a cure for many ills,
and old Indians still use the old medi-
cines, often with startingly -success-
full results. Many of the modern drugs
are made from the ingredients that
the Indians used.

LAC LA H. ENEWS

Protest Dumping
On Spawning Area

Resort owners.and other interested
residents met recently to decide what
could be ‘done to prevent Blackwater
Timber Co, from dumping logs on the
main Kokanee spawning ground. It
was feared that if the spawning area
was not kept clear of logs, the quan-
‘tities of these valuable fish would in
time be very much depleted. Letters
of protest have been sent by the
Community Club to The Game De-
partment, Premier Bennett, Depart-
ment of Indian Affairs, and Hon.
Ralph Chetwynd.

MRS. M.M. WRIGHT and Mrs,
Don Barrick gaye a shower for Mrs.
Peter Ogden on the 4th. An enjoy-
able party followed.

——

MISS JOYCE SUTHERLAND is
spending a holiday with Mr. and Mrs.
B. Felker.

a

RECENT guests at the Dingwalls
ranch were Mr. and Mrs. Francis
Stewart of Summerland. With them
were daughter, Lana, and a_ niece,
Marilyn Washington.

poor aes
MR. AND MRS. D. F. WRIGHT en-

tertained at a christening party for
their new daughter, who received the
names.of Gail Marie. Among the
wuests were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ap-
lin of Prince George whose small
daughter, Sharen Blizabeth, had also
been baptised that day. Mrs. Wright’s
mother, Mrs. Bero of Surrey was also
present.

Cracker Barrel. . .
(continued from page 2)
plicable to the Fraser, and it de-
finitely is a wonderful source for
power. We have no doubt Mr. Fulton
‘would gladly engage in conversa-
tions in our behalf. Furthermore,
we have in the Senate a gentleman
‘conversant with every detail of the
Fraser. When Senator Turgeon was
our member he was also chairman
of the Rehabilitation and Reclama-

tion Service.

Development of the power and
other resources of our river was
placed high upon his list of under-
takings. Although we later rejected
him, his interest in the Cariboo has
never diminished and he would give
full support to any movement hav-
ing the right type of local back-
ground.

It is true we have a large number
iof sawmills and planer mills need-
‘ing cheap power, There is a erying
need of rural electrification and
many resources lie dormant await-
ing cheap power. There is a vast ex-
panse of fine benchlands, yet, we
fear Frenchy will just have to keep
biting his nails in frustration until
Wwe can match the driving power and
determination of our neighbours to
the south-east. The confession of
Mr. Cox emphasizes the speed with
which power is utilized once it be-
comes available.

We should not be lulled into com-
placency by the propaganda of the
fishing interests or by visions of an
early supply of atomic energy. The
combined services of every organiza-
tion from Lytton to Prince George
should be musteréd to press for the
immediate development of more pow-
er sites along the Fraser. That is the
vital prerequisite to all other expan-
sion.

WILLIAMSLAKE
Dry CLEANERS

Each

Text book rental - grades 7, 8, 9
- grades 10, 11, 12

Industrial Arts
Home Economics
Student Council
Padlock Rental

Parents are urged to see that students come
the first day of school (September 5) with the
necessary money in order that text books may

be issued promptly.

Notice
To Parents

student entering the Williams Lake
Junior-Senior High School during the 1955-56
term will be required to pay Fees as follows:

$3.50
$4.00

$1.00
7T5¢
$1.00

25¢

if possible.

Registration

Students must register at the High School office,
and are urged to complete this formality during the
last week of August or the first week of September

Hours of registration: 9 A.M. to Noon and 1:30 P.M.
to 5 P.M. Or by appointment - Phone 83-R-3.

DISTILLERS OF
Fine Quality Gins and Real Rye Whiskies

This advertisement is not published or displayed by the
Control Board or by the Government of British Colu,

Liquor
mbia,