Page 2 0° > THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAK®, Re. Williams Lake Tribune Established 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. $2.50 $3.00 Subscription: per year Outside Canada - Payable in Advance ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa Hall Fills Long Need It is a source of satisfaction to see the new village hall be- ing constructed opposite the post office. The town’s adminis- trative business long ago outgrew the pokey little office at the rear of the fire hall. From the amount of inquiries we, and doubtless others along the main street, have been in the habit of receiving from people vainly trying to locate the village office it has hardly been the most conspictuous landmark in town. - The new building will have many architectural ‘frills’ on it, but it will provide more space and a neat- and obvious - appearance to passers-by. It's The Popular Season There’s a feeling of fall in the air. The early morning mists of the season blanket the valleys each day and up on the bigh levels there are reports of frost. There’s news of district fairs in every rural paper that crosses our desk, and the ad- vertisers are pushing “back to school” items and preparing hunting season displays. The clear, still days of the season are living up to the Cariboo’s usual boast, and after what has happened to spring and summer for the past two years, fall is rapidly becoming the most popular season. Lumbering and ranching work are going at full tilt and it looks safe to predict, the two major in- dustries of the area will look back on a profitable year - which after all means that the rest of us will too. Praise For Doctors, Police. A recent.visitor-to the Cariboo, Gwen T. Coffin, editor of the Wallowa County Chieftain of Enterprise, Oregon, writes to inquire about the condition of the persons injured in the head-on collision on the highway August 6. The visiting editor was in one of the first cars at the scene and took one of the worst cases to hospital. 5 Commenting on the accident, the editor had a word of praise for the doctors and police that we thought we'd pass along. She writes: “‘We would like to say that we thought the doctors and police did an outstanding job in taking care of an extremely difficult and heartbreaking situation” _Make Law Equal For All There must be a good many residents of British Columbia who are wondering in what way they are any different than the citizens of Ottawa, after reading an article in a recent is- sue of Maclean’s magazine which labels Ottawa as the bingo capital of the world. Here in British Columbia bingo has been relegated to the shadowland. Officially it would appear to be little more than a cut above bootlegging. In communities where bingo sessions are held there is always the threat of an official crack-down, no matter how worthy the cause being aided by the games. But not so in Ottawa, there according to the Maclean’s article, bingo is a $500,000 a year business, swelling the cof- fer of the Lions, Kinsmen and Richelieu Clubs: and one branch of the Canadian Legion. Thirty-five monster bingos are staged a year with all the fanfare of a carnival. In one instance a bingo night attracted a crowd of 25,000 people who contributed $44,000 in the scramble to win $22,000 in prizes. And the monster crowd is said to have created one of the worst traffic jams in the history of the city. The reason that people in British Columbia must be won- dering if somewhere there must be another set of rules is be- cause Ottawa, besides being the: bingo capital of the world, is also the capital of Canada and it was there the law makers decreed that bingo is nefarious pastime, and as such is highly illegal. Now it appears that what is illegal in British Columbia is not illegal in the very city in which the statute was formu- lated. The situation cannot help but be confusing to British Columbians. It’s about time the politicans in Ottawa took a look in their own backyard and made up their minds to set a single standard for the whole Dominion. People in British Columbia are no different than the people iin Ottawa, and if authorities there wink at bingo games the law says are illegal, then it’s time to either scrap the law entirely or take steps to see that it wis enforced with equal severity from coast to coast. The Pacific Great Eastern Railway Co. OPERATING THROUGH-FAST PASSENGER & EXPRESS SERVICE between VANCOUVER, B.C. AND PRINCE GEORGE, B.C, Including Sleeping & Dining Car Service Prince George - Squamish Dock DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME April 24 to September 24 inclusive Lv-Vancouver (Union Pier) 9:30a.m.-Mon-Wed-Frid Ar-Williams Lake 6 ‘ues-‘hurs-Sat Ly-Williams Lake 6 ‘ueg-Thurs-Sat Ar-Prince George 1:3 ‘Tues-Thurs-Sat Ly-Prince George 4 ‘Tues-Thurs-Sat Ar-Williams Lake ll .-Tues-Thurs-Sat Ly-Williams Lake W -Tues-Thurs-Sat Ar-Vancouver (Union Pier} Wed-Frid-Sun ‘THROUGH FREIGHT ‘SERVION Ly - Vancouver-Mon-Wed-Frid r - Wms. Lake-Wed-Frid-Sun The Cracker Barrel Forum By A. J. Drinkell At this season of the year numer= ows strangers are travelling the highways and hyways of our district, mostly on pleasure bound. Many of them pause for a look around the country stores and to make neces- sary purchases. Usually some of the boys are in the offing ready— to vouchsafe information but listening intently to the visitor's remarks or gently probing them for an opinion on current events. =: visitors our Quite a number of hail from Van- gage couver way and, quite naturally, the presént police enquiry comes in for a fair shure of attention. Opinions differ sharply just as each party has rum ours surrounding the probe. There are, however, two things they seem fairly well agreed upon. Firstly, the fact there is something radically wrong with the present system of law enforcement and secondly, the fear the enquiry will develop into a desultry discussion of matters of secondary importance and he pro- longed until public interest wanes and then a report be submitted with- out the truly-resonsible parties e- ing closely interrogated andlor the really vital factors being adequately considered. OTHERS KNEW fneth Higgins— Robert A FREE PICKUP AND DELIVERY ON FREIGHT AND EXPRESS There appears also to be a general belief that many people, other than the officers of the law, have been cognizant of the many serious de- viations from correct procedure. Others appear to have been unwi lingly mute. The conduct of the po- lice force is unquestionably a domes- tic matter which the civie author- ities may feel justified in dealing with as they deem fit but when a committee appointed by the federal government to investigate the ap- palling traffie in narcotics finds it nec to comment adversely upon law enforcement in the City of Vancouver, or e’sewhere, that is a matter of far wider concern. We re- call-that when the gist of the Sena- tor’s report hecame public some Van- couver newspapers carried editor- jals full of pious indignation and severely castigating the senators who dared to impute inefficiency or laxity to their truly wonderful police force. Quite apart from the course the present enquiry may take; regard- less of its ultimate conclusiois or recommendations and without in any way presuming to anticipate those conclusions, sufficient disconcert- ing revelations have already been made to justify the alarm expressed by the senate committee. APOLOGY DUE lt follows, therefore, the Van- couver papers were very premature in heaping condemnation upon the responsible senators and an unqual- ified apology appears to be indicat- ed. If those publishers are sincere in their piety and really believe our public affairs should be conducted with some semblance of dignity and those who serve us in official capa- cities are entitled to be treated with a measure of respect and accorded a modicum of public confidence, then, From the Files of the Tribune ONE YRAR AGO September 2, 1954 Competing against experienced growers from interior and coast points John Borkowski walked off with both the Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion at the Re- gional Gladiolus Show— Work start- ed this week on the new garage for the firm of Beath Motors Ltd— Peath claimed Joe Deschepe who | ‘has been a resident of Williains Lake since 1947— A substantial drop in almost all divisions was re- corded at the Annual Fall Fair, Wet weather was blamed for the light competition— The Bright Spot Cot- fee Shop has been purchased by Mrs. G. F. Fowler of © Falkland— Miss Bertrand who taught at Big Creek fn 1915 was a visitor to Chilcotin. Dick Church, Pat Scallon and Ren Hance were among her first pupils— A post-office has been opened at Mahood Falls at the home of Ken- Mitchell a sawyer working at Fred Westwick’s sawmill was instantly killed when hic fell into the head saw— A smoulder- ing fire in a partition wall at the Famous Cafe was brought under control— FIVE YEARS AGo August 24, 1950 J. A. Kennedy, general manager of the P.G.B. has announced they jare prepared to release. industrial LeBourdais, wife of the late Louis LeBourdais died in Quesnel— Can- cellation of the proposed Federal Building was announced by the Post- master-General— Work has began on a four-car garage for the forestry — Twenty thousand Kamloops trout fry were flown to Meldrum Lake trom Kamloops hatcheries in a trout planting experiment— TEN YEARS AGO September 6, 1945 “Williams Lake golfers won nearly every event in the Annual Cariboo Plots on=P.G.E. trackeep— 4 Mrs. Katey SCOTT'S SCRAP BOOK: A LIGHTHOUSE. EST COAST SAlLoRS. During Zit Day fs GIANT PUFF OF SMOKE ‘WS SEEN FAR OUT AT SEA 4g AND BY RIGHT rf LiGHtS SKY ABOVE If. ARE ci ny WAR f IWANGURATED KE WAR, DEPARTMENTS: SEcaEd CODE SYSTEM FOR DISPA‘cHS, Fea tg he Thursday, Auguat 28, 1988 ~ By R a Sous IMPOU! B,. Sut Ll ok fo PLACE In cs AS Wily. Poncurines: “oop cue SWIMMERS iRaigationt Brcaust of Ate | BEL ReLLow Au D in all conscience, the senators must come within the scope of that noble creed; in which case publication of adequate apologies cannot with dig- nity or in fairness be longer with- held. Letter to the Editor Williams. Lake, B. C. August 17th, 1955 Dear Wditor, Could I have a little your valuable paper? space on I just want to put in a good word for the War Memorial Hospital and its efficient staff. It is a revelation indeed to be a patient for ten or twelve days. L cannot say enough good for the way I was treated under the extremely Golf Championship playoffs when 61 golfers competed— For the first time in history court was held at Aniham Lake with Magistrate B. B. Wart presiding in a small log build- ing— A three storey boarding home for boys is being erected by the Catholic priests in town— A Kam- loops trout was landed at Horsefly Lake and is believed to be the re- cord. It was 34 inches and weighted 20 pounds— Bake A largefeposit of nickel has been discovered on Chief Tilliay.. moun- ——— tain, téur miles east, of toyn— Three new Whildings have been‘erectea atl| the cattle sale grounds. The larger buildingwill hola~ 650 sheep— A building ne also been ‘erected to house hom$-cooking and fancy work display— ‘Tomatoes advertised at 6c a lb. set shot See ope STS beth are ia-agiaa crowded conditions under which they have to work. It is simply amazing how quickly and efficiently the doctors, matron and staff and the first aid man make the victims of accidents comfortable and their suffering almost reduced to nil. I thank all those who made my stuy in hospital so pleasant, the many friends who came to visit me and the lovely cards and flowers and gifts I received. It really makes life worth living. Of course I am glad to be home again but I'll never be sorry I went to such a good hospital. It will be nice when the new addition is fin- ished and they will have more space to cope with the ever increasing number of patients. I consider my- self lucky that I was able-to get a bed. Many thanks again to one and all and I wish the hospital and staff great success. Yours sincerely, Ann A. Rottacker. MOVING? a are moving contact TRANSFER & STORAGE Fully Equipped Padded Van Phone 57- OQUESNEL, B.C. 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