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Volume 23 — Number 34

WILLIAMS LAKH, B.C. Thursday, August

, 1955

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

ain Feeder Roads To Be Improved In District

33 aS ae
Here is all that remains of the car that carried one youn
man to his death early Sunday morning as it plunged off the
highway into a heavily wooded gully. Well camouflaged’ by
surrounding bush, the car lying 80 feet from the road is hard
to outline. The doors were ripped off as the vehicle fell two
fair-sized fir trees in its descent.

Quesnel Youth Dies As Car
Plunges Off Highway Here

Another highway crash early last Sunday morning took
the life of a Quesnel resident, Gordon Verhulst, 19, when the
car he was driving went off the Gariboo Highway four miles
north of Williams Lake and plunged to the bottom of a wooded
ravine,

A passenger in the death vehicle, | covered with blood, and stopped to
Camipbell Palmer, also 19, escaped'| help: Rex serambled down the hank
the crash with mutipie brnises-and tiwice in_cesrch Af she injured man.
cuts a -<—f but Was. unablS,to find him without

The car, procegding south about |® flashlight. He\then hailed a pass-
een € first of a series | is motorist ana tegether they were
of just this’side of Walter | Successful. VerhulS{ had been

Bailey's ranch, The curve isn’t. con-| thrown about 50 feet™{rom the car.
sidered a sharp one. Going into the | Rex felt his pulse but ec Bd find uo:
Second one a short distance farther | beat77
on, highway signs warn drivers to Dr. J. B. Ringwood testified that
aldw.to 45. miles per hour: ~~ | Verhulst had died of seyeramauitiple
4 injuries, hemmorhage and shock.
ihe velijele struck a boulder ast In his iestimioaveaine! said that
Verhulst had purchasea the car re-
cently and had received his
driver’s licence at the same time.

A former North Vancouver resi-
dent, Verbulst came to Quesnel to
werk aout a year ago. Palmer, who
has lived at Quesnel for some time,
had heen working in Alberta and re-
turned to his home two months ago.

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left the road and took off into the
timber. Force of impact broke two
fair-sized fir trees and tee doors
along one side of the car were torn
off. Both occupants were thrown
clear as the ear rolled down the
bank and came to rest $0 feet down
at the bottom of the ravine.

A coroner's inguest, inquiring’ in-
to the fatality yesterday, returned a
verdict of accidental death. Verdict
was read by jury foreman Freeman
Butler.

EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 25
ee Are eee aren SmI

Still visibly shaken from his ex- One CPA Flight
perience, Palmer related the events
leading up to the fatal crash. °

He said that he and Verhulst had Dropped For Winter
left Quesnel early Saturday evening
to attend a dance at Soda Creel. One southbound flight a week on
Following the dance they decided to| Canadian Pacific Airlines’ schedule
pay a visit to Palmer's sister in Wil-'SeTVicing Williams Lake will be
liams Lake, He said they were driy-| dropped for the winter months, ac-
ing about 50 miles an hour all the |¢ording to local agent Al Stewart.
way when syddenly Verhulst seemed The Thursday afternoon flight
to swing wide to make a curve, and|S0uth will be missed. On that day the
they were off the road. Palmer was | i"eraft goes on to Terrace and
knocked out, and when he regained | Short days would not allow enough
consciousness, he could hear his, light to make the additional leg and

back to Vancouver.

The change hecomes
September 25 and will last
around April 1, 1956.

way over to Verhulst and realizing
he was badly hurt, climbed up the
steep embankment and staggered up
the highway in search of shelp.
Rexford (Rex) Moon of Wil-
liams Lake took the stand to relate
how he was driving ome: from the Two Alarms Calf Out
Ganee at Soda Creek about 3 a.m-| 0 (7 -
when he saw a man on the highway F Th W. k
waving his arms. At first he thought iremen Is ee
the man was drunk and was about
to drive by when he saw he was

until

Firemen strung ‘hose in answer to
two alarms this week but didn’t have
| to turn the water on.
Tuesday night they answered a

To Fix School Line call to the home of L. D. Scott on
eee | Yorston Street. It seems that the
Between Districts

| stove pipe was disconnected and
E: | Someone dropped a match in the kit-
A move has been mate by the} chen range. The paper in the firebox
trustees of Quesnel’ “andi /Williams| spread emoke throughout the house
Lake school boards to definitely fix|and the alarm was sounded.
the boundary dividing the two di Yesterday afternoon the firemen
tricts. were called to the hospital. There
The boards ssteed CO SUsine athiei = Wattle of alcohol: had burst. into
east boundary Of Edmunds Rach at) flames ina small utility room off the
Macalister and will recommend this| main corridor. While a member of
to the department of edueation.2) lithe stag turnéd’in the alarm, Mrs, &.
Necessity of fixing the boundary Teonged. hospital matron and nurse
came about with the decision to re-| aide Miss Kay Unrau smothered the

For Mackenzies Ltd. :

Construction of a new buildin
for the large department store 0:
Mackenzies Htd., will be undertaker,
shortly, according to Roderick Mac-
kenzie. %

The new structure will occupy the
vacant lot next to the building,
housing the menswear departmenty:

year. eS
Mr. Mackenzie states the building:
will be approximately 30 x 75 feet

;| and will be of reinforced concrete. A
two storey structure, the main floor i

will be occupied by the ladieswea:

The real estate was purchased last}

NO TRIBUNE ISSUE
NEXT WEEK

It’s annual holiday time
around The Tribune, and fol-
lowing our usual custom,
Plant will shut down for one
week.

AUTHORIZES WORK

Three main feeder roads

The roads affected are Horsefly,
Lone Butte and Forest Grove here
and the Wells road in the north.

Tony Woodland, president of the
‘Cariboo Social Credit League, said
Jast night that he had been in tele-
phone conversation with Hon. Ralpi
Chetwynd, who had assured him: he
had the word of the Premier that
this work was to start immediately.

Mr. Woodland said Mr. Chetwynd
had been making repeated repre-
sentations to the Premier and had

There will be no issue of Tho
Tribune next week, For the
ience of our customers
ce will remain open.

With the following weelc
containing Labor Day, the next
h| issue of The Tribune will be
[| published Friday. September

9.

department. Mr. Mackenzie was
Vancouver this week seeing an aro
ehitectural firm about drawing up|
plans for the project.

Engineer Goes
For Unplanned Hike

Dropped in the-heart of the Chil-
cotin last weekend, Stan Lawrence,
engineer on the local sewer project}

country the hard way on an unplan
ned hike and horseback ride.

*~ The incident had its start last Fri-
day evening when Chilcotin Airways
pilot Don Meyers was overdue on a
flight to Whitewater Lake and re-
turn. Jack Wainright, a former. coast
‘pilot took the flying club aircraft up
to assist in the search for Don, and

saw some of the beauties of the nan

Turned Down

shown him that the value of produce
Hi h 5 tp | R t coming out over the roads, particu-
rug CcitCO eques larly lumber, justified 2x>enditure
i - of extra money to improve them.
for Alexis Creek Mr. Chetwynd arrived in town this
t morning for a conference with dis-
trict engineer Jim Pomeroy and then
left for “Horseily to look over the
situation, _ xs
The Tribune was unable to con-
tact either Mr. Chetwynd or Mr.
Pomeroy today for further details of
proposed wor

|. A petition from Chilcotin property
owners asking for establishment of
ja high school at Alexis Creek has
‘een turned down by the School
Board.

rade grouping before the depart-
ment will authorize even a superior

took Stan along as observer. The
searchers eventually became the ob-|

school; five were in grade eleven,
who cannot be included for superior
school i tion.

the area from grades seven to eleven,
Hall Completed

being taught at the present school a emp. ete
Saturday night,
wood dance floor had not been fin-

Investigating ‘ie petition state-
trustees found that three were in
|there: five were erades nine to ten, | First dance in the completed -com-
Although the hall was officially
ished then or the installation of the

ject of some worry the res when
night fell and they had not return-
ed. Meyers in the meantime had 1
turued: to base, buviug been delayed
‘when he waited for an overcast to
clear before taking off for home.
Out west the club plane was run-
ning low on gas and Wainwright set
it down near Eagle Lake to refuel
from an extra tank they had along.
In the landing a landing gear strut
was damaged and the pilot decided
to stay overnight. The next morning
he took off alone, leaving Lawrence
so as to lighten the take-off load.
Here the story becomes. alittle
confused. Wainwright returned” to
Williams Lake and Meyers set off to

j rence had waited

effective

open the McLeese Lake school, flames with a blanket.

bring Lawrence hack, but he didn’t
have the exact location of the lake
and couldn't pinpoint it until late
afternoon. In the meantime
patiently
three o'clock and then started out on
foot. He met an Indian who directed
him to Chileo Lake about 12 miles
away and he made that about 7
o'clock. Before leaving his origi
point he left a message with stones

the shoreline pointing to his di-
yection of travel. Sunday afternoon
Don flew into Chileo Lake and
brought him out.

Death Calls Son

Of Pioneer Family

Ernest Wilfred Wright, son of a
Pioneer Cariboo family and well-

j light “i aged by the side of the road.
companion moaning. He made his Service the smaller ports on the way | known resident of the Lac La Hache

area, passed away in War Memorial
Hospital Wednesday in his 63rd
year.

Born in Victoria, Mr. Wright spent
most of his life alongside the Cari-
boo Road, where his parents, the
late Mr. and Mrs. John Wright of
127 Mile House were early settlers.
Ernest Wright operated a cattle
ranch at the 132 Mile House. About
ten years ago he suffered a heart at-
tack and was forced to give up active
ranch work. He had been in hospital
@ month prior to his death.

He leaves to mourn his passing
his wife, Enid, his son Wilfred, his

ment that there were 13 students in. 100 Mile Community

igrade seven, a grade that is already

}and it takes eight students in this |unity hall at 100 Mile will be held
Opened July Ist, laying of the hard-
heating system.

Tt takes 15 students’ in grades
nine co tem for a oné-room. high
stioon and of vhe-ten “pupiis rerer=
red to in the petitior in this group-
ing, six do-not live within the boun-
daries of District 27.

|Sauabe IeetOf dance floor dm

large kitchen. Alongside it will be
two-sheet curling rink. Community |
Club officers estimate the value of |
the hall at around $20,000.

NEAR KEITHLEY CREEK

Stiffer Fines Levied
For Impaired Driving

Fines are getting stiffer in the
local police court for impaired driv-
ing charges,

Appearing before Magistrate C. IT
Poston this week, Thomas, Cecil C:

Law-| B.C. Power Commission plant and
until) neatly flipped over on its top in the

daughter Mrs. Gordon (Joan) Sam-
son, Vancouver; one brother Harry |
G. Wright, Haney, and four sisters,
Mrs. A. R. Bain, Mrs. L. M. Camp-
ell and Mrs. Thomas Downie. all of
Vancouver, and Mrs. Wm. Dingwall |
of Lac La Hache. =

Funeral services will be conduct-
ed at Lac La Hache Saturday at 2
p.m. with student minister A. Birse
of St. Andrews United Church con-}
ducting the service. Funeral arran-
gements are being handled by
Leavitt's,

ruthers was fined $1
Carruthers was the ari
that dropped off the bank above the

find a major
Tendeys have been “asked for
foundation drilling and other explor-

yard below. atory work at a promising power site

Another driver up on a_ similar | located at Cariboo Falls on the Cari-
large, Harry Sellom, was fined | boo River near Keithley Creek about
$100 and costs. 12 miles from the small community

of Likely.

Tenders for the work will be open-
ed next Wednesday.

Cariboo River flows into the north
end of Quesnel Lake and drains 2
chain of lakes about 60 miles east of
Quesnel, of which Isaae Lake is the
largest.

However, the Power Commission

Truck Taken From Town
Found At Ashcroft

Fourth vehicle to be taken from
town streets in almost as many
weeks was a light deliver truck

WORD RECEIVED THAT PREMIER

AT ANY COST

in this district and one in the

Quesnel area are to be improved so that they are ‘capable ‘o.
taking the produce out of the areas they serve”, regardless
the of cost, according to word received last night by The Tribune.

It is understood that the local de-
partment of highways office has re-
ceived $50,000 to get work under-
way on the Horsefly Road. *

Second Crash Victim
Also From Kelowna

Name of the second man killed in
the accident last Wednesday night
near 100 Mile was George Travis,
Kelowna, aged about 23, =

Travis and Joseph Frank Koenig,
also of Kelowna, lost. their lives
when the light delivery truck Koenig.
was driving smashed into the rear
of a loaded lumber truck.

Inquest into the deaths will be
held to-morrow.

Annual Fair
Opened Today

It’s judging time up at the Arena
this afternoon, as the Sixth Annual
Cariboo Fair gets underway.

Fair goers will notice the weather
has curtailed flower sections and the

gladiolus show, but not as much as

had been anticipatea. Vegetable sec-
tions are down again this year in
quantity of exhibits, following the
trend of last year’s show.

You'll see some outstanding exhi-

Th 40 x 90 foot hall” has 32800 | bits: entered-by the Historical Socie-
da.

ty, Pottery Cittb, copper Work group,
and Indian and town schools.

Games are set up along the Kiwa-
nis Skillway, and there are several
good commercial displays.

Power Commission To Call
For Hydro Survey Tenders

British Columbia Power Commission has taken another
step in the extensive investigations carried out this year to
source of hydroelectric bower for
British Columbia communities,

s

Central

has not definitely decided on the
Cariboo Falls site as a source of.
power for central B. C.

“We want to carry out the fonnda-
tion tests and soil studies in order to
Jearn more about this site,” said a
Power Commission spokesman at
the week-end.

Commission engineering crews
have inspected a number of other
likely power sites in Central B. G.
this summer, including the Mc-
Gregor and Stuart rivers, and it is
expected a final decision will be an-
nounced before the end of the year.

operated by the Redemptorist Fath-
ere that was stolen from in front of
of the manse last Friday night.

The vehicle was recovered‘at h-
croft where it had heen left undam-

=

Ramsay Blair reports that the
same night someone tore the igni-
tion wires out of his car in an effort
to start it.

The Missing ‘Lead’ of
A Page Three Story

Things can get very confusing te
newspaper readers when type is mis-
Jaid or inserted in the wrong place
Along with a series of minor tie-ups
in production, this happened to vs
this week.

On page three you'll find a story
of a murder charge laid at Quesnel,
and if it seems to start well into the
story, you're quite right. The lead
paragraph was left out. To straighten
it out, here's the way it reads:

“A 68-year-old railroad cook who
told Quesnel police he hoped that in- |
juries he had inflicted on a PGE em-
ployee Sunday were “not serious",
has been charged with murder”,

Now turn to Page Three and go on |
with the story, |

worst assault of Huricane Connie as

tilling on the roof. Winds reached

CONNIE LEAVES UNPLEASANT MEMORIES

pn

—Central Press C;

Houses along the north shore of Lake Ontario received the

it exhausted itself over Ontario,

This is one of five cottages destroyed at an Wagner's beach and
three of its former occupants appear to oe tempting disaster by

a 60m p.h. velocity in the area,