Williams Lake Tribune _ NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO Volume 23 — Number 35. WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, September 8,-£955. Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year. wCANADA'S VETERANS ON PARADE, € —Centra) Press Canadian Vice-Admiral Mainguy, chief Canada’s naval staff, inspects the Warriors’ Day honor guard at the Canadian National Exhibition grounds in Toronto There were 10,000*veter; including men who fought in the Boer war. Fifty-three band: e in the parade. 2s in the day’s parade. Is were OTHER CENTRES ABOUT SAME AS LAST TERM School Enrolment Figures Up In Town, 100 Mile With the exception of Williams Lake and 100 Mile House, Ahe school population this term throughout District 27 has remained fairiy static, according to information received this morning from beard secretary Wednesday's enrolmetit figure at Williams Lake High School stood at 291 and it is anticipated that this will jump to 330. Overcrowding has resulted as the new high school ad- dition is still about a month from completion.’One class is heing held in St. Peter’s Hall, one in the recreation room of the dormitory, one in Me- Kinnon Memorial Hall and one in the school auditorium. In addition the auditorium stage and staff room are also being used. One of the high school classrooms is being used as @ permanent clasroom for Grade two from the elementary school. High school enrolment last June was 264. At the elementary school enrol- ment figures jumped from 268 in June to 310 now, with a class of 52 beginners enrolled, five more than started school last year. 100 MILE BULGING At 100 Mile House there are now 115 students, up from the June fig- ure of 91. In order to handle the inerease of already overloaded class- rooms, the school board has awarded 4 contract to Greenall Bros. Con- struction to build a one-room pre-fab school there. Work will start next week and the building will be ready in two weeks. In the meantime a class is being held in the kitchen of the new community hall. An extra teacher has-been transferred from Bridge Lake, where enrolment fig- ures are down, to 100 Mile. The teacher is R. J. Zwarich. At Forest Grove there are 95 pu- pils, down from a high of 115° dur- ing the last term. Changes in small rural schools show that McLeese Lake school is being re-opened with 17 students, as is the old school at Riske Creel: with an anticipated enrolment of 12. re new Riske Creek school has 2 students. The Meldrum Creek school has been closed dué to in- sufficient students. Although Lone Butte with 71 pu- pils-has about the same enrolment as last year, classes are badly over- crowded and one is being held in the community hall. Here work will start next week on another one-room pre- tab unit by Greenall Bros. A decision of Kohnke Bros. not to move for another year from their present Horsefly Road. location has posed a problem of what to do with 30 pupils there. Originally the firm was going to purchase a school bus to transport the children from the new mill site, but this plan has been abandoned, The bus at 100 Mile is not operat- ig because none of the drivers who €. B; Macqueen. applied had their Class A licence. The Springhouse-Skyline route will not get underway until next week when delivery of a bus is expected. DORM FULL The dormitory in town is bulging again. There are 65 students stay- ing there noW and the board has had to refuse applications from 12 living outside District 27 until enrolment of students within- the district has stabilized. Capacity of the dorm is 80. Last year there were 59 staying there, including 14 from outside the district. To handle the increase, added staif has been employed. D. M. Thomason, formerly of Bridge Lake is boys supervisor. He resigned his poition as trustee to take the post. Mrs. Thomason is relief cook and relief matron. Mrs. Dorothy Taylor and Mrs. Tom Bishop have been en- gaged as cooks. The overall super- vision is under matron Mrs. L. (continued on back page) Hee Somioee o Tom Jenner of Vernon was elected lieutenant-governor of division five of Kiwanis International at the an- nual convention of the Pacific North- West district held at Bellingham last week. - Mr. Jenner, an accountant in the Okanagan centre, was active in club building work last year and worked on the formation of the club here. His division is the most far-flung in the entire organization and extends from centres in Washington State as far north as Prince George. Ben Abbott - Wins Trap Shoot Championship Entries were down more than fifty percent from last year’s Cari- boo Trap Shooting competition when the scattergun enthusiasts | staged their annual event at the Stampede grourds last week. Sixteen men took part in the events. id Former gun club president Ed. Follis, who now resides at Salmon Arm, dropped his double hold on the open and aggregate trophies, losing out in the former although holding his aggregate award, Hotelman Ben Abbott won the open with 22. Tied up for S$econa place were Jack Abbott and Carter Toop with 21 apiece and a shoot-off Bave the second spot to Abbott. Mol- lis had 20, : In the handicap shoot Follis won out with 22 and Jack Abbott again took second after a shoot-off with Geof Place. Both men had 40 on their first try. Toop and Fol)’ tied up with 18 apiece in the {| ‘elty shoot, with Toop winning the | ‘9t- off. Third was Marius Morter| The aggregate award goes to the shooter with the highest mumper of points in the above three. shoots. Second and third place in the ag- gregate went to Carter ‘Toop and Jack Abbott. The father and son combination of Benny and Jack Abbott again-won the buddy shoot, and the “miss and out” went to Joe Gillis with Geof Place second. With wo teams com- peting in the team shoot, the one with Jack Abbott, Place, Mortenson, Garth Lloyd and Bill Snyder won out with a score of 99. $150,000 Loss In Sawmill Fire Loss is estimated at $150,000 in aire on ths aight/of Angust.2¢-1s completely destroyed the ¢nili ‘of Northern Stads Limited at! Wright Station. The fire was noticed at 11 p.m. and the Lac La Hache fire brigde was called- However by that time the blaze was out of control. The fire is believed to have started under the planer, and diesel oil and gasoline that ignited soon made the area a raging inferno. Only the burner and conveyor were saved. The loss is partially covered by insurance. Owners Doug Goneyea and Lester Bradley announced they will begin construction immediately. New Grocery Store Under Construction Construction will start immediate- ly on a building to house a new gro- eery store for Williams Lake. Harold R. Hunter, who has oper- ated a store in Vernon for the past eleven years, announced this week that he is building a 48 x G0 frame structure at the corner of Oliver Street and 7th Avenue. Designer and contractor on the modern market will be Douglas French, of Vernon. The store will he set back from both Oliver and 7th and a wide park- ing area will be available for cus- tomers off both streets. Mr. Hunter states he decided some time ago to establish a° business in Williams Lake but it took two years to find a suitable location to build. ‘The Vernon man is married and lias one son. The family will eventually make their home here. Little Change Noted In Number Of Entries At Sixth Showing Of Fair Fromthe spectators’ point of view, the sixth annual Little Danger Of Forest Closure Although continued dry weather is creating a hazard in the bush, there is little likeliftood that the for- ests in the district will be closed this year, according to Ranger Ken Pe- lersen. . So far this year only ten spot fires have oceurred in the Williamg Lake district, and these only burned over a total of 644 acres. 75 Bulls Entered For Annual Sale Seventy-five purebred bulls have been entered in this year's Bull Sale, according to Nort son E TET October 7, according to Norton-Ol- sson, secretary of the Cariboo Cattle- men’t Association. Seven or eight animals are being contributed this year by an Alber Hereford breeder, J, 1. Paul of Oko- toks, Here to open the eighteenth an- nual Cariboo Feeder and Fat Cattle Show and Sale and Bull Sale on Oc- tober 6 will be Hon Ken Kiernan, minister of Agriculture. Theft By Conversion Case To Higher Court ‘Charged with theft by conversion, Charles Cameron Russel was com- nitted to trial by the court of next highest jurisdiction when he appear- ed at a preliminary hearing of his case in police court-yesterday morn. ing. = It is alleged that Russell accepted payments for plumbing supplies and the installation of same without pro- ducing the goods or doing the work He was arrested in Kamloops Sep- tember 2. Weather Curtails Glad Show Entries Effects of the summer weather set-back was particularly noticeable in the special Gladiolus Show at the fair this year. Had the show been a week later there would probably have been double the entries, par- ticularly in the three-spike elasses. The show was bolstered by a large number of entries from Van- couver growers, who also walked away with a good number of the in- dividual class prizes. Top visiting exhibitor was ‘T. FP. Alex, who tled with Les Pigeon for the grand ag- gregate award Grand champion spike was a spike called “Owl” entered by Mrs. R. Hargreaves. Miss Ethel Statford won the reserve championship. Best three spike entry was won by B. W. Carson, Vancouver and Les Pigeon took the best basket class and won the second day champion- ship with a spike of “Salesman Glory.’ Winner of the Hall of Fame award, that is judged by popular vote from the spectators, was a spike entered hy Harold Richardson. A: special decorative class winner was an entry by Judge Henry Castil- Jou of a massive basket arrange- ment of glads. For the hunting fraternity, the big day is less than a week aw: | Migratory waterfowl, grouse and | buek deer open in this district Sep- tember 15. Bnll moose, west of the Fraser and south of the Chiteotin | River open on September 15 : east of the Fraser on October 1. Generally the 1955 seasons are less restircted than those of the past. Such seasons are aimed at harvest- ing more of the game surpluses which would otherwise be lost to other causes. Mountain goat, mountain sheep Attending the -convention from Williams Lake were local club presi- dent Felix Nicholson and Mrs. Ni- cholson, Mr. and Mrs. Harold MeKay and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Moquin. and grizzly opened, as usual, on | September 1. The following hornless seasons will be observed this year: hornless deer from November 1 to December | HUNTING SEASON OPENS NEXT WEEK 4 west of the Fraser and from No- vember 26 to December 4 east of the Fraser. Hornless moose west of the Fraser and south of the Chilcotin River trom November 1 to December 4 and clewhere in the district trom November 26 to December 4, ‘The deer reserve between Williams Lake and Soda Creek (helow the old highway) has been abolished this year. Bag limits throughout are the same as last year. For statistical purposes, the Game Department is again anxious to col- lect as many moose jaws as possible this year. For the same reason duck hunters are urged to turn in any bands that they recover from ducks and geese, Cariboo Fall Fair predecessors. Number of entrie: about the same as last year. The fair doesn’t seem to grow in size. Several commercial and club displays disappear and new ones take their place. A cold, wet summer season held back flowers in the area and result- ed in a drop in both quantity and quality of exhibits in these divisions. Grand aggregate in this division was shared this year by Mrs. Herb Gardner and Mrs. E, M. Fosbery, with three firsts and three seconds each, Top award in the vegetable ex- hibit went to faithful contributor G. C. Windt of Alexandria, who put on a whole show by himself in the quantity of exhibits he entered in both this division and the forage and cereal crop division. Mrs. F. Matheson swept the home- cooking division to take the grand aggregate with five firsts and five seconds, Quality of thé entries in this division was commented on by judges and spectators alilce. Mrs. E. Koivisto won the grand aggregate in the three divisions of faney work, sewing Holder of the award for the past two years, Mrs. N. Whitmore of Prince George last out by one second prize and knitting. Previous entrants in the district displays. failed to show this year. Of the two entrants, Anahim Day School and Cariboo Indian School. the former took first prize. Both di: pluys featured the work of Indian students and were ‘well arranged. UTSTANDING DISPLAYS A great deal of interest centred along one wall of the arena where three displays attracted attention The local historical society display- ed items associated with Cariboo -history. that will form the nucleus of a museum ‘here, and snembers of Ue society were on Hand\to descrihe them. Along frour this display -was one tracing the develomerit-of man and containing many examples of prehistoric culture in the Interior and the coast of British Columbia. These were from the collection of Judge Henry Castillou, and_ when the noted anthropologist was in at- tendance, his talks on man’s early history were listened to attentively. The final display in the group contained samples of the work in ceramics done by the local pottery club. Interest was sustained in this outstanding display work from the fi zy 2 samples of ferming of the presented little change in appearance to its s in the exhibiting classes were ae aad A ppreene clay through to the finished product, Senior members carried out. actual demonstrations of the shaping and moulding of the clay. An unusual display of ceramics fashioned from a non-fired clay was shown by a Horsefly group interest- ed in the work. The items" were ex- bertly hand-painted in oils and are finished in a hard lacquer. Hobbies and handicrafts were well represented although some of the classes notably the photugraphic class were down in number. A single entry in the color transparencies was an outstanding group of wildlife pic- (continued on back page) Caravan Labeled Top Publicity Stunt Of Inferior Described by various reporers on the trip as one of the most impress- ive stunts staged along the Cariboo highway in the interests of tourist promotion was the mammoth cara- van of the Okanogan-Cariboo Trail Ociation that travelled to Prince George last weekend. The 100-odd cars making the car- avan rolled’ into Williams Lake last Friday just at noon. The ears and busses former up outside of town and came in behind the 40-man Kamloops Elks Band. This was only a luncheon stop on the trip and members-of the Royal Purple served the travellers in the Elks Hall, Several cars joined the caravan here for the trip north, un- | der OCTA: director Bob Blair, As the caravan entered the Cari- boo, it was given a rousing qwelcomo at Clinton and farther along at the 93 Mile House, riders from the Uni- corn Guest Ranch staged a mock hold up. At Quesnel the pipe band of that centre turned out to wel- come the travellers and joined the caravan to take part in the conven- tion celebration at Prince George. At the business session of the con- vention, O. H. Erickson of Yakima was elected president of the associ- ation with George C. Hay of Kam- loops first vice-president and Ben Fanning of Bend, Oregon second vice-president. on the Horsefiy Road spe the project of improvem Chetwynd two weeks ago. been reeived for spe ment work in the district. More Machines For Work On Horsefly Road Project Road crews of the local department of highways are busy District engineer Jim Pomercy states that work -is being concen- trated on a four-mile stretch bie- tween Bell Creek and Gravel Creek where sidehills have given continu- al trouble in the past. The road is being widened to 24 feet and raised 1% feet. In addition the ditch is being deepened 114: feet. Two “cats”, a shovel and five trucks are now operating and by this weekend another two cats and a scraper from Ben Ginter Construc- tion will be in service. There has been no further word actual money for work on the Grove or Lone Butte roads as promised in the original announce- ment. Work of widening and improving the drainage along the road between Forest Grove and Eagle Creek is be- ing carried out on a special $12,000 project money that was allocated j early this year. Previous money al- lotments also cover work that fs be- ing done five miles east of Bridge Lake. Two more special grants have improve- Five thousand dollars has been received for improvement to the Dog Creek road. This will be used to take out some of the bad turns between the airport and Dog Creek and this side of Alkali Lake. commenced yet. Work has not Out in the Chileotin, work will be nding the $50,000 so far allocated for nent first announced by Hon. Ralph started next week on raising streteh- es of the road between Stan Dowl- ing’s and Fred Brink’s. There are two low-lying stretches in this road that periodically. are under water when the Kleena Kleene River goes over its banks. An amount of $10,000 hes been received for this worl. No final word has been received: on whether any action will be takem on a proposed diversion of the road at this point. It had been suggested. that the department could get around the low-lying area by following and improving a rough forestry trail for ten miles. A report on this route was submitted to Victoria -a month ago. New Detachment Head Takes Over New officer-in-charge of the Wil liams Lake detachment, ROMP, Cor- oral John Murdoch took over his duties last week from Cpl. Jack Routledge, who left for the North Vancouver detachment, Cpl. Murdoch is a veteran of 20 years with the B.C. Police and RCMP. He has spent all his service in the Kamloops sub-division, stationed at Blue River, Kelowna and Revel- stoke prior to coming here, The new detachment head is mar- ried and has two children, a son 16 years old and a daughter eleven.